Best of Rifftrax 'The Star Wars Holiday Special'

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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2024

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  • @undoneonion90
    @undoneonion90 6 лет назад +391

    "Star Wars, you and your children loved it!"
    "Then tonight happened!"

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 лет назад +5

      @Robert Jindra
      I realized how bitter I was to assume you wrote "Then tonight happened" as response to Solo or TLJ, until I learned you were quoting Rifftrax...

    • @cemeraslan369
      @cemeraslan369 4 года назад +12

      Last Jedi in a nutshell.

    • @matthewburgess6076
      @matthewburgess6076 3 года назад +7

      Than all disney remakes happened... lol

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 Год назад +1

      @@matthewburgess6076 I fucking _wish_ they were just remakes. The soft reboot was a terrible idea, compounded by a long string of terrible ideas that made it onto the screen.

  • @staplafara
    @staplafara 5 лет назад +97

    Without Rifftrax, this would be unbearable. Thank you.

  • @Rayman1971
    @Rayman1971 5 лет назад +95

    I was a kid when it came on, I was really excited!!! About 20 minutes into it, I just wanted to go and play in my room, and for a kid at the time to do that, it was shite!!!

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d 7 месяцев назад

      Don’t blame you
      One of the people on now playing podcast played this for a bunch of friends and they all got up and walked out

  • @extraram896
    @extraram896 Год назад +29

    The running joke of Mike, Kev & Bill making wookie noises that're more and more gutteral and demonic throughout the movie is definitely my fave

  • @rjakobi
    @rjakobi 4 года назад +172

    I will pay for ten years of Disney+ if someone sneaks some clips of the cooking show into the next season of The Mandalorian.

  • @Zoomer30
    @Zoomer30 5 лет назад +157

    Carrie was so high when she did this (she said so).

    • @christopherlowery3797
      @christopherlowery3797 4 года назад +22

      magnetothewhite glistening, glassy as fuck. Lucky. Was probably necessary.

    • @Optimalillusion
      @Optimalillusion 4 года назад +11

      I don't do drugs, and even I wanted to party with Carrie!

    • @eddieolshefski6467
      @eddieolshefski6467 3 года назад +24

      And could you blame the poor woman?

    • @tonyleccese2102
      @tonyleccese2102 3 года назад +21

      As I'm sure the director and writers were when creating this shit.

    • @1-judge
      @1-judge 8 месяцев назад

      i am scared, she wouldve been fine but none of that awful disgrace of a mess wouldve happened if any of them had some inhibiition, conscientiousness a conscious

  • @kgpar1960
    @kgpar1960 4 года назад +30

    "Blow it out your crystal skull bong, you 'has-been' "... GREAT LINE!!!

  • @michaelcortez1531
    @michaelcortez1531 6 лет назад +39

    Still the greatest Rifftrax of all. Mike Kevin & Bill were on fire during this period. I watch this all the time.

    • @phlaelym
      @phlaelym 3 года назад +1

      Deadly Prey is a close second.

  • @JetScreamer_YT
    @JetScreamer_YT 5 лет назад +81

    Bea Arthur loved doing this. Star Wars... Thank you for being a trend.

    • @MarquisLeary34
      @MarquisLeary34 5 лет назад +31

      I would watch the HELL out of a Bea Arthur as Mos Eisley bartender special or even series.

    • @waltertomaszewski1083
      @waltertomaszewski1083 4 года назад +12

      Jet Screamer I happened to like Art Carney, too. But he delivered his lines as if he were in a *real* Star Wars movie, not this tripe.

    • @dianalewandowski7421
      @dianalewandowski7421 4 года назад +4

      🎶🎵 "friend, friend, friend "🎵🎶

    • @elphbwckd212
      @elphbwckd212 4 года назад +12

      I don't blame her. She was in the only good segment in the whole special lol

    • @eddieolshefski6467
      @eddieolshefski6467 3 года назад +5

      I liked Harvey Korman. Though I felt he was desperate when doing this. Or maybe he knew how bad this special was and he wanted to get some laughs out of us.

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 2 года назад +52

    Fun fact: the Jonestown Massacre happened the _day_ after this special was released.

  • @mr.vidjagamez9896
    @mr.vidjagamez9896 5 лет назад +55

    i can appreciate how this was one of the earliest pieces of SW media we got that kind of established more of the universe and things like how the common populace of the galaxy may live. that and the fact that its bat-shit insane.

