JiminyJustin Aw that’s the beauty of it, an awful joke posted 2 years too late on this awful review about an awful movie. Like ogres, there’s layers to my terrible joke thought process. Someday I’ll forgive myself too, though.
JiminyJustin Yes, but don’t take me the wrong way. It’s awful at being a review but a masterpiece on every other level, and is probably the single best example of why I watch shameless hours of these hacks bullshit about movies everyday and have for years, representing what I’m assuming to be the criminally small amount of their viewing demographic of young women with a sense of humor. So yes, you completely agree with me. Good talk.
Deleted Last Jedi Scene plays Luke: Rey Your father was Lumpy Bacca! Rey: That’s not true! My father can’t be a type of cancer! Luke: No not the cancer! The Wookiee like Chewbacca! Rey: Oh
"It was a wonderful time, but I had no idea it was even part of the whole Star Wars-thing. I just remember singing to a bunch of people with funny heads." - Bea Arthur "George gave me a copy so I had something for parties when I wanted everyone to leave." - Carrie Fisher
@@omega1397 Watching movies with people who are high on coke *sounds* fun but rarely is. Of course I've never met or watched a movie with Carrie Fisher when she was still doing bumps, more's the pity, so she may have been the rare exception
He didn't mess up his face. Mark even said he didn't in an interview. He was in an accident, but it wasn't severe in the slightest. This was all just rumors.
Everybody talks about how Leo kept going despite bleeding from his hands for real in Django, but nobody talks about how Mike spits out his tooth and keeps talking about the SW Holiday Special.
LOL I just realized why the Wookies all wear robes during their ceremony. It's so that the producers didn't have to make dozens of Wookie costumes. All they had to do was make dozens of Wookie hands and heads and then give them all long flowing robes that covered every other part of their body. That was a lot cheaper!
One of the things 'these kids today' don't get was this was dropped on TV in November (not exactly prime Holiday Special real estate at the time) and was only watched by about 12 million people (That sounds big but Love Boat had a bigger audience that week) and then vanished. If you, like me, were one of the ones who had seen it and made a joke about it or something people would look at you like you were crazy. On two distinct occasions I had self-professed Star Wars fans call me a liar. There was no internet to back you up, no IMDb. For 2 decades it was a secret pain we couldn't reveal.
I remember years after it aired, I started to feel like it was something I had dreamed. It didn't help that I probably didn't watch the whole thing; or maybe I fell asleep through it. Or maybe it was implanted in my brain at some point.
I have a vague memory of a stormtrooper ripping the head off a teddy bear. Did that happen? If so, I saw this special when it aired. If not, my little 4 year old brain must have gone pretty dark on its own. That head ripping memory is the only thing I remember from the special. Not Luke, Leia, or Han appearing, not the Cantina, not Carrie Fisher singing, not the first appearance of Boba Fett. Just a child wookie crying over a headless teddy bear.
I had one of those story books with accompanying record with parts of the Chewbacca family story. The record had been lost by one of my siblings, probably before I was born... but I had that book with a couple of still images as proof. I remember finally downloading and seeing it in the early 2000s from like limewire or something and finally seeing it. lol
Wookies don't care what you are, they are just huge bollocked horny creatures you should never bend over within running distance of. They are like Cosby but without the date rape drugs.
IMDB Trivia: "George Lucas came up with the idea of focusing on Chewbacca's family. Writer Bruce Vilanch objected, because the dialogue would all be in the Wookiee language. He feared that the special would turn into "one long episode of Lassie." But Lucas refused to change it. According to Vilanch, Lucas originally intended for the story of Chewbacca's family to appear somewhere in the "Star Wars" saga." Also IMDB Trivia: "Bruce Vilanch has admitted that he was using cocaine heavily while helping to write the special."
honestly, I'm beginning to doubt all the coke usage. seems like everyone wants to just blame coke for what was in reality something horrible that was done completely (or mostly) sober, because it's such shit. they just don't want to admit they could have full knowingly done something like this. but they did. had they really used as much coke as they say they did, it would have been alot better. the blues brothers was filmed with a separate coke budget for cast and crew. that was good. not only because of coke, but it must have helped.
@@mjfan653 Christopher Hitchens was soaked in whiskey and he was Christopher fukin' Hitchens. My times soaked in whiskey I was intolerable. Do you see how different drugs affect people differently... The world could be awash in cocaine some would use their coke granted hours not to create Good things...like the star wars holiday special
@@mjfan653 I've actually never done coke but what I'm told is that you think you have amazing ideas and a ton of confidence. So you push your ideas and the other guys just go with it. Then when we look back 40 years later we see some serious turds that were easily products of coke. One that comes to mind is the Kiss album The Elder. It's their album version of the Christmas Special with a couple of decent tracks thrown in.
17:45: Jay usually being so dead pan and straight face when speaking then perfectly doing a baby wookie impression out of nowhere was a highlight for me
Wait, if the cartoon section is a fictional story in the Star Wars universe, does that mean the live action Boba Fett in the other movies is a hardcore cosplayer?
There's a lot of weirdness in the special. Like, when the wookie family tunes in to a bar scene starring Bea Arthur. You'd think this was some kind of show playing in-universe, but then the empire troops show up and shut it down, which implies this is actually a real bar and these events are happening in real time as they watch. So, they have a channel that gives them surveillance footage of a bar, with multiple camera changes. Weird enough, but then Bea busts out a musical number, which we now know is happening not on an in-universe television show, but is happening at that very moment.
13 yr. old me sat through this whole mess when it aired. Back then Star Wars was my everything and I kept watching hoping it would get better, but it kept getting worse. Unless you were there, you can't truly know the horror of this thing
I was there too. I was 8 and it was a little "uncomfortable" when you are sitting there with mom and dad watching Wookie porn by the Christmas tree eating moms fresh baked Christmas cookies. Even at 8 I knew something was really wrong with the whole debacle, and Wookie porn sealed the deal.😲
When I see the new Star Wars VII teaser trailer, and Han says, "Chewie, we're home", I can't help but think they finally made it to Chewie's house for Life Day. And that Bea Arthur will start singing. JJ Abrams, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
@@TheCodefinder The pitch where Rey has a robot scalp because of a lumpy head and gets shipped with C3P0, the main conflict for the first half of the movie is joylessly trying to get neutral aliens to join the rebels, and the final fight is between a Luke who came back from being only halfway dead (who fights by spinning two lightsabers in a "veritable dervish") and an army of Snoke clones (who have perfect memory copying as well as a contradictory and ultimately useless backstory involving Obi-Wan Kenobi) is better than what we got
Between Empire and Jedi Itchy and Malla also just die in a fire while Itchy's masterbating to Diana Ross and Malla starts a fire while cooking Bantha Rump and Art Karney just tells Chewie who was at the time going to save Han so he could have sex with Han and instead fucked Lando in Han's clothes while Lando wore a white guy mask and when Art Karney told him he drowned his sorrows at the Mos Eisley Cantina and sang with Bea Arthur and Harvey Koorman.
+hopscotchoblivion Its just classic rule of 90% of content are shit. Most of them attempt to compensate the lack of talent or notable content in their videos like showing their faces even though it adds no value whatsoever or awful annoying voiceovers/sound effects/music. We know who they are.
