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Why does Chewbacca live on Endor?! IT. DOES. NOT. MAKE. SENSE.
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Wikipedia sums it up perfectly:
“In a jury trial, a Chewbacca defense is a legal strategy in which a criminal defense lawyer tries to confuse the jury rather than refute the case of the prosecutor. It is an intentional distraction or obfuscation.
Because a Chewbacca defense distracts and misleads, it is an example of a red herring. It is also an example of an irrelevant conclusion, a type of informal fallacy in which one making an argument fails to address the issue in question.
The name Chewbacca defense comes from "Chef Aid", an episode of the American animated series South Park. The episode, which premiered on October 7, 1998, satirizes the O. J. Simpson murder trial-particularly attorney Johnnie Cochran's closing argument for the defense. In the episode, Cochran (voiced by Trey Parker) bases his argument on a false premise about the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. He asks the jury why a Wookiee like Chewbacca would want to live on Endor with the much smaller Ewoks when "it does not make sense". He argues that if Chewbacca living on Endor does not make sense-and if even mentioning Chewbacca in the case does not make sense-then the jury must acquit.
In the Simpson murder trial, the real Johnnie Cochran tried to convince jurors that a glove found at the crime scene, alleged to have been left by the killer, could not be Simpson's because it did not fit Simpson's hand. Because the prosecution relied on the glove as evidence of Simpson's presence at the scene, Cochran argued that the lack of fit proved Simpson's innocence: "It makes no sense; it doesn't fit; if it doesn't fit, you must acquit." "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" was a refrain that Cochran also used in response to other points of the case.”
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Isn't that what both Steamy Ray Vaughn and Steamy Nix did? Those two were loadin' up their britches like it was goin' outta style! "Y'ALL LEAVE THEM BRITCHES ALONE!"
Got a request: Could you spend 20ish minutes just naming all the state & federal statutes trump broke?
Sounds like a lot of work, may want to start with the 4,095 lawsuits Trump was/is involved in. Include today's public felony Trump committed, altering federal weather graphics. He can't alter (falsifying) federal paper work can he?
Has anyone violently reacted to the repos? Because I have some siblings from my fathers side that I hate so much that I would rather burn my property to the ground before letting them inherit it. Even if means burning the relatives who really don't care that a lot of money would fall into a deadbeat dad's wife and kids. But then again my family has three settings selfish sociopathy, blind hubris, or praise Jeebus. So I honestly hate everyone who hasn't died.
I'd love to see you discuss this event. abcnews.go.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclosed-angry-homeowner-bofa/story?id=13775638
Having mentioned the writ of attachment for this episode.
Objection! No one lives on Endor. It is a gas planet. Return of the Jedi took place on Endor’s forrest moon.
Palpatine referred to it as "Sanctuary Moon".
Edit: in the novelization for ROTJ, Han also calls it Sanctuary Moon when they're trying to get past the super star destroyer.
@@TheDarthbinky that means the ewoks are probably endangered.
@@mistorWhiskers and why would Palpatine care about that? Not to mention that also in the novelization, he ordered Jerjerrod to blow up the moon... (it was originally going to be in the movie too but it was cut- however, the Death Star can be seen facing the moon just as it's blowing up; it was originally facing away when the Rebel fleet showed up)
@Willem DaFuckedUp ok?
Furthermore, Chewbacca lived on neither
Correct me if I'm wrong, but reviewing this episode as a lawyer would be similar to a doctor reviewing the scene in South Park movie where they replace Kenny's heart with a baked potato
In fairness, Dr. Mike did review several medical scenes from the show; though, unfortunately, not that one from the movie.
I wonder if he'd have recognized Clooney's voice.
i disagree. Not everyone is familiar with proper courtroom proceedings but everybody can predict what would happen to a doctor who botched a heart transplant with a baked potato.
I cannot correct you; you are not wrong.
I forgot about that episode 😂
@@adamplace1414 and doctor ER did too
This is why being judged by a "jury of my peers" scares the shit out of me. Often a catchy saying works better than any amount of reason and logical arguments. My peers are not that bright.
Doesn’t help that OJ’s were probably the dumbest jury they could’ve possibly selected.
No critical thought. I could explain critical thought to them like I would to a 5-year-old with a sock puppet show called “Casey and their critical thought” and they still wouldn’t get it.
An actual quote from Yolanda, a person who lowers your IQ from being within a mile of them, “are we supposed to sit here and talk about doubt?”
often ppl will convict based on the perceived Authority of the DA or payed experts who receive money from the DA's office to testify.
yes, if they're as stupid as me, I'm in trouble...
welcome to america in the era of social media
@@bradymenting5120lol people have always been stupid and easily manipulated by catchy phrases. just look at the o.j. simpson case, that was two years pre-social media and the jury let a clearly guilty man go free. this has been happening since the advent of jury trials. when you put a group of people who have absolutely no knowledge or experience with the law in a courtroom and ask them to make a legal decision, it will never be unbiased or based on pure legality. this is basic common sense man. social media didn’t come out of nowhere and suddenly create stupid people. it just gave them a platform to spread their stupidity to a much wider audience.
Objection: Ewoks are in no way cuddly teddy bears. They wipe the forest floor with storm troopers throughout the Endor's moon segment
They are also very tasty 😋
Not to mention eating people.
