Everything Wrong With Star Wars Holiday Special
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Star Wars can't be bad, can it? Hahahahahahaha. Sorry, I almost made it through that. Here's everything we found "wrong" with the most notorious Star Wars ever, The Star Wars Holiday Special!
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17:07
Remember that in this scene of Chewbacca and his wife lovingly looking into each others eyes, its actually just two super tall guys awkwardly staring at each other dressed as giant dogs.
😂🤣👍
No, no, as mogs: half man, half dogs. They're their own best friends.
Ever seen behind the scenes pics from 70s Sesame Street? Those puppeteers basically had to spoon and face one another in the armpit just to work one character.
Getting uncomfortably close came with the territory.
*13:50** - An animated Han Solo walks into a cantina. The bartender goes "Why the long face?"*
There's a lovely story about Peter Mayhew running into the woman who played Chewie's son at a convention many years later, instantly recognizing her, and saying she should be behind the table with him signing autographs.
WAIT WHO?!! I WANT LUMPAWAROOS AUTPGRAPH!
I don’t know what’s more surprising, the fact Star Wars survived this, whomever created this script for the holiday special in the 70’s survived the amount of drugs it needed to think this was a good idea, or that Star Trek V is still somehow worse than this.
It wasn't just the script writer! xD Nearly everybody needed 'something' to help them make it through this one!
@@dust_bin_gaming7319 I want whatever Carrie Fisher was snorting to survive this "holiday special".
@@jbvader721 Cocaine. Plain ol' normal cocaine.
I'm wondering if maybe George promised her to have Harrison Ford pop out of her closet naked for her next birthday if she agreed to appear in this special?
Advantages of no Internet. Anyone who missed the airing would have just missed it and you'd have to be a subscriber to magazines and the like to see the reviews
Star Trek 5 is nowhere near as bad as this trash.
It's a really good thing that Empire Strikes Back was so great that it made everyone forget that this exists. It also shocking that Harrison Ford didn't quit after this
...and he wanted to kill his character off repeatedly.
@@flappysquirrel5132 He got his wish 38 years later
@@gmgz ...yes. He did.
He was always high as a kite, so he was the luckiest one.
@@actiaslunatn7729 And he was the only one whose career was not destroyed by Star Wars
I personally LOVE seeing these looks into a time where Star Wars was popular and a big hit, but BEFORE it even came close to becoming what it is today. A New Hope wasn't the title, the imperial march hasn't been written yet, no one knows Darth's secret...it so fascinating!
That's a unique and positive way to look at it. Its a snapshot of an interesting juncture in pop culture
The market was so thirsty for Star Wars merchandise and material that this crapshow was greenlit.
As a child, I watched this on TV on the night it aired-and loved it. For years, when I was older, I couldn’t find any evidence that it ever existed, making me start to wonder if I had dreamed it. The emergence of the internet proved that it was real! (I still kind of love it, LOL!)
I watched it too, and so did my friends. We were all excited about it, until we saw it. The next day, we didn't really talk about it.
@@herbcraven7146 - LOL! I actually remember thinking, “Maude is singing! Cool!” (I was a weird kid.)
I saw this and Hardware Wars on HBO.
I, too, thought I had been dreaming some odd Star Wars stuff for years, remembering Stormtroopers and wookiees on some woodland planet. We didn't have cable yet and were very dependent on the weather for a quality broadcast through the air, to our rooftop antenna. So I didn't remember very much else.
Was honestly expecting to just have them play the whole thing!
I don't think anyone would make it through their video if they had subjected us to that.
I was surprised that the sins video wasn't an hour longer than the special.
I was expecting just one giant sin: that it exists at all.
I came across the special on youtube the other day. Even knowing its reputation, I tried to watch it out of curiosity. I made it through five minutes, maybe ten. This is something that should be allowed to pass into obscurity, known only as the rumor of a rumor of a memory - something people will claim existed, but can never actually prove.
It's so difficult to get through even with rifftrax and the 70's commercials.
Best parts were TV Sins Vader and "This exhaust room needs a skylight!"
