I saw this when it aired on TV. I was like 7 or 8 years old. I loved the cartoon segment, and Bea Arthur in the Cantina was kinda fun. I loved Art Carney from the Honeymooners (200 year old Han Solo). Harvey Korman I loved from the Carol Burnett show, but he wasn't given enough material. The rest was just sooo long and drawn out. The music videos just ground everything to a halt. The instructional video just dragged on and on. When Han Solo finally showed up, I was like "Oh, FINALLY! Some action!" and poof.. It was over before it began. I'm still glad I saw it, for it's historical value.
Congratulations! You seem to have survived it with most of your mind intact. You will recover over time, but you'll never be the same. You are now part of us who have braved this ordeal and can sneer at those who haven't, saying "You don't understand. You haven't sat through the whole thing." In the years to come (probably all your life) when facing something unbearable, you can argue "I saw The Holiday Special. I can do this too." You are from now on a hardened version of your former self. You have ever lasting scar tissue of the mind and senses that makes you less sensitive and tougher than before. It will be a mental burden forever though. You have witnessed the true Dark Side. You will never forget, but it gets easier to live with. I promise.
🔔 0:01 This "Special" well predicts how the Star Wars franchise will eventually wind up the more it's left to modern day style idiots who have an agenda.
I watched this when it first came out, before the Thanksgiving holiday of 1978. I was 6 years old, and (like many children) obsessed with Star Wars. The first movie had come out the year before, the second movie was in production, and meanwhile we got...this. I remember very little about actually watching the show, and for years afterwards just had a vague sense that there had been a TV special where there were Wookiees living in tree houses. Sort of like a repressed memory of trauma. It wasn't until decades later that I learned that my memories were real, and I watched it again... I think that, for you as a reviewer, watching this is like the training exercise US Marines go through, where they have to put on a gas mask, go into a room full of tear gas, and then are forced to remove the mask. After a minute or so they are let out into the fresh air, and they're stumbling, gagging, and vomiting, but alive, and now they know they can survive just about anything. Now that you've survived the Star Wars Holiday Special, there is no movie so terrible that it will destroy you.
This is the epitome of the Money Grab from the 60s and 70s. Something becomes successful and they try to make a strange variety show out of it and spend zero effort on it.
Carrie Fisher admitted to being high as a kite the whole time they were filming this. And to be fair, I can understand. So much of it feels like a drug trip on its own. This is definitely one of the most bizarre corners of the Star Wars universe and has earned a special kind of infamy that even George Lucas himself has publicly disowned it. However, it has also developed a certain level of endearment among the fanbase in recent years because it's so crazy that you can't help but embrace it a little. I think they even celebrate "Life Day" at the Star Wars-themed lands at the Disney parks around Christmas.
Poor Mark Hamill. That make-up makes him as gold as 3PO 🤣🤣🤣 The Christmas special is the kind of cocaine fever dream you could only get in the late 70s.
It’s funny, because I remember watching this back around the holiday times in the US, and even then, like you, it left a bad taste in my mouth, especially after so much fun I had watching Star Wars so many times in the first run.
🔔 This horrendous TV special is as bad (and worse) in its way as the first part of the play "Springtime For Hitler" as featured in the splendid comedy movie, "THE PRODUCERS"! 😉
As someone who can't resist doing the very thing I've been warned about, I really want to watch this... again.😢 Holy crap! That's Harvey Korman! I looked it up and it has Bea Arthur, Art Carney & Diahann Caroll in it. The cast is stacked.
It was a great coincidence you put out a vid today. Times are real dark here and you have always cheered me up. Just know you help some ppl get by just being yourself!!!
I'm sorry you had to witness this. A few of those who were in it haven't exactly spoken favorably about it themselves when asked about it. Mark Hamill (Luke) pretended to act confused as if to say "What is he talking about?" before answering a question about it. Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) had an OMG look, and immediately covered her face with her hand while laughing, though she did sing a couple of lines from a song in the film for some strange reason. Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) tried to be classy in telling the camera guy to stop filming, while, in a way, politely calling it "disgusting" without saying the word. Finally, Conan O'Brien brought it up to Harrison Ford (Han), who somewhat had fear in his eyes when mentioned. However, when told he had a clip, Harrison briefly pretended to hilariously strangle Conan.😁
🔔 SHREE: GREAT NEWS! As bad as that was, there is something as good as that was bad! Wash the residual crud from that TV "Special" off and heal your wounded sensibilites by reacting to THE STING (1973)! 😉
To be fair George Lucas in a interview with Vice and many other platforms has said that and I quote "Yeah all of us but Harrison Ford and Mark (Who was on some medication for pain after the crash) were on tons of Cocaine at the time,". So that does explain the lack of blinking and the lack of story and psychedelic scenes and the p..n grandpa Wookiee watches and yeah there is way too much. Long story short it was cocaine that was the producer, directer and script writer in the film's making. PS lol this film gave all the crew PTSD especially Harrison Ford lol jokes aside check out his reaction on Conan his reaction is priceless.
