May the farce be with you

Last night Brent and I happened across Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on cable, which I'm not sure I've ever seen or perhaps saw once during a time far, far away. (See what I did there?) It was the scene where everyone says good-bye to Han before they freeze him into some bizarre bronze-looking sculpture.

Me: Why are they freezing him?
B: To send to Jabba.
Me: To Jabba? I don't get it.
B: He owes him money.
Me: Why does he have to be frozen because he owes Jabba money? That doesn't make any sense.
B: Because Jabba is going to be put him on the wall as a warning to others.
Me: Wait. Can't Han just go work for Jabba at the cantina or something, doing dishes? Or if he's going to sacrifice his life anyway, can't he just go to Jabba ALIVE and THEN let Jabba do what he wants with him? Why freeze himself first? That's just crazy.
B: It makes sense, I swear.
Me: It does? Ok, if I owe Countrywide (our mortgage company) money, instead of going to talk to Countrywide about it, I want you to paper mache me, then send my paper-mached body to Countrywide to put on their wall.
B: ...

"I don't wanna go on a rant here, but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the First Battle of Antietam, I mean when a Neo-Conservative defenestrates, it's like Raskolnikov filibustered deoxymonohydroxinate." - Dennis Miller, Family Guy