Best of Rifftrax 'The Star Wars Holiday Special'

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  • Narrated by I.P. Freely. Merry Life Day everyone.

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  • @comet-ribbon
    @comet-ribbon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +396

    "Star Wars, you and your children loved it!"
    "Then tonight happened!"

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Robert Jindra
      I realized how bitter I was to assume you wrote "Then tonight happened" as response to Solo or TLJ, until I learned you were quoting Rifftrax...

    • @cemeraslan369
      @cemeraslan369 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Last Jedi in a nutshell.

    • @matthewburgess6076
      @matthewburgess6076 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Than all disney remakes happened... lol

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@matthewburgess6076 I fucking _wish_ they were just remakes. The soft reboot was a terrible idea, compounded by a long string of terrible ideas that made it onto the screen.

    • @ehhhwhatever202
      @ehhhwhatever202 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@stevenschnepp576Now see Tom Holland as Han Solo! No thanks the full reboot would’ve been weird and completely spilt the films into two different timelines where one is clearly a redundant laughing stock and it’s not the original films

  • @staplafara
    @staplafara 5 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Without Rifftrax, this would be unbearable. Thank you.

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You mean un-Wookable

    • @andrewgrove1691
      @andrewgrove1691 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      To me it's sharknado

    • @tgiacin435
      @tgiacin435 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Even without rifftrax, you make your own lol

  • @ExtraRamDraws
    @ExtraRamDraws ปีที่แล้ว +31

    The running joke of Mike, Kev & Bill making wookie noises that're more and more gutteral and demonic throughout the movie is definitely my fave

  • @Rayman1971
    @Rayman1971 5 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    I was a kid when it came on, I was really excited!!! About 20 minutes into it, I just wanted to go and play in my room, and for a kid at the time to do that, it was shite!!!

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don’t blame you
      One of the people on now playing podcast played this for a bunch of friends and they all got up and walked out

  • @JetScreamer_YT
    @JetScreamer_YT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Bea Arthur loved doing this. Star Wars... Thank you for being a trend.

    • @MarquisLeary34
      @MarquisLeary34 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I would watch the HELL out of a Bea Arthur as Mos Eisley bartender special or even series.

    • @waltertomaszewski1083
      @waltertomaszewski1083 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Jet Screamer I happened to like Art Carney, too. But he delivered his lines as if he were in a *real* Star Wars movie, not this tripe.

    • @dianalewandowski7421
      @dianalewandowski7421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      🎶🎵 "friend, friend, friend "🎵🎶

    • @elphbwckd212
      @elphbwckd212 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I don't blame her. She was in the only good segment in the whole special lol

    • @eddieolshefski6467
      @eddieolshefski6467 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I liked Harvey Korman. Though I felt he was desperate when doing this. Or maybe he knew how bad this special was and he wanted to get some laughs out of us.

  • @kgpar1960
    @kgpar1960 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    "Blow it out your crystal skull bong, you 'has-been' "... GREAT LINE!!!

  • @domtaylor1887
    @domtaylor1887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    My top 5 favorite lines from this:
    1. "It'll be fun for approximately 3.7 seconds!" 8:50
    2. "Hey, it's not scrolling at an unpleasant angle, I can't read it!" 0:57
    3. "How come they haven't made a Pujols candy bar yet?" 16:36
    4. "Not to be confused with Anakin, the whiny son of Shmi." 29:03
    5. "What do you know, it's not every day you see the stupidest thing you've ever seen." 26:39

  • @Zoomer30
    @Zoomer30 5 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    Carrie was so high when she did this (she said so).

    • @christopherlowery3797
      @christopherlowery3797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      magnetothewhite glistening, glassy as fuck. Lucky. Was probably necessary.

    • @Optimalillusion
      @Optimalillusion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I don't do drugs, and even I wanted to party with Carrie!

    • @eddieolshefski6467
      @eddieolshefski6467 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      And could you blame the poor woman?

    • @tonyleccese2102
      @tonyleccese2102 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      As I'm sure the director and writers were when creating this shit.

    • @1-judge
      @1-judge 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i am scared, she wouldve been fine but none of that awful disgrace of a mess wouldve happened if any of them had some inhibiition, conscientiousness a conscious

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Fun fact: the Jonestown Massacre happened the _day_ after this special was released.