  • @domtaylor1887
    @domtaylor1887 4 года назад +38

    My top 5 favorite lines from this:
    1. "It'll be fun for approximately 3.7 seconds!" 8:50
    2. "Hey, it's not scrolling at an unpleasant angle, I can't read it!" 0:57
    3. "How come they haven't made a Pujols candy bar yet?" 16:36
    4. "Not to be confused with Anakin, the whiny son of Shmi." 29:03
    5. "What do you know, it's not every day you see the stupidest thing you've ever seen." 26:39

  • @Trainlover1995
    @Trainlover1995 5 лет назад +91

    "Did we interrupt him in the middle of a kabuki play? And what's with the make-up?"
    There's actually a very, very good reason Mark Hamill had so much damn make-up. The special was shot just after his car crash. This is why his face is covered up at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back, then he got bitch-slapped by the wampa, thus explaining the scars. By the team they healed in Return of the Jedi, it made him look more mature, like his character, so it all worked out very well in the end.

    • @jackdaone6469
      @jackdaone6469 2 года назад +2

      Yeah, Hamill’s face got all sorts of fucked up from that accident.

    • @kennyaustin429
      @kennyaustin429 Год назад +2

      The poor guy looks like he can't even blink his eyes in this special. Did they wheel him out of the hospital mid surgery?

    • @keithbrown6887
      @keithbrown6887 Год назад +2

      He suffered a fractured nose and cheek.

  • @roberteaston42
    @roberteaston42 5 лет назад +31

    "Did David Lynch guest direct this?" LOL!!!

  • @beazy5234
    @beazy5234 2 года назад +7

    i watch this all the time...well not all the time but some of the time

  • @agentofentertainment1361
    @agentofentertainment1361 6 лет назад +163

    Is it sad that the commercials are more exciting the the special itself.

    • @scottjohnston3098
      @scottjohnston3098 3 года назад +9

      “Dear god not a wavy line!”

    • @kingsford3657
      @kingsford3657 3 года назад +8

      It’ll be fun for approximately 3.7 seconds!

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 2 года назад +5

      🗣 _he's under your control!_
      🤖: **TOBOR disagrees**

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 Год назад +1

      ​@@favoritemustard3542"That's just what Tobor WANTS you to think!"

  • @gspendlove
    @gspendlove 6 лет назад +104

    "He's under your control." " Yes, that's exactly what Tobor wants you to think. "

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 лет назад +3

      @gspendlove
      Y'know when I first read this comment, I thought that was an 8 Man reference... Until I saw the commercial which had me thinking:" In 1978, there was a toy robot... Named "Tobor...." Why...?"

    • @Clenched.Cheeks
      @Clenched.Cheeks 4 года назад +3

      @@DemonicRemption It's Robot spelled backwards that's why. :)

  • @bromodragone8405
    @bromodragone8405 5 лет назад +154

    Life Day if officially canon. As confirmed by The Mandalorian.

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 лет назад +11

      @Alucard, More Awesome Than Chuck Norris!
      I was hoping someone would mention that...

    • @martinprince7773
      @martinprince7773 5 лет назад +7

      This is the way 😂

    • @231mac
      @231mac 4 года назад +9

      And that officially does nothing to increase its importance or popularity. As confirmed by Everyone.

    • @somedudewhodraws9377
      @somedudewhodraws9377 4 года назад +7

      Well that and Lego Star Wars Holiday Special Trailer just dropped XD!

    • @JamaicanCastle
      @JamaicanCastle 4 года назад +14

      It was also canon under the old EU, along with Chewie's family, the Imperial occupation, and even some of the treehouse designs. (Hey, they're nice treehouses.) Just with the understanding that it all happened in something resembling reality, and not a coked-out mess of a variety show.

  • @jonathanbethards3689
    @jonathanbethards3689 5 лет назад +52

    That Paul Williams joke almost made me pee my pants laughing

    • @zombiedodge1426
      @zombiedodge1426 4 года назад +11

      Paul Williams was in "Smokey and the Bandit," which opened on the same weekend as "Star Wars," which means...absolutely nothing.

    • @ghoulinthegraveyard399
      @ghoulinthegraveyard399 2 года назад +2

      @@zombiedodge1426 But he sure looked like Paul Williams.