I got through it by watching the Rifftrax version which I think they still have on RUclips for general viewing for free. The scene in Art Carney’s shop with the Imperial officer is remarkably painful. People don’t usually mention it in online reviews! It’s just so dull and awkward.
I thought that I'd felt a Disturbance in The Force...🤔(LOL) Oh My Poor Padawan🙏I am SO Sorry that You have suffered through This Abomination!💔My deepest / most-Sincere Sympathies will Be With You today🫂hopefully You unleashed Your 'Dark Side' and gave this one the Hell that it deserves!❤🔥I'd expect nothing less...👌
@@ShreeNation Wonderful, I can't wait!😅It's always a Pleasure to See You Again🥰whatever I can do (say) to Help put a Smile back on Your Face😁I'm always here for that too...👍
Lovely reaction - I haven't seen that film since it first aired during my childhood, but your video almost makes me happy now that this Holiday Special exists, because it made it possible for you to do your awesome reaction here, which is actually better than some of the more recent Star Wars films (but just to be safe, if you notice signs of lasting brain damage from watching that show, the medical websites recommend a diet of unsaturated fats, legumes, and oily fish- and be careful w heavy objects lol)
Welcome to the "Holiday Special Survivors Club"! That's what my then-girlfriend and I came up with as a name for people who have watched that horrible abomination after we did so on a dare...
I know how you feel 😢 I'm watching couple of channels which specialize on low-budget, bad or obscure movies and even they think this is the one of the worst thing ever.
@@ShreeNation It's strange, my first comment with channels names disappeared somehow. I repeat it just in case) There is my little list: "Good Bad or Bad Bad" "Jason Brant" "Fanboy Flicks" "Brandon Tenold"
All I can say is if anything can cure the bad taste after watching the Star Wars Holiday Special, it's watching the "Stars of Star Wars" episode from season 4 of The Muppet Show. It shows that if you want to do a Star Wars themed comedy/musical/variety special...it is possible to actually do one right. It's cute, it's funny, it's got some catchy songs, it actually predicted the future of both Star Wars and The Muppets as franchises. Most importantly...it's only 25 minutes long.
Years ago there was a voteing. - Most Voters prefer the Holiday Special over The Last Jedi movie.. and. 51 % for Holiday Special. 49 % for Last Jedi and..and I personally hate myself, to defend LJ... but the Holiday Special is by far the worst Star Wars has ever produced.
The irony is that this aired between the releases of Episodes IV and V. So, if you were watching in chronological order you would have seen this before The Empire Strikes Back. Thank goodness, people just go to Empire.
I remember watching this on TV and leaving the room several times to go play with toys. Ten minutes later I'm back to see if it got better...it didn't.
@@ShreeNation A month and a half of hype and tv adds building your expectations for Star Wars on tv then this steaming pile is broadcast... Huge disappointment. I was more impressed when the band Kiss was on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special in 1976. Sure the bits with them were a little lame with bad humor but the band did have three songs they played. (KISS - Paul Lynde Halloween Special - 1976) Or better a show that became a yearly broadcast, The Hobbit movie 1977. (animated special)
George Lucas definitely was doing drugs and had a massive brain fart with this one. I’m glad you did it. You can now call yourself a fan. You suffered through it just like we did.
Mark Hamill indeed suffered serious facial injuries in a car accident shortly after the making of à New Hope, that nearly made him quit acting. However, in Corvette Summer, also released in 1978, he made a better performance than in Holiday Special (at least he managed to blink from time to time). So, besides the aftermath of the accident, perhaps he was not motivated to do his best ?