    • @thekiller7994
      @thekiller7994 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      That’s one hell of a coincidence

    • @Baldwin-iv445
      @Baldwin-iv445 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Holy shit...

    • @Haruharuharuko1942
      @Haruharuharuko1942 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fucking looooooooool

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      there's no such thing as coincidence

    • @timothyfinn3619
      @timothyfinn3619 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      George Lucas planned it all along

  • @mr.vidjagamez9896
    @mr.vidjagamez9896 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    i can appreciate how this was one of the earliest pieces of SW media we got that kind of established more of the universe and things like how the common populace of the galaxy may live. that and the fact that its bat-shit insane.

  • @michaelcortez1531
    @michaelcortez1531 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Still the greatest Rifftrax of all. Mike Kevin & Bill were on fire during this period. I watch this all the time.

    • @phlaelym
      @phlaelym 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Deadly Prey is a close second.

  • @rjakobi
    @rjakobi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    I will pay for ten years of Disney+ if someone sneaks some clips of the cooking show into the next season of The Mandalorian.

    • @georgewebber6313
      @georgewebber6313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I would be happy with a Binging with Babish episode of the cooking show! LOL

    • @docwho2828
      @docwho2828 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And Jar-Jar Binks is cooking mothers recipes!

    • @Tails92Halcmm
      @Tails92Halcmm ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@docwho2828MN MN e³e

    • @Tails92Halcmm
      @Tails92Halcmm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      333

    • @Tails92Halcmm
      @Tails92Halcmm ปีที่แล้ว

      3

  • @Trainlover1995
    @Trainlover1995 5 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    "Did we interrupt him in the middle of a kabuki play? And what's with the make-up?"
    There's actually a very, very good reason Mark Hamill had so much damn make-up. The special was shot just after his car crash. This is why his face is covered up at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back, then he got bitch-slapped by the wampa, thus explaining the scars. By the team they healed in Return of the Jedi, it made him look more mature, like his character, so it all worked out very well in the end.

    • @jackdaone6469
      @jackdaone6469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, Hamill’s face got all sorts of fucked up from that accident.

    • @kennyaustin429
      @kennyaustin429 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The poor guy looks like he can't even blink his eyes in this special. Did they wheel him out of the hospital mid surgery?

    • @keithbrown6887
      @keithbrown6887 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He suffered a fractured nose and cheek.

  • @gspendlove
    @gspendlove 6 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    "He's under your control." " Yes, that's exactly what Tobor wants you to think. "

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @gspendlove
      Y'know when I first read this comment, I thought that was an 8 Man reference... Until I saw the commercial which had me thinking:" In 1978, there was a toy robot... Named "Tobor...." Why...?"

    • @Clenched.Cheeks
      @Clenched.Cheeks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DemonicRemption It's Robot spelled backwards that's why. :)

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    During a 2006 interview on Conan, Harrison Ford was asked about the Holiday Special. He denied any involvement with a face like he was having a Vietnam flashback.

    • @tr4480
      @tr4480 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ford is an arrogant blowhard

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Can’t blame him
      It’s like Jack Black never wanting to talk about Neverending Story 3

  • @tomhill6047
    @tomhill6047 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'm a child of the '70s, and every time I try to explain that decade to my millennial co-workers, I just wind up throwing my hands up in despair. You just had to be there.

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You just had to be born during the disco era 😂

  • @elizabethkelly6325
    @elizabethkelly6325 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Hilarious riffs! As a kid, I remember being bored with this special, walking away & coloring.

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You have been spared years of therapy with that decision.

    • @SailorAllan
      @SailorAllan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wonder into what color did she turn ?

  • @bromodragone8405
    @bromodragone8405 5 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Life Day if officially canon. As confirmed by The Mandalorian.

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Alucard, More Awesome Than Chuck Norris!
      I was hoping someone would mention that...

    • @martinprince7773
      @martinprince7773 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This is the way 😂

    • @231mac
      @231mac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      And that officially does nothing to increase its importance or popularity. As confirmed by Everyone.

    • @somedudewhodraws9377
      @somedudewhodraws9377 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well that and Lego Star Wars Holiday Special Trailer just dropped XD!

    • @JamaicanCastle
      @JamaicanCastle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It was also canon under the old EU, along with Chewie's family, the Imperial occupation, and even some of the treehouse designs. (Hey, they're nice treehouses.) Just with the understanding that it all happened in something resembling reality, and not a coked-out mess of a variety show.

