Best of the Worst: The Star Wars Holiday Special (FOR REAL)

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  • @KOLN555
    @KOLN555 9 років тому +4882

    You can't trust Carrie Fisher's allegations of coke use. After all she was high on coke.

    • @inpropriapaislee
      @inpropriapaislee 6 років тому +175

      The Cocaine Carrie Paradox a film by JJ Abrams

    • @jiminyjustin
      @jiminyjustin 6 років тому +32

      That comment was from two years ago, friend. I forgive you though.

    • @inpropriapaislee
      @inpropriapaislee 6 років тому +52

      JiminyJustin Aw that’s the beauty of it, an awful joke posted 2 years too late on this awful review about an awful movie. Like ogres, there’s layers to my terrible joke thought process. Someday I’ll forgive myself too, though.

    • @jiminyjustin
      @jiminyjustin 6 років тому +17

      Paislee Fiddyment haha, I completely agree with yo- did you just call this review awful?

    • @inpropriapaislee
      @inpropriapaislee 6 років тому +41

      JiminyJustin Yes, but don’t take me the wrong way. It’s awful at being a review but a masterpiece on every other level, and is probably the single best example of why I watch shameless hours of these hacks bullshit about movies everyday and have for years, representing what I’m assuming to be the criminally small amount of their viewing demographic of young women with a sense of humor. So yes, you completely agree with me. Good talk.

  • @bellyit
    @bellyit 9 років тому +3912

    But let's get back to the topic at hand.
    Ishtar.

    • @mortified0
      @mortified0 7 років тому +368

      "These men are PAWNS"

    • @fortblocks
      @fortblocks 7 років тому +268

      Next they will be hailed as the true messengers of God.

    • @stefanmarkland5680
      @stefanmarkland5680 7 років тому +239

      They were just a couple of song writers...

    • @98JSB
      @98JSB 6 років тому +63

      Watch the OTHER Star Wars Holiday Special Best of the Worst episode. It's probably one of their best.

    • @NobodyQuiteLikeMe
      @NobodyQuiteLikeMe 6 років тому +24

      I couldnt believe what i was seeing.

  • @NealX
    @NealX 8 років тому +2525

    "So Diane Carroll sings something..."
    "And Art Carmichael"
    "Art Carney"
    "Art Garfunkel"
    "And so Diane Lane kind of..."
    "Diane Lane?"
    "Diane Keaton"
    "Buster Keaton"
    "Diane Keaton and Busta Rhymes"
    It's like poetry.

    • @allenyoung3088
      @allenyoung3088 8 років тому +175

      It rhymes

    • @thesyndrome43
      @thesyndrome43 8 років тому +68

      Rich Evans is the key to all of this.....
      *Rich Evans puppet drives by on a jeep*

    • @DarrenSemotiuk
      @DarrenSemotiuk 7 років тому +59

      Read Lettuce Medium is notoriously good at these kind of manglings of the English luggage!

    • @robbanks8514
      @robbanks8514 7 років тому +7

      Art Garfunkel also sings

    • @notyou8716
      @notyou8716 4 роки тому +23

      @@thesyndrome43 Rich is the funniest character we've ever had. If we can just get him working....

  • @janberkemeier7406
    @janberkemeier7406 3 роки тому +708

    "It was a wonderful time, but I had no idea it was even part of the whole Star Wars-thing. I just remember singing to a bunch of people with funny heads."
    - Bea Arthur
    "George gave me a copy so I had something for parties when I wanted everyone to leave."
    - Carrie Fisher

    • @skatef0rl1fe
      @skatef0rl1fe Рік тому +17

      Between this and Turtle Dreams, BOTW has shown everyone some excellent GTFO material!

    • @omega1397
      @omega1397 Рік тому +31

      watching the Holiday Special with high on coke Carrie Fisher after whatever insane party she had sounds pretty fun honestly.

    • @janberkemeier7406
      @janberkemeier7406 Рік тому +11

      @@omega1397 Watching movies with people who are high on coke *sounds* fun but rarely is. Of course I've never met or watched a movie with Carrie Fisher when she was still doing bumps, more's the pity, so she may have been the rare exception

    • @Swediepinoy
      @Swediepinoy Рік тому +13

      @@omega1397 party with Carrie Fisher would alone be worth building a time machine for.

  • @ZarboltCcc
    @ZarboltCcc 6 років тому +3776

    I wonder if Mark Hamill crashed his car on purpose in hopes that he'd be too injured to appear in the Holiday Special

    • @Bobby__B
      @Bobby__B 6 років тому +383

      Lucas: You're still coming to work right?

    • @Gandoan
      @Gandoan 5 років тому +88

      He didn't mess up his face. Mark even said he didn't in an interview. He was in an accident, but it wasn't severe in the slightest. This was all just rumors.

    • @bombabombom3603
      @bombabombom3603 5 років тому +36

      @@Gandoan Uhm... that explains the Ken doll tan?

    • @Greigames
      @Greigames 5 років тому +39

      Gandoan so what happened to his face?

    • @AdamHoy2006
      @AdamHoy2006 5 років тому +200

      Maybe Lucas decided it would be cheaper to cut Mark's brake lines instead of applying prosthetics to his face

  • @haydengilbert6317
    @haydengilbert6317 8 років тому +1331

    OH MY....cartoon Han looks EXACTLY like Adam Driver...

    • @nighttray1489
      @nighttray1489 8 років тому +156

      JJ saw this video, and then Cast Driver.

    • @freindmaker4473
      @freindmaker4473 5 років тому +135

      It's like poetry, it rhymes

    • @bogdanpadjen2371
      @bogdanpadjen2371 5 років тому +48

      @@ThePunk01 and that's what's so powerfull about it. (proceeds to die.)

    • @DemonicAkumi
      @DemonicAkumi 4 роки тому +15

      That's an insult to cartoon Han.

    • @halflifeger4179
      @halflifeger4179 4 роки тому +39

      Demonic Akumi you shut your mouth about our precious boy Adam Driver

  • @johnclavis
    @johnclavis 9 років тому +2535

    LOL I just realized why the Wookies all wear robes during their ceremony. It's so that the producers didn't have to make dozens of Wookie costumes. All they had to do was make dozens of Wookie hands and heads and then give them all long flowing robes that covered every other part of their body. That was a lot cheaper!

    • @Nitrodino7875
      @Nitrodino7875 5 років тому +262

      Now you're thinking like like the producers.

    • @aspiealchemist
      @aspiealchemist 5 років тому +120

      @Dmitry Terek or to cover up their giant wookie cocks

    • @pouringblood
      @pouringblood 4 роки тому +45

      I _love_ revelations like this

    • @tacnomel2591
      @tacnomel2591 4 роки тому +3

      Well yeah

    • @ryank170
      @ryank170 4 роки тому +1

      Really clever idea!

  • @gabrielmartino110
    @gabrielmartino110 9 років тому +1237

    Gotta love that chroma key bleeding into Jack's bald head.

    • @MegaZeta
      @MegaZeta 5 років тому +171

      The Star Wars Holiday Special is so bad that Jack's brain is phasing in and out of reality after watching it. It gets to Jay after a while.

