Ernie Fosselius, the director, went on to work on Return of the Jedi. He helped write "Lapti Nek" with Toto's Joseph Williams (son of legend John Williams), and dubbed the Rancor keeper's crying. Lucas said that Hardware Wars is his favorite Star Wars parody.
He also worked on "Nick Starbuck and the Human Race With Outer Space" which was filmed at Amazing Life Games in Sausalito -- long before George made his "cruising movie". So Ernie ripped off the idea from us.
This short was filmed in 16mm film. The lazer shots where actually scratched on the physical film with a needle. They used double exposure for certain scenes. Lots of cool old school special effects. love it!
@@thomasrysdam1142 He has a podcast? I never knew! I have to check it out thanks. I learned these from doing it myself with old film stock and reading interviews and behind the scenes techniques from old film maker magazines back in the day. I myself owned a Super 8 camera and also used a 16mm one as well.
I totally missed this home movie. I was very young when I saw this. I like the end punchline, "you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss 3 bucks good bye 🤣"
i used that joke irl thursday at work. i'm surprised it took the smart phones constantly spying on us this long to make the connection and recommend this.
Yep all the kids in school back in the day were talking about this! Think it was on HBO. I never saw it before but I’m glad I lived long enough to watch it! Thank you!
I saw it repeatedly at sci-fi conventions in the late 70s and early 80s. It became a tradition for the entire audience to shout “YOU’LL LAUGH! YOU’LL CRY! YOU’LL KISS THREE BUCKS GOODBYE!” Those were the days. Now *I'm* a venerable leader of the Redeye Knights.
Found this on a VHS tape in the Blockbuster in Buena Park, California in the late 70s. The tape also had a 2nd, equally brilliant parody movie of Apocalypse now called "Porklips Now" created & produced by the same Ernie Fosselius. These two parodies remain in my memory to this very day. Mr. Fosselius deserves much credit for these works of art.
That's right,-- it is him, isn't it? I always forget because of "Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind" with its brilliant fake Hans Conreid narration: ruclips.net/video/voJ6-Tyn0Do/видео.htmlsi=gnwTvDQQriA-IVhJ
I saw this in fifth grade back in ‘79. The teacher didn’t tell us what it was. He just threw it on the movie projector and let it play. The whole room lost it when Ham Salad said “You bet your asteroids!”
@@seanryan3020 no clue. He was a great teacher, and funny. He got the office to play “Lovin, touchin, squeezin” by Journey over the intercom for a couple students who were “dating”, whatever that meant in fifth grade. Embarrassed the hell out of both of them, but even they thought it was hilarious. I never knew it aired on HBO until I read these comments. I assumed he got from wherever teachers got all their movies from.
@@rogermurph101 We saw this in school as well. Would have been around that time. I had no idea there was anything like this, and for years after people wouldn't believe me when I told them about this. Hilarious send-up and one of the instigators of what would become my appreciation and understanding of satire.
@@seanryan3020 Back then movies like this were advertised in catalogs. Just browse and check the box of the ones you wanted. That's how we saw other great shows like Caser Romero's "The Haunted Mouth."
I still have this movie on VHS packed away with all my other star wars things from childhood. This movie is hands down one of the funniest things you could possibly see for me at 11yrs old back then.
2:28 Impeccable production values. “There’s a set worker on camera.” “Do we have to pay him as an extra?” “Extras make less than set workers.” “Leave it in, he’s an extra now.”
Ha. I remember when this came out. My library had the actors come and do a panel. That scene with the little Chewbacca chewing on Leia's cinnamon bun hair do had me rolling as a kid.
And so after 45 years I find closure. In 1978 some school friends were describing this to me after seeing it as a short at the cinema - I was so sad that I had missed seeing it. Though I think I would have thought it was a lot funnier back then as a 12 year old than I do now.....
Watched this in elementry school. The teacher brought in a film projector, we helped load it and then 13 minutes of dark bliss without the teacher! Did not remember the quick nude during the "briefing"! The teacher must have freaked without saying anything!
1978 in 3rd grade, end of school year, St Louis, 8 years old, they showed our whole elementary school this. Deep imprint, cant believe they had that fight club subliminal nude. Way to break the fourth wall.