  • @crowholdem
    @crowholdem 3 года назад +20

    Mike's idea about the music playing while someone proposes is so brilliantly delivered that it STILL makes me laugh every time I watch this.

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 Год назад +3

      It gets better if you're actually proposing to someone named Rebecca, and the music pops into your head...

    • @purplebec9112
      @purplebec9112 Год назад +1

      My name is Rebecca and I want this proposal happen if I ever get there. ❤❤❤ I mean I felt like Mike is speaking to me personally.

  • @elizabethkelly6325
    @elizabethkelly6325 5 лет назад +30

    Hilarious riffs! As a kid, I remember being bored with this special, walking away & coloring.

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 4 года назад +9

      You have been spared years of therapy with that decision.

    • @SailorAllan
      @SailorAllan 3 года назад +2

      I wonder into what color did she turn ?

  • @tomhill6047
    @tomhill6047 Год назад +9

    I'm a child of the '70s, and every time I try to explain that decade to my millennial co-workers, I just wind up throwing my hands up in despair. You just had to be there.

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d 7 месяцев назад

      You just had to be born during the disco era 😂

  • @Jayfive276
    @Jayfive276 5 лет назад +38

    "And next week the Tibetan Book of the Dead!"
    And you'll find me listed within it's pages because I died right there...

    • @wileyschmitt
      @wileyschmitt  5 лет назад +4

      Along with Nimrod and Dorkus. That Star Wars Holiday Special is easily the best Rifftrax there will ever be, the Mike, Kevin and Bill are at their best and seemed to be having so much fun.

  • @johnrust592
    @johnrust592 6 лет назад +114

    Harvey Korman, proof that even the most talented of comedians can't do much when given a crappy script.

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 лет назад +17

      @John Rust
      Idk, when he's playing that four-armed cook, he seems to having fun.

    • @willg4802
      @willg4802 5 лет назад +17

      @@DemonicRemption that's just the fact that he found Fisher's stash of coke!

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 лет назад +6

      @@willg4802
      Yeah, I believe that... How else could he get through this.

    • @SpamEggSausage
      @SpamEggSausage 5 лет назад +3

      if you think he's the most talented comedian, who do you think is the least??

    • @purplebec9112
      @purplebec9112 Год назад +1

      The Carol Burnett Show is outdated but every once in awhile Harvey comes up with a line, even people today will understand. Harvey plays a woman sometimes and everyone hollers when he does. And you can see why but then you watch this and your like why?

  • @joshuabenson6543
    @joshuabenson6543 6 лет назад +26

    This rifftrax was comedy gold! It helps make this godawful special easier to watch.

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d Год назад

      Not the whole thing as opposed to small snippets

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 5 лет назад +26

    During a 2006 interview on Conan, Harrison Ford was asked about the Holiday Special. He denied any involvement with a face like he was having a Vietnam flashback.

    • @tr4480
      @tr4480 Год назад

      Ford is an arrogant blowhard

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d 7 месяцев назад +2

      Can’t blame him
      It’s like Jack Black never wanting to talk about Neverending Story 3

  • @timothytaylor8312
    @timothytaylor8312 6 лет назад +78

    Life Day. Brought to you by the following Corporate behemoths...

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 лет назад +6

      Coke

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 лет назад +1

      @magnetothewhite the real brain melting stuff

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 лет назад +2

      @magnetothewhite ( I think now hav a good explanation for what kylo to turn to the dark side )
      Because Han and Leia decided to bring the poor bastard to the wookies during life day

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 лет назад +1

      Without any of the drugs

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 5 лет назад +3

      @magnetothewhite yeah and unlike Jacen and jaina solo he had no one to fall back on

  • @halfling49
    @halfling49 6 лет назад +78

    *Elton John would give everything he owned if this were only a real device*

  • @georgeorwell4534
    @georgeorwell4534 5 лет назад +39

    They used to wait until Halloween was over, but now they advertise Life Day right after Talk Like a Pirate Day!

    • @purplebec9112
      @purplebec9112 Год назад +1

      So after SpongeBob Squarepants musical where they made "Talk Like a PIRATES day", so Star Wars exists in SpongeBob universe? I'm not sure if I'm okay with that.