If the Wookies wear robes for this holiday, that would mean that they actually can wear clothes and are just a race of nudists who happen to have fur through luck and accident.
You have to understand what a mindfuck the Star Wars Holiday Special was. It was an hour and a half long and was the first Star Wars thing to come out after the original movie. It could have been another Star Wars so far as we knew. Instead it was Bea Arthur singing and Harvey Korman in drag. There was no VCRs at that time. I watched it live and only once.
Roldo Mustache quite roldo you speak of forgotten and forbidden texts if these self loving tweeters grow to understand the power of the true written language and the power of the paper information theyll be unstoppable you fool with the instant creation of communication coupled with the wisdom that comes from reading the text upon the sacred surface of paper dating back thousands theyll undo all of our plans and rise up and take over and leave us to die and coupled with the magicks of doing math in your head you might as well give them the power of GOD your insane if you dont stop your actions yourself the elders will.
Roldo Mustache Actually, my generation does remember physical paper checks (there's not currently a generation too young to remember them since they're still in widespread use, fyi), though the word you were looking for is "check register", not "checking booklet". But more to the point, either Jay's impression of George Lucas is flipping through the pages of his register with his index and middle finger from the center such that they'll obstruct his view of the entries on each page instead of flipping with his thumb from the side like a normal person would, or the imitation is of performing a scroll gesture on a touch screen. For your reference: 22:52. Also, if you'd looked closer at my wording, you might have noticed that by using the noun "impression" as I did in saying "Jay's impression of George Lucas" puts an emphasis on the action itself. Had I meant it to say that George Lucas couldn't have checked his bank account without use of a smartphone or tablet, the phrasing might have been "I love how Jay imitating George Lucas checking his bank account would imply that the man had a smartphone or tablet in 1977-78". If you have any more condescending or snarky quips that reenforces your sense of superiority to a youth population that has no experience with (what you believe to be) obsolete technology that you've had to use in your lifetime, feel free to air them here. I know living in a changing world can be scary when you start falling behind the times, and it's good to talk it out.
cerickNY ... and you completely missed the joke like a blackbird recon jet flying over any city below sea level. and apparently dont understand written sarcasm so you are even more out of touch with todays tech then you so think i am. using terms as forbiden in terms of paper information true power of it magicks of math sacred surface that is paper i thought i made it enough with the over the top words it was supposed to be a joke but i guess next time ill just do this (btw this is a joke incase anyone thinks this is serious ok good now no one can get all holier then thou responses) just to clarify when a humorous reply is being constructed.
According to Wookiepedia, the first thing they filmed was Bea Arthur's musical number, along with the Jefferson Starship song and one other unnamed musical segment (Cirque du soleil bit? Grandpa's porno tape?!?!). Just those three segments cost them 1/4 of their entire budget!
Best screen shot at 19:04: Jay looks amusingly intrigued Mike is angrily confused Jack is just horrified speechless Rich is amused by the situation but totally indifferent otherwise Josh is disappointed
He was probably lying on a beach somewhere while they filmed this, laughing at the others who chose not to take a cut of the royalties/ merchandise monies...
+Pvt. William Hudson He probably watched the whole thing from his home with a martini all smug, and then the stock footage of him appeared at the end and he spit-took his drink like "Oh shit"...
Here's what I don't get... They clearly had *some* money to throw around. There's a lot of optical stuff going on. The animation sequence, the sets they did build, the number of guest stars they got... Why not just do an actual STAR WARS two hour TV episode? Like Han and Chewie on some kind of a smuggling mission and Luke and Leia and 3PO doing cameo work? Fewer guest stars, all your money can go into FX and sets and the idea would have been more focused and fun. ...Right?
In regards to the Imperial officer saying "Okay, we'll send out a search party to look for the missing Storm Trooper"... You know, sometimes when you work in customer care, you'll just say anything to get people to hang up. You go "Sure, sure, we'll do that" to get rid of the rambling idiot on the line and after they hang up you suggest to Grandma Tarkin that you take off a nuke the entire site from orbit, since it's the only way to be sure.
This daytime holiday special version of Star Wars was kind of lucky to be broadcast A DAY BEFORE the Peoples Temple mass suicide/massacre. The latter completly obliterated anybody's chance to mock the first in the mainstream media which spent months to cover the massacre. Otherwise, everyone would mock the Holiday Special endlessly, which could destroy Star Wars franchise to go on as we know.
@@johnbacon4997 Holiday Special was aired on CBS in NOVEMBER 17 1978 and the Peoples Temple incident happened NOVEMBER 18 1978. I think that sinister coincidence worked in favor of Star Wars franchise because this entertainment failure was timely superceded by the enormity of an unprecedented real event - it was the biggest civilian loss before the 9/11 in USA at the time. It's pretty obvious the medias rather jumped to the massacre to cover it than spent time to mockingly target a simple (quite costly though for production staff) failure...
James Gunn, writer and director of Marvel's 'The Guardians of the Galaxy' unironically loves 'The Star Wars Holiday Special'. Disney allowed him to make 'The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special' after he pitched it for Disney+ and then wrote a script for it in 3 days.
George Lucas came up with the idea of focusing on Chewbacca's family. Writer Bruce Vilanch objected, because the dialogue would all be in the Wookiee language, but Lucas refused to change it. According to Vilanch, Lucas originally intended for the story of Chewbacca's family to appear somewhere in the "Star Wars" saga. Taken from the IMDB Trivia page. The very core of the disaster was his idea.
I hope you guys actually did give duplicates out to people. Let the shame of the Star Wars Holiday Special never fade from George Lucas's mind! I mean sure, he's got the prequels and Crystal Skull to haunt him, but apparently he's actually ashamed of this one so it has a special place in the world.
Lucas couldn't give a damn. His fake concern is an affectation designed to make him look like a creative artist that always wants to achieve perfection.
The problem is that the star war holiday special is not entertaining, it is not "so bad that is good", it is just bad, horribly painfully bad. Imagine if George Lucus said we should all pull out are toenails for entertainment and then you recommend we should actually do that just to remind George Lucus how much he fucked up saying that, that is figuratively what you are doing now recommending we hurt our selves by watching this travisty.
I highly doubt Disney would do that, even though they SHOULD restore it and release it on Disney+, and eventually on Blu-ray with special features and on DVD, just for current Star Wars fans to know about it and see how bad it is. But they shouldn't make ads for either the Disney+ stream or the home video releases on TV, on the Internet, or anywhere else in the media to avoid George Lucas finding out about it easily. But, then again, I'm pretty sure he'd find out about what was done eventually, so...
All I can imagine after watching the most recent "wheel of the worst" is that Mark Hamel had that Teddy Bear Air Bag (Teddy B-Air Bag harhar) during his accident. "I will fuck up your face..."
You know, I watch these videos, and I think to myself: "why do these people not have a podcast?" They would absolutely kill it doing a podcast. They're all very funny, and they have lots of things to talk about, it would have to pertain to a particular topic.
Duncan Van Ooyen ***** Yeah. They have a gaming account called "Previously Recorded". It's almost always Rich and Jack. Jay joins them quite often. Mike very rarely. You're right - they should definitely do a podcast, as well.
