The best part of the SW Holiday Special to me is in the Weird Al Yankovic parody, "White & Nerdy," where he went to a shady alley and purchased a bootleg VHS copy of it for HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS. :D
That and him editing the Atlantic Records Wikipedia page (in the music video) to say ATLANTIC RECORDS SUCKS! because they wouldn't authorise him to include You're Pitiful on the Out of Linwood album, despite James Blunt loving his parody of You're Beautiful.
Carrie Fisher had one of the very few surviving copies of this disaster. She would play it as her own subtle cue that the party is over. Goodbye Princess, you are missed.
I heard that in order for her to agree to play Leia in the Skywalker Saga trilogy she wanted Lucas to hand deliver a DVD copy of the Holiday special to her. And he did, begrudgingly.
@@YT0091 It's not about pride so much as how LUKE SKYWALKER was the guest star on that episode of the Muppet Show, not Mark Hamill. Though he showed up too.
As an avid Star Wars fan since I can remember, I never actually watched it fully until 2014 or so. I always heard how bad it was, I’d seen stills on the internet, heard the rumors that Lucas wanted it destroyed. But I always told myself, “it can’t be that bad. It’s Star Wars!” Oh. It was absolutely that bad.
Imagine how I felt as a little boy who saw it when it originally aired. I was so excited that there would be Star Wars on TV, but then there was this train wreck and I was crushed.
@@tmf866 I was six going on seven at the time, and I remember being so vividly disappointed and figuring out part way through that the whole thing was an exercise in killing time and stringing the audience along to get to a few short minutes of the actual cast and any Star Wars action at all. When a freaking six year old sees through the sham that's when you know it's a fail.
I was one of the 13 million who saw the Holiday Special at the time of original broadcast. At 5 years old, owning a few figures but never having seen the movie because there were no VCRs, this was an AMAZING TV show!!! Not nearly as bad as everyone now makes out. Have you seen the Donnie & Marie Star Wars Special?!? Compared to that, Art Carney made this special into Citizen Kane. The REAL Bruce Campbell would never say such horrible things about the real Star Wars sequel!!!
VCRs did exist, it's just that very few people had them, they were so expensive. If it wasn't for a few people recording it. It would not be accessible today as a few copies turned into thousands of bootlegs sold at conventions. Not sure who cleaned it up, but it looks better on TH-cam than any tape I've seen.
@@TitularHeroine Maybe a little bit. But Harvey's cook was closer to an alien Julia Child than a short order cook with a mysterious past. Though she could be retconned into being the same race!
Their Children of Dune is a cornerstone of my sci do collection. And I love all 3 Cube movies. SyFy is like the Wierd cousin you have that never has enough money and always has cool ideas
@@insane_troll Shhhh... You cannot pick on the "specially abled" like that. Ppl are listening and those kind of jokes are not tolerated any more. No cool. Not cool.
They murdered their #1 top-rated show, Z-Nation, to give its time slot to... “Whose Line is it Anyway” and “Impractical Jokers” reruns or other crap with Dave Coulier and the ugly middle daughter from Full House. I think.
I remember watching this vividly as it aired locally in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. I was so beyond confused, but immediately obsessed with Boba Fett. As an adult, all I can say in retrospect is clearly back in the 70’s Cocaine was a hell of a drug.
Years ago I made my mom watch The Star Wars Holiday Special but I was kind and fired up the Rifftrax version. When the segment where Luke is in the show comes on she had an exclamation of realization and horror at the same time: she had seen this part back in 1978. My parents were both in the Air Force and were stationed in Japan when Star Wars came out and hit it big, but it would be another year before they would be stationed back in the States. November 1978 to be exact. "I was flipping through the channels and saw this! It was so bizarre I had to turn it off! Oh my God!"
There are two major references to the Holiday Special in the first season of The Mandalorian. In the pilot episode before Mando’s bounty is frozen in carbonite he nervously explains he’d like to get back to his planet for Life Day. Later on in subsequent episodes we see flashbacks to when Mando’s parents were killed by Separatist droids. They’re all wearing the same Life Day robes as Chewie from the holiday special.
You forgot arguably the biggest and most obvious reference. Mando's rifle is heavily based on the design of Boba Fett's rifle from the animated segment.
As a kid in a family of avid Star Wars fans, the fact that we had a copy of the special was a point of immense geek pride to us. And it filled us with so much glee to watch the horror on the face of my sister's boyfriend (a huge Boba Fett fan) when we made him watch it for the first time.
I can't hate the thing. It's bad, it's bizarre, but it's a thing that happened in history and everybody was in it! Also, Snaggletooth is technically a Holiday Special figure. He ain't in the movie and his cardback photo is a still shot from the Special. And years later in the Power of the Jedi toyline they changed his name to Zutton WHICH BEA ARTHUR CALLS HIM!
I remember having the Snaggletooth figure as a kid but don't think I ever even heard of the Holiday special until TH-cam came out. Its really strange that they thought a variety show would some how be interesting to the audience who would be more excited to see a show that included more space battles and action like the original movie. The cartoon is really has more of a psychedelic look than the ones on Saturday morning. They never made a Star Wars cartoon until 1984 after the final film at the time had come out. It didn't last long one called Droids and the other based on the Ewoks. Recently we all got excited when we saw the millennium falcon again. Star Wars mania really took off when they relaunched the movies and put out the prequels. Children of the 70s remember Star Wars and the impact it had in pop culture and to the generation of youth at the time.
now question is who had the very rare blue full-size (not half-size) snaggletooth that was part of a SEARS only toy set around that time... (note: not me)
Every other Star Wars fan: Liking all of the Star Wars, including the Prequels, the Sequels, the cartoons, all the Disney+ shows, the Legends EU and the canon EU? Really? Man of your talents? Me, appreciating the new golden age of new Star Wars content from so many different creatives with different viewpoints telling so many different stories and each one being unique and interesting in their own way: It's a peaceful life.
I watched it as a kid and felt my brain was violated! I tried to prevent my little brother from watching, but it was too late. He and I were traumatized for life!
"Think of the worst holiday special you have ever seen then imagine there was something even worse than that." That'll be difficult, because I saw the Star Wars Holiday Special on its original airing.
As silly as the Star Wars Holiday Special is, in hindsight, I gotta say ---- watching this as a kid in the 70's was literally MESMERIZING! We felt like we were getting a NEW Star Wars Movie at home for Thanksgiving. Watching this special is actually my EARLIEST life memory.
