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  1. It is one of the most painful viewing experiences there is. In other words it’s must viewing. The first 20 or so minutes of the movie is Wookies grunting and moaning. I
    I I did learn a few things from this movie though. I learned how to tell male and female wookies apart. Female wookies wear Aprons, males do not. And also the wookie children looking like over sized deformed Ewoks.
    The one redeeming thing about this movie that it does contain the first appearance of Boba Fett….actually I take that back it has two redeeming values. The second being Bea Arthur makes an appearance as well.

  2. Confession – I used to work with Marty -the actual person mentioned in a Weird Al song on an earlier album – you know, Torso Boy. This video is just a little TOO accurate – you laugh at some bits like “what a dork” and other bits you just sort of laugh at yourself, keeping score on which is which. That reminds me I need a golf ball retriever and two black curtains…
    Yeah, saw the Holiday special as a kid and had it over for bad movie night – it was the worst thing we’d seen – sort of an inadvertent tribute to the late 1970’s in all their craptacular lack of glory. Like “Interior Descrations” by James Lileks.

  3. I used to be a Star Wars FREAK. That said, I am too young to have actually seen the Holiday Special…but I did read the script online somewhere. Probably the same place I read the Attack of the Clones script two years before AOTC came out. It was so bad that George Lucas wanted to destroy every copy of it personally with an axe.
    This is coming from the same man who invented the character of Jar Jar Binks, so it was pretty bad.

  4. Yeah, I’ve seen it. Or rather, I saw the first 20 minutes, after which I was screaming in pain and despair.
    For one thing, Chewbacca’s son’s name is . . .”Lumpy?!”
    And then there’s that trippy VR scene . . . shudders. . . like really bad phone sex. . .ick. . .
    I’d have to say, it was worse that “Manos: The Hand of Fate”. And that was pretty damn bad. . .

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