Star Wars Holiday Special Pitch Meeting

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    Step inside the pitch meeting that led to the Star Wars Holiday Special!
    Star Wars is one of the most beloved franchises in the world. But between the first and second movie, when nobody really knew what it was going to be-- they tried to capitalize on the success of A New Hope while working on Empire Strikes Back. That attempt took the form of the Star Wars Holiday Special, a made-for-TV movie that’s set in the Star Wars universe and featured Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, and Chewbacca’s family. Okay, MOSTLY Chewbacca’s family actually.
    The special raises a ton of questions- like why isn’t Luke blinking? Why does Chewbacca’s family have so many screens? How are they accessing live feeds of private establishments? Why did do the bad guys watch a full Jefferson Starship music video? Why is Bea Arthur here and why is she singing? What’s up with that weird virtual reality fantasy lady? And most importantly WHAT IS GOING ON?!
    To answer all these questions and more, step inside the pitch meeting that led to the Star Wars Holiday Special!
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  • @ScreenRant
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    • @kinginconsistent
      @kinginconsistent Před 4 lety +11

      Screen Rant will you do a Jumanji one next?

    • @domidayv
      @domidayv Před 4 lety +84

      So to be clear: You're reminding us of how torturing the SWHS was... And you want us to catch it on Disney+?

    • @zacharylumsden
      @zacharylumsden Před 4 lety +45

      Is this sponsored by disney+ by any chqnce

    • @shubhiaggarwal429
      @shubhiaggarwal429 Před 4 lety +10

      Please do Jumanji : The next level ! It will be super easy, barely an inconvenience!

    • @ElderSnake90
      @ElderSnake90 Před 4 lety +4

      @@shubhiaggarwal429 so many things to pick apart in that movie.

  • @Didi2552
    @Didi2552 Před 4 lety +3501

    "Princess Leia sings?"
    "Why not? She might become a Disney Princess one day."

    • @fullmetalcrusader
      @fullmetalcrusader Před 4 lety +40

      She technically is

    • @Operation_Bagel
      @Operation_Bagel Před 4 lety +138

      steven Kendrick Congratulations you found the joke

    • @markdoane6486
      @markdoane6486 Před 4 lety +15

      “Fingers crosses!” 🤞

    • @Selvokaz
      @Selvokaz Před 4 lety +29

      She can't her story ends to sadly, a deserter husband, a psycho father killing son, and apparently, she just gives up living in the end and fades away as Luke did.

    • @gristlyknave831
      @gristlyknave831 Před 4 lety +41

      @@Selvokaz
      That's only if you acknowledge those movies

  • @grannys1704
    @grannys1704 Před 4 lety +1417

    "he's like a little chewbacca if he wanted to eat your bone marrow"

    • @AtlantiansGaming
      @AtlantiansGaming Před 4 lety +20

      Grannys collection so... an Ewok?

    • @trojancamo2550
      @trojancamo2550 Před 4 lety +28

      It was no where near as bad as little Ryan tho Just don’t watch the new Christmas video on Ryan’s channel unless you want to be scarred.

    • @KyleJustinLyons
      @KyleJustinLyons Před 4 lety +13

      I actually had to pause the video cause I was laughing so hard loool

    • @OneEyeDollar6
      @OneEyeDollar6 Před 4 lety +7

      "Quote from the video we all just watched to get likes"

    • @grannys1704
      @grannys1704 Před 4 lety +12

      @@OneEyeDollar6 im not looking for likes, just sharing one of my favorite parts of the video!

  • @jasonph2522
    @jasonph2522 Před 3 lety +1669

    I am 51- I eagerly watched this on television back then.
    I still recall vividly the horror of it all and the conversation at school the next day with my equally perplexed and disgusted friends.

    • @theultimatereductionist7592
      @theultimatereductionist7592 Před 3 lety +107

      I am so sorry for your traumatized youth!

    • @OhNoNotAgain42
      @OhNoNotAgain42 Před 2 lety +70

      I have the identical memory of childhood trauma

    • @attiasprouse682
      @attiasprouse682 Před 2 lety +20

      I would like details, if you please.

    • @H3x4r35
      @H3x4r35 Před 2 lety +40

      Please tell us more!
      What did people think about this, were they wondering why it was a thing, did they have any rampant theories about the franchise? Did the more informed people think it was an attempt at sabotaging the franchise from shady people in Hollywood? Or some sort of an "artistic" experiment gone wrong? Or the doing of drug-crazed individuals?

    • @OhNoNotAgain42
      @OhNoNotAgain42 Před 2 lety +81

      @@H3x4r35 We were 10-12 year old kids who had seen Star Wars multiple times. We played Star Wars on the playground. We had the toys. We thought the Holiday Special would be an action packed story with our heroes. Instead, it was this horrible, weird variety show.

  • @petitio_principii
    @petitio_principii Před 3 lety +1741

    The most perfect installment of the Star Wars franchise, George Lucas never felt he needed to retouch it.

  • @davidroosa4561
    @davidroosa4561 Před 4 lety +3127

    Little known fact: the Geneva convention makes it a war crime to show this movie to POWs

    • @ScreenRant
      @ScreenRant  Před 4 lety +441

      😂

    • @markromine5103
      @markromine5103 Před 4 lety +91

      ^Funny because it's true.

    • @michaelclarkj
      @michaelclarkj Před 4 lety +38

      This sounds true. Hmm.

    • @tmi9885
      @tmi9885 Před 4 lety +36

      Looked all over. Could not find one source that backs up that claim.