I got to watch it when it aired on tv. The nostalgia for me is remembering how excited we were for new Star Wars... I was only 10 years old and it was really cool to see all the characters from the movie on a tv show. The badness of the show didn’t really register at the time, but many years later I couldn’t really remember what the show was about and I think that was my brain’s way of saying, “you don’t need to store this.”
Agreed!! I remember freaking out that the Stormtroopers broke Itchy's toys. I didn't even remember it was a variety show.... but I was only 6 at the time.
Part of my yearly Xmas routine is to watch the two-part Redlettermedia special on the SW Holiday Special. It truly deserves what is said about it. It's an incredible disaster lol.
I was thirteen when it was on TV. I remember segments, particularly the cartoon. I liked the Art Carney character though! I do remember Carrie Fisher singing and my mother telling me that her parents (Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher) were singers. Later I found out about the Elizabeth Taylor scandal!
Just watched this Christmas eve after the traditional Chinese food dinner. Wanted to show my kids this mess. Think I was 9 years old when this came out. To say I was pumped that there was a Star Wars special on TV was an understatement. Was so very confused watching this train wreck. Wookies growling at each other for two hours straight. I had forgotten about this and just thought it was a fever dream from my youth. Thanks to the internet it lives on. One thing I didn't notice as a kid was Luke. I mean Lumpy was straight nightmare fuel to me back then, but Luke's makeup and vacant unblinking stare was soooo creepy.
I think I still have my bootleg VHS of this somewhere. Picked it up from a convention 20-odd years ago. made the whole family watch it on Christmas day. It's very rare they let me pick what we watch anymore.
I’d argue that musical variety shows hadn’t actually fallen out of favour at the time this aired. They were still a thing. The final nail in the coffin SHOULD have been this show, but that honor more likely goes to Pink Lady And Jeff. 😄
Is it me, or in the B&W pic of the main cast at 8:40, does Mark look embarrassed, Harrison pissed, and Carrie more than a little high? She later admitted she remembered nothing except doing that song at the end. I did actually enjoy the cartoon segment. It reminds me of the film, Heavy Metal, albeit three years before it existed. As for the merchandise, I want a Bea Arthur action figure, damn it!
I absolutely love the holiday special. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. I really think it's a fun little look into the weird lives of our favorite characters
THE CRINGE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE. I was 7 when it was originally broadcast, and curiously I watched it years before I even saw the movies themselves. Of course I was already familiar with the toys, so I knew the main characters. But for decades (until the Internet), I remembered very little details other than it was "That Star Wars TV episode where they meet Chewbacca's family." Watching it as an adult, nostalgia is not embellishing it.
Same here, I was 3. All I remember it is that it was coming on and my whole family was waiting for it, I was playing star wars in my room and my big brother called me it was starting. So I ran into the living room and jumped into his lap to watch it. Regardless of how bad it is or isn't (and it is... but charming because of it), that is the kind of memories that make my family and I love Star Wars !
I remember being excited for it because it was going to be the first appearance of Boba Fett who was only mentioned in the original film. I remember being really disappointed.
Watching Redlettermedia do this on Best Of The Worst was hilarious. They spent an entire episode delaying and putting it off before they finally got around to it. Lumpy and Itchy. I think that's all that needs to be said.
I like to consider myself a true Star Wars fan ever since I forced myself to watch the entire Holiday Special many years ago. What the world really needs, and I mean this without any irony whatsoever, is a feel-good holiday movie about The Making Of The Star Wars Holiday Special. How this thing got made was a freaking Xmas miracle!
If you haven't seen this thing, it's impossible to actually put into words how bad it actually is. It's not even FUN bad. It's appallingly bad in a way that makes it seem like you would have to be on drugs to make it, and then on opposite drugs to watch it. I can't imagine ANYONE made it to the end of it's broadcast run. Not kids. Not adults. Not people with a broken TV who couldn't change the channel. No one.
Imagine my disappointment when I got my parents to watch in an attempt to show them how good Star Wars was! They hadn't seen the movie. Just this. Such a horrible experience on all levels.
In this Holiday Special - Boba Fett rides a giant sea monster dinosaur and defeats another more fierce dinosaur! See I made it sound like it's the best holiday special ever.
Sorry, but TSWHS IS now considered canon, at least Ackmena is. She appears in a Star Wars novel written after 2017, which is considered the new canon, so I'm still waiting for my action figure from Hasbro. And Life Day HAS been mentioned in The Mandalorian as well.
It's not that the whole thing is canon, just the specific elements that get reused. It's kind of clever, what they're doing... Current writers can basically pick and choose among all the weirdness from the first 30 years of Star Wars for the good bits, while ignoring the stuff that didn't work or gets in the way. The Disney canon wipe has basically functioned like a low-key Crisis event, in practice. (I mean, "Solo" name-dropped Teras Kasi of all things, and that game wasn't strictly canon even at the time.)
7 years old watching the original broadcast even then I knew it was weird. And It was buried for so long some people thought I was making things up when I described it to them. Weirdest of all I know where I was that night in 1978 all these years later because of this weird TV special.
They had makeup slathered all over his face to try to make him look like he did in the first movie, because he had an accident that required reconstructive surgery.
@@davidjacobs8558 So weird that someone his age would drive a BMW. I just looked it up and they say that the average age of a BMW owner has dropped in recent times to Mid 40s. I had heard for decades that it was a Corvette but the internet says different (yup I know his next movie was Corvette Summer).
I still have my theory that Bea Arthur's character in the Holiday Special is Asajj Ventress, having changed her identity and gone into hiding after Order 66. I don't care how many canonical sources you want to throw at me that say otherwise.
When I saw this on TV when I was 12 in the 70's, I absolutly loved it....and that was the context I believe, it certainly was terrible for adults, but as a 12 year old boy I loved it.