Duncan Van Ooyen Rich has gone on record saying that if RedLetterMedia ever makes a podcast, he'd want to call it the "Fraudcast," which is a fucking perfect potential podcast name.
Duncan Van Ooyen Would you like to buy some chocolate for my daughter's fundraiser? They're small and a dollar, but they go to help funding the school so they can buy _Film Analysis and Other Media_ textbooks without references to the Star Wars Christmas Special.
This special is easy to explain if you keep it in context of the day. 1. George Lucas had given up ALL of his direct profits from Star Wars to get it made. All he had left was the licensing and merchandising. The network threw a ton of money at him to make this thing. Remember this was BEFORE the Kenner toys became a 30 year juggernaut. This was Georges only major payday for Star Wars. (and to put it in perspective without this sort of thing we would not have ever seen Empire Strikes Back. Yes it is like dealing Meth to und the Sistine Chappel.) 2. For the time period this was made, these insane horrid variety shows were the word of the day. The Big Show, Captain and Taniel, Donny and Marie, Every Horrid Christmas Special ever, Bing Crosby etc. The same climate that gave us David Bowie dueting "Little Drummer Boy" with Bing gave us this turd. etc. That's what they were making. It really makes you almost appreciate the worst examples of modern "reality TV". It is this awful because this is exactly what the networks wanted.
hey hey now! I am sure I am not alone in quietly hoping that some day Lego will give us the long prayed for "Star Wars Cantina Bea Arthur" minifig! I refuse to give up hope!
Even today we often get that same sort of schlocky, thrown-together Christmas special. They get a celebrity host or two, a few musical guests of varying talent, throw up some cheap sets and pad out the running time with bland routines and bits that are sure to be completely inoffensive to Grandma sitting in her recliner. It's a pretty well-established formula, and in that context the SW special seems like less of an aberration.
Somewhere on youtube there has to be the TV episode from the 70's where Adam West plays Batman on the stage for a a variety series. I just cannot think of the title of that variety series.
Realtalk: I tried really hard to put myself in George Lucas/whoever's head to understand what the fuck this bizarre, incoherent mess was supposed to represent (besides money) and I flashed back to film school and remembered all the experimental disasters I made. At 17:30, Mike pretty much hits the nail on the head: This was supposed to be a fun variety show, sort of like proto-reality TV but with a sci-fi twist, and the whole Christmas/Anne Frank angle was trying to be inspiring (evil Empire looking for Jewish Wookies, but everyone stands together to overcome adversity and celebrate Life in the face of Death, and let's have some fun along the way, blah blah blah). Okay. Fine. But it's really unclear as to whether or not we're supposed to enjoy this viscerally or by proxy. Like, are WE supposed to be entertained, or are we supposed to be entertained by watching someone else be entertained? Is this a plot point or the point of the plot? And that's where it falls apart. It's easy to say "Well, it would've sucked anyway because the variety segments were terrible", but technical criticisms are never as insightful as conceptual ones. If the cartoon was well-animated and the acrobats were't nightmare monsters, this still would've sucked. The question is "Why?", and Mike totally nailed it Oh god why did I type all that
My only issue is at the end Mike said George Lucas should have taken more responsibility, stepped in, and said it was bad. He probably had full creative control because every time there isn't someone to tell George no it fucking sucks. For example see the first trilogy where he had people telling him no and the prequels where he got to do whatever he wanted
I actually saw this on TV when it was first shown, as a little kid I thought: "where's the space battles? where's lightsaber duels? where's Darth Vader? where's everything that made star wars fun?"
"If this was 15 years ago and the internet and all the information that we have now didn't exist, I would say that this is worth seeking out. But now, you can find it everything you need to know about it online without actually having to sit through it and that's far more interesting that having to sit through it." Jay This is a good point. Instead of watching the Star Wars Special, you could just watch a review of it.
3:37 Lumpy contemplates ending it 5:48 Mike's Carrie Fisher joke 7:24 Don't worry, Harrison. Star Wars can never be this bad ever again. 😅 9:20 Mike & Rich make Golden Girls jokes 12:01 Railings in Star Wars and Halloween are made of cardboard 15:57 Mike: "What's happening?" 21:47 Mike's spits out a tooth 30:17 Han shoots first joke 😅
As Gus Grissom said as part of the reason why lunar landings should be manned missions: "...in the final analysis only man can fully evaluate the Moon in terms understandable to other Men." The same can be said for the enigma that is The Stars Wars Holiday Special
I would say it's more likely that the success for the trilogy was incorrectly given to him thus leading to him having more control because people thought he was actually a good writer
Around the13th minute mark: I've seen this episode half a dozen times and this is the first time I heard that the "missing" stormtrooper is referred to as B4711. Just in case, that's, Before 7-11. For people outside of North America, 7-11 is a chain of corner, or convenient stores. We never had them in Canada/Quebec but my Grandparents owned a Fishing pier/restaurant in Florida in the early 80's . We would visit once or twice a year and I always wanted to go to 7-11, because they had Star Wars cards...and I was around 5 years old. Lol So, if you thought Mike's Joe Pilato story was pointless... hold my Blueberry, Slush Puppy! Just one more thing we didn't have in Canada. But we did have Zap Rowsedower. So I guess that's kinda, sorta, not really, cool :) Happy life day and a belated, happy Turkey day ;)
I've watched that special literally probably 50 to 100 times. At my grandmother's house they had recorded it to VHS, and me and my brother and my cousins would watch it all the time. I saw this long before I ever saw Star Wars. I was like 4 or 5 watching this, and this was how I knew Luke, Han, Leia, Chewbacca. We always just called it "The Wookies", and I NEVER associated this with Christmas in any way.
I still love the fact that Jack's mirror-shine dome refuses to remain a part of reality throughout this entire video because of how it reflects the greenscreen
Aww fucking hell, Carrie Fisher is actually dead now. My favourite kooky, coked-up, little cat lady is now gone to the great space station up in the sky.
happening in a way contrary to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this. So if I am not mistaken to redlettermedia get revenues from adverts shown before their videos?
@@RAMSEY1987 Unless there is a copyright strike all youtubers get money from the ads. Notice I didn't say VALID copyright strike. People making copyright strikes don't have to prove anything.
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You can't trust Carrie Fisher's allegations of coke use. After all she was high on coke.
The Cocaine Carrie Paradox a film by JJ Abrams
That comment was from two years ago, friend. I forgive you though.
JiminyJustin Aw that’s the beauty of it, an awful joke posted 2 years too late on this awful review about an awful movie. Like ogres, there’s layers to my terrible joke thought process. Someday I’ll forgive myself too, though.
Paislee Fiddyment haha, I completely agree with yo- did you just call this review awful?
JiminyJustin Yes, but don’t take me the wrong way. It’s awful at being a review but a masterpiece on every other level, and is probably the single best example of why I watch shameless hours of these hacks bullshit about movies everyday and have for years, representing what I’m assuming to be the criminally small amount of their viewing demographic of young women with a sense of humor. So yes, you completely agree with me. Good talk.
"So Diane Carroll sings something..."