  • @Jayfive276
    @Jayfive276 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    "And next week the Tibetan Book of the Dead!"
    And you'll find me listed within it's pages because I died right there...

    • @wileyschmitt
      @wileyschmitt  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Along with Nimrod and Dorkus. That Star Wars Holiday Special is easily the best Rifftrax there will ever be, the Mike, Kevin and Bill are at their best and seemed to be having so much fun.

  • @crowholdem
    @crowholdem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Mike's idea about the music playing while someone proposes is so brilliantly delivered that it STILL makes me laugh every time I watch this.

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It gets better if you're actually proposing to someone named Rebecca, and the music pops into your head...

    • @purplebec9112
      @purplebec9112 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My name is Rebecca and I want this proposal happen if I ever get there. ❤❤❤ I mean I felt like Mike is speaking to me personally.

  • @roberteaston42
    @roberteaston42 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    "Did David Lynch guest direct this?" LOL!!!

  • @GrampaTheGrunt62
    @GrampaTheGrunt62 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    If you close your eyes while Chewies family is talking, it will transport you back to your first St.Patricks day celebration after turning 21 years old.

  • @beazy5234
    @beazy5234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i watch this all the time...well not all the time but some of the time

  • @joshuabenson6543
    @joshuabenson6543 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This rifftrax was comedy gold! It helps make this godawful special easier to watch.

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d ปีที่แล้ว

      Not the whole thing as opposed to small snippets

  • @Jmetclaf7053
    @Jmetclaf7053 6 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    7:36 the last thing you ever want to hear from the same guy who plays The Joker.

    • @Phentari
      @Phentari 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Let's be honest: the Joker wears a little less make-up than Mark was wearing here...

    • @MrJimmyTide
      @MrJimmyTide 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Phentari I heard this was right after his car accident, so he was heavily made up to hide the scarring.

    • @Phentari
      @Phentari 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@MrJimmyTide, absolutely. He's mentioned that in a number of interviews over the years. It's also why the Wampa scene was put in "Empire"--to explain the damage to his face.

    • @ChibiPanda8888
      @ChibiPanda8888 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Phentari I never knew that part but it makes sense.

  • @bromodragone8405
    @bromodragone8405 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    James Earl Jones is an absolute sweetheart irl. It's usually the actors who play evil people who turn out to be sweethearts. Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Gunnyr Hanson, the many actors of Michael Myers, Ian McDiarmid, Clancy Brown, etc.

    • @zombiedodge1426
      @zombiedodge1426 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      To be fair, JMJ had many more roles where he *wasn't* the bad guy. As for Robert Englund, he'll always be Willie from "V" to me.

    • @eldrichnemo9312
      @eldrichnemo9312 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Given Mark Hamill being THE voice of The Joker I also include him in that club

  • @jonathanbethards3689
    @jonathanbethards3689 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    That Paul Williams joke almost made me pee my pants laughing

    • @zombiedodge1426
      @zombiedodge1426 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Paul Williams was in "Smokey and the Bandit," which opened on the same weekend as "Star Wars," which means...absolutely nothing.

    • @ghoulinthegraveyard399
      @ghoulinthegraveyard399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zombiedodge1426 But he sure looked like Paul Williams.

  • @yer_old_pal_Jerky
    @yer_old_pal_Jerky 7 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    "How come they haven't made a Pujols candy yet?" slayed me!!!

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was pure brilliance.

    • @davincent98
      @davincent98 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@srbrant5391 agreed

    • @Optimalillusion
      @Optimalillusion 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now I wish there was one.

    • @karnerblue7658
      @karnerblue7658 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Born in ‘84. Can someone explain? 😁

    • @pronkb000
      @pronkb000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@karnerblue7658 Albert Pujols was a prominent baseball player of the 2000s and was one of the best in the game when this Riff came out. It's just a play on his name (pronounced "Poo-holes") being the most unappetizing possible name for a chocolate bar you could imagine.

  • @comet-ribbon
    @comet-ribbon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Ladies and gentlemen, Chewbacca's lifeless stare!

  • @blampfno
    @blampfno 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I saw this when it aired. Even young, little idealistic me knew he was looking at a genuine space turd.
    So glad these guys got hold of it.