What Star Wars fans, who were born after the original trilogy, should understand about the Holiday "Life Day" Special, was that when it aired, fans were very hungry, waiting for a sequal - There was a 3 yr gap, from the time that the first episode came out, in the summer of 1977, until the release of "The Empire Strikes Back" in late spring of 1980. 3 yrs seems like a very long time, in the minds of young people, so the Holiday Special fit snugly in between - 1& ~1/2 yrs after the release of the original Star Wars, and about the same length of time prior to the release of what would then be the first Star Wars sequal & 2nd film, in the original trilogy. We didn't have the internet, back then, so it was much easier for Hollywood to keep secrets about any details of films that were in production ( & forget about scene footage leaking, for the public to see, prior to the airing of a trailer, which were most often only seen as previews of upcoming movies, at the theatre, and which weren't aired, on broadcast tv, until a few wks prior to a film's release in theatres). There was no net flex, either, and it wouldn't be until the early 1980's that vcr's (video cassette players/recorders) became commonplace in most homes, in America - (And movie rental places, like Blockbuster Video, wouldn't appear, for a few yrs after that, once everyone had vcr's - Video players were luxury items, at first, so not all homes had them). Even cable tv was a new phenomenom, with HBO appearing first, as an individual cable channel, that only the rich had; And it wasn't like today's cable subscriptions where u get tons of channels. (There were only one or two - HBO, followed by Cinemax, with multi-channel subscription cable packages coming several yrs later). We had tv, via mostly local analog broadcasts, with major urban areas usually having about a dozen channels (that typically went off the air, between 2am until 5 or 6 am. Rural areas, and less populated states often only received broadcasts from the 3-4 major networks. So, in those days (when the Holiday Special first aired, in late 1978) we didn't have anywhere near the amount of entertainment choices, that we have today, and the original Star Wars had been a ground-breaking film, with special effects, that were far ahead of it's time. (Not even the original Star Trek series, could compare; And even the first Star Trek movie (which came over a decade AFTER the original Star Trek tv series) the first Star Trek movie was largely considered a flop, as it could't match the special effects revolutionized by Lucas Films. Only the "Battlestar Galactica" tv series came close (and the original series only lasted for a couple of seasons). Other cutting edge, made for tv sci-fi (like the short run "LOGAN's RUN") produced (or at least, only aired, it's initial pilot, and only a hand full of 30-60 minute episodes that did not survive a full season. That may have been because the special effects & set design were incredibly challenging (& expensive to produce), as no one (not even the major studios) really had computers (with the few computers that existed at that time being limited mostly to data processing, and tended to be enormous machines that took up an entire room or building). Only the government & major corporations, and a limited number of higher, elite academic institutions had them. So, The demands for broadcast tv (to say, produce a weekly episode) were much more challenging than for a movie franchise that produced only one movie per year (or in the case of the original Star Wars trilogy, every 3 yrs. The original Star Wars trilogy was revolutionary, for cinematic effects (Lucas used the profits from the first film, to develop Skywalker Sound, which created additional digital sound effects, such as Dolby & Surround Sound. So, when the Holiday Special first aired, it wasn't considered a flop. Because, Fans were starving, still waiting for the first sequal! Sure, in hindsight, today, when it's viewed by someone who didn't grow up in that era, parts of it might seem a little goofy, unrealistic, ir cartoonish (and yes, the holiday special even included a short cartoon episode of Luke & Boba Fett, viewed by Chewbacca's young son). But, film making & broadcast entertainment, in the late 1970's, was no where near anything like whst we've got today. (Mostly, probably because computers weren't widespread (not even among businesses) and so all of the effects had to be created without the use of digital technology).
15:05 Just hearing him say those names is pure comedy gold. Also "The Faithful Wookie" has even been added to Disney+ under their Vintage Star Wars collection.
Great "Life Day" special. I've got a cross-up for ya'll, if you can identify the co-source: Bea Arthur: "Occupation" Boba Fett: "Bounty Hunter." Bea Arthur: "Did you bounty hunt last week?" Boba Fett: "No." Bea Arthur: "Did you TRY to bounty hunt last week?" Boba Fett: "Yeah.." Bea Arthur: "Look, this is your last week of unemployment. Either you bounty hunt someone this week or we'll have to change your status. Do you understand?" Boba Fett: "Yeah." Bea Arthur: "Sign here."
I'm not being facetious when I say I enjoy the holiday special more than the Disney trilogy. It's so funny and bat shit crazy that it manages to actually entertain me. The disney films bored me at best and annoyed me at worst.
I agree. I saw it on tv when it originally aired as a kid, I owned the book too, with Chewbacca’s family. Much rather watch it than the Disney movies. More entertaining.
Can I just say how gratifying it is that people are *FINALLY* starting to recognize/admit that the goddamn Disney trilogy *SUCKS?!?* Especially "The Force Awakens"??? I *still* get pissed off when I think of how much people raved about Episode VII when it first came out...😡😡😡
@@WestIndianAK AGREED! I was so pissed off watching Force Awakens once I realized they were not going to do anything new and it was just a remake of New Hope I'd been tricked into paying for. Haven't been back to the cinema to watch a Star Wars movie since.
I never got my mail-in Boba Fett. Every week when my mom picked me up for a visit I would ask "Did Boba come yet?" and she would sadly reply "No, Boba didn't come." I want my dang Kenner points back!
0:17 Think of the worst holiday special you've ever seen, now imagine there's something worst than that. Me: I thought of 'Star Wars Holiday Special' Also Me: (Star Wars Holiday Special is so bad that he's somehow still right)
I said to myself, “I think TG can bring a fresh and interesting perspective to a subject that has been talked about to death”. And you know what? I was right. It was a nice episode, a very good one. Merry Christmas!
Lumpawaroo is actually canon! He's in the the Aftermath books, the first trilogy of books published after the Disney purchase, and the lead up to Force Awakens.
This year I asked my niece what she wanted to watch on tv. She said "..." so I led her with "Star Wars?"; she then said "Star Wars!". So I put on the Christmas Special which, no one else in my family had ever seen before and I began to laugh hysterically for the next hour until someone else HAD TO turn it off before everyone's brains exploded. Now my niece seems to love it and insists we watch it whenever anyone asks what we should all watch. Hahahahahahahaha
I worked at a comic shop for about 10 years, and my boss was one of the handful of people who was able to record the Holiday Special. Not only that, but he was also responsible for copies getting out to Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Western Europe in the mid-80's, where it was copied and spread from there. I can't remember if he recorded it onto Betamax or just VHS, copied from Betamax to VHS, VHS to Betamax, but I know he had both. I just found it funny how coked out Carrie Fisher was in it. That's the thing that always stuck with me.
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 No clue. That was a long time ago, from a galaxy not so far away. Plus, he died in 2010, so asking him might be difficult without a Ouija board. He was a true OG nerd of the highest order.
You could get a Aunt Beru figure from the power of the force line, and repurpose it as ‘looks like Bea Arthur but isn’t’ Heck, you could even scratch off some package letters to say, Aunt Bea!!
