819: All the Babus Frik

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

We went out to the movies to see “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” the first “Star Wars” film this decade. We had a really good time, thanks in large part to the charisma of many different puppets. (This is “Star Wars,” after all.) We aren’t without our criticisms—Is there ever really any danger? What is Sigourney Weaver doing?—but all in all, this film filled a Star Wars-shaped hole in our hearts....

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 819, May 26.
0:08.5	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:10.9	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and we are doing something that we like to do from time to time, but it's been a little while.
0:16.1	It's been a little while.
0:18.7	We are talking about a Star Wars movie that is in theaters now.
0:24.0	That's right.
0:25.0	We're doing it.
0:26.5	The thing that everybody remembers, we do 800 episodes, and they only remember the one thing
0:31.2	that we do, and it's talking about Star Wars movies.
0:33.9	So we're doing it now.
0:35.7	We are talking about 2026s The Mandalorian and Grogu, directed by
0:43.0	John Favreau, a follow-on from the Disney Plus series, The Mandalorian. But this is a movie that you
0:49.7	need to see in a movie theater until it appears on Disney Plus, at which point it will be kind of
0:54.6	very similar to where the Mandalorian TV show is.
0:56.9	But for now, it's in movie theaters.
0:58.6	Let me introduce my panelist of various assorted puppets and people.
1:06.5	We begin with Moises Chouyan.
1:08.4	Hello.
1:09.6	I got my indoor clothes on. I'm ready to do all the yapping on yavin that we've got to do.
1:15.0	Great. Helene Wecker is here. Hi, Aline.
1:18.4	Hey, I've brought some smokefish. Anyone wants some?
1:21.2	Mmm.
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