  • @halfling49
    @halfling49 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    *Elton John would give everything he owned if this were only a real device*

  • @georgeorwell4534
    @georgeorwell4534 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    They used to wait until Halloween was over, but now they advertise Life Day right after Talk Like a Pirate Day!

    • @purplebec9112
      @purplebec9112 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So after SpongeBob Squarepants musical where they made "Talk Like a PIRATES day", so Star Wars exists in SpongeBob universe? I'm not sure if I'm okay with that.

    • @quester09
      @quester09 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      so you can shop ahead of time :D

  • @jeffreyriley8742
    @jeffreyriley8742 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    "I shot first. You got that?"

  • @agentofentertainment1361
    @agentofentertainment1361 6 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    Is it sad that the commercials are more exciting the the special itself.

    • @scottjohnston3098
      @scottjohnston3098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      “Dear god not a wavy line!”

    • @kingsford3657
      @kingsford3657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It’ll be fun for approximately 3.7 seconds!

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      🗣 _he's under your control!_
      🤖: **TOBOR disagrees**

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@favoritemustard3542"That's just what Tobor WANTS you to think!"

  • @MrVarhansen
    @MrVarhansen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Tobor is Robot spelled Backwards" is the most underground star wars reference t-shirt

  • @iprobablyforgotsomething
    @iprobablyforgotsomething 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I really could've lived without seeing this. I can only blame myself. I should've hit the back-button.

  • @user-lb9xw4xf2q
    @user-lb9xw4xf2q 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I like how the version they watch is a TV rip that includes the ads; the commercials are an odd time capsule, plus it allows them to use a wider variety of jokes than just the Star Wars special.

  • @johnrust592
    @johnrust592 6 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    Harvey Korman, proof that even the most talented of comedians can't do much when given a crappy script.

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @John Rust
      Idk, when he's playing that four-armed cook, he seems to having fun.

    • @willg4802
      @willg4802 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@DemonicRemption that's just the fact that he found Fisher's stash of coke!

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@willg4802
      Yeah, I believe that... How else could he get through this.

    • @SpamEggSausage
      @SpamEggSausage 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      if you think he's the most talented comedian, who do you think is the least??

    • @purplebec9112
      @purplebec9112 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Carol Burnett Show is outdated but every once in awhile Harvey comes up with a line, even people today will understand. Harvey plays a woman sometimes and everyone hollers when he does. And you can see why but then you watch this and your like why?

  • @timothytaylor8312
    @timothytaylor8312 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Life Day. Brought to you by the following Corporate behemoths...

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Coke

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @magnetothewhite the real brain melting stuff

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @magnetothewhite ( I think now hav a good explanation for what kylo to turn to the dark side )
      Because Han and Leia decided to bring the poor bastard to the wookies during life day

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Without any of the drugs

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @magnetothewhite yeah and unlike Jacen and jaina solo he had no one to fall back on

  • @collegeman1988
    @collegeman1988 6 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    I had no idea Luke Skywalker wore eyeliner.

    • @kellyweingart3692
      @kellyweingart3692 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂😂😂😂

    • @kellyweingart3692
      @kellyweingart3692 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      “Did we interrupt him in the middle of a kabuki play...what’s with the make-up?”

    • @RancidGravy
      @RancidGravy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wait, you didn't?

    • @pandorasangel2747
      @pandorasangel2747 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      If I'm not mistaken the actor got in an accident that messed up his face so they covered it up with make up just to make this special, wth

    • @MicrowavedAlastair5390
      @MicrowavedAlastair5390 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@pandorasangel2747 If they would have waited for Mark Hamill to heal completely, I bet someone could have talked them out of doing the special. At the very least, it would have been that much less creepy. Poor guy looks like a zombie.

  • @zenpaganwarrior
    @zenpaganwarrior 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    More LOL moments per minute than any other RiffTrax clip I've seen yet. I love that they included the TV ads of the time and commented on those, too. Thx, wiley!

  • @donbishop1634
    @donbishop1634 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    So happy to keep G Lucas' nightmare alive! ;)

  • @courtney1496
    @courtney1496 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Damn, they're on fire in this. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @wileyschmitt
      @wileyschmitt  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I just rewatched this earlier and felt the same, this might be their best one by far, and it has Mike's footprint all over it.

    • @wileyschmitt
      @wileyschmitt  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah I laughed a lot at this one even though I've seen it a few times but it has been a few months since my last viewing, so I plan to watch it about every 3 or 4 months which will hopefully have the same effect seeming fresh again.