    • @jasonboyd2479
      @jasonboyd2479 Před 4 lety +55

      This is funny, but not true. 1). It’s ridiculous to even think showing a movie (no matter how bad) is a war crime. 2). I’ve found zero facts, none. 😐

  • @SirAthiro
    @SirAthiro Před 4 lety +558

    "How come you didn't repeat the word "entertaining "?"
    "Anyways..."
    🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @michaelknight437
      @michaelknight437 Před 4 lety +7

      I didn't repeat entertaining because lying is super hard, a huge inconvenience

    • @kaneo1
      @kaneo1 Před 4 lety +1

      Actually, it's super easy. Not even a thing.
      Well, okay then!

  • @DodaGarcia
    @DodaGarcia Před 2 lety +226

    The "how come you didn't repeat the word 'entertaining'?" kills me every time

    • @donovanulrich348
      @donovanulrich348 Před rokem +2

      Cuz iv only ever herd of this thing as a punchline or denied its existence
      The entertainment was thinking a million dollar 80's franchise made this

  • @nassmatic
    @nassmatic Před 2 lety +149

    Whenever Carrie Fisher wanted her guests to leave her home after hosting a party, she would show the Star Wars Holiday Special. It worked every time. RIP Carrie Fisher.

    • @GroovingPict
      @GroovingPict Před 8 měsíci +7

      wait, George Lucas wanted to destroy every copy of this in existence, and he wasnt aware one of the movie's biggest stars had a copy?

    • @MagpieR6
      @MagpieR6 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@GroovingPic its not exactly hard to get 🤣

    • @user-sb8yy6zj4q
      @user-sb8yy6zj4q Před 4 měsíci

      @@GroovingPict I thought that was Howard the Duck?

    • @GroovingPict
      @GroovingPict Před 4 měsíci

      @@MagpieR6 back then it was

    • @Julia-lk8jn
      @Julia-lk8jn Před 2 měsíci

      Is there a source for that? The only thing I could find was that Carrie Fisher _claimed_ she'd use it for that, and that might just as well have been a joking comment on it's quality.

  • @discotequilasunset
    @discotequilasunset Před 4 lety +2501

    “Mom can we watch Star Wars?”
    “We have Star Wars at home”
    Star Wars at home:

  • @stefanjoeres7149
    @stefanjoeres7149 Před 4 lety +889

    To quote Nicolas Cage: “Oh No, My Eyes.“

  • @kingcosworth2643
    @kingcosworth2643 Před 3 lety +251

    In Weird Al Yankovic's song 'White and Nerdy' The bootleg video he buys in the alley and gets super excited about is a VHS copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special.

  • @1805movie
    @1805movie Před 4 lety +775

    There needs to be a documentary on the making of the "Holiday Special".

    • @76reliant
      @76reliant Před 4 lety +67

      no, they need to make a PREQUELS trilogy about the Holiday Special....

    • @darrenrobinson9041
      @darrenrobinson9041 Před 4 lety +28

      There already is one, it's called "Reefer Madness"....lol

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews Před 3 lety +39

      @@76reliant All about Jar Jar Binks and his family celebrating the holidays. LOL

    • @thesullivanstreetproject
      @thesullivanstreetproject Před 3 lety +5

      @@kevinwilt3918 nah, they’d just ruin it...

    • @RuminatingRaptor
      @RuminatingRaptor Před 3 lety +4

      @@kevinwilt3918
      They have a lego Star Wars holiday special. I’m too afraid to watch it. 😂

  • @tshoemake5945
    @tshoemake5945 Před 4 lety +5689

    Fun fact george Lucas once said that if he has the time and a hammer he would hunt down every copy of the star wars holiday special and smash it.

    • @1SaG
      @1SaG Před 4 lety +465

      Understandable.
      Just as understandable as my desire to hunt down every "special edition" copy of the OT movies and destroy those as well.

    • @SYNAPTIKMETAL
      @SYNAPTIKMETAL Před 4 lety +239

      Well he's not getting my copy.

    • @jasonbowman9521
      @jasonbowman9521 Před 4 lety +83

      I was fairly young in the 70s but it's my favorite era. Weird and cool stuff and sci fi was fun and clunky before Star Wars. Though SW is technically Sci Fi Fantasy I guess.

    • @juanfranciscovillarroelthu6876
      @juanfranciscovillarroelthu6876 Před 4 lety +93

      The Fisher Family will forever preserve a copy in honor of Carrie.

    • @twimpix555
      @twimpix555 Před 4 lety +179

      I thought you're gonna say if George Lucas has the time he'd do an HD remake of this one too.

  • @thecouncilofnine4692
    @thecouncilofnine4692 Před 4 lety +508

    Ohhhhhhhhh, using 70s wigs for a 70s Pitch Meeting is tight!

    • @krudmonger
      @krudmonger Před 4 lety +7

      I came down here to say exactly this, kudos beating me to it!

    • @sageoz9886
      @sageoz9886 Před 4 lety +9

      Super-freaky; barely an Afro-sheen dance

    • @shadowthesavagehedgehog4296
      @shadowthesavagehedgehog4296 Před 4 lety +5

      It's Super Easy, Barely An Inconvenience.

    • @les907
      @les907 Před 4 lety +4

      @@shadowthesavagehedgehog4296 Oh really?

    • @canaan466
      @canaan466 Před 4 lety

      The Ghost of Winterfell *groovy

  • @blackout995
    @blackout995 Před 3 lety +671

    "People that are not all there... like... like amputees"
    Sir you owe me a mouthful of coffee

    • @quantum_shhhhart
      @quantum_shhhhart Před 2 lety +15

      one year later & it still makes me laugh

    • @JS-iu6wk
      @JS-iu6wk Před rokem +10

      I laughed so hard at that part too...

    • @henrybierman8431
      @henrybierman8431 Před rokem +5

      Why are you eating or drinking when watching these

    • @cjraymond8827
      @cjraymond8827 Před rokem +1

      Yeah, stick it to those guys, am I right? Hilarious.

