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  • Опубліковано 29 лис 2023
  • 🎥 TenaaTV presents: Hardware Wars
    The original Star Wars Parody from 1978! Follow the adventures of Fluke Starbucker, Arty Deco, Ham Salad and the rest of the Red Eye Knights in this spectacle that was light years ahead of its time. For the first time in High Definition. Brand new HD transfer supervised by Director Ernie Fosselius!
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  • @darrenpaches3731
    @darrenpaches3731 8 місяців тому +248

    It's good too see The Cookie Monster had other acting gigs.

    • @zimriel
      @zimriel 7 місяців тому +6

      if he'd been the Cokie Monster you know Leia would have had no time for anyone else

    • @NelsonZAPTM
      @NelsonZAPTM 6 місяців тому

      Is he out of rehab for his addiction to cookie dough?

    • @jmjones7897
      @jmjones7897 4 місяці тому +3

      Wookie Monster. They're first cousins

    • @tjmproductions6358
      @tjmproductions6358 3 місяці тому +2

      Yeah I don’t like they he wore brown face though. Didn’t age well

  • @mangrove
    @mangrove 8 місяців тому +264

    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.

    • @mousetreehouse6833
      @mousetreehouse6833 8 місяців тому +3

      There are other Star Wars parodies?

    • @stephenh5944
      @stephenh5944 8 місяців тому +9

      @@mousetreehouse6833 Family Guy and Robot Chicken have a bunch.

    • @sleepyhollow783
      @sleepyhollow783 7 місяців тому +21

      ​@@mousetreehouse6833Mel Brooks': SPACEBALLS

    • @JamieJobb
      @JamieJobb 7 місяців тому +2

      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.

    • @JamieJobb
      @JamieJobb 7 місяців тому +1

      Also this home movie -- "Babyman Three" from the same time:
      ua-cam.com/video/JnTlLIka0es/v-deo.htmlsi=P8sm-i6G6vV2ZU9T

  • @cliffhamrickwrites2378
    @cliffhamrickwrites2378 8 місяців тому +423

    They used to play this all the time on HBO. We laughed our asses off every time it came on.

    • @TheBFN
      @TheBFN 8 місяців тому +6

      Did u smoke 1 first 😂😂😂...of course u did

    • @jerryrichardson2799
      @jerryrichardson2799 8 місяців тому +8

      I saw it a long time ago on HBO.

    • @FIDreams
      @FIDreams 8 місяців тому +16

      That and 'Bambi verses Godzilla' XD

    • @FIDreams
      @FIDreams 8 місяців тому +6

      And some weird cartoon about two sister.

    • @DavidLS1
      @DavidLS1 8 місяців тому +4

      I was wondering where I might have seen it. There was no internet back then.

  • @DiecastD414
    @DiecastD414 8 місяців тому +264

    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 🤣"

    • @ryanbarker5217
      @ryanbarker5217 8 місяців тому +12

      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.

    • @radioactive9861
      @radioactive9861 8 місяців тому +21

      Personally, I liked the 'Filmed on location in space'...LOL

    • @jimmyboy131
      @jimmyboy131 8 місяців тому +4

      I still say this occasionally, LOL. Even after all this time this is still fresh in my memories.

    • @DaDitka
      @DaDitka 8 місяців тому +2

      Might be my favorite line in this film!

    • @RedwoodTheElf
      @RedwoodTheElf 8 місяців тому +6

      It certainly dates the parody, doesn't it? Now you're lucky if it's just 20 bucks.

  • @RICOFRITO
    @RICOFRITO 8 місяців тому +153

    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
      @thomasrysdam1142 7 місяців тому +1

      Quentin Tarantino’s podcast has taught you well

    • @RICOFRITO
      @RICOFRITO 6 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @meeeoooow
    @meeeoooow 8 місяців тому +167

    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

    • @davidbrown2098
      @davidbrown2098 8 місяців тому +2

      Sure this is not new!.

    • @davidbrown2098
      @davidbrown2098 8 місяців тому +1

      No way?!. 🎉

    • @TimmyLongfellow
      @TimmyLongfellow 8 місяців тому +12

      It was on HBO. I remember this.