Oh my. I watched this at the student union between classes and darn near peed my pants laughing. It's still funny even with the nostalgia thrown in now in my old age. Three dollars for a movie at the theater!
Saw this at various science fiction conventions. You haven't lived until you've been in a crowd of hundreds, all intoning "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks goodbye!"
So awesome to see this again! They used to play this on family nights at the Navy Base club house. We kids used to laugh so hard watching this. Thanks for sharing it.
My 2nd grade teacher showed this to us in class. Haven't seen it since (until now) but it always stuck with me. Thank you so much for posting this and allowing me to recapture this thirteen minutes of my childhood!
3:14 AM, 12- 04-23. Thanks for posting !! FIRST TIME I've ever seen this ~~~ even tho I was 20 y.o. when it came out, and I'm 65 now.. Nice job, loved the tin woodsman costume, and PAUL FREES RULES !!
I graduated high school in 1978. I remember seeing this on rental VHS and it was on cable TV as well. It was so funny. This was a great trip down memory lane.
@@dosbaggos5575 "Pork Lips Now", a butchers parody. Motor scooters with the girls sitting on their helmets... Didn't Cheech and Chong narrate it? I think it was called "It came from Hollywood".
When one of our local video rental stores closed (20+ years ago), I bought a few old tapes... one, mislabeled, contained a decent copy of this parody. I still have it, and I even still have a VCR to occasionally play it on.
Where the hell did you dig this up. It's so awesome that someone got ahold of this and put this out. I used to watch this all the time and laugh my butt off. This and that close encounters one, whatever it was called, Close Encounters Of The Nerd Kind maybe.
It still holds up. It's amazing how accurate it was to the source considering there wasn't direct access to the movie like we have now, other than repeatedly going to the cinema. I never realised Paul Frees narrated it. I was shocked as soon as I heard his voice. That lends cache to any production.
Seen this at a Star Trek convention in 1978 I think, about 8 years old and it became a standard screening from there on out. This and the Star Trek bloopers 🏅❤️
@@adeweyan no, I was in Tulsa Oklahoma, OKON 78' but it's cool we had similar experiences. Makes me smile remembering doing those things with my Mom 😁👍
The funny thing is they released a special edition of Hardware Wars that parodied the actual special editions' over use of cgi, etc. I got mine as a bonus VHS for pre-ordering the special edition of ANH at Suncoast back in the day.
What a blast from the past! I remember when they showed this at our local library when I was a kid. They used to have a movie day, and they'd show a short movie like this (on projector and screen!) I remember seeing this, and a behind the scenes short about Raiders of the Lost Ark. They showed full length movies sometimes, too - I distinctly remember seeing "The Amazing Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon", which starred the boy from "Escape to Witch Mountain". Such good times! 🙂
@@mysticwolf75 They did. I saw this in the Hermosa Beach library as a kid in a similar program. Until now, I thought it had been a bit of a unique experience, but now I'm thinking it was part of a nationwide project to get kids in a room full of books that wasn't either a school or their grandfather's study. It worked. I became something of a bibliophile over the next few decades.
No cap, I saw this at the Orlando Public Library as a kid, so that now completes all four corners of the USA! (Other locations still encouraged to chime in, as well)
@@Dilligff Must have worked on me, too. I'm still a bibliophile. Also, what you said about your grandfather's study - my grandfather's study was full of books! He had hardcover copies of all the classics. I really wish we would have kept them all.
Yes! What a blast from the past. Classic parody from the early days of cable TV, the kind of thing they used to show between movies before home video and then streaming took over and the cable channels had to start creating their own content. The space between "Our Feature Presentation"s is where music videos found their first home before MTV. The voice of narrator Paul Freez will sound familiar to anybody who watched cartoons back in the day. Every once in a while I'll think of one of those cool shorts and google it. Who remembers Cockaboody? I'm watching that next😃
There’s another one, a spoof of Close Encounters. All I remember is the mailboxes are shaking like in the movie, then they start singing like a barbershop quartet.
