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by: The Dark Moose

date posted: Mar 30, 2006 10:09 AM | updated: Mar 30, 2006 11:29 AM

"I know."

As you may know by now, one of Harrison Ford's most memorable lines was an ad-lib: the famous "I know" when Leia expresses her true feelings for him, albeit not in the South Passage of Echo Base.

According to director Irvin Kirshner (from the DVD box set commentary), they had been there all day shooting this scene. The set was hot and uncomfortable, and the lines just weren't ringing true.

I mean, this is Han Solo getting all mushy for a dame.

So instead of the various reciprocations he gives Leia for busting out the L-Word, Harrison, in true Solo form, improvises:

"I love you!"

"I know."

Classic. Kirshner was right, too - no one but Han Solo would say that. But is this the entire story? What about the rest of the scene - the parts we didn't see until Han Solo settled on this efficient yet babe-trapping solution?

I give you the extended Carbon Freezing Chamber scene dialog, rescued from my own private archives...

BOBA FETT: What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me.

VADER: The Empire will compensate you if he dies. Put him in!

(Chewbacca has a Wookiee moment.)

THREEPIO: Oh, no! No, no, no! Stop, Chewbacca, stop...!

HAN: Stop, Chewie, stop! Do you hear me? Stop!

THREEPIO: Yes, stop, please! I'm not ready to die.

HAN: Chewie! Chewie, this won't help me. Hey! Save your strength. There'll be another time. The princess -- you have to take care of her. You hear me?

(Han and Leia snog passionate face.)

LEIA: I love you!

HAN: I know.

LEIA: ...Wait!

HAN: Yeah?

LEIA: That's it? That's all you're gonna say? That's weak.

HAN: I can't really get into a commitment right now.

LEIA: I'll wait for you!

HAN: Likewise, I'm sure.

THREEPIO: Sir! Sir!

HAN: Hurry up, Goldrenrod.

THREEPIO: I love you, too!

HAN: ...ok, then....noted?

CHEWBACCA: RrrrAWwwwllll Rahrahrah

HAN: ..Also...noted..?

STORMTROOPER #1: *click* I also find you attractive in a manner I can't quite descibe *click*

HAN: ....Where's the lever to this thing?

STORMTROOPER #2: *click* You do have a sort of...oh you know...thing going on. With your pirate shirt and all that.

HAN: ..thank you?

VADER: Um...Solo..

LANDO: You still owe me money, by the way.

HAN: I know.

VADER: Solo.

BOBA FETT: You have nice hair.

HAN: I know.

VADER: Captain Solo.

HAN: What? What!? Make it good, because I think you know what you can do with yourself after I'm a meat popsicle.

VADER: ...Your fly is open.

HAN: I know.

(Han is replaced with new Freeze Dried Solo Crystals)

DM out

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	luuke.skywalker
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 10:22 AM Absolutely hilarious! Even more so when you go back and re-read the tagline under the title.

	jkthunder Seven Pieces
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 10:35 AM - too mushy for my tastes too. I can see why the cut that out of the film

Rive Caedo
Rive's Uncharted Settlements

date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 10:50 AM

Stormtrooper 3: *click* You didn't knock me off the platform like your hairy friend. I love you. *click*

I heard they're going to change it to Han saying 'I love you' first to increase his overall heroism in the 2007 Special Edition. Leia will respond with a cheesy digitized movement of her head designed to convey shock. In the 2014 DVD release they'll change it again so they both say 'I love you' at almost the same time.

Also: This third version of the scene was smuggled in awhile back.

	The Dark Moose Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 10:53 AM In the 2014 DVD release they'll change it again so they both say 'I love you' at almost the same time. In 2021 they are reported to change it back to them both inexplicably saying "I know." to each other. In 2024, the final change will be to a Leia yawn and Han saying "whatever."

	Darth_Apollyon
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 11:10 AM Stormtrooper 4: click Han, I wish I knew how to quit you... click

	jediV-man
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 11:13 AM ROTFL!!!! SO Glad to have you back to writting hilarious stuff Dark Moose. Thanks again for the laughs, all of em.

	"shaggy" fett A Bounty Hunter's Memoirs
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 11:14 AM that was definately a funny blog. im sittin in class right now, and i was trying to suppress my laughter, but when i got to the part where boba says he has nice hair, that was great.

	DarthVicomte Vicomte's Blog Extravaganza (Now Defunct)
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 11:22 AM Leia: So now everyone loves you, no one asked my opinion! I am a commitee! Han: It's not my fault! Lando: Hey Chewbacca! You box-dropping man-ape gone wrong thing! Chewbacca: Rwwwarrwahhhh. Vader: sigh I have a bad feeling about this... Boba Fett: If anyone needs me, I'll be outside. Threepio: How rude!