Never even knew that this existed? But, if your thumbnail pic is any indication of its merit, I think that I may see something new from you today, Shree. My real question is...why this? There's almost an infinite number of better choices? Well I guess you can call me 'Spaghetti Head ' because I'm here for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly! Eraserhead was the Ugly! So I'm going to say that today, may be the bad.😮 See you at your premier Shree 😊
One of the greatest speeches of all time doesn't start with "I have a dream..." It starts with "If I had sledgehammer and time..." And when will that superstream you've mentioned happen? :o Where you would be doing Soldier
Hi, I'll be making a 10k subscriber special video next month and after that I'll check out around 5-10 subscriber requested films and make a full review or a livestream, so that may take around 1-2 months 😅 Sorry for the delay
I never saw Star Wars The Holiday Special (It looks horrible) but I know what you fell. I saw the movie Saturday Night Fever which is considered a a 70's classic which defined the Disco era and made John Travolta and The Bee Gees most classic music famous. I saw it and I could not believe this movie is a classic. This movie has no story and nothing happen in it and by the end when something finally happen the movie ends. Also the movie does not use the Bee Gees correctly. Most movies the movie and music help each other but in this movie the movie and the music in it has nothing to do with each other. I could not believe the Bee Gees music became so poplar from this crap of a movie.
Oh no, now you're not going to want to watch Star Wars Caravan of Courage (aka The Ewok Adventure) or Star Wars The Battle for Endor - which are also pretty horrible in their own way!
I recommend the version with the RIFFTRAX joke commentary... it's a lot more fun and tolerable. 🤣 Yeah, it's bad, but it's bad in such a weird and charming way. I can't hate it. Star Wars has committed bigger sins than this with a straight face.. this was never meant as anything other than a goof that would only air once. And at least this has the excuse that the ONLY Start Wars thing it had to base things on (in 78) was 1) the 1st film, and 2) a "Wookie Bible" Lucas had made about the wookie world. From there they did what 900 other 70s Variety Specials did... bad jokes and random songs. This was so early the first Star Wars toys werent even out yet. Look at this as a "slice of time" in American pop culture... The late 70s was a weird time... and Star Wars was this shiny new thing that Lucas was just getting a handle on exploiting for lots and lots of money... but even he admits.. this was bad.. he said he'd destroy all the copies with a hammer if he could. Btw, this is just after Mark Hamill's notorious corvette accident that basically changed his face... so he's in heavy makeup due to plastic surgery that hadn't quite healed. They explained this away in Empire Strikes Back by having the Wampa whack him in the face with his claw.
Its funny how relative things are isn't it? The Holiday Special is *still* a better film than The Sixth Sense, any Adam Sandler or Matt Damon movie, any Hollywood remake, retcon or reboot.....
Never seen this, and i never will. This rant en The pitch meeting from Ryan George are the only video's with footage from this disaster. But appearently Disney made something worse with the Acolyte, i only saw 1 clip of that from episode 3 and that looked beyond Bad. The only star wars i think is Great is the original trilogy. The prequels were Meh. Rogue 1 was ok And after the Disney Sequels i was done with it.
mmm Rolls up sleeves. there are a few that are similar, but theres do bad they are good, and so bad they are bad. The Room is so bad its good Plan 9 from outer space is another so bad its good , the terror of tiny town is Something, Exorcist 2 is a so bad its only barely acceptabl if you think of i as a parody of the first, Nukie is BAD i mean really really BAD, Garbage pail kids is so much trash
@@ShreeNationthis is what the devil doesnt show in hell because even the devil would say its cruel . the first two you ca have a lot of fun with, more so with some chemical enhancements, but the others ;)
Then there's _Manos: The Hands of Fate,_ which at least has the excuse of being made on a bet by a fertilizer salesman with $19,000 and absolutely no talent (or ability) for making movies. I'll give it this much credit, the story does have a pretty good horror movie premise, and the production definitely gets some laughs.
Pretty sure the only reason you can find this so readily on RUclips is because no one in their right mind would ever willingly claim it as theirs. "Yes, your honor, we own the rights to the Star Wars Holiday Special. Why, yes, I do suffer from debilitating brain damage, why do you ask?"
I know a lot of people like to crap on this, but when Star Wars came out, as kids in the 70s we couldn't rent the movie and watch it at home, and the idea of mom and dad taking us to see the same movie again was not in the cards. I remember watching this...myself, my brother and my friends were all thrilled. It didn't matter that from an adults view it was crap. It was a new story about the characters we loved, in an era before movie trilogies guaranteed more. From our perspective, the first film was going to be the only film. And at the time we got to see this special exactly once. I don't think it was rebroadcast, VCRs didn't exist, and again, it was not rentable since that entire industry didn't exist.
@@Rocket_Man232 Lol maybe, but again for its target audience it was amazing. Plus, 1970s network television was almost uniformly terrible. Yes compared to an $11 million film (around $60 million in todays dollars)...and routinely tinkered with and updated, the TV special was bad. Of course it was. But compared to a typical 1970s variety show (like say 'Hee Haw' or 'Laugh In') it was more or less par. The show looks as bad as it does to a modern eye because the context is completely removed.