I remember having to watch this in grade school during class and here I am full circle watching it again at age 46. I think it's fantastic that 130,000 other magnificent people have watched this alongside me since this was posted
I remember seeing this in a theater when it came out. I don’t remember which movie it was shown with… This is probably the first time I’ve seen this again since then. Ha! I didn’t catch the 4Q2 joke as a kid!
I remember seeing this in the theater in 1979. This originally wouldn't play on our current system because the newer technology wasn't compatible, but in '79 our town just had received an upgrade like 2 weeks after release and eventually we got it to play! Definitely a core memory and I'm glad to have been a child of that era; it just wasn't the same after that
I saw this for the first time in 1980. I was in 1st grade and it was the last day of school. They showed us a bunch of movies to keep us entertained that day. I was blown away by this movie, I remember laughing when Ham told Luke it was just a movie. 😁
Saw this at my first viewing of The Rocky Horror Show at a movie theater in 1979. I was visiting a friend who was going to Berkeley and she insisted we go the The Rocky Horror Show at midnight. I had never heard of it, but she said "We'll get high and you'll love it." This came on and I laughed my ass off. I thought it WAS The Rocky Horror Show. Nope, just a preview. Then when TRS came on I was completely blown away. Life was never the same after that.
I saw this as a teenager in the '70s at a local independent theater that would show student films before the main feature sometimes... The audience, mostly college students, clapped, stomped, and demanded to see it again....
if you were a nerdy kid in the 70s, Star Wars was likely life changing AND you adored this short. Its hard to put in context but parody wasnt really that big a thing at the time. Oh sure you had Mad Magazine and some sketch parody here and there but it wasnt widespread. This short was (and is) such a wonderfully silly piece of time. thanks for posting!!!!
Saw this when i was 4 originally. We where poor so, going to the drive-in or movie theater was a rarity. Every cool kid in kindergarden was talkin about StarWars. Having seen this parody, i thought i was in the know... 😮💨
In `79 my High School "American Literature in Film" teacher screened this on 16mm, and it was my first time seeing it. I'll never forget how, my first reaction was, "HOLY CRAP, THAT'S PAUL FREES!" when the narration started. I was always a huge fan of his from back in the Disneyland "Adventure thru Inner Space" ride.
A true classic...right up there with "Pork Lips Now" and "Bambi meets Godzilla"! ...This was one of the best rip offs ever made!...saw it at a Film Festival when it first came out and the auditorium was so full of Smoke that we almost had to crawl out when the 4 films were over ...and THAT was when weed was only $10 but it took a whole ounce to get high!...Just sayin'!
I remember seeing this in the movies in the early 80s. What I remember was the toaster and Iron "starships". I thought that I was not remembering it properly 1:01, but it is exactly as how I remember it. When I tried to describe it to others, no one believed me.
I’ve seen this a few times - including on the last day of school before summer break in 1979 when a teacher played it on one of those huge, expensive VCRs the school had. I was 10 at the time and anything Star Wars was at the forefront of my attention back then, so I remember thinking it was the funniest thing I’d ever seen. It’s been decades since I last saw it, and I just now realized, as soon as the narration started, that the narrator is the legendary Paul Frees! There’s no mistaking that voice. Surprised I didn’t catch it even as a kid. As a kid, I also had a Chuchilla puppet, which was basically a brown Cookie Monster puppet. Bought it at a garage sale. I have no idea what ever happened to it. Don’t know if a bunch of brown Cookie Monster knockoff puppets were made back in the 70s, or if I ended up with something unique or homemade or what…but I had one. This brings back so many memories and they’re all good and they extend beyond even the delightful silliness of this farcical parody film.
Ernie Fosselius, the director, went on to work on Return of the Jedi. He helped write "Lapti Nek" with Toto's Joseph Williams (son of legend John Williams), and dubbed the Rancor keeper's crying. Lucas said that Hardware Wars is his favorite Star Wars parody.
There are other Star Wars parodies?
@@mousetreehouse6833 Family Guy and Robot Chicken have a bunch.
@@mousetreehouse6833Mel Brooks': SPACEBALLS
He also worked on "Nick Starbuck and the Human Race With Outer Space" which was filmed at Amazing Life Games in Sausalito -- long before George made his "cruising movie". So Ernie ripped off the idea from us.