    • @mikeydeloa7348
      @mikeydeloa7348 8 місяців тому +6

      Did you ever have Showtime, movie channel? That is where we saw it when I was a kid.

    • @darylabrams2
      @darylabrams2 8 місяців тому +9

      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.

  • @hamsterdiving7593
    @hamsterdiving7593 8 місяців тому +57

    *OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M WATCHING THIS AGAIN AFTER 45 YEARS. THANKS FOR POSTING!*

  • @PapagenoMF
    @PapagenoMF 8 місяців тому +50

    I was nine years old when I saw this on a projector in my local library in 1979. Absolutely obsessed.

    • @hulksmash1357
      @hulksmash1357 7 місяців тому +3

      I'd think you were in Jacksonville Florida. I saw it at a library also at that time.

  • @keepthemetalflowing
    @keepthemetalflowing 8 місяців тому +72

    I remember seeing this in the 80's on cable and man I loved it. So glad someone uploaded it!

  • @nunya2514
    @nunya2514 7 місяців тому +15

    "Take it easy kid, it's only a movie." Officially, my new life motto and response for every question....

  • @manofthetombs
    @manofthetombs 8 місяців тому +38

    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.

    • @nunya2514
      @nunya2514 7 місяців тому +4

      Pork lips was awesome! Did it have Closet Cases of the Nerd kind?

    • @nunya2514
      @nunya2514 7 місяців тому +2

      "Bambi meets Godzilla?"

    • @nunya2514
      @nunya2514 7 місяців тому +3

      My siblings and I could do these verbatim!

    • @manofthetombs
      @manofthetombs 7 місяців тому +4

      @@nunya2514 That would be wild! lol!

    • @armybeef68
      @armybeef68 7 місяців тому

      ua-cam.com/video/VlSbqCRgyrI/v-deo.html

  • @MadHax-wt5tl
    @MadHax-wt5tl 8 місяців тому +30

    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!!?!

  • @vandalorianvandalorian4769
    @vandalorianvandalorian4769 7 місяців тому +4

    I’m 59 now. Great memories from the late 70’s!

  • @JoseyWales44s
    @JoseyWales44s 8 місяців тому +211

    Truly a classic, narrated by the great Paul Freese and much better "Star Wars" than anything Disney has ever produced.

    • @lesweizman388
      @lesweizman388 8 місяців тому +8

      even better than space balls

    • @N.G.S._01
      @N.G.S._01 8 місяців тому +3

      Well with the exception of “The Mandalorian”.

    • @aytviewer2421
      @aytviewer2421 8 місяців тому +6

      except for Rouge One

    • @Zapski
      @Zapski 8 місяців тому +6

      Andor.

    • @barfo281
      @barfo281 8 місяців тому +17

      George Lucas ruined Star Wars long before he sold it to Disney.

  • @ogrelogre8429
    @ogrelogre8429 8 місяців тому +37

    How did I miss this over all these years? This is great. The Wookie Monster! 🤣

  • @BThings
    @BThings 8 місяців тому +24

    "Hardware Wars"…Now, that's a name I've not heard in a loooong time…a long time.

  • @genisvel
    @genisvel 8 місяців тому +29

    Paul Frees did an amazing Orson Wells impersonation as the narrator.

  • @rogermurph101
    @rogermurph101 8 місяців тому +44

    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
      @seanryan3020 8 місяців тому +1

      How the hell did your teacher get that? Especially in the 70s?

    • @rogermurph101
      @rogermurph101 8 місяців тому +8

      @@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.

    • @RobinDale50
      @RobinDale50 8 місяців тому +7

      @@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.

    • @SpreadingtheMuse
      @SpreadingtheMuse 8 місяців тому

      @@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."

    • @bmbiz
      @bmbiz 8 місяців тому +2

      @@RobinDale50 I assume the buck naked woman was edited out of that cut...

  • @justins21482
    @justins21482 8 місяців тому +14

    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.

  • @paulsmodels
    @paulsmodels 8 місяців тому +244

    This is better than lots of the junk you see on Netflix.

    • @em23
      @em23 8 місяців тому +8

      100 percent

    • @MadHax-wt5tl
      @MadHax-wt5tl 8 місяців тому +7

      Bit of a low bar to clear though.