@@Rocket_Man232 'Laugh In' could be funny, but also had low production values, quality-wise was hit or miss, and had the added (and terrible) canned laughter that then and now is like fingernails on a chalkboard. There were always more groans than laughs, even then. Now watching the show it has aged like milk...just like the Star Wars Holiday Special. Highly rated 1970s TV show doesn't mean much to today's eye. Even hugely popular shows usually aged poorly. For every gem like 'Columbo' you have 100 'Barney Miller's...a show I liked at the time, but again something that aged like milk.
Dear Ms. Shree, in the 70's, "cocaine is a hell of a drug" became the rallying cry for makers of entertainment franchises of every kind. That's why in addition to this "Star Wars" debacle, we also got things like "Challenge Of The Superheroes", and "Pink Lady And Jeff" cluttering up the TV airwaves, and just for good measure, we also got "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with The Bee Bees and "Can't Stop The Music" with The Village People stinking up the theaters. Signs of the times...
I saw this when it aired on TV. I was like 7 or 8 years old. I loved the cartoon segment, and Bea Arthur in the Cantina was kinda fun. I loved Art Carney from the Honeymooners (200 year old Han Solo). Harvey Korman I loved from the Carol Burnett show, but he wasn't given enough material. The rest was just sooo long and drawn out. The music videos just ground everything to a halt. The instructional video just dragged on and on. When Han Solo finally showed up, I was like "Oh, FINALLY! Some action!" and poof.. It was over before it began. I'm still glad I saw it, for it's historical value.
I can imagine worse:
The Acolyte Holiday Special
It has always astounded me, how well The Empire Strikes Back did, coming out, after this debacle.
Congratulations! You seem to have survived it with most of your mind intact. You will recover over time, but you'll never be the same.
You are now part of us who have braved this ordeal and can sneer at those who haven't, saying "You don't understand. You haven't sat through the whole thing."
In the years to come (probably all your life) when facing something unbearable, you can argue "I saw The Holiday Special. I can do this too." You are from now on a hardened version of your former self. You have ever lasting scar tissue of the mind and senses that makes you less sensitive and tougher than before.
It will be a mental burden forever though. You have witnessed the true Dark Side. You will never forget, but it gets easier to live with. I promise.
😂😂 I will bear these scars with pride
In the words of Princess Leia, "You're braver than I thought"...
😂😂😂
💥🤣🤣🤣💥
🔔 0:01 This "Special" well predicts how the Star Wars franchise will eventually wind up the more it's left to modern day style idiots who have an agenda.
There is a reason why George Lucas tried to get all copies deleted...
He should do that with the Force Awakens
@@KRobinson-ko1ne He hasn't had control of Star Wars since 2012, Disney does.
Hating on the holiday special is so passe now, especially now after the Acolyte episode 3
Oh you poor sweet summerchild. You didn't deserve this
😭😭💀
Just remember: At the time, the only Star Wars in existence was the original film, and the Holiday Special. 😆
this is a masterpiece compared to The Acolyte.
I watched this when it first came out, before the Thanksgiving holiday of 1978. I was 6 years old, and (like many children) obsessed with Star Wars. The first movie had come out the year before, the second movie was in production, and meanwhile we got...this. I remember very little about actually watching the show, and for years afterwards just had a vague sense that there had been a TV special where there were Wookiees living in tree houses. Sort of like a repressed memory of trauma. It wasn't until decades later that I learned that my memories were real, and I watched it again...
I think that, for you as a reviewer, watching this is like the training exercise US Marines go through, where they have to put on a gas mask, go into a room full of tear gas, and then are forced to remove the mask. After a minute or so they are let out into the fresh air, and they're stumbling, gagging, and vomiting, but alive, and now they know they can survive just about anything. Now that you've survived the Star Wars Holiday Special, there is no movie so terrible that it will destroy you.
I suddenly feel so powerful 👾🦸♀️
the Rifftrax version of the Holiday *special. a brilliant takedown of the actual worst iteration of the SW'verse
This is the epitome of the Money Grab from the 60s and 70s. Something becomes successful and they try to make a strange variety show out of it and spend zero effort on it.
I saw this as a child when it originally aired. That's how old I am. Somehow I was so happy. I didn't realize how bad it was.
Carrie Fisher admitted to being high as a kite the whole time they were filming this. And to be fair, I can understand. So much of it feels like a drug trip on its own.