    • @quester09
      @quester09 Год назад +1

      so you can shop ahead of time :D

  • @jeffreyriley8742
    @jeffreyriley8742 6 лет назад +41

    "I shot first. You got that?"

  • @undoneonion90
    @undoneonion90 7 лет назад +113

    Ladies and gentlemen, Chewbacca's lifeless stare!

  • @GrampaTheGrunt62
    @GrampaTheGrunt62 4 года назад +10

    If you close your eyes while Chewies family is talking, it will transport you back to your first St.Patricks day celebration after turning 21 years old.

  • @MkeKen67
    @MkeKen67 6 лет назад +136

    Well, I can see why George Lucas wanted to suppress this. Holy crap!

    • @ladyvincenza
      @ladyvincenza 5 лет назад +18

      I'm more interested in how stuff like this gets made in the first place. Was everyone too stoned to realize what they were doing when they wrote/directed/whatevered this?

    • @petergray2712
      @petergray2712 5 лет назад +24

      @@ladyvincenza Lucas was busy in ESB preproduction, and he agreed to this project offhandedly. The production staff for the special were people brought in by CBS and were unaffiliated with Lucasfilm. Long story short, the producers had no clue what Star Wars was about, and this.... THIS.... was the result.

    • @ladyvincenza
      @ladyvincenza 5 лет назад +5

      @@petergray2712 Still and all, enough people had to look at this and let the public see it.

    • @petergray2712
      @petergray2712 5 лет назад +19

      @@ladyvincenza You're forgetting that everyone- including George Lucas- thought that New Hope was a bomb before it was released. None of the executives at Twentieth Century Fox thought it could be a successful movie, until it was. TV production in the 1970s was way more insular and unimaginative than cinema, filled with old vaudeville and radio show veterans whose primary goal was to satisfy commercial sponsors and keeping senior citizens awake. Variety show producers are the apotheosis of this ethos of cheap and profitable mass produced entertainment. What they tried to create was an unholy mashup of variety show thrills, badly written holiday pantomime, and a story that featured principal actors in cameo only roles, while the "stars" were offputting Wookie characters and whatever other variety show veterans they could retrieve off the scrap pile at short notice on the cheap.. Plus they had Eddie Fisher's daughter, so they thought "Let's have her sing finale, cuz what could go wrong?" NO! NOOOOO!

    • @ladyvincenza
      @ladyvincenza 5 лет назад +6

      @@petergray2712 I guess judgment sucked all over the franchise?

  • @redtexan7053
    @redtexan7053 6 лет назад +85

    7:36 the last thing you ever want to hear from the same guy who plays The Joker.

    • @Phentari
      @Phentari 5 лет назад +20

      Let's be honest: the Joker wears a little less make-up than Mark was wearing here...

    • @MrJimmyTide
      @MrJimmyTide 5 лет назад +7

      @@Phentari I heard this was right after his car accident, so he was heavily made up to hide the scarring.

    • @Phentari
      @Phentari 5 лет назад +11

      @@MrJimmyTide, absolutely. He's mentioned that in a number of interviews over the years. It's also why the Wampa scene was put in "Empire"--to explain the damage to his face.

    • @ChibiPanda8888
      @ChibiPanda8888 5 лет назад +5

      @@Phentari I never knew that part but it makes sense.

  • @yer_old_pal_Jerky
    @yer_old_pal_Jerky 7 лет назад +54

    "How come they haven't made a Pujols candy yet?" slayed me!!!

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 5 лет назад +1

      That was pure brilliance.

    • @davincent98
      @davincent98 4 года назад +1

      @@srbrant5391 agreed

    • @Optimalillusion
      @Optimalillusion 4 года назад

      Now I wish there was one.

    • @karnerblue7658
      @karnerblue7658 3 года назад +1

      Born in ‘84. Can someone explain? 😁

    • @pronkb000
      @pronkb000 3 года назад +6

      @@karnerblue7658 Albert Pujols was a prominent baseball player of the 2000s and was one of the best in the game when this Riff came out. It's just a play on his name (pronounced "Poo-holes") being the most unappetizing possible name for a chocolate bar you could imagine.

  • @bromodragone8405
    @bromodragone8405 4 года назад +30

    James Earl Jones is an absolute sweetheart irl. It's usually the actors who play evil people who turn out to be sweethearts. Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Gunnyr Hanson, the many actors of Michael Myers, Ian McDiarmid, Clancy Brown, etc.

