To be honest though the tree house is amazing I wouldn't mind living there. Inside that fantasy world where dreams can come true for me and you. So beautiful, especially the kitchen exhaust fan and beautiful wood paneling. Just makes you want to curl up in a ball with a blanket.
As an 8 year old kid I remember the excitement my friends and I had leading up to the night this show aired. Everyone was talking about how they couldn't wait to watch it. And then it came on, my family and I sitting in front of the TV eager to see how they would follow up the original Star Wars movie. I think we were about 15 minutes in before my dad announced "Let's see what else is on" and unceremoniously changed channels. My friends and I didn't really talk about the Holiday Special after that. It was a bit like someone we knew had died and we didn't want to tarnish their memory by saying something negative.
I think that the groans that the Wookiees make are groans of pain because George Lucas is forcing them to do this "Holiday Special" against their will by poking them with cattle prods and holding everyone they know and love hostage until filming is complete.
Ratio Tile He was still the one running the shock machine, and was personally standing there holding a sword to the off-screen Wookie baby’s throat. Simy to make them all perform as he wished, mostly he did it for fun, because he volunteered his personal time for this project. Lol.
Let me paint you a picture: it's 1978, and Star Wars has been out a little over a year and a half or so, but it's no longer in theaters. There's no VHS, no DVDs, no TH-cam, and no other Star Wars movies, TV shows, or anything else for you to fall back on and watch. This, this travesty, this atrocity of a TV abortion, this relentlessly awful steaming pile of atomic crap, this is the only new Star Wars available for you to watch. After you get done watching it, you can't go see any other Star Wars, because THERE ISN'T ANY OTHER STAR WARS!!! There is nothing to, for lack of a better term, "cleanse your palate." This is it. This is what you have to watch. This was all. When Star Wars was later re-released to theaters, that was our only opportunity to see the "real" Star Wars again. I watched this when I was 10 years old, and I have never forgotten it. I remember thinking, even at 10 years old, that Carrie Fisher was stoned while she was making it. It was...excruciating, and I LOVED EVERYTHING STAR WARS!!! It was the cinematic equivalent of finding out there's no Santa Claus. It didn't just change you, it changed us all.
You know.. I was 4 years old when I was taken to the cinema to see the first star wars movie... with my dad and grandpa. it was wild and although it was 40 years ago i can remember flashes of of memory being there... however... this Holiday special, was forever etched into my memory as trauma. Seriously I got into fights with highschool kids arguing over Chewbacca having a family and a wife.. and at the time I didn't know how I knew that... until I revisited this mortifying pallet of rotten vomit. I am 44 today and I am still mortified. Much love RJM
Thing is, I SAW the original broadcast of this. I'd seen Star Wars in theaters and literally everything in the world was all about Star Wars. It was basically a cash tsunami that just kept paying out. Every major franchise had a variety show and/or holiday special, so it only made sense in the 70s for Lucas to throw his hat into the ring and try both. Honestly, it should have paid off - most variety shows were completely terrible but they raked in a ton of cash and gave aging actors a shot at rebooting their careers ("Bea Arthur, Torch Singer") but all I remembered of this was that it was really weird and forced and didn't seem to be much about Star Wars at all. And it always pissed me off that we were expected to speak Wookie. Like what the fuck, Lucas? You couldn't even throw us a bone with some subtitles here? We have to listen to Chewbacca's family mooing and grunting for ten to fifteen minutes at a time and just GUESS what they're saying?
+bones22j He had been in a car accident and still had lots of scarring from the reconstructive surgery on his face, so they had to do that to try to hide it.
The First Order, can use the Holiday Special as a torture device. Force you to watch it over and over, untill you tell them the location of the resistance base... Mark,Carrie and Harssion, all looked like they did not want to be there
Sailor Swifty That doesn't work... after too many times of watching the hypnotic effect will get too strong and the victim will only be able to respond to any question: "Stir whip, stir whip, whip whip stir beat". ;D
According to Carrie... she kinda wasn't there actually... she was deep in drugs at this point, and allegedly had no memory of this at ALL... (or, perhaps the trauma caused her to suppress the memory? But she might have just been stoned out of her mind and simply not remember) I've always said, if you've seen the Holiday Special, nothing in the prequels, not even Jar Jar should have been a shock. Some of have known that Lucas was fully capable of shitting all over himself for decades....
Carrie said in a interview, she was never high during filming. but people wanted her to be < she was referring to how people said she was. being high on the job isn't professorial and would make since that she did it off set. plus it is also noted, her problem got worse around the them of empire strikes back, .
I watched Manos: The Hands of Fate. I watched Village of the Giants. I watched Battlefield Earth. I only made it fifteen minuted into the holiday special.
You definitely need some of the *Amazing* Neil Breen movies in your life. They are each, 1 1/2 hour long over-Indulgences into one Man’s messiah complex, and his need to still feel Super sexy into his early 50s. If you watch the entire collection: you will be able to pick his nutsack out of a line up of nutsacks, get an idea of what kind of young woman he has a fetish for; and finally know his complete outlook on what the ills of society are. Hint: it’s corrupt bankers, corrupt politicians, corrupt businessmen, and lastly corrupt religious figures. He also always figures out how to fit in a 4-8 minute long speech into his movies, about what’s wrong with the world, and how he knows exactly how to fix it perfectly. Usually as some sort of magically-powered God/alien/alien-god -Like being.