The funniest thing about her being here is that her former *Maude* co-star had a new show called *Diff'rent Strokes* airing at the same time at NBC. But that show was at 8:00 PM/7:00 PM central, long before her scene aired. I still feel like on some level CBS wanted to punish her for leaving that show (and leaving the cast members of the proposed revamp in the lurch) along with doing the same to Harvey Korman for leaving *The Carol Burnett Show,* so this is how they did it.
Think of it this way: The Holiday Special is the MOST IMPORTANT thing in the SW universe. Why? It was the first thing that officially made Star Wars a "going concern". Before this, it was a movie. But with this, the characters and the settings proved that they had life beyond just the movie. The special cemented Star Wars as a BRAND, not just a film. It showed there was more out there than we'd yet seen. This is the first thing that appeard as a continuation, almost a sequel, of the original movie. It's not a standalone thing. It is set firmly after Ep. 4 and before Ep.5, and it interacts with them. So, while it is awful, and funny in a very bad way, it's also supremely important. I proved that Star Wars was a brand that could be adapted to various kinds of media and could even take a beating... even if it was from itself. I don't know about you, but to me that makes it more cannon than any of the three new movies.
Absolutely love this video! Great job! Even as a failed project, the Xmas special event deserves to be celebrated. Your humor is on point as always! Fantastic job! I also appreciate that you said that maybe you love Attack of the Clones! That movie totally deserves more love in my opinion! Love your channel very much! Happy holidays!
The absolute best part about the holiday special is hearing him say Chewbacca dad and son names for the first time. I almost died laughing. Those pronunciations are my canon.
Holiday Special Schmoliday Special. I won't rest until they recanonise the Star Wars Christmas Album, featuring Young Jon Bon Jovi singing "why do you get a Wookiee for Christmas (when he already has a comb)?"
More like "The Horror of The Star Wars Holiday Special". Anyways, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a belated Happy Life Day to all the Wookies out there! 🎄🐻🎆
Animated part with Boba Fett was pretty cool imo. And it was the biggest amount of screen time he got before Mando. (Edit) Also, I just learned that it was supposed to look like Moebius's comics, whom I really admire. I never really got that, but it may be why I like that short film.
The best part of the SW Holiday Special to me is in the Weird Al Yankovic parody, "White & Nerdy," where he went to a shady alley and purchased a bootleg VHS copy of it for HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS. :D
I still sing "white and nerdy" whenever i hear "right and dirty" playing somewhere. :P
Oh yeah I remember that from the video!
There was a time when it was like that
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 *ridin' dirty* , my guy
That and him editing the Atlantic Records Wikipedia page (in the music video) to say ATLANTIC RECORDS SUCKS! because they wouldn't authorise him to include You're Pitiful on the Out of Linwood album, despite James Blunt loving his parody of You're Beautiful.
Carrie Fisher had one of the very few surviving copies of this disaster. She would play it as her own subtle cue that the party is over. Goodbye Princess, you are missed.
I heard that in order for her to agree to play Leia in the Skywalker Saga trilogy she wanted Lucas to hand deliver a DVD copy of the Holiday special to her.
And he did, begrudgingly.
@@JRock424 that's my queen 👑
She’s great!
She was high as a kite during the filming of it but I think that aids in the viewing. Lol
thats awesome
Why would the party be over? She made two hugely successful Star Wars movies after that holiday special.
y'know, I rather love that last line, "it might not be canon, but it IS Star Wars."
It's a fun counterpart to the anti-Disney sentiment of "it may be canon, but it's not Star Wars".
The holiday special is on Disney+ so is it cannon?
@@MastemaJack Oh I hope so lol
It is canon. The Mandalorian show mentions it.
So much stuff from the Holiday Special was mentioned in EU content that it is one of the most canon bits of media outside of the movies.
I firmly believe that both this special and Luke Skywalker's appearance on the Muppet Show are canon.
also that one time the muppet babies went to dagobah and hung out with yoda
Except who wasn't proud to be on the Muppet Show? That was big time.
@@YT0091 It's not about pride so much as how LUKE SKYWALKER was the guest star on that episode of the Muppet Show, not Mark Hamill. Though he showed up too.
Hell yeah!!
The Muppet Show Star Wars episode was great.
As an avid Star Wars fan since I can remember, I never actually watched it fully until 2014 or so. I always heard how bad it was, I’d seen stills on the internet, heard the rumors that Lucas wanted it destroyed.
But I always told myself, “it can’t be that bad. It’s Star Wars!”
Oh. It was absolutely that bad.
I always tell people that however bad you heard it was, it's actually worse
Look up the Rifftrax version. It's the ONLY way to watch this train wreck carrying dumpsters on fire 🔥!
Imagine how I felt as a little boy who saw it when it originally aired. I was so excited that there would be Star Wars on TV, but then there was this train wreck and I was crushed.
@@tmf866 I was six going on seven at the time, and I remember being so vividly disappointed and figuring out part way through that the whole thing was an exercise in killing time and stringing the audience along to get to a few short minutes of the actual cast and any Star Wars action at all. When a freaking six year old sees through the sham that's when you know it's a fail.
I was one of the 13 million who saw the Holiday Special at the time of original broadcast. At 5 years old, owning a few figures but never having seen the movie because there were no VCRs, this was an AMAZING TV show!!! Not nearly as bad as everyone now makes out. Have you seen the Donnie & Marie Star Wars Special?!? Compared to that, Art Carney made this special into Citizen Kane. The REAL Bruce Campbell would never say such horrible things about the real Star Wars sequel!!!
VCRs did exist, it's just that very few people had them, they were so expensive. If it wasn't for a few people recording it. It would not be accessible today as a few copies turned into thousands of bootlegs sold at conventions. Not sure who cleaned it up, but it looks better on TH-cam than any tape I've seen.
VCRs exited but they were the size of a house and only the richest 7 kings of Europe could afford them.
Not gonna lie..."(Watch Me) Whip, Whip, Stir" is a straight-up jam, and some of the late Harvey Korman's best work. Fight me. 😁
Let the battle begin 😂
That character deserves an action figure. All the arms, all the kitchen tools.
@@snukastyle Whoa, wait. Partial inspiration for Dex??
@@TitularHeroine Maybe a little bit. But Harvey's cook was closer to an alien Julia Child than a short order cook with a mysterious past. Though she could be retconned into being the same race!
@@snukastyle Her name is Gormaanda.