Sustained
Also is a pretty good running back for the Dallas cowboys
The Stormtroopers were terrible shots; Overruled.
In South Park things happen pretty fast. In a single day, Wendy wrote a book, sold the movie rights for that book to James Cameron, and he in turn filmed and released the entirety of Avatar based on it.
James cameron relesing a movie that fast thats so unrealistic
James Cameron doesn't do what he does for James Cameron.
It should also be noted that it is day 15 of the trial, as said at 6:10
Still really fast
@@canadianbigmac3501 Im still waiting for those Avatar sequels.
@@nthgth That's correct. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron *is* James Cameron.
Court cases 101:
If the defence doesn't rhyme, the man did the crime.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Now, that's good.
Which is why before trial, you should change your last name to "Binnocent"
If the glove dont fit, you must aquit
Dr Sue's attorney at law
😁😁😁😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Actually you were right on the money with Chewbacca. He did not live on Endor, he was only there for the battle and then he was back to traveling around with Han.
IMO that was on purpose to highlight how stupid the glove not “fitting” was
He lived on Endor in the holiday special
@@shanetheman53 Nope. That was Kashyyk.
It's also impossible to live on Endor, because Endor is a gas giant. All the action that takes place is on Endor's forest moon.
Han travel with Chewbacca, it's Chewy's ship !
"A record company above the law? I've never heard anything like that!"
Hah, love his sarcasm!!!
It makes it all the more funnier
I didn’t actually realize it was sarcasm till you pointed it out.
@@ryanjapan3113 same here
what is he reffering to? is this a common thing about record companies?
@@StitchTheFox hell yeah! Look up all the drama Michael Jackson had with Sony music.
"That MIGHT sound insane.." I really thought he was about to go on about how the best lawyers really are Jewish
lol me too
Haha me too, or something like "Jewish lawyers are very good"
Same
"They actually are naturally litigious"
Me too lol
My favorite part of this is South Park still got a higher grade for realism than the legal drama How to Get Away with Murder.
As it should
Well the girl cheated. I don't care, if you ask me people should be killed for cheating that would solve alot of problems.
MrPierreBoch well if you ask me.....
@@sirweebs2914 lol what man?? Why should people who cheat deserves to die?
@@user-cy6uj6ib8y because it's hurting people emotionally very much and in some cases scar them for life. As I said I don't mind killing them doesn't mean I want to establish that rule just means I'm glad they die and that's it.
I love how an actual lawyer countered a goofy "Chewbacca defense" with pointing out that he flies around with Han Solo.
Apparently OJ was also off a heart medication or something that day, which would have caused swelling in his hands. This makes the "try on the glove" proof extra problematic in this case
Plus, the leather gloves possibly shrank after being covered in blood -- add all that up, and it made choosing to have him try the gloves on a terrible idea.
@@acebongboyliterally even without the gloves it’s completely obvious that oj did it LMAO
i heard arthritis meds
@@prod.bamburg9377 True
Can anyone tell me why it matters that the glove didn’t fit? Like what if those were the only gloves he could find or he purposely bought smaller ones.
THANK YOU for addressing the fact that Chewbacca does not actually live on Endor.
Yeah. His FAMILY lives on Endor, I think. Per the Holiday Special. But Chewie basically lives in his buddy's Space-Van.
@@AzhreiVep
Nope.
@@AzhreiVep Wookies are from Kashyyyk.
Referencing the Holiday Special is grounds for capital punishment. Legal fact.
@@MarekillaBee The SPECIES being from Kashyyyk doesn't mean the family couldn't have moved. Even though they apparently didn't. I would say it's been too long since I watched the special but ... no. There's no such thing as "Too long since I saw the Star Wars Holiday Special."
I love how Eagle analyzes the *entire* clip literally, while still acknowledging that he understands the joke.
Was looking for this. Thank you
Pure Pwnage FTW!
That's kind of what he does. No point in just saying "well that's ridiculous" and just laughing, that's what we all do whenever we watch it! 😄
I feel like this is good lawyering. We prove argument A is wrong, then prove why, even if argument A were right -which it’s not- it wouldn’t imply what our adversary claims. And even if it DID, there’s an exception to the case, which definitely applies. And even if it DIDN’T… etc., etc.
@doctormike
Explaining OJ to the internet, just to make sure we're all on the same level, is the most lawyer-ie thing ever
Considering a potentially international audience which may in addition be even further removed from the original trial by even more time passing.. just seems like a fair thing to do
When I was a kid and I watched The Naked Gun for the first time, I think I vaguely knew OJ Simpson's name as some guy who was charged and acquitted for murder and that was all I knew about him. I didn't even know he was a football player, so for a few years I was under the impression that his fame came from acting. 😅 For context I was a kid in the 90s, I just never paid attention to football.
If only one would explain how launching an automobile into orbit around the sun is helpful to humanity is the only idea that might be better. One might wonder have many starving bellies could have been filled but no1cur.
@@tsriftsal3581 Its physically evidence that some people have to much money and we, as humantity, should just take it from them.
@@yeckiLP I watched the entire trial in the UK and learned a lot about how American justice works, race bait your way to innocence.
I think it's amazing that the Chewbacca defense has its own Wikipedia page
the fact that you even try to explain chewbacca's role is literally the thesis of the success of this tactic.