	Darth Vader Meditation Chamber
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 11:52 AM Really funny Moose! In the 2014 DVD release they'll change it again so they both say 'I love you' at almost the same time. In 2021 they are reported to change it back to them both inexplicably saying "I know." to each other. In 2024, the final change will be to a Leia yawn and Han saying "whatever."

	The Stooge Star Wars Joke-A-Day
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 12:26 PM Great stuff! mmmm... meat popsicle...

DarthDerekT

date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 12:40 PM

Very funny. Maybe Han's face was frozen like that when he realized that he could've scored with Leia and didn't. "DARN!!!!!"

Redneck Star Wars would have Leia saying "I love you, but I am carrying my brother's baby?"
Chewie would respond (in Wookie) "You think that's bad, I am carrying your father's baby...on my back.'
Boba "Let me shoot him for such a bad joke!!!" raising his gun

	Padawan_Katis Whispers From the Jedi Archives
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 1:05 PM (can't comment I'm too busy laughing my head off!)

	amidalooine The Emotional Galaxy
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 1:59 PM amidalooine: Dark Moose. I hold you solely responsible for the Oreo crumbs I just spewed onto my laptop in a fit of laughter. DM: I know

	gahmah80 Gahmah's Lair of Trauma (Blog Closed Due to Inability to Renew Hyperspace Account)
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 4:57 PM ROFL, That was just awesome, Moose. Something like this might have happened between General Grievous and Obi-Wan: GG: You fool! I've been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Dooku! Obi-Wan: I know. GG: unsurprised look Then why'd you do something foolish?

	Jedi Master Mina Jedi blogging, go back to your drinks!
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 7:05 PM .....speechless. LOL...Let's analyze meat popsicle, shall we? Maybe not (teehee). thanks for the laugh...

	Kenobi-fan The Jundland Wastes Journal
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 7:46 PM VADER: ...Your fly is open. HAN: I know. I'm going to be laughing about that one for days.

Big Daddy Sinister

date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 9:27 PM

Now for a really uncomfortable moment....

VADER: From the moment you shot my Tie Fighter, all those months ago, saving Luke and ruining my defense of the Death Star, not a day's gone by when I haven't thought of you. I'm in agony. The thought of not being with you, ripping your blaster out of your hands and torturing you - - I can't breathe, even with this iron lung thing I'm wearing! I'm haunted by the kiss you never gave me....

SOLO: Shoot me! Shoot me NOW!!!!

	Michelle1968 M68- Star Wars Kid at Heart
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 10:11 PM HaHa!!!! Too funny guys! Vader- "Han, I said, you're zipper!" Han- Why don't you just admit how you really feel about me? Heh? Heh..... "That's two you owe me Sr!"

	The Dark Moose Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Mar 30, 2006 10:14 PM I can't breathe, even with this iron lung thing I'm wearing! I'm haunted by the kiss you never gave me.... Bah! I am so creeped out now :0)

	jedimaster13109 Meditations of a Star Wars Fan
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 6:15 AM Very funny Moose, its always good to laugh your head off at a Star Wars gag.

	Sol Kassar Ramblings from the Detention Center (Startled)
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 6:38 AM And the 2 most controversial lines that were edited out: Vader: I love you. Han: I wish I knew how to quit you!

rappingrancor
Rappingrancor's Pit -- And No, I Don't Mean My Room!

date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 7:50 AM

Stormtrooper #4: Alright, the Wookiee pushed me over the edge! Han Solo, you pirate... (pulls off helmet revealing Yoda) Love you I do.

Leia: Is there a chance I can dump him now?

Threepio: Oh dear, what is that awful smell?

Lando: It's Chewie's masculine pheramones.

Han: What a wonderful smell you've discovered!

(Chewie shrugs)

Boba Fett: You can hit the switch now...anytime now.

Ugnaught: I've got a bad feeling about this.

Ugnaught #2: Me too.

Vader: Hurry up already. I gotta pee!

Leia: I hate you.

Han: I know. And I hate little green boogers in stormtrooper armor.

Yoda: Hmm! (hits switch) There is another.

Boba Fett: Oh yeah. Solo, I'm your long-lost brother.

Han: Oh cr- (he is frozen)

	rappingrancor Rappingrancor's Pit -- And No, I Don't Mean My Room!
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 8:07 AM That's the 4th long-lost script of the carbon-freezing chamber. Hope you like it. Enjoy!

	rappingrancor Rappingrancor's Pit -- And No, I Don't Mean My Room!
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 8:28 AM Written by rappingrancor naturally.

	Darth Rex0 So be it....
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 9:19 AM Great stuff DM. I could add my line like most people, but I think its already been covered very well. I love this entry and don't say "I know".

	rappingrancor Rappingrancor's Pit -- And No, I Don't Mean My Room!
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 9:26 AM DM says "I know." Sorry Darth Rex0. Had to say it. Didja like mine?

	rappingrancor Rappingrancor's Pit -- And No, I Don't Mean My Room!
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 9:35 AM Srry if my writing isnt that good today. i'm coming off of a bad bout of the flu.