You aren't the only one that could not stomach watching this. This looks like reality TV without the drama. Just doing chores and shit. Like someone put a camera in a house of people that are furry. I do not know what was going on. Not at all. Some wannabe business type really thought this was a great idea. Wow, just shows how disconnected with society they really are.
Oh man, THIS IS Gold. I remember seeing this when I was a kid, and believe me I was 100% sold to Star Wars until this... I was left a 9 year old kid, an empty shell of my former innocent self, wondering how could adults do such things. Why would anybody ever do this? Next thing you know I was starting to wonder why was Star Wars actually good? Having lost all bearings my life crumbled and by the time I was 18 I was doing hard time in federal prison. It all started with the Star Wars holiday special. I still got it easy though, lots of me friends who watched it with me at the time eventually commited suicide. Once you see this, there is no turning back.
I was pretty young when it originally aired in 1978 and saw it live. For at least 25 years I almost 100% believed I'd dreamed the entire thing. I never heard anyone talk about it. It wasn't until the mid 2000s when Rifftrax took it up that I realized that it hadn't all been a fever dream.
Bea Arthur was probably the best part. Okay the scene still kind of sucked but at least Bea elevated it somewhat. And if nothing else, Bea sure could sing. (The Golden Girls gave her another opportunity to sing in a bar, too.)
I was 9 and remember the day this came on. My family went out to dinner and my siblings and I were bugging our parents to get us home in time to watch. After about a half hour into it, I was the only one watching, and kept watching until the bitter end as a form of apology to my parents and self-punishment for rushing them while holding onto the hope that something cool was going to happen. I’m at least happy to say that though I remember that evening very well, I have very little recollection of what happened in the program. What’s the name of that cheerful music you play for background? I hear it all over the place.
I disagree that no 'Star Wars' fan should ever watch it. I think ever 'Star Wars' fan should. It should be rite of passage. Like the Klingon Rite of Ascension or Special Forces training, it should be a painful experience that breaks you down so that you can be built back up better a better, stronger fan than you were before. At least I hope so, I'm preparing to watch it or the first time. Pray for me.
If ever there was a program or movie that met the definition of unwatchable, this would be it. I tried watching in on TH-cam once, and gave up after a while. I watched it once more on Rifftrax, and even then, I barely got thru it.
I entirely forgot about this! I remember watching this on T.V.! OMG I was 9 years old in 1978. I remember seeing the little Wookie and telling my brother what happened to Chewbacca? Plus the Wookie kid looks weird as hell! I had to watch through this and show my son who is now 16 and a big Star War fan. He was yelling "NNOOOOO!!!" He refused to watch it because it was horrible. I had to laugh, because that was the time period that I grew up in, and it is nothing like what the kids have today! Does anyone notice when the Mother Wookie is cooking, her cooking pot looks like some old wash basin your Granny had for hand washing clothes or for taking baths in? I was like, why does the person on the T.V. cooking show have a nice pot, and Mrs. Chewbacca has to use Granny's old wash basin? She is one of the stars of the show! Her husband is a star!
I'm old enough to have watched this when it came out... I was 10... I will say the following, for when you ask questions like "Why?" For the younger folks who weren't around or don't remember the 1970s... there was a law passed on January 1st, 1970 that stated "All TV shows and specials for the next 10 years are required to be in the 'Variety Show' format." If you're a child of the 90s, you just don't understand Variety shows of the 70s... they were required to have comedy sketches, musical interludes, an Art or Dance routine, some sort of "talent show" portion... you know... a variety of things... think Carol Burnett show, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Sonny and Cher... yes... even the Muppet Show. They were all Variety Shows and that's what dominated 1970s Television... so when the Star Wars Holiday Special came out in the late 1970s... it too, fell under the "It must be a variety show format" special. If you watch it with that mindset, you understand the Star Wars Holiday Special.
I disagree that the prequels were as bad as the OP makes it seem like -- especially 'Revenge of the Sith'. Don't get me wrong -- the original trilogy will always be my favorite, along with The Mandalorian.
That would Carrie Fisher. Hamill was likely still doped up on Opioids, from his recent accident. Didn’t you notice the 1-2lbs of shellac on his face to try make him look like he did in Ep4? This was 5 years before his major reconstructive surgery in the 1980s.
That was seriously one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time. You have excellent comedic timing and delivery. You've got a new subscriber in me!
Pfft. You think that you have it bad, Mark? This is one of my earliest persistent memories. And when I tried talking about it to my school friends they thought that I was making sh** up.
He's gotten better at it. Now it's one video every 1 to 2 weeks. Before mid-2020, he had another full-time job, so, I didn't blame him for taking longer.
I tried watching this Holiday Special and I couldn't do it! I sped past so many scenes. Absolute torture! You took the words right out of my mouth! So funny. I don't know what this "movie" is either.
so my roommate and i found out about the holiday special, got excited, WATCHED IT, and regretted it. on a related video we found your video and laughed at how accurate you were in its description. thank you for making this video. i wish i saw it sooner. ... don't think that would have made a difference though....