    • @Coastfog
      @Coastfog Před rokem +3

      You're trying to guess where he's gonna go, and then... I love how his mind works.

  • @themanflake
    @themanflake Před 3 lety +190

    "People are finally gonna get their answers."
    "What, what do you mean?"
    "Well Star Wars was great, but the whole time I was asking, 'What are Chewbacca's Father's Fantasies?'"
    Oh I died🤣

  • @daedalus25
    @daedalus25 Před 4 lety +714

    This is what I like to show to all those Star Wars fans who claim that you're not a true fan if you don't like everything Star Wars.

    • @songohan3321
      @songohan3321 Před 4 lety +53

      Please don't. This thing causes physical and emotional trauma.

    • @tedwards1025
      @tedwards1025 Před 4 lety +28

      @Charlie Vetsworth There are literally tons of people like this on the internet. And it isn't exclusive to Star Wars, it's a gatekeeping problem in every fandom. Also, your anecdotal experience does not mean that nobody exists who is like this or that there are not many of these people. Dumbass.

    • @tedwards1025
      @tedwards1025 Před 4 lety +9

      @@songohan3321 That is the point

    • @Eanki_
      @Eanki_ Před 4 lety +10

      @Charlie Vetsworth imagine taking a post about fandom gatekeeping, literally a universal phenomenon across the Internet, and making it about your hate boner for a country.

    • @davidfleming3890
      @davidfleming3890 Před 4 lety +17

      I also throw in the Ewok Movies for good measure

  • @thebrickdoc5543
    @thebrickdoc5543 Před 4 lety +1370

    When you realize that Ryan actually had to watch the movie to make this pitch meeting

    • @raydunakin
      @raydunakin Před 4 lety +105

      Talk about taking one for the team!

    • @seanweir
      @seanweir Před 4 lety +16

      It’s not to bad if you take breaks

    • @svavarkjarrval8757
      @svavarkjarrval8757 Před 4 lety +18

      @@seanweir Or watch it with RiffTrax.

    • @ihatehandles69420
      @ihatehandles69420 Před 4 lety +5

      Someone else probably wrote the script

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj Před 4 lety +2

      Hey I would actually love to see this lol, I don't think they've ever shown in on British TV.

  • @rahulmenon9530
    @rahulmenon9530 Před 3 lety +74

    Then The Empire Strikes Back did a back flip, snapped the holiday special's neck, and saved the franchise

  • @Captain-Cosmo
    @Captain-Cosmo Před rokem +8

    I was in fourth grade when the original Star Wars came out. Like every kid at the time, I HAD to be home to see The Star Wars Holiday Special. (No VCRs back then.) This pitch meeting just triggered a PTSD episode that I'm still recovering from. Thanks a lot, Ryan....

  • @quentinle4892
    @quentinle4892 Před 4 lety +3306

    I wish they would always replace 'tight' with 'groovy for every Pitch Meeting set in the 70s.

  • @houstisiomcfinasto9665
    @houstisiomcfinasto9665 Před 4 lety +2832

    I can imagine nothing Harrison Ford hates more than that he was in this.

    • @WillGame4Beer
      @WillGame4Beer Před 4 lety +104

      Have you seen the sequels?

    • @mathunit1
      @mathunit1 Před 4 lety +258

      @@WillGame4Beer Holiday special is objectively worse.

    • @sirunbekannt5653
      @sirunbekannt5653 Před 4 lety +70

      Indiana Jones 4?

    • @CaptWesStarwind
      @CaptWesStarwind Před 4 lety +88

      And that includes a plane crash.

    • @devildavin
      @devildavin Před 4 lety +69

      i wish some one had a vhs of the holiday special and take it to him to sign. i think he would go ballistic and crash another plane

  • @NinjaBearFilms
    @NinjaBearFilms Před 3 lety +147

    So this is going to be a family watching various things on screens throughout the house.
    So the Holiday Special predicted life in 2020.

    • @juststatedtheobvious9633
      @juststatedtheobvious9633 Před rokem +3

      Even down to the VR semi-porn but totally safe for work music video, which is half of what you'll get if you start randomly clicking CZcams's VR suggestions without knowing how to read Japanese.
      But they didn't predict all the terrible horror shorts trying to jump scare you without telling you where the jump scare is. Or how people with VR cameras generally don't understand advanced concepts like "personal space" and "motion sickness".

    • @Julia-lk8jn
      @Julia-lk8jn Před rokem

      @@juststatedtheobvious9633
      I was having similar thoughts about what the resident Dirty Old Men might be watching on his smartphone these days ... also, now I'm a bit tempted to do the "search YT for Japanese VR" experiment.

  • @trekkiejunk
    @trekkiejunk Před 10 měsíci +10

    The man behind this holiday special is Steve Binder. He is also the man who produced Elvis Presley's 1968 NBC Special, better known as "The Comeback Special," which is widely acclaimed, and credited with helping to revive Elvis's music career. Crazy how he can fall so hard.

    • @Julia-lk8jn
      @Julia-lk8jn Před 2 měsíci +2

      I have this dim memory that it was George Lucas who insisted on the Chewbacca clan speaking entirely in growls, no sub-titles - and that's just the meddling that we know about. I guess getting ham-strung like that doesn't really bring out a director's motivation to go above and beyond.

  • @jackguerre
    @jackguerre Před 4 lety +190

    The fact that you had to watch this entire movie for this...

  • @lennywright5655
    @lennywright5655 Před 4 lety +763

    I’ve never seen the Star Wars Holiday Special and now I see why everyone involved pretend it never existed..
    Wow wow WOW!

    • @Dargonhuman
      @Dargonhuman Před 4 lety +25

      Yea yea yea.