"It's just a bunch of letters!"
I think Dan just uncovered the big secret behind Star Wars names!
Nah, many are just bad puns.
All names are just a bunch of letters
".....No one sets out to make something bad....."
SyFy Channel and The Asylum say hello!
Their Children of Dune is a cornerstone of my sci do collection. And I love all 3 Cube movies. SyFy is like the Wierd cousin you have that never has enough money and always has cool ideas
Rian Johnson says hello.
@@insane_troll
Shhhh... You cannot pick on the "specially abled" like that. Ppl are listening and those kind of jokes are not tolerated any more.
No cool. Not cool.
They murdered their #1 top-rated show, Z-Nation, to give its time slot to... “Whose Line is it Anyway” and “Impractical Jokers” reruns or other crap with Dave Coulier and the ugly middle daughter from Full House. I think.
@@fearanarchy Did they ever do an episode about She-Ra’s First Boner?
I remember watching this as a kid, when it first aired. I was a huge Star Wars fan and remember thinking "That could have been much better"
🎼" Just one more round, friend. Then Homeward Bound, friend. I'll see you in my dreams.
BEA ARTHUR IS CANNON.
Bad as this is its STILL BETTER than the shit show that is the Disney Sequals and solo combined.
@@karinations2009 I like to imagine that "Golden Girls" really took place in Mos Espa...
I watched the special the day Bea Arthur died, and that song *hit*.
Its a a Variety Musical Comedy special with Star Wars characters and actors .... its camp, its TV Its precious....
LucasFilm discriminates, bring on Chewbaccas Life Day, Thanks giving TV Special already
It was campy 1970s variety show, get over it haters
I remember watching this vividly as it aired locally in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. I was so beyond confused, but immediately obsessed with Boba Fett.
As an adult, all I can say in retrospect is clearly back in the 70’s Cocaine was a hell of a drug.
I watch the Rifftrax version every year during the week before Christmas. It's become something of a holiday tradition.
That Boba Fett action figure commercial. That really takes me back.
Years ago I made my mom watch The Star Wars Holiday Special but I was kind and fired up the Rifftrax version. When the segment where Luke is in the show comes on she had an exclamation of realization and horror at the same time: she had seen this part back in 1978.
My parents were both in the Air Force and were stationed in Japan when Star Wars came out and hit it big, but it would be another year before they would be stationed back in the States. November 1978 to be exact. "I was flipping through the channels and saw this! It was so bizarre I had to turn it off! Oh my God!"
There are two major references to the Holiday Special in the first season of The Mandalorian. In the pilot episode before Mando’s bounty is frozen in carbonite he nervously explains he’d like to get back to his planet for Life Day. Later on in subsequent episodes we see flashbacks to when Mando’s parents were killed by Separatist droids. They’re all wearing the same Life Day robes as Chewie from the holiday special.
You forgot arguably the biggest and most obvious reference. Mando's rifle is heavily based on the design of Boba Fett's rifle from the animated segment.
@@lanceturley7745 Hasbro now sells a Nerf version of that rifle branded for the Mando show
It's one hundred and fifty doll hairs. Frick that.
As a kid in a family of avid Star Wars fans, the fact that we had a copy of the special was a point of immense geek pride to us. And it filled us with so much glee to watch the horror on the face of my sister's boyfriend (a huge Boba Fett fan) when we made him watch it for the first time.
I can't hate the thing. It's bad, it's bizarre, but it's a thing that happened in history and everybody was in it! Also, Snaggletooth is technically a Holiday Special figure. He ain't in the movie and his cardback photo is a still shot from the Special. And years later in the Power of the Jedi toyline they changed his name to Zutton WHICH BEA ARTHUR CALLS HIM!
That's really cool info. 👍
It was also the 70's,...... 😉
I remember having the Snaggletooth figure as a kid but don't think I ever even heard of the Holiday special until TH-cam came out. Its really strange that they thought a variety show would some how be interesting to the audience who would be more excited to see a show that included more space battles and action like the original movie. The cartoon is really has more of a psychedelic look than the ones on Saturday morning. They never made a Star Wars cartoon until 1984 after the final film at the time had come out. It didn't last long one called Droids and the other based on the Ewoks. Recently we all got excited when we saw the millennium falcon again. Star Wars mania really took off when they relaunched the movies and put out the prequels. Children of the 70s remember Star Wars and the impact it had in pop culture and to the generation of youth at the time.
now question is who had the very rare blue full-size (not half-size) snaggletooth that was part of a SEARS only toy set around that time... (note: not me)
Every other Star Wars fan: Liking all of the Star Wars, including the Prequels, the Sequels, the cartoons, all the Disney+ shows, the Legends EU and the canon EU? Really? Man of your talents?
Me, appreciating the new golden age of new Star Wars content from so many different creatives with different viewpoints telling so many different stories and each one being unique and interesting in their own way: It's a peaceful life.
Guilty pleasure, I watch it every Christmas.
Me too!
It's a Life Day miracle that this was made in the first place.
I watched it as a kid and felt my brain was violated! I tried to prevent my little brother from watching, but it was too late. He and I were traumatized for life!
"Think of the worst holiday special you have ever seen then imagine there was something even worse than that."
That'll be difficult, because I saw the Star Wars Holiday Special on its original airing.
I actually watched it’s one time viewing on CBS back in 1978.
I appreciate the fact that you recognize all of us have our own 'cannon' and disney has theirs. No one is wrong or right.
As silly as the Star Wars Holiday Special is, in hindsight, I gotta say ---- watching this as a kid in the 70's was literally MESMERIZING! We felt like we were getting a NEW Star Wars Movie at home for Thanksgiving. Watching this special is actually my EARLIEST life memory.
My condolences...
The holiday special is AWESOME BAD. I watch it every December.
I got to watch it when it aired on tv. The nostalgia for me is remembering how excited we were for new Star Wars... I was only 10 years old and it was really cool to see all the characters from the movie on a tv show. The badness of the show didn’t really register at the time, but many years later I couldn’t really remember what the show was about and I think that was my brain’s way of saying, “you don’t need to store this.”
Agreed!! I remember freaking out that the Stormtroopers broke Itchy's toys. I didn't even remember it was a variety show.... but I was only 6 at the time.
Part of my yearly Xmas routine is to watch the two-part Redlettermedia special on the SW Holiday Special.
It truly deserves what is said about it. It's an incredible disaster lol.
