And yet, they invariably reply to him in Basic, and for some reason parrot what he just said. It’s almost as if there’s an audience in need of exposition. 
No, no, no. You’re obviously missing the part that we need to worry about. This film series is a diabolical plot of the tobacco companies to kill children. I saw Episode IV the weekend it opened at age 4. I still remember that night to this day. It was at the (now defunct) National Ave Drive-In, in the back seat of my parent’s Oldsmobile. The feature was Prom Night. (They left after the girl fell from the second story window at the beginning. Funny how you remember everything about the first time you saw SW,huh?)
Anyway, Chewie was one of the most beloved characters, and just about every kid loved him. But his name is Chewbacca. As in Chew Tabacca. A nefarious subliminal suggestion.
And that’s why I smoke today. Damn you George Lucas! 
No silly,
hot Ewok sex!
Therefor,
CMC fnord!
Unnecessary link to Supernova’s “Chewbacca”
Er, you misspelled “English.” 
Ewoks screaming as they fly
Doo-dah, doo-dah
Chewie get one with every shot
Oh doo-dah day!"
hits one, hits one :smack:
Chewbacca and an Ewok are out in the woods. Chewbacca is taking a dump. He asks the Ewok. “Do you have a problem with shit sticking to your fur?”
The Ewok says. “no.”
So Chewbacca wipes his ass with the Ewok.
On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin!
Grand old Badger state!
We, thy loyal sons and daughters
Hail thee good and great.
On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin!
Champion of the right.
“Forward,” our motto - God
Will give thee might!
I always thought it was a nickname in basic that his non-wookie friends and accociates could pronounce.
He probably has a different nickname on Endor - possibly ewok for “8 foot tall love machine”
You fail to convince me.
Wookie tefillim (phylacteries)… only for Orthodox Wookies, tho.
;j
The reason is that Chewbacca is the Wookie equivalent of Garry Glitter.
We won’t explore this particular aspect of the issue any more, now will we…hmmm?
Thanks. Being (however indirectly) the cause of my little accident just now, could you recommend a way to clean Gatorade off of a monitor and keyboard?
Is it possible it’s a type of “badge of office”? (not badger 
) Like the Klingon’s sash? (although “sash” probably isn’t the right term!)
Then why wouldn’t Han Solo say his name in Wookiee if he could speak it? Not to keep harping, but this has bothered me since childhood. Almost as much as what the bathroom at Mos Eisley would look like. There would have to be thousands of different toilets!
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I don’t know.
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I don’t know.
It was always my understanding that Chewie never established permanent residence on Endor, but had spent time there directing adult films, Ewoks being the perfect performers for Wookie midget porn.
When I said “speak Wookiee” I meant that he could understand it. It is also detailed in the Expanded Universe that Wookiee-speak is very difficult for humans to replicate, and since Wookiees can generally understand Basic (the species is very smart, appearances notwithstanding) it’s much easier to communicate the way Han and Chewie do.
Naw, he just uses the Ewoks for condoms. “Ewoks : Furred for her pleasure.”
Mad magazine had a riff on this way back when the movie first came out. It showed Luke walking into the restroom at the Mos Eisley cantina and the bizarre array of porcelain fixtures therein. Pretty funny.
Luke eventually learns to understand R2’s beeps as easily as Han seems to understand Chewbacca. So why doesn’t he respond in R2’s droid language?