"And Art Carmichael"
"Art Carney"
"Art Garfunkel"
"And so Diane Lane kind of..."
"Diane Lane?"
"Diane Keaton"
"Buster Keaton"
"Diane Keaton and Busta Rhymes"
It's like poetry.
It rhymes
Rich Evans is the key to all of this.....
*Rich Evans puppet drives by on a jeep*
Read Lettuce Medium is notoriously good at these kind of manglings of the English luggage!
Art Garfunkel also sings
@@thesyndrome43 Rich is the funniest character we've ever had. If we can just get him working....
Rey is Lumpy's daughter.
Really?
Well, I guess they *were* nobody...
Dude you can't just post major spoilers like that. That just ain't right.
Deleted Last Jedi Scene plays
Luke: Rey Your father was Lumpy Bacca!
Rey: That’s not true! My father can’t be a type of cancer!
Luke: No not the cancer! The Wookiee like Chewbacca!
Rey: Oh
No, Rey is Art Carney's daughter.
"It was a wonderful time, but I had no idea it was even part of the whole Star Wars-thing. I just remember singing to a bunch of people with funny heads."
- Bea Arthur
"George gave me a copy so I had something for parties when I wanted everyone to leave."
- Carrie Fisher
Between this and Turtle Dreams, BOTW has shown everyone some excellent GTFO material!
watching the Holiday Special with high on coke Carrie Fisher after whatever insane party she had sounds pretty fun honestly.
@@omega1397 Watching movies with people who are high on coke *sounds* fun but rarely is. Of course I've never met or watched a movie with Carrie Fisher when she was still doing bumps, more's the pity, so she may have been the rare exception
@@omega1397 party with Carrie Fisher would alone be worth building a time machine for.
But let's get back to the topic at hand.
Ishtar.
"These men are PAWNS"
Next they will be hailed as the true messengers of God.
They were just a couple of song writers...
Watch the OTHER Star Wars Holiday Special Best of the Worst episode. It's probably one of their best.
I couldnt believe what i was seeing.
"Thats a bad joke. That's a joke in poor taste."
"Thank you."
Stone Zone. Mark Hammil is the one true Joker.
why did Josh always used to get mad at dark jokes lol
The Joker would've approved lmao
how is nobody picking up on the genius of "that's a Bat-joke"?
I wonder if Mark Hamill crashed his car on purpose in hopes that he'd be too injured to appear in the Holiday Special
Lucas: You're still coming to work right?
He didn't mess up his face. Mark even said he didn't in an interview. He was in an accident, but it wasn't severe in the slightest. This was all just rumors.
@@Gandoan Uhm... that explains the Ken doll tan?
Gandoan so what happened to his face?
Maybe Lucas decided it would be cheaper to cut Mark's brake lines instead of applying prosthetics to his face
Everybody talks about how Leo kept going despite bleeding from his hands for real in Django, but nobody talks about how Mike spits out his tooth and keeps talking about the SW Holiday Special.
I watched this episode like 3 times already and suddenly like WTF? Was this a bit? I need more information!
LOL I just realized why the Wookies all wear robes during their ceremony. It's so that the producers didn't have to make dozens of Wookie costumes. All they had to do was make dozens of Wookie hands and heads and then give them all long flowing robes that covered every other part of their body. That was a lot cheaper!
Now you're thinking like like the producers.
@Dmitry Terek or to cover up their giant wookie cocks
I _love_ revelations like this
Well yeah
Really clever idea!
I used to think this was the most damage that could ever be done to starwars.
It still is.
you're a buffoon if you ever held star wars in any sort of reverence anyway, nerd
@@boobootittleman7299 not even close
OH MY....cartoon Han looks EXACTLY like Adam Driver...
JJ saw this video, and then Cast Driver.
It's like poetry, it rhymes
@@ThePunk01 and that's what's so powerfull about it. (proceeds to die.)
That's an insult to cartoon Han.
Demonic Akumi you shut your mouth about our precious boy Adam Driver
One of the things 'these kids today' don't get was this was dropped on TV in November (not exactly prime Holiday Special real estate at the time) and was only watched by about 12 million people (That sounds big but Love Boat had a bigger audience that week) and then vanished. If you, like me, were one of the ones who had seen it and made a joke about it or something people would look at you like you were crazy. On two distinct occasions I had self-professed Star Wars fans call me a liar. There was no internet to back you up, no IMDb. For 2 decades it was a secret pain we couldn't reveal.
I remember years after it aired, I started to feel like it was something I had dreamed. It didn't help that I probably didn't watch the whole thing; or maybe I fell asleep through it. Or maybe it was implanted in my brain at some point.
I have a vague memory of a stormtrooper ripping the head off a teddy bear. Did that happen? If so, I saw this special when it aired. If not, my little 4 year old brain must have gone pretty dark on its own.
That head ripping memory is the only thing I remember from the special. Not Luke, Leia, or Han appearing, not the Cantina, not Carrie Fisher singing, not the first appearance of Boba Fett. Just a child wookie crying over a headless teddy bear.
@@overgme It wasn’t a teddy bear, it was a plush of a Star Wars creature. Can not remember the name of the species, though.
I had one of those story books with accompanying record with parts of the Chewbacca family story. The record had been lost by one of my siblings, probably before I was born... but I had that book with a couple of still images as proof. I remember finally downloading and seeing it in the early 2000s from like limewire or something and finally seeing it. lol
I think they played the Holiday special in Australia, but people thought it was going to be New Hope.
Gotta love that chroma key bleeding into Jack's bald head.
The Star Wars Holiday Special is so bad that Jack's brain is phasing in and out of reality after watching it. It gets to Jay after a while.
In the position their sitting If you look from right to left it looks like the four stages of balding.
@@jdvlss01 YOOO it does!
That's the hole he drinks through his brain from
So why does a wookie get off to images of a human? Is that the wookie equivalent of being a furry?
***** Shavey!
***** Smoothskin.
Wookies don't care what you are, they are just huge bollocked horny creatures you should never bend over within running distance of. They are like Cosby but without the date rape drugs.
I think it may be a common theme for Lucas. See THX 1138 with Robert Duvall & the hologram.
Fucking made my day.
IMDB Trivia:
"George Lucas came up with the idea of focusing on Chewbacca's family. Writer Bruce Vilanch objected, because the dialogue would all be in the Wookiee language. He feared that the special would turn into "one long episode of Lassie." But Lucas refused to change it. According to Vilanch, Lucas originally intended for the story of Chewbacca's family to appear somewhere in the "Star Wars" saga."
Also IMDB Trivia:
"Bruce Vilanch has admitted that he was using cocaine heavily while helping to write the special."
honestly, I'm beginning to doubt all the coke usage. seems like everyone wants to just blame coke for what was in reality something horrible that was done completely (or mostly) sober, because it's such shit. they just don't want to admit they could have full knowingly done something like this. but they did.
had they really used as much coke as they say they did, it would have been alot better. the blues brothers was filmed with a separate coke budget for cast and crew. that was good. not only because of coke, but it must have helped.
@@mjfan653 Christopher Hitchens was soaked in whiskey and he was Christopher fukin' Hitchens.
