The Star Wars Holiday Special w/ Matt Gourley & Eden Sher (HDTGM Matinee)

26:48Like, it would be like, you would never. Like Tander and Ebb. Yeah, you would never put a webcam there to broadcast across the universe. Well, I guess because they were trying to somehow, like, get them in trouble because then they got shut down. And a lot of the whole thing kind of doesn't have a point, obviously. But actually, what was the point of having that there? Why did we? Not killing time. There were so many instances where I literally said out loud, Take your time, holiday special, take your time. It's a two-hour special that could probably have been really good at like a 30-minute special.

27:20Okay, wait. A great 30 minutes. I had a question also. I really didn't understand. For the cartoon part, what, like, was this fiction? Or what was he watching? I had the same problem because Lumpy or, yeah, Lumpy or the kid is watching his dad in a cartoon. So that's weird and he seems affected by it. So I don't know if Chewbacca has commissioned a buddy who's an animator to show him his adventures. But he literally is freaked out. Oh, my dad's in trouble. In some ways, this is so David Lynch-y in an absurdly brilliant way. Who, by the way, was the original choice for Return of the Jedi director.

28:01Oh, really? He turned it down. That would have been great. I know. And then made Dune. well what you know return of the jedi was supposed to be on a whole planet full of wookies but then they simplified it and made it ewoks but i think uh for maybe marketing purposes i'm sure somebody jw renzler can get in here and describe that to why that happened but uh this was the original conception like oh my gosh it's so it's so bizarre because that makes no sense at all while he's watching his dad and if they did want to watch his dad i could get them going like oh that's why they're delayed maybe that's why they're delayed but we see in the very beginning that they're not delayed because they're just kind of just yeah fighting they're just randomly just fighting do you think that was the cartoon made as a way of like championing these great figures of the rebellion oh i think you guys are giving it too much thought like i don't think that thought was put in there i think it was seriously we have this cartoon to market this action figure Find a way to fit it in.

29:08And just know that I'm not going to check up on this, so do it however you want. My name is George Lucas. You know, we did actually – our guy, Blake Harris, is writing a very good oral history. You can check it out on Slash Film. If you're bored here on Christmas and you're listening to this on Christmas, head on over to Slash Film and read the oral history of this. Because actually the director of this special was the guy who directed the Elvis comeback special. Oh, my God. Yeah, so he has like some real chops, but here none of them are on display at all. But they made a drama, a drama holiday special for children.

29:45This really was intended. A Star Wars Holocaust special. Imagine if Anne Frank was with Wookiees and you would get the Life Day special. Can we talk about Princess Leia for a second? Oh my gosh, yes. When they call her on the screen and she gets up from her desk, which she's no doubt sitting behind because she doesn't want to stand up just physically. She gets and walks towards the camera, has to sort of lean on the desk a little bit to make it the full way. She does that thing that actors do when they don't know their lines and they take a very like meaningful breath. And she would pause between each of her lines while she would think of her line.

30:25And then her – I rewound it. Did you guys catch this? Her line, I think, is I don't want to tie up the channels. But she says I don't want to tie her up the channels. Like that, by the way, I want to even talk about how they even get her on the view screen. They get her on the view screen. The view screen is like X's and O's. Like literally like just like XXOOXXX. Okay, we got the transmission. Like they didn't even try to do anything like weird alien languages. X's and O's. This is like – this is not even a first draft. This is like a draft where people pulled pages out of a garbage can. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that one.

31:03Oh, this is a show that features a full-length cooking segment about how to make bantha. Yes. That is step-by-step an actual cooking program. Bantha loin. And I was going to say with that cooking program, there's no real joke in this thing besides the fact that the guy has multiple arms. And if you took that away, it's just a cooking segment that Harvey Korman's really committing. Just a very boring, boring cooking segment. But it's manic. I wasn't super bored. I was mostly confused, but I was compelled. Yeah. Because it was like, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin.