    • @AtheistOrphan
      @AtheistOrphan Před 4 lety +16

      Lenny Wright - You are missing out on one of life’s experiences!

    • @Strugen.
      @Strugen. Před 4 lety +15

      @Atheist Orphan if that experience is horrible torture then yes

    • @Paidraig
      @Paidraig Před 4 lety +17

      There is an upside to it: it was the first time Boba Fett showed up.

    • @jamesanthony8438
      @jamesanthony8438 Před 4 lety +5

      As bad as this special was, it's still better than Di$ney "Star Wars" trilogy. =)

  • @Raz.C
    @Raz.C Před 3 lety +89

    re - 1:33
    "How come you didn't repeat the word _entertaining?"_
    It's amazing how the smallest things can be so bloody funny!!!
    I really love these pitch meeting, though I'm worried that I may have watched them all. If screenwriter guy and producer guy don't mind violating social-distancing policies to film more episodes, the whole community would really appreciate it.

    • @DodaGarcia
      @DodaGarcia Před 2 lety +3

      That part was my favorite, so perfectly delivered

    • @abduljah9355
      @abduljah9355 Před 2 měsíci

      There are way more episodes besides this.

    • @Raz.C
      @Raz.C Před 2 měsíci

      @@abduljah9355
      Yes. I knew this 3 years ago when I wrote that comment.

  • @rahulmenon9530
    @rahulmenon9530 Před 3 lety +312

    Knowing Harrison Ford's personality, it's really good that he didn't quit acting after being in this or we'd have missed some great movies

    • @richardmahn7589
      @richardmahn7589 Před 2 lety +21

      Like surviving a nuclear blast in a fridge? Good times!

    • @donovanulrich348
      @donovanulrich348 Před rokem +5

      Pfft The prairie dogs were the main character in that movie 😂😂

    • @user-ln4gd6hx7e
      @user-ln4gd6hx7e Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@donovanulrich348Prairie dogs coming out of the ground look like poop.

  • @bobbobson110
    @bobbobson110 Před 4 lety +482

    "If I had the time and a hammer, I would track down every copy of the Holiday Special and smash it."
    George clearly didn't anticipate the internet.

    • @witekstrzeleckich7657
      @witekstrzeleckich7657 Před 4 lety +15

      Now, back to 9/11

    • @commandercaptain4664
      @commandercaptain4664 Před 4 lety +5

      If anyone can take a hammer to the entire internet, it's El Flanneled Uno.

    • @antaine1916
      @antaine1916 Před 4 lety +3

      ...and yet it still hasn't given us access to "The Day The Clown Cried" --- I'll get you, yet, Jerry Lewis!!!!

    • @histguy101
      @histguy101 Před 4 lety +3

      Then he will take his hammer and smash the internet

  • @knifetoucher
    @knifetoucher Před 4 lety +301

    Why isn't anyone asking the real questions like WHAT ARE CHEWBACCA'S FATHER'S MOTHER'S BROTHER'S 3RD COUSIN TWICE REMOVED'S FANTASY THO?

    • @VisceralHamster
      @VisceralHamster Před 4 lety +12

      BROJAK HORSEMALE I know right! I was so uncomfortable through the whole thing wondering that.

    • @emmanuelperez1516
      @emmanuelperez1516 Před 4 lety +4

      ur name and profile pic are both horrifying and beautiful

    • @chimpinaneckbrace
      @chimpinaneckbrace Před 4 lety +3

      Jar Jar porn

    • @chimpinaneckbrace
      @chimpinaneckbrace Před 4 lety

      @Michael Freed Just think of all the erotic things Jar Jar can do with his duckbill.

    • @MijmerMopper
      @MijmerMopper Před 2 lety

      Time for a m nigh shyamalan and zack snyder cooperation to make a sequal to this movie focused on that question.

  • @alicia1463
    @alicia1463 Před rokem +23

    The first 15 min or so is nothing but wookiees with no subtitles. I can distinctly remember being so happy to see Luke because I could understand him. 😄

  • @jenandjuice_
    @jenandjuice_ Před 3 lety +57

    This is one of my favorite pitch meetings. I’ve seen it *at least* 100 times and laugh every single time

  • @salmonellq2981
    @salmonellq2981 Před 4 lety +254

    "Not all there like.... like amputees" how do you come up with this stuff lmao

  • @robertbaur3145
    @robertbaur3145 Před 4 lety +231

    The Mandalorian makes the special canon by referencing life day.. When Han says in Force Awakens "its all True all of it" He MEANS all of it

    • @Haterator
      @Haterator Před 4 lety +32

      He's also using the rifle which was ONLY shown in the cartoon segment of the special when Boba Fett carries it.

    • @Iced333
      @Iced333 Před 4 lety +21

      It only makes Life day canon. Thrawn exists in rebels that doesn't make heir to the empire canon again.

    • @TheGuardDuck
      @TheGuardDuck Před 4 lety +10

      @@Iced333 This. So life day is cannon. Big deal. THIS, is NOT.

    • @ScionStorm1
      @ScionStorm1 Před 4 lety +23

      @@TheGuardDuck waiting for Mandalorion to bust into a guys home while he's watching VR porn. lol

    • @akmason74
      @akmason74 Před 4 lety +15

      @@Iced333 The Force ghost of Bea Arthur is going to appear in Rise of Skywalker, it will just be easier if you start trying to accept it now...

  • @TeatroGrotesco
    @TeatroGrotesco Před 3 lety +63

    "Why? Why are you doing this?"
    -Best summation of this horror

  • @riftshredder5438
    @riftshredder5438 Před 3 lety +16

    Executive: so how high were you when you wrote this script?
    Script Writer: Well I saw my dog become a Wookie and dance all over the house while Star Wars was playing in the background
    Executive: Good enough for me

  • @EnsignSteve
    @EnsignSteve Před 4 lety +239

    "It's like someone watched Star Wars once months ago and then tried to draw it from memory" I LOL'd so hard at this!!