    • @zombiedodge1426
      @zombiedodge1426 4 года назад +6

      To be fair, JMJ had many more roles where he *wasn't* the bad guy. As for Robert Englund, he'll always be Willie from "V" to me.

    • @eldrichnemo9312
      @eldrichnemo9312 Год назад +1

      Given Mark Hamill being THE voice of The Joker I also include him in that club

  • @jamesdexter7036
    @jamesdexter7036 6 лет назад +65

    Cocaine's a hellava drug.

  • @blampfno
    @blampfno 4 года назад +10

    I saw this when it aired. Even young, little idealistic me knew he was looking at a genuine space turd.
    So glad these guys got hold of it.

  • @pisceanx8382
    @pisceanx8382 5 лет назад +40

    That was hard to get through, even with those guys helping.

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 лет назад +4

      @Piscean X
      Ah a kindred spirit who knows my pain... :)

    • @mantislake4141
      @mantislake4141 4 года назад +2

      Seems like fraternities that implemented watching this film as a nonviolent alternative to hazing quickly switched back

  • @iprobablyforgotsomething
    @iprobablyforgotsomething 6 лет назад +16

    I really could've lived without seeing this. I can only blame myself. I should've hit the back-button.

  • @MrVarhansen
    @MrVarhansen 4 года назад +8

    "Tobor is Robot spelled Backwards" is the most underground star wars reference t-shirt

  • @dkupke
    @dkupke 6 лет назад +74

    Carrie fisher was so obviously loaded when she did the song number

    • @eddieolshefski6467
      @eddieolshefski6467 5 лет назад +26

      She did get herself coked up for this ' special '. It was the beginning of her drug issues but honestly, I can't blame her. No way could I do something like this without getting high or drunk to get me through.

    • @chopin65
      @chopin65 5 лет назад +2

      Yeah... 😕

    • @jwhiteout
      @jwhiteout 5 лет назад +1

      Oldest observation in the galaxy. You must've read Postcards from the Edge or something. You probably call Threepio 3-CPO, too.

    • @deafmusician2
      @deafmusician2 5 лет назад +1

      I would have to have been.

  • @courtney1496
    @courtney1496 6 лет назад +30

    Damn, they're on fire in this. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @wileyschmitt
      @wileyschmitt  6 лет назад +1

      I just rewatched this earlier and felt the same, this might be their best one by far, and it has Mike's footprint all over it.

    • @wileyschmitt
      @wileyschmitt  6 лет назад +1

      Yeah I laughed a lot at this one even though I've seen it a few times but it has been a few months since my last viewing, so I plan to watch it about every 3 or 4 months which will hopefully have the same effect seeming fresh again.

    • @damianpenny1974
      @damianpenny1974 6 лет назад +1

      So they're the guys they lit on fire?

    • @purplebec9112
      @purplebec9112 Год назад

      So they finally put the guy on fire!

  • @Zoomer30
    @Zoomer30 5 лет назад +22

    Script Writer: Sentient Bag of Cocaine.

  • @donbishop1634
    @donbishop1634 6 лет назад +16

    So happy to keep G Lucas' nightmare alive! ;)

  • @user-lb9xw4xf2q
    @user-lb9xw4xf2q 3 года назад +6

    I like how the version they watch is a TV rip that includes the ads; the commercials are an odd time capsule, plus it allows them to use a wider variety of jokes than just the Star Wars special.

  • @collegeman1988
    @collegeman1988 6 лет назад +88

    I had no idea Luke Skywalker wore eyeliner.

    • @kellyweingart3692
      @kellyweingart3692 6 лет назад +3

      😂😂😂😂

    • @kellyweingart3692
      @kellyweingart3692 6 лет назад +28

      “Did we interrupt him in the middle of a kabuki play...what’s with the make-up?”

    • @RancidGravy
      @RancidGravy 6 лет назад +1

      Wait, you didn't?

    • @pandorasangel2747
      @pandorasangel2747 5 лет назад +16

      If I'm not mistaken the actor got in an accident that messed up his face so they covered it up with make up just to make this special, wth

    • @MicrowavedAlastair5390
      @MicrowavedAlastair5390 5 лет назад +21

      @@pandorasangel2747 If they would have waited for Mark Hamill to heal completely, I bet someone could have talked them out of doing the special. At the very least, it would have been that much less creepy. Poor guy looks like a zombie.