31:43And then other hands came in. Wait, let's even play a little bit of Harvey Korman saying spin, spin, whip, whip, whip, whip. So, and on the count of once. Stir, whip, stir, whip, whip, whip, stir. Stir, whip, stir, whip, whip, whip, stir. Come on, faster, all together now. Cooking can spark. Stir, whip, stir, whip, whip, whip, stir. Stir, whip, stir, whip, whip, whip, stir. Wah! Having fun, having fun. All right? Coming along nicely. Now, step three. Be awesome. That is for kids. Enjoy it, kids. He has in his voice the fear of a man who knows this is not funny and just will not stop for fear of hearing the silence.

32:20I feel like he went home every night and wept. He has to say having fun, having fun, just to tell you that they're having fun. Well, isn't it known, I remember this from the Howard Stern interview with Carol Burnett, that Harvey Korman was kind of like a jerky diva at certain points, and he left the Carol Burnett show and was always an asshole to people. He was the Chevy Chase of Carol Burnett. Exactly. So I feel like this was his chance to be like, you know what? I got asked to do the Star Wars Holiday Special. I don't need you Carol Burnett writers. I'm going to go off and do my own thing. And then left to his own devices.

32:56This is what Harvey Korman did. And I'm sure they gave him a 100 % creative license to do whatever. Because he does seem into it. He is, out of everyone, is not phoning it in at all. I think he understands that Star Wars is now a phenomenon where maybe some of those other people don't. What did they tell Diane Carroll? Like, we're going to have you sensually talk to the camera right now. I want to know what they told her more than I want to know who killed Kennedy. How that went down that day on the set, I would pay no amount of money for. Well, you know, here's an interesting thing, too, just for those people out there wondering.

33:34This is canon. Star Wars Holiday Special. Like, if you exist, it exists in a world. Like, everything in the Star Wars universe, there are, like, things that are canon, things that are not. So a lot of the books have now been excised. That's not canon. But this is in the world. So technically, if you were to build something, you can reference that this all happened. I think Lucas is just not kicking it out of canon because he didn't ever want to admit it was in canon. The minute he kicks it out of canon, that will legitimize it. Right. So by not mentioning it. Yeah, this is, I mean, oh, my gosh.

34:08There is, I just, I'm so curious why Lucas refused to, I mean, that's a bold move. And that's like a 70s move too. He'd be like, no, they'll speak in Wookiee, and that's that. America's got to get with the program. Like, that is not fun for anyone. Because we're really just watching a family waiting. It's like a Truman show with Wookiees, but the boring parts of Truman's show. No, it's waiting for Godot is what it is. It is. It really is. It is. I also want to talk about Art Carney's code. So he's in front of the Imperial troopers. Oh, yeah. And his code language for, like, what Chewbacca is, like, I hope you – I got that large furry package in for you, but it might be delayed.

34:59Like, it's like everyone knows what he's talking about. This trooper should be a little bit quicker on the update. And also I'm pretty sure he said something about – he said something by hand. Made by hand solo. Oh, right. That was the bad code. Yeah. You could say she made it by hand. Sola. Yeah, so I guess he just runs a little shop. He's a trader and family friend. It takes a village. Now, they call it Kazook. When the Imperial Guards come in, he says, I just thought I'd show you some of the stupid stuff Wookiees purchased from me anyway. I guess some of the interesting things that Wookiees purchase are miniature fish tanks.

35:42Sure. It was so like, and I guess that's a joke. Like, hey, look, it's a miniature fish tank that you can keep in your pocket. But do Wookiees have pockets? Guys, do Wookiees have pockets? Like versupil pouches? Yeah, like kangaroos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was actually thinking, what if - I've never seen them. I've never seen them pull anything out of their pockets. What if Chewbacca's like bandolier is just full of miniature fish tanks? Like, I thought it was bullets. It's just miniature fish tanks in there. from every Life Day he has. Oh, thank you for the, oh, he likes the miniature fish tank.