    • @jjeshop
      @jjeshop 8 місяців тому +1

      Nope. It's clearly not.

    • @bluebird3281
      @bluebird3281 8 місяців тому +5

      @@jjeshopWhat do you work there?

    • @zerogrey3798
      @zerogrey3798 7 місяців тому +1

      @@jjeshop Yep. It clearly is.

  • @peterg76yt
    @peterg76yt 8 місяців тому +34

    The special effects hold up pretty good.

  • @armybeef68
    @armybeef68 7 місяців тому +8

    2:25
    The person leaving the beach was freakin' hilarious,
    3:08
    Not to mention Speed Buggy,
    Sound effects and everything....lol
    3:15

  • @craigsavarese8631
    @craigsavarese8631 8 місяців тому +42

    “You’ll kiss three bucks goodbye.” Ah, the good ol’ days. Except back then we went for the $1 matinee showing.

    • @RobSchellinger
      @RobSchellinger 8 місяців тому +1

      I was thinking that you can't even leave the house for 3 bucks anymore.

  • @kalvinravn8431
    @kalvinravn8431 8 місяців тому +45

    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!

  • @garysatterlee9455
    @garysatterlee9455 8 місяців тому +36

    It's wonderful to hear Paul Frees' narration!

    • @KenLieck
      @KenLieck Місяць тому

      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: ua-cam.com/video/voJ6-Tyn0Do/v-deo.htmlsi=gnwTvDQQriA-IVhJ

    • @soylentteal
      @soylentteal Місяць тому

      I’ve loved this and “Closet Cases” since the 70s, but CC noses HW out for laugh-out-loud hilarity.

  • @jackfriend4u
    @jackfriend4u 8 місяців тому +6

    love it when Ham Salad does Steve Martin's "Excuuuuuse me!"

  • @doug2424
    @doug2424 8 місяців тому +4

    Better story, better special effects, better movie. This one should win a parody oscar.

  • @boblobla1611
    @boblobla1611 8 місяців тому +17

    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!

  • @guest6398
    @guest6398 8 місяців тому +26

    I saw this forty years ago! What a blast from the past.

  • @ElCharlieK14
    @ElCharlieK14 8 місяців тому +4

    The Wookie Monster did it for me 🤣🤣

  • @lancerevell5979
    @lancerevell5979 8 місяців тому +23

    "BWAHAHAHAHA...!" I've long heard of this, but only now have watched it. Pretty good satire! 😂

  • @michaelwilson2340
    @michaelwilson2340 8 місяців тому +12

    Saw this in my fourth grade class in 1979 on a good old fashioned film projector. Everyone in my class loved it.

  • @number9434
    @number9434 8 місяців тому +16

    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.

    • @Lori-lp6uc
      @Lori-lp6uc 7 місяців тому

      That's one of my favorite parts😂😂😂 And when Han says to Leia, "Well EXCUUUSE ME"😂😂😂

  • @gertvanhauwaert2552
    @gertvanhauwaert2552 8 місяців тому +10

    Ham solo looked like mr bean as a hippie 😂

  • @skyradtvcomics4981
    @skyradtvcomics4981 8 місяців тому +5

    CLASSIC!
    I remember this when I was High School.
    My biggest laugh was Chewchilla the Wookie Monster.

  • @marlspieker
    @marlspieker 8 місяців тому +73

    A form of art to be respected! 👍

    • @davidbrown2098
      @davidbrown2098 8 місяців тому +1

      Where did this come from?. 😂

    • @davidbrown2098
      @davidbrown2098 8 місяців тому +1

      Is this new. 😅

    • @davidbrown2098
      @davidbrown2098 8 місяців тому

      We're,...., no..... How... Good but be honoust!. Good but you would be in court!. 😂

    • @wmbeam211
      @wmbeam211 8 місяців тому

      Youv'e got to be kidding !

  • @alfinpogform4774
    @alfinpogform4774 8 місяців тому +33

    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.....

  • @soylentteal
    @soylentteal Місяць тому +2

    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.

  • @CatStanleySpaceDemon
    @CatStanleySpaceDemon Місяць тому +2

    Best line, "No, just a little headache."😂

  • @jukkasavolainen5620
    @jukkasavolainen5620 8 місяців тому +8

    Never seen this before, and now I'm wiping my screen clean of coffee...