  • @Nightweaver1
    @Nightweaver1 5 лет назад +28

    23:30
    We now join a young Robin Williams as he builds an Interociter.

  • @BubbaThaumaturge
    @BubbaThaumaturge Год назад +3

    Still better than the sequel trilogy. Far better.

  • @RockingCatDaddy
    @RockingCatDaddy 5 лет назад +35

    Every time I see Lumpy he reminds me of Gary Coleman 😳

    • @chopitup9950
      @chopitup9950 4 года назад +8

      Whatchu talkin bout Willis?!

  • @darksouls-qv8jb
    @darksouls-qv8jb 6 лет назад +59

    So this is why mark Hamel turned crazy and became the joker

    • @darksouls-qv8jb
      @darksouls-qv8jb 6 лет назад +5

      Daydream51 lol yeah

    • @jasonedwards8352
      @jasonedwards8352 6 лет назад +12

      Hey, all it takes is one bad day.

    • @Optimalillusion
      @Optimalillusion 4 года назад +4

      They could have shown this instead of BTAS episode "Christmas With The Joker" and we would have believed it was a Joker plot.

    • @darksouls-qv8jb
      @darksouls-qv8jb 4 года назад +2

      @@Optimalillusion yes!!!

    • @lordthorgorath
      @lordthorgorath 20 дней назад

      Not to mention a Kamala voter

  • @zenpaganwarrior
    @zenpaganwarrior 3 года назад +5

    More LOL moments per minute than any other RiffTrax clip I've seen yet. I love that they included the TV ads of the time and commented on those, too. Thx, wiley!

  • @Baldwin-iv445
    @Baldwin-iv445 11 месяцев назад +3

    The Union commercial was honestly my favorite part of the special.

    • @WreckingWood
      @WreckingWood 27 дней назад +2

      "I miss shrill union anthems, I wish they bring them back. "

  • @DrummerGrrrl
    @DrummerGrrrl 5 лет назад +28

    I remember seeing this when I was eleven...and thinking it was the stupidest thing I ever saw.

    • @DavidLLambertmobile
      @DavidLLambertmobile 5 лет назад +1

      CBS TV only aired it 1 time! Once! 😁

    • @Deadbuck73
      @Deadbuck73 3 года назад

      It was...

    • @michaelcortez1531
      @michaelcortez1531 3 года назад

      @@DavidLLambertmobile Can't imagine why...

    • @breakingames7772
      @breakingames7772 3 года назад

      Even the guy singing into a glowing pink dildo? Alphabet people of today love it

  • @RaoulDuke77
    @RaoulDuke77 6 лет назад +14

    "My corns! My corns!!!" I laughed for ten minutes at that one.

  • @clara-cookie119
    @clara-cookie119 4 года назад +7

    Chewbacca's lifeless stare sums it all up

  • @camilcurn
    @camilcurn 4 года назад +12

    From Wikipedia:
    Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club wrote, "I'm not convinced the special wasn't ultimately written and directed by a sentient bag of cocaine"

  • @DrTedNelson
    @DrTedNelson 5 лет назад +11

    18:08 Kevin's breathless "Wow" is the funniest thing in this

  • @brianoconnell6459
    @brianoconnell6459 6 лет назад +53

    Wookiee tampons? Don't we call those "Ewoks"?

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 4 года назад +10

      Those are sanitary pads, you’re thinking of Porgs.

    • @markiangooley
      @markiangooley 3 года назад +2

      Ewoks are a bit too murderous…

  • @Nachocuppajo
    @Nachocuppajo 5 лет назад +4

    I watched this at 4am and went back to bed and had the strangest fucking dreams. I hate it

  • @PhilBagels
    @PhilBagels 5 лет назад +8

    RIP Peter Mayhew.

  • @nintendo1889x
    @nintendo1889x 6 лет назад +27

    10:55 - Hey, it's the Curly Alarm!
    Whoop whoop whoop whoop, nyaa-ah-ah!

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 5 лет назад +35

    “Well, Nietzsche was right: Dead as a doornail.”

    • @wavion2
      @wavion2 5 лет назад +4

      Best line.