  • @billbozeman
    @billbozeman Před 4 lety +548

    My hat is off to Ryan...
    I’ve had this for bout 15 years and have STILL been unable to watch it to the end.
    Props to you, friend.

    • @KingRandor82
      @KingRandor82 Před 4 lety +11

      Then how did you make it thru Episode II? (and I'm assuming you have)

    • @Kilgore6549
      @Kilgore6549 Před 4 lety +5

      The RiffTrax version is very entertaining.

    • @GODOFAWSOMENESS1
      @GODOFAWSOMENESS1 Před 4 lety

      KingRandor82 even if he got through episode two he would still have to go through episode three.

    • @ericpaul698
      @ericpaul698 Před 4 lety +2

      Don't worry. You are not alone. It is literally impossible to watch. I have tried and there is no way

    • @unclecreepy7025
      @unclecreepy7025 Před 4 lety +2

      I think I got half way through and watching this I was like “oh, so it just gets weird at the end.”

  • @holyfamilycrusader3512
    @holyfamilycrusader3512 Před 3 lety +18

    “He looks just like a little Chewbacca, but if he wanted to eat your bone marrow” 😂😂

  • @salazardeltoro4561
    @salazardeltoro4561 Před rokem +3

    "Not all there."
    "Ah, like amputees?"

  • @theterbear9915
    @theterbear9915 Před 4 lety +1276

    Mark Hamill looks like he's caked in makeup.

    • @cesaramoga
      @cesaramoga Před 4 lety +204

      The Terbear he was in a car accident before this special so he got a scar on his face. Make up was used to cover his “Mark”

    • @marquis911
      @marquis911 Před 4 lety +83

      @@cesaramoga But why did it have to be Trump color?

    • @manwithaplan5503
      @manwithaplan5503 Před 4 lety +35

      @@marquis911 It wasn't exactly as topical then.

    • @baldingpatriot
      @baldingpatriot Před 4 lety +80

      The real question is why did he have eyeliner?

    • @DChatc
      @DChatc Před 4 lety +18

      @@cesaramoga He looks just like a Buddi doll!

  • @jonsjunkmailonly
    @jonsjunkmailonly Před 4 lety +662

    This is a a Christmas tradition around my house. When the whole "naughty list" thing isn't working, I force my kids to watch it

    • @holdguard4624
      @holdguard4624 Před 4 lety +36

      jonsjunkmailonly You're a monster. This is child abuse to make your kids watch that, even if they have been misbehaving!

    • @John_the_Paul
      @John_the_Paul Před 4 lety +86

      That's... the evilest thing I can imagine.

    • @GenxAuthorDad
      @GenxAuthorDad Před 3 lety +85

      The dark side of Force is a pathway to many abuses some consider to be unnatural.

    • @alphagamer9505
      @alphagamer9505 Před 3 lety +5

      You're a monster

    • @schattentaenzerin
      @schattentaenzerin Před 3 lety +35

      Geeez, what did your kids do? 😳

  • @alwaysxnever
    @alwaysxnever Před 4 lety +38

    The fact that there are subtle differences in the backgrounds for some of these is just great.Good on you Ryan.

  • @Manbeast43
    @Manbeast43 Před 4 lety +52

    Why is no one talking about those fantastic wigs? Or Ryan's amazing wookie speaking?

  • @palpatine775
    @palpatine775 Před 4 lety +426

    "How come you didn't repeat the word entertaining?" - I'm pretty sure George Lucas asked this same exact question 40 years ago.

  • @geardog24
    @geardog24 Před 4 lety +201

    Ironically the cartoon short in the special was the first appearance of Boba Fett.

    • @sujoygupta5264
      @sujoygupta5264 Před 4 lety +18

      Riding a dragon, no less 🤣

    • @tomkerruish2982
      @tomkerruish2982 Před 4 lety +23

      I think he showed up in a parade somewhere first.
      Edit: yep, he was in the San Anselmo Country Fair parade nearly two months before the Special aired.

    • @artphone610
      @artphone610 Před 4 lety +17

      He is the object of the lamest fan obsession ever.

    • @TimThomason
      @TimThomason Před 4 lety +6

      Wow wow wow wow

    • @anthonytabbi1913
      @anthonytabbi1913 Před 4 lety +4

      Interesting. not irony though

  • @JaylukKhan
    @JaylukKhan Před 3 lety +60

    The Bea Arthur musical number actually slaps though. I watch it every year.

  • @zachs9470
    @zachs9470 Před 24 dny +2

    It’s amazing that this didn’t ruin the Star Wars name and brand but Disney did.

  • @Haterator
    @Haterator Před 4 lety +408

    Dear Santa Ryan,
    for Christmas I have only one wish: A Pitch Meeting for *THE ROOM*
    Thank you and stay tight
    A fan

    • @mahoutsuguy863
      @mahoutsuguy863 Před 4 lety +43

      Would he pitch it as Wiseau???

    • @sageoz9886
      @sageoz9886 Před 4 lety +12

      Looks like someone has seen the Tommy W. Star Wars fan film, it's the truly best envisioning of the SW Universe yet conceived....'tis a shame that Tommy wasn't acting back in '77!

    • @les907
      @les907 Před 4 lety +8

      But isnt it going to be complicated to get literally anyone to imitate Tommy Wiseau for the sake of pitching The Room, let alone Ryan?

    • @changetheworldthroughme2949
      @changetheworldthroughme2949 Před 4 lety +2

      Please!

    • @les907
      @les907 Před 4 lety +4

      @Ed Hate oh really?

