# Star Wars question about the Hutts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797 "2003-12-13T18:23:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/41 "2003-12-15T06:58:32Z")
Don’t forget Gardulla the Hutt, who owned Anakin and Shmi before they were sold to Watto. There’s also an interesting scene with some Hutts in the comic storyline _Emissaries to Malastare_. Mace Windu encounters a Hutt who’s missing half his head. Apparently, just like worms, Hutts can regenerate severe injuries. ---
**Author:** ![raizok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4491bb/32.png) [@raizok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raizok)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/42 "2003-12-15T06:59:09Z")
Here’s hoping they’ll show some kiddie Jabbas in EP.3 There’s just something about 3 foot tall slugs that gets me. ---
**Author:** ![Marlow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Marlow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlow)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/43 "2003-12-15T07:09:44Z")
In the distant past, I read a fair amount of Star Wars novels. As I recall, Hutts are actually born skinny; they’re like walking snakes. As they age, they naturally gain weight, it’s a sign of prestige. Seeing as Jabba’s so fat he can hardly walk, he’s done fairly well for himself. There was one Jabba in the books who had a genetic defect; he couldn’t gain weight, so regardless of his age, he was always the bitch in the group. I imagine people like him become plumbers, or take to the straight life. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/44 "2003-12-15T08:29:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > **Hutts do have butts.** I don’t have pictures or anything, but I would assume that a Hutt would have a **cloaca**. . ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/45 "2003-12-16T05:29:52Z")
Actually the Hutt with the wasting disease was forced to be a servant for the other Hutts and they kicked him and spat on him. Hutts are notoriously hard to kill-their hide is very tough from what I understand. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/46 "2003-12-16T07:28:41Z")
A 110lb woman can usually squeeze the life out of 'em, though – given a little leverage and enough cocaine. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/47 "2003-12-16T08:50:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*A 110lb woman can usually squeeze the life out of 'em, though – given a little leverage and enough cocaine. \*\* . . . and Nancy Reagan wanted us to think cocaine was _bad_ for us! . ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/48 "2003-12-16T18:03:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*:eek: > > **Guin** , did you make that unfortunate analogy on purpose? > > Was that a Ben Burt-enhanced _Whooooosh_ that I just heard? \*\* What unfortunate analogy are you referring to? I’m whooshed by your whoosh. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/49 "2003-12-16T19:21:13Z")
Suggesting an isomorphism between Hutts (an entire race) and the Mafia (a criminal class), in the context of this question, seems to imply a perception that all _Italians_ are somehow connected to gang activity. This matches the _perception_ that the American Italian Defamation Association has of the general perception of Italian-American people engendered by Hollywood films. I’m 99.97% sure that she was joking, 'cuz she’s such a sweetheart. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/50 "2003-12-16T21:59:06Z")
gratzi. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/51 "2003-12-17T06:42:39Z")
I was talking about the Hutts being stereotypes of the _Godfather_ and that. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797/52 "2003-12-17T11:41:10Z")
I’m pretty sure [Pizza the Hut](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/) _was_ Italian. . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-about-the-hutts/218797.md?page=2)