I was thirteen when it was on TV. I remember segments, particularly the cartoon. I liked the Art Carney character though! I do remember Carrie Fisher singing and my mother telling me that her parents (Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher) were singers. Later I found out about the Elizabeth Taylor scandal!
It's funny. I BARELY remember watching it back in 78. Over the years I felt it was a fever dream.
For the longest time I thought this was a bad dream until the internet showed me it was real.....
Ackmena (Bea Arthur) is canon. There’s a story about her in an official book. The same for the 4 armed cook.
It's only a matter of time before they cameo in a Disney+ project 😉
Just watched this Christmas eve after the traditional Chinese food dinner. Wanted to show my kids this mess. Think I was 9 years old when this came out. To say I was pumped that there was a Star Wars special on TV was an understatement. Was so very confused watching this train wreck. Wookies growling at each other for two hours straight. I had forgotten about this and just thought it was a fever dream from my youth. Thanks to the internet it lives on. One thing I didn't notice as a kid was Luke. I mean Lumpy was straight nightmare fuel to me back then, but Luke's makeup and vacant unblinking stare was soooo creepy.
I think I still have my bootleg VHS of this somewhere. Picked it up from a convention 20-odd years ago. made the whole family watch it on Christmas day. It's very rare they let me pick what we watch anymore.
I’d argue that musical variety shows hadn’t actually fallen out of favour at the time this aired. They were still a thing. The final nail in the coffin SHOULD have been this show, but that honor more likely goes to Pink Lady And Jeff. 😄
Yes! Pink Lady & Jeff dug the grave and shoved the variety show corpse into the hole for good and forever...
Is it me, or in the B&W pic of the main cast at 8:40, does Mark look embarrassed, Harrison pissed, and Carrie more than a little high? She later admitted she remembered nothing except doing that song at the end. I did actually enjoy the cartoon segment. It reminds me of the film, Heavy Metal, albeit three years before it existed. As for the merchandise, I want a Bea Arthur action figure, damn it!
I absolutely love the holiday special. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. I really think it's a fun little look into the weird lives of our favorite characters
Thank you for the ❤️ and the amazing content. Happy Holidays
Whip stir whip stir whip whip stir
I still can't believe Harrison Ford hesitated to do it.
THE CRINGE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE.
I was 7 when it was originally broadcast, and curiously I watched it years before I even saw the movies themselves. Of course I was already familiar with the toys, so I knew the main characters. But for decades (until the Internet), I remembered very little details other than it was "That Star Wars TV episode where they meet Chewbacca's family."
Watching it as an adult, nostalgia is not embellishing it.
Same here, I was 3. All I remember it is that it was coming on and my whole family was waiting for it, I was playing star wars in my room and my big brother called me it was starting. So I ran into the living room and jumped into his lap to watch it. Regardless of how bad it is or isn't (and it is... but charming because of it), that is the kind of memories that make my family and I love Star Wars !
and that there's Star Wars theme disco version. It was popular when it first release but i hated it.
I remember being excited for it because it was going to be the first appearance of Boba Fett who was only mentioned in the original film. I remember being really disappointed.
Watching Redlettermedia do this on Best Of The Worst was hilarious. They spent an entire episode delaying and putting it off before they finally got around to it. Lumpy and Itchy. I think that's all that needs to be said.
This was showed in Australian TV at least 2 years in a row on a public station
I like to consider myself a true Star Wars fan ever since I forced myself to watch the entire Holiday Special many years ago. What the world really needs, and I mean this without any irony whatsoever, is a feel-good holiday movie about The Making Of The Star Wars Holiday Special. How this thing got made was a freaking Xmas miracle!
If you haven't seen this thing, it's impossible to actually put into words how bad it actually is. It's not even FUN bad. It's appallingly bad in a way that makes it seem like you would have to be on drugs to make it, and then on opposite drugs to watch it. I can't imagine ANYONE made it to the end of it's broadcast run. Not kids. Not adults. Not people with a broken TV who couldn't change the channel. No one.
Imagine my disappointment when I got my parents to watch in an attempt to show them how good Star Wars was! They hadn't seen the movie. Just this. Such a horrible experience on all levels.
The holiday special is still 1,000,000 times better than the Last Jedi.
In this Holiday Special - Boba Fett rides a giant sea monster dinosaur and defeats another more fierce dinosaur!
See I made it sound like it's the best holiday special ever.
It's not his first appearance tho... He was in a parade before this but no one knew who he was....
So this wasn't a childhood nightmare that I had..this was real.. thanks Dan for making me remember this 😑😑😑
Sorry, but TSWHS IS now considered canon, at least Ackmena is. She appears in a Star Wars novel written after 2017, which is considered the new canon, so I'm still waiting for my action figure from Hasbro. And Life Day HAS been mentioned in The Mandalorian as well.
and yet 2003 clone wars *isn't*
@@Omabatfartsbruh Dirge is too cool, i used to have his old toy
It's not that the whole thing is canon, just the specific elements that get reused. It's kind of clever, what they're doing... Current writers can basically pick and choose among all the weirdness from the first 30 years of Star Wars for the good bits, while ignoring the stuff that didn't work or gets in the way. The Disney canon wipe has basically functioned like a low-key Crisis event, in practice.
(I mean, "Solo" name-dropped Teras Kasi of all things, and that game wasn't strictly canon even at the time.)
There are no words spoken for like the first 10 minutes of the special. Just Wookies purring.
Purring? More like groaning in anguish! LoLs!
YES!!
I remember seeing this when it aired, my mom even recorded it on Betamax. 7yo me was like...
...uUh...wut?
7 years old watching the original broadcast even then I knew it was weird. And It was buried for so long some people thought I was making things up when I described it to them. Weirdest of all I know where I was that night in 1978 all these years later because of this weird TV special.
The Rifftrax - Star Wars Holiday Special is the only way too watch it.
I was curious, so I went directly over to see what Rifftrax was. I didn't make it passed 20 seconds. LOL
It still doesn’t explain Mark Hamill’s eyeshadow 😄
They had makeup slathered all over his face to try to make him look like he did in the first movie, because he had an accident that required reconstructive surgery.
and that accident inspired him getting hit in the face by a Wampa in Empire as a means to explain his different look.
He was driving a brand new BMW he bought with the money he made from Star Wars.
Jedeyeliner
@@davidjacobs8558 So weird that someone his age would drive a BMW. I just looked it up and they say that the average age of a BMW owner has dropped in recent times to Mid 40s. I had heard for decades that it was a Corvette but the internet says different (yup I know his next movie was Corvette Summer).