  • @dudester873
    @dudester873 Před 4 lety +705

    "And then the little wookie is going to watch a full tutorial for a thing that doesn't exist."
    "I suppose that may as well happen."
    "It will."

    • @joedoe1096
      @joedoe1096 Před 4 lety +26

      The delivery for that line was so perfect, best line in a great skit.

    • @denniseldridge2936
      @denniseldridge2936 Před 3 lety +14

      So.... he's watching just about any crowd-funding pitch video?

    • @blazer3756
      @blazer3756 Před 3 lety +3

      I just got to that part while reading this lol

    • @bricksgaming8999
      @bricksgaming8999 Před 3 lety +3

      I have that in an attic somewhere

    • @richardmahn7589
      @richardmahn7589 Před 2 lety

      @@denniseldridge2936 I'm still waiting for that kick starter project to be done....

  • @matthewluecke3704
    @matthewluecke3704 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Imagine being a young kid, excited to go the drive-in with his parents for some kind of Star Wars thing. And this is shown. And then The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 film) was shown. I couldn't have been more than 7. It was a weird evening.

  • @benjamindury6580
    @benjamindury6580 Před 3 lety +5

    0:50 sums up the whole thing

  • @asdf072xxp
    @asdf072xxp Před 4 lety +835

    This was the TV special that ended my childhood. Learning that Santa wasn't real was a cakewalk compared to this.

    • @jediknightjairinaiki560
      @jediknightjairinaiki560 Před 4 lety +29

      Wait! What?! Who isn't real? 🥺

    • @morphingninja
      @morphingninja Před 4 lety +14

      @@jediknightjairinaiki560 of course not, or I'd be very disappointed that the guy who can get into any house to deliver presents and knows if you've been bad or good didn't use that power proactively and save the world a lot of trouble.

    • @sylph8005
      @sylph8005 Před 4 lety +26

      Learning Santa wasn't real was super easy, barely an inconvenience

    • @yardyNation
      @yardyNation Před 3 lety +5

      I was three or four and my family told me when I asked that 'Santa wasn't real and what a silly thing to believe in.'

    • @natewilson111
      @natewilson111 Před 3 lety +3

      @@sylph8005 that's tight

  • @kjoc70
    @kjoc70 Před 4 lety +203

    "He looks like a little Chewbacca, but if he wanted to eat your bone marrow."
    Reminds me of a character from a recent "The first man to..." video.

    • @CyberSaiyan13
      @CyberSaiyan13 Před 4 lety +43

      Look, I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about Ryan's terrifying demon baby

    • @kjoc70
      @kjoc70 Před 4 lety +26

      @@CyberSaiyan13 Okay, let me get off of that thing.

    • @Rafdi13
      @Rafdi13 Před 4 lety +15

      Wow wow wow wow

    • @bebeat1812
      @bebeat1812 Před 4 lety +5

      Now wasn't that super easy barely an inconvenience

    • @stevenbobbybills
      @stevenbobbybills Před 4 lety +3

      @@dannybenhur6123 the first child to ruin Christmas

  • @brokethekid7581
    @brokethekid7581 Před 3 lety +16

    Knowing your own theme song is tight

  • @BossMan-yu1og
    @BossMan-yu1og Před 2 lety +2

    30 years a Star Wars fan. Never knew this "special" existed.
    Funny you should mention that it's best watched while under the influence...
    When I finally did watch it, I couldn't get past the first 5 minutes... even while stoned.

  • @raydunakin
    @raydunakin Před 4 lety +173

    The Star Wars Holiday Special is the only thing creepier than Baby Ryan.

    • @commandercaptain4664
      @commandercaptain4664 Před 4 lety +16

      Star Wars fans: Ew, Luke is drinking space cow titty juice!
      Holiday Special: Hold my Wookiee porn...

  • @matte4562
    @matte4562 Před 4 lety +3840

    Ryan's arms must hurt after carrying this channel for so long

  • @artman2oo3
    @artman2oo3 Před 4 lety +7

    “A variety of entertaining things!” “Right, a variety of things!” LOL

  • @lordkarasu2263
    @lordkarasu2263 Před 3 lety +15

    “That’s a myth, it never actually happened”.
    But it...
    *demon voice*”IT NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENED”.

  • @Batgirl219
    @Batgirl219 Před 4 lety +524

    “That’s the hilarious part. It’s a man dressed as a woman.”
    Tyler Perry would like to know your location.

    • @st.michaelthearchangel7774
      @st.michaelthearchangel7774 Před 4 lety +6

      Sad that this is a real thing.

    • @caseytodd7632
      @caseytodd7632 Před 4 lety +2

      First thing that popped in my head when I saw the man-woman. This is Madea in the 70s.

    • @sumoking3002
      @sumoking3002 Před 4 lety +2

      Meanwhile in 2020 the BBC is still making Mrs Brown's boys..... shudder

    • @jimmym3352
      @jimmym3352 Před 3 lety +5

      I can't help but notice that character seems to have black face? Which right at present moment is a huge controversy and people are losing their jobs over it. Or maybe it's grey face? I suppose no one would be offended if it was grey face.

    • @koala201211
      @koala201211 Před 3 lety +1

      @@jimmym3352 I can't even tell

  • @mr.vargas5648
    @mr.vargas5648 Před 4 lety +1294

    Legend is 90% of this shows budget were spent on coke.

  • @quokka_11
    @quokka_11 Před měsícem +1

    1:45 Luke is really giving me Oompa Loompa here...

