Plinkett's based off a real guy who came into the theatre I used to work at. Well, more of an amalgamation of a few regular patrons. I first saw that drawing back in 2006 or so. Replace "Bagel Dogs" with the Pizza Rolls. He's mostly based off this guy who claimed to be the original voice of Popeye, who actually did have an investigation into the whereabouts of his girlfriend/wife sometime back in the '70s and has bottles of booze buried somewhere beneath the theatre.

Wait, I_Z, are you now saying that you invented Plinkett? You have some personal connection to every damned video up here it seems.

No, I think Jay invented Plinkett. We had employee box logs that went back to the late 1980s at the movie theatre and I'd read the old ones when I was bored. I didn't work there until 2006 though, and at that point Mike and Jay were doing film festival stuff in Milwaukee, but they'd still come in a bunch. In fact if you watch the whole Star Wars review thing, the theatre plays a pretty big role, and I lived about a block from where Jay and Mike did, and probably still do. But no, just small world. Basically he's just a collaboration of asshole customers, sort of like how George Jerry Elaine and Kramer are based off real-life people who tried to cash in later after the success of the show. So in a lot of cases, I owe my vicarious connections to having worked shit jobs in the service industry growing up.

They really are. I was with my dad recently and showed him the new Star Wars trailer; he didn't even know they were making a new one. But out of anyone, he should be their biggest fan. My mom went into labor during the first one and they named my older brother after Obi Wan (Ben) but I don't think they ever went back and finished it, or if they did it was some years later. His reaction was similar to Plinkett's: "so they're making another one? Oh Harrison Ford's in it. Back to Call The Midwife. You wanna stick around and watch Call The Midwife with me?"

"Shitty actors cast as the main characters? Mind-numbing dialogue? We'll fix it in post. Also throw in some lovable CG character based on offensive racial stereotypes, you know, for the kids."