    • @jdvlss01
      @jdvlss01 3 роки тому +40

      In the position their sitting If you look from right to left it looks like the four stages of balding.

    • @razorhog8
      @razorhog8 2 роки тому +5

      @@jdvlss01 YOOO it does!

    • @nerveagent1905
      @nerveagent1905 2 роки тому

      That's the hole he drinks through his brain from

  • @schmittelt
    @schmittelt 7 років тому +4427

    Rey is Lumpy's daughter.

    • @shack8110
      @shack8110 5 років тому +22

      Really?

    • @johnt.campbell316
      @johnt.campbell316 5 років тому +96

      Well, I guess they *were* nobody...

    • @ToumalRakesh
      @ToumalRakesh 5 років тому +147

      Dude you can't just post major spoilers like that. That just ain't right.

    • @lorddevilfish5868
      @lorddevilfish5868 5 років тому +63

      Deleted Last Jedi Scene plays
      Luke: Rey Your father was Lumpy Bacca!
      Rey: That’s not true! My father can’t be a type of cancer!
      Luke: No not the cancer! The Wookiee like Chewbacca!
      Rey: Oh

    • @bombabombom3603
      @bombabombom3603 5 років тому +34

      No, Rey is Art Carney's daughter.

  • @PurpleColonel
    @PurpleColonel 4 роки тому +2019

    IMDB Trivia:
    "George Lucas came up with the idea of focusing on Chewbacca's family. Writer Bruce Vilanch objected, because the dialogue would all be in the Wookiee language. He feared that the special would turn into "one long episode of Lassie." But Lucas refused to change it. According to Vilanch, Lucas originally intended for the story of Chewbacca's family to appear somewhere in the "Star Wars" saga."
    Also IMDB Trivia:
    "Bruce Vilanch has admitted that he was using cocaine heavily while helping to write the special."

    • @mjfan653
      @mjfan653 4 роки тому +275

      honestly, I'm beginning to doubt all the coke usage. seems like everyone wants to just blame coke for what was in reality something horrible that was done completely (or mostly) sober, because it's such shit. they just don't want to admit they could have full knowingly done something like this. but they did.
      had they really used as much coke as they say they did, it would have been alot better. the blues brothers was filmed with a separate coke budget for cast and crew. that was good. not only because of coke, but it must have helped.

    • @fomoran
      @fomoran 4 роки тому +77

      @@mjfan653 Christopher Hitchens was soaked in whiskey and he was Christopher fukin' Hitchens.
      My times soaked in whiskey I was intolerable.
      Do you see how different drugs affect people differently...
      The world could be awash in cocaine some would use their coke granted hours not to create Good things...like the star wars holiday special

    • @sicariusflamus3033
      @sicariusflamus3033 4 роки тому +70

      fomoran stephen king wrote most of his masterpieces higher than the moon

    • @fomoran
      @fomoran 4 роки тому +10

      @@sicariusflamus3033 yeah, i know.

    • @Redhotlugnut
      @Redhotlugnut 4 роки тому +54

      @@mjfan653 I've actually never done coke but what I'm told is that you think you have amazing ideas and a ton of confidence. So you push your ideas and the other guys just go with it. Then when we look back 40 years later we see some serious turds that were easily products of coke. One that comes to mind is the Kiss album The Elder. It's their album version of the Christmas Special with a couple of decent tracks thrown in.

  • @stonezone9689
    @stonezone9689 9 років тому +1574

    "Thats a bad joke. That's a joke in poor taste."
    "Thank you."

    • @TheKaiTetley
      @TheKaiTetley 4 роки тому +15

      Stone Zone. Mark Hammil is the one true Joker.

    • @carstarsarstenstesenn
      @carstarsarstenstesenn 4 роки тому +11

      why did Josh always used to get mad at dark jokes lol

    • @Sofnuuy
      @Sofnuuy 3 роки тому +1

      The Joker would've approved lmao

    • @luna-hw9li
      @luna-hw9li 2 роки тому +4

      how is nobody picking up on the genius of "that's a Bat-joke"?

  • @turkeysamwich00
    @turkeysamwich00 6 років тому +804

    I love how Mike is almost always straight faced and deadpan but Rich talking about tree houses made him crack for some reason

    • @jz8712
      @jz8712 4 роки тому +36

      It was the booze

    • @joelsmith5938
      @joelsmith5938 4 роки тому +76

      Mike is in love with Rich.

    • @Janfon1
      @Janfon1 4 роки тому +3

      Yeah, you wish

    • @notyou8716
      @notyou8716 4 роки тому +33

      Although Mike is disgusted with adulthood and humanity, he hasn't lost his sense of whimsy.

    • @noplace4akitty047
      @noplace4akitty047 3 роки тому +1

      @@notyou8716 I thought you were talking about me.

  • @isaacthuesen3644
    @isaacthuesen3644 9 років тому +762

    Poor Harrison Ford. Phoning it in never looked so sad

    • @shadows-sweet-embrace
      @shadows-sweet-embrace 6 років тому +6

      I enjoy your profile picture.

    • @psychosociety7910
      @psychosociety7910 5 років тому +61

      It was the exact moment that he realized... "this is my life"

    • @shadows-sweet-embrace
      @shadows-sweet-embrace 5 років тому +2

      @@mierardi88 Thank you!

    • @josiahbahuaud2294
      @josiahbahuaud2294 5 років тому +91

      You can just see it on his face. "This'll pay for the new pool. Just tough it out. It's only three more hours." lol

    • @exe57
      @exe57 4 роки тому +13

      Dammit. I should've stuffed more shit into the frames!

  • @joehollingsworth4502
    @joehollingsworth4502 Рік тому +206

    17:45: Jay usually being so dead pan and straight face when speaking then perfectly doing a baby wookie impression out of nowhere was a highlight for me

  • @ThoRCX
    @ThoRCX 2 роки тому +191

    Everybody talks about how Leo kept going despite bleeding from his hands for real in Django, but nobody talks about how Mike spits out his tooth and keeps talking about the SW Holiday Special.

    • @pirat87pl
      @pirat87pl 2 роки тому +45

      I watched this episode like 3 times already and suddenly like WTF? Was this a bit? I need more information!

    • @sean8102
      @sean8102 Місяць тому +3

      ​@@pirat87plof course it wasn't actually him just having a tooth fall out of his head and just casually spitting it out. Why he spit that ice like that I'd guess just comes down to being quite buzzed or drunk (though we have obv seen Mike far drunker)

  • @sneed3840
    @sneed3840 9 років тому +1067

    I like this special it's so dense and lumpy is a funnier character then we have ever had before

    • @killerhedgehog69
      @killerhedgehog69 9 років тому +100

      it's gonna be great

    • @ballacaust
      @ballacaust 9 років тому +65

      killerhedgehog69 it's gonna be great

    • @wanderingrandomer
      @wanderingrandomer 9 років тому +21

      Garrison Larson*repeat until not funny anymore*

    • @MrTwon1610
      @MrTwon1610 9 років тому +44

      It's gonna be great

    • @jazzykoenig
      @jazzykoenig 9 років тому +34

      It's gonna be great

  • @chuggyman5
    @chuggyman5 9 років тому +582

    It's so dense. Every single image has so many things going on.