I now understand why Carrie Fisher used this to clear out a party
🎵 "Just one round, friend. Then Homeward bound, friend I'll see you in your dreams." Bea Arthur running the Cantina Bar has to be the best part of the special, outside of the Boba Fett cartoon.
✊
Bea Arthur did what she could with what she had to work with.
Disney 100% needs to make Bea the owner of the cantina in one of the shows or movies. They can use their evil face-mapping tech to just casually drop her in the background chewing out the bartender we met in Ep4.
That, _"...a slut and a moron"_ line from The Golden Girls just says today's Disney.
"Whip, whip, stir. Whip, stir, stir. Whip, whip, stir, stir. Whip, whip, stir."
". . . he deserves an Order of Star Wars Sins!"
The Sin counter increases by 66.
I see what you did there.
Im not even halfway but dropping a like for you for actually suffering through that because i cant even handle a short recap of this "special"special 🥴🤯
17:47 He actually exits stage LEFT. Stage direction are from the perspective of the actor as they face the audience. **DING**
If you read the script, you realize that Chewie's family WERE saying words and we were hearing growls without subtitles for no reason.
And George Lucas can't pass the buck on that idea.
Given how horrible the dialogue we understood is, think about how bad their dualogue is
IIRC, they were going to have the subtitles per the script, but Lucas scrapped it, and said wookies don't get subtitles. To this day, they don't, but it really made it awkward for this special, which already had 1 million things wrong with it.
@@TheSaltySeaman Like I said, Mr. Lucas can't pass the buck on that one. And it's really saying something when this special is one of his biggest mistakes with the franchise. But, it's Disney's problem now, not his.
There was a script? lol
When I saw the title I instantly worried the sun counter would break… glad it made it thru 👍🏻
14:47 Considering most people think having her in it was one of the very, very, very few redeeming things about it, we should be damn well happy she's in it.
Even Disney puts her as canon.
Someone made an action figure of her. That scary Lucielle Ball statue looked more accurate.
4:10 The real sin here is for Luke's guyliner.
Also, now you totally need to do the Ewok TV movies. They'll make you appreciate the Special.
Tooooo be fair, it had just been in a disfiguring car accident. They needed to position his hair and use a ton of makup to cover his mangled face.
So disturbing on Hamill! It's not a play FFS!
My mom talks about this every year 😂 she said she never got to see it when it aired and was so devastated she missed it. Then she couldn’t find it till she saw it on VHS and she couldn’t even finish it. She said she was so glad she didn’t see it when it aired 🤣🤣🤣 this is awful
I remember being a little kid and all excited to see it. Then, when it started, I remember thinking it had to get better soon. I don't know how much more I watched before I gave up, but even as a little kid I found it painfully bad.
The trauma of “one chance to see it” in the 70s was real. My entire Cub Scout pack raced home to catch this and it left us all scarred. Your mom may have thought to trauma of missing this on its one airing was bad but I am here to state seeing it at a young age while in love with Star Wars was far more traumatizing.
Imagine seeing this, not being able to rewatch the film and having to wait years for another movie.
I have seen it in full. After Nostalgia Critic's review of it, watched after years of thinking it was something Al Yankovic made up for his White and Nerdy music video, I sought it out out of morbid curiosity. I - I feel like I survived something truly terrible and watching others make fun of it is my therapy.
1:27 Kenny Baker wasn’t brought into this, since R2 wasn’t scripted to move, but they weren’t going to omit him from the credit, hence the “character as himself” credit
I'm really loving the increasing number of Star Trek after credits with every episode.
I remember pre-internet when getting your hands on a bootleg VHS of this was like finding some kind of subversive contraband
Drinking game: Take a shot every time someone says “minute”
You trying to kill somebody with alcohol poisoning?
@@jrcarter9175 How bout every time a wookie makes a noise?
Words cannot convey both the immense anticipation 6 year old me had for this leading up to its broadcast in 1978 nor the level of what the fuckitude did I just see after watching it.
I appreciate that Star Trek: The Final Frontier, something Star Trek was lucky to survive, is also referenced in this...thing that Star Wars was lucky to survive.