  • @MrJohndoakes
    @MrJohndoakes 5 лет назад +27

    This was written by Pat Proft, Leonard Ripps, Bruce Vilanch, Rod Warren and Mitzie Welch - all of them used to writing cheesy variety shows, musical specials, and sketch comedy programs, not science-fantasy. Bruce Vilanch has said he got hate mail from "Star Wars" fans for years.

    • @Paulafan5
      @Paulafan5 5 лет назад +5

      Vilanch and Proft wrote great stuff... but not this.

    • @justint8851
      @justint8851 4 года назад +2

      Why does that not surprise me

    • @victorhernandez8723
      @victorhernandez8723 4 года назад +1

      Makes sense to me.

  • @gspendlove
    @gspendlove 5 лет назад +7

    I'm working on a project to combine Santa Claus Conquers the Martians with The Star Wars Holiday Special, just to hear the Rifftrax of it. It's in its very early stages ( meaning I just thought of it 2 minutes ago), and hands off! This idea is my intellectual property.

  • @astolatpere11
    @astolatpere11 4 года назад +5

    I remember variety shows. By the time this came out, variety shows were waning. Grafting Star Wars to this format shows why.

  • @jamesremington8056
    @jamesremington8056 5 лет назад +15

    This almost makes The Phantom menace seem watchable by comparison.

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d 7 месяцев назад

      And these are the same guys that riffed the prequels

  • @harleychriest5274
    @harleychriest5274 Год назад +2

    Almost choked on my bagel, great stuff, thank you! For the laughs not the choking!😂

  • @edmund184
    @edmund184 Год назад +6

    This is still better than The Phantom Menace

    • @svenjansen2134
      @svenjansen2134 6 месяцев назад +1

      This gets higher ratings than The Acolyte.

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 3 месяца назад

      ​@svenjansen2134Yes, but I could crap in a bag and it could STILL get higher ratings than The Acolyte, and I don't even know what that even is.

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 4 года назад +39

    If _Star Wars_ survived _this,_ it can survive Disney.

  • @koanikal
    @koanikal 4 года назад +11

    "it's not everyday you see the stupidest thing you've ever seen"

  • @jedijackluther
    @jedijackluther 5 лет назад +17

    (Snaps fingers) ole!

  • @arbknight12
    @arbknight12 6 лет назад +4

    "Vi came to invite you over for a cup of Life Day punch, AND YOU VILL BE WATCHING FOOTBALL VITH US NO?!"

  • @Tbillow
    @Tbillow 6 лет назад +10

    THE BAR SCENE IS BACK!!!!!!!!

  • @mesousagaby740
    @mesousagaby740 3 года назад +5

    31:47 "Grapes, an apple and--what the hell is that, tobacco?!"

  • @davidhudson8428
    @davidhudson8428 5 лет назад +8

    Just imagine all of the laughter that erupted back then from the hilarious robot Harvey Korman's instructional video.

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 5 лет назад +5

      Followed by gunshots.

    • @markiangooley
      @markiangooley 3 года назад +1

      Just as good as the American version of Fawlty Towers starring Korman as Snavely.

  • @XXhite
    @XXhite 3 месяца назад +3

    23:17 The drawing of Han Solo looks like Chevy Chase phucked Gilbert Godfrey🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯💯💯💯💀

  • @MrPhatman73
    @MrPhatman73 6 лет назад +5

    What fresh hell , big fan of star wars , dear god this pushed the limits though .

  • @David-ik8wj
    @David-ik8wj 5 лет назад +8

    I see cassette tape recorders in the holographic chess game. Is that a Radio Shack TRS-80

  • @braxtonbobo4004
    @braxtonbobo4004 6 месяцев назад +2

    Oddly enough, this is still better than the acolyte

  • @bromodragone8405
    @bromodragone8405 4 года назад +5

    "He's probably with his other family." Like his badass Jedi Knight nephew.

  • @linengray
    @linengray Год назад +1

    This is a yearly treat for me. I am sad I am not on drugs like I was when this first came out.

  • @metalmaria26
    @metalmaria26 6 лет назад +60

    This is why Harrison Ford hates Star Wars.

    • @Chipotleadvisory
      @Chipotleadvisory 6 лет назад +24

      I’m pretty sure the only thing that keeps Ford alive anymore is weed, flying, and hate lol

    • @collinsnider4179
      @collinsnider4179 6 лет назад +10

      That probably explains why he wanted his character killed off

    • @TheFranchiseCA
      @TheFranchiseCA 5 лет назад +8

      @@daydream5120 He likes acting. But he hates small talk. And Han isn't his favorite role but he gets asked about it more than everything else combined.