This guy is the most entertaining guy on TH-cam! He doesn't annoyingly edit his stuff every few seconds and talk fast like Jeremy Jahns! He doesn't use fake words, the word like every five seconds or put a y at the end of every other word for absolutely no reason and is subtle in his sarcasm, I love it! The whimsical retro music bed is another nice touch! This dude should get more hits then most of the shitty music videos and the horrendous pop stars who make them! Definitely not for the ADHD crowd! A breath of fresh air!
4:29 To be fair, Chewbacca never had subtitles in the original movie. However, _that_ was a very clever decision, making the audience have to infer what he was saying based on how other characters responded. Apparently, the people making this didn't think about how that would work when the audience doesn't understand any part of the conversation.
Unfortunately, I found this special on TH-cam, and I made the mistake of my life by trying to watch this shocking thing. It's an insult to Star Wars and human intelligence!
Hi I just started watching your channel and it’s great and you are very funny. I do the same thing by watching bad movies and point things out but you take it to another level. You are very good at this so please keep doing what you do it’s very entertaining
It must have sucked for Mark Hamill to do this special especially after a bad car crash that he was in at the time. That's why he looks like a Ken doll because he has so much makeup on.
I'm new to your channel and making my way through your videos. How are you so darn likeable??! And your videos are fantastic, surprised your channel hasn't already exploded.
Fun fact this abomination is actually for sale on DVD at various Comic-Cons I have been to! I truly regret not buying it to send a copy to George Lucas Update not that anyone cares but I was given a copy of the Star Wars Christmas Special by a really cool vendor at Comic-Con last weekend!
thats the story, i think it was bad planning, this special has got to be the worst think i have ever seen. lucas must have loved those song and dance parts by looking at the sequel.
The Brady Bunch variety show (Jan sings Elton John). Sonny & Cher then after the divorce The Sonny Bono Show. The Charo Show (Hoochie Goochie!!) and on and on. Everybody had a variety show back then.
I remember hearing about this from a Kevin Smith movie and I went to TH-cam and Google it and found the trailer. In the trailer when the guy shouts in a price is right voice "his son lumpy and his father itchy" i came really close to expiring from laughing.😊
A few things from someone who watched this the first time it was on TV: I remember practically none of it, BUT! It was still a thrill to see the characters again in something new so soon after the movie release. Remember... the three GOOD STAR WARS movies took 3 years each to come out. That's a long time for a kid. The only other thing we had was a "Don't smoke" commercial starring C3PO and R2D2 for a what seemed like forever. (here) >> th-cam.com/video/tQgN5mithdY/w-d-xo.html
I can get drunk, watch the Star Wars Holiday Special and laugh my ass off at how silly it was. I would rather do that MULTIPLE times than EVER watch The Last Jedi again. Watching TLJ just gets my blood pressure up, pisses me off and fills me with a strong desire to beat the sh_t out of Ruin Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy.
Yeah that movie divided the fan base -- close to -- down the middle. Had Mark Hamill's constant protesting been listened to by Rian Johnson, I'm absolutely positive that it would have benefitted the film. It's so arrogant how others condescendingly talk to Mark about the proper portrayal of Luke Skywalker, as if they know the latter better than he does.
Lol! Yeah, Rian and Kathleen would kick the ever loving crap out of you. Which would still be more entertaining than this. At least an annoying troll would never complain about Star Wars again.
You have 3 channels and a radio. This must have been amazing for kids at the time. Star Wars characters in your home at Christmas with you. What a time to be alive.
The funny thing is that back then, there was JUST as much hand-wringing that kids had “too much screen time” and that “TVs/video games are ruining kids brains, and they can’t deal with real humans and don’t go outside enough” as there is about smart phones today. Now 2-3 hours of cheesey kids shows or Atari a day seems positively quaint.
There's a very good reason why George Lucas wanted to buy every copy of the holiday special...and destroy it!!! Kinda like how most people feel about the sequel trilogy!!! 🤣👍
Hello darkness my old friend... I hate to be that guy who just points out his favorite bit, but it was such a great moment where the second I thought "That song playing right now would be perfect" and it happening.
No, this ball of bantha poodoo is not canon. The only things canon from this are Chewbacca’s family and Life Day, which is basically the big Wookie holiday of the year or whatever.
I spent 30 years thinking Chewbacca's family treehouse was a dream I must've had since no one believed me when I said he had a family in a treehouse because I was sure I'd seen it somewhere... thanks to social media I finally discovered it wasn't a hallucination and that it had actually happened, just no one outside the US had seen it (they showed it on TV in Singapore in the early 80s randomly).. I've never rewatched it of course but I was so relieved to discover I'd not gone completely crazy!
Whenever Carrie Fisher wanted people to get out from her house during a party she would actually play The Star Wars Holiday Special. I'm not kidding.
@Austin Ung : I wonder how you'd know that :p
I guess I have missed some interviews with her on television :-D
True.
To be honest though the tree house is amazing I wouldn't mind living there. Inside that fantasy world where dreams can come true for me and you. So beautiful, especially the kitchen exhaust fan and beautiful wood paneling. Just makes you want to curl up in a ball with a blanket.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣,THANKS FOR THIS IDEA,I HAVE THIS MOVIE IN VHS...
