• Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Chewbacca's *son*, Lumpy, watch the "human porn" (also known as Dihann Carol singing), and not his father, Itchy? Either way, the Itchy seen in this special must have been Chewie's first father since the character is nothing like the Wookie warrior seen in video games like "Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds".

• Seconded.

• I'm still waiting for the day Lucas completely snaps and makes the Star Wars Holiday Special: Special Edition--with restored footage and enhanced effects (imagine Itchy in his porn-chair in full HD! imagine how pretty Mark Hamill will look!:3) If this happens, be sure to look out the window and watch the sun blacken and the moon turn red as blood, for the Rapture will have begun...

• I can cite COUNTLESS sketches on The Carol Burnett Show with Tim Conway. The man was wonderful.

• The fuck did I just watch?

• Harvey Korman might have been talented (seriously - can anyone cite something other than Blazing Saddles - anything?) - but there was more than a few landfills of variety-hour fodder tossed his way that he gleefully signed up for as long as the checks didn't bounce.

• The one instance where a Star Wars release is thoroughly shat upon and Lucas isn't to blame... I think he's been secretly trying to top the Special with the prequels.

• Hey, I saw the Holiday Special when CBS aired it originally and I was like 12 years old. I fell asleep before the end but I did get to watch the still cool animated story with Boba Fett shown on screen for the first time. For the animated story it was worth sitting thru all of the other garbage.

• I've seen it twice. Fighting the Frizzies at 11.

• The best way to look at this...umm...no, youre right. There is no good spin I can put on it. Unless you just cut out the rest of it, leave the animated segment and call that the special. But I imagine it bought Carrie Fisher a good deal of coke. Not cola.

• So you're saying I should show this to my enemies?

• You people keep talking about this so-called Star Wars Holiday Special, like it actually exists. *plugs ears* LA LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

• I saw it. I can't unsee it. It kills me to see Harvey Korman, one of the funniest people who ever lived struggling through the god-awful material, painfully UN-funny and tedious. And his segments, like ALL the segments in this horrible abortion drag on and on and on and on and on and on......

• That was really good :)

• Back in 96, i went to SDCC. I saw, in a bin of VHS tapes,a bootleg copy of the SW Holiday Special. I nearly shit myself. The guy sold it to me for 5 bucks...i later understood why.

• Best write-up on this particular disaster from Variety Fair : http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2008/12/star_wars_special200812

• I shall return with my attempt at it. I'll probably get to it in a couple weeks or so.

• Even 10 seconds is enough to mentally scar the average person forever. This show should be part of Special Forces training to psychologically condition soldiers to withstand torture. If they can stand this and not blink, they can stand anything.

• I've sat through the entire special and I couldn't even watch it in five minutes. I tried so hard to forget it.

• When I started going to cons, this and the Justice League pilot were on the top of my list to acquire. I watched the Justice League pilot first and was horrified. How could anything beat David Ogden Stiers as the Martian Manhunter? And I don't mean the voice of Martian Manhunter. He played J'Onn J'Onzz in all his red-strapped, green body painted glory. It was truly frightening. Then I saw the Star Wars Holiday Special, and suddenly Stiers was eclipsed by Wookiee Life Day, Art Carney, and Bea Arthur. As much as I love RiffTrax, I never want to sit through this mess again.

• People talk about where they were when JFK was shot - I still have vivid memories of an entire class (mine) of schoolchildren returning to school after previously eagerly anticipating the SWHS airing. It was like a wake. A wake for our now dead, crushed, and obliterated childhoods.

• It's actually your subconscious trying to save you from the horror that is the Holiday Special.

• I literally have gone blind. I have never watched this shit before, and am sorry that I have see just this 5 mins. I will now light myself on fire.....

• A couple of my friends watched this last year. I fell asleep 10 times.

• The thing that gets me about the Holiday Special is when Harvey Korman is playing an alien being in the Mos Eisley cantina who drinks from a spout on top of his head. It just raises all kinds of questions about what kind of anatomy a being like that would have and all.

• I'll have to check that out. :)

• Actually, Rifftrax did the holiday special and I thought it was pretty funny. I will admit that it did drag a little in places. The musical numbers and comedy pieces were too long and even the Rifftrax crew couldn't keep me from getting bored in a few spots.

• Guys. This is so bad that LUCAS disowned it. So even he hates this.

• After just seeing the 5 minute segment I realized how much my mind blocked out to help keep my sanity.

• It is, but the thing is that there's so little that actually happens in it. The first 10 minutes or so is just the Wookie family grunting at each other. Then there's a bit with Harvey Korman trying to squeeze a little comedy from the awful material he's been given (he resurrects his old Dame character to give a cooking show - it's painful). Then there's some musical segments that make no sense, and really don't fit into anything, and a scene where Carrie Fisher is obviously dunk or stoned to the point where she can't even walk around a desk without staggering. I mean you can try, it's here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544# I wish you the best of luck in your attempt! Personally, I think it might scare you sober with how bad it is. At least though you can laugh at the vintage commercials, all of which are intact in that link.

• Even as a kid I knew this was a steaming pile of Wookie dung. If I had been a little older and wiser perhaps I could have forseen the horrors that were to come when Lucas decided to make the prequels. Let the holiday special serve as a warning to all, beware the evil that is Lucas.

• Oh God, my eyes.

• Still unwatchable. Two minutes would be ideal.

• any version of the star wars holiday special just proves how evil Lucas is making it for have seen the original version this version just even cut down can not stop the evil the thing is . at least till Lucas finaly okays a dvd release of the thing.

• Somehow, it's still better than The Phantom Menace.

• That was truly horrible.

• Amen brother. I still want my money back from the bastard that sold me that damn thing.

• I have never recovered from watching that shitfest... what the edited 5 minutes hides is that almost the whole thing is in Wookiee talk. Seriously.

• I have seen the horror that is the Star Wars Holiday Special. Slowly, I managed to claw my way back to sanity. Never saw it with RiffTrax, though.....goddamn it. Well, off to plunge into the maelstroms of madness and rubbery animation.....

• It is one of the worst things wrought by man since The Inquisition, but you cannot go to your grave without sitting the the RiffTrax version. Believe it.

• Wookiee cookiees. LOL

• ... really? Cuz I make a hobby out of getting hammered and watching movies of varying quality, then liveblogging my resultant random thoughts (just click my name, and then any link with the word "drunbk" in it). Is it not even worthy of random accusations of idiocy?

• SEE: Feral wookie children bear their teeth! Jefferson Starship's weird silhouette holding a microphone that looks like something else! Mark Hamill, presumedly, laughing at himself in make-up and girlish haircut! Bea Arthur singing and dancing with Walrus Man! Harrison Ford, in his lamest fight scene EVAR!!! ...and they didn't even show a scene from the only descent reason to watch the Holiday Special, which was to see the Boba Fett cartoon.

• Wow. Turns out, I DID have a little respect left for George Lucas. I only know that because I lost it while watching this.

• the pain!!

• Last year I downloaded the video and burned DVDs of it, complete with chapters, menus, etc. Then I gave those DVDs to my friends. Muahahahahahaha! So in short, I've seen it in detail, many, many times. It's survivable, but Rob's right. It's not even MST3K worthy.

• And knowing is half the Life Day

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