Star Wars Holiday Special 1978 - Bea Arthur

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  • čas přidán 17. 11. 2015
  • Special to commemorate the opening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Weird that I published this exactly 1 month before the opening. May the force Bea with you!
    Bea Arthur, who plays a bartender in the Mos Eisley cantina, sings "Good Night, But Not Goodbye" to the same set of aliens that were seen in the Cantina in Star Wars, including, as the back-up musicians, the Cantina's resident group, Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes.

Komentáře • 105

  • @leightonpetty4817
    @leightonpetty4817 Před 5 lety +56

    Honestly I’d read/watch an entire series dedicated to Bea Arthur the singing alien bartender and her giant soft-spoken bodyguard

    • @austinpearce5442
      @austinpearce5442 Před 5 lety +3

      Leighton Petty this should’ve been the focus of the special

    • @GothicTopicPodcast
      @GothicTopicPodcast Před 6 měsíci

      @@austinpearce5442 Yes! I've been saying that for years!

  • @friendsincaptivity7688
    @friendsincaptivity7688 Před 8 lety +76

    May the force BEA with you!

  • @nickwheeler5396
    @nickwheeler5396 Před 2 lety +10

    Bea knew this whole thing was garbage but she pushed through and gave us a darling little tune to remember

    • @PungiFungi
      @PungiFungi Před rokem +1

      She was about the only thing worth watching other than Diahnn Carroll.

  • @robpetrone2459
    @robpetrone2459 Před 7 lety +40

    8:35 - "I'll run a tab for the Empire." LOL!

  • @PeachWookiee
    @PeachWookiee Před 8 lety +32

    Seeing this whole thing helps me understand it. It wasn't just her bar... it was Tatooine on lockdown...

  • @iggyeo6458
    @iggyeo6458 Před 8 lety +34

    "of all the bars, on all of Tatooine, and he had to come walking into mine..."

  • @rosskerr1439
    @rosskerr1439 Před 2 lety +4

    Come back soon, Bea Arthur. We'll be waiting.

  • @Vejur9000
    @Vejur9000 Před 4 lety +18

    I love B Arthur in anything. One of the funniest ladies ever. Actually, she would have been amazing in a star wars film.

  • @mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663

    ~RIP Beatrice Arthur & Harvey Korman~

  • @desertrose1226
    @desertrose1226 Před 2 lety +5

    Bea was such a glamorous girl! A real old school star and a celebrity in every way unlike todays talent free zones.

  • @VKUT80
    @VKUT80 Před 4 lety +5

    She looks GORGEOUS 🥰💚

  • @DRT19
    @DRT19 Před 5 lety +17

    This song has a special place in my heart 😥 Just one more round friend

  • @job8258
    @job8258 Před 8 lety +37

    Bea should had been in the original star wars

    • @auditect950
      @auditect950 Před 8 lety +5

      +Jordan Bonet films I heard her Character Ackmena was offscreen in the Cantina in Episode 4.

  • @aprilroses3156
    @aprilroses3156 Před rokem +2

    I love Bea, she's so funny! I can't believe I'm just seeing this now🤩⭐️

  • @Jenema2
    @Jenema2 Před 3 lety +3

    For the last 5 months I have listened to this when I'm drunk

  • @animatedink2529
    @animatedink2529 Před 8 lety +29

    Exactly what comes to mind when I think of a Holiday special; a night at a sketchy bar with Satan, the Wolf-Man, the recently deceased (Greedo), recent amputees (Walrus-Face), a man sized opossum and a slew of criminals :D

    • @CosmicCountryboy
      @CosmicCountryboy Před 7 lety +4

      Cris P. Bacon a wretched hive of scum and villainy..

  • @allaboutdmagic
    @allaboutdmagic Před 8 lety +34

    The one thing missing from Force Awakens...

  • @greengrassofhome
    @greengrassofhome Před 6 lety +21

    I never knew this existed until I heard it mentioned on the Sick and Wrong Podcast, Episode 601, just today. This surely must be the best thing to have ever happened at the Mos Eisley cantina. Bea Arthur was such an amazing talent, the song is so beautiful and the choreography is perfect. I will rewatch the song segment over and over again. Wonderful performance!

    • @jackierodriguez1291
      @jackierodriguez1291 Před 4 lety

      I found out it about on the goldbergs ep

    • @jimmyjohns6516
      @jimmyjohns6516 Před 2 lety

      @@jackierodriguez1291 same lol

    • @mikesilva3868
      @mikesilva3868 Před rokem

      ​@@jackierodriguez1291 found out about this movie from tv land in 2005 I was 21 at the time 🍔

  • @Somtaw420
    @Somtaw420 Před 5 lety +13

    Thank you. This is an absolute treasure, and it's a shame it's buried with the Special.

  • @kylecampbell565
    @kylecampbell565 Před 7 lety +26

    I can see why Deadpool has the hots for her she made a part of this special tolerable

  • @masterfarr8265
    @masterfarr8265 Před 4 lety +8

    With the coronavirus this becomes more sad

  • @tjames9698
    @tjames9698 Před 7 lety +35

    What is funny is that George Lucas still says this is canon.