Also this home movie -- "Babyman Three" from the same time:
ruclips.net/video/JnTlLIka0es/видео.htmlsi=P8sm-i6G6vV2ZU9T
It's good too see The Cookie Monster had other acting gigs.
if he'd been the Cokie Monster you know Leia would have had no time for anyone else
Is he out of rehab for his addiction to cookie dough?
Wookie Monster. They're first cousins
Yeah I don’t like they he wore brown face though. Didn’t age well
They used to play this all the time on HBO. We laughed our asses off every time it came on.
This short was filmed in 16mm film. The lazer shots where actually scratched on the physical film with a needle. They used double exposure for certain scenes. Lots of cool old school special effects. love it!
Quentin Tarantino’s podcast has taught you well
@@thomasrysdam1142 He has a podcast? I never knew! I have to check it out thanks. I learned these from doing it myself with old film stock and reading interviews and behind the scenes techniques from old film maker magazines back in the day. I myself owned a Super 8 camera and also used a 16mm one as well.
Forgot about this. What a nostalgia trip. Can't remember where we saw this as kids, but all the kids talked about this back in the day. Ham Salad, lol
Sure this is not new!.
No way?!. 🎉
It was on HBO. I remember this.
Did you ever have Showtime, movie channel? That is where we saw it when I was a kid.
I remember seeing this as a kid. It was on HBO and they'd play it between films and such. George Lucas even loved it.
I was nine years old when I saw this on a projector in my local library in 1979. Absolutely obsessed.
I'd think you were in Jacksonville Florida. I saw it at a library also at that time.
I totally missed this home movie. I was very young when I saw this. I like the end punchline, "you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss 3 bucks good bye 🤣"
i used that joke irl thursday at work. i'm surprised it took the smart phones constantly spying on us this long to make the connection and recommend this.
Personally, I liked the 'Filmed on location in space'...LOL
I still say this occasionally, LOL. Even after all this time this is still fresh in my memories.
Might be my favorite line in this film!
It certainly dates the parody, doesn't it? Now you're lucky if it's just 20 bucks.
I remember seeing this in the 80's on cable and man I loved it. So glad someone uploaded it!
This will never stop being funny, can't say how happy I am to see it again.
If only the sequel trilogy was this good!!?!
*OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M WATCHING THIS AGAIN AFTER 45 YEARS. THANKS FOR POSTING!*
"Take it easy kid, it's only a movie." Officially, my new life motto and response for every question....
The special effects hold up pretty good.
I’m 59 now. Great memories from the late 70’s!
"Hardware Wars"…Now, that's a name I've not heard in a loooong time…a long time.
Yep all the kids in school back in the day were talking about this! Think it was on HBO. I never saw it before but I’m glad I lived long enough to watch it! Thank you!
I saw it repeatedly at sci-fi conventions in the late 70s and early 80s. It became a tradition for the entire audience to shout “YOU’LL LAUGH! YOU’LL CRY! YOU’LL KISS THREE BUCKS GOODBYE!” Those were the days. Now *I'm* a venerable leader of the Redeye Knights.
Paul Frees did an amazing Orson Wells impersonation as the narrator.
Found this on a VHS tape in the Blockbuster in Buena Park, California in the late 70s. The tape also had a 2nd, equally brilliant parody movie of Apocalypse now called "Porklips Now" created & produced by the same Ernie Fosselius. These two parodies remain in my memory to this very day. Mr. Fosselius deserves much credit for these works of art.
Pork lips was awesome! Did it have Closet Cases of the Nerd kind?
"Bambi meets Godzilla?"
My siblings and I could do these verbatim!
@@nunya2514 That would be wild! lol!
ruclips.net/video/VlSbqCRgyrI/видео.html
“You’ll kiss three bucks goodbye.” Ah, the good ol’ days. Except back then we went for the $1 matinee showing.
I was thinking that you can't even leave the house for 3 bucks anymore.
It's wonderful to hear Paul Frees' narration!
