#8. Mos Eisley Cantina | Star Wars Holiday Special
The Chalmun’s Cantina — better known as the Mos Eisley Cantina — is a watering hole filled with space riffraff and hooligan pilots. You’ll remember it as the joint where Obi-Wan Kenobi sliced off some alien’s arm in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
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But that’s the movies; in the Star Wars Holiday Special, the made-for-TV abomination that Star Wars creator George Lucas wishes he could forget, the Cantina is run by a character played by … Bea Arthur! While the joint is still a “wretched hive of scum and villainy,” the new management must have pulled a Dalton from Road House to keep guests in line; the manager even breaks into song when it’s time for them to leave. (Seriously.) The Cantina’s crowds would become a problem, but getting there early and snagging a booth, or posting up at the bar or one of the free-standing tables would be ideal for sipping a drink and scoping out all the freaks.