  • @_Briegel
    @_Briegel 8 місяців тому +74

    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!

  • @desimonevd
    @desimonevd 8 місяців тому +4

    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!

  • @rickholland6695
    @rickholland6695 8 місяців тому +12

    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.

  • @mikekolokowsky
    @mikekolokowsky 8 місяців тому +12

    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.”

  • @SoloPilot6
    @SoloPilot6 8 місяців тому +19

    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!"

  • @nettiegurl
    @nettiegurl 3 місяці тому +1

    'You'll kiss three-bucks goodbye' .... BEST epic epilogue ever

  • @sproctor1958
    @sproctor1958 8 місяців тому +6

    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.

  • @scottalong88
    @scottalong88 8 місяців тому +11

    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!

    • @Adam-kx9gi
      @Adam-kx9gi 8 місяців тому +1

      maybe edited out or something?? first time i saw it was on HBO and cant remember it.

    • @oyeahtoys
      @oyeahtoys 8 місяців тому +1

      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.

  • @docmach8794
    @docmach8794 8 місяців тому +13

    This came out on video in the early 80's with a bunch of other shorts.
    Godzilla vs Bambi was hilarious.

    • @sweetjoey2
      @sweetjoey2 8 місяців тому +2

      I REMEMBER godzilla vs bambi and shockingly there was a sequel to godzilla vs bambi where bambi moves and kicks godzilla.

    • @treystephens6166
      @treystephens6166 8 місяців тому +1

      @@sweetjoey2by Marv Newland ???

    • @dosbaggos5575
      @dosbaggos5575 8 місяців тому +2

      And the apocalypse now parody. With kazoos. Rented the VHS at tower records

    • @docmach8794
      @docmach8794 8 місяців тому

      @@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".

    • @docmach8794
      @docmach8794 8 місяців тому

      @@dosbaggos5575
      Nope... I looked it up on UA-cam and it
      wasn't "It came from Hollywood".

  • @douglasrose4188
    @douglasrose4188 8 місяців тому +37

    I remember this from my childhood. Funny. Still better than most of the syfi channels original movies and Disney sequels. Lol😅

    • @thomasbentley4757
      @thomasbentley4757 8 місяців тому +3

      The cheesiest crapfest that SYFY put out was way better than the Star Wars prequels and sequels.
      Lucas should have kept the franchise.

    • @bmbiz
      @bmbiz 8 місяців тому

      @@thomasbentley4757 Wait, didn't Lucas do the prequels, too?

    • @thomasbentley4757
      @thomasbentley4757 8 місяців тому +1

      @@bmbiz Unfortunately for us he did.

    • @bmbiz
      @bmbiz 8 місяців тому

      @@thomasbentley4757 Oh, then I'm missing your meaning when you say Lucas should have kept the franchise.

    • @thomasbentley4757
      @thomasbentley4757 8 місяців тому

      @@bmbiz He should have kept just the original trilogy.

  • @MV1890HHT
    @MV1890HHT 8 місяців тому +8

    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!

  • @yarnbomber2166
    @yarnbomber2166 8 місяців тому +5

    This is the origin of the Flying Toaster!

  • @rcnelson
    @rcnelson 8 місяців тому +12

    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!

  • @stinkypete891
    @stinkypete891 7 місяців тому +10

    Better than Disney Star Wars.

  • @danbreland3444
    @danbreland3444 8 місяців тому +14

    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.

  • @jamespuleo3269
    @jamespuleo3269 8 місяців тому +7

    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 !!

  • @FLStelth
    @FLStelth 8 місяців тому +13

    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.

    • @censorshipsucks9493
      @censorshipsucks9493 8 місяців тому +4

      Paul Frees was one of the greatest voice actors on the planet.

    • @WaterShowsProd
      @WaterShowsProd 6 місяців тому

      As a voice actor I wholeheartedly agree. @@censorshipsucks9493

  • @marcbergeron1750
    @marcbergeron1750 8 місяців тому +4

    Haven't seen this in decades.
    'Take it easy kid, it's only a movie' 😆
    and may the Farce be with you!