    • @tyspyranger
      @tyspyranger 9 років тому +9

      ***** *rhyme

    • @Khralle97
      @Khralle97 9 років тому +87

      Fuck you Rick Berman

    • @chuggyman5
      @chuggyman5 9 років тому +15

      tyspyranger And people say George Lucas doesn't need me.

    • @WDGcentral0224
      @WDGcentral0224 9 років тому +25

      Goonguns

    • @tyspyranger
      @tyspyranger 9 років тому +11

      WDGcentral0224 It's gonna be great.

  • @Crlarl
    @Crlarl 7 років тому +508

    I love that this was shot on the Moon set of _Space Cop_.

  • @thegreataturn
    @thegreataturn Рік тому +225

    I used to think this was the most damage that could ever be done to starwars.

    • @boobootittleman7299
      @boobootittleman7299 9 місяців тому +8

      It still is.

    • @SpikesSpikesSpikes
      @SpikesSpikesSpikes 9 місяців тому

      you're a buffoon if you ever held star wars in any sort of reverence anyway, nerd

    • @gatorhoy0420
      @gatorhoy0420 7 місяців тому +7

      @@boobootittleman7299 not even close

  • @rpprt3
    @rpprt3 8 років тому +433

    Lumpy: "RAWRRRRRR"
    Subtitles: "I have to go now. My planet needs me."
    Note: Lumpy died on the way back to his home planet.

    • @TwoDogger
      @TwoDogger 8 років тому +8

      Between Empire and Jedi Itchy and Malla also just die in a fire while Itchy's masterbating to Diana Ross and Malla starts a fire while cooking Bantha Rump and Art Karney just tells Chewie who was at the time going to save Han so he could have sex with Han and instead fucked Lando in Han's clothes while Lando wore a white guy mask and when Art Karney told him he drowned his sorrows at the Mos Eisley Cantina and sang with Bea Arthur and Harvey Koorman.

    • @RabbitShirak
      @RabbitShirak 2 роки тому +2

      Luke: ”Lumpy was an alien?”
      Leia: ”I, guess so?”

  • @singrdave
    @singrdave 9 років тому +553

    When I see the new Star Wars VII teaser trailer, and Han says, "Chewie, we're home", I can't help but think they finally made it to Chewie's house for Life Day. And that Bea Arthur will start singing. JJ Abrams, MAKE IT HAPPEN!

    • @notsusan
      @notsusan 4 роки тому +27

      somehow this would have been better than what we got

    • @homestuck_official
      @homestuck_official 3 роки тому +3

      @nabor605 The pitch where Rey has a robot scalp because of a lumpy head and gets shipped with C3P0, the main conflict for the first half of the movie is joylessly trying to get neutral aliens to join the rebels, and the final fight is between a Luke who came back from being only halfway dead (who fights by spinning two lightsabers in a "veritable dervish") and an army of Snoke clones (who have perfect memory copying as well as a contradictory and ultimately useless backstory involving Obi-Wan Kenobi) is better than what we got

    • @DeaconPain
      @DeaconPain Рік тому +2

      ​@@homestuck_officialthree hours of Luke milking a space cow for its sweet blue milk would have been better than what we got

  • @Noema130
    @Noema130 9 років тому +2830

    So why does a wookie get off to images of a human? Is that the wookie equivalent of being a furry?

    • @boooRatt1
      @boooRatt1 9 років тому +165

      ***** Shavey!

    • @HappyCynic
      @HappyCynic 9 років тому +166

      ***** Smoothskin.

    • @boredfartless4221
      @boredfartless4221 9 років тому +130

      Wookies don't care what you are, they are just huge bollocked horny creatures you should never bend over within running distance of. They are like Cosby but without the date rape drugs.

    • @kidpax
      @kidpax 9 років тому +33

      I think it may be a common theme for Lucas. See THX 1138 with Robert Duvall & the hologram.

    • @NealX
      @NealX 9 років тому +7

      Fucking made my day.

  • @scottylans
    @scottylans 2 роки тому +77

    I don't know why but "Chewbacca's son, who may or may not be from a previous marriage. Lumpy" totally killed me.

  • @claykirby20011
    @claykirby20011 3 роки тому +207

    13 yr. old me sat through this whole mess when it aired. Back then Star Wars was my everything and I kept watching hoping it would get better, but it kept getting worse. Unless you were there, you can't truly know the horror of this thing

    • @RabbitShirak
      @RabbitShirak 2 роки тому +19

      70s was one hell of a drug.

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 2 роки тому +26

      I was there too. I was 8 and it was a little "uncomfortable" when you are sitting there with mom and dad watching Wookie porn by the Christmas tree eating moms fresh baked Christmas cookies. Even at 8 I knew something was really wrong with the whole debacle, and Wookie porn sealed the deal.😲

    • @WildBluntHickok
      @WildBluntHickok 2 роки тому +12

      Yeah going into it knowing it's crap doesn't have the same feel as finding out the hard way, in real time.

    • @caronstout354
      @caronstout354 3 місяці тому

      The horror of SWHS has been supplanted by the travesty that is Disney+ The Acolyte!

  • @atlantisource
    @atlantisource 10 місяців тому +23

    RLM SWHS BOTW is a December tradition unlike any other. Merry Christmas ‘23

  • @soangry
    @soangry 9 років тому +214

    Any time Mike or Rich gets the other to laugh, it's like the horribly depraved joke seal of approval.

  • @kylefox2397
    @kylefox2397 6 років тому +946

    Wait, if the cartoon section is a fictional story in the Star Wars universe, does that mean the live action Boba Fett in the other movies is a hardcore cosplayer?

    • @daniellipko710
      @daniellipko710 5 років тому +177

      Boba Fett was just cosplaying Jango Fett who was cosplaying Mandalorians

    • @ironmaster6496
      @ironmaster6496 4 роки тому +63

      @@daniellipko710 Technically so was the clone army......the cosplay wars?

    • @CosmicWaltz7
      @CosmicWaltz7 4 роки тому +51

      There's a lot of weirdness in the special. Like, when the wookie family tunes in to a bar scene starring Bea Arthur. You'd think this was some kind of show playing in-universe, but then the empire troops show up and shut it down, which implies this is actually a real bar and these events are happening in real time as they watch. So, they have a channel that gives them surveillance footage of a bar, with multiple camera changes. Weird enough, but then Bea busts out a musical number, which we now know is happening not on an in-universe television show, but is happening at that very moment.

    • @TheRealJames76
      @TheRealJames76 3 роки тому +5

      @TheRuffington I thought Disney changed them back to canon at some point.

    • @domonchief
      @domonchief 3 роки тому +17

      @@TheRealJames76 They reference Life Day in the first episode of the Mandalorian

  • @ilshyf
    @ilshyf 4 роки тому +146

    This daytime holiday special version of Star Wars was kind of lucky to be broadcast A DAY BEFORE the Peoples Temple mass suicide/massacre. The latter completly obliterated anybody's chance to mock the first in the mainstream media which spent months to cover the massacre. Otherwise, everyone would mock the Holiday Special endlessly, which could destroy Star Wars franchise to go on as we know.

