If I had thought about it, I would’ve remembered that it predated Jedi. I recalled there were lame furry creatures and assumed they were Ewoks.
Slightly off-topic. Does anyone remember the SW single that came out: “What Do You Get a Wookie for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb)”?
Mr. K’s Link of the Month:
There’s a Raggedy Ann cartoon wherein someone who looks like Wile E Coyote builds a gloopstick machine. The gloopstick is a plastic-like coering for toys so they last forever. My sister stills get mopey about seeing teddy bears and dollies covered in a block of gloopstick and she’s 32.
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. That’s my name too.
Wait, no it isn’t.
Yes, the remake of “Miracle on 34th Street” was pathetic.
But sometime in the early '70s, there was an animated musical version of “A Christmas Carol,” starring Walter Matthau as Scrooge. The animated Scrooge bore a resemblance to Matthau, and I seem to recall other mid-level celebs of the time doing voices for their characters. What made this special so excrementally awful was that they would sing virtually anything! SEARED into my memory (and that of my brother, so I know I’m not hallucinating. Not this time) is the scene where Ebeneezer’s nephew comes to the office to invite Scrooge to dinner, and Scrooge responds in song:
“I said no! I said no!
I said no no no!
I said it and I mean it
I said no!”
Putrid! And perhaps the first time I ever enjoyed a TV show purely for its badness.
P.S. I may be the only person on the planet who doesn’t care for “It’s A Wonderful Life,” but I have real problems with stories told in flashback. For the same reason, I can’t follow “Casablanca” or “Citizen Kane.” It’s my issue, and I own it.