As an 8 year old kid I remember the excitement my friends and I had leading up to the night this show aired. Everyone was talking about how they couldn't wait to watch it. And then it came on, my family and I sitting in front of the TV eager to see how they would follow up the original Star Wars movie. I think we were about 15 minutes in before my dad announced "Let's see what else is on" and unceremoniously changed channels. My friends and I didn't really talk about the Holiday Special after that. It was a bit like someone we knew had died and we didn't want to tarnish their memory by saying something negative.
Really? I mean c'mon it was the 70's, this special WORKED if you were under age 12.
@@KentKaliber maybe under age 8
@@vanillajack5925 Under the age of 2.
I found the whole thing on TH-cam several years ago but haven't been able to bring myself to watch it yet.
@@KentKaliber Maybe if you were under 12 and had never seen or heard of the movie!
I feel sorry for you Mark because you're going to have to watch a much worst movie. It's called........Norm of the North.
Good luck.
Norm of the North is a masterpiece.
Tici Toty Tony Mark will be on suicide watch after he watches Norm of the North
Reverse SteveJobs :D lol Norm of the North is worthy of sweeping the Razzies next year
Tici Toty Tony The Room is better tho. Tommy Wiseau should had won a Oscar
+Reverse SteveJobs Leo doesn't stand a chance against Tommy
I think that the groans that the Wookiees make are groans of pain because George Lucas is forcing them to do this "Holiday Special" against their will by poking them with cattle prods and holding everyone they know and love hostage until filming is complete.
I know this is an old comment, but George Lucas had absolutely nothing to do with the production of the Holiday Special.
Ratio Tile He was still the one running the shock machine, and was personally standing there holding a sword to the off-screen Wookie baby’s throat. Simy to make them all perform as he wished, mostly he did it for fun, because he volunteered his personal time for this project. Lol.
Let me paint you a picture: it's 1978, and Star Wars has been out a little over a year and a half or so, but it's no longer in theaters. There's no VHS, no DVDs, no TH-cam, and no other Star Wars movies, TV shows, or anything else for you to fall back on and watch. This, this travesty, this atrocity of a TV abortion, this relentlessly awful steaming pile of atomic crap, this is the only new Star Wars available for you to watch. After you get done watching it, you can't go see any other Star Wars, because THERE ISN'T ANY OTHER STAR WARS!!! There is nothing to, for lack of a better term, "cleanse your palate." This is it. This is what you have to watch. This was all. When Star Wars was later re-released to theaters, that was our only opportunity to see the "real" Star Wars again. I watched this when I was 10 years old, and I have never forgotten it. I remember thinking, even at 10 years old, that Carrie Fisher was stoned while she was making it. It was...excruciating, and I LOVED EVERYTHING STAR WARS!!! It was the cinematic equivalent of finding out there's no Santa Claus. It didn't just change you, it changed us all.
RoguePlanet well said
You know.. I was 4 years old when I was taken to the cinema to see the first star wars movie... with my dad and grandpa. it was wild and although it was 40 years ago i can remember flashes of of memory being there... however... this Holiday special, was forever etched into my memory as trauma.
Seriously I got into fights with highschool kids arguing over Chewbacca having a family and a wife.. and at the time I didn't know how I knew that... until I revisited this mortifying pallet of rotten vomit.
I am 44 today and I am still mortified.
Much love
RJM
RoguePlanet
This comment was classic
Thing is, I SAW the original broadcast of this. I'd seen Star Wars in theaters and literally everything in the world was all about Star Wars. It was basically a cash tsunami that just kept paying out. Every major franchise had a variety show and/or holiday special, so it only made sense in the 70s for Lucas to throw his hat into the ring and try both. Honestly, it should have paid off - most variety shows were completely terrible but they raked in a ton of cash and gave aging actors a shot at rebooting their careers ("Bea Arthur, Torch Singer") but all I remembered of this was that it was really weird and forced and didn't seem to be much about Star Wars at all.
And it always pissed me off that we were expected to speak Wookie. Like what the fuck, Lucas? You couldn't even throw us a bone with some subtitles here? We have to listen to Chewbacca's family mooing and grunting for ten to fifteen minutes at a time and just GUESS what they're saying?
RoguePlanet at least after 3 years you got to see a true Star Wars movie: The Empire Strikes Back but until then you had this monstrosity
Mark Hamill has so much make up on. It's very bizarre.
+bones22j He had been in a car accident and still had lots of scarring from the reconstructive surgery on his face, so they had to do that to try to hide it.
+bones22j I know. He looks like a Ken doll
+Brett DuVale by making him look like a melted mannequin?
I hope that wasn't too harsh.
Oh, no. I'm sure Mark Hamill knows a good Joker when he hears it.
Jack Park of course it was.
The First Order, can use the Holiday Special as a torture device. Force you to watch it over and over, untill you tell them the location of the resistance base...