    • @ilshyf
      @ilshyf 3 роки тому +38

      @@johnbacon4997 Holiday Special was aired on CBS in NOVEMBER 17 1978 and the Peoples Temple incident happened NOVEMBER 18 1978. I think that sinister coincidence worked in favor of Star Wars franchise because this entertainment failure was timely superceded by the enormity of an unprecedented real event - it was the biggest civilian loss before the 9/11 in USA at the time. It's pretty obvious the medias rather jumped to the massacre to cover it than spent time to mockingly target a simple (quite costly though for production staff) failure...

    • @plawson8577
      @plawson8577 2 роки тому +3

      And the SAME night of the Burger Chef Massacre in Speedway,Indiana.

    • @Mick_92
      @Mick_92 Рік тому +8

      Still the worst thing that happened that week.

    • @blueshit199
      @blueshit199 4 години тому

      the special was so horrible it caused mass suicide, damn

  • @mckenzie.latham91
    @mckenzie.latham91 5 років тому +344

    Best screen shot at 19:04:
    Jay looks amusingly intrigued
    Mike is angrily confused
    Jack is just horrified speechless
    Rich is amused by the situation but totally indifferent otherwise
    Josh is disappointed

    • @alneri8327
      @alneri8327 3 роки тому +8

      STAR WARS IN A NUTSHELL :

    • @JaydevRaol
      @JaydevRaol 3 роки тому +2

      Thanks 😅

    • @alneri8327
      @alneri8327 3 роки тому +2

      @@JaydevRaol you son of a gun , that was an interesting material here

    • @janeeyre1990
      @janeeyre1990 2 роки тому +6

      That screenshot is RLM in a nutshell.

  • @joneggelton
    @joneggelton 3 роки тому +131

    And now, thanks to The Mandalorian, Life Day is now officially canon.

    • @Kamandi1971
      @Kamandi1971 2 роки тому +8

      you mean thanks to Jon Favs he loves the holiday special ts on record

    • @johnnythewalrus
      @johnnythewalrus 4 місяці тому

      I'm proud to say that I haven't watched any Star Wars content for 19 years. Episode 3 being the last "new" thing I watched.

  • @DaniloSantosVieira
    @DaniloSantosVieira 9 років тому +622

    I bet George is only ashamed of this because it doesnt have a single lightsaber in it.

    • @Cyrillion
      @Cyrillion 6 років тому +35

      I'm coming from 3 years in the future to tell you the spooky story of how it is still the only star wars movie without a lightsaber.

    • @jacobmitchelllamb
      @jacobmitchelllamb 5 років тому +10

      Or that he couldn’t make any new toys out of it lol

    • @clark5317
      @clark5317 5 років тому +11

      @@jacobmitchelllamb He could, though. And he did.

    • @fireblade295
      @fireblade295 4 роки тому +1

      @@Cyrillion Wait, Solo did?

    • @finscontingencyplan7005
      @finscontingencyplan7005 4 роки тому +11

      @@fireblade295 yeah, Darth maul takes his out at the very end

  • @raminybhatti5740
    @raminybhatti5740 9 років тому +467

    I wonder if Alec Guiness was approached to feature in the Christmas Special? If he was he probably laughed in their face.

    • @Did6661
      @Did6661 8 років тому +110

      He was probably lying on a beach somewhere while they filmed this, laughing at the others who chose not to take a cut of the royalties/ merchandise monies...

    • @animatedink2529
      @animatedink2529 8 років тому +120

      +Pvt. William Hudson He probably watched the whole thing from his home with a martini all smug, and then the stock footage of him appeared at the end and he spit-took his drink like "Oh shit"...

    • @rosiethefeeder3085
      @rosiethefeeder3085 8 років тому +74

      Actually he approached the director and said "I'm not the actor you're looking for." Hence his absence.

    • @TwoDogger
      @TwoDogger 8 років тому +3

      +Pvt William Hudson they would have just used stock footage anyways or he may have been dead not sure about that

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 8 років тому +20

      Guiness lived to be 86. RIp 2000.

  • @roaches7789
    @roaches7789 Рік тому +338

    I related to Lumpy on a very personal level in this film because my grandfather also watched porn with me in the same room

  • @blondesummer7980
    @blondesummer7980 6 років тому +83

    "That's a joke in poor taste."
    "Thank you."
    Classic.

  • @skatef0rl1fe
    @skatef0rl1fe Рік тому +97

    According to Wookiepedia, the first thing they filmed was Bea Arthur's musical number, along with the Jefferson Starship song and one other unnamed musical segment (Cirque du soleil bit? Grandpa's porno tape?!?!). Just those three segments cost them 1/4 of their entire budget!

  • @jmiester25
    @jmiester25 9 років тому +154

    Lumpy is the key to all this, if we get Lumpy working...

  • @DrCactus
    @DrCactus 9 років тому +140

    "Itchy, Scratchy, and Poochie - all the members of the Bacca family"

  • @comicpop
    @comicpop 9 років тому +497

    I entirely agree that it's a rite of passage for major Star Wars fans. It's a drudgery and gives pleasure to no one.

    • @jakemurphy4832
      @jakemurphy4832 6 років тому +14

      Ayy, Sal’s here too! Three and a half years ago!

    • @jenniferschillig3768
      @jenniferschillig3768 6 років тому +9

      Oh, I dunno...the Rifftrax'ed version is great fun...

    • @lenowin
      @lenowin 6 років тому +2

      Yeah Rifftrax is great stuff.

    • @frippertonics6421
      @frippertonics6421 6 місяців тому

      So... kinda like the sequel trilogy?

  • @AlexanderLeset
    @AlexanderLeset 8 років тому +253

    Rich Evans stole the show with his patented hit and miss comedy style

    • @Rejukem
      @Rejukem 3 роки тому +8

      I view this entire video as Rich Evans Greatest Hits

  • @EmoEmu
    @EmoEmu 5 років тому +80

    If the Wookies wear robes for this holiday, that would mean that they actually can wear clothes and are just a race of nudists who happen to have fur through luck and accident.

    • @EmoEmu
      @EmoEmu 5 років тому +10

      The lipsticks need airing out goddammit.

  • @cerickNY
    @cerickNY 9 років тому +225

    I love how Jay's impression of George Lucas checking his bank account would imply that the man had a smartphone or tablet in 1977-78.

    • @piscespeter3
      @piscespeter3 9 років тому +8

      Roldo Mustache quite roldo you speak of forgotten and forbidden texts if these self loving tweeters grow to understand the power of the true written language and the power of the paper information theyll be unstoppable you fool with the instant creation of communication coupled with the wisdom that comes from reading the text upon the sacred surface of paper dating back thousands theyll undo all of our plans and rise up and take over and leave us to die and coupled with the magicks of doing math in your head you might as well give them the power of GOD your insane if you dont stop your actions yourself the elders will.