Yelp
Lol
Even if you're entirely aware of the accurate material involved, it still makes zero sense. South Park does have at least that to go on.
Red herring
@@plainlake like u
"We'll get my dad to represent Chef"
"Yeah, he's Jewish!"
*pause*
"Okay, that might sound insane, but..."
Hahaha for a second I was hoping he was going to explain that this racial prejudice was completely true.
I see more African Americans and Hispanics as lawyers, at least down here in SE TX.
That was perfect timing, lol
@@ranelgallardo7031 "I see more African Americans and Hispanics as lawyers, at least down here in SE TX"
No wonder SE TX has such a high incarceration rate.
Ron 3 lol you think they were able to get law degrees as illegal citizens?
honestly Johnny Cocheran with the hand thing, was pretty genius, immoral sure, but he took a thing that the other team was focusing heavily on, and he effectively used it against them
Not that effectively. The jurors said that they weren't fooled by that stunt and they thought it ridiculous.
@@AdrianColley Still got the result though...
I feel like a modern prosecutor would find the exact glove manufacturer and size and have them try that glove on, with no latex, and also call them out for artificially spreading out their fingers in an attempt to pretend it didn't fit. But as a modern criminal, I'd bring a glove way too small for me, to leave at the scene. Hindsight is 20/20 as always.
You, Sir or Madam, have some interesting foresight in how to commit a crime
be careful where you buy the glove also they may trace it back, they did that to me.
Before I was to commit a crime, I'd go to a bar and pick up some of the cigarette butts that you might find in front of it, then spread them at the scene of the crime. Everyone hates smokers and these butts will contain someone's DNA, so they have someone to look for who isn't me.
@@0x777 EVERYONE HATES SMOKERS
If you don‘t wear the gloves, your fingerprints won’t be on the inside, making it pretty obvious they were a red herring. =)
Objection: The funniest part was overlooked, where Chef raised the money by selling his body OVER 4000 TIMES within a day.
caslaBBalsac it doesn’t even make sense. Your body sells for a lot more than that.
@@TheseUseless
$100 was a bit more at the time.
@@TheseUseless
Prostitution, not black market organs, LOL.
caslaBBalsac OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH
I FEEL SO STUPID
Edit: I don’t really watch South Park, I
know it’s funny, I’ve just never felt like it.
LIke the pimp whose girl turned over $785.25. He demanded to know who paid her $0.25. She replied, "All of them."
Objection: You didn't bring up the obvious conflict of interest of Cochran switching from "prosecuting" Chef to defending Chef in the second trial.
because that doesnt make sense.. and if it doesnt make sense, it must be allowed ):
Cut for time. Good point!
I was actually gonna bring this up too. I'm not even kind of a lawyer, but that is a hilarious COI.
Okay, supposed Matthew Stott, look at this Wookie (starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Chewbacca), his name is Chewbacca. Now why in the hell would I be showing you a Wookie in the middle of a comments section? EXACTLY! THAT MAKES NO SENSE! So, you must acquit if it makes no sense, and drop my client's so-called "conflict of interest" charges.
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I watched this with my dad (general counsel for a texas port), not only did he put down his news paper to watch, he only took issue with about 1/3 of the topics, by which I mean he paused several times to elaborate. High praises indeed. In 30 years on earth I’d never have imagined him laughing at South Park.
10/10 would recommend if you want to connect with your prickly lawyer dad.
I love that Chewbacca got his own proper Legal Eagle slide introducing him 😂
This guy might not even be wearing pants and we would never know
Me might be wearing a leopard thong for as far as we know
@@beu9245 he might be wearing a leopard, and we would never ever know
Yall making loopholes that I cant follow
@@singtalklaughli8999
He might be half leopard and we would never know.
@@nicolekiewel8228 or are you following loopholes we can't make?
"He's from Kashyyyk, obviously." Is the greatest thing you have ever said!
We have so much prequel meme material here
Home of the Wroshyr trees.
Yeah but what about the droid attack on the -
The Chewbacca defense is soo good that even a real lawyer spent 30 seconds on something that is not a part of the case! :P
The Chewbacca Defense has worked for me.
I had a loser hearing regarding service of process regarding what was the Defendants "domicile" in a foreclousure case.
I told the D's attorney he had a good case, I had nothing to refute his argument, but I was going to use a Chewbacca defense by comparing his argument to a case in the news about Rob Emanuels domicile to run for Mayor of Chicago.
He laughed at me!
It wasn't exactly analogous, but it created confusion and by way of presentation(there was laughter), changed the Judges thought process.
The Judge forgot the better opposing argument and ruled for my rhetoric.
It was reversed on appeal!!
But I may have won on oral argument!!
We all 3 still laugh about it.
Insert Chad meme
"A record company? Above the law? I've never heard anything like that"
... Coz, it's off the record 🤭
I see what you did there...🤣
Boo on you sure...
You know what you did!
Bad. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done.
Speaking of...could we get a real law review of the “Bittersweet Symphony” controversy
That does not make sense
The fact that you began your thoughts on the "Chewbacca Defense" by mentioning that Chewbacca does not live on Endor earned you my trust and convinced me to subscribe
Nerds unite
NOBODY LIVES ON ENDOR!