  • @BrickArmyProductions
    @BrickArmyProductions Před 3 lety +8

    “he looks like a mini Chewbacca but if you wanted to eat your bone marrow”

  • @tiredoffools8929
    @tiredoffools8929 Před 4 lety +60

    "It's like someone watched Star Wars once months ago and then tried to draw it from memory" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @johangonzalez2290
    @johangonzalez2290 Před 4 lety +50

    “What are Chewbacca’s fathers fantasies?” Lol 😂😂😂😂

  • @venerexate1841
    @venerexate1841 Před 2 lety +2

    I love how the computer is a typewriter

  • @redpanda9367
    @redpanda9367 Před 2 lety +3

    I love that Writer Guy’s voice dubs over Luke’s when he asks Mala for a little smile lol

  • @dflaming1371
    @dflaming1371 Před 4 lety +657

    I. Watched. That. Whole. Damn. Nightmare.
    Also the wigs killed me

    • @dflaming1371
      @dflaming1371 Před 4 lety +16

      By nightmare I meant the special

    • @marquis911
      @marquis911 Před 4 lety +6

      I watched if with Rifftrax.

    • @BuzzardPlanet97
      @BuzzardPlanet97 Před 4 lety +12

      I think I’ve watched the whole thing but never in one sitting, I don’t think I could manage it lol

    • @josefernandesvancouver5595
      @josefernandesvancouver5595 Před 4 lety +13

      I tried. Gave up in maybe 10 minutes. And I was a Star Wars fan. It almost ruined my love for the movie. It was unbelievably bad.

    • @StevieB8363
      @StevieB8363 Před 4 lety +4

      @@dflaming1371 I hope you are getting therapy!

  • @joeyjojack
    @joeyjojack Před 4 lety +80

    I actually remember watching the SWHS on Tv as a kid.
    Years later I convinced myself that I must have imagined it since I never heard about it again. And then came the Interwebs. 👍😊

  • @strawbarry7834
    @strawbarry7834 Před 2 lety +16

    I watch this review every few months, and always laugh my ass off at it. Just the best review of that total LSD-trip of a show. It took me years to convince my brothers that it actually existed and that it wasn't just something I imagined. Thank god for whoever videotaped it back in the day and circulated those tapes. A legit hero.

    • @eiffelviolet
      @eiffelviolet Před 2 lety

      People think the special is a Mandela Effect.

  • @andybell6915
    @andybell6915 Před 3 lety +4

    Guy Pitching: 'And then they all light up some lanterns and teleport into space!'
    Exec: 'Oh my god'

  • @ErikEinherjar66
    @ErikEinherjar66 Před 4 lety +1707

    Nobody:
    Cocaine: Let’s make a Star Wars Holiday Special!

    • @leonelramireza.4826
      @leonelramireza.4826 Před 4 lety +20

      Erik cocaine is a hell of a drug!

    • @vtrwriter
      @vtrwriter Před 4 lety +32

      Cocaine is TIGHT!

    • @WeldinMike27
      @WeldinMike27 Před 4 lety +25

      You mean, lets take cocaine, mix it with dope, smoke it, then inject the bong water and then make a Christmas special.

    • @memberberry8242
      @memberberry8242 Před 4 lety +15

      No no no mate. Kill Bill you make on cocaine. This is acid.

    • @mikec1222
      @mikec1222 Před 4 lety +5

      Yeah, I mean most of it could be justified as "shitty attempt at a variety show" but wtf is up with the going into space and the light portal and whatnot

  • @wolfgang2477
    @wolfgang2477 Před 4 lety +58

    “And that’s gonna happen because..?
    “And that’s gonna happen because.”
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @interdimensionalsteve8172

    "I suppose that may as well happen" - LOL. These are endlessly funny with so many small clever moments that make you giggle.

  • @MidniteBliss
    @MidniteBliss Před 3 lety +12

    I've seen dozens of these, and yet I'm _still_ surprised the producer greenlit this.
    Then again, a producer in _our_ reality did, so... Wow.

    • @radrobd123
      @radrobd123 Před rokem +2

      Star Wars was hot at the time. And so were variety specials. So they decided to merge the two and make it a family event

  • @jedvush9139
    @jedvush9139 Před 4 lety +313

    He really put himself through that whole movie. God bless you

    • @dancrane3807
      @dancrane3807 Před 3 lety +19

      Sacrificing yourself for others is tight!

    • @Julia-lk8jn
      @Julia-lk8jn Před rokem

      Wait, what, movie? Like, 90 minutes movie?
      I never watched it, I just figured it was a thirty minute thing or so.

    • @notme222
      @notme222 Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@Julia-lk8jn The version that's out on the internet has commercials included and it's 2 hours. (And yes, watching commercials from the 1970s is more entertaining than the actual special.)

  • @Betta66
    @Betta66 Před 4 lety +316

    "They're also going to watch a livestream of a man at a trading post."
    "A livestream? What's that?"
    "Oh, it's a thing that doesn't exist yet cuz it's the 1970s."
    "Are you a time traveler?"
    "I don't know."
    "Fair enough."

    • @ShizuruNakatsu
      @ShizuruNakatsu Před 4 lety +24

      "So why did you assume it would be invented some time in the future?"
      "Because."
      "That works."
      Alternatively:
      "If you're not a time traveller then how do you know what exists in the future?"
      "Look, I'm going to need you to get aaaaalll the way off my back about this time travel thing."
      "Sure, let me just get right off that thing ."

    • @pentelegomenon1175
      @pentelegomenon1175 Před 3 lety +6

      This was less than 5 years after the Rumble In The Jungle which was seen by about 50 million people live on pay-per-view, so CCTV technology was pretty advanced by this point, it's not that much of a logical leap.

    • @Betta66
      @Betta66 Před 3 lety +13

      @@pentelegomenon1175 I understand, but I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about that

    • @PotrzebieConolly
      @PotrzebieConolly Před 3 lety +6

      @@pentelegomenon1175 And even before that Elvis Aloha from Hawaii. Don't think the term "livestream" was used then, so this Producer would still be confused.