    • @damianpenny1974
      @damianpenny1974 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So they're the guys they lit on fire?

    • @purplebec9112
      @purplebec9112 ปีที่แล้ว

      So they finally put the guy on fire!

  • @astolatpere11
    @astolatpere11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember variety shows. By the time this came out, variety shows were waning. Grafting Star Wars to this format shows why.

  • @Baldwin-iv445
    @Baldwin-iv445 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Union commercial was honestly my favorite part of the special.

    • @WreckingWood
      @WreckingWood 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "I miss shrill union anthems, I wish they bring them back. "

  • @harleychriest5274
    @harleychriest5274 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Almost choked on my bagel, great stuff, thank you! For the laughs not the choking!😂

  • @DrTedNelson
    @DrTedNelson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    18:08 Kevin's breathless "Wow" is the funniest thing in this

  • @MkeKen67
    @MkeKen67 6 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Well, I can see why George Lucas wanted to suppress this. Holy crap!

    • @ladyvincenza
      @ladyvincenza 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I'm more interested in how stuff like this gets made in the first place. Was everyone too stoned to realize what they were doing when they wrote/directed/whatevered this?

    • @petergray2712
      @petergray2712 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@ladyvincenza Lucas was busy in ESB preproduction, and he agreed to this project offhandedly. The production staff for the special were people brought in by CBS and were unaffiliated with Lucasfilm. Long story short, the producers had no clue what Star Wars was about, and this.... THIS.... was the result.

    • @ladyvincenza
      @ladyvincenza 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@petergray2712 Still and all, enough people had to look at this and let the public see it.

    • @petergray2712
      @petergray2712 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@ladyvincenza You're forgetting that everyone- including George Lucas- thought that New Hope was a bomb before it was released. None of the executives at Twentieth Century Fox thought it could be a successful movie, until it was. TV production in the 1970s was way more insular and unimaginative than cinema, filled with old vaudeville and radio show veterans whose primary goal was to satisfy commercial sponsors and keeping senior citizens awake. Variety show producers are the apotheosis of this ethos of cheap and profitable mass produced entertainment. What they tried to create was an unholy mashup of variety show thrills, badly written holiday pantomime, and a story that featured principal actors in cameo only roles, while the "stars" were offputting Wookie characters and whatever other variety show veterans they could retrieve off the scrap pile at short notice on the cheap.. Plus they had Eddie Fisher's daughter, so they thought "Let's have her sing finale, cuz what could go wrong?" NO! NOOOOO!

    • @ladyvincenza
      @ladyvincenza 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@petergray2712 I guess judgment sucked all over the franchise?

  • @camilcurn
    @camilcurn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    From Wikipedia:
    Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club wrote, "I'm not convinced the special wasn't ultimately written and directed by a sentient bag of cocaine"

  • @jamesdexter7036
    @jamesdexter7036 6 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Cocaine's a hellava drug.

  • @clara-cookie119
    @clara-cookie119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Chewbacca's lifeless stare sums it all up

  • @linengray
    @linengray ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a yearly treat for me. I am sad I am not on drugs like I was when this first came out.

  • @RaoulDuke77
    @RaoulDuke77 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "My corns! My corns!!!" I laughed for ten minutes at that one.

  • @darksouls-qv8jb
    @darksouls-qv8jb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    So this is why mark Hamel turned crazy and became the joker

    • @darksouls-qv8jb
      @darksouls-qv8jb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Daydream51 lol yeah

    • @jasonedwards8352
      @jasonedwards8352 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Hey, all it takes is one bad day.

    • @Optimalillusion
      @Optimalillusion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They could have shown this instead of BTAS episode "Christmas With The Joker" and we would have believed it was a Joker plot.

    • @darksouls-qv8jb
      @darksouls-qv8jb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Optimalillusion yes!!!

    • @lordthorgorath
      @lordthorgorath 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not to mention a Kamala voter

  • @MrJohndoakes
    @MrJohndoakes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This was written by Pat Proft, Leonard Ripps, Bruce Vilanch, Rod Warren and Mitzie Welch - all of them used to writing cheesy variety shows, musical specials, and sketch comedy programs, not science-fantasy. Bruce Vilanch has said he got hate mail from "Star Wars" fans for years.