It’s been shown in several EU novels, comics, and even ROTS that he lived on Kashyyyk (yes I know the episode came before ROTS and I’ll show up that by throwing in the dreaded Holiday Special). And of course there’s no denying what others pointed out that it was the forest *moon* of Endor they arrived on, not the actual planet itself.
tis has 666 likes and i won't change it, even though I'd like to.
How about the fact that he misspelled "Wookiee" in the video?
For Chewbacca being a citizen of Endor its actually a fact. The Bright Tree Village Ewok tribe made the Rebels official members of their tribe. This effectively also made them all citizens of Endor even if they never actually returned to live there. In short they basically had a home on Endor waiting for them should they ever decide for whatever reason to return to the forest moon.
But he doesn't _live_ there. It's not _residency._
I was a member of a jury last week, managed to get selected for one of the 12, and volunteered to be jury foreperson. The first 4 of 5 charges were easy to rule on because the prosecution and witnesses addressed them, but one charge wasn't proved beyone a reasonable doubt for the majority of the jurors. After we'd spent 7 hours debating what the legal definition for physical injury considering the related meaning of "impaired physical condition" it occurred to me that the defense attorney used the Chewbacca defense in real life. He picked a few minor, easily explainable, and almost irrelevant things about witness testimony and kept repeating "It doesn't make sense" during his closing argument. I wonder how it would have gone if he'd had Johnny Cochran as his defense attourney...
2:00 "I don't think that's the kind of song that Alanis Morisette would write."
Exactly! Chef wrote it; Alanis Morisette totally ripped him off!
They took our jobs!!!
Next up: Real Chewbacca reacts to real lawyer reacting to his defense.
I'm all in.
GRRRRRRRRRRAAAAWWWWWRRRR
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury! Why is my client Chewbacca the defendant in these charges when the arrest was unlawful because they mistook him for the Abominable Snowman when neither party matched the description and Chewbacca lives on Endor with two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!"
@@edwardmiessner6502 Supposed jury.
By ripping thier arms off?
Who is here after OJ’s passing?
I'm there lol
Right here
Fun fact: My old Catholic School in East Orange, NJ closed and the city took it back over. They turned it into a public school and named it the Johnnie Cochran School of Community Law or something like that. JC never came to school nor do I think he knew it existed. Still wondering WHY it was named after him.
If the name fits, you must acquit.
Clearly the creators of South Park had not seen the Star Wars Holiday Special. Then they would have known that Chewbacca has a lovely treehouse on Kashyyk with his wife, son, and father.
Good point, but it's funny you say that - another early SP episode had "bumpers" based directly on the circulated tape recording of that very holiday special, when coming out of a commercial break!
This is a credit to Stone and Parker...no one should watch the Holiday Special. Lol
They were too busy fighting the frizzies.
@@reyasyaN what is the Holiday Special had a DVDA star?
Kashyyyk*
Objection
"Just because the same lyric is in a song, doesnt mean its copywrite infringement"
CZcams begs to differ, sir.
@@peterohanraha-hanrahan3022 They may not have taken down a video, but one was claimed for about 2 seconds of audio.
@@peterohanraha-hanrahan3022 an entire channel was demonetized because an intro song shared 2seconds of slightly similar audio.
Jeremy G CZcams’s system is broken it should not be viewed as CZcams committing the majority of those actions. It is not CZcams claiming the videos, it is the people that own the rights to whatever song or think they do at least and they abuse the system constantly! People have attempted to sue for others filing false DMCA notices with CZcamsrs
2-3 words being the same is probably safe, those same words with the same music much less so.
copyright* and you're mistaking what he said. he didn't say just because the same 2 seconds is in another song, he said the same lyric. You can pull exact lyrics from songs and use them in a completely different song as long as ALL the words aren't the same and the music itself is different. Something like 'smack my bitch up' you can include in your own original song where you say 'if dat hoe don't bring da dosh ima smack my bitch up'. The objection is that people can't sue over use of sampling of same words because language is common to all and only a direct composition of the same words in a long enough string would constitute infringement such as copying an entire verse or chorus or something. CZcams also does not care about copyright law, they strike down infringing shit upon request and by content ID TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM BEING SUED as per DMCA law. A platform has the responsibility to prevent user uploads from infringing on copyright law or THEY can be sued so youtube takes a proactive and paranoid approach to protect themselves. Also, the idea of 'fair use' is a legal argument that must be challenged in court, you can't simply claim to youtube that your 2 seconds of a song is not infringing because it's fair use, you would have to take the copyright holder to court and prove it in a court of law and only then would youtube reverse the decision.
“You can’t choose between paying a fine or having to go to jail.” Oh my sweet summer child. Lmao
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Really cool part about this episode is that Isaac Hayes's (voice of Chef) music has been sampled so many times in early hip hop to the point where Mind Playin Tricks On Me by Geto Boys just uses the entire instrumental of Hung Up On My Baby by Isaac Hayes for the backing track.
Another thing to consider, when a leather glove gets wet and dries it shrinks.
In addition to stopping his arthritis medication a week or so beforehand, which caused his hands to swell up
@@eileene.5870 2 weeks
Ok but we all have to agree that the lawyers did a great job at spreading reasonable all over the case… plus I think OJ is innocent I do think it was his son
@@skylarkendall5831 not even OJ thinks he’s innocent anymore.