    • @cerickNY
      @cerickNY 9 років тому +13

      Roldo Mustache Actually, my generation does remember physical paper checks (there's not currently a generation too young to remember them since they're still in widespread use, fyi), though the word you were looking for is "check register", not "checking booklet". But more to the point, either Jay's impression of George Lucas is flipping through the pages of his register with his index and middle finger from the center such that they'll obstruct his view of the entries on each page instead of flipping with his thumb from the side like a normal person would, or the imitation is of performing a scroll gesture on a touch screen. For your reference: 22:52.
      Also, if you'd looked closer at my wording, you might have noticed that by using the noun "impression" as I did in saying "Jay's impression of George Lucas" puts an emphasis on the action itself. Had I meant it to say that George Lucas couldn't have checked his bank account without use of a smartphone or tablet, the phrasing might have been "I love how Jay imitating George Lucas checking his bank account would imply that the man had a smartphone or tablet in 1977-78".
      If you have any more condescending or snarky quips that reenforces your sense of superiority to a youth population that has no experience with (what you believe to be) obsolete technology that you've had to use in your lifetime, feel free to air them here. I know living in a changing world can be scary when you start falling behind the times, and it's good to talk it out.

    • @piscespeter3
      @piscespeter3 9 років тому

      cerickNY ... and you completely missed the joke like a blackbird recon jet flying over any city below sea level. and apparently dont understand written sarcasm so you are even more out of touch with todays tech then you so think i am. using terms as forbiden in terms of paper information true power of it magicks of math sacred surface that is paper i thought i made it enough with the over the top words it was supposed to be a joke but i guess next time ill just do this
      (btw this is a joke incase anyone thinks this is serious ok good now no one can get all holier then thou responses)
      just to clarify when a humorous reply is being constructed.

    • @cerickNY
      @cerickNY 9 років тому +6

      piscespeter3 Was the punchline of the joke that you didn't realize you weren't the user being replied too?

    • @MartKencuda
      @MartKencuda 9 років тому +17

      Or, you know, a piece of paper with numbers written on it.

  • @WattieWasTaken
    @WattieWasTaken 9 років тому +1033

    Wait, so does Harrison Ford work around the clock or part-time? I'm confused, this is all so dense...

    • @Crichjo32
      @Crichjo32 8 років тому +81

      +Bass Cannon Jar Jar is the key to all this

    • @DreamwalkerFilms
      @DreamwalkerFilms 8 років тому +67

      +Crichjo32 It's true, because he's a funnier character than we've had

    • @DerrWereturd
      @DerrWereturd 8 років тому +33

      +Dreamwalker Films It all Rhymes. It's like poetry.

    • @MadderR3d
      @MadderR3d 8 років тому +57

      +Bass Cannon
      Part-time!!

    • @vallytine
      @vallytine 7 років тому +6

      Aka6 is a better hentai artist

  • @jmiester25
    @jmiester25 8 років тому +167

    Watching Mike laugh that hard brings so much joy to my own life.

  • @MushroomFleet
    @MushroomFleet 8 років тому +312

    Just realised that the stormtroopers went out like Han

    • @roach9397
      @roach9397 8 років тому +26

      Too soon

    • @MushroomFleet
      @MushroomFleet 8 років тому +3

      The Real Dagoth Ur it was a JJ callback ;)

    • @MushroomFleet
      @MushroomFleet 8 років тому

      Murcia doxial nah, because of the shot where he falls into smoke from a high place.

    • @janusz-banderas
      @janusz-banderas 7 років тому +19

      It's like poetry

    • @roach9397
      @roach9397 7 років тому +1

      albertannationalist You mean Boba Fette?

  • @jester12341
    @jester12341 8 років тому +172

    The only redeeming quality of the Christmas special is that the looming dread of one's own mortality pails on comparison.

    • @hitmanwolf
      @hitmanwolf 7 років тому +9

      Don't worry! we will get a ladder to get you out of the DEEPNESS of that comment... just wait there!

  • @darkstar932
    @darkstar932 5 років тому +73

    George Lucas came up with the idea of focusing on Chewbacca's family. Writer Bruce Vilanch objected, because the dialogue would all be in the Wookiee language, but Lucas refused to change it. According to Vilanch, Lucas originally intended for the story of Chewbacca's family to appear somewhere in the "Star Wars" saga.
    Taken from the IMDB Trivia page. The very core of the disaster was his idea.

  • @OpenMawProductions
    @OpenMawProductions 9 років тому +641

    Here's what I don't get... They clearly had *some* money to throw around. There's a lot of optical stuff going on. The animation sequence, the sets they did build, the number of guest stars they got... Why not just do an actual STAR WARS two hour TV episode? Like Han and Chewie on some kind of a smuggling mission and Luke and Leia and 3PO doing cameo work? Fewer guest stars, all your money can go into FX and sets and the idea would have been more focused and fun. ...Right?

    • @JackgarPrime
      @JackgarPrime 8 років тому +165

      +OpenMawProductions Because then you couldn't have the network-mandated variety show and musical number sequences.

    • @AaronAaron247
      @AaronAaron247 8 років тому +22

      2 words dude; cluster fuck

    • @chrissyispissy8606
      @chrissyispissy8606 8 років тому +111

      Or they could have made Ishtar

    • @TwoDogger
      @TwoDogger 8 років тому +48

      +Elitepear alleged coke-fueled orgies and stimulants. Alleged by Carrie Fisher.

    • @neal2399
      @neal2399 6 років тому +23

      ChrissyIsPissy 3-2-3-4, 4-2-3 AND
      CLICKETYCLICKETYCLICKETY

  • @ohmysweetnurse
    @ohmysweetnurse 9 років тому +101

    Rich's Lucas treehouse story was the best thing ever.

  • @LAVATORR
    @LAVATORR 8 років тому +368

    Realtalk: I tried really hard to put myself in George Lucas/whoever's head to understand what the fuck this bizarre, incoherent mess was supposed to represent (besides money) and I flashed back to film school and remembered all the experimental disasters I made. At 17:30, Mike pretty much hits the nail on the head: This was supposed to be a fun variety show, sort of like proto-reality TV but with a sci-fi twist, and the whole Christmas/Anne Frank angle was trying to be inspiring (evil Empire looking for Jewish Wookies, but everyone stands together to overcome adversity and celebrate Life in the face of Death, and let's have some fun along the way, blah blah blah).
    Okay. Fine. But it's really unclear as to whether or not we're supposed to enjoy this viscerally or by proxy. Like, are WE supposed to be entertained, or are we supposed to be entertained by watching someone else be entertained? Is this a plot point or the point of the plot? And that's where it falls apart. It's easy to say "Well, it would've sucked anyway because the variety segments were terrible", but technical criticisms are never as insightful as conceptual ones. If the cartoon was well-animated and the acrobats were't nightmare monsters, this still would've sucked. The question is "Why?", and Mike totally nailed it
    Oh god why did I type all that

    • @Dr.Spatula
      @Dr.Spatula 4 роки тому +22

      My only issue is at the end Mike said George Lucas should have taken more responsibility, stepped in, and said it was bad. He probably had full creative control because every time there isn't someone to tell George no it fucking sucks. For example see the first trilogy where he had people telling him no and the prequels where he got to do whatever he wanted

    • @Lissbirds
      @Lissbirds 4 роки тому +11

      @@Dr.Spatula Exactly this. Lots of people were around to develop and fix his raw ideas in the OT, but he had too much control in the PT.

