GOOD LORD...I Just watched the Star Wars Holiday Special for the first time

[howlingwind13]

I have no idea why I have never seen this. Heard it was bad. But never really knew anything about it other than there was a bad boba fett cartoon. Heck I didn't even know it was live action and had some of the actual cast. So I pretty much just stayed away.

That is until this morning.

I ... well... ummm... errr...ahhhh.... have no words I can use right now without getting banned from the forum.

I will say this if any of you have never seen it. There are things in this world you can't unsee. So if you are thinking of watching it...my advice is DON'T. Not even as a joke...not even to see how bad it is...not even to make fun of it...because there is no fun here.

For the majority of you who have seen it...I'm one of you now. I feel your pain.
I make it a habit to watch really bad movies now and then....but this...WOW.
Wish someone would have stopped me.

mike

 

[Jedi2016]

When a man's sat down to watch the Holiday Special, he's given a pistol with a single shot. After he's done watching that show, that pistol starts to look real friendly.

 

[Contec]

Yet we wonder why Lucas don't want it to exist.....

 

[Wes R]

That's he one good decision he's made lol. I remember this thing selling like mad as a bootleg at the Pittsburgh Comicon back in the mid 90s along with the Roger Coreman Fantasic Four movie.

 

[MFP 2020]

"Bad Boba Fett cartoon?" That was the best part! When Han Solo woke up and started talking, my brother and I rolled with laughter. (I know, because I taped it on my trusty cassette recorder.) I'd say they hit their target audience (13 year old boys) pretty effectively.

 

[Treadwell]

With some very notable exceptions, this is pretty much what it was like watching TV in the 70s. It was a decade without taste.

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

It truly is wretched.

 

[SmilingOtter]

Some friends and I got together a while back to watch it for old time's sake (we'd all seen it when it first broadcast.)

It got to a point where we were fast forwarding TO the commercials...

 

[dascoyne]

You fools! This horror should have been left alone.

I watched this when it first aired.

Like the Necronomicon it should have been forgotten.

 

[Michael Bergeron]

Lol.

I'll just say that whoever thought having half the show in Wookie without translation was a good idea should have been shot.

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[dbuck]

Letting the network turn it into a comedy-variety show was an absolutely horrid decision. My fourteen year old self looked forward to this show for weeks and when it aired......:cry

 

[howlingwind13]

Seriously every one of the comments is so funny, so true and so sad!
Gun, necronomicon, wretched, and wookie language...WTF,

And when Han woke up was hilarious...looked like a junky waking up from an overdose...
You guys are making me feel a little better.
BUT I still might want to stab my inner ear with a foot long screwdriver.

 

[Philly]

Seriously every one of the comments is so funny, so true and so sad!
Gun, necronomicon, wretched, and wookie language...WTF,

And when Han woke up was hilarious...looked like a junky waking up from an overdose...
You guys are making me feel a little better.
BUT I still might want to stab my inner ear with a foot long screwdriver.

That's a long ear canal you have there buddy :lol

 

[Jannix Quinn]

Gramps Wookiee watching holo porn is disturbing.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I'm 36 and have never seen it. I tried to find a copy for a while, but the ones I found, like 16 years ago, were asking way too much for a copy.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Lol.

I'll just say that whoever thought having half the show in Wookie without translation was a good idea should have been shot.

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If you had read the original script and saw what the dialog WAS, you would not be saying that!

 

[Jannix Quinn]

I'm 36 and have never seen it. I tried to find a copy for a while, but the ones I found, like 16 years ago, were asking way too much for a copy.

Youtube.

 

[PHArchivist]

Have a bootleg copy, had it for years (thanks M!), but never watched it... SO curious...

 

[robstyle]

With some very notable exceptions, this is pretty much what it was like watching TV in the 70s. It was a decade without taste.

Nail on the head 100%.

There was a period in the 70's where variety shows were the reality tv of today and the 80's talk shows of the time. Here is a small list of the more popular ones:
1970's TV Variety Shows / Classic TV Shows

 

[Wes R]

The only variety shows i really liked (mind you i wasn't around for the original showings) was Carol Burnett in the 70s. I tried finding the holiday special on youtube but they had the audio removed.