Just curious.
The oil gets in the draft lines.
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I…
I never thought of that…
maybe it’s because they eat all the beer nuts and never order anything?
they jump in and answer all the trivia questions?
it’s just a sign of the Man keeping us down?
They used to have droids on the menu, but these items didn’t sell.
I thought it was because the riff-raff of the galaxy need someone to look down upon. Droids do jobs no one else would, right?
Luke treats his droids well, and this is a counterpoint to that- it shows Luke as a good guy at heart.
…on the other hand, I’ve got nothin’.
I’m sure they’d make exceptions for Bender units.
I never got that either; if mincing little C-3PO is any indication, none of that scum and villainy have anything to fear. I think Lucas was clumsily trying to parallel stock scenes from old Westerns where bartenders would growl “We don’t serve Injuns here” at the sight of the hero’s noble Indian sidekick.
Bingo, only I don’t think it was terribly clumsy. (I can’t believe I’m sinking to a straight answer here.)
Droids don’t drink. Or pull on the space-hookah. They take up as much space as a paying customer, though.
Also, having Threepio and Artoo wait outside served to give us a view of the rat-masked informer dropping the .1 credit token on Luke and Ben to the Imperial Stormtroopers, which would have been awkward otherwise.
Good point; I didn’t think of that.
The barkeeper was a fundamentalist Butlerian.
Also, the clientele of that place looked to be the sort that probably couldn’t afford droid servants.
It’s class jealousy.
Either some kind of specism, or they don’t like it because driods don’t buy liqour, so they are basically loittering.
Serve them what, exatly?
I suppose if it was some sort of new-age yuppie spa sort of cantina, they could give oil baths and seaweed wraps and things of the like.
Assuming there is no official answer to this question, then my theory is something like this:
Just twenty years earlier, droids were being used extensively as soldiers and I presume, in law enforcement. Since most of the beings in that cantina were scum & villains, many of them probably still resent droids, or at least what droids often represented. So after the Empire switched to using Stormtroopers as their thugs, there was a cultural backlash against droids in general, and particularly among those the droids would most likely have hassled. I’m sure some species had their entire planets subjugated in large part by droids.
So it’s kinda like an ex-cop not being welcome in a prison, or a bar full of people with extensive criminal pasts.
I say this also because the bartender said “we don’t serve their kind here.” So I’m thinking a droid could be served (with what? Oil? Coolant? Electricity? Liquid hydrogen?).
So the enlightened “good” people look past their petty prejudices, and “bad” people still engage in what is basically racism based on something the droids “ancestors” did.
Sorta.
Could be for their own protection, particularly a C3PO type. Picture a protocol droid in a room full of ornery drunks. At a minimum, they would pop his head off for a extended game of “keep away.”
I saw it as simply a humorous point. The bar obviously serves all kinds, no matter their shapes and sizes, and the contrast of that with them not serving droids is kind of funny.
Interesting answers, all! Thank you.
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Oh yeah?! Well, I’m gonna open my own cantina! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the cantina!
A corollary to this is that droids are, essentially, walking recording devices. There are clearly a large number of fugitives in the cantina (“I have the death sentence in twelve systems!”) the clientele probably doesn’t want to take the risk that someone will download the droid’s memory at a later date and use the information therein to track them down.