  • @misterfischer2177
    @misterfischer2177 8 місяців тому +10

    I don't think I've seen this before. I love it👍

  • @fredericklockard3854
    @fredericklockard3854 8 місяців тому +27

    This is better than any Star Wars since the original trilogy 😂

  • @crescentmoon6029
    @crescentmoon6029 8 місяців тому +10

    What a great memory! Thanks for bringing it back 😆

    • @tenaatv
      @tenaatv  8 місяців тому

      Our pleasure!

  • @soulchorea
    @soulchorea 4 місяці тому +1

    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

  • @josephsheppard9122
    @josephsheppard9122 8 місяців тому +10

    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
      @adeweyan 8 місяців тому +2

      i may have been at the same Convention. I saw it at Space Con 6 in Oakland in '78.

    • @josephsheppard9122
      @josephsheppard9122 8 місяців тому +1

      @@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 😁👍

  • @gavinholt5428
    @gavinholt5428 8 місяців тому +4

    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. 😃

  • @eddieharris3150
    @eddieharris3150 8 місяців тому +7

    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.

  • @WaterShowsProd
    @WaterShowsProd 6 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @kermitefrog64
    @kermitefrog64 8 місяців тому +12

    Space Balls ahead of its time.

  • @amiejohnston2842
    @amiejohnston2842 8 місяців тому +3

    “Does this thing do light speed?”
    “You bet your asteroid kid.”

  • @stebaer
    @stebaer Місяць тому +1

    Watching this feature always returns memories of when I first saw it on HBO and even beyond that first time too.

  • @tintindb
    @tintindb 8 місяців тому +6

    This appeared on HBO. They used to have these shorts between the main features!

    • @douglasdixon524
      @douglasdixon524 8 місяців тому +1

      This and several others. I loved watching these on HBO in the early 1980s. I still have this on VHS.

    • @tintindb
      @tintindb 8 місяців тому +1

      @@douglasdixon524 They also loved stuff from the Canadian film board. I still love the one called Is there life on earth.

  • @sarcasticguy4311
    @sarcasticguy4311 8 місяців тому +4

    "Filmed on location in space"

  • @mysticwolf75
    @mysticwolf75 8 місяців тому +14

    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! 🙂

    • @emilflognoid1532
      @emilflognoid1532 8 місяців тому +1

      Dude me too! Did you live in Mount lake Terrace Washington out side of Seattle???

    • @mysticwolf75
      @mysticwolf75 8 місяців тому +1

      @@emilflognoid1532 No, I'm way on the opposite side of the country in upstate NY. I guess they had similar programs at other libraries!

    • @Dilligff
      @Dilligff 8 місяців тому +1

      @@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.

    • @MarcillaSmith
      @MarcillaSmith 8 місяців тому

      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)

    • @mysticwolf75
      @mysticwolf75 8 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @SynthgodXXX
    @SynthgodXXX 8 місяців тому +6

    I will never forget my childhood memories of this film! A+++++

  • @williamcrowe2576
    @williamcrowe2576 8 місяців тому +10

    I only vaguely remember this from my childhood. Way better than the Holiday Special.

    • @patriciayoung3267
      @patriciayoung3267 8 місяців тому +6

      Anything was better than the Holiday Special. LOL

    • @AlldatJazz-rw9wy
      @AlldatJazz-rw9wy 6 місяців тому +1

      The Ewoks movie was better than the special..😂

    • @williamcrowe2576
      @williamcrowe2576 6 місяців тому

      @@AlldatJazz-rw9wy Which one?

  • @prakaklef
    @prakaklef 8 місяців тому +4

    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😃

  • @dmrr7739
    @dmrr7739 8 місяців тому +3

    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.

    • @seanryan3020
      @seanryan3020 8 місяців тому

      "Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind"

  • @bendyparanormal
    @bendyparanormal 7 місяців тому

    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.

  • @KirkOrion666
    @KirkOrion666 Місяць тому +1

    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... 😮‍💨

  • @TheKielbasaKid
    @TheKielbasaKid 8 місяців тому +20

    Haven't seen this in many a decade. Still better than Disney's wretchedness.

