That Time Laura Dern Saw Baby Yoda At A Basketball Game

It all began with an innocent interview at the Gotham Awards when a Variety reporter asked actress Laura Dern if she had seen Baby Yoda, seemingly meaning had she seen either The Mandalorian or witnessed the birth of the only thing currently uniting us all on Twitter. Instead, the answer Dern provided shocked the entire internet when she claimed she "thinks she saw Baby Yoda at a basketball game."

 

Laura Dern says that she saw #BabyYoda at a basketball game: "That's all I'm going to say" pic.twitter.com/i87ves5tn4

— Variety (@Variety) December 3, 2019

 
Of course the questions began to pore in.

I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS:1. Who's Baby Yoda's favorite basketball team?2. How did he get tickets?3. Were they courtside? Because he's so small he probably can't see from anywhere else?4. Is Baby Yoda best friends with Laura Dern?5. What's Laura Dern's midichlorian count??? https://t.co/ttz8YNFMVd

— Joshua Axelrod (@jaxel222) December 3, 2019

 
Regardless of how wild her claim is, she is Laura Dern and we should definitely believe her.

believe women https://t.co/hlK8lOZfur

— Mira Gonzalez (@miragonz) December 3, 2019

 
Even if say he committed a crime, and that's why she couldn't delve further into her personal experience of seeing him.

Laura Dern’s “That’s all I’m gonna say” in reference to Baby Yoda being at a basketball game makes it sound like Baby Yoda is about to be brought up on charges

— Michael Chau (@Srirachachau) December 3, 2019

 
With only a few weeks left, some argued this was the wildest thing to happen in 2019.

Laura Dern saying she saw Baby Yoda at a basketball game…"and that's all I'll say on the matter" is genuinely the wildest thing of 2019. Just truly awe inspiring and dumbfounding. I love it

— The People's 〽️att Feldbush (@MattFeldbush) December 3, 2019

 
Of course several thought maybe she was confusing the CGI muppet with a rapper.

National Treasure Laura Dern not knowing what Baby Yoda is & assumedly thinking it is the name of a rapper(?) she saw at an NBA game is the highlight of the damn decade, we can just end it now it’s not gonna get any better than this

— Laurence Turner-Cordova (@afroman76) December 4, 2019

 
And even though a rapper with that name doesn't exist, some were inspired to launch a career.

time for me to launch my career as a soundtrack rapper named baby yoda in the name of laura dern

— kerry (@truthandmeasure) December 3, 2019

 
Of course the memes were in full effect.

Telling my kids this was Laura Dern and baby yoda pic.twitter.com/Uubg2bkAYr

— Hannah Kasulka (@hkasulka) December 3, 2019

 
Because it's perhaps one of the funniest things to happen in awhile.

I cannot pay attention to anything going on in class because I keep laughing thinking about how Laura Dern said she saw Baby Yoda at a fucking basketball game.

— Tonz (@BntoniaAraccia) December 4, 2019

 
And will carry on until at least next October, when we find ourselves in search of a Halloween costume.

this tweet is going to age in a strange way but it must be said:couples costume concept: Baby Yoda and Laura Dern

— Morgan Knight (@_MorganKnight_) December 4, 2019

 
Of course, there is a possibility that Dern wasn't actually lying.

Laura Dern did see #BabyYoda . Here’s proof pic.twitter.com/I7t010ZsOk

— alan (@NAlanetrash) December 3, 2019

 
Because this evidence is pretty strong.

was this what LauraDern was talking about?? https://t.co/UKqyXpDpQo

— The Minority Gay (theminoritygay) December 4, 2019

 
Especially since she too, lives in the Star Wars universe.

laura dern is in a star wars movie so of course she fucking knows who baby yoda is. pic.twitter.com/bP3UKnhbGu

— εѵα ✨ (@minervastreep) December 3, 2019

 
With that being said, we're happy this dialogue began.

me seeing laura dern get asked about baby yoda pic.twitter.com/ZA6y9MIMvD

— Matt Erspamer (@erspamer_matt) December 3, 2019

 
And can all agree with this point.

if laura dern doesn’t know who baby yoda is then it’s ok if billie eilish doesn’t know who van halen is

— taylor, but MCR IS BACK (@bakakarat) December 3, 2019

 

Baby Yoda has yet to accept a role in Big Little Lies Season 3, but we are certainly looking forward to it.