36:18I was also a little confused about then, like the, what is it, ubiquity? Like the comment, like this is just, Life Day is just a Wookiee holiday. I imagine so, yes. But everyone respects this. Everyone is like, this is a big deal. Yeah, we know. For Chewie, yeah. Well, I feel like Chewie's probably always talking about Life Day, his Life Day memories. Right, right. But yeah, they always are like, I guess they're like, I guess in the middle of the rebellion, Chewbacca's like, hey, guys, I'd love to kind of do the Death Star stuff or whatever, but I got to make it home. Can I take a holiday weekend?

36:52Chewie's leaving the rebellion. It seems like Luke's working on his TIE fighter. Princess Leia's doing something else. And by the way, Luke seems, I don't know, Luke working on that TIE fighter. I had a lot of questions about that, too. I just want to know where, and I guess this was for Leia also, where they all look like, you know when you're in line for Disneyland and Patrick Warburton comes on and tells you he's in that room or something, working on a fake plane or something and talks to you? That's the kind of room that it felt like that Luke was in. Where were they? It's one shot, no close-ups.

37:26They literally walked them in, gave them their costume, and got eyeliner on Mark Hamill. For sure. And they said, let's go. Like Mark Hamill looks younger in this than he does in Star Wars. How is that possible he does? And this is, I guess, before the car accident where he got the scar on his face from that then is now part of like the world of Star Wars. But it's like that it was crazy to see how young he looked. And also, you're right. It is like that Aerosmith rock and roll roller coaster. Hey, you guys are here. Jump on board, man. You can come for our show, too. You Wookies.

38:03And there's no resolution to the blockade The whole threat of the whole episode Is like oh there's a blockade around Kashyyyk Or Kazook That's referenced here And then like they get there and Han's like It's a little traffic, we'll go around Like they don't fight They don't do anything Oh is that all it was? Or were there also people after them though? They were looking for rebels right? Yeah but then they say that they put a blockade Around the planet and that I guess would be the blockade that they just kind of just go oh we'll just go here we'll turn down this block instead it's almost as if they didn't put a lot of thought into this thing or they were on all of the drugs yeah how weird was it when Art Carney arrived at the house at Chewbacca's house and like made Mala give him a kiss yes and a little kid there's so much Wookiee human crossover He was like really pushy about getting a kiss from Mala, which I thought was real creepy.

39:02That's a real Lando move. Yeah. He wanted, yeah, he was all up in Leah's junk too. That's true, yeah. And then Jefferson Starship. We should talk about that. Oh, my God. Oh, boy. I felt so stupid. I was like, this is, I know this is a famous band. Who is this? How did they get this? Why? Why? Why? Jefferson Starship in this, I mean, yeah, it's like, who were they? I mean, they got out easy. I mean, I think Diane Carroll and Jefferson Starship got out easy. Because they just had to do what they do. Yeah, they just put on costumes. I'm pretty sure, though, I couldn't tell. Did they have them singing?

39:35Was the microphone, did they try to make it look like a lightsaber? Yeah, it was all glowing. All their instruments were glowing. Do you think that they were chosen solely because their name was Starship for this? Oh, I bet you. I didn't even realize that. It led me to think, too, that when they went from Jefferson Airplane to Starship, that is the coolest band reboot name I've ever heard of. I didn't even realize that. That's crazy. Yeah, Jefferson Mirror played the Jefferson Starship. Yeah, they lost Gray Slick and went like, we're going to the stratosphere. You know how we can top losing the whole draw of this band?