Merry Christmas Mr and Miss Galaxy...and Greg.
I still have my theory that Bea Arthur's character in the Holiday Special is Asajj Ventress, having changed her identity and gone into hiding after Order 66. I don't care how many canonical sources you want to throw at me that say otherwise.
I’ve never been able to sit through the whole thing, but the animated bit is great - Francks is my second fav Boba voice, right after Wingreen.
The best way to get through it is by watching the Rifftrax version. They even skewer the commercials.
It was beautiful.
1:09 "It was roughly 90 minutes long". You lie! It was eight hours if it was a minute!
It was a trial run for 2020.
Only 8 hours? It felt longer...
I watched this in 1978. The animated bit is the only thing that I can remember without inducing involuntary spasms.
When I saw this on TV when I was 12 in the 70's, I absolutly loved it....and that was the context I believe, it certainly was terrible for adults, but as a 12 year old boy I loved it.
we're you 12 for the entirety of the 70's?
What Star Wars fans, who were born after the original trilogy, should understand about the Holiday "Life Day" Special, was that when it aired, fans were very hungry, waiting for a sequal - There was a 3 yr gap, from the time that the first episode came out, in the summer of 1977, until the release of "The Empire Strikes Back" in late spring of 1980. 3 yrs seems like a very long time, in the minds of young people, so the Holiday Special fit snugly in between - 1& ~1/2 yrs after the release of the original Star Wars, and about the same length of time prior to the release of what would then be the first Star Wars sequal & 2nd film, in the original trilogy.
We didn't have the internet, back then, so it was much easier for Hollywood to keep secrets about any details of films that were in production ( & forget about scene footage leaking, for the public to see, prior to the airing of a trailer, which were most often only seen as previews of upcoming movies, at the theatre, and which weren't aired, on broadcast tv, until a few wks prior to a film's release in theatres).
There was no net flex, either, and it wouldn't be until the early 1980's that vcr's (video cassette players/recorders) became commonplace in most homes, in America - (And movie rental places, like Blockbuster Video, wouldn't appear, for a few yrs after that, once everyone had vcr's - Video players were luxury items, at first, so not all homes had them). Even cable tv was a new phenomenom, with HBO appearing first, as an individual cable channel, that only the rich had; And it wasn't like today's cable subscriptions where u get tons of channels. (There were only one or two - HBO, followed by Cinemax, with multi-channel subscription cable packages coming several yrs later). We had tv, via mostly local analog broadcasts, with major urban areas usually having about a dozen channels (that typically went off the air, between 2am until 5 or 6 am. Rural areas, and less populated states often only received broadcasts from the 3-4 major
networks.
So, in those days (when the Holiday Special first aired, in late 1978) we didn't have anywhere near the amount of entertainment choices, that we have today, and the original Star Wars had been a ground-breaking film, with special effects, that were far ahead of it's time. (Not even the original Star Trek series, could compare; And even the first Star Trek movie (which came over a decade AFTER the original Star Trek tv series) the first Star Trek movie was largely considered a flop, as it could't match the special effects revolutionized by Lucas Films. Only the "Battlestar Galactica" tv series came close (and the original series only lasted for a couple of seasons). Other cutting edge, made for tv sci-fi (like the short run "LOGAN's RUN") produced (or at least, only aired, it's initial pilot, and only a hand full of 30-60 minute episodes that did not survive a full season. That may have been because the special effects & set design were incredibly challenging (& expensive to produce), as no one (not even the major studios) really had computers (with the few computers that existed at that time being limited mostly to data processing, and tended to be enormous machines that took up an entire room or building). Only the government & major corporations, and a limited number of higher, elite academic institutions had them.
So, The demands for broadcast tv (to say, produce a weekly episode) were much more challenging than for a movie franchise that produced only one movie per year (or in the case of the original Star Wars trilogy, every 3 yrs.
The original Star Wars trilogy was revolutionary, for cinematic effects (Lucas used the profits from the first film, to develop Skywalker Sound, which created additional digital sound effects, such as Dolby & Surround Sound.
So, when the Holiday Special first aired, it wasn't considered a flop. Because, Fans were starving, still waiting for the first sequal! Sure, in hindsight, today, when it's viewed by someone who didn't grow up in that era, parts of it might seem a little goofy, unrealistic, ir cartoonish (and yes, the holiday special even included a short cartoon episode of Luke & Boba Fett, viewed by Chewbacca's young son). But, film making & broadcast entertainment, in the late 1970's, was no where near anything like whst we've got today. (Mostly, probably because computers weren't widespread (not even among businesses) and so all of the effects had to be created without the use of digital technology).
I actually learned about life day in the X-Wing book series lol
15:05 Just hearing him say those names is pure comedy gold.
Also "The Faithful Wookie" has even been added to Disney+ under their Vintage Star Wars collection.
Great "Life Day" special. I've got a cross-up for ya'll, if you can identify the co-source:
Bea Arthur: "Occupation"
Boba Fett: "Bounty Hunter."
Bea Arthur: "Did you bounty hunt last week?"
Boba Fett: "No."
Bea Arthur: "Did you TRY to bounty hunt last week?"
Boba Fett: "Yeah.."
Bea Arthur: "Look, this is your last week of unemployment. Either you bounty hunt someone this week or we'll have to change your status. Do you understand?"
Boba Fett: "Yeah."
Bea Arthur: "Sign here."
Holiday special is like Star Wars family relative you want to forget or don’t tell anybody you’re related
I'm not being facetious when I say I enjoy the holiday special more than the Disney trilogy. It's so funny and bat shit crazy that it manages to actually entertain me. The disney films bored me at best and annoyed me at worst.
At least the Holiday Special could bring the core characters together.
You ain't lying. The Disney sequel Trilogy is an abomination
I agree. I saw it on tv when it originally aired as a kid, I owned the book too, with Chewbacca’s family. Much rather watch it than the Disney movies. More entertaining.
Can I just say how gratifying it is that people are *FINALLY* starting to recognize/admit that the goddamn Disney trilogy *SUCKS?!?* Especially "The Force Awakens"??? I *still* get pissed off when I think of how much people raved about Episode VII when it first came out...😡😡😡
@@WestIndianAK AGREED! I was so pissed off watching Force Awakens once I realized they were not going to do anything new and it was just a remake of New Hope I'd been tricked into paying for. Haven't been back to the cinema to watch a Star Wars movie since.