This is definitely one of the most bizarre corners of the Star Wars universe and has earned a special kind of infamy that even George Lucas himself has publicly disowned it. However, it has also developed a certain level of endearment among the fanbase in recent years because it's so crazy that you can't help but embrace it a little. I think they even celebrate "Life Day" at the Star Wars-themed lands at the Disney parks around Christmas.
Aww that's so wholesome ❤
The webcomic XKCD tried to warn the world in 2009, in #653 "So Bad It's Worse"... but the warning fell on deaf ears.
Poor Mark Hamill. That make-up makes him as gold as 3PO 🤣🤣🤣
The Christmas special is the kind of cocaine fever dream you could only get in the late 70s.
🔔 It's exactly as if they came out with breakfast cornflakes called "Star Wars: The Cereal" but it tasted like vomit! 😅
Omg😅😂😂😂
Great intro 😄
Yeah... and always remember: A paycheck was given for this...
😂😂😂
To who the coke dealer or actors? The Coke dealer did more work on this film then any of the crew lmao.
It’s funny, because I remember watching this back around the holiday times in the US, and even then, like you, it left a bad taste in my mouth, especially after so much fun I had watching Star Wars so many times in the first run.
All I thought watching this thing was: "This is a hell of a time for an acid flashback!"
But the problem was I've never been on acid.
🔔 This horrendous TV special is as bad (and worse) in its way as the first part of the play "Springtime For Hitler" as featured in the splendid comedy movie, "THE PRODUCERS"! 😉
As someone who can't resist doing the very thing I've been warned about, I really want to watch this... again.😢
Holy crap! That's Harvey Korman!
I looked it up and it has Bea Arthur, Art Carney & Diahann Caroll in it. The cast is stacked.
I am currently watching it, I think you may have actually oversold this.
@@mark37724 Gooood. Let the hate flow through you.
It was a great coincidence you put out a vid today. Times are real dark here and you have always cheered me up. Just know you help some ppl get by just being yourself!!!
Wow thank you, that means so much❤🤝
I'm impressed you made it through it, love the rant
Haha thank you 😁
Just know that Episode 9 is actually worse.
Hehehe. This really shouldn't be viewed without medical staff ready to intervene.
💀For real
Or Cocaine and acid aka what George took while writing and directing this cursed film.
I'm sorry you had to witness this. A few of those who were in it haven't exactly spoken favorably about it themselves when asked about it. Mark Hamill (Luke) pretended to act confused as if to say "What is he talking about?" before answering a question about it. Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) had an OMG look, and immediately covered her face with her hand while laughing, though she did sing a couple of lines from a song in the film for some strange reason. Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) tried to be classy in telling the camera guy to stop filming, while, in a way, politely calling it "disgusting" without saying the word. Finally, Conan O'Brien brought it up to Harrison Ford (Han), who somewhat had fear in his eyes when mentioned. However, when told he had a clip, Harrison briefly pretended to hilariously strangle Conan.😁
It’s still better than the Disney Trilogy
🔔 SHREE: IT should have been called "THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS"! 🤣
Indeed 💀
🔔 SHREE: GREAT NEWS! As bad as that was, there is something as good as that was bad! Wash the residual crud from that TV "Special" off and heal your wounded sensibilites by reacting to THE STING (1973)! 😉
Thanks for sharing!😍
@@ShreeNation 😘
To be fair George Lucas in a interview with Vice and many other platforms has said that and I quote "Yeah all of us but Harrison Ford and Mark (Who was on some medication for pain after the crash) were on tons of Cocaine at the time,".
So that does explain the lack of blinking and the lack of story and psychedelic scenes and the p..n grandpa Wookiee watches and yeah there is way too much.
Long story short it was cocaine that was the producer, directer and script writer in the film's making. PS lol this film gave all the crew PTSD especially Harrison Ford lol jokes aside check out his reaction on Conan his reaction is priceless.
Will do 😂
@@ShreeNation Lol good the interview is funny very funny and I am happy my jokes and many other jokes is helping you heal lmao.
i feel you girl worst thing that ever happen to Star Wars and that includes jar jar
I got through it by watching the Rifftrax version which I think they still have on RUclips for general viewing for free.
The scene in Art Carney’s shop with the Imperial officer is remarkably painful. People don’t usually mention it in online reviews! It’s just so dull and awkward.
I thought that I'd felt a Disturbance in The Force...🤔(LOL) Oh My Poor Padawan🙏I am SO Sorry that You have suffered through This Abomination!💔My deepest / most-Sincere Sympathies will Be With You today🫂hopefully You unleashed Your 'Dark Side' and gave this one the Hell that it deserves!❤🔥I'd expect nothing less...👌
Oh yes, I'm in my full sarcastic self in this one 😂😂 See you soon, hope you enjoy!!