My times soaked in whiskey I was intolerable.
Do you see how different drugs affect people differently...
The world could be awash in cocaine some would use their coke granted hours not to create Good things...like the star wars holiday special
fomoran stephen king wrote most of his masterpieces higher than the moon
@@sicariusflamus3033 yeah, i know.
@@mjfan653 I've actually never done coke but what I'm told is that you think you have amazing ideas and a ton of confidence. So you push your ideas and the other guys just go with it. Then when we look back 40 years later we see some serious turds that were easily products of coke. One that comes to mind is the Kiss album The Elder. It's their album version of the Christmas Special with a couple of decent tracks thrown in.
I love how Mike is almost always straight faced and deadpan but Rich talking about tree houses made him crack for some reason
It was the booze
Mike is in love with Rich.
Yeah, you wish
Although Mike is disgusted with adulthood and humanity, he hasn't lost his sense of whimsy.
@@notyou8716 I thought you were talking about me.
17:45: Jay usually being so dead pan and straight face when speaking then perfectly doing a baby wookie impression out of nowhere was a highlight for me
I love that this was shot on the Moon set of _Space Cop_.
Carl Siemens iiii
RLM SWHS BOTW is a December tradition unlike any other. Merry Christmas ‘23
Wait, if the cartoon section is a fictional story in the Star Wars universe, does that mean the live action Boba Fett in the other movies is a hardcore cosplayer?
Boba Fett was just cosplaying Jango Fett who was cosplaying Mandalorians
@@daniellipko710 Technically so was the clone army......the cosplay wars?
There's a lot of weirdness in the special. Like, when the wookie family tunes in to a bar scene starring Bea Arthur. You'd think this was some kind of show playing in-universe, but then the empire troops show up and shut it down, which implies this is actually a real bar and these events are happening in real time as they watch. So, they have a channel that gives them surveillance footage of a bar, with multiple camera changes. Weird enough, but then Bea busts out a musical number, which we now know is happening not on an in-universe television show, but is happening at that very moment.
@TheRuffington I thought Disney changed them back to canon at some point.
@@OzMunchkinJames They reference Life Day in the first episode of the Mandalorian
I don't know why but "Chewbacca's son, who may or may not be from a previous marriage. Lumpy" totally killed me.
Poor Harrison Ford. Phoning it in never looked so sad
I enjoy your profile picture.
It was the exact moment that he realized... "this is my life"
@@mierardi88 Thank you!
You can just see it on his face. "This'll pay for the new pool. Just tough it out. It's only three more hours." lol
Dammit. I should've stuffed more shit into the frames!
I related to Lumpy on a very personal level in this film because my grandfather also watched porn with me in the same room
😫
@@Stray7 mi8
lmao
Literally dead laughing 😂
Oh no
Just realised that the stormtroopers went out like Han
Too soon
The Real Dagoth Ur it was a JJ callback ;)
Murcia doxial nah, because of the shot where he falls into smoke from a high place.
It's like poetry
albertannationalist You mean Boba Fette?
It's so dense. Every single image has so many things going on.
***** *rhyme
Fuck you Rick Berman
tyspyranger And people say George Lucas doesn't need me.
Goonguns
WDGcentral0224 It's gonna be great.
I bet George is only ashamed of this because it doesnt have a single lightsaber in it.
I'm coming from 3 years in the future to tell you the spooky story of how it is still the only star wars movie without a lightsaber.
Or that he couldn’t make any new toys out of it lol
@@jacoblamb5692 He could, though. And he did.
@@Cyrillion Wait, Solo did?
@@fireblade295 yeah, Darth maul takes his out at the very end
And now, thanks to The Mandalorian, Life Day is now officially canon.
you mean thanks to Jon Favs he loves the holiday special ts on record
I'm proud to say that I haven't watched any Star Wars content for 19 years. Episode 3 being the last "new" thing I watched.
13 yr. old me sat through this whole mess when it aired. Back then Star Wars was my everything and I kept watching hoping it would get better, but it kept getting worse. Unless you were there, you can't truly know the horror of this thing
70s was one hell of a drug.
I was there too. I was 8 and it was a little "uncomfortable" when you are sitting there with mom and dad watching Wookie porn by the Christmas tree eating moms fresh baked Christmas cookies. Even at 8 I knew something was really wrong with the whole debacle, and Wookie porn sealed the deal.😲
Yeah going into it knowing it's crap doesn't have the same feel as finding out the hard way, in real time.
When I see the new Star Wars VII teaser trailer, and Han says, "Chewie, we're home", I can't help but think they finally made it to Chewie's house for Life Day. And that Bea Arthur will start singing. JJ Abrams, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
somehow this would have been better than what we got
@@TheCodefinder The pitch where Rey has a robot scalp because of a lumpy head and gets shipped with C3P0, the main conflict for the first half of the movie is joylessly trying to get neutral aliens to join the rebels, and the final fight is between a Luke who came back from being only halfway dead (who fights by spinning two lightsabers in a "veritable dervish") and an army of Snoke clones (who have perfect memory copying as well as a contradictory and ultimately useless backstory involving Obi-Wan Kenobi) is better than what we got
@@homestuck_officialthree hours of Luke milking a space cow for its sweet blue milk would have been better than what we got
I like this special it's so dense and lumpy is a funnier character then we have ever had before
it's gonna be great
killerhedgehog69 it's gonna be great
Garrison Larson*repeat until not funny anymore*
It's gonna be great
It's gonna be great
"Whip, STIR, WHIP WHIP WHIP STIR" "faster, more intense"
You mean with the droid?
I just got that joke. That was very much needed.
My head sang that to the tune of "That's what Bilbo Baggins hates" from the Hobbit cartoon and now I HATE you
You're making me think that maybe George Lucas did actually secretly direct this.
>sips from spoon< OOOOHHHGGGHH
"That's a joke in poor taste."
"Thank you."
Classic.
"Itchy, Scratchy, and Poochie - all the members of the Bacca family"
Lumpy: "RAWRRRRRR"
Subtitles: "I have to go now. My planet needs me."
Note: Lumpy died on the way back to his home planet.
Between Empire and Jedi Itchy and Malla also just die in a fire while Itchy's masterbating to Diana Ross and Malla starts a fire while cooking Bantha Rump and Art Karney just tells Chewie who was at the time going to save Han so he could have sex with Han and instead fucked Lando in Han's clothes while Lando wore a white guy mask and when Art Karney told him he drowned his sorrows at the Mos Eisley Cantina and sang with Bea Arthur and Harvey Koorman.
Luke: ”Lumpy was an alien?”
Leia: ”I, guess so?”
Josh’s “They married in” is one of the greatest underrated comments in all of BotW.
Interesting that Mike compares viewing it to knowing what it's like to be in the desert. You know, it's hot, it's dry, and the sand gets everywhere.
Redlettermedia > League of Super Critics
+Meow You ever feel like the fact that they're giving a straight review rather than over act is one of the reasons?
+hopscotchoblivion
Its just classic rule of 90% of content are shit. Most of them attempt to compensate the lack of talent or notable content in their videos like showing their faces even though it adds no value whatsoever or awful annoying voiceovers/sound effects/music. We know who they are.