Mark,Carrie and Harssion, all looked like they did not want to be there
LOL
Sailor Swifty That doesn't work... after too many times of watching the hypnotic effect will get too strong and the victim will only be able to respond to any question: "Stir whip, stir whip, whip whip stir beat". ;D
According to Carrie... she kinda wasn't there actually... she was deep in drugs at this point, and allegedly had no memory of this at ALL... (or, perhaps the trauma caused her to suppress the memory? But she might have just been stoned out of her mind and simply not remember)
I've always said, if you've seen the Holiday Special, nothing in the prequels, not even Jar Jar should have been a shock. Some of have known that Lucas was fully capable of shitting all over himself for decades....
Carrie said in a interview, she was never high during filming. but people wanted her to be < she was referring to how people said she was. being high on the job isn't professorial and would make since that she did it off set. plus it is also noted, her problem got worse around the them of empire strikes back, .
Be a good boy Kylo
Fun fact Mark Hamill was in a car accident and he was high on pain killers when they filmed this.
TheSleepyTaco
Pain killers. Okay. It's making sense now. I'd heard that... well, being the 1970s when were Mary Jane and white powder NOT involved?
TheSleepyTaco...
Same with Carrie Fisher... sans Car Accident!!
He looks coked out of his mind
You'd have to be high to be in this.
Car accident or not, he probably needed the painkillers.
I tried to show it to my kids 10 years ago and 15 minutes in my youngest daughter yelled, “When is something going to happen?”
Very bright child...🙏✨👌😵💫📽️🐲❣️
I watched Manos: The Hands of Fate. I watched Village of the Giants. I watched Battlefield Earth. I only made it fifteen minuted into the holiday special.
You definitely need some of the *Amazing* Neil Breen movies in your life.
They are each, 1 1/2 hour long over-Indulgences into one Man’s messiah complex, and his need to still feel Super sexy into his early 50s.
If you watch the entire collection: you will be able to pick his nutsack out of a line up of nutsacks, get an idea of what kind of young woman he has a fetish for; and finally know his complete outlook on what the ills of society are. Hint: it’s corrupt bankers, corrupt politicians, corrupt businessmen, and lastly corrupt religious figures.
He also always figures out how to fit in a 4-8 minute long speech into his movies, about what’s wrong with the world, and how he knows exactly how to fix it perfectly. Usually as some sort of magically-powered God/alien/alien-god -Like being.
But did you watch Psychos In Love?
You aren't the only one that could not stomach watching this. This looks like reality TV without the drama. Just doing chores and shit. Like someone put a camera in a house of people that are furry. I do not know what was going on. Not at all. Some wannabe business type really thought this was a great idea. Wow, just shows how disconnected with society they really are.
Took me 3 times to get through it. Even Carnival of Souls would have been preferrable!
This guy is the master of dead pan. This was hilarious.
I'm really hoping that in Episode 8 we find out that Chewbacca's son Lumpy also joined the First Order and we have a "Darth Lumpy".
The dreaded leader of the first order... Darth lumpy.... has a good ring to it...
That would have been better. 😂
you win. scary that it could actually happend.
Disney should hire you. Darth Lumpy would incredibly improve those horrible Disney Stork Warts movies.
That would have been a LOT more interesting than what we actually got!
Oh man, THIS IS Gold. I remember seeing this when I was a kid, and believe me I was 100% sold to Star Wars until this... I was left a 9 year old kid, an empty shell of my former innocent self, wondering how could adults do such things. Why would anybody ever do this? Next thing you know I was starting to wonder why was Star Wars actually good? Having lost all bearings my life crumbled and by the time I was 18 I was doing hard time in federal prison. It all started with the Star Wars holiday special.
I still got it easy though, lots of me friends who watched it with me at the time eventually commited suicide. Once you see this, there is no turning back.
I was pretty young when it originally aired in 1978 and saw it live. For at least 25 years I almost 100% believed I'd dreamed the entire thing. I never heard anyone talk about it. It wasn't until the mid 2000s when Rifftrax took it up that I realized that it hadn't all been a fever dream.
I'll cleanse myself of this monstrosity by watching Attack of the Clones, which in comparison is like Pulp Fiction.
+Darth Jar Jar I would actually agree
Darth Jar Jar
Dayum, that's harsh! Nor do I know which Star Wars episode to feel sorry for...
@@FanboyFlicks Would you please do a review of keeping up with the Joneses and quest for the mighty sword
You're still alive Mark! Great review one of the best yet!!
lol
+Trent O Thanks, I've been gone for a while due to being very sick
***** I'm very sorry to hear that but great to see that you're better now. Love your videos!
+FanboyFlicks not surprised you were sick after watching this atrocity
I watched this last Christmas and all I can say is, it's very fever dream-ish. (It doesn't make any sense, and you want it to stop)
Yep, I agree. It reminds me of when I had Scarlett fever
I've had mad drug trips that made more sense..lol..
That's actually a really good definition of my fever dreams. Senseless and uncomfortable to the point where I'm dying for any and all of them to end.
Please don't leave TH-cam... Please don't
"Get back to watching regular bad-movies....That sounds weird...."
Just the comedic timing of that was hilarious, I honestly bursted out laughing.
please do "under the cherry moon... " it's just awful. . .
YES
Bea Arthur was probably the best part. Okay the scene still kind of sucked but at least Bea elevated it somewhat. And if nothing else, Bea sure could sing. (The Golden Girls gave her another opportunity to sing in a bar, too.)
