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TIL a woman delivered three minutes of Patton Oswalt's 9-minute Parks and Rec Star Wars filibuster speech at a real Michigan city council meeting in 2019. (www.deseret.com)
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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 52 points 7 months ago (4 children)

For those who aren't in the loop, the full video of his speech is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBhNkywMJY

It was cut for time in the episode but it's glorious.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

That's literally in the article, along with a clip of the Libingston County one: https://twitter.com/LaurenMGibbons/status/1100419006803128321

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 months ago

IIRC, Patton improv’d that whole speech in the moment.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So has this movie been released yet or is it still in production? (I'm assuming any pitch that involved robot Chewy would get approved instantly)

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They still have to work out the rights to include the X-Men. Then they'll get on to filming.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The new Deadpool & Wolverine movie did just drop a trailer today...

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Progress!

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Marvel better have something special up their sleeve for the xman. Cuz so far whooboy they are dropping the superball.

They're in danger of peaking in highschool right now.

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They left highschool already. Peak confirmed. It's been downhill for a while now. The occasional spike isn't enough to reverse that trend.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

I hope it's just a sophomore flop. Like how a lot of bands struggle with thier second album.

Because ultimately thier first album/story arc was iron man thru infinity war.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks for sharing this! I had seen the episode, but had no idea that they had made the full speech available, nor that it was so long!

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What I find most peculiar about his filibuster was how much of it actually came true.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the Star Wars-Marvel-Greek Pantheon shared universe has yet to come to pass.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That'll be the next MCU phase!

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 3 points 7 months ago

I mean, Eternals, Avengers, Guardians, you've got the elements.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 7 points 7 months ago

I might have missed the movie with Chewy's severed head. Though I haven't seen them all.

[–] AlgonquinHawk@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks for sharing this haha Didn't know it was even a thing