  • @Engineer_Who
    @Engineer_Who 8 років тому +86

    Rich Evans is one of the greatest improv comedians of our time.

  • @tomymartinez9782
    @tomymartinez9782 5 років тому +66

    I can't bealive you didn't made a best of the worst about Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
    1984. WE NEED IT

  • @nateyj11
    @nateyj11 9 років тому +807

    I hope you guys actually did give duplicates out to people. Let the shame of the Star Wars Holiday Special never fade from George Lucas's mind!
    I mean sure, he's got the prequels and Crystal Skull to haunt him, but apparently he's actually ashamed of this one so it has a special place in the world.

    • @TenouHaruka0
      @TenouHaruka0 9 років тому +76

      Reminds me of when Rich Evans dressed as Lucas and went around the sci-fi convention destroying all the Star Wars Holiday Special DVDs.

    • @TenouHaruka0
      @TenouHaruka0 9 років тому +62

      ***** He seems too pretentious and/or oblivious to admit that the prequels and Indiana Jones 4 sucked.

    • @WastedPotential17
      @WastedPotential17 9 років тому +17

      ***** I fell asleep during Crystal Skull. I didn't realize that I fell asleep until I left the theater and it was dark outside.

    • @boredfartless4221
      @boredfartless4221 9 років тому +9

      Lucas couldn't give a damn. His fake concern is an affectation designed to make him look like a creative artist that always wants to achieve perfection.

    • @frbe0101
      @frbe0101 9 років тому +1

      The problem is that the star war holiday special is not entertaining, it is not "so bad that is good", it is just bad, horribly painfully bad. Imagine if George Lucus said we should all pull out are toenails for entertainment and then you recommend we should actually do that just to remind George Lucus how much he fucked up saying that, that is figuratively what you are doing now recommending we hurt our selves by watching this travisty.

  • @Darkbeatdk
    @Darkbeatdk 6 років тому +125

    In regards to the Imperial officer saying "Okay, we'll send out a search party to look for the missing Storm Trooper"... You know, sometimes when you work in customer care, you'll just say anything to get people to hang up. You go "Sure, sure, we'll do that" to get rid of the rambling idiot on the line and after they hang up you suggest to Grandma Tarkin that you take off a nuke the entire site from orbit, since it's the only way to be sure.

    • @ravenclawtom
      @ravenclawtom 5 років тому +15

      If i had a dollar for everytime i recommend my manager to nuke a customers house for orbit i would have to work anymore.

    • @FMSnow
      @FMSnow 3 роки тому +23

      grandma tarkin

    • @groinBlaster31
      @groinBlaster31 6 місяців тому

      Well in the special, the imperial guy called in, no?

  • @BearWindAppleyard
    @BearWindAppleyard 8 років тому +432

    "Whip, STIR, WHIP WHIP WHIP STIR" "faster, more intense"

    • @Myhousemy1
      @Myhousemy1 8 років тому +16

      You mean with the droid?

    • @clydethelamppost
      @clydethelamppost 8 років тому +3

      I just got that joke. That was very much needed.

    • @timcollins7108
      @timcollins7108 8 років тому +14

      My head sang that to the tune of "That's what Bilbo Baggins hates" from the Hobbit cartoon and now I HATE you

    • @lynottlives
      @lynottlives 7 років тому +4

      You're making me think that maybe George Lucas did actually secretly direct this.

    • @neal2399
      @neal2399 7 років тому +1

      >sips from spoon< OOOOHHHGGGHH

  • @stevefrank6085
    @stevefrank6085 8 років тому +213

    I actually saw this on TV when it was first shown, as a little kid I thought: "where's the space battles? where's lightsaber duels? where's Darth Vader? where's everything that made star wars fun?"

    • @Vaporvice84
      @Vaporvice84 8 років тому +4

      Gary Kurtz took them with him when him and Lucas parted ways after "Empire".

    • @andobreslin8735
      @andobreslin8735 8 років тому +6

      The answer...George Lucas was allowed to make every decision...

    • @90sNostalgiaNerd
      @90sNostalgiaNerd 3 роки тому

      When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?

  • @TheGODork
    @TheGODork 9 років тому +97

    Jack's glitchy head got me trippin balls!

  • @andrewtaylor940
    @andrewtaylor940 9 років тому +89

    This special is easy to explain if you keep it in context of the day.
    1. George Lucas had given up ALL of his direct profits from Star Wars to get it made. All he had left was the licensing and merchandising. The network threw a ton of money at him to make this thing. Remember this was BEFORE the Kenner toys became a 30 year juggernaut. This was Georges only major payday for Star Wars. (and to put it in perspective without this sort of thing we would not have ever seen Empire Strikes Back. Yes it is like dealing Meth to und the Sistine Chappel.)
    2. For the time period this was made, these insane horrid variety shows were the word of the day. The Big Show, Captain and Taniel, Donny and Marie, Every Horrid Christmas Special ever, Bing Crosby etc. The same climate that gave us David Bowie dueting "Little Drummer Boy" with Bing gave us this turd. etc. That's what they were making. It really makes you almost appreciate the worst examples of modern "reality TV". It is this awful because this is exactly what the networks wanted.

    • @andrewtaylor940
      @andrewtaylor940 7 років тому +9

      hey hey now! I am sure I am not alone in quietly hoping that some day Lego will give us the long prayed for "Star Wars Cantina Bea Arthur" minifig! I refuse to give up hope!

    • @Xpwnxage
      @Xpwnxage 6 років тому +1

      Don't compare thus shit to meth

    • @siukong
      @siukong 5 років тому +10

      Even today we often get that same sort of schlocky, thrown-together Christmas special. They get a celebrity host or two, a few musical guests of varying talent, throw up some cheap sets and pad out the running time with bland routines and bits that are sure to be completely inoffensive to Grandma sitting in her recliner. It's a pretty well-established formula, and in that context the SW special seems like less of an aberration.

    • @JeonardShadby505
      @JeonardShadby505 Рік тому +3

      @@siukong And this is just as true in the streaming era: Kelly Clarkson, Kacey Musgraves, etc.

  • @MrGeorgeFlorcus
    @MrGeorgeFlorcus 9 років тому +146

    You know, I watch these videos, and I think to myself: "why do these people not have a podcast?"
    They would absolutely kill it doing a podcast. They're all very funny, and they have lots of things to talk about, it would have to pertain to a particular topic.

    • @ralphenstein9105
      @ralphenstein9105 9 років тому +1

      Duncan Van Ooyen ***** Yeah. They have a gaming account called "Previously Recorded". It's almost always Rich and Jack. Jay joins them quite often. Mike very rarely. You're right - they should definitely do a podcast, as well.

    • @Takano102
      @Takano102 9 років тому +50

      Duncan Van Ooyen Rich has gone on record saying that if RedLetterMedia ever makes a podcast, he'd want to call it the "Fraudcast," which is a fucking perfect potential podcast name.

