Well, not all of them. The Fett cartoon wasn’t bad (even though the animation was horrible). And yes, the wookie did have his head there.
Couple of notes from that (mercifully shortened) clip:
There’s a Wilhelm at the 3:58 mark.
Also, look at 2:24 to 2:25. The Imperial officer definitely seems interested in the purple-silhouetted image on screen…
I have never seen any part of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Can somepne please put my mind back together?
The version Rifftrax uses is referenced in the description and is available for complete download from a very public site managed by a very large publicly traded company which pretty much every user of this board encounters on a daily basis. I won’t say more than that because getting it from that source is still technically piracy even if it is a situation where the copyright holder has abandoned it much in the way people abandoned the Titanic.
I just realized how unhappy my son’s childhood made me.
And the winner of this year’s “Christmas Bringdown Award” goes to
::: opens shiny gold envelope to dramatic drumroll :::
Will Repair!
That’s right- although Rifftrax puts it in a funnier way. (I think I’m going to have to go visit my grandfather in Lake Video one of these days- I forgot that place even existed until I read the description.)
Lucas has also been quoted as saying he wishes he could take a sledgehammer to every bootleg copy out there, and jokingly claimed in a promo interview for the mockumentary R2-D2: Beneath the Dome that it was all R2’s idea.
In the spirit of Christmas, I’m going to say something good about the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Um.
Ok, it exists as definite proof that George Lucas didn’t rape my childhood with the prequel trilogy…he had already done so twenty years prior.
Looking at the special, I must say it’s rather…strange. I only looked at the first 15 minutes so far, but I found something out that blew my mind. This is a music video featuring the Meco song What Can You Get A Wookie For Christmas? If you set it up so that you have a copy of the Holiday Special paused at the start of the bizarre dance sequence (08:24 in the “Lake Video” copy, to use Rifftrax’s term), play the Wookie song video, then hit “play” on the Holiday Special right after the line “We gave him a comb last year,” it synchs up perfectly! The final note should hit exactly around when Lumpy looks at the camera and shrugs his shoulders. Now I knew how the first person who played Floyd during The Wizard of Oz felt- without the pot.
If you’re using the “Lake Video” version, 08:25 works much better, I just found out.
Well, I finally saw The Star Wars Holiday Special, and I must say: it is weird. I think the major problem is that it’s two hours long. One hour would have been enough. But I guess you need all that Diahonn Caroll/Wookie porn, malfunctioning Harvey Korman robots, and Wookiee dialogue.
I never thought I’d see a film that challenged Manos; the Hands of Fate for the not-so-coveted title of “Worst Movie Ever Made”, but the “SWHS” is a strong contender for the title
even 5 minutes was 5 minutes too long
must…find…brain…bleach!
Read this synopsis–I don’t know if it will help or hinder your efforts, but it made me laugh like a demented hyena!
That’s far funnier than anything in the special, let me tell you. And I think he’s right about Lucas masturbating furiously to the thing. Certainly, it was the shape of things to come. Empire was fine film, but Lucas had almost nothing to do with it. Then, for Jedi, he was a complete and total puppetmaster, and this is when the suck began to infest the franchise, culminating in the final prequel movie.
I remember seeing this as a kid. Since I was only 7 at the time, I didn’t truly recognize the awesomeness of it. And I use awe in the biblical sense here.
What I would pay good money for though is a transcipt, or tape of a conversation that began with the words:
“Sir Alec? George Lucas here. I was wondering if you’d had a chance to review that Christmas script I sent you?”
Although I don’t agree with everything this review has to say, the reviewer makes one good point: the majority of this special is just other people watching TV. And we’re watching them watch it.