+hopscotchoblivion Much as I enjoy some of the LoSC folks, I can't disagree.
+Meow Ouch.
+KorAnos1 I wish Rachel was still on Nostalgia critic she is fine. The new girl is thick tho I def. would
Any time Mike or Rich gets the other to laugh, it's like the horribly depraved joke seal of approval.
Rich Evans stole the show with his patented hit and miss comedy style
I view this entire video as Rich Evans Greatest Hits
If the Wookies wear robes for this holiday, that would mean that they actually can wear clothes and are just a race of nudists who happen to have fur through luck and accident.
The lipsticks need airing out goddammit.
Wait, so does Harrison Ford work around the clock or part-time? I'm confused, this is all so dense...
+Bass Cannon Jar Jar is the key to all this
+Crichjo32 It's true, because he's a funnier character than we've had
+Dreamwalker Films It all Rhymes. It's like poetry.
+Bass Cannon
Part-time!!
Aka6 is a better hentai artist
Lumpy is the key to all this, if we get Lumpy working...
He's a funnier character than we've had before
That's what she said.
I would watch the Holiday Special in a heartbeat before I watch Rise of Skywalker again
That's the last one in the "new" trilogy right?
@@Uzur9 Yes.
You have to understand what a mindfuck the Star Wars Holiday Special was. It was an hour and a half long and was the first Star Wars thing to come out after the original movie. It could have been another Star Wars so far as we knew. Instead it was Bea Arthur singing and Harvey Korman in drag.
There was no VCRs at that time. I watched it live and only once.
I love how Jay's impression of George Lucas checking his bank account would imply that the man had a smartphone or tablet in 1977-78.
Roldo Mustache quite roldo you speak of forgotten and forbidden texts if these self loving tweeters grow to understand the power of the true written language and the power of the paper information theyll be unstoppable you fool with the instant creation of communication coupled with the wisdom that comes from reading the text upon the sacred surface of paper dating back thousands theyll undo all of our plans and rise up and take over and leave us to die and coupled with the magicks of doing math in your head you might as well give them the power of GOD your insane if you dont stop your actions yourself the elders will.
Roldo Mustache Actually, my generation does remember physical paper checks (there's not currently a generation too young to remember them since they're still in widespread use, fyi), though the word you were looking for is "check register", not "checking booklet". But more to the point, either Jay's impression of George Lucas is flipping through the pages of his register with his index and middle finger from the center such that they'll obstruct his view of the entries on each page instead of flipping with his thumb from the side like a normal person would, or the imitation is of performing a scroll gesture on a touch screen. For your reference: 22:52.
Also, if you'd looked closer at my wording, you might have noticed that by using the noun "impression" as I did in saying "Jay's impression of George Lucas" puts an emphasis on the action itself. Had I meant it to say that George Lucas couldn't have checked his bank account without use of a smartphone or tablet, the phrasing might have been "I love how Jay imitating George Lucas checking his bank account would imply that the man had a smartphone or tablet in 1977-78".
If you have any more condescending or snarky quips that reenforces your sense of superiority to a youth population that has no experience with (what you believe to be) obsolete technology that you've had to use in your lifetime, feel free to air them here. I know living in a changing world can be scary when you start falling behind the times, and it's good to talk it out.
cerickNY ... and you completely missed the joke like a blackbird recon jet flying over any city below sea level. and apparently dont understand written sarcasm so you are even more out of touch with todays tech then you so think i am. using terms as forbiden in terms of paper information true power of it magicks of math sacred surface that is paper i thought i made it enough with the over the top words it was supposed to be a joke but i guess next time ill just do this
(btw this is a joke incase anyone thinks this is serious ok good now no one can get all holier then thou responses)
just to clarify when a humorous reply is being constructed.
piscespeter3 Was the punchline of the joke that you didn't realize you weren't the user being replied too?
Or, you know, a piece of paper with numbers written on it.
Jay's wookie impression at 17:48 is killer.
The only redeeming quality of the Christmas special is that the looming dread of one's own mortality pails on comparison.
Don't worry! we will get a ladder to get you out of the DEEPNESS of that comment... just wait there!
According to Wookiepedia, the first thing they filmed was Bea Arthur's musical number, along with the Jefferson Starship song and one other unnamed musical segment (Cirque du soleil bit? Grandpa's porno tape?!?!). Just those three segments cost them 1/4 of their entire budget!
Rich's Lucas treehouse story was the best thing ever.
I saw this on tv when I was 9. My therapist says I'm making progress.
Lügner.
Best screen shot at 19:04:
Jay looks amusingly intrigued
Mike is angrily confused
Jack is just horrified speechless
Rich is amused by the situation but totally indifferent otherwise
Josh is disappointed
STAR WARS IN A NUTSHELL :
Thanks 😅
@@JaydevRaol you son of a gun , that was an interesting material here
That screenshot is RLM in a nutshell.
Omfg @ the zoom-in on Fischer's coke nail at 13:20.
Accoring to Carrie herself: "I never used my fingernail for drugs. I used dollars or tiny spoons like any other respectable former drug addict."
@@wolfgangervin2582 nice to know she was a lady.
I wonder if Alec Guiness was approached to feature in the Christmas Special? If he was he probably laughed in their face.
He was probably lying on a beach somewhere while they filmed this, laughing at the others who chose not to take a cut of the royalties/ merchandise monies...
+Pvt. William Hudson He probably watched the whole thing from his home with a martini all smug, and then the stock footage of him appeared at the end and he spit-took his drink like "Oh shit"...
Actually he approached the director and said "I'm not the actor you're looking for." Hence his absence.
+Pvt William Hudson they would have just used stock footage anyways or he may have been dead not sure about that
Guiness lived to be 86. RIp 2000.
Here's what I don't get... They clearly had *some* money to throw around. There's a lot of optical stuff going on. The animation sequence, the sets they did build, the number of guest stars they got... Why not just do an actual STAR WARS two hour TV episode? Like Han and Chewie on some kind of a smuggling mission and Luke and Leia and 3PO doing cameo work? Fewer guest stars, all your money can go into FX and sets and the idea would have been more focused and fun. ...Right?
+OpenMawProductions Because then you couldn't have the network-mandated variety show and musical number sequences.
2 words dude; cluster fuck
Or they could have made Ishtar
+Elitepear alleged coke-fueled orgies and stimulants. Alleged by Carrie Fisher.
ChrissyIsPissy 3-2-3-4, 4-2-3 AND
CLICKETYCLICKETYCLICKETY
Rich Evans is one of the greatest improv comedians of our time.
Fun fact: Ben Stiller copied Mark Hamil from that special to create Simple Jack in Tropical Thunder.
Looks like this Holiday Special went full retard
Jack's glitchy head got me trippin balls!
In regards to the Imperial officer saying "Okay, we'll send out a search party to look for the missing Storm Trooper"... You know, sometimes when you work in customer care, you'll just say anything to get people to hang up. You go "Sure, sure, we'll do that" to get rid of the rambling idiot on the line and after they hang up you suggest to Grandma Tarkin that you take off a nuke the entire site from orbit, since it's the only way to be sure.