    • @greengrassofhome
      @greengrassofhome Před 6 lety +6

      T James To have the chance to have this amazing performance in your canon and leave it out would be monumentality idiotic!

    • @manofmystery5191
      @manofmystery5191 Před 4 lety +2

      greengrassofhome plus didn’t this film introduce the character Boba Fett?

    • @mikesilva3868
      @mikesilva3868 Před rokem

      ​@@manofmystery5191 first time boba fett appeared was in a parade in the 70s💛

    • @manofmystery5191
      @manofmystery5191 Před rokem

      @@mikesilva3868 True, but by the time that parade happened, this dumpster fire of a film was already well into production. So technically, this is the first thing ever made with Boba Fett in it.

  • @kevinmelicant9566
    @kevinmelicant9566 Před rokem +1

    Awsomeness

  • @onenerd9573
    @onenerd9573 Před 4 lety +6

    I like that there's just a random giant rat in there. Like, just one of the patrons. Truly, Star Wars is a weird and wonderful place. :D

    • @madgang201
      @madgang201 Před rokem +1

      That was a giant puppet originally built for the movie Food of the Gods. Guess it was collecting dust and the filmmakers thought “let’s throw it in the scene!” Lol

    • @cellytron
      @cellytron Před 3 měsíci +1

      The rat is so cute 🤣

  • @BuckySeifert
    @BuckySeifert Před 8 lety +68

    My theory, Bea Arthur is Snoke.

    • @manofmystery5191
      @manofmystery5191 Před 4 lety +3

      I know I’m about three years late to the party but I just thought I’d say: THAT WOULD BE AWESOME

    • @surprisedwoody1025
      @surprisedwoody1025 Před 4 lety +3

      You were right, Luke... you were right...

    • @patron8597
      @patron8597 Před 4 lety +1

      Eggspectashons subberded

  • @danielmkubacki
    @danielmkubacki Před 6 lety +3

    A great song.

  • @acidqueen69
    @acidqueen69 Před 8 lety +21

    was there ever an Ackmena action figure?

    • @mikesmith05
      @mikesmith05 Před 3 lety +1

      Last year, somebody actually made one. If you Google “Ackmena Action Figure,” you will be able to find it on the figure realm website.

  • @1138Yeo91
    @1138Yeo91 Před 6 lety +11

    Ackmena is now canon (appears in the brand new book "From a Certain Point of View", with mention of her wife.

    • @TheMrPeteChannel
      @TheMrPeteChannel Před 6 lety +3

      Also that book made 1 of the Modal Nodes (an all male band) female. SJWs strike again.

    • @wintermute8315
      @wintermute8315 Před 3 lety

      Pete, you're a weird, sad dude.

  • @scottakanumba1heathen379
    @scottakanumba1heathen379 Před 2 lety +5

    Like Golden Girls in an alternate universe!

  • @MASSEFFECTfan101
    @MASSEFFECTfan101 Před 2 lety +2

    This and the animated short are the only watchable parts of the Holiday Special, in my opinion. I can't watch the rest without Rifftrax.

  • @BrenTenkage
    @BrenTenkage Před rokem +1

    Let's be honest. She is the best character in all of Star Wars, I don't care if this was nuked out of canon, this is canon

  • @MichaelHayward
    @MichaelHayward Před 8 lety +53

    This was probably the only 'enjoyable' part of that film... 😂

    • @dylanbeebe4403
      @dylanbeebe4403 Před 4 lety

      You forgot to put the " " in the worr "Film".

  • @strongood
    @strongood Před 8 lety +27

    This and the Boba Fett segment were the only decent parts of the holiday special.

  • @rachelfairfield8755
    @rachelfairfield8755 Před 8 lety +10

    Oh my bloody God......just look at the poor quality ahaha oh my god it's so damn scary. You can really tell that all them creatures are so fake and not scary. (Actually it's more creepy then scary) people walking around with masks of weird aliens and other creepy monsters actually it's quite scary even though it's so fake but I bet 1970's kids at the time were like OH MY GOD ITS AMAZING

    • @icanliveforever1243
      @icanliveforever1243 Před 4 lety

      Those are mostly recycled costumes from the actual movie, so.......

  • @tylerseese2407
    @tylerseese2407 Před 2 lety

    When I watched the movie, I had to look on the internet to confirm this was Bea Arthur

  • @ertymexx
    @ertymexx Před 4 lety +2

    Still better than the sequals. ;-)

  • @allenhernandez3350
    @allenhernandez3350 Před rokem +3

    Hey remember the time Bea Arthur told Satan to get out of her bar?

  • @rapscallionrobby
    @rapscallionrobby Před 5 lety +9

    Required viewing for all members of the Imperial forces? You mean to tell me every single stormtrooper had to sit through a video of Bea Arthur rejecting a guy and then singing??