    • @dillydean
      @dillydean Před 3 lety +4

      You do know they had live tv back then. It was like live streaming but it was just one channel doing bits

  • @Salagir
    @Salagir Před 3 lety +4

    Total respect to Ryan for watching the entire movie for the sake of this video. I couldn't go past 15 minutes. And i'm a huge fan. I hear Star wars music everywhere :)

  • @GeorgeMonet
    @GeorgeMonet Před rokem +18

    The Star Wars Holiday Special for when you need the motivation to arrive at your own execution early.

  • @gristlyknave831
    @gristlyknave831 Před 4 lety +190

    This is Boba Fett's first appearance no wonder why he's a fan favorite

  • @xr4ti548
    @xr4ti548 Před 4 lety +57

    The Star Wars Holiday Special is what the Bus plays on the highway to hell.

    • @AndrewCheshire
      @AndrewCheshire Před 3 lety +5

      On repeat for thirty-seven years, and then you get to hell lol

    • @TetsuDeinonychus
      @TetsuDeinonychus Před 2 lety +2

      @@AndrewCheshire ...and you're happy to get there.

    • @liamwright2510
      @liamwright2510 Před 2 lety

      Oh god spare me 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @evilcritter
    @evilcritter Před rokem +3

    Omg I had to pause this I was laughing so hard at the spot-on Wookiee impressions and then my dog got worried and climbed on me so I couldn't get up and I damn near choked from laughing. So, well done.

  • @HumourDownUnder
    @HumourDownUnder Před rokem +7

    We really need a sequel to the holiday special!

    • @radrobd123
      @radrobd123 Před rokem +1

      they kinda did. on Disney plus they did a lego star wars holiday special

  • @theproplady
    @theproplady Před 4 lety +542

    Interesting fact: The holo-acrobat troup that Lumpy watches later went on to become Cirque du Soleil so at least something good came of all this.

  • @werdna9006
    @werdna9006 Před 4 lety +70

    My deep sympathies Ryan for having to sit through and analyze this "special" to do this great (as usual) pitch meeting

  • @rorysimpson8716
    @rorysimpson8716 Před měsícem +1

    This needs a Revisited. There was so much to work with here that it must have been really hard to know what to mock.

  • @JoeO.
    @JoeO. Před rokem +5

    Similar to the pitch meeting, I’d like to see the convos between the actors and their agents convincing them to appear in the special - Art Carney, Harvey Korman, Bea Arthur, Diahann Carroll, and the A New Hope gang…

  • @dereklarner6298
    @dereklarner6298 Před 4 lety +53

    All I want for Christmas is a pitch meeting for Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, and Escape From New York.

    • @robertpalumbo9089
      @robertpalumbo9089 Před 4 lety +1

      Yes

    • @AiringAustin
      @AiringAustin Před 4 lety +1

      The Thing would be awesome

    • @Dystopia1111
      @Dystopia1111 Před 4 lety +5

      So basically a pitch meeting for every Kurt Russell movie. Actually, I would really enjoy that👍.

    • @HufflepuffBaseball42313
      @HufflepuffBaseball42313 Před 4 lety

      @@Dystopia1111 miracle

    • @darkknight13352
      @darkknight13352 Před 4 lety

      "And he's only got 22 hours to save the president!"
      "Oh why is that?"
      "The summit meeting will be over."
      "But can't they just delay the meeting until he's saved? I feel like they'd completely understand news like this."
      "No."
      "Why not?"
      "Because!"
      "Fair enough."

  • @iforgot87872
    @iforgot87872 Před 4 lety +62

    "Huh I thought I finally had a grasp on this thing." lmao.

  • @NeverBeenToBrisbane
    @NeverBeenToBrisbane Před rokem +2

    I'm convinced these two are immortal. Neither have agreed a day between this pitch and their most recent ones

  • @schattentaenzerin
    @schattentaenzerin Před 6 měsíci

    1:28 him not repeating the word "entertaining" is a personal highlight for me!

  • @1963Iota
    @1963Iota Před 4 lety +24

    Unlike some of you all, I remember watching this when it premiered as a 6 year old and walking away from it. My mother asked me why I was not watching it and I told her "because, there are no space fights." 😆😆

  • @wes426
    @wes426 Před 4 lety +126

    This is how Sam Neill really lost his eyes in event horizon

    • @RachelG1979
      @RachelG1979 Před 4 lety +3

      Lol that would have been hysterical

    • @StevieB8363
      @StevieB8363 Před 4 lety +3

      This "special" is more terrifying than Event Horizon could ever be. I'd rather take my chances with demons from another dimension that watch this.

  • @wednesday4evashine848
    @wednesday4evashine848 Před 10 měsíci +2

    0:44
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭

  • @pete6705
    @pete6705 Před 7 měsíci +1

    He actually had to watch the entire holiday special in order to make this CZcams video. That must have been absolutely miserable, god bless him

  • @Haterator
    @Haterator Před 4 lety +28

    I like how you accurately depicted the time period by placing a typewriter on the desk.

  • @10tonhamster
    @10tonhamster Před 4 lety +51

    Carrie Fisher "sings" - well, that's one way to describe it.

    • @RictusHolloweye
      @RictusHolloweye Před 4 lety +4

      She was so high she had to grip onto Chewie to stay upright.

  • @andreanne5934
    @andreanne5934 Před rokem +6

    I've seen ALL the pitch meetings but this one is my all time favorite, I laugh out loud every time. Can't even pick a favorite quote, everything is so damn brillant!

    • @homerthecat3623
      @homerthecat3623 Před rokem

      Agree, i watch it every few months and i laugh the whole way through 😀

    • @jeffreym.8957
      @jeffreym.8957 Před 9 měsíci

      Batman Forever is the best one.