She was also a United States Marine. Loved her even before I knew that.
I was 9 and remember the day this came on. My family went out to dinner and my siblings and I were bugging our parents to get us home in time to watch.
After about a half hour into it, I was the only one watching, and kept watching until the bitter end as a form of apology to my parents and self-punishment for rushing them while holding onto the hope that something cool was going to happen.
I’m at least happy to say that though I remember that evening very well, I have very little recollection of what happened in the program.
What’s the name of that cheerful music you play for background? I hear it all over the place.
Couldn't get through it, but I recommend it to everybody at Christmas
I disagree that no 'Star Wars' fan should ever watch it. I think ever 'Star Wars' fan should. It should be rite of passage. Like the Klingon Rite of Ascension or Special Forces training, it should be a painful experience that breaks you down so that you can be built back up better a better, stronger fan than you were before. At least I hope so, I'm preparing to watch it or the first time. Pray for me.
Yeah let's face it if you watch this then the later movies don't seem so bad..lol..
"The Here's your daddy" ended me for 15 min straight 😂😂😂😂😂I had to replay the original scene and Mark's impression 😂😂😂😂😭😭
I've seen a lot of videos on this X-mas special Mark but yours is my favorite.
If ever there was a program or movie that met the definition of unwatchable, this would be it. I tried watching in on TH-cam once, and gave up after a while. I watched it once more on Rifftrax, and even then, I barely got thru it.
Rifftrax version is hilarious 😅
I entirely forgot about this! I remember watching this on T.V.! OMG I was 9 years old in 1978. I remember seeing the little Wookie and telling my brother what happened to Chewbacca? Plus the Wookie kid looks weird as hell! I had to watch through this and show my son who is now 16 and a big Star War fan. He was yelling "NNOOOOO!!!" He refused to watch it because it was horrible. I had to laugh, because that was the time period that I grew up in, and it is nothing like what the kids have today!
Does anyone notice when the Mother Wookie is cooking, her cooking pot looks like some old wash basin your Granny had for hand washing clothes or for taking baths in? I was like, why does the person on the T.V. cooking show have a nice pot, and Mrs. Chewbacca has to use Granny's old wash basin? She is one of the stars of the show! Her husband is a star!
If you look closely, you can see pieces of Mark's soul leaving his body in sadness and confusion
Do 50 shades of grey. maybe it's not as bad as the Star Wars holiday special but it still a piece of terrible fecal matter that shouldn't exist.
This was excellent. Thank you for this.
The dull, disbelieving delivery was perfect for explaining this pile of steaming garbage.
I feel your pain, Mark.
From the beginning of the video, mark has that disgusted look like he wants to punch a wall 😂😂😂
That's shame
This was hilarious. Mark keep pushing through these tough movies. There worth it. You do a great job and you are so funny
12:02 The unfortunate reality of The Holiday Special is that it'll be around. Forever. It will never go away. It can never be undone.
Just like the Last Airbender.
Just like foodfight.
Just like the Sequels
@@vanillajack5925So happy this comment has no likes.
I'm old enough to have watched this when it came out... I was 10... I will say the following, for when you ask questions like "Why?"
For the younger folks who weren't around or don't remember the 1970s... there was a law passed on January 1st, 1970 that stated "All TV shows and specials for the next 10 years are required to be in the 'Variety Show' format."
If you're a child of the 90s, you just don't understand Variety shows of the 70s... they were required to have comedy sketches, musical interludes, an Art or Dance routine, some sort of "talent show" portion... you know... a variety of things... think Carol Burnett show, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Sonny and Cher... yes... even the Muppet Show. They were all Variety Shows and that's what dominated 1970s Television... so when the Star Wars Holiday Special came out in the late 1970s... it too, fell under the "It must be a variety show format" special. If you watch it with that mindset, you understand the Star Wars Holiday Special.
This is worse than the Star Wars prequels which is really saying a lot.
can you please subscribe to me plz
You got to admit, the prequels do have a lot of flaws. Then again, so do the sequels...
But then again, I'm sure the SJW version of Star Wars will plumb even greater depths.
@@anonb4632 no they never will. The Holiday Special is pure solid rock bottom.
I disagree that the prequels were as bad as the OP makes it seem like -- especially 'Revenge of the Sith'.
Don't get me wrong -- the original trilogy will always be my favorite, along with The Mandalorian.
I saw this when it aired. Even then -- as a kid -- I was, like, WTF. I lasted until Jefferson Starship. Thanks for asking.
No mention of Mark Hamil and his cocaine eyes?
That would Carrie Fisher. Hamill was likely still doped up on Opioids, from his recent accident. Didn’t you notice the 1-2lbs of shellac on his face to try make him look like he did in Ep4? This was 5 years before his major reconstructive surgery in the 1980s.
That was seriously one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time. You have excellent comedic timing and delivery. You've got a new subscriber in me!
When Obi Wan tells Luke that "this is your first step into a larger work." he meant the holiday special.
I always thought he said “larger world”
Didn't realize you had a patreon, you should mention something in the vids. I went and signed up, keep 'em coming dude :)
The phrase "do or do not, there is no 'try'" NEVER came to mind?
