As far as I can tell, Sam Adams Jr & Sr are simply employing a slightly modified Chewbacca Defense:
- Cochran
- …ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
- Gerald Broflovski
- Damn it!… He’s using the Chewbacca defense!
- Cochran
- Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I’m a lawyer defending a major record company, and I’m talkin’ about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you’re in that jury room deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.[1]
- Inspired from comments over at Rich’s Place
- In the second use of the Chewbacca defense, he ends by taking out a monkey puppet and shouting “Here, look at the monkey. Look at the silly monkey!” causing a juror’s head to explode.