Yeah but why did the prosecution omit such an important fact about the gloves? It seems like a really trivial thing
Objection: it was mentioned that the case had been going on for fifteen days
Overruled:
The fact still remains that it would have taken approximately a year or two for the case ever even get to a jury trial.
Daniel Boelke
Overruled. Small hick towns can speed up the judicial process due to lack of use of the court system.
@@Numbnuts007 Rebuttal:
South Park showcases extreme stupidity. As such, it's not inconceivable that the record company would make the extremely stupid choice of persueing a open and shut case that could be settled in 15 days.
I also feel like the record company would have just jumped at the fact that Chef would have just wanted a credit writing the song rather than any monetary compensation.
@@Wolfgang8-Y I don't think that's the point here pal, I mean if so, then a lot of legaleagle's point are wrong / aren't usable
"Supposed jury" is my favorite South Park line.
Chaos, if applied correctly, can confuse and create a reasonable doubt about almost anything.
It's a valuable weapon in hearings. Though often it's effect is only short term.
Sometimes all you need is a short-term effect to effect long-term change.
Does that make sense?
*persons head literally expodes*
Lawyer: pretty unrealistic
Johnny Lemons *guy levitates*
Lawyer: pretty unrealistic
Someone starts flying
Lawyer: *seems legit.*
It make sense
Because im in his brain
So I asked this lawyer how I could support his channel, and he said “I’m gonna need about tree fiddy.”
It was at that point I realized this Legal Eagle was actually a 30ft tall crustacean from the Paleozoic era.
Damnit, counsel I ain't givin' you no tree fidy!
That god damn Loch Ness Monster! The things he does for about tree fiddy, claiming to be an eagle when he is in fact not a bird at all!
You mean a plesiosaur from the paleolithic era, which doesn't even make sense since the paleolithic was the stone age and dinosaurs had long since been dead for millions of years.
Julia Lilienstein You seem to know an awful lot about it...
It was at this time I realized this wasn’t a CZcams commenter...
@@Kendreyek It's that god damn Loch Ness monsta!
As a big Star Wars fan, Chewbacca DOES NOT live on Endor
I don't even know that much about SW but even I know that Chewbacca is from Kashyyyk... cause you know Wookiees are from there...
As a very average Star Wars fan, I also know that Wookies don't live on Endor. It's like assuming that the humans of Star Wars originate from the Death Star. That does not make sense!
That South Park episode was released before revenge of the sith came out
@@Hehe-nt4oe Sure, he still never lived on Endor.
@@Quetzen It does not make sense!
I actually remember watching the OJ verdict on tv during class in middle school too. It's one of those historical moments that while not a big of a scale as something like 9/11 or JFK assassination, was just something that people remembered, very vividly because of how the entire nation was hanging onto every moment of it.
"a record company above the law? I've never heard anything like that" well we're like 20 seconds in and you've already thrown so much shade i can't see the screen anymore
They do get away with it on here on YT.
@@mineflameblade8788 it's youtube, the copyright system has been broken since Google got its hands on it
I'm not even sure this video is safe from UMG's wrath.
@@bryede shhhhh using those 3 capital letters in here. They'll run adverts against ur comments. YT will be like hell yeah
I tried the chewbaca defence in school debating. Let’s just say it did not go well
That does not make sense
I want to hear more details...
You forget that since Chewbacca owes Han Solo a “life debt” he is wherever Han Solo is.
@@Stormkrow280 yes but he never lived on forest moon of endor in the first place. But we can see him on kashyyyk with yoda.
I'm sad to read that. It's sad that
WHEN YOUR A CLOWN, NOBODY TAKES YOU SERIOSLY!!!
Wasn't the Chewbacca defense more of a satire on the Twinkie Defense in the Harvy Milk murder trial?
The scene predicted the future
“This just in. Murder is legal in California” - Norm McDonald on SNL after the OJ verdict.
I live in california and can confirm murder is legal. The body's in my basement have yet to be confiscated.
@@Tsuyoshi_Kanda You may be a murderer, but your biggest crime is spelling the plural of "body" body's.
@@Kathayne636 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
'One of the jurors children were so happy to get their mom home, because "she lets them get away with murder. "
Also (paraphrased) Norm macdonald
The bloody glove was actually found at/on the OJ estate, not at the murder scene on Bundy Dr. In Brentwood. So, it was somebody else's bloody glove, that they wore, while killing Nicole and Ron, that "didn't fit", that they dropped on the grounds of OJ's Estate.
So, there's all of that!
It's funny how "the Chewbacca defense" actually had an impact on lawyers and law students. XD
@Captain Caveman This comment is underrated
Did you watch this? The “Chewbacca defense” is literally something said by lawyers but they don’t necessarily call it the “Chewbacca defense” while many do it’s not like the show actually had an impact on lawyers lmao
It’s literally just a parody meant to mimic a real life event lmao
Only south Park man
LSRP June Did you watch this? Towards the end he literally says that many lawyers he knows himself included use the term “chewbacca defense” because of this episode.
I had friends during the trial who watched the trial nonstop when they had a new baby, and the baby's first word...was.... OJ......and they decided to stop watching the trial after that happened and re-evaluate their lives.
