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[seperis]

Because I keep losing this link.

Have a Very Wookie Christmas. Salon article. Possibly the reason that one day someone will be making an entry here explaining my sudden and lamentable death from asphyxiation.

There's no plot per se, but the show drifts along something like this: It's Life Day on the Wookie planet of Kashyyyk. (Life Day is sort

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[beadattitude]

You know, reading about it is FAR better than actually watching it. I mean, my eyes, my eyes!!!! And then the thing with Harvy Korman...it's just. Oh my. And the Wookie porn goes on forever. And Luke is incredibly orange. Like, he matches his jumpsuit.

It's SO weird.

Malla wears an apron so you can tell she's a girl. And Itchy really is incredibly creepy.

[zelempa]

Apparently Mark Hammill had just been involved in a motorcycle accident and they were using tons of makeup to try to cover it up.

For the rest of it, there is no excuse.

ALL the parts go on forever. It's not just incoherent and ridiculous; it's BORING.

[beadattitude]

My husband manfully watched it until the end, but he's like that. He's got a collection of Incredibly Strange Music that he actually likes. He and his buddy exchange it, like bad ties or funny t-shirts.

[mireille719]

I remember that special. I was in love with Star Wars in 1978.

[akacat]

Same here. I remember sitting all the way through the special, waiting for something -- *anything* -- in it to make sense.

It wasn't until many years later that I realized that everyone involved in it had to have been higher than a kite.

[ltlj]

I have a tape of that special, though I've only been able to watch about five minutes of it. So much of it is not even hilariously bad. I saw it when it first aired, and even as a kid, you knew something was very very wrong and it was very very bad. Art Carney. Everything was terrible, the sets were falling apart, and the make-up looked like it had been done by twelve-year olds who went crazy with the blush.

[epeters]

I think I have a very vague memory of this show.
Thanks for the article. Just what I needed to brighten my Monday!!

[thepouncer]

Oh man, the Star Wars Christmas Special is the nadir of badness. I can't even attempt to do justice to it, although I will say that Carrie Fisher's appearance at the end, drugged out of her mind, will never be forgotten.

No wonder the Empire fell.