Yes, These Things Are Canon
Canon, Explained
In what may or may not be a continuing feature, I’d like to highlight a few things in Star Wars that are technically canon. Because Star Wars is hilarious and so, sometimes, is the concept of canon.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is Canon
In Season 3 of The Mandalorian, if you listen closely, Jack Black sings a few bars to Lizzo. “Do you loooove me?” Her response: “Yes I dooo.” It’s at the 11 minute mark of Guns for Hire, and it doesn’t happen on camera, it’s just a little bit of banter while the camera shows us guests and local color.
This musical exchange is from Fiddler on the Roof. Therefore, Fiddler on the Roof is canon. Perhaps it is a story told over and over throughout history, emerging from the Force? Kind of like how in Battlestar Galactica, Bob Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower” just is an angelic, harmonic, galaxy-class chorus that rings out through all of space-and-time.
No notes.
DUCKS are canon
“We’ll be sitting ducks!” - Captain Panaka, The Phantom Menace
Ducks are canon. That’s right.
There was even a StarWars.com databank entry for ducks, that has since been taken down, and effort to maybe address the problem of Ducks as Canon. I’m sure they’re called something else now. (Checks Wookiepedia): pelikki. Thanks Wookiepedia. A great source for all your ducks needs.
But whatever they were renamed, they’re ducks. It’s too late. Panaka hath spoken.
JOHN WILLIAMS, COMPOSER is Canon
The Empire uses The Imperial March in its advertisements in Solo and the New Republic uses the Resistance Theme in it’s Coruscant parks.
Therefore being a bartender on Kijimi is clearly only this guy’s day job.
COFFEE is Canon
It’s not-too-subtly renamed ‘Caf’ in the books and comics, but it’s coffee. Coffee is everywhere.
To my ear, one hint that a writer is using placeholder banter before getting into the meat of a scene is hearing or reading about coffee. It happens on a lot of fiction podcasts. (“I can’t even deal with this before I have my coffee?” “How do you take it?” “Black of course.”)
Because of this tendency for writers to obsess of their personal interest in coffee, there is no fictional universe without coffee, not even the far reaches of space. Intelligent life cannot survive without it.