I never got my mail-in Boba Fett. Every week when my mom picked me up for a visit I would ask "Did Boba come yet?" and she would sadly reply "No, Boba didn't come."
I want my dang Kenner points back!
The SW HS has Bea Arthur in it therefore it's awesome
When are we getting our Black Series Ackmena figure?! 🤷♂️
It's only a matter of time before she cameos in "The Mandolorian" (or another Disney+ SW thing) 😉
Without Bea Arthur there is no Ackmena so not gonna happen
@@Stiffkittens01 Hey, if they can digitally resurrect Peter Cushing to bring back Tarkin...😉
I didn't mind the cartoon and Carrie Fisher singing lyrics to the SW theme.
0:17 Think of the worst holiday special you've ever seen, now imagine there's something worst than that.
Me: I thought of 'Star Wars Holiday Special'
Also Me: (Star Wars Holiday Special is so bad that he's somehow still right)
Lego here!
It's not true anymore..... there's a worse Christmas Special now.....
It's no longer king of the mountain of bad Christmas specials.
Freaking EPIC production get these guys a Netflix show already!
I said to myself, “I think TG can bring a fresh and interesting perspective to a subject that has been talked about to death”.
And you know what? I was right. It was a nice episode, a very good one. Merry Christmas!
I don't know why, but the Christmas special actually looks pretty hilarious and amazing.
Lumpawaroo is actually canon! He's in the the Aftermath books, the first trilogy of books published after the Disney purchase, and the lead up to Force Awakens.
This year I asked my niece what she wanted to watch on tv. She said "..." so I led her with "Star Wars?"; she then said "Star Wars!". So I put on the Christmas Special which, no one else in my family had ever seen before and I began to laugh hysterically for the next hour until someone else HAD TO turn it off before everyone's brains exploded. Now my niece seems to love it and insists we watch it whenever anyone asks what we should all watch. Hahahahahahahaha
“Not for nothing that is the funniest part of the show.”
Me: Aight, imma head out.
The Empire Strikes Back Pop-Up book can make you forget all about the holiday special.
Thank you toy man! Love all your content. Merry Christmas and may the force be with you.
God bless you for this one, Dan
This party is over
- Mace Windu, Attack of the Clones
I worked at a comic shop for about 10 years, and my boss was one of the handful of people who was able to record the Holiday Special. Not only that, but he was also responsible for copies getting out to Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Western Europe in the mid-80's, where it was copied and spread from there. I can't remember if he recorded it onto Betamax or just VHS, copied from Betamax to VHS, VHS to Betamax, but I know he had both. I just found it funny how coked out Carrie Fisher was in it. That's the thing that always stuck with me.
Do you know how much he sold it for?
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 No clue. That was a long time ago, from a galaxy not so far away. Plus, he died in 2010, so asking him might be difficult without a Ouija board. He was a true OG nerd of the highest order.
Now I want an action figure that looks like Bea Arthur...but isn’t.
You could get a Aunt Beru figure from the power of the force line, and repurpose it as ‘looks like Bea Arthur but isn’t’
Heck, you could even scratch off some package letters to say,
Aunt Bea!!
The funniest thing about her being here is that her former *Maude* co-star had a new show called *Diff'rent Strokes* airing at the same time at NBC. But that show was at 8:00 PM/7:00 PM central, long before her scene aired. I still feel like on some level CBS wanted to punish her for leaving that show (and leaving the cast members of the proposed revamp in the lurch) along with doing the same to Harvey Korman for leaving *The Carol Burnett Show,* so this is how they did it.
The Wookie family scene where they are just growling for 8 minutes is my favorite part... so bizarre I find it hilarious!!!
Think of it this way: The Holiday Special is the MOST IMPORTANT thing in the SW universe.
Why?
It was the first thing that officially made Star Wars a "going concern". Before this, it was a movie. But with this, the characters and the settings proved that they had life beyond just the movie. The special cemented Star Wars as a BRAND, not just a film. It showed there was more out there than we'd yet seen. This is the first thing that appeard as a continuation, almost a sequel, of the original movie. It's not a standalone thing. It is set firmly after Ep. 4 and before Ep.5, and it interacts with them.
So, while it is awful, and funny in a very bad way, it's also supremely important. I proved that Star Wars was a brand that could be adapted to various kinds of media and could even take a beating... even if it was from itself.
I don't know about you, but to me that makes it more cannon than any of the three new movies.
Absolutely love this video! Great job! Even as a failed project, the Xmas special event deserves to be celebrated. Your humor is on point as always! Fantastic job! I also appreciate that you said that maybe you love Attack of the Clones! That movie totally deserves more love in my opinion! Love your channel very much! Happy holidays!
I feel like this show heralded what would be TH-cam cooking videos of the future.
The absolute best part about the holiday special is hearing him say Chewbacca dad and son names for the first time. I almost died laughing. Those pronunciations are my canon.
A Jurassic Park holiday special.. There is a thought
Holiday Special Schmoliday Special. I won't rest until they recanonise the Star Wars Christmas Album, featuring Young Jon Bon Jovi singing "why do you get a Wookiee for Christmas (when he already has a comb)?"
"The Star Wars Holiday Special" is still better than "Than Last Jedi"
God help us...that's true. (Shudder!!!)
Ну умора, какой остроумный.Никто бы не догадался бы до этой шутки
Solid burn
*NO!*
When I saw the premiere in 78, I was giddy and blown away! I just wanted more Star Wars with the characters i loved!
Thanks to a little reference in the Mandalorian, the Star Wars holiday special is officially canon in the Star Wars timeline
And surely by absolute trainwreck you mean "awesomest TV special ever"
How weird is it that this special was the first appearance of Bobba Fett.
Not as weird as seeing Hedy Lamarr with four arms cooking.
@@richardgadberry8398 It's HEDLEY! :D
I've seen this special like 50 times. The guys from Mystery Science Theater did a riff on it - is hilarious!
More like "The Horror of The Star Wars Holiday Special".
Anyways, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a belated Happy Life Day to all the Wookies out there! 🎄🐻🎆
fun fact, this thing was translated to spanish, and it was played many many many times, at least in puerto rico.
Animated part with Boba Fett was pretty cool imo. And it was the biggest amount of screen time he got before Mando.
(Edit) Also, I just learned that it was supposed to look like Moebius's comics, whom I really admire. I never really got that, but it may be why I like that short film.
What a great and very informative video!