If i had a dollar for everytime i recommend my manager to nuke a customers house for orbit i would have to work anymore.
grandma tarkin
Well in the special, the imperial guy called in, no?
How did I not remember Mike loosing a crown and spitting it across the room in the middle of this
Watching Mike laugh that hard brings so much joy to my own life.
I thought that said “so much Jay” at first, and I laughed so hard. 🤣
It's the booze
I can't bealive you didn't made a best of the worst about Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
1984. WE NEED IT
This daytime holiday special version of Star Wars was kind of lucky to be broadcast A DAY BEFORE the Peoples Temple mass suicide/massacre. The latter completly obliterated anybody's chance to mock the first in the mainstream media which spent months to cover the massacre. Otherwise, everyone would mock the Holiday Special endlessly, which could destroy Star Wars franchise to go on as we know.
@@johnbacon4997 Holiday Special was aired on CBS in NOVEMBER 17 1978 and the Peoples Temple incident happened NOVEMBER 18 1978. I think that sinister coincidence worked in favor of Star Wars franchise because this entertainment failure was timely superceded by the enormity of an unprecedented real event - it was the biggest civilian loss before the 9/11 in USA at the time. It's pretty obvious the medias rather jumped to the massacre to cover it than spent time to mockingly target a simple (quite costly though for production staff) failure...
And the SAME night of the Burger Chef Massacre in Speedway,Indiana.
Still the worst thing that happened that week.
James Gunn, writer and director of Marvel's 'The Guardians of the Galaxy' unironically loves 'The Star Wars Holiday Special'. Disney allowed him to make 'The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special' after he pitched it for Disney+ and then wrote a script for it in 3 days.
George Lucas came up with the idea of focusing on Chewbacca's family. Writer Bruce Vilanch objected, because the dialogue would all be in the Wookiee language, but Lucas refused to change it. According to Vilanch, Lucas originally intended for the story of Chewbacca's family to appear somewhere in the "Star Wars" saga.
Taken from the IMDB Trivia page. The very core of the disaster was his idea.
I entirely agree that it's a rite of passage for major Star Wars fans. It's a drudgery and gives pleasure to no one.
Ayy, Sal’s here too! Three and a half years ago!
Oh, I dunno...the Rifftrax'ed version is great fun...
Yeah Rifftrax is great stuff.
So... kinda like the sequel trilogy?
I hope you guys actually did give duplicates out to people. Let the shame of the Star Wars Holiday Special never fade from George Lucas's mind!
I mean sure, he's got the prequels and Crystal Skull to haunt him, but apparently he's actually ashamed of this one so it has a special place in the world.
Reminds me of when Rich Evans dressed as Lucas and went around the sci-fi convention destroying all the Star Wars Holiday Special DVDs.
***** He seems too pretentious and/or oblivious to admit that the prequels and Indiana Jones 4 sucked.
***** I fell asleep during Crystal Skull. I didn't realize that I fell asleep until I left the theater and it was dark outside.
Lucas couldn't give a damn. His fake concern is an affectation designed to make him look like a creative artist that always wants to achieve perfection.
The problem is that the star war holiday special is not entertaining, it is not "so bad that is good", it is just bad, horribly painfully bad. Imagine if George Lucus said we should all pull out are toenails for entertainment and then you recommend we should actually do that just to remind George Lucus how much he fucked up saying that, that is figuratively what you are doing now recommending we hurt our selves by watching this travisty.
Okay, but that drawing of Han Solo at 3:09 looks exactly like Kylo Ren.
They should clean up the Holiday Special & add some extra cgi footage with added alternative Lumpy commentary in his native language
I highly doubt Disney would do that, even though they SHOULD restore it and release it on Disney+, and eventually on Blu-ray with special features and on DVD, just for current Star Wars fans to know about it and see how bad it is. But they shouldn't make ads for either the Disney+ stream or the home video releases on TV, on the Internet, or anywhere else in the media to avoid George Lucas finding out about it easily. But, then again, I'm pretty sure he'd find out about what was done eventually, so...
All I can imagine after watching the most recent "wheel of the worst" is that Mark Hamel had that Teddy Bear Air Bag (Teddy B-Air Bag harhar) during his accident.
"I will fuck up your face..."
I know. Auto-correct is a dick. lol
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Cooking can be fun! Perhaps Luke's face ended up as Malla's Bantha Surprise. Because that would be a surprise...
You know, I watch these videos, and I think to myself: "why do these people not have a podcast?"
They would absolutely kill it doing a podcast. They're all very funny, and they have lots of things to talk about, it would have to pertain to a particular topic.
Duncan Van Ooyen ***** Yeah. They have a gaming account called "Previously Recorded". It's almost always Rich and Jack. Jay joins them quite often. Mike very rarely. You're right - they should definitely do a podcast, as well.
Duncan Van Ooyen Rich has gone on record saying that if RedLetterMedia ever makes a podcast, he'd want to call it the "Fraudcast," which is a fucking perfect potential podcast name.
fourcrippledhorses People do video podcasts too
Duncan Van Ooyen Would you like to buy some chocolate for my daughter's fundraiser? They're small and a dollar, but they go to help funding the school so they can buy _Film Analysis and Other Media_ textbooks without references to the Star Wars Christmas Special.
Duncan Van Ooyen they do now. it's called the nerd crew
This movie lines up perfectly with The Wizard Of OZ.
But _The Wizard of Oz_ is a good movie. _The Star Wars Holiday Special_ is a bad TV special.
I'm sorry, did I miss the point of a joke?
@@OzMunchkinJames it's about how Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Rainbow album syncs up with Wizard of Oz
I love the fact that Jay refers to the Tatooine patrons by their Kenner action figure names
This special is easy to explain if you keep it in context of the day.
1. George Lucas had given up ALL of his direct profits from Star Wars to get it made. All he had left was the licensing and merchandising. The network threw a ton of money at him to make this thing. Remember this was BEFORE the Kenner toys became a 30 year juggernaut. This was Georges only major payday for Star Wars. (and to put it in perspective without this sort of thing we would not have ever seen Empire Strikes Back. Yes it is like dealing Meth to und the Sistine Chappel.)
2. For the time period this was made, these insane horrid variety shows were the word of the day. The Big Show, Captain and Taniel, Donny and Marie, Every Horrid Christmas Special ever, Bing Crosby etc. The same climate that gave us David Bowie dueting "Little Drummer Boy" with Bing gave us this turd. etc. That's what they were making. It really makes you almost appreciate the worst examples of modern "reality TV". It is this awful because this is exactly what the networks wanted.
hey hey now! I am sure I am not alone in quietly hoping that some day Lego will give us the long prayed for "Star Wars Cantina Bea Arthur" minifig! I refuse to give up hope!
Don't compare thus shit to meth
Even today we often get that same sort of schlocky, thrown-together Christmas special. They get a celebrity host or two, a few musical guests of varying talent, throw up some cheap sets and pad out the running time with bland routines and bits that are sure to be completely inoffensive to Grandma sitting in her recliner. It's a pretty well-established formula, and in that context the SW special seems like less of an aberration.
@@siukong And this is just as true in the streaming era: Kelly Clarkson, Kacey Musgraves, etc.
