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Gemini Cricket

11-18-2006, 10:55 AM

For the first time since November 17th, 1978, I just watched "The Star Wars Holiday Special". It has to be the worst production I have ever seen in my life.

I have always wondered at what point George Lucas went crazy. I think the aforementioned date is my answer.

Outside of the introduction of Boba Fett, in a pretty good animated section of the special, the rest of the show is awful!

A cast of Wookies, a show stopping number by Bea Arthur, Harvey Korman in drag (with four arms), Mark Hamil will too much make-up on, Art Carney, finale song sung by Carrie Fisher...

Oy vey.

:D

Oh yes, I forgot to mention, yesterday was the 28th anniversary of the special. Happy Life Day!
:D

innerSpaceman

11-18-2006, 12:01 PM

Heheh, someone recently gave me a DVD of the Holiday Special ... which I've never seen. I'm saving it for the Star Wars 30th Anniversary next May ... I'm gonna want something new to see for the occassion, and this infamous bit of Star Wars WTFness will fit the bill nicely, I'm sure.

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Ghoulish Delight

11-18-2006, 12:41 PM

I've seen it, I can't unsee it. It's...just...so....awful. I can't stress enough how bad.

Snowflake

11-18-2006, 12:56 PM

I just can't wrap my head around why anyone thought this was a good idea.
:confused: :eek:

Cadaverous Pallor

11-18-2006, 12:57 PM

Seriously, I was giddy at the prospect of seeing it, but it was SO DAMN BAD we didn't watch the whole thing. UNwatchable. Words fail to describe it.

Not Afraid

11-18-2006, 01:37 PM

I think it's funny that such a thing exists in the first place.

Gn2Dlnd

11-18-2006, 02:17 PM

This was the heyday of the Muppets, I think the people who came up with this bombstrosity were going in that direction. It was two years before "Empire," a year before the first Star Trek movie, and light years before everybody got so friggin' serious about what Star Wars canon was supposed to be. (Let alone that no one had ever used the word outside of Shakespeare or church.)

Mana-mana! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC9FtLQJoGM)

RStar

11-18-2006, 11:20 PM

Oh! All these years I thought they were saying "Phenomenon"!

Phenomenon, do do, do do do!:eek: