Chew’i – The Bare Necessities, Chewy Pet supplies, Chewbacca, and the North Mississippi Allstars
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Bear_Necessities
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Chew%27i
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bare_Necessities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BH-Rxd-NBo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewy_(company)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Mississippi_Allstars
Entering into the Ursai Village, your wizard encounters Chew’i, a white Ursai who is “helping” (most of the bears have done two things, diddly and squat) his village prepare for the upcoming Killawahoo Ceremony. He needs three bushels of mangos. Your wizard ends helping Chew’i, Tosh, Grizztopher, and Kodi finish the preparations for the ceremony.
“The Bare Necessities” is a jazz song, written by Terry Gilkyson, from Walt Disney’s 1967 animated feature film The Jungle Book, sung by Phil Harris as Baloo and Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli. A reprise of the song was sung by Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera and Phil Harris as Baloo at the end of the film. In 1967, “The Bare Necessities” was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to “Talk to the Animals” from Doctor Dolittle.
Chewy, Inc. is an American online retailer of pet food and other pet-related products based in Plantation, Florida. Chewy went public in 2019 with the ticker symbol CHWY on the New York Stock Exchange. Chewy was founded with the name “Mr. Chewy” in June 2011 by Ryan Cohen and Michael Day. In March 2012, the company estimated a total yearly revenue of $26 million, despite losing money in its first half year. By 2017, the company had revenue of approximately $2 billion and 51% of online pet food sales in the US. At that time, CEO Ryan Cohen prepared to take Chewy public as both Petco and PetSmart approached with merger offers. Petco’s offer would be paid for in part using stock, whereas PetSmart offered an all-cash bid that would also allow Chewy to remain a completely separate business. In 2017, Chewy was purchased by PetSmart, a retail entity backed by private equity firm BC Partners, for $3.35 billion, which at the time was the largest ever acquisition of an e-commerce business.
Chewbacca, nicknamed “Chewie”, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a Wookiee, a tall, hairy, highly intelligent species originating from the planet Kashyyyk. He is 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall, and typically wears only a bandolier and a tool pouch. He carries a bowcaster, a traditional Wookiee weapon, and he speaks the Wookiee language. He first appears in the original Star Wars film as the loyal friend of the smuggler Han Solo. He is also the co-pilot of Han’s starship, the Millennium Falcon.
Chewbacca is portrayed by Peter Mayhew in the original film trilogy, the Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), and Revenge of the Sith (2005). Mayhew shared the Chewbacca role with his body double, Joonas Suotamo, in The Force Awakens (2015). Following Mayhew’s retirement in 2017, Suotamo took over the role, appearing in The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and in the standalone film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).
North Mississippi Allstars is an American blues and southern rock band from Hernando, Mississippi, founded in 1996. The band is currently composed of brothers Luther Dickinson (guitar, lowebow, vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums, keyboards, electric washboard, vocals). Their most recent album Set Sail was released in 2022. The group was formed in 1996 by brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson (sons of Memphis musician and producer Jim Dickinson), along with bassist Chris Chew, with the intention of combining the blues and bluegrass of the North Mississippi region with rock and other modern forms.
I’ll be the first to admit that NPCs from “Bear Necessities” stood out as “These Must be a reference to SOMETHING”. That said, this article is PURE speculation. I would like to thank Ashley D., Billy S., Diane G., Lynette H., Maureen P. and Mike M. for their help with the Bear Necessities articles.
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Chew’i image is from Wizard101, and is (c) KingsIsle Entertainment, it is being used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
Chewy logo is TM and copyright Chewy Inc.
Chewbacca image is copyright Lucasfilm
North Mississippi Allstars image is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is cropped from the 2003 album Polaris. The image is copyright Tone-Cool/ATO Records
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