Earlier this year,Baby Yodahad its five minutes of adorable fame.
But it may be time to step aside, child that’s not really Yoda.
The Pupa has an Earth or two it would like to destroy.
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There’s the Boomer dad-pop in named Korvo (Justin Roiland).
There’s the Zoomer Film Twitter-throw in named Terry (Thomas Middlededitch).
The Pupa is their pseudo-pet.
It gabs like a human baby and slithers around like Gary fromSpongebob.
But who among us doesn’t also have a dark side.
That’s just the beginning of his transformation, according to McMahan.
Why should The Pupa take the pacifier from Baby Yoda?
The Pupa has relatable toddler issues.
In episode 8, the Pupa needs something really bad.
Inside a cabinet at its home on Earth, there’s a child-proof lock.
Its source of happiness: two double-A batteries and a Harry Potter whistle.
McMahan and Roiland wanted to make a show for pop culture lovers by pop culture lovers.
Consistent references to Ansel Elgort and “the Academy Award-nominated filmSuicide Squad” comes from executive producer Josh Bycel.
The whole premise of humans stuck inside a structure they can’t even comprehend?
That’s fromThe Cubehorror movie series from the late ’90s.
The villain is called the Duke?
Yup, that’sKurt Russell’sEscape From New York.Sealing yourself off so everyone can survive from episode 7?
(RIP Molly.)
That’s based on the beginning of theNicolas CagemovieThe Rock.
It almost revels in that.
It’s almost like how potato chips aren’t trying to be steak dinner," McMahan explains.