7:45 objection the news reporter said day 15 before the Chewbacca defense with cartman
Everyone is overlooking the most important detail here, NO ONE live on Endor as it is a GAS Giant planet. The Ewoks live on the Forest Moon "OF" Endor.
Homer Simpson: Neeeeeeeeeerrrrrd!
Afraid not. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endor_(Star_Wars)
He did mispronounce Kashyyyk though at least from what I remember in battleground games.
@@scorchx3000 LMAO got that as text message alert.
In fact, both the planet AND its moon are named Endor.
@@iamalittleboat That's some premium George Lucas grade astronomy right there.
Objection, South Park is limited to 30 minutes, therefore the passage of time is faster, making a quick turnaround quite likely. If the timeline won't fit, you must acquit.
Time lines like 22min
@@bosstowndynamics5488 edited it
The OJ trial is a great example of a case that was extremely mishandled from the get go. The Police mishandled evidence, contaminated the scene and otherwise lost credibility to the jury. Criminal law is about 2 things: the government following the law, and the government proving a citizen did not. In the OJ case the government simply didn't follow the law and the acquittal was correct.
It's not what you know it's what you can prove.
That's the most concise summary I've read of the OJ case. Now do A la recherche du temps perdu.
OJ wasn’t guilty, he didn’t killed those people.
Whether they knew about jury nullification or not, I agreed with their acquittal
The best example I've ever heard of writ of attachment was a family that sued a bank because they filed foreclosure against the family; even though the family never had a loan on the house. They tried to straighten it out with the bank; but the bank still wouldn't relent. So they sued and they were awarded legal fees; however the bank refused to pay. The family got a writ, and they and the sheriff went down to the local bank branch with a moving truck. They ordered the bank to close and were going start cleaning out all of the stuff in the bank. The bank pretty quickly paid the family.
What can I Google to read about this?
@@ZMacGregor Seriously. That's an awesome story.
How the smegging smeg did the bank think they could call foreclosure on the house then? Was their director one of those "I AM ABOVE THE LAW (corrects hair)" types who felt slighted by the family in some asinine way?
We have a real estate developer in our area who has made fortune after fortune building choice real estate on protected lands, and no one can stop him because the profits he makes more than cover the fines he's given. A neighbor of ours tried to get a building permit of his denied, and his legal team made all sorts of crazy demands, such as but not limited to every single email she, her husband, and their three children received and sent over the last ten years, all because he was a spoiled rotten rich-kid-now-entitled-man/child.
@@omegagilgamesh Part of the problem is that mortgages get sold and transferred all the time. Sometimes it's the mortgage holder that changes, and sometimes the servicer. The paperwork often never gets transferred. It's good to know that all you have to do if you ever face a foreclosure is to demand that the mortgage holder produce the ORIGINAL note during proceedings in court. If they cannot do so, they cannot foreclose. Sometimes it can't be located. It may be sitting in a file cabinet somewhere; and nobody knows where it is. It may be lost.
They were Maureen and Warren Nyerges, of Naples, Fla. At 9am on 2011-06-03 they arrived at a local Bank of America branch, with Collier County sheriff's deputies, and a writ of execution, to seize furniture. (The bank decided to pay up.)
"The second trial makes no sense at all."
Are... are you using the Chewbacca Defense?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO THE EPISODE OF FUTURAMA WHERE ZOIDBERG EATS A FLAG
Season 5 Episode 4: A Taste of Freedom
Doesn't that episode parallel the actual supreme court case?
Cane McBeardfacé I wouldn’t be surprised. Futurama is/was the most intelligent animated show made, some of their writers were actual scientists/engineers/doctors.
Yes!
That or the one where Zapp blows up that space station and the prosecutor calls the entire jury to testify against him. That would be fun.
This was significantly more fun than I thought it was going to be
WE can congratulate Johnny Cochran for coming up with the catchy "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit" -- but, that glove did fit OJ's hand (if he took his arthritis meds to reduce swelling and didn't wear a glove under the glove -- driving gloves are usually tight) and he got off with evidence of his own glove soaked in blood of the victim. It was pretty sad for the public to see that forensic evidence isn't always done professionally, and that a good lawyer can make the difference in the outcome of Justice.
"We'll get my dad to be chefs lawyer!"
"Yeah and hes jewish!"
"Ok now that might sound insane...."
Me: ..there arent Jewish lawyers?
"...that someone wrote a song and"
Me: ooohhh
Pixel Perfect saaaaaaaame.
I think he had made a comment in another video regarding the Jewish lawyer stereotype, which kinda threw me off guard here lol.
I was reading that the second he said it.
@0 0 and in the screenwriters guild...
"So this is very, very wrong. Very wrong."
So what you're saying is... THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.
Ha HAAAAAAA, genius
Objection: relevance. I don't know if you can object during a closing statement, but if you can, they REALLY should have.
Johnny defended my uncle back in the day. Got him off his charges too.
This man lowkey looks like an old ryan Reynolds mixed with John Krasinski
(Edit) yes I know this is cringe but so am I so you should totally sub to mr.illusiongaming if you do thanks lol cringe out 🤜✋🎤
Mad
What's funny about your comment is that Ryan Reynolds is in fact older...