That's right,-- it is him, isn't it? I always forget because of "Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind" with its brilliant fake Hans Conreid narration: ruclips.net/video/voJ6-Tyn0Do/видео.htmlsi=gnwTvDQQriA-IVhJ
I’ve loved this and “Closet Cases” since the 70s, but CC noses HW out for laugh-out-loud hilarity.
I saw this in fifth grade back in ‘79. The teacher didn’t tell us what it was. He just threw it on the movie projector and let it play. The whole room lost it when Ham Salad said “You bet your asteroids!”
How the hell did your teacher get that? Especially in the 70s?
@@seanryan3020 no clue. He was a great teacher, and funny. He got the office to play “Lovin, touchin, squeezin” by Journey over the intercom for a couple students who were “dating”, whatever that meant in fifth grade. Embarrassed the hell out of both of them, but even they thought it was hilarious. I never knew it aired on HBO until I read these comments. I assumed he got from wherever teachers got all their movies from.
@@rogermurph101 We saw this in school as well. Would have been around that time. I had no idea there was anything like this, and for years after people wouldn't believe me when I told them about this. Hilarious send-up and one of the instigators of what would become my appreciation and understanding of satire.
@@seanryan3020 Back then movies like this were advertised in catalogs. Just browse and check the box of the ones you wanted. That's how we saw other great shows like Caser Romero's "The Haunted Mouth."
@@RobinDale50 I assume the buck naked woman was edited out of that cut...
This is better than lots of the junk you see on Netflix.
100 percent
Bit of a low bar to clear though.
Nope. It's clearly not.
@@jjeshopWhat do you work there?
@@jjeshop Yep. It clearly is.
2:25
The person leaving the beach was freakin' hilarious,
3:08
Not to mention Speed Buggy,
Sound effects and everything....lol
3:15
How did I miss this over all these years? This is great. The Wookie Monster! 🤣
"BWAHAHAHAHA...!" I've long heard of this, but only now have watched it. Pretty good satire! 😂
The Wookie Monster did it for me 🤣🤣
love it when Ham Salad does Steve Martin's "Excuuuuuse me!"
I saw this forty years ago! What a blast from the past.
I still have this movie on VHS packed away with all my other star wars things from childhood. This movie is hands down one of the funniest things you could possibly see for me at 11yrs old back then.
Better story, better special effects, better movie. This one should win a parody oscar.
A form of art to be respected! 👍
Where did this come from?. 😂
Is this new. 😅
We're,...., no..... How... Good but be honoust!. Good but you would be in court!. 😂
Youv'e got to be kidding !
CLASSIC!
I remember this when I was High School.
My biggest laugh was Chewchilla the Wookie Monster.
Saw this in my fourth grade class in 1979 on a good old fashioned film projector. Everyone in my class loved it.
I remember checking this out from the library on VHS. The tape also included Bambi VS Godzilla and Porklips Now, an Apocalypse Now parody. Good times!
2:28 Impeccable production values.
“There’s a set worker on camera.”
“Do we have to pay him as an extra?”
“Extras make less than set workers.”
“Leave it in, he’s an extra now.”
Good one.
That's a woman however.
Ha. I remember when this came out. My library had the actors come and do a panel. That scene with the little Chewbacca chewing on Leia's cinnamon bun hair do had me rolling as a kid.
That's one of my favorite parts😂😂😂 And when Han says to Leia, "Well EXCUUUSE ME"😂😂😂
Ham solo looked like mr bean as a hippie 😂
Never seen this before, and now I'm wiping my screen clean of coffee...
I’ve been saying “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss three bucks goodbye,” since forever. Now I remember where I got it from!
And so after 45 years I find closure. In 1978 some school friends were describing this to me after seeing it as a short at the cinema - I was so sad that I had missed seeing it.
Though I think I would have thought it was a lot funnier back then as a 12 year old than I do now.....
I remember this from my childhood. Funny. Still better than most of the syfi channels original movies and Disney sequels. Lol😅
The cheesiest crapfest that SYFY put out was way better than the Star Wars prequels and sequels.
Lucas should have kept the franchise.
@@thomasbentley4757 Wait, didn't Lucas do the prequels, too?
@@bmbiz Unfortunately for us he did.
@@thomasbentley4757 Oh, then I'm missing your meaning when you say Lucas should have kept the franchise.
