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Remember the time R2D2 from Star Wars was a massive homophobe?
The new Star Wars is only a month away, with the excitement and hype driving fans into a frenzy.
But the franchise isn’t completely faultless (and no, we’re not talking about Jar Jar Binks), inspiring some work that might not be what George Lucas intended.
In one iteration of the lovable robot R2D2 in Mad Magazine, he was depicted as a massive homophobe.
This was from January 1978, so there has to be a certain amount of understanding that this was a different time, but ‘Star Roars’ ended up being one of Mad Magazine’s most popular and highly sold parodies. It was written by Larry Siegel with Dick DeBartolo.
Mistakes were soon rectified.
It was re-issued in 2007, in the book ‘MAD about Star Wars’, with the panel being changed to ‘gay robot’ instead.
When DeBartolo was asked about the panel in 2012, he said: ‘You know, I’m not sure why they changed it, but I’m glad they did.
‘I dislike words that are supposed to be the joke. Like a swear word said by an old lady [gets] a big laugh, but it’s not a joke. I know I didn’t use that word in the original, but then again I guess I didn’t write it.’
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Joe Morgan
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