    • @MrGeorgeFlorcus
      @MrGeorgeFlorcus 9 років тому +1

      fourcrippledhorses People do video podcasts too

    • @BungieStudios
      @BungieStudios 9 років тому +1

      Duncan Van Ooyen Would you like to buy some chocolate for my daughter's fundraiser? They're small and a dollar, but they go to help funding the school so they can buy _Film Analysis and Other Media_ textbooks without references to the Star Wars Christmas Special.

    • @qwertymanor
      @qwertymanor 7 років тому +6

      Duncan Van Ooyen they do now. it's called the nerd crew

  • @BenWengerMan
    @BenWengerMan 8 років тому +65

    Jay's wookie impression at 17:48 is killer.

  • @ChucksSEADnDEAD
    @ChucksSEADnDEAD 8 років тому +74

    Okay, but that drawing of Han Solo at 3:09 looks exactly like Kylo Ren.

  • @DreadSnortt
    @DreadSnortt 7 років тому +385

    Aww fucking hell, Carrie Fisher is actually dead now. My favourite kooky, coked-up, little cat lady is now gone to the great space station up in the sky.

    • @JonSnowize
      @JonSnowize 7 років тому +47

      Danny Perez I bet he has. Can you say the same, Angry UA-cam Commenter #678543?

    • @dalehirstein9694
      @dalehirstein9694 7 років тому +20

      oh boy, being edgy should get me some cool internet points!

    • @powersonic0123
      @powersonic0123 6 років тому +2

      Don't worry, she's snorting plenty of coke in hell.

    • @promqueenkiller
      @promqueenkiller 6 років тому +4

      What the hell happened here?

    • @peregrinusoblivione4967
      @peregrinusoblivione4967 6 років тому +1

      Can you believe she was 60? She looked 80.

  • @liltrixie2281
    @liltrixie2281 5 років тому +55

    They should clean up the Holiday Special & add some extra cgi footage with added alternative Lumpy commentary in his native language

    • @TheRealJames76
      @TheRealJames76 3 роки тому +4

      I highly doubt Disney would do that, even though they SHOULD restore it and release it on Disney+, and eventually on Blu-ray with special features and on DVD, just for current Star Wars fans to know about it and see how bad it is. But they shouldn't make ads for either the Disney+ stream or the home video releases on TV, on the Internet, or anywhere else in the media to avoid George Lucas finding out about it easily. But, then again, I'm pretty sure he'd find out about what was done eventually, so...

  • @pimpologydoctorate6852
    @pimpologydoctorate6852 7 років тому +78

    Omfg @ the zoom-in on Fischer's coke nail at 13:20.

    • @wolfgangervin2582
      @wolfgangervin2582 5 років тому +27

      Accoring to Carrie herself: "I never used my fingernail for drugs. I used dollars or tiny spoons like any other respectable former drug addict."

    • @ethanking4954
      @ethanking4954 3 роки тому +1

      @@wolfgangervin2582 nice to know she was a lady.

  • @HerrKlugscheisser
    @HerrKlugscheisser 8 років тому +219

    I saw this on tv when I was 9. My therapist says I'm making progress.

  • @themotleycollector
    @themotleycollector Рік тому +13

    Interesting that Mike compares viewing it to knowing what it's like to be in the desert. You know, it's hot, it's dry, and the sand gets everywhere.

  • @hopscotchoblivion7564
    @hopscotchoblivion7564 9 років тому +1001

    Redlettermedia > League of Super Critics

    • @Hal9000ize
      @Hal9000ize 9 років тому +101

      +Meow You ever feel like the fact that they're giving a straight review rather than over act is one of the reasons?

    • @nomoredamnnamestouse
      @nomoredamnnamestouse 8 років тому +30

      +hopscotchoblivion
      Its just classic rule of 90% of content are shit. Most of them attempt to compensate the lack of talent or notable content in their videos like showing their faces even though it adds no value whatsoever or awful annoying voiceovers/sound effects/music. We know who they are.

    • @KorAnos1
      @KorAnos1 8 років тому +22

      +hopscotchoblivion Much as I enjoy some of the LoSC folks, I can't disagree.

    • @KorAnos1
      @KorAnos1 8 років тому

      +Meow Ouch.

    • @a.j8307
      @a.j8307 8 років тому +10

      +KorAnos1 I wish Rachel was still on Nostalgia critic she is fine. The new girl is thick tho I def. would

  • @ZippAgain
    @ZippAgain 9 років тому +210

    Does anyone else have the feeling that Lucas's lack of control on this eventually led to him having too much power over the prequels?

    • @Dr.Spatula
      @Dr.Spatula 4 роки тому +36

      I would say it's more likely that the success for the trilogy was incorrectly given to him thus leading to him having more control because people thought he was actually a good writer

    • @rrmenton8016
      @rrmenton8016 3 роки тому +1

      Talking about lucas' "lack of control" implies he somehow cared. He didnt, beyond cashing a check. It was just another merchandising opportunity.

    • @prevara5162
      @prevara5162 2 роки тому +9

      idk he let Irvin Kirchner direct empire after this

  • @bearlyhardley
    @bearlyhardley 4 роки тому +37

    I would watch the Holiday Special in a heartbeat before I watch Rise of Skywalker again

    • @Uzur9
      @Uzur9 3 роки тому +1

      That's the last one in the "new" trilogy right?

    • @josiahagin2100
      @josiahagin2100 3 роки тому +1

      @@Uzur9 Yes.

  • @TechSword
    @TechSword 2 роки тому +31

    You have to understand what a mindfuck the Star Wars Holiday Special was. It was an hour and a half long and was the first Star Wars thing to come out after the original movie. It could have been another Star Wars so far as we knew. Instead it was Bea Arthur singing and Harvey Korman in drag.
    There was no VCRs at that time. I watched it live and only once.

    • @caronstout354
      @caronstout354 3 місяці тому +1

      As did I, and I never forgot it...

  • @dave6907
    @dave6907 5 років тому +30

    How did I not remember Mike loosing a crown and spitting it across the room in the middle of this

  • @roywalley4734
    @roywalley4734 8 років тому +53

    This movie lines up perfectly with The Wizard Of OZ.

    • @TheRealJames76
      @TheRealJames76 3 роки тому

      But _The Wizard of Oz_ is a good movie. _The Star Wars Holiday Special_ is a bad TV special.
      I'm sorry, did I miss the point of a joke?

    • @andhieyusuf7008
      @andhieyusuf7008 3 роки тому +3

      @@TheRealJames76 it's about how Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Rainbow album syncs up with Wizard of Oz

  • @jenakuns
    @jenakuns 3 роки тому +18

    "If this was 15 years ago and the internet and all the information that we have now didn't exist, I would say that this is worth seeking out. But now, you can find it everything you need to know about it online without actually having to sit through it and that's far more interesting that having to sit through it." Jay
    This is a good point. Instead of watching the Star Wars Special, you could just watch a review of it.

  • @BlazeHedgehog
    @BlazeHedgehog 9 років тому +77

    This year I watched the Paul Lynd Halloween Special for the first time and honestly I'm just starting to think this is what the 1970's were.

    • @nothosaur
      @nothosaur 9 років тому +19

      That's a good point. The 70s were, at times, unbearable emotional Schlock with extra cheese.