@@thesadwolf but older means older than they are now. Hes like 40 not 60
@@laa0fa502 They wrote "old" not "older" which is a huge difference hence my confusion. The english language is subtle, but I appreciate the clarification. :)
Damn u nailed it
"I don't think that's the kind of song Alanis Morissette would write"
Well no shit, Mr. FancyPants Lawyer, CHEF wrote the song! THAT'S THEIR ARGUMENT!
How do u know he wears pants??...
Lawyers,...busy thinking they are in control of the situation when, in truth, they are not even in control of the facts. But they are sure to bill you for the time it takes them to learn just how wrong they are,.......
@@havewissmart9602 He wears stinky britches.
@@ThingsStuffington I KNEW IT!
You Sir are a true attorney.
In southpark’s defense of the grading, it was probably written, animated, edited, etc., in less than a week. I’ll bet it took this guy longer to make his video talking about the episode than it did Matt and Trey to make the entire actual episode
When you say, "use the chewbacca defense all the time", do you acutally mean that lawyers will be in a courtroom and can say the other lawyer is using "the chewbacca defense". Cause if so that is awesome.
“Capitalist Records” South Park is gold 😂
OBJECTION: The news caster said it was the 15th day.
SUSTAINED!
@@leothompson2777 Thank you your honour. ^_^
Lmao
Chris Rock had a funny rant about Jonnie Cochran.
“People say you shouldn’t hire Jonnie Cochran because it makes you look guilty……..yeah but you’re going home! I’d rather look guilty at the mall than look innocent in jail!” 😂
First time ever seeing your channel and I loved the hard work and humor you put into the video! Subbed!
I'm still asking for a review of the courtroom scenes of "To Kill A Mockingbird."
Same
Ah, that's a good idea!
Then you have to write your request in the form of an objection. He says so every video.
I want to see Ted 2 still
@Jordan Cambridge He did My Cousin Vinny, which is used at continuing legal education classes around the country.
OJ had actually stopped taking meds for arthritis so his hands would be swollen and the glove wouldn't fit.
Thank you!
@GMF Moist leather gloves, that are supposed to be tight fitting in the first place, were kept in a Ziploc evidence bag. There was no possible way they would fit their original owner. That trial was a circus, no camera should ever been allowed inside. judge Ito was a joke, more concerned with looking good for the camera and what kind of book deal he could get out of it. Darden was an idiot, Marcia Clark was in the middle of her own divorce proceedings and was frequently late which made the jury hate her. That jury shouldn’t even have been trying to case it wasn’t even in the correct district they moved it to LA County just to make it easier for the media which was asinine because I completely change the jury pool and all of a sudden OJ gets a black jury including a bunch of women who spent their whole lives thinking he was a sex symbol. The prosecutors literally did everything wrong, they thought that women would be the best jurors because of the history of him abusing his wife when in fact the black women harbor resentment for the white wife and had no sympathy for her as a victim whatsoever. And this was before everybody on the planet knew about DNA evidence all the CSI shows didn’t exist so what seems completely obvious about of course it’s him the blood matches, flew right over the heads of the idiot jurors.
@Gerry C I'm sorry but that is the dumbest thing I've heard yet. There was an exact DNA blood match. There were footprints made by the Italian shoes OJ wore. There was his glove. There was the ridiculous claim that he just happened to break a glass and cut his hand that exact same night. Just think of that. In your entire life you might, once, cut your hand on a glass you break. We are supposed to believe that on this once in a lifetime night his ex-wife just happened to be murdered by a knife attack. That is quite the coincidence. Seriously, GTF outta here with that shit. OJ is 100% zero doubt guilty.
@@jefffawcett I agree the investigators dropped the ball in a major way, but yeah OJ definitely did it
@@jefffawcett I don’t think anyone can debate that he did it, but some of what you listed as evidence is really just circumstantial and wouldn’t really prove anything in a court. Oh grass was broken and O.J had a cut on his hand the same night doesn’t prove anything even if it’s a logical conjecture. Unless, you can link these two events by evidence, that’s not really going to prove anything in a court. Also, they should have never made O.J try on that glove...
“Why? I’ll tell you why! I don’t know.” 😂
My brother (an attorney) quotes the Chewbacca defense all the time LOL, too funny to find this gem!
"I'm not sure it's entirely accurate to say Chewbacca lived on Endor."
Oh my God, you're such a lawyer!
I'm not a lawyer, and I'd say the same thing.
It’s not accurate. As far as we know he’d only been there once.
Marc Whitakay the Forrest moon. True.
Dux Nihilo Chewbacca is from Kashyyyk, his father is Attichituk. They both raised a colony known as Alaris Prime.
That depends, what is his permanent address, in other words where does he get his mail sent to?
I've always wanted to be part of a jury in some kind of crazy case, but the last time I was called into jury duty, after making it into the actual courtroom and taking attendance, we were told to go to lunch and come back after a few hours. After lunch, we returned only to find out that the case had been settled out of court over our lunch break.
I got called for a murder case, but I'm self employed so I couldn't do it as much as I really wanted to.
The same thing happened to me. I sat for hours until lunch then after lunch we were told we could go.