@@bmbiz He should have kept just the original trilogy.
This is the origin of the Flying Toaster!
I don't think I've seen this before. I love it👍
Seeing this now for the first time and laughing my almost 70 year old ass off.
Definitely better than anything Disney has done with Star Wars!
What a great memory! Thanks for bringing it back 😆
Our pleasure!
Watched this in elementry school. The teacher brought in a film projector, we helped load it and then 13 minutes of dark bliss without the teacher! Did not remember the quick nude during the "briefing"! The teacher must have freaked without saying anything!
maybe edited out or something?? first time i saw it was on HBO and cant remember it.
1978 in 3rd grade, end of school year, St Louis, 8 years old, they showed our whole elementary school this. Deep imprint, cant believe they had that fight club subliminal nude. Way to break the fourth wall.
Oh my. I watched this at the student union between classes and darn near peed my pants laughing. It's still funny even with the nostalgia thrown in now in my old age. Three dollars for a movie at the theater!
Saw this at various science fiction conventions. You haven't lived until you've been in a crowd of hundreds, all intoning "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks goodbye!"
Haven't seen this in decades.
'Take it easy kid, it's only a movie' 😆
and may the Farce be with you!
So awesome to see this again! They used to play this on family nights at the Navy Base club house. We kids used to laugh so hard watching this. Thanks for sharing it.
Better than Disney Star Wars.
My 2nd grade teacher showed this to us in class. Haven't seen it since (until now) but it always stuck with me. Thank you so much for posting this and allowing me to recapture this thirteen minutes of my childhood!
Did your teacher even show you the naked lady shot?
3:14 AM, 12- 04-23. Thanks for posting !!
FIRST TIME I've ever seen this ~~~ even tho I was 20 y.o. when it came out, and I'm 65 now..
Nice job, loved the tin woodsman costume, and PAUL FREES RULES !!
I haven't seen this since I was a kid! This beats all the Star Wars made after 1980! I didn't realize Paul Frees was the narrator.
Paul Frees was one of the greatest voice actors on the planet.
As a voice actor I wholeheartedly agree. @@censorshipsucks9493
I graduated high school in 1978. I remember seeing this on rental VHS and it was on cable TV as well.
It was so funny. This was a great trip down memory lane.
Truly a classic, narrated by the great Paul Freese and much better "Star Wars" than anything Disney has ever produced.
even better than space balls
Well with the exception of “The Mandalorian”.
except for Rouge One
Andor.
George Lucas ruined Star Wars long before he sold it to Disney.
This came out on video in the early 80's with a bunch of other shorts.
Godzilla vs Bambi was hilarious.
I REMEMBER godzilla vs bambi and shockingly there was a sequel to godzilla vs bambi where bambi moves and kicks godzilla.
@@sweetjoey2by Marv Newland ???
And the apocalypse now parody. With kazoos. Rented the VHS at tower records
@@dosbaggos5575
"Pork Lips Now", a butchers parody.
Motor scooters with the girls sitting on their helmets... Didn't Cheech and Chong narrate it?
I think it was called
"It came from Hollywood".
@@dosbaggos5575
Nope... I looked it up on RUclips and it
wasn't "It came from Hollywood".
Space Balls ahead of its time.
When one of our local video rental stores closed (20+ years ago), I bought a few old tapes... one, mislabeled, contained a decent copy of this parody. I still have it, and I even still have a VCR to occasionally play it on.
This appeared on HBO. They used to have these shorts between the main features!
This and several others. I loved watching these on HBO in the early 1980s. I still have this on VHS.
@@douglasdixon524 They also loved stuff from the Canadian film board. I still love the one called Is there life on earth.
I will never forget my childhood memories of this film! A+++++
Where the hell did you dig this up. It's so awesome that someone got ahold of this and put this out. I used to watch this all the time and laugh my butt off. This and that close encounters one, whatever it was called, Close Encounters Of The Nerd Kind maybe.
It still holds up. It's amazing how accurate it was to the source considering there wasn't direct access to the movie like we have now, other than repeatedly going to the cinema. I never realised Paul Frees narrated it. I was shocked as soon as I heard his voice. That lends cache to any production.