40:05We're going to space. So crazy. Oh, my God. Yeah, Jefferson Starship just performs, again, in one of the many points of this show where someone watches entertainment. We have someone watching a circus. We have someone watching VR porn. We have someone watching Jefferson Starship. We have a lot of cartoons. Oh, and in the cartoon, it's voiced over by this guy. Now, in Star Trek, it's like Captain's Log, Stardate so-and-so. In this, there's another guy that's like Rebel Log. And it's like, who is this guy that's narrating this? Wouldn't it be like Chewbacca or like Luke Skywalker's log? I don't know, but there's so much watching of TV in this show that it leads me to believe someone's watching me watch this every time I watch it.

40:53I have to say that while Harrison Ford must have been bummed because his character is most closely connected to the character they based the entire special around, which means he has to be in it more than anyone. He does sell it at certain points. He does, yeah. When he looks at Chewie real lovingly, he's like, you're like family to me. And then they all say how they can't make Life Day, but then they're all there at the end at Life Day. And Chewbacca's in his red smock, which I think is amazing. Wait, like the robe. The robe. I'm sorry, yeah, the robe, yeah. Just making sure that those were so weird.

41:30So I think it was only to cover up the fact they didn't have enough costumes for the rest of these people because you don't even see the other Wookiees. You just see red things. And I don't understand what Life Day is. Like Life Day, they hold an orb in their hand, then they're transported away, but then they're back. But yeah, they walk through outer space. They walk into a sun or something? Is it like ayahuasca? No, but then they're around like a big giant tree base, but they're in space. Guys, I think they might be on Pandora. Oh, my God. When Leia sings at the end, Han and Luke have looks on their face that remind me of when my family holds hands and pray at Christmas, where you feel like, is someone watching me right now?

42:16I've got to be respectful, but it's so uncomfortable. Well, there's something also interesting in here right before they start to sing. Like C-3PO and R2-D2 drop a very big bomb on everyone in the Star Wars world where they basically say, like, I wish we were human so we had feelings. And could be credited as humans in the credits. Yeah. And then so you understand that they are not human. And then Leah sings. I want to just play a little bit of Leah's Life Day song. So we'll hear a little bit of R2-D2 and C-3PO lamenting their non-sentient being. It is indeed true that at times like this, Arthur and I wish that we were more than just mechanical beings.

42:55And we're really alive, so that we could share your feelings with you. Chewbacca! Chewbacca, we were so relieved to hear you were all right.

43:08All of you are an important part of my life, pal. I'm glad I could be here.

43:14This holiday is yours. but we all share with you the hope that this day brings us closer to freedom and to harmony and to peace no matter how different we appear we're all the same in our struggle against the powers of evil and darkness i hope that this day will always be a day of joy in which we can reconfirm our dedication and our courage and more than anything else our love for one another here you go this is the promise of the tree of life this is what it is just do a couple seconds of this

43:51To the tune of Star Wars Oh, you're right It is

44:01Essentially

44:07And now I'm further confused Because they all join up there They're all meeting up on Kashyyyk to have a life day party. It doesn't seem like it's for them. It seems like this is purely a Wookiee thing. And yet she's saying how this is like galvanizing the forces of the rebels. But it's not. I don't get it. It seems like it's Christmas, right? It's supposed to be like Christmas. Yes. It shouldn't be like a. It was weird, weird moral preachy just like stuck on there. Why? The song at the end is like, nothing about this would be fun. Nothing about it is fun. This is like a somber side story of the Star Wars world.

44:51Even at the end of Star Wars. And it's all Wookiees. All Wookiees. They're the only non-Wookiees there. I feel like, why does Chewbacca get to bring friends? Yeah. Well, again, I feel like Chewbacca's the outcast of the Wookiee planet. It's like, first of all, you're fucking deadbeat dead. Then you bring all your friends over to her life day? Come on, man. And your friends take over our celebration and make speeches. Yeah. Why is Leah singing at the Wookiee celebration? I was like, if you're like, I get it if it's like, okay, oh, we want to like, because we don't want to end it. Like we want it to be English.