...”Who watched this and said, “let’s put this on the TV”.. 🤣‼️
You need to do 50 Shades Of Grey.
Pfft. You think that you have it bad, Mark? This is one of my earliest persistent memories.
And when I tried talking about it to my school friends they thought that I was making sh** up.
OH, HI MARK!
+Magalinnda Clavien I did not hit her, I did nawt!
I was going to say that
Myles Harrington Everyone was lol
James Charlton oh hey Johnny
My future wife!!!!
I saw it as a 11 year old and we couldn’t wait for the day it came. It was new Star Wars. All we had was the figures and trading cards.
remember when FanboyFlicks said he would release a video a week? I remember!
Damn straight!
I member
He's gotten better at it. Now it's one video every 1 to 2 weeks.
Before mid-2020, he had another full-time job, so, I didn't blame him for taking longer.
Oh God! Your videos are getting better and better. It is always a highlight to see a new one coming. Keep going. More videos!
I feel sorry for the actors who had to suffer in these costumes. I do not want to imagine what the hell heat they suffered! 🥵😂
I tried watching this Holiday Special and I couldn't do it! I sped past so many scenes. Absolute torture! You took the words right out of my mouth! So funny. I don't know what this "movie" is either.
"I did not hit her, I did naaaaght" "Oh, hai Chewie!"
so my roommate and i found out about the holiday special, got excited, WATCHED IT, and regretted it. on a related video we found your video and laughed at how accurate you were in its description. thank you for making this video. i wish i saw it sooner. ... don't think that would have made a difference though....
This guy is the most entertaining guy on TH-cam! He doesn't annoyingly edit his stuff every few seconds and talk fast like Jeremy Jahns! He doesn't use fake words, the word like every five seconds or put a y at the end of every other word for absolutely no reason and is subtle in his sarcasm, I love it! The whimsical retro music bed is another nice touch! This dude should get more hits then most of the shitty music videos and the horrendous pop stars who make them! Definitely not for the ADHD crowd! A breath of fresh air!
4:29 To be fair, Chewbacca never had subtitles in the original movie. However, _that_ was a very clever decision, making the audience have to infer what he was saying based on how other characters responded. Apparently, the people making this didn't think about how that would work when the audience doesn't understand any part of the conversation.
Unfortunately, I found this special on TH-cam, and I made the mistake of my life by trying to watch this shocking thing. It's an insult to Star Wars and human intelligence!
I honestly thought you were going to say the Wookies' names were Itchy and Scratchy for a minute there
I recommend Gundam live action movie G Saviour.
As a Gundam fan I have not watched it after my friend told me how bad it was.
I believe the full movie is on youtube.
Hi I just started watching your channel and it’s great and you are very funny. I do the same thing by watching bad movies and point things out but you take it to another level. You are very good at this so please keep doing what you do it’s very entertaining
It must have sucked for Mark Hamill to do this special especially after a bad car crash that he was in at the time. That's why he looks like a Ken doll because he has so much makeup on.
Jake Mitchell
So it's not the urban legend involving being high at the time in order to make it past filming?
I'm pretty sure LSD was still pretty popular in the late 70's when this came out.
I almost died at 10:43
Great to see you back Mark! Awesome video!
I used to find wookies cute, now I find SOME wookies cute
They are are monstrosities created by The Force to scare little children to be good.
Great to see ya, Mark! Awesome video!
"It changed me, man!" Hilarious!
Mark must watch Jontron
Everybody does
I don't.....Jontron is a one trick pony, he does the same thing over and over.
+Smokey McJoint Technically, so is Mark. Yet here we are.
Just watched Titanic TLGO before this :D
Mark was definitely inspired by Jontron.
I'm new to your channel and making my way through your videos. How are you so darn likeable??! And your videos are fantastic, surprised your channel hasn't already exploded.
makes the prequels look like the originals
10:58 this is what Indiana Jones saw when exposed to the crystal skull.
" awh it's speciaal "
I love your content mark, I hope you start to post more frequently it's really good stuff!
Oh God! I remember watching this on TV in 1978. As a Massive 11 y.o Star Wars fan.
Itt was a horrible show!
Fun fact this abomination is actually for sale on DVD at various Comic-Cons I have been to! I truly regret not buying it to send a copy to George Lucas
Update not that anyone cares but I was given a copy of the Star Wars Christmas Special by a really cool vendor at Comic-Con last weekend!
why does mark hamil look like he took off his drag queen wig moments before the camera panned to him?
LOL ((dies))
I think it was to cover up scars from a car crash he was in which is why he had makeup on.
thats the story, i think it was bad planning, this special has got to be the worst think i have ever seen. lucas must have loved those song and dance parts by looking at the sequel.
LMAOOOOOOOO I tried to imagine that
#STARWARS Holiday Special 43 years ago today…. Damn I’m old
Still better than the Last Jedi.
No
And my laptop crash just when you said "things that lead up too" at 1:59
That bad the special are
You obviously we're not alive in the '70s.. Believe me, stuff like this was the normal..
doyle land 😂
Have you seen the Donny and Marie Star Wars episode? Makes this Holiday Special feel like "The Empire Strikes Back" by comparison!
But it still wasn't funny was it???