I only vaguely remember this from my childhood. Way better than the Holiday Special.
Anything was better than the Holiday Special. LOL
The Ewoks movie was better than the special..😂
@@AlldatJazz-rw9wy Which one?
'You'll kiss three-bucks goodbye' .... BEST epic epilogue ever
"Filmed on location in space"
Best line, "No, just a little headache."😂
I saw this when I was 10 in film class at primary school ('81). So funny. I recently found it on DVD and got to share it with my kids. 😃
OMG,,,,,It never gets OLD 😂😂
No it doesn't :)
Seen this at a Star Trek convention in 1978 I think, about 8 years old and it became a standard screening from there on out. This and the Star Trek bloopers 🏅❤️
i may have been at the same Convention. I saw it at Space Con 6 in Oakland in '78.
@@adeweyan no, I was in Tulsa Oklahoma, OKON 78' but it's cool we had similar experiences. Makes me smile remembering doing those things with my Mom 😁👍
Still better than the special editions.
The funny thing is they released a special edition of Hardware Wars that parodied the actual special editions' over use of cgi, etc.
I got mine as a bonus VHS for pre-ordering the special edition of ANH at Suncoast back in the day.
Nope, but keep practicing. One day you'll be edgy.
What a blast from the past! I remember when they showed this at our local library when I was a kid. They used to have a movie day, and they'd show a short movie like this (on projector and screen!) I remember seeing this, and a behind the scenes short about Raiders of the Lost Ark. They showed full length movies sometimes, too - I distinctly remember seeing "The Amazing Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon", which starred the boy from "Escape to Witch Mountain". Such good times! 🙂
Dude me too! Did you live in Mount lake Terrace Washington out side of Seattle???
@@emilflognoid1532 No, I'm way on the opposite side of the country in upstate NY. I guess they had similar programs at other libraries!
@@mysticwolf75 They did. I saw this in the Hermosa Beach library as a kid in a similar program. Until now, I thought it had been a bit of a unique experience, but now I'm thinking it was part of a nationwide project to get kids in a room full of books that wasn't either a school or their grandfather's study. It worked. I became something of a bibliophile over the next few decades.
No cap, I saw this at the Orlando Public Library as a kid, so that now completes all four corners of the USA!
(Other locations still encouraged to chime in, as well)
@@Dilligff Must have worked on me, too. I'm still a bibliophile. Also, what you said about your grandfather's study - my grandfather's study was full of books! He had hardcover copies of all the classics. I really wish we would have kept them all.
Yes! What a blast from the past. Classic parody from the early days of cable TV, the kind of thing they used to show between movies before home video and then streaming took over and the cable channels had to start creating their own content. The space between "Our Feature Presentation"s is where music videos found their first home before MTV. The voice of narrator Paul Freez will sound familiar to anybody who watched cartoons back in the day.
Every once in a while I'll think of one of those cool shorts and google it. Who remembers Cockaboody? I'm watching that next😃
There’s another one, a spoof of Close Encounters. All I remember is the mailboxes are shaking like in the movie, then they start singing like a barbershop quartet.
"Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind"
Watching this feature always returns memories of when I first saw it on HBO and even beyond that first time too.
Oh the memories. Who can forget Ham Salad? Infinitely superior to Spaceballs and yet this was still a very long 12 minutes.
This is better than any Star Wars since the original trilogy 😂
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I remember first watching this years ago, on HBO. I laughed my ass off then, and it still makes me laugh all these years later. 😆
I remember having to watch this in grade school during class and here I am full circle watching it again at age 46. I think it's fantastic that 130,000 other magnificent people have watched this alongside me since this was posted
I remember seeing this in a theater when it came out. I don’t remember which movie it was shown with… This is probably the first time I’ve seen this again since then. Ha! I didn’t catch the 4Q2 joke as a kid!
I remember seeing this in the theater in 1979. This originally wouldn't play on our current system because the newer technology wasn't compatible, but in '79 our town just had received an upgrade like 2 weeks after release and eventually we got it to play! Definitely a core memory and I'm glad to have been a child of that era; it just wasn't the same after that
Haven't seen this in many a decade. Still better than Disney's wretchedness.