    • @kidpax
      @kidpax 9 років тому +5

      Somewhere on youtube there has to be the TV episode from the 70's where Adam West plays Batman on the stage for a a variety series. I just cannot think of the title of that variety series.

    • @ColetheAero
      @ColetheAero 9 років тому +1

      kidpax
      it was called Legends of superheroes

  • @schalkespringer
    @schalkespringer 7 років тому +25

    As Gus Grissom said as part of the reason why lunar landings should be manned missions: "...in the final analysis only man can fully evaluate the Moon in terms understandable to other Men." The same can be said for the enigma that is The Stars Wars Holiday Special

  • @psivewri
    @psivewri 7 років тому +85

    That was actually Mark Hamill? I had nooooo iiddeeeaaaaa

  • @masonk9838
    @masonk9838 9 років тому +11

    I remember having an awful day at work and came home to this, and it turned my day around. Retail during Christmas is awful.

    • @masonk9838
      @masonk9838 9 років тому +6

      It was man, pissed off people every goddamn second.

  • @dxtmnt
    @dxtmnt 9 років тому +44

    I love rich's Lucas impression

  • @deathsyth8888
    @deathsyth8888 Рік тому +10

    James Gunn, writer and director of Marvel's 'The Guardians of the Galaxy' unironically loves 'The Star Wars Holiday Special'. Disney allowed him to make 'The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special' after he pitched it for Disney+ and then wrote a script for it in 3 days.

  • @DreamwalkerFilms
    @DreamwalkerFilms 8 років тому +19

    I love the fact that Jay refers to the Tatooine patrons by their Kenner action figure names

  • @scottjohnson388
    @scottjohnson388 6 років тому +17

    I love Mike's face when Rich goes off script when he backtracks and agrees with Jay.

  • @whailman
    @whailman 9 років тому +54

    Great BOTW 2 parter.
    I wouldn't mind if you did another episode in the style of Part one in the future.

    • @ChubbyTibo
      @ChubbyTibo 6 років тому +1

      Mitch Gosser I'm reading this in 2018, and at first I was like ''BOTW, Breath of the wild?''

  • @robk.6591
    @robk.6591 Рік тому +27

    3:37 Lumpy contemplates ending it
    5:48 Mike's Carrie Fisher joke
    7:24 Don't worry, Harrison. Star Wars can never be this bad ever again. 😅
    9:20 Mike & Rich make Golden Girls jokes
    12:01 Railings in Star Wars and Halloween are made of cardboard
    15:57 Mike: "What's happening?"
    21:47 Mike's spits out a tooth
    30:17 Han shoots first joke 😅

  • @rhetiq9989
    @rhetiq9989 3 роки тому +14

    I love how this two-part vid is basically just Jay, Rich and Jack trying to stay sane under the shadow of a heavily intoxicated Mike

  • @pdlagasse
    @pdlagasse Рік тому +9

    Josh’s “They married in” is one of the greatest underrated comments in all of BotW.

  • @dylankornberg4892
    @dylankornberg4892 3 роки тому +8

    Jack’s look of childlike wonder as he says “it’s a Christmas miracle!” is just so beautiful

  • @ufotofu9
    @ufotofu9 9 років тому +15

    That Die Hard Sweater is amazing. i want one.
    This special is soon interminable. The best part is that on most of the copies online have the commercials that originally appeared in the 70s airing.

  • @Treetop64
    @Treetop64 9 років тому +24

    I know that as a kid I watched this when it aired, but I have absolutely no conscious memory of it.
    That's how bad it was.

  • @TheRevanchist9000
    @TheRevanchist9000 9 років тому +13

    Thank you BOTW for introducing such legendary characters such as Dr. Scientist, Professor Physics, Man who can somewhat read, Gene Simmons's love child, Perm Mullet cop, and now Darth Guy.

  • @fredmeyer1044
    @fredmeyer1044 3 роки тому +10

    I watched this when it came out and I was in 7th grade, now I'm a 20 year old man. It's insane how well RLM videos age, I thought this was from like 2018.

  • @piscaso
    @piscaso 9 років тому +505

    Are we just going to ignore the fact that Mike just spit out a tooth? Did he just go to the dentist after that? What the hell happened?

    • @piscaso
      @piscaso 9 років тому +42

      Bane Oh haha

    • @dude464
      @dude464 8 років тому +80

      +Piscaso how high were you?

    • @piscaso
      @piscaso 8 років тому +133

      dude464 --Not at all-- All the crystal meth

    • @buttonjam
      @buttonjam 8 років тому +34

      +Bane Was it? I don't think I've seen a Best of the Worst where they ever have ice in their drinks. Where did it come from?

    • @estauricossauro
      @estauricossauro 8 років тому +177

      His heart

  • @derrickbangle4353
    @derrickbangle4353 9 років тому +35

    Lumpy is the key to all this, if we can get Lumpy working... because he is a funnier character than we have ever had in any of the movies before.

  • @Rannsack
    @Rannsack Рік тому +4

    I saw this on TV when it came out. I had a vague childhood memory of it that I never knew where some memories of star wars scenes came from, like the bartender pouring the drink in his head. It was only after watching this as an adult that i realized i must have seen this back whe it came out.

  • @Stuurminator
    @Stuurminator 5 років тому +18

    7:31 I think this is the exact moment Harrison Ford decided he wanted Han Solo killed off.

  • @olivernottingham
    @olivernottingham 6 років тому +59

    Harrison Ford works around the clock? I thought he worked part-time

    • @ernestolombardo5811
      @ernestolombardo5811 6 років тому +11

      Yeah, well it's more "🎵 part 🎵 time 🎵" than "part-time!"

  • @JamesCarmichael
    @JamesCarmichael 9 років тому +24

    Could you imagine a special edition version of the holiday special? It would be called Star Wars: The Special Edition of the Holiday Special.

  • @thelatenightnerd
    @thelatenightnerd 9 років тому +9

    My wife and I have been watching a lot of your videos this week. We wish we were friends with you. You just make it easy to unwind at the end of a long day at work. Thanks for all the laughs.

  • @charleshill2670
    @charleshill2670 3 роки тому +9

    I still love the fact that Jack's mirror-shine dome refuses to remain a part of reality throughout this entire video because of how it reflects the greenscreen

  • @PvtPuplovski
    @PvtPuplovski 2 роки тому +11

    "Oh they [also] celebrate Life Day?!"
    "They married in."
    Josh has the fastest mind in the west.

  • @Tylerpierre99
    @Tylerpierre99 2 роки тому +7

    7:24
    Its 2022 and I still come back to this bit a cry laughing at Harrison Ford's expression 🤣🤣

  • @drownthepoor
    @drownthepoor 5 місяців тому +3

    I've watched that special literally probably 50 to 100 times.
    At my grandmother's house they had recorded it to VHS, and me and my brother and my cousins would watch it all the time.
    I saw this long before I ever saw Star Wars. I was like 4 or 5 watching this, and this was how I knew Luke, Han, Leia, Chewbacca.
    We always just called it "The Wookies", and I NEVER associated this with Christmas in any way.