45:25But they didn't care about that for all the rest of the movie. So why wouldn't they have, like, get the credit. Get Chewie to make the big speech. And by the way, I would have been very excited at the end of like Return of the Jedi. where they had the yub nub song. Like, that's all not English, and that's Ewok singing. Like, let's have something like that that seems like a celebration song. But nope, it's like, let's give this old, not old, let's give this white lady a chance to sing. I just feel like she's not an entertainer. She's a princess and a rebel leader. She's not known for her singing prowess.

45:57Ah, but Carrie Fisher. No, that's Bea Arthur. Yeah. I really did. Bea Arthur gets to sing her song, and that's really where it's at. Oh, my God. B. Arthur, like, you know, they have to fill up that cantina full of shit, like all these different creatures. And the laziest version is that giant rat on the side. Oh, yeah. It's like, yeah, and a big rat. She'll talk to a big fucking rat. Then, B, you're going to go from this guy here, and you're going to go and you're going to sit next to the big rat, and then you're going to sing this part. Like, the blocking of that alone must have made her want to kill herself.

46:34Shot in like one day Probably the worst one day Terrible craft service They're just sitting there miserable Bea Arthur only agreed to do it She never saw Star Wars either But her grandkid or something was a big fan of it So that's why she jumped in And apparently the Cantina Day Was an entire day But the actors in the alien costumes Began to pass out due to lack of oxygen So there were oxygen tanks on set Because of that Does it say where this was shot? Like this could have been, it probably was like, or CBS Radford or, or that television city. I think at the end it did say something about, I, I, I should have read, but like shot at like Burbank.

47:14Of course. Every variety show ever made was shot in Burbank. I'm certain of that. That's amazing. There, uh, so close to us. That all happened so close to us. That should be a memorial or some kind of plaque or something. But could you imagine doing the force awakens special now? What would be the one-to-one ratio? I don't know what it would be. It would be like two broke girls come in. They work in a Jakku diner or something like that. Absolutely. Ava Longoria. Two broke girls are too young. Oh, you're right. It would have to be like... They're too young. It would have to be like... Ed O 'Neill.

47:53Like Doris Roberts and Ed O 'Neill. Yeah. You know, the producers turned down Robin Williams from being in the special. CBS didn't like him, so they turned him down. So Robin Williams could have been in the Star Wars Holiday Special. Would he have been the Harvey Korman part? I imagine he had to have been the Harvey Korman part. Yeah, and was Mork and Mindy wasn't on yet at this point, right? 78, was it? I feel like he might have. No, probably not. Yeah, they would have loved to have had him if he was. Oh, yeah. Yes, I mean, that would have been great. just to see Doris Roberts doing a song at like whatever that character, the Maz character's cantina in The Force Awakens.

48:35Did we talk about the instructional video? Oh, no. That was another Harvey Korman performance art piece. This is like, what is going on here? Now that I actually liked. It was so absurd and almost in a Tim and Eric way, whether they meant it or not. Yeah, I was riveted by that and I don't know exactly why. So the child's computer equipment is broken, and he's going to repair it. So he puts on an instructional video to show him how to repair his laptop. And it's Harvey Korman yet again as another character. This one is like a – I mean, you guys can describe it. A robot, yeah. But did they do that after the fact where they just went, well, we didn't have any jokes in the first place, and he didn't really do anything.

49:15Let's tweak with the editing. Was that always planned? Again, I don't even understand the logic behind it because the idea would be like this is an instructional video. So why would they even release it if the robot malfunctioned unless the robot only comes alive when they're doing it? Like there's not even a logic there. Well, I thought it was the playback that was malfunctioning. But don't trust me on that. It was like skipping and jumping. Oh, but I thought that Harvey Korman was also falling down at certain points too because he was – Good question. You know what? I think you're right. I think it was after the fact because there was no – not that people were reacting appropriately or the Wookiees were reacting appropriately.