    • @ssherman
      @ssherman 8 місяців тому +2

      If Build Back Better remade Star Wars...lol😅

  • @homeaccount5943
    @homeaccount5943 8 місяців тому +6

    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. 😆

  • @dvolonino
    @dvolonino 7 місяців тому +1

    First seen this in late 1979. Used to run on early HBO cable quite a bit. I've used the line, "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss 3 bucks goodbye," eversince. As well as some others, and no one has ever gotten it.

  • @civilizedworm666
    @civilizedworm666 8 місяців тому +1

    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

  • @biffwellington1782
    @biffwellington1782 8 місяців тому +26

    Still better than the special editions.

    • @jimjam51075
      @jimjam51075 8 місяців тому +7

      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.

    • @jjeshop
      @jjeshop 8 місяців тому

      Nope, but keep practicing. One day you'll be edgy.

  • @halwasserman7905
    @halwasserman7905 8 місяців тому +12

    Oh the memories. Who can forget Ham Salad? Infinitely superior to Spaceballs and yet this was still a very long 12 minutes.

  • @YesterdaysMoose
    @YesterdaysMoose 8 місяців тому +1

    I distinctly remember watching this in primary school. They pulled out the old projector and played this, as well as Closet Cases Of The Nerd Kind.

  • @jeffhabak8334
    @jeffhabak8334 8 місяців тому +6

    OMG,,,,,It never gets OLD 😂😂

    • @tenaatv
      @tenaatv  8 місяців тому +1

      No it doesn't :)

  • @ThreeToesofFury
    @ThreeToesofFury 8 місяців тому +3

    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!!!!

  • @edanderson3141
    @edanderson3141 8 місяців тому +2

    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.

    • @7000fps
      @7000fps 8 місяців тому

      Yes Paul was a great , he also did the narration of The Haunted Mansion at Disney.

  • @scottthomas3792
    @scottthomas3792 8 місяців тому +6

    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....

  • @NoahSpurrier
    @NoahSpurrier 8 місяців тому +6

    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!

  • @AJStone-eb7hb
    @AJStone-eb7hb 8 місяців тому +1

    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. 😁

  • @peterfable
    @peterfable 3 місяці тому

    I haven't seen this in forever! It bought down the house when I first saw it, likely it's premier, in front of a live audience at a SF Bay Area Star Trek convention in 1978. "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks goodbye!"

  • @RetroGamingNook
    @RetroGamingNook 8 місяців тому +3

    lol. Saw this soooo many times on HBO back in the day. Remember a lot of the lines. 😂

  • @fuego09esmeralda
    @fuego09esmeralda 8 місяців тому +3

    The special defects of this movie were ahead of their time...

  • @therealDonMac
    @therealDonMac 8 місяців тому +1

    This was originally my favorite Showtime Short of all time. 1970's cable tv ftw.

  • @hagerty1952
    @hagerty1952 6 місяців тому +2

    I watched the premier of this brilliant little film on "Creature Features" with Bob Wilkins back in 1976 on KTVU. Wilkins had Fosselius on as a recurring guest whenever he had one of his parodies ready to release on the world. The only other one I can remember right now is "Taxi-dermist" (a parody of Taxi Driver) where a guy is driving around in a cab with his stuffed animals.

  • @tjmacvintagecardsnostalgia648
    @tjmacvintagecardsnostalgia648 8 місяців тому +3

    This was on HBO when I was a kid in the early 80s. I haven't seen it since then.

    • @Adam-kx9gi
      @Adam-kx9gi 8 місяців тому +1

      same here but did HBO edit out the nude chic?? i cant remember.😂😂

    • @tjmacvintagecardsnostalgia648
      @tjmacvintagecardsnostalgia648 8 місяців тому

      @@Adam-kx9gi I think they did. 😆

  • @patricklandon7476
    @patricklandon7476 8 місяців тому +3

    “Are you talkin’ to me?”

  • @bobkielbasa7500
    @bobkielbasa7500 8 місяців тому +1

    Brings back childhood memories from when I watched in grade school using a film projector. I wonder how Noel Gallagher managed to travel back in time to play Ham Salad.

  • @ericwood3709
    @ericwood3709 5 місяців тому

    I found this goofy thing on DVD many years back, maybe after the first of the prequel films was released and Star Wars was all popular again. Love it.