The Star Wars Holiday Special

I watched it for the first time recently. "Awesomely bad" doesn't even begin to describe it.

There's a great podcast called "That's What We're Tarkin About" that talks about each ep in detail. The hosts are funny, and it made watching the special almost worth it.

 

And I thought the prequel trilogy was bad!

 

It was so bad you were compelled to post about it?

 

I don't blame him. It is epically bad. Like other worldly bad. Is worth talking about to me.

 

Ahhh...the Holiday Special.
Y'know I personally believe the CIA hired Lucas to make that so they'd have something to use in interrogations when everything else failed.

 

Rifftrax (the original guys from MST3K) make it bearable:

The Star Wars Holiday Special

 

I actually watched it during the first broadcast. I remember thinking it wasn't all that great. I watched it again recently, and I was utterly jaw droppingly amazed at the sheer horror of it. I must have been a very forgiving teenager to think it "wasn't all that great." It may be the worst thing ever aired on television. EVER.

 

You should have asked first. You'd have been warned away.

But you'd have watched it anyway, right?

It was so bad that Lucas tried to find every copy and have it destroyed.

My son is planning on having a bunch of his friends over to watch it, because he's like that. I'll try once more to have him reconsider, because he's got good friends and I'd hate to see him lose them.

 

Possibly the worst piece of filmed media ever, in any format. I know that’s a bold statement, but it might even be true.

Makes Howard the Duck look like a masterpiece.

 

Yeah, he might lose some friends over that. If any of them can make it through the first 10 minutes (the section with only Wookie dialog), they deserve a prize.

 

I watched it when it first aired as a teen, and I remember distinctly thinking "Wow, that was pretty bad." I didn't click Rich's link because I can only imagine what I would think of it today.

 

The last ten, where Princess Leia sings the Wookiee Song, are even worse.

 

Art Carney may be the best thing about the show. "Best" being a relative term here.