Posted on 05/04/2022 3:41:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I was there. Sitting in my living room, waiting, tuned in to CBS on November 17, 1978. No Love Boat, Lou Ferrigno or Lynda Carter tonight – tonight was reserved for (epic trailer voice:) The Star Wars Holiday Special.
I clicked the TV dial all the way over to WHIO and sat down on the couch. On screen, they announced that the Incredible Hulk wouldn't be airing tonight and as the word SPECIAL spun around into multi-colors, the lights went down and the Millennium Falcon flew away from a dingy brown planet that looked a lot like Tatooine, its engines deafening.
Of course, the lights didn't go dim, and my parents had maybe a 24" tube TV with built-in speakers that crackled if you turned it up to loud. But I didn't care – I was returning to a galaxy far, far away.
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“Fighting the frizzies, at 11”
The RiffTrax version of this is solid gold.
There was a thread about this here at least 10 years ago which led me to watch it on youtube. Horrible. Worst acting I’ve ever seen with a story line worthy of mass alcohol consumption.
Same here. I couldn’t watch more than about 15 minutes of it.
George Lucas used a boatload of money to pay agents to go to every video store in America in by bootleg copies of hardware wars and holiday special.
“You’ll Laugh...You’ll Cry...You’ll Kiss Three Bucks Goodbye!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYOSZwe8Ibk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw skip to the 2:25 mark.
What are you doing here if you want to delete Free Republic.
Get back to Democrats Underground where you belong. And learn to write and spell while there.
Every Christmas season I have the tradition of torturing myself by watching the Holiday Special. It makes the rest of the saga especially what Disney has done to it much more palatable.
Read his tagline a little more carefully.
You should re-read his tagline. There’s a period.
The give Chewbacca a wife and family, probably because at that time in that galaxy Chewy and Han couldn't get married (or Luke and Leia, either?).
Too much stupid Chewbacca talk at the beginning.
And to think it didn’t even have Jar Jar Binks in it.
“You’ll Laugh...You’ll Cry...You’ll Kiss Three Bucks Goodbye!“
Ha! That’s funny!
Fluke Starbucker : Jeepers! What is it, Augie Ben Doggie? Did you feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced?
Auggie Ben Doggie : No, just a little headache.
Luke and Leia could get married in New Jersey since 1979.
That is the best way to watch this turkey.
Hardware Wars, Pork Lips Now, and Closet Cases of the Third Kind - all are comic gold.
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