	Darth Rex0 So be it....
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 9:45 AM i'm coming off of a bad bout of the flu. I feel ya. I've got the worst sinus infection I've had in years. Is it summer yet?

	rappingrancor Rappingrancor's Pit -- And No, I Don't Mean My Room!
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 10:11 AM Well my whole family has it and my mom has a gall stone. My dad's got the worst of it. Sinus, cold, flu, not to mention allergies. I puked yesterday, so I get to sit around all day so I'll be here for a while.

	The Dark Moose Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 10:28 AM Boba Fett: Oh yeah. Solo, I'm your long-lost brother. Han: Oh cr- (he is frozen) Bah :0)

	rappingrancor Rappingrancor's Pit -- And No, I Don't Mean My Room!
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 10:48 AM d to thik of something.

	rappingrancor Rappingrancor's Pit -- And No, I Don't Mean My Room!
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 10:52 AM Sorry. Got cut off there. Well, I had to think of something.

	Tigerith_Kenobi_02
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 12:44 PM outta breath so funny guys especally rappingrancor's version. I really needed that laugh.

	rappingrancor Rappingrancor's Pit -- And No, I Don't Mean My Room!
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 2:56 PM Anytime, Tigerith_Kenobi_02. Hope everybody else liked it. God bless. RR signing off.

	wookiee_sniper
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 3:17 PM ROTFL!!! Great stuff DM!!! Keep it up!!

	rappingrancor Rappingrancor's Pit -- And No, I Don't Mean My Room!
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 3:39 PM By the way. I've got an art fair going on at my school and I need some ideas. (sorry to use up blog space, DM. Can't join Hyperspace. I'm broke.) Anyone? Anyone?

	jedimasterninks
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 5:19 PM Nice blog Moose, that was awesome! I have to try and restrain from laughing much longer. Nice comments too guys!

Padawan Binks

date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 5:28 PM

ROFL...that's hilarious, definatly laughed out loud at my computer (something I try to avoid doing because people always give me funny looks :P)

LEIA: That's it? That's all you're gonna say? That's weak.

HAN: I can't really get into a commitment right now.

STORMTROOPER #1: *click* I also find you attractive in a manner I can't quite descibe *click*

HAN: ....Where's the lever to this thing?

LOL

	-=Mr. McCool=-
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 7:57 PM Mooooooooooooose!!!!!!!! You've done it again!! That was right up there with teh Bossk poem!!! I swear when you're old and wrinkled someone - maybe one of us - is going to publish this stuff. HILARIOUS!!! "VADER: ...Your fly is open. HAN: I know."

	Yoda's Pink Uncle
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 7:59 PM hilarious

	obi-wan sicoli
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 8:07 PM Trooper #7 "You had me at 'I know'"

	RafreeDjo Tale from the Dathmorian Warrior
date Posted: Mar 31, 2006 8:57 PM Moose. Uhhh... I'm am not going to sleep tonight from laughter. Thanks.

	darthpalps
date Posted: Apr 01, 2006 6:13 AM how do people imagine things funny like that???? I can't wait for the next special editions and the 3D stuff!!!!

	The Dark Moose Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Apr 01, 2006 7:17 AM Trooper #7 "You had me at 'I know'" LOL :0)

	voovie1960 The circle is now complete. When we first saw "Star Wars", we were but the learners, now we are the masters.
date Posted: Apr 01, 2006 10:40 AM ROTFLMBO

JediITL
The Blog Trooper

date Posted: Apr 02, 2006 7:53 AM

Lando: *clap* "Great now I can drive my old baby back to Tatooine. Thanks Vader! "
Leia: "What the HELL is your problem."
Lando: "I get to drive my ship again! Me and Vader planned it all along!....Right?"
Lando: *choke* "Vad.....er....pl.........ease........"
Vader: "Well since you said pl and ease......."
Lando: *unchoke* "See manners can go a loooooooooooooooong way. Even with the Sith. So remember, say I know to everyone who says I love you."

I know it sucked.

But I just woke up so gimme a break.

	D2-L2
date Posted: Apr 02, 2006 11:40 AM Hilarious Moose. rappingrancor and Rive Caedo: yours were the best as well.

	rupind2@aol.com
date Posted: Apr 02, 2006 6:47 PM Hey moose, how About this? G Grievos: I have Been trained by count dooko obi-wan: I trained The jedi who killed count dooko GG: what the hell?

	ThrawnRocks1
date Posted: Apr 02, 2006 9:22 PM Oh dear, Moose. Your blog is becoming popular enough to be chatjacked. No other praise can I give that has not already been given in your long and riotous career, so I can basically sit here and say I find you very hilarious. But of course, going with the over-run joke, 'You know', don't you?

	The Dark Moose Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Apr 02, 2006 9:49 PM "I know." DM out :0)

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