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. My favorite part was how the arrow pointing at Michael Meyers had the common courtesy to move around Gweedo's head as he moved in the foreground. Thank you, Jeremy. Lmao!
How about the fact that apparently Chewbacca has a family that he never sees because he’s off being a smuggler.
We were out the night this aired. Came back at the very end. My mom said I'd see it next year. I thought but that's a whole year, almost 10% of my life up to that point. It took 40 years before I actually got to see it. And found out why it never aired again.
Also, the second wave of Star Wars action figures were actually going to be based on this special. They replaced Chewbacca's family with droids, and only released a total of 8. Plus a mail-away for Boba Fett.
A friend of mine wanted to show this at his families Christmas. Then I told him it features a wookie getting what amounts to a VR lap dance while he orgasams. He didn't believe me and boy was he sorry he didn't 🤣
Even though I wasn’t born for nearly another 20 years AFTER this was released (1995) I’ve heard what a poop storm this was from various sources and… well… I can most definitely see why they wanted sooo badly to pretend that this was just a fever dream/false memory…😅
Imagine having Star Wars agree to be the theme of your special, and then having it be about THIS plot!
Lucas didn't realize what they were going to do and didn't have the pull at the time to fix it. He did make sure there were do more "holiday" specials after that :)
The network Executive got a pink slip for Christmas after this abomination
Of course we had that little of Mark Hamill, they literally took him out of the hospital, filled him with drugs, filmed the scene so that it won't be strange to not have Luke and took him back
Yeesh. That explains why he looks like a drag version of himself.
Prayers. Answered.
What a fucking treat. Thank you Tv sins, you've just made Christmas.
This should be top comment.
I really needed the multiple laughgasms this video gave me.
Idea for a new sin, the willhelm scream. its used in everything now.
Hey, this isn't what I wanted for Christmas! I wanted a sins video for the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special!
It can still happen, maybe on the day of or after Christmas. Then again, they can do it next year...
Could have just been a UA-cam short. 1,000 sins for existing. Done
Oh.. nearly the *entire* cast was.. 'having fun' on this shoot, allegedly... xD
Anyone being honest would tell you that late 70s, early 80s a lot of Hollywood was "having fun" and that's why most movies and shows sucked from that era. The few gems were ones in which they weren't having fun on set (or in the writer's room).
"I think George Lucas is gonna sue somebody!"
Let's talk about the makeup that Luke has on. They made him look like a bleeding '80s Ken doll!
Nostalgia Critic did this a few years ago and had me rolling on the floor. During what ever it was that grandpa was doing NC says "Why can't we see grandpa's hands"
Harvey Korman as the cook looks like a cross between Cinderella's mother and Rosie from the jetsons.
Oh boy here we go…I’m guessing that the ding counter breaks down in tears
Fortunately for England it was never broadcast here, so we never got to snigger over Chewy’s “shaggy carpet” we didn’t get to see it until UA-cam came along and the holiday special was uploaded.
So what happened to the poor /b/tard that uploaded the video?
Handling his lightsaber
I'm juuuust too stoned for that Bonus Round.
EDIT: Good Lord. I just realized the genius of the entire Holiday Special, and what Lucasfilm expected from their audience.
By far, one of THE BEST OUTTAKES 20:36 IMHO!!!🤣🤣🤣👌 That reminds me...are there any plans to create another, unforgettable "OUTTAKES ONLY" compilation? 🙏
That this didn't hit the million sin mark is quite stunning.
The Holiday Special was never shown in the UK. Apparently it was bought by one of the channels before it was made, then they saw it about two weeks before it was due to be shown in the UK and demanded their money back. All things said a pretty close call.
Luke..."Getting in touch with his DarkSide?"😆😆
(Lightsaber Adjustment) 🤔
This is a fever dream kenobi has after taking some expired death sticks
I feel like this should've been a two-parter collab with CinemaSins since the special is as long as a movie...
But is it a collab when it's all the same company?
@@ScottKorin Maybe, maybe not. I mean, when the Sins team sinned the old It, the first part was at CinemaSins and the second part was at TVSins.