    • @shortstuff780
      @shortstuff780 Před 4 lety +2

      😂😂😂 it's a crime if you don't cry.
      I want an Disney+spin off on the rejected guy

  • @garethglitter5932
    @garethglitter5932 Před 8 lety +8

    No wonder he had the death sentence on him in twelve star systems 10:40

  • @enbym1793
    @enbym1793 Před 6 měsíci

    I actually really like this scene and number. 😬

  • @sumnersawyer6484
    @sumnersawyer6484 Před 6 lety +6

    This is such a great part but it doesn’t belong in the movie it was just thrown in

  • @RandallGooding
    @RandallGooding Před 5 lety +3

    Luckily I missed this as a child but as an adult it’s fascinatingly horrible !

  • @dennis2339
    @dennis2339 Před 2 lety

    Bea supposedly wanted to do the "Alabama Song" - a Bertolt Brecht Vaudevillian song but the Brecht estate refused permission.
    So Ken and Mitzie Welch wrote this "Brechtian" number instead.
    The filming of this scene was during the Summer in California and a lot of the actors in alien masks regularly passed out from heat exhaustion and needed straws inserted into the mask just to breathe.

  • @nervchemnitz
    @nervchemnitz Před rokem +2

    Darth Maude

  • @JAbell1966
    @JAbell1966 Před rokem

    As bad as the Holiday Special is there really isn't anything in it that contradicts or is contradicted by the films. Disney even celebrates Life Day every November 19th in the Galaxy's Edge portion of the park these days. (And for anyone wondering, Ackmeena's cantina is not the same one seen in A New Hope)

  • @trinitymplayers
    @trinitymplayers Před 4 lety +3

    Where was Wuher the bartender in the original Star Wars scene? ("We don't serve their kind in here!") Also the twin sisters and the pipe smoker?

    • @butt5ful
      @butt5ful Před 4 lety +1

      Wuher didn’t work the nightshift.

  • @Munchies2019
    @Munchies2019 Před rokem

    6:56 disney closing down the galactic star cruiser hotel.

  • @seanyringo5008
    @seanyringo5008 Před 2 lety

    empire made def made the quota on duis that night

  • @delilahmcdonnell6638
    @delilahmcdonnell6638 Před 8 lety +2

    Majel Barrett-Roddenberry doing the commentary over the montage the storm troopers are watching?

    • @cellytron
      @cellytron Před 3 měsíci

      It sure sounds like her! Hey, Majel, wrong franchise!

  • @Jenema2
    @Jenema2 Před 4 lety +3

    I like to think that Alien dancing with Bea was trying to seduce her and it failed miserably

    • @Jenema2
      @Jenema2 Před 3 lety

      Bea was oblivious I mean

  • @entertainmentlife430
    @entertainmentlife430 Před rokem

    I wanted to know more about her and the guy who is sweet on her

  • @DaWoWzer
    @DaWoWzer Před 6 měsíci

    her pouring the liquid into volcano man's head makes me so sick and disturbed.

  • @DistractedGlobeGuy
    @DistractedGlobeGuy Před 8 lety +3

    The male PA voice reminds me of the narrator guy from *Plan Nine*...

  • @gregkiss2396
    @gregkiss2396 Před 6 lety +1

    4:56

  • @valdoxtheunmerciful
    @valdoxtheunmerciful Před 3 lety +1

    She doesn't want to date you!! She just wants to run her business!!!

  • @BikerBenny
    @BikerBenny Před 3 lety +2

    5:45 corona virus 2020 dictator government

  • @mikesilva3868
    @mikesilva3868 Před rokem

    Wow. Up until I saw this holiday special, I thought that perhaps the worst TV shows of the 1970s were the "Brady Bunch Hour" or perhaps "Pink Lady and Jeff", but "The Star Wars Holiday Special" is at least as bad...possibly worse🤣

  • @jasonfrancis9262
    @jasonfrancis9262 Před 8 lety +4

    Beatrice why?

  • @edwardmiessner6502
    @edwardmiessner6502 Před 7 lety +3

    So all they do is sit at home and watch TV? And i really "dig" the Filmation special effects! OMG this is all jaw-droppingly bad!

  • @oceanyoung4514
    @oceanyoung4514 Před 3 lety

    that one thumbs down🤣

  • @only257
    @only257 Před rokem

    😇worst movie ever made

  • @issacflores2010
    @issacflores2010 Před 5 lety

    0:30 *GOOD GOD!! JUST STICK TO THE FUCKING STORY!!! WHAT DO YOU HAVE ADD?!?!*
    WERE THERE OTHER SCRIPTS THAT JUST GOT MIXED IN WITH THIS ONE?!! JUST STICK TO ONE FUCKING PREMISE SO WE CAN GET THIS OVER WITH!!! *GOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!*

  • @EleaticStranger
    @EleaticStranger Před 6 lety

    Lame. But, thanks for posting it.

  • @redtony58
    @redtony58 Před 6 lety +3

    I always wondered what a shaved wookie would look like. Now I know. Bea Arthur.