    • @s.mas.w
      @s.mas.w 5 лет назад +8

      He lost me when he refused to recognize “Bladerunner” in his career review on “The Actors Studio” but yet wasn’t too proud to take the money and do 2049. 🤦🏻‍♂️👎🏻

    • @MkeKen67
      @MkeKen67 5 лет назад +6

      @@s.mas.w - And don't forget he agreed to do the Crystal Skull abomination.

  • @kentonclarkson1449
    @kentonclarkson1449 5 лет назад +15

    Festivus for the rest of us?
    NO! I say!
    Life Day is the only way!

    • @rexisgamer
      @rexisgamer 5 лет назад +1

      Life Day. This is the Way.

  • @UnclePhil73
    @UnclePhil73 4 года назад +6

    The kids in the 70s loved them some Harvey Korman

  • @Jameywells777
    @Jameywells777 4 года назад +3

    This show warped my mind

  • @brain_apostrophe_t
    @brain_apostrophe_t 5 лет назад +11

    Just wanna point out that Peter Mayhew and Anthony Daniels get credits as Chewy and C3P0 but Kenny Baker doesnt get a credit for R2D2. Maybe its meant to be a joke but damn dude, thats rude as hell.
    (edit: I checked, and that is him as R2D2 in the Holiday Special)

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 лет назад +1

      @Holland Kerr
      Oh sure, give credit to the guy dressed as a walking carpet, but the small guy roasting in the tin can, screw him...
      Seriously, what were they thinking...?

    • @kingcrimson2643
      @kingcrimson2643 5 лет назад +3

      Apparently he didn't play him in this special. R2 was empty and was controlled through a radio remote control. Someone else in the comments mentioned it.

  • @lulucalliope713
    @lulucalliope713 Год назад +3

    Mark Hamill: looks weird because he's recovering from surgery
    Harrison Ford: gives no fucks and wants his paycheck
    Carrie Fisher: *high as a kite*

  • @011keepers
    @011keepers 4 года назад +7

    Wait a minute, Luke understands Chewies family, but needs C3PO to talk to Chewie?

  • @stephburdick
    @stephburdick 3 года назад +5

    This is CBS. Please don’t hold it against us. 🤣

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 5 лет назад +22

    This is why you need to establish some proper canon before someone messes around your IP. Otherwise it’s a Seuss-Lynch collaborative acid trip.

    • @IWillNeverReadYourReply
      @IWillNeverReadYourReply 3 года назад +4

      Never forget Lucas saw the dailies from this and thus knew exactly what was going on here

  • @VTPPGLVR
    @VTPPGLVR 5 лет назад +14

    “I’m not licensed to do that!”
    My new reply to stupid requests.

  • @WalkingRoscoe
    @WalkingRoscoe 5 лет назад +23

    The Elton John jokes are damn funny.

  • @ellnats
    @ellnats 6 лет назад +20

    31:45 I asked the same thing whenever I see a fruit of the loom commercial

  • @Shicksalblume
    @Shicksalblume 3 года назад +5

    The Star Wars Holiday Special, the surest proof of all time that cocaine is a hell of a drug and a great argument against doing any yourself.

    • @plawson8577
      @plawson8577 8 месяцев назад

      Cocaine IS a Helluva drug.

  • @scottjohnston3098
    @scottjohnston3098 3 года назад +4

    This is all Canon, star wars nerds🥶

  • @bromodragone8405
    @bromodragone8405 4 года назад +9

    Thankfully, this film is no longer canon. However Life Day is.

  • @Tbillow
    @Tbillow 6 лет назад +18

    AN ENTIRE BAND OF PAUL SCHAEFER'S!!!!!!!!!

  • @guywhomstvepostgood
    @guywhomstvepostgood 5 лет назад +12

    The Life Day parade- brought to you by Kuat Drive Yards!

  • @WreckingWood
    @WreckingWood 20 дней назад +1

    32:24 Love after several minutes of rambling about "Lighting the Sky on Fire" that when it's the callback Mike's so defeated.
    "I'm still not--- I'm not prepared for it."