    • @Paulafan5
      @Paulafan5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Vilanch and Proft wrote great stuff... but not this.

    • @justint8851
      @justint8851 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why does that not surprise me

    • @victorhernandez8723
      @victorhernandez8723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Makes sense to me.

  • @pisceanx8382
    @pisceanx8382 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    That was hard to get through, even with those guys helping.

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Piscean X
      Ah a kindred spirit who knows my pain... :)

    • @mantislake4141
      @mantislake4141 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Seems like fraternities that implemented watching this film as a nonviolent alternative to hazing quickly switched back

  • @gspendlove
    @gspendlove 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm working on a project to combine Santa Claus Conquers the Martians with The Star Wars Holiday Special, just to hear the Rifftrax of it. It's in its very early stages ( meaning I just thought of it 2 minutes ago), and hands off! This idea is my intellectual property.

  • @dkupke
    @dkupke 6 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Carrie fisher was so obviously loaded when she did the song number

    • @eddieolshefski6467
      @eddieolshefski6467 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      She did get herself coked up for this ' special '. It was the beginning of her drug issues but honestly, I can't blame her. No way could I do something like this without getting high or drunk to get me through.

    • @DavidAndersen84
      @DavidAndersen84 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah... 😕

    • @jwhiteout
      @jwhiteout 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oldest observation in the galaxy. You must've read Postcards from the Edge or something. You probably call Threepio 3-CPO, too.

    • @deafmusician2
      @deafmusician2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would have to have been.

  • @braxtonbobo4004
    @braxtonbobo4004 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Oddly enough, this is still better than the acolyte

  • @DrummerGrrrl
    @DrummerGrrrl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I remember seeing this when I was eleven...and thinking it was the stupidest thing I ever saw.

    • @DavidLLambertmobile
      @DavidLLambertmobile 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      CBS TV only aired it 1 time! Once! 😁

    • @Deadbuck73
      @Deadbuck73 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was...

    • @michaelcortez1531
      @michaelcortez1531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DavidLLambertmobile Can't imagine why...

    • @breakingames7772
      @breakingames7772 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even the guy singing into a glowing pink dildo? Alphabet people of today love it

  • @lulucalliope713
    @lulucalliope713 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mark Hamill: looks weird because he's recovering from surgery
    Harrison Ford: gives no fucks and wants his paycheck
    Carrie Fisher: *high as a kite*

  • @Nightweaver1
    @Nightweaver1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    23:30
    We now join a young Robin Williams as he builds an Interociter.

    • @MrVarhansen
      @MrVarhansen 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What

    • @eddieolshefski6467
      @eddieolshefski6467 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol. I get it. I almost said the actual actor’s name but I got it.

  • @Zoomer30
    @Zoomer30 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Script Writer: Sentient Bag of Cocaine.

  • @Nachocuppajo
    @Nachocuppajo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I watched this at 4am and went back to bed and had the strangest fucking dreams. I hate it

  • @nintendo1889x
    @nintendo1889x 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    10:55 - Hey, it's the Curly Alarm!
    Whoop whoop whoop whoop, nyaa-ah-ah!

  • @MrPhatman73
    @MrPhatman73 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What fresh hell , big fan of star wars , dear god this pushed the limits though .

  • @bromodragone8405
    @bromodragone8405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "He's probably with his other family." Like his badass Jedi Knight nephew.

  • @RockingCatDaddy
    @RockingCatDaddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Every time I see Lumpy he reminds me of Gary Coleman 😳

    • @chopitup9950
      @chopitup9950 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Whatchu talkin bout Willis?!

  • @davidhudson8428
    @davidhudson8428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Just imagine all of the laughter that erupted back then from the hilarious robot Harvey Korman's instructional video.

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Followed by gunshots.

    • @markiangooley
      @markiangooley 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just as good as the American version of Fawlty Towers starring Korman as Snavely.

  • @Tbillow
    @Tbillow 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    THE BAR SCENE IS BACK!!!!!!!!

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    “Well, Nietzsche was right: Dead as a doornail.”

    • @wavion2
      @wavion2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Best line.

  • @arbknight12
    @arbknight12 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Vi came to invite you over for a cup of Life Day punch, AND YOU VILL BE WATCHING FOOTBALL VITH US NO?!"

  • @BubbaThaumaturge
    @BubbaThaumaturge ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Still better than the sequel trilogy. Far better.

