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More Than a Cult Classic: Remembering the ‘Star Wars Holiday Special'
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| Paul Rose Jr.
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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I remember watching that. At the time, star wars was the greatest thing ever…I was 9 at the time. Empire also rocked and my parents were nice enough to score an early screening in Hollywood. I was a senior, I think, when Star Wars ep 6 attack of the muppets came out. After that each subsequent movie seemed to try to outdo Moore’s law by increasing its level of suck on the suckosity scale exponentially
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05/04/2022 4:22:31 PM PDT
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dsrtsage
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To: Army Air Corps
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05/04/2022 4:22:51 PM PDT
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dfwgator
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05/04/2022 4:28:15 PM PDT
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Army Air Corps
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To: Army Air Corps
“I was a scientist before I became a bad actor.”
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05/04/2022 4:29:30 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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05/04/2022 4:38:11 PM PDT
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To: dirtymac
And learn to write and spell while there.LOL! Noob! Gotta learn how to read first. Bet you feel like an ass. Apology accepted even though I'll never hear it. FReegards....
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DCBryan1
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05/04/2022 4:45:35 PM PDT
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Pollard
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To: DCBryan1
LOL, when he’s eating Princess Anne-Droid’s Cinnamon Bun.
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05/04/2022 4:46:12 PM PDT
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dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Have you ever watched Thumb Wars?
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05/04/2022 4:51:08 PM PDT
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Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Pollard
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05/04/2022 4:52:32 PM PDT
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gitmo
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05/04/2022 4:54:38 PM PDT
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Pollard
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To: dfwgator
LOL, when he’s eating Princess Anne-Droid’s Cinnamon Bun. I about peed my pants the first time I saw it:
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DCBryan1
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Thumb wars
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The RiffTrax version of this is solid gold. That's the only way I can watch it. It's still hard to get through the Harvey Korman cooking segment. Just awful. "Stir, whisk! Stir, whisk!"
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scott7278
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DCBryan1
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Harvey Korman cooking segment. Just awful. "Stir, whisk! Stir, whisk!"
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DCBryan1
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To: nickcarraway
I don’t remember seeing it as I was working a rotating shift.
But I did see two horrid Ewok movies on TV!
First movie a little girl so cute you had to puke gets lost and the Ewoks find her and return her to her parents.
Second movie, Storm Troopers kill her family and she flees to the forest and lives happily ever after with the Ewoks.
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
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