10 Star Wars Moments You'll Never See Again

3. The Victory Celebration Without Gungans - Return Of The Jedi

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Even with the changes made to its music throughout the years, Return of the Jedi's Rebel celebration is an undeniably triumphant cinematic moment, right?

Yet George Lucas made an arguably even more egregious change to the scene for the 2004 Special Edition, when he decided to add the thing every single Star Wars fan surely wanted to see included in the scene: Gungans.

In yet another attempt to tie the prequels and original films together, the celebration montage is extended to show a giant celebration in Naboo, complete with Gungans visible atop a building as one of them screams ecstatically, "Wesa free!"

Given that the Gungans remain one of the most divisive aspects of the prequels, throwing them into the originals where they had no presence previously was always going to ruffle a lot of feathers.

Had they simply been a silent part of the celebrations it would've been fine enough, yet the moment we hear one of them bleating from the rooftops, we're instantly pulled out of a euphoric moment and reminded of just how damn annoying Jar Jar Binks (Ahmed Best) truly was.

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