@@ShreeNation Wonderful, I can't wait!😅It's always a Pleasure to See You Again🥰whatever I can do (say) to Help put a Smile back on Your Face😁I'm always here for that too...👍
It's a pleasure to have you here 😇🙏
@@ShreeNation Thank You☺
Woah you actually tested that weapon of mass irritation! Well earlier you did want something to recommend to your enemies!
😂😂 I am my own worst enemy 💀
Lovely reaction - I haven't seen that film since it first aired during my childhood, but your video almost makes me happy now that this Holiday Special exists, because it made it possible for you to do your awesome reaction here, which is actually better than some of the more recent Star Wars films (but just to be safe, if you notice signs of lasting brain damage from watching that show, the medical websites recommend a diet of unsaturated fats, legumes, and oily fish- and be careful w heavy objects lol)
Hahah glad you enjoyed 😂😉 I promise to eat well and not lift heavy objects for a while!
Welcome to the "Holiday Special Survivors Club"! That's what my then-girlfriend and I came up with as a name for people who have watched that horrible abomination after we did so on a dare...
Haha honored to be a part of the club 😁😌
I know how you feel 😢 I'm watching couple of channels which specialize on low-budget, bad or obscure movies and even they think this is the one of the worst thing ever.
Ooh do share the names of their channels, I love discovering obscure movies! 😍
@@ShreeNation
It's strange, my first comment with channels names disappeared somehow. I repeat it just in case)
There is my little list:
"Good Bad or Bad Bad"
"Jason Brant"
"Fanboy Flicks"
"Brandon Tenold"
🔔 SHREE: IMO Everyone involved in that egregious assault on our senses should've gotten jail time.
Or at the very least, they should have been put away for Mental Health Reasons...
All I can say is if anything can cure the bad taste after watching the Star Wars Holiday Special, it's watching the "Stars of Star Wars" episode from season 4 of The Muppet Show.
It shows that if you want to do a Star Wars themed comedy/musical/variety special...it is possible to actually do one right.
It's cute, it's funny, it's got some catchy songs, it actually predicted the future of both Star Wars and The Muppets as franchises.
Most importantly...it's only 25 minutes long.
This sounds fun, thank you 😍
Years ago there was a voteing.
- Most Voters prefer the Holiday Special over The Last Jedi movie.. and. 51 % for Holiday Special. 49 % for Last Jedi and..and I personally hate myself, to defend LJ... but the Holiday Special is by far the worst Star Wars has ever produced.
LMAO Ya I watched this when it first aired on TV. It gave me a TUMAH!!
The irony is that this aired between the releases of Episodes IV and V. So, if you were watching in chronological order you would have seen this before The Empire Strikes Back. Thank goodness, people just go to Empire.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Let’s see the reaction!!!
For your therapy! 😌😌😌
Thank you so much Chris 🥲❤❤
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😂🤣 perfect review of this Star Wars holiday movie !
Haha thank you 😂🙏🙏
Looks like an early Mel Brooks : Spaceballs
If you wanna get down! Get on the ground! The star wars holiday special!
I remember watching this on TV and leaving the room several times to go play with toys. Ten minutes later I'm back to see if it got better...it didn't.
I had the same experience 😂 I went to make coffee, go to the bathroom, and they're still singing and dancing! Nothing happens!!
Image how I felt watching it on it's first and only broadcast....
I can't imagine 😂 Please share your experience!
@@ShreeNation A month and a half of hype and tv adds building your expectations for Star Wars on tv then this steaming pile is broadcast... Huge disappointment.
I was more impressed when the band Kiss was on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special in 1976.
Sure the bits with them were a little lame with bad humor but the band did have three songs they played. (KISS - Paul Lynde Halloween Special - 1976)
Or better a show that became a yearly broadcast, The Hobbit movie 1977. (animated special)
I watched this once during the holiday season, and I seriously almost fell asleep.
I don't blame you 😂
George Lucas definitely was doing drugs and had a massive brain fart with this one. I’m glad you did it. You can now call yourself a fan. You suffered through it just like we did.
He had NOTHING to do with it (other than VERY ill-advisedly taking the money & running).
Mark Hamill indeed suffered serious facial injuries in a car accident shortly after the making of à New Hope, that nearly made him quit acting. However, in Corvette Summer, also released in 1978, he made a better performance than in Holiday Special (at least he managed to blink from time to time). So, besides the aftermath of the accident, perhaps he was not motivated to do his best ?
