  the chewbacca defense is a legal strategy used in episode 27 of south park, "chef aid", which premiered on october 7, 1998. the aim of the argument is to deliberately confuse the jury by making use of the fallacy known as ignoratio elenchi (irrelevant conclusion) or a red herring. the concept satirised attorney johnnie cochran's closing argument defending o.&nbsp;j. simpson in his murder trial. in the satire's original defense, the fictional cochran begins his argument by stating, incorrectly, that chewbacca lives on the planet endor. after then noting that this statement "does not make sense", cochran continues to connect the senselessness of his own statement to the actual case, implying that it is equally senseless. his closing argument "if chewbacca lives on endor, you must acquit" is lampooning the real cochran's "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit". ==origin== in the episode, chef contacts a "major record company" executive, seeking only to have his name credited as the composer of "stinky britches". chef's claim is substantiated by a 20âyear-old recording of chef performing the song. the record company refuses, and furthermore hires johnnie cochran, who files a lawsuit against chef for harassment. in court, cochran resorts to his "famous" chewbacca defense, which he "used during the simpson trial", according to chef's lawyer, gerald broflovski. although broflovski uses logic, reasoning and the fact that chef properly copyrighted his work, cochran counters with the following: {{quote|text=&nbsp; ; cochran : ...ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, i have one final thing i want you to consider. ladies and gentlemen, this is chewbacca. chewbacca is a wookiee from the planet kashyyyk. but chewbacca lives on the planet endor. now think about it; that does not make sense! ; gerald broflovski : damn it! ... he's using the chewbacca defense! ; cochran : why would a wookiee, an 8-foot-tall wookiee, want to live on endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall ewoks? that does not make sense! but more important, you have to ask yourself: what does this have to do with this case? nothing. ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! it does not make sense! look at me. i'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and i'm talkin' about chewbacca! does that make sense? ladies and gentlemen, i am not making any sense! none of this makes sense! and so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the [[emancipat
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