Wednesday, July 23, 2014

On Depictions of Families on Bumper Stickers

In the past 2 days I have seen two of those family bumper sticker things with Star Wars themes. Never seen those before.

Yesterday's had the adult male figure as Han Solo, and the female figure was A New Hope vintage Leia (white dress and stereotypical Princess Leia hair buns). The children were miniature stormtroopers. A miniature AT-AT presumably represented a dog or other household pet.

Today's went with a different theme. I only saw this one for a very short time, so I was only able to identify four of the five figures. No dog this time. Children represented by ewoks. I was unable to identify the medium sized figure in the time allotted. Presumably a teenager or something. Adult female was Jabba's palace vintage Leia. Adult male was A New Hope vintage Luke.

I can understand both children types. The obvious "a little short for a stormtrooper" gag on one hand, and the representation of children as small fuzzy critters on the other. The AT-AT dog was pretty humorous too

WAIT A MINUTE! Who in their right mind would equate themselves (presumably a husband and wife pair) with Princess Leia at her most scantily clad (yeah, that's what I meant by Jabba's palace) and her brother.

I guess both representations are from when the character does not know of the family relationship. Not sure if that makes it better or worse.

Pretty sure it is worse.

(I was considering tacking "And Unwitting Incest" onto the end of the title, but decided I didn't want to give away the twist ending)

1 comment:

Su said...

Clearly slave Leia (that is her official title, get it right) and Luke are not really brother and sister, this is an alternate universe. Or they were married in West Virginia, where you can marry your sister, just not your gay sister.