49:52But, like, there was no acknowledgment that it was, like – there was no, like – like, Lumpy was like, oh, no. Like, it's messing up. It's just totally, totally normal. So after the fact, they were like, we've got to make it interesting. We got – I mean, and they really did make – like, that wouldn't be amazing if that was, like, one of Tim and Eric's, like, editors' grandfathers worked on this. Or they're like, we have to make this funny or this special isn't going to work because everything else is right in the pocket. We nailed it. This is the one thing. They also reuse footage from Star Wars a handful of times to a degree.

50:29Yeah, okay. I am watching it right now. Harvey Korman falls down. So it's not playback. He literally falls and his head hits the table and he's like, he's malfunctioning. He's shorting out. That's crazy. Why not just put him in the room with them and then you have a funny robot performance? I guess no one was going to get on that Wookiee set. Yeah. It was only broadcast once. We talked about that. Anything else that we may have missed that I know that there's so much to talk about? But, oh, this is an issue that I always have. Mala is making Wookiee Oookies, which are Wookiee Cookies. But that's an issue that I have because we don't call them, like, human Oookies.

51:12Like, I don't understand. Yeah, a cookie's a cookie's a cookie. Exactly. They don't have to have, like, the name of the species before it. You wouldn't call them. Yeah, like, yeah, they were called Wookiee Wookiees. Yeah. He's like, are you making some of those Wookiee Wookiees for me? We're making some human ramen over here. I did feel like Art Carney would have fucked Mala. Well, it makes it sound like they're made of Wookiees. Maybe they're cannibals. Which would make Wookiees cannibals. I do want to go back to, do you think that Art Carney did have an affair with Mala? Could that have happened?

51:42Because of the way he wanted to kiss her and blame her for, you know, I mean, A, because Chewbacca's gone. But also, Art Carney, what a catch. And then when Chewbacca gets back, the sexual chemistry that is between, the sexual tension between him and Mala is palpable. Why didn't they actually kiss? It almost happened and then they hugged. I wanted to see that Wookiee kiss so bad. I don't think their mouths can do that. Yeah, yeah. There's no way. Again, I feel like I want to get into, I want to go deep into Chewbacca's life, couples therapy, why Mala's upset with him. Like, what is going on? I feel like maybe that was a little bit of the intention.

52:20Like, if it went over well, maybe they would have made, like, a TV series off of it. Oh, I think you're probably right. Oh, I mean, I feel like they did make these Ewok specials eventually, like, later on, which we were going to maybe focus on, but they're just actually too boring. But this, and this at least is a train wreck. But, yeah, like, I mean, I think that, like, imagine if Lucas directed the second one. This is what he wanted. He wanted to focus on Wookiees like this. Like, The Empire Strikes Back could have had a giant chunk of just Wookiee. Just boring Wookiee. Takes the most interesting character, the most, like, beast-like character, and just, like, makes him the most domestic.

52:59There's an oven in there. They have, like, a nice oven and furniture. There's nothing Wookiee about it. It's just nice. It's like, wouldn't you like to see what the equivalent of a Wookiee chair is? The only difference between a Wookiee and a human family is that they don't speak English and most of their house is made of wood. That's the only difference. Which you could say for a lot of Italians.

53:22Wow. Really going hard at Italians. Again. I mean, or anyone who, like, where is Ikea from? Don't try and backtrack on this now. No, they're not notoriously hairy. You have to stay Mediterranean to make this work. What else? Anything else that you saw that were worth bringing up? I was just going to say that the part that I really did get emotional when Lumpy, when he's putting back together this stuffed animal, I really, I felt for him. And all of the inserts, they had just like random inserts really close up of a lot of their faces. and like the ones at the end of Mala like almost crying were so – they were like – I was like, oh.