For your information (I'm not forcing you to read this):
Me and my brother watched this movie, but in the french version. It has a lot of content removed, being roughly 1h12, but lemme gonna say...
It was a challenge. We both said that if we were able to sat through all this ''movie'', we'd be immune to cringe for good.
And, in fact, it did work. Whenever I see something that make me want to puke my breakfast, I think of this movie and feel a lot more cringeproof.
What I'm trying to say is... Watch this thing. Don't skip it and after that, everything will seem less worse.
Anyway, merry christmas to y'all🎄
You should have taken off a sin for each time Luke blinks or even moves his eyes at all ... 😆
I've had the misfortune to have watched the Star Wars Holiday Special in its entirety; it's ~95 minutes of my life I won't get back, and a Sin Tally of only 596 is being FAR to generous by at least several orders of magnitude!
18:54 Is it a sin on TVSins' part that this sin didn't use the Luke quote about everything someone just said being wrong? You were right on the verge of greatness, guys.
I love the Star Wars Holiday Special, I watch it once a year...
You forgot to question how the whole gang is suddenly in that wookie space tree place.
I found that the key to watching this is to have an edible about 45 minutes beforehand. But the end of it you can damn near interpret Wookiee
Holy shit I forgot how much of an acid trip this was.
Fortunately as a kid I survived the Donny & Marie Star Wars episode, so I was somewhat prepared for how bad a Star Wars chash-in could get.
Rich Evans: you’ve got Lumpy, Inchy
Jay: Inchy? You messed that up
The reason Mark Hamills face looks so weird in the special is because he was in a car accident after A New Hope so had to wear heavy makeup for this special
I recently did research on Mark Hamill's 1977 car accident, and there are conflicting accounts about just how serious the accident and his injuries were. Hamill himself has not been consistent with the details. In a couple interviews he said his car flipped and he broke his nose and cheekbone and had to have cartilage from his ear to reconstruct his nose. In one BBC interview from 1980 that can be found on UA-cam, he said his car only skidded and he only broke his nose. All of the details about him needing a complete facial reconstruction, or having to wear heavy makeup in this special, or the Wampa attack being written into Empire to explain his new face, are all more myth than fact.
@@briansayles1615 But Hamill is definitely wearing a lot of makeup in this, and there's something odd about the lower right side of his face. I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
@@johnsensebe3153 is it me or is he wearing eyeliner?
He also looks high af.
@@Poizenne Pain meds, perhaps?
When the special aired in mid-November 1978, _Star Wars_ was some 18 months old and _The Empire Strikes Back_ was still some 19 months in the future. With how little _Star Wars_ media existed at the time, the holiday special was something we looked forward to-long before it became something that every fan should suffer through once.
(This Sins video has reminded me that I was 13 when the holiday special aired, creating a new 'I feel old' moment, so..."thanks for that." 😝)
This is the holy grail of TV sins.
Harvey Korman? Who the hell is that? [Googles] Hedley Fucking Lamarr? That makes the cooking scene even funnier.
i like how he went from talking about him in 2002 to actually playing him nearly twenty years later; the circle is now complete
... I'm actually amazed this isn't 3 hours long...
And now we sit back and wait for the comments from those who had no idea this even existed until this video was made. Every year, some kid finds out about this monstrosity for the first time and falls into the curiosity trap and agrees to watch the whole thing just to get me to show it to them. It's in that moment that I discover the glee of The Mads, Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank.
Please do Everything Wrong With The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
I wasn't aware this existed, now I'm scared for life.
LOTS of Scotch helps getting through this
1:21 Kenny Baker wasn't in the Holiday Special. They just used the remote-controlled R2 model because they didn't need him as a character, but had to use R2 because the Star Wars fans who bothered to tune in would scream if they didn't see him.
George Lucas once said that he wanted to destroy every bootleg copy of the Holiday Special, if possible. That boat sailed decades ago, George. Still, although he never wanted to use anything created for the Holiday Special in future Star Wars films, the Wookiees still live in the same-type treehouses in Revenge of the Sith. Yes, they were designed by Ralph McQuarrie, but why would ape-like creatures live in trees?