My coworker was a jury in a murder trial of a 2 year old who was being taken care of by his mother's boyfriend. He said the defense asked so many stupid questions and couldn't establish where the guy was the whole day or where he took the boy. He also said he could barely understand what he said because he had strong Nigerian accent. They ended up giving a not guilty verdict. Made me think of this as soon as he finished his story.
I was really interested in hearing about how the Chewbacca Defense is used by lawyers practically. Would have liked to get a bit more on that.
OBJECTION: The 62 record companies who disliked your video think they are above the law.
it's 290 as of now as I make this reply
@@paullangland6877 Damn. That's a lot of people who need bottles of spooge to keep their hair together. 😂
Objection! No, actually your Chewbacca knowledge is spot on, aside from pronunciation of Kashyyyk, which isn't even a constant in-universe, so you're all good.
Maybe it's not consistent because of local dialect, witch would be even more likely then everyone saying 🍅 (vs me saying 2
Toe-ma-toe) lol you say 🍅 I say tomato
I've always heard it pronounced "kuh-sheek" from Battlefront 2, but the local dialect thing makes sense
For me it's always pronounced "Ka-Sheek", it's always how I heard it
@@OBGrimey same here, but it's also pronounced "CASH-ik" elsewhere. Granted, star wars regularly waffles on how to pronounce Han and Alderaan so it's hardly the only point of contention.
Yeah but Johnnie Cochrans point is that it doesn't make sense.
Objection, Chewbacca didn't live on Endor. He just went there on a mission with Han as part of the rebellion.
Wasn't just US that was fascinated by the OJ trial. Here, the BBC showed a weekly summary of the trial.
Objection:
Recently, Lizzo actually wound up in court over the opening line of her smash hit song, "Truth Hurts." The line, "I just took a DNA test, turns out I'm 100% dat bitch!" was inspired by a social media post from singer Mina Lioness using extremely similar wording, and this became a legal issue after Lizzo attempted to copyright the line for merchandising reasons. Lioness is now credited as a co-writer of the song.
The Raisen brothers, a pair of audio mixers and record producers, also tried to claim authorship of the song. Their case was thrown out and Lizzo ultimately counter-sued them for harassment.
God bless Louisville
Lyrics should of been 'i just took a cholesterol test, turns out I'm 100% a fat bitcch
@@zexor98 lmao
@@zexor98 who asked for your input?
@@alexandramaclachlan7597 it's pretty funny if it's an intended as a playful joke. I like Lizzo and think it was clever.
20 years I've been wanting to shout "But Chewbacca doesn't even live on Endor. None of this makes sense!"
My day has come!
Ty Legal Eagle!
Before I got the real context, I assumed the Chewbacca defense was a stalling tactic to get people arguing about whether or not Chewbacca "lives" on "Endor" instead of the actual case.
I love it.
This was fun.
The Chewbacca defense makes as much sense as the whole OJ glove thing.
Objection: Chewbacca does not live on Endor. He only stayed there during the battle of Endor. But there is no evidence that he actually lives on Endor.
Objection!
You hardly ever sustain or overrule objections!
I dont think I have seen him actually reply to a comment ever. He just wants people to comment without him bothering to so work to reply.
Never seen it either. Cool concept, sad it never actually happens.
Well, probably very few objections are marginal enough cases to go one way or another. It would have to be a particularly contentious point to actually reach trial and be heard by the judge.
I mean, he’s probably a busy guy. Give him some slack
I've also objected over this exact issue. It has yet to be sustained or overruled.
Yeah, I remember watching when OJ tried on the glove and thinking "Who spreads their fingers like that when they're putting a glove on?" The answer: someone who doesn't actually want to get a glove on
I also read he wasnt taking medication in anticipation to wearing the glove because it caused his hand to swell up. The conditions the glove was kept in also caused it to shrink a bit.
Your ad transitions are top notch as always! Great video, love your content!
I haven't watched South Park, but Alanis Morissette singing "Stinky Britches" has me in stitches, lmao
I remember everyone going nuts about the OJ Simpson trial. I was in second grade... Second grade. A bunch of kids who knew absolutely nothing about the actual ins and outs of the case, arguing every day for weeks, "He's innocent!" "He's guilty!" Absurd. One day the teacher leaves the room and comes back shortly thereafter to announce that Simpson was found innocent. Half of the classroom cheered and the other half booed. I was in the very small minority -- the people who didn't give a shit, because we were all just kids -.-
If you a kid you must acquit
@Jordan Sharpe u wot m8
@Jordan Sharpe what are you talking about it's not even relevant lmao
Found not guilty*. Innocence is a different concept
@Jordan Sharpe Who are you even talking to? Your response has no relevance to what has been said. Sounds like you didnt even read the comment, made an assumption, got your feelings hurt and let loose. Lol, keep being you, champ.
OBJECTION: You stated that the trial started the day before and they are on the closing arguments already. In the "newscast", the boys were watching, the reporter said that this was "day 15" of the trial.
Oopsie!
This is the first unironic objection I've seen in months. Nicely done. 👍
You're right, Why would he say that? IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!
@@Pretzil43 makes perfect sense, watch his other videos and compare them to the original material and you will find him using misleading cuts and edits all the time, wake up he's a lawyer, what else would you expect?
@@chaosking911 hahaha lawyer bad person hahaha
I think it was mocking how attorneys spin facts to confuse people. The Chewbacca defense is classic.