The Star Wars Holiday Special . . . . . . aaaaaaaaackk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[indianasmith]

"Bad movie" does not begin to describe this steaming mound of cinematic sewage.  Holy mother of Tatooine, what was George Lucas thinking?  Or, more accurately, what was he SMOKING?

I can't begin to describe just how awful this experience was.  Harvey Korman in drag with 4 arms, Bea Arthur singing in the cantina, Wookie porn, Wookie video games, Wookie-ookie (?!?!##@!?)  Jefferson Starship belting out some incomprehensible rock lyric.  A "Life on Tatooine" sitcom . . . or was it a soap opera?
And then . . . Carrie Fisher in all her white-clad braless radiance, singing the "Life Day" song. 

There just aren't any words for how bad this is.  My wife got up to go to the restroom at one point, paused at the door, and said "Please DON'T pause it!"  That about sums it up.

Now if you will all excuse me, I need to go find a sharp stick so I can poke my eyes out.

[MoronBoy]

This is one of those things that people like us read about, and just have to get our hands on thinking it will be great. Only to realize that it really is as bad as they say it is(maybe even worse), that it is really no fun at all to watch, and Mr. Lucas is doing the world a big favor by trying his damnedest to bury it.

I seen this thing make a grown man literally cry.

[D-Man]

I have a copy of this as well...truly as horrible as everyone says.  Only once have I ever managed to watch it all the way through. 

The 1978 era commercials are fun to watch on it, though.

[Andrew]

Oh, this is a painful one, for sure.  I cannot imagine how even half the the skits sounded like good ideas to the people who made it.  And, don't forget this:

It should also be noted that, since wookies are the main characters, you spend a lot of time listening to Chewbacca's family talking amongst themselves. Which ends up meaning, "WGGGGGHHHHHHTTTT!" (Or however you spell that.) Anyway, this is not a good way to keep anyone's attention.

[Dr. Whom]

I've only seen half of it, and I never had the courage to look for the other half on the net.  Even Kiss and the Phantom of the Park is more entertaining.

[ghouck]

Even Kiss and the Phantom of the Park is more entertaining.

Whoa, , I didn't realize you guys were THAT serious, , ,That's awfulness in biblical proportions.

[Raffine]

Carrie Fisher later admitted to be totally strung out on the dope when this was made.

What's everyone else's excuse?

[Torgo]

Who can forget the Wookie porn segment?!!   

[Shadow]

I saw this the night it aired, but I was just a wee lad at the time and promptly forgot it. For years and years afterwards I thought  those images of Bea Arthur and Harvey Korman were just fevered imaginings.

Boy was I wrong.

[Snivelly]

Never again.  Never.

Not even drunk as a monkey with a roomful of friends daring each other to watch it.  No.

And what is up with the pic of Carrie Fisher on the front?  If you needed proof she was strung out, there ya go.

[Ometiklan]

Is this on the 100 worst movies of all time list...
It should be.
What crap!
Give Me Manos any day!

[Dr. Whom]

Even Kiss and the Phantom of the Park is more entertaining.

Whoa, , I didn't realize you guys were THAT serious, , ,That's awfulness in biblical proportions.

Well, in Kiss and the Phantom of the Park, you at least have dialogue, if uninspired dialogue. Here you have people in hairy suits going WUGGGGGG at eachother. And then there is the 'comic relief'. What were they thinking?

[raj]

Wait, this thing is out on DVD?  Where?

[HappyGilmore]

"Fighting the frizzies, at 11!"

Odd I know that.

[asimpson2006]

A co-worker of mine won a copy the Holiday Special at a wrestling show.  We got such a laugh at work when he told us this and he told us it was bad we laughed even more.