54:05And then I couldn't – I like burst out laughing because they were so absurd. I got emotional when he had to clean his room because they showed the entire process and it just brought me back to when I had to clean my room. I don't know if it's like being a new dad on some level, but I do get emotional with like things with like sons and dads. It did get a little bit like there was a moment. I was like, oh, I'm feeling this. Because it was. It was like you don't want to see a kid get beat up and tortured and treated poorly by this stupid appearance. Oh, my God. That's amazing. I really just – the thing that I want to remind everybody of is that in the middle of all of this, they murder a stormtrooper.

54:43Yeah. And – And everybody appears to be unfazed. and when he goes when they're like where is the where is he he lies and says that he was robbed and that then he whatever he fled but so incriminating himself the guy they will so quickly find out no she was thrown off of this thing for all of the distrust that the Empire has throughout this entire special in that one sentence they're like okay good enough for me let's wrap this up you got it buddy Makes sense that our stormtrooper just defected out of no reason on Kashyyyk, like in this Wookiee planet where he'll stick out like a sore thumb. I guess that guy robbed a bunch of Wookiees and took off for the forest because that's what stormtroopers do.

55:34Oh, there's two things I didn't even talk about. First of all, I just briefly just want to mention the long antenna on like, I guess, you know, one of the Imperial soldiers has like an antenna that is, I would say like three feet. Yeah, CV antenna. Yeah, CV antenna, which I loved. Just like the technology should be a little bit more advanced than that. We're flying spaceships around. I mean, they have pocket aquariums for Christ's sake. Yeah, and we're calling up Leah across the galaxy. We're getting a live stream to Mos Eisley's. We don't need this long antenna here anymore. And then the other thing that I want to talk about is, so at the end, Chewbacca and Han get there.

56:10They kill a stormtrooper, and Chewbacca's kid jumps into whose arms first? Han. Solo, that's right. The kid jumps in, like, again, proving Chewbacca's a bad dad. The first person he goes to. Man, that's only something a new dad would notice. That is the takeaway from the special. Chewbacca is a bad dad. He's a bad dad. That is now canon. Yes. Obviously, that was our opinion about the film. But there are other people out there with another opinion. It is now time for Second Opinions.

56:46Make no mistake, this movie blows. And we have now reached the best part of the show. Paul Scheer and the gang, they had their say. But there are people out there that feel a different way. Let's check out these five-star reviews. Close to Amazon, we'll try to figure out what is going on. Damn. Okay. When I watched this when I was a young kid, I loved it because it was a Star Wars show. I wasn't a critic. Now that I'm older, I suspect this was created by people under the influence of drug culture in the 70s. Using Star Wars characters to tell a story. If you can see and accept this, this show is very good.

57:34Entertaining, creative, in its own way, unique. Leonard Maltin. Five stars. Well, I guess, yeah, if you accept drug culture in the 70s, then that works. I'd maybe agree with that, sort of. I think that they did weird shit here. I mean, it definitely, like, no one's really into it in the five-star reviews. They're probably all enjoying it ironically. Yeah. Yeah. This one, like, the Star Wars Holiday Special is sadly a forgotten classic. The epic storyline is primarily concerned with Chewbacca trying to make it home in time for Life Day. But at its core, the film is a metaphor for the common man's attempt to make the world better for his family in the face of corrupt and uncaring people.

58:12Parallels to 1984 are envisioned by the Empire occupying their house and manhandling their property. This classic also allows us insight into the supposedly gruff character of Han Solo, who reveals his tender side and his relations with Chewbacca and Chewbacca's family. His crying when Princess Leia sings the lyrics to Star Wars main theme. Oh, wow. Five stars. I didn't realize that that would be like, that's the lyrics to the main theme. Yeah. I didn't know that. This is written by like an Ayn Rand reader, that one, where it's like the tyranny in 1984. That is like a tea party person. Yeah. People liked it.