Then……The Acolyte.
Never even knew that this existed? But, if your thumbnail pic is any indication of its merit, I think that I may see something new from you today, Shree. My real question is...why this? There's almost an infinite number of better choices? Well I guess you can call me 'Spaghetti Head ' because I'm here for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly! Eraserhead was the Ugly! So I'm going to say that today, may be the bad.😮 See you at your premier Shree 😊
Don't worry, this won't be an hour long reaction, I'm not that cruel 🤭😂😂
Even George Lucas hates this Christmas Special. The only good thing is that it explains where Boba character first appeared.
Oh baby. No you didn't. I'm so sorry you saw this shit. You're tougher than Princess Leia!!
😭💀
One of the greatest speeches of all time doesn't start with "I have a dream..."
It starts with "If I had sledgehammer and time..."
And when will that superstream you've mentioned happen? :o
Where you would be doing Soldier
Hi, I'll be making a 10k subscriber special video next month and after that I'll check out around 5-10 subscriber requested films and make a full review or a livestream, so that may take around 1-2 months 😅 Sorry for the delay
@@ShreeNationwaited this lobg, I can wait a bit more xD
“Worst thing on Planet Earth”?
Clearly, you haven’t seen The Acolyte yet.
I'm too scared 😅
@@ShreeNation Just simply don’t watch it. It’s not worth your time.
I never saw Star Wars The Holiday Special (It looks horrible) but I know what you fell. I saw the movie Saturday Night Fever which is considered a a 70's classic which defined the Disco era and made John Travolta and The Bee Gees most classic music famous. I saw it and I could not believe this movie is a classic. This movie has no story and nothing happen in it and by the end when something finally happen the movie ends. Also the movie does not use the Bee Gees correctly. Most movies the movie and music help each other but in this movie the movie and the music in it has nothing to do with each other. I could not believe the Bee Gees music became so poplar from this crap of a movie.
A good Star Wars watch is the Muppet episode where Mark Hamill guest star
Thank you!
Spectacular review. We can feel your pain from forcing yourself to watch this. 🤣
😂😂 Thank you!
Oh no, now you're not going to want to watch Star Wars Caravan of Courage (aka The Ewok Adventure) or Star Wars The Battle for Endor - which are also pretty horrible in their own way!
Now I have to 😂💀
at less you didn't count down the days till this was on t.v. like I did!
Oooooof 💀💀💀
Don't feel bad, George Lucas was also ashamed of this special. It was so bad that it never re-aired on television even after over 40 years.
"BOBA FETT", first appears,, debuts,, in this garbage! 🤣
Oh last one this "film" is what is what Indiana Jones saw when he was exposed to the crystal skull.
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@@ShreeNation Glade you liked my jokes lmao.
Not the worst abomination to be captured on celluloid, that glory belongs to Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010). Namaste 🙏.
Ah yes, the movie I couldn't finish after 10 minutes😂 I plan to sit through that one of these days. Namaste 🙏
theres a few that are worse not many, but a few are wished i had a rusty spoon to remove my eyes bad
@@Greenwood4727 Ouch!!😆
We love the holiday special! its the best worst thing ever!
Solid gold compared to 7,8,9
I recommend the version with the RIFFTRAX joke commentary... it's a lot more fun and tolerable. 🤣
Yeah, it's bad, but it's bad in such a weird and charming way. I can't hate it. Star Wars has committed bigger sins than this with a straight face.. this was never meant as anything other than a goof that would only air once. And at least this has the excuse that the ONLY Start Wars thing it had to base things on (in 78) was 1) the 1st film, and 2) a "Wookie Bible" Lucas had made about the wookie world. From there they did what 900 other 70s Variety Specials did... bad jokes and random songs.
This was so early the first Star Wars toys werent even out yet. Look at this as a "slice of time" in American pop culture... The late 70s was a weird time... and Star Wars was this shiny new thing that Lucas was just getting a handle on exploiting for lots and lots of money... but even he admits.. this was bad.. he said he'd destroy all the copies with a hammer if he could.
Btw, this is just after Mark Hamill's notorious corvette accident that basically changed his face... so he's in heavy makeup due to plastic surgery that hadn't quite healed. They explained this away in Empire Strikes Back by having the Wampa whack him in the face with his claw.
Thank you, will look for the rifftrax commentary 😃👌
Its funny how relative things are isn't it?
The Holiday Special is *still* a better film than The Sixth Sense, any Adam Sandler or Matt Damon movie, any Hollywood remake, retcon or reboot.....