  • @EBThisThat
    @EBThisThat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had never seen this but Rifftrax makes it bearable. Hilarious !

  • @PhilBagels
    @PhilBagels 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    RIP Peter Mayhew.

  • @glennwelsh9784
    @glennwelsh9784 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How do you resist doing your own announcer voice the moment Art Carney is introduced in the opening? "ART CARNEY! AUDREY MEADOWS! IN THE HONEYMOONERS!"

  • @koanikal
    @koanikal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "it's not everyday you see the stupidest thing you've ever seen"

  • @brianoconnell6459
    @brianoconnell6459 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Wookiee tampons? Don't we call those "Ewoks"?

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Those are sanitary pads, you’re thinking of Porgs.

    • @markiangooley
      @markiangooley 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ewoks are a bit too murderous…

  • @midnightkitty8172
    @midnightkitty8172 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for sharing this, Wiley Schmitt~! I really enjoyed this.

  • @011keepers
    @011keepers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wait a minute, Luke understands Chewies family, but needs C3PO to talk to Chewie?

  • @Shicksalblume
    @Shicksalblume 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Star Wars Holiday Special, the surest proof of all time that cocaine is a hell of a drug and a great argument against doing any yourself.

    • @plawson8577
      @plawson8577 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cocaine IS a Helluva drug.

  • @Kingdom_Of_Dreams
    @Kingdom_Of_Dreams 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Haven't heard the name Toppers in a long time! I used to go every Sunday after church when I was a kid. I loved the arcade there! They also had jazz music playing in the bathrooms all the time. Good memories, terrible pizza.

  • @231mac
    @231mac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    8:44 It does amaze me how many toys that were marketed towards us that would never hold anyones attention for more than an hour, lol.

  • @VTPPGLVR
    @VTPPGLVR 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    “I’m not licensed to do that!”
    My new reply to stupid requests.

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Deborah L.
      Same here... Thanks Mike. :)

  • @tiger35jb
    @tiger35jb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember watching this as a 10 year old on 1978, my first experience in real disappointment, and here we are today and crap like this is now common.

  • @mythcontrolpill
    @mythcontrolpill 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Paul Williams...........damn near fell off my chair 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Jameywells777
    @Jameywells777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This show warped my mind

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    If _Star Wars_ survived _this,_ it can survive Disney.

  • @WreckingWood
    @WreckingWood 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    32:24 Love after several minutes of rambling about "Lighting the Sky on Fire" that when it's the callback Mike's so defeated.
    "I'm still not--- I'm not prepared for it."

  • @edmund184
    @edmund184 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is still better than The Phantom Menace

    • @svenjansen2134
      @svenjansen2134 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This gets higher ratings than The Acolyte.

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@svenjansen2134Yes, but I could crap in a bag and it could STILL get higher ratings than The Acolyte, and I don't even know what that even is.

  • @roosternm6830
    @roosternm6830 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They made Mark Hammil and Carrie Fischer look like bad wax statues. I ate this up when it came out. Anything star wars. I was 8 and still waiting for my damn action figures.

    • @AuroDHikoshi
      @AuroDHikoshi ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mark has a reason that they're covering up facial injuries...

  • @mesousagaby740
    @mesousagaby740 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    31:47 "Grapes, an apple and--what the hell is that, tobacco?!"

  • @shyfroglet
    @shyfroglet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The wookiee sounds are sending me

  • @joelzsheridancomedy3983
    @joelzsheridancomedy3983 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “What did they get sued out of Christmas “ funny on so many levels

  • @brettmarydrew3065
    @brettmarydrew3065 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Best Rifftrax ever!

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This is why you need to establish some proper canon before someone messes around your IP. Otherwise it’s a Seuss-Lynch collaborative acid trip.

    • @IWillNeverReadYourReply
      @IWillNeverReadYourReply 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Never forget Lucas saw the dailies from this and thus knew exactly what was going on here

  • @asymmetry9988
    @asymmetry9988 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You never have the eye bleach when you need it.

  • @deafmusician2
    @deafmusician2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "it's a risky thing to make a show that requires the audience to be as high as when you made it" 🤣

  • @martinprince7773
    @martinprince7773 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think I have to go to a mental hospital after watching this 😂👍

  • @jedijackluther
    @jedijackluther 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    (Snaps fingers) ole!