58:47People liked this. Would you guys recommend watching this at all? Oh, yes. 100%. Over a week at least. Especially right now. Yeah. Right now it's a good chance because it's the holiday season. Watch it right before or after seeing The Force Awakens, too, just to see when what happens in that movie happens. it's good to reflect on. It really is good to remember the important things here. And we didn't talk about, I think, the best part, which was the cartoon. Yeah, good. I actually, I really, I enjoyed it. I also, I mean, there was no point they didn't get, it was like, oh, whoa, like, Boba Fett wasn't on our side.

59:23Yeah. And then nothing happened. It's solely to get the action figure marketed. It's so crazy. Like, every resolution here is so quick. It's like, Boba Fett's like, oops, see you later, suckers. and he just like shoots out. It's like, this is like a world-class assassin. He could have just gotten into a gunfight or anything. Like they basically like, we know you're a bad guy. It's like, bye-bye. Yeah, he could have killed him at any time. Yeah, yeah. Like Boba Fett is a bad bounty hunter. But yeah, but it looks cool. And like, I almost would have preferred if the whole holiday special were these like little vignettes.

59:54Like these like cool little, because that was like a cool adventure. So obviously you couldn't shoot Star Wars. So why don't you just do them as cartoons? It had that animation style, like heavy metal or like the creep show interstitials where the people always are – they're always moving. Yeah. It has that strange 70s, I don't know, like punk rock animation or something. It's really cool. I also – I really enjoyed the way Harrison Ford was drawn. Oh, yeah. It was so weird. He had like little tiny – they almost drew him like he was like high the whole time. I wish like – like, you know, it's so funny like Harrison Ford I think had so many issues with the Return of the Jedi.

1:00:31But I feel like this is back in the day where you could get your main cast of the biggest blockbuster of all time to do a TV variety special. Oh, yeah. There is nothing else like that. You will never see this again. Like, you could never even get the Lord of the Rings, like, Elf and Feast special. You would never see these characters out and about. Like, people have a hard time getting characters to do video game voices. like yet alone come on and act in like a multi-cam production of their own shit the closest analog to this is they'll go on like a jimmy fallon and do a star wars sketch or something like that or like daniel craig did one for specter and that's the best you'll get out of them yeah and even you'll get now i get i think what you get more is like daniel craig has to do like a heineken ad yeah right or a funnier dive you know which i feel like has the same level of embarrassment.

1:01:25That's right, yeah. Oh my gosh. Well, we'll never know what Life Day is officially. When? Do we know when it is exactly? I mean, look, it's a... It's Christmas, I think. Is it like in the Star Wars universe is the calendar the same as ours? I mean, it literally can't be because ours is, what, a lunar calendar based on our sun? Yeah, so they don't have that. We know that it's not winter on Kashyyyk or maybe, again, that's my issue with these planets. It could be winter somewhere. That's good to be. He could live He could live in the Miami version of the Wookiee planet. We don't know if it's winter.

1:01:59They didn't seem to have any decorations up for it. But if we've learned anything from Star Wars planets, it's one terrain per planet. All snow, all desert. It's so bizarre. That's the laziness of Star Wars. It's like one. Yeah. Yeah. It would be so cool if Star Wars was on one planet. That would make a lot of sense. Like, oh, different islands. Oh, different continents. Yeah, yeah. Nope. Just all different planets. This is the island planet. This is the desert planet. This is the floating planet. Well, that was the Star Wars Holiday Special. We are glad that you guys bared with it with us. I mean, I'm glad I watched the whole thing.

1:02:36And it's unique. You'll never make anything this wrong and this off ever again. It has a certain beauty. I can't wait to show this to my child as the first introduction to Star Wars. This is what everybody loves. And thank you to everybody for listening. Also, a big thank you to Averill Halley, who does all of our clip pulling. She has an amazing site called Movie Bitches. Also, a big shout out to Nate Kiley, Marissa Zeitz, Cody Scully, everybody here at Earwolf for making this show. And we thank you and wish you a very happy Life Day or whatever holiday you celebrate. See you in the new year.

1:03:14Bye-bye.