Peanuts or Rankin-Bass… talk about let-downs!
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Ive been introducing a friend to the star wars films who (if you can believe it) has never seen any of the movies. i had this idea that id play the special after star wars ( a new hope) to get the real experience of release order. we didnt get past the first sequence of non-subtitled wookies before we had to give up on it. i love star wars and have forced myself to watch it but damnnnn its not easy at all.
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Shuttlecraft to Enterprise,
Shuttlecraft to Enterprise,
Spock here.
Happy Holidays.
Live long and prosper.
I’m sure I will remember that until the end of my days.
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Is it the tree-topper? That is the traditional place for a star, as I recall.
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you will nothing gain out of it except misery. it sucks your life right out trough your chest…
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Huh. You’re right. I always thought it was Bakshi. Probably because he and Lucas were friends and Mark Hamill was in Wizards.
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Does anyone else think Luke looked like he was portrayed by Julie Andrews, or is it just me?
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Then you missed the scene that best exemplifies the true spirit of Christ - uh, Life Day: about 20 solid minutes of grandpa Wookiee really enjoying his present, a SENSUOUS INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL REALITY WOOKIE-PORN SEX-TOY.
I am not making that up.
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You would think that a cheesy 70s TV special with Wookiees enjoying Wookiee porn, Bea Arthur singing a song to a giant space rat, Harvey Korman pouring drinks into a crater atop his head, and the cast of Star Wars appearing stoned and/or drunk would be the ideal so-crappy-it’s-fun party movie.
It’s not. It’s boring, sad, and ugly and full of regrets. Worth watching once so you can say you’ve seen it.
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hahah. yeah, ive seen the whole thing. I just couldn’t in good consciousness subject another person to it.
I do appreciate showing that scene to people who haven’t been subjected to the Holiday Special. They assume you’re exaggerating, that Lucas wouldn’t actually have a scene like that in a prime-time family holiday special. But no, there it is, Grandpa Itchy getting all horny for a VR Diahnn Carroll thanks to Art Carney, his Wookiee porn purveyor.
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Copycats.
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Nothing holds a candle to Pee Wee’s:
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Hmmm… As I recall, Lucas likes to pretend he did nothing for the special except authorize it, but this seems vaguely similar to a scene in his THX-1138.
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No - just an extra large blown glass ornament - I use an LED tree - so I’m hanging these on a wire with the ships bewteen the planets - I have a nice Firefly as well.
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“Shiny!!”
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No. There is another.
(okay, not a holiday special, nor a story. But it is quite good)
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I LOVE Boba Fett and Bakshi, but it was Nelvana aping Mobius’ style.
But yes - this was the best part of it the special!
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I don’t think I made it as far as Boba Fett’s appearance. I don’t remember him at all until the action figure came out around one year later. I vaguely recall watching the ending, so I must’ve wandered off or been called away in the middle of it. It seems unthinkable that a 3rd grader wouldn’t have sat through the whole thing, but my reaction to Bea Arthur singing a variation of “Cantina Band” was bewilderment (and, it must be said… disappointment).
A better Star Wars-related TV memory was when a kids’ news show (Kids’ World, I think) interviewed Darth Vader.
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It’s funny today that there was once the concept of an ad hoc, out-of-band TV show, and the idea was so important they had a name for it: special. I imagine this just doesn’t exist today, like how shows used to be “on” TV or you’d just miss them.
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