If Build Back Better remade Star Wars...lol😅
I saw this for the first time in 1980. I was in 1st grade and it was the last day of school. They showed us a bunch of movies to keep us entertained that day. I was blown away by this movie, I remember laughing when Ham told Luke it was just a movie. 😁
“Does this thing do light speed?”
“You bet your asteroid kid.”
Saw this at my first viewing of The Rocky Horror Show at a movie theater in 1979. I was visiting a friend who was going to Berkeley and she insisted we go the The Rocky Horror Show at midnight. I had never heard of it, but she said "We'll get high and you'll love it." This came on and I laughed my ass off. I thought it WAS The Rocky Horror Show. Nope, just a preview. Then when TRS came on I was completely blown away. Life was never the same after that.
If you thought this was Rocky Horror, that was some good weed.
I saw this as a teenager in the '70s at a local independent theater that would show student films before the main feature sometimes...
The audience, mostly college students, clapped, stomped, and demanded to see it again....
I think this may be the first time I have sen this since 1978! Good stuff...
lol. Saw this soooo many times on HBO back in the day. Remember a lot of the lines. 😂
if you were a nerdy kid in the 70s, Star Wars was likely life changing AND you adored this short. Its hard to put in context but parody wasnt really that big a thing at the time. Oh sure you had Mad Magazine and some sketch parody here and there but it wasnt widespread. This short was (and is) such a wonderfully silly piece of time. thanks for posting!!!!
Saw this when i was 4 originally. We where poor so, going to the drive-in or movie theater was a rarity. Every cool kid in kindergarden was talkin about StarWars. Having seen this parody, i thought i was in the know... 😮💨
This was on HBO when I was a kid in the early 80s. I haven't seen it since then.
same here but did HBO edit out the nude chic?? i cant remember.😂😂
@@Adam-kx9gi I think they did. 😆
In `79 my High School "American Literature in Film" teacher screened this on 16mm, and it was my first time seeing it. I'll never forget how, my first reaction was, "HOLY CRAP, THAT'S PAUL FREES!" when the narration started. I was always a huge fan of his from back in the Disneyland "Adventure thru Inner Space" ride.
Yes Paul was a great , he also did the narration of The Haunted Mansion at Disney.
A true classic...right up there with "Pork Lips Now" and "Bambi meets Godzilla"! ...This was one
of the best rip offs ever made!...saw it at a Film Festival when it first came out and the auditorium
was so full of Smoke that we almost had to crawl out when the 4 films were over ...and THAT was when weed was only $10 but it took a whole ounce to get high!...Just sayin'!
Don't forget Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind.
"Gonna build a mountain....🎶 in your livin room"
Never heard of Pork Lips Now! Have to try to find it after this!
@@randyeubanks2934I can't believe I've actually seen this!
It was really good to see this again. We laughed so hard when we were kids watching this. I’m glad to see it’s still around.
Most paused point in the parody: 11:15.
This was originally my favorite Showtime Short of all time. 1970's cable tv ftw.
“Are you talkin’ to me?”
I remember seeing this in the movies in the early 80s. What I remember was the toaster and Iron "starships". I thought that I was not remembering it properly 1:01, but it is exactly as how I remember it. When I tried to describe it to others, no one believed me.
The special defects of this movie were ahead of their time...
I’ve seen this a few times - including on the last day of school before summer break in 1979 when a teacher played it on one of those huge, expensive VCRs the school had. I was 10 at the time and anything Star Wars was at the forefront of my attention back then, so I remember thinking it was the funniest thing I’d ever seen.
It’s been decades since I last saw it, and I just now realized, as soon as the narration started, that the narrator is the legendary Paul Frees! There’s no mistaking that voice. Surprised I didn’t catch it even as a kid.
As a kid, I also had a Chuchilla puppet, which was basically a brown Cookie Monster puppet. Bought it at a garage sale. I have no idea what ever happened to it. Don’t know if a bunch of brown Cookie Monster knockoff puppets were made back in the 70s, or if I ended up with something unique or homemade or what…but I had one.
This brings back so many memories and they’re all good and they extend beyond even the delightful silliness of this farcical parody film.