The Brady Bunch variety show (Jan sings Elton John). Sonny & Cher then after the divorce The Sonny Bono Show. The Charo Show (Hoochie Goochie!!) and on and on. Everybody had a variety show back then.
I think this might have been the best video you've made. Props. Keep it up, dude!
Review Neil Breen's Double Down.
+Marcelo Zuniga Yes! Yes, we see his ballsack! He has the best ballsack! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!
+Jeff Yes, yes! He's the best hacker in the world!
+LouieLewLou1 I've had a few of his movies on in my bad movie folder for a while now, I should get to viewing them soon
Cool! Love the channel!
I remember hearing about this from a Kevin Smith movie and I went to TH-cam and Google it and found the trailer. In the trailer when the guy shouts in a price is right voice "his son lumpy and his father itchy" i came really close to expiring from laughing.😊
But seriously, this is some of the worst shit I have ever seen
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Seriously. Check out the Donny and Marie show that did their cashing in on Star Wars. It's... BAD. Worst ratings ploy ever.
A few things from someone who watched this the first time it was on TV: I remember practically none of it, BUT! It was still a thrill to see the characters again in something new so soon after the movie release. Remember... the three GOOD STAR WARS movies took 3 years each to come out. That's a long time for a kid. The only other thing we had was a "Don't smoke" commercial starring C3PO and R2D2 for a what seemed like forever. (here) >> th-cam.com/video/tQgN5mithdY/w-d-xo.html
The Holiday Special is worse than the Phantom Menace, and Attack of the Clones.
But better then The Rise Of Skywalker
1:47-2:14 is essentially a prequel to Serial Santa showcasing what happens to Mark after his brother throws he socks at him and he leaves home
This was hilarious lol
What do we want? -A time machine! When do we want it? -Well, it doesn't really matter.
I can get drunk, watch the Star Wars Holiday Special and laugh my ass off at how silly it was. I would rather do that MULTIPLE times than EVER watch The Last Jedi again. Watching TLJ just gets my blood pressure up, pisses me off and fills me with a strong desire to beat the sh_t out of Ruin Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy.
Yeah that movie divided the fan base -- close to -- down the middle. Had Mark Hamill's constant protesting been listened to by Rian Johnson, I'm absolutely positive that it would have benefitted the film. It's so arrogant how others condescendingly talk to Mark about the proper portrayal of Luke Skywalker, as if they know the latter better than he does.
Lol!
Yeah, Rian and Kathleen would kick the ever loving crap out of you. Which would still be more entertaining than this. At least an annoying troll would never complain about Star Wars again.
You have 3 channels and a radio. This must have been amazing for kids at the time. Star Wars characters in your home at Christmas with you. What a time to be alive.
The funny thing is that back then, there was JUST as much hand-wringing that kids had “too much screen time” and that “TVs/video games are ruining kids brains, and they can’t deal with real humans and don’t go outside enough” as there is about smart phones today.
Now 2-3 hours of cheesey kids shows or Atari a day seems positively quaint.
There's a very good reason why George Lucas wanted to buy every copy of the holiday special...and destroy it!!! Kinda like how most people feel about the sequel trilogy!!!
🤣👍
Yeah. But you see the difference: George has a reason to hate the holiday special. You whiny a-holes have no reason to hate the sequels.
This has been one of your best Mark! I loved that bit with the Twilight Zone!
+Patrick Bateman Thanks, I would have made it longer but I had to return some video tapes
This makes phantom menace seem like the best movie ever invented
Hello darkness my old friend...
I hate to be that guy who just points out his favorite bit, but it was such a great moment where the second I thought "That song playing right now would be perfect" and it happening.
Is it canon
No, this ball of bantha poodoo is not canon. The only things canon from this are Chewbacca’s family and Life Day, which is basically the big Wookie holiday of the year or whatever.
Lmao
@@a.morphous66 I hope you are right.
Jimmy Page 2001 I am. It was part of Legends, which was erased from canon with the Disney reboot of the franchise.
Rocket Man ..yes. In all of it's horrid glory. Pure canon.
7:21 That was, however, a remarkably prescient depiction of a flat-screen TV for 1978.
Can we give TLJ the Holiday special treatment? We can just omit it from cannon.
Nope. Especially since TLJ is the best SW film of the new era.
@@IsaacV24 wow.. Are you really jumping in to defend EVERY comment that says something negative about TLJ? That’s so sad...
@@jayasto9230No. What's sad is a grown man getting upset about a movie the creator intended for children.
Stop acting like a loser.
I spent 30 years thinking Chewbacca's family treehouse was a dream I must've had since no one believed me when I said he had a family in a treehouse because I was sure I'd seen it somewhere... thanks to social media I finally discovered it wasn't a hallucination and that it had actually happened, just no one outside the US had seen it (they showed it on TV in Singapore in the early 80s randomly).. I've never rewatched it of course but I was so relieved to discover I'd not gone completely crazy!
Still BETTER than The Last Jedi.
What are you on to make you this deluded?
@@NeoConnor1 Cause the Last Jedi is the WORST thing I have ever seen. Just pathetic from start to finish.
It's my birthday and you posted a video. Thank you so much :)
+Mademoiselle Lupe Happy Birthday!