Never seen this, and i never will.
This rant en The pitch meeting from Ryan George are the only video's with footage from this disaster. But appearently Disney made something worse with the Acolyte, i only saw 1 clip of that from episode 3 and that looked beyond Bad. The only star wars i think is Great is the original trilogy.
The prequels were Meh.
Rogue 1 was ok
And after the Disney Sequels i was done with it.
Ooh I haven't seen Acolyte yet, but I've heard good things about Andor
mmm Rolls up sleeves. there are a few that are similar, but theres do bad they are good, and so bad they are bad. The Room is so bad its good Plan 9 from outer space is another so bad its good , the terror of tiny town is Something, Exorcist 2 is a so bad its only barely acceptabl if you think of i as a parody of the first, Nukie is BAD i mean really really BAD, Garbage pail kids is so much trash
I want to marathon all of these and I'm also terrified 😂😂 thanks for recommending!
@@ShreeNationthis is what the devil doesnt show in hell because even the devil would say its cruel . the first two you ca have a lot of fun with, more so with some chemical enhancements, but the others ;)
Then there's _Manos: The Hands of Fate,_ which at least has the excuse of being made on a bet by a fertilizer salesman with $19,000 and absolutely no talent (or ability) for making movies. I'll give it this much credit, the story does have a pretty good horror movie premise, and the production definitely gets some laughs.
Here's the thing.... You were probably WARNED.
Hi Shree
Hi Aran
Pretty sure the only reason you can find this so readily on RUclips is because no one in their right mind would ever willingly claim it as theirs. "Yes, your honor, we own the rights to the Star Wars Holiday Special. Why, yes, I do suffer from debilitating brain damage, why do you ask?"
😂😂 Good point
Watching this you need booze... or you wish you would have booze and after while without booze you will start considering lobotomy...
I wish I did (the booze, not the lobotomy) 😅
And somehow, people are calling the new shows the worst. The holiday special is so low it's under Hell itself.
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I think precocious fifteen year olds could have written something better than this special. What this needed was a plot involving actual danger.
I agree LOL
Oh you poor thing. Go watch the original trilogy again to cleanse your pallet.
So you havent seen the acolyte yet😊
Not yet 😅
Heleo
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This is not a movie. It’s a TV special-as is stated in the show’s title.
I know a lot of people like to crap on this, but when Star Wars came out, as kids in the 70s we couldn't rent the movie and watch it at home, and the idea of mom and dad taking us to see the same movie again was not in the cards. I remember watching this...myself, my brother and my friends were all thrilled. It didn't matter that from an adults view it was crap. It was a new story about the characters we loved, in an era before movie trilogies guaranteed more. From our perspective, the first film was going to be the only film. And at the time we got to see this special exactly once. I don't think it was rebroadcast, VCRs didn't exist, and again, it was not rentable since that entire industry didn't exist.
Well, it's exactly like if they came out at the time with breakfast cornflakes called "Star Wars: The Cereal" but it tasted like vomit.
@@Rocket_Man232 Lol maybe, but again for its target audience it was amazing. Plus, 1970s network television was almost uniformly terrible. Yes compared to an $11 million film (around $60 million in todays dollars)...and routinely tinkered with and updated, the TV special was bad. Of course it was. But compared to a typical 1970s variety show (like say 'Hee Haw' or 'Laugh In') it was more or less par. The show looks as bad as it does to a modern eye because the context is completely removed.
@@Ocrilat Bullshit! Laugh-In was a VERY highly rated show and deservedly so! Hee-Haw was on MANY years it was so horrrible! 🤣
@@Rocket_Man232 'Laugh In' could be funny, but also had low production values, quality-wise was hit or miss, and had the added (and terrible) canned laughter that then and now is like fingernails on a chalkboard. There were always more groans than laughs, even then. Now watching the show it has aged like milk...just like the Star Wars Holiday Special. Highly rated 1970s TV show doesn't mean much to today's eye.
Even hugely popular shows usually aged poorly. For every gem like 'Columbo' you have 100 'Barney Miller's...a show I liked at the time, but again something that aged like milk.
@@Ocrilat Oh I agree with all that you said!
Dear Ms. Shree, in the 70's, "cocaine is a hell of a drug" became the rallying cry for makers of entertainment franchises of every kind. That's why in addition to this "Star Wars" debacle, we also got things like "Challenge Of The Superheroes", and "Pink Lady And Jeff" cluttering up the TV airwaves, and just for good measure, we also got "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with The Bee Bees and "Can't Stop The Music" with The Village People stinking up the theaters. Signs of the times...