Where's the Ishtar trailer
These men are PAWNS
I will put a price of 20,000 Dirham on their heads
They were just a couple of songwriters, who came to ishtar to break into show business
I love how this two-part vid is basically just Jay, Rich and Jack trying to stay sane under the shadow of a heavily intoxicated Mike
My only problem with this entire thing is that they never found out "Lumpy" is short for "Lumpawaroo"
It sounds like a racial slur against a race that doesn't exist.
I love rich's Lucas impression
This year I watched the Paul Lynd Halloween Special for the first time and honestly I'm just starting to think this is what the 1970's were.
That's a good point. The 70s were, at times, unbearable emotional Schlock with extra cheese.
Somewhere on youtube there has to be the TV episode from the 70's where Adam West plays Batman on the stage for a a variety series. I just cannot think of the title of that variety series.
kidpax
it was called Legends of superheroes
Realtalk: I tried really hard to put myself in George Lucas/whoever's head to understand what the fuck this bizarre, incoherent mess was supposed to represent (besides money) and I flashed back to film school and remembered all the experimental disasters I made. At 17:30, Mike pretty much hits the nail on the head: This was supposed to be a fun variety show, sort of like proto-reality TV but with a sci-fi twist, and the whole Christmas/Anne Frank angle was trying to be inspiring (evil Empire looking for Jewish Wookies, but everyone stands together to overcome adversity and celebrate Life in the face of Death, and let's have some fun along the way, blah blah blah).
Okay. Fine. But it's really unclear as to whether or not we're supposed to enjoy this viscerally or by proxy. Like, are WE supposed to be entertained, or are we supposed to be entertained by watching someone else be entertained? Is this a plot point or the point of the plot? And that's where it falls apart. It's easy to say "Well, it would've sucked anyway because the variety segments were terrible", but technical criticisms are never as insightful as conceptual ones. If the cartoon was well-animated and the acrobats were't nightmare monsters, this still would've sucked. The question is "Why?", and Mike totally nailed it
Oh god why did I type all that
My only issue is at the end Mike said George Lucas should have taken more responsibility, stepped in, and said it was bad. He probably had full creative control because every time there isn't someone to tell George no it fucking sucks. For example see the first trilogy where he had people telling him no and the prequels where he got to do whatever he wanted
@@Dr.Spatula Exactly this. Lots of people were around to develop and fix his raw ideas in the OT, but he had too much control in the PT.
I actually saw this on TV when it was first shown, as a little kid I thought: "where's the space battles? where's lightsaber duels? where's Darth Vader? where's everything that made star wars fun?"
Gary Kurtz took them with him when him and Lucas parted ways after "Empire".
The answer...George Lucas was allowed to make every decision...
When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?
I watch this every year. I invite a new viewer and every time the new person says anything along the lines of “what the fuck is happening” we drink.
"If this was 15 years ago and the internet and all the information that we have now didn't exist, I would say that this is worth seeking out. But now, you can find it everything you need to know about it online without actually having to sit through it and that's far more interesting that having to sit through it." Jay
This is a good point. Instead of watching the Star Wars Special, you could just watch a review of it.
3:37 Lumpy contemplates ending it
5:48 Mike's Carrie Fisher joke
7:24 Don't worry, Harrison. Star Wars can never be this bad ever again. 😅
9:20 Mike & Rich make Golden Girls jokes
12:01 Railings in Star Wars and Halloween are made of cardboard
15:57 Mike: "What's happening?"
21:47 Mike's spits out a tooth
30:17 Han shoots first joke 😅
As Gus Grissom said as part of the reason why lunar landings should be manned missions: "...in the final analysis only man can fully evaluate the Moon in terms understandable to other Men." The same can be said for the enigma that is The Stars Wars Holiday Special
Does anyone else have the feeling that Lucas's lack of control on this eventually led to him having too much power over the prequels?
I would say it's more likely that the success for the trilogy was incorrectly given to him thus leading to him having more control because people thought he was actually a good writer
Talking about lucas' "lack of control" implies he somehow cared. He didnt, beyond cashing a check. It was just another merchandising opportunity.
idk he let Irvin Kirchner direct empire after this
Around the13th minute mark:
I've seen this episode half a dozen times and this is the first time I heard that the "missing" stormtrooper is referred to as B4711.
Just in case, that's, Before 7-11. For people outside of North America, 7-11 is a chain of corner, or convenient stores.
We never had them in Canada/Quebec but my Grandparents owned a Fishing pier/restaurant in Florida in the early 80's .
We would visit once or twice a year and I always wanted to go to 7-11, because they had Star Wars cards...and I was around 5 years old. Lol
So, if you thought Mike's Joe Pilato story was pointless...
hold my Blueberry, Slush Puppy!
Just one more thing we didn't have in Canada.
But we did have Zap Rowsedower. So I guess that's kinda, sorta, not really, cool :)
Happy life day and a belated, happy Turkey day
;)
I've watched that special literally probably 50 to 100 times.
At my grandmother's house they had recorded it to VHS, and me and my brother and my cousins would watch it all the time.
I saw this long before I ever saw Star Wars. I was like 4 or 5 watching this, and this was how I knew Luke, Han, Leia, Chewbacca.
We always just called it "The Wookies", and I NEVER associated this with Christmas in any way.
"Oh they [also] celebrate Life Day?!"
"They married in."
Josh has the fastest mind in the west.
I remember having an awful day at work and came home to this, and it turned my day around. Retail during Christmas is awful.
It was man, pissed off people every goddamn second.
I lost it at Lumpy Bacca.
I still love the fact that Jack's mirror-shine dome refuses to remain a part of reality throughout this entire video because of how it reflects the greenscreen
I love Mike's face when Rich goes off script when he backtracks and agrees with Jay.
21:46 Just putting this here for myself.
Thank you, I was looking for exactly this!
@@swimteamizzle1114 same, I was amazed no one was talking about this moment lol
I've watched this moment 84 times now and it's funnier every time
Aww fucking hell, Carrie Fisher is actually dead now. My favourite kooky, coked-up, little cat lady is now gone to the great space station up in the sky.
Danny Perez I bet he has. Can you say the same, Angry CZcams Commenter #678543?
oh boy, being edgy should get me some cool internet points!
Don't worry, she's snorting plenty of coke in hell.
What the hell happened here?
Can you believe she was 60? She looked 80.
"Han shoots first." Rich Evans makes me proud to be an American.
Carrie Fisher’s coke nail caught me so off guard. I never even noticed that.
Harrison Ford looked dead inside I wonder if this was around the same time he had to record the narration for Blade Runner
"They don't advertise for smugglers in the newspaper..."
Harrison Ford works around the clock? I thought he worked part-time
Yeah, well it's more "🎵 part 🎵 time 🎵" than "part-time!"
Ironically the advert before this was for The Force Awakens
happening in a way contrary to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this. So if I am not mistaken to redlettermedia get revenues from adverts shown before their videos?
@@RAMSEY1987 Unless there is a copyright strike all youtubers get money from the ads. Notice I didn't say VALID copyright strike. People making copyright strikes don't have to prove anything.
7:31 I think this is the exact moment Harrison Ford decided he wanted Han Solo killed off.