Update (May 31, 2022): Jokes about Glup Shitto have returned, thanks to the brief appearance of Wookiee Jedi Padawan Gungi in a trailer for The bad batch Season 2. Gungi first appeared in the Star Wars animated series The clone wars, so naturally his return to the Star Wars spotlight sparked a new wave of Glup Shitto celebrations and discussions. Our original Glup Shitto explainer is below.
Wat Tambor. Wulf Yularen. Plo Koon. These are some Star Wars guys I know. I actually know a lot of Star Wars guys, so I was surprised I had never heard of Glup Shitto. And yet it’s a name I keep seeing online, in Social Media Handles and discussions about The Mandalorian. I’ve now learned everything there is to know about Glup Shitto.
Like all the best things in Star Wars, Glup Shitto is non-canon. It sprang from Tumblr user gomjabbar on September 3, 2020 below post:
Every time a new Star War movie or series is announced, all the fans say, “OMG Glup Shitto is back”
Since the first post appeared, Star Wars as a franchise has had several gloop shitto moments. The meme has declined accordingly. Finally people like me who saw everyone clone wars and Star Wars rebels Cartoons can spend their day in the sun, with characters from those shows and other Star Wars spinoff properties popping up The Mandalorian and in Disney’s upcoming series of Star Wars shows.
I used to corner people at parties and lecture them about Grand Admiral Thrawn, receiving little more than a glassy stare and a hollow promise that the person I was talking to would check clone wars “Sometime.” But now, when I do, I might even see recognition in her eyes, because Thrawn is a timid-footed recurring character on a popular series.
Nobody ever really want check over clone wars. I mean, I didn’t at first either. It starts slow and stays slow for a long time. There are various lists of best episodes online, but they all contradict each other because there are relevant and emotionally resonant tidbits Everyone of episodes, covered in a barrage of boring stuff that doesn’t find a footing well into Season 2 (or later, depending on who you ask). Star Wars rebels has better pace off the jump, but his best moments don’t land if you weren’t watching clone wars. It’s hard to convince the average adult Star Wars fan that the best Star Wars stuff is buried in a show based on the prequels, of all things, and whose target demographic is very young, even by Star Wars standards. It also moves so slowly that I don’t even think Child Me would have had the patience for it. Only the most die-hard Star Wars fan would care.
But I’ve stuck to those weirder corners of Star Wars in this post.rise by Skywalker World. I expect mainstream Star Wars to let me down these days by simplifying the most complicated and unnerving aspects of the series into something safer and often more silly. In the meantime, the books, cartoons, comics, and video games may get into weirder, sillier stuff — as well as themes and ideas that challenge the Star Wars status quo. The lid seems a little looser at these fringe qualities, and this is where the good – the gloop shitto of everything – is allowed to shine through.
Glup Shitto is mostly just a funny joke about how Star Wars names sound like garbled nonsense. But to me, at least, he’s a representation of the bizarre stubbornness of a certain sector of Star Wars fans in the face of a franchise that’s been sorely hit or missed over the past two decades. The crying emojis in the original post sum it all up, really. Gloop Shitto is back. Star Wars is good again, but only in an extremely discreet and obscure way, one that you’ll have to dig to uncover and truly understand.
I’m not a Star Wars fan. No longer. I’m only here for Glup Shitto.