10:41 what many don't get that what Carney was doing was a hesitation gag he would do as Norton on The Honeymooners, where he would keep gearing up to do something, but hesitate, until finally Ralph Kramden gave him a shove, saying "Will you come on!". Does this make Ralph Kramden a part of the empire?
There's no way anyone can make a holiday special with sentient furry animals arguing in space and make it work.
James Gunn: "Hold my metal arm..."
"A Freakin' Ikea Chair!!!" --C. Gore
This is now the only proper way to watch the holiday special.
I wholeheartedly agree!
The proper way is to watch it with RiffTrax.
The medium who pulled carol ann out and cleaned the house played lumpy
They hired the Banana Splits to play the Wookies, didn't they?
You had espresso machine skip available and you blew it!
Normally I despise any besmirching of this glorious relic, but because the jokes are top notch, I shall forgive this transgression of this most holy moment.
If TV SINS really wanted to give a present Jeremy would be narrating.
I never thought the Star wars theme would have lyrics somewhere
Lol in the bar scene they got Michael Meyers and do nothing with him just like every other big celebrity guest😂😂
If there's one thing I've learned from the special edition releases and the holiday special, it's that anytime the title of a Star wars property includes the word special, you know it's gonna suck.
I've seen this special on youtube 3 times! (plus I still like the Cartoon Segment in this!)
Missed opportunity for a joke at 17:54. You could've had the Wookiees grunting and growling to the tune of the opening of "Bohemian Rhapsody".
The Death Star had no weakness. It took an amateur space wizard to shoot a missile through a little hole, the missile had to make a 90 degree turn, then go down a narrow tube for miles without prematurely exploding... What are the odds, especially when the Jedi are nothing but a legend?
It's times like this when I wonder why I watch _Sins_ versions of something I'd never in a million years watch in the first place. Oh, wait, 'cause o' the laughs, that's right. 😄 Happy Winter Solstice, by the way.
(Stage _left_ -- frame right.)
That thumbnail...I started to wonder if maybe the holiday special was claymation or maybe puppetry. [edit] Is X kiss and O hug? I thought the X was the crossed arms and the O was the lips.
I was wondering how this channel would deal with specials like this or the new marvel specials. Great to see this being covered. Not so great to see the special itself
I seriously cannot think of a Sins episode - Cinema, TV, whatever - where the sheer awfulness of the material being sinned oozed forth as thoroughly as this one. This thing was the most painful piece of drek I've ever seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted.
It's Star Snores, not Star Drek
@@david2869 Even this was released NEARLY 20 years before my birth (1995), I’ve heard from various sources what a poop storm this was and… well… I can see why they wanted sooo badly to pretend that this was a fever dream/false memory 😅…
Carrie Fisher said she had absolutely no memory of recording that song, because she admits she was so fucking high on drugs at the time. You can even see how dilated her eyes are in the scene.
In Carrie's defense, I would be high as a kite if I had to do this "special" too.
You left out the best part: Fighting the frizzes at 11.
I guess you guys AREN’T being Bah Humbugs this year after all! I still don’t know who it took you THIS long to sin a Christmas movie, but at least you sinned one.
Everything Wrong with the Star Wars Holiday Special in one second or less:
*The Plot!!!*
10:55 and then someone told Jefferson Starship and they were like "star what? oh ok"
I read an article on the web back in 2000, George Lucas himself said they aired it one time, and then never again. That fact that it has survived at all is A miracle. So merry Christmas to you all!
I'm so glad I was raised a Star Trek fan and missed all this in the 70's.
I'm glad I was born in the 80's!
That thumbnail made me laugh XD
19:42 Ha! A clip of Sybok on Nimbus III, from Star Trek V...nice one!
Fun Fact: Nimbus III was once called Tatooine
A reminder that George Lucas insisted on Wookie conversations without subtitles, and that Bruce Vilanch was heavily into cocaine when this was made.
I think there were a lot more drugs used besides cocaine. LSD, mushrooms, and pcp to name a few
It's Hollywood in the late 70s; it would be surprising if someone in Hollywood wasn't on cocaine...
Give this special infinite sins.