Merry Life Day! It’s the Star Wars Holiday Special!
It just wouldn’t be Christmas without a post about what is unquestionably most egregious act of egotistical marketing ever foisted on an unsuspecting holiday. It featured a stable of otherwise outstanding acting talent saddled with a Bruce Vilanch script that could have been written by a team of drunken freshman drama students. It has musical numbers – musical numbers! – that make anything done by the Captain and Tennille sound like thrash metal. Its lead characters don’t speak English, or any other terrestrial language.
I am, of course, speaking of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
On the plus side, Boba Fett was introduced during the special, in an animated sequence. So there’s that.
If you haven’t seen it, you should, if for no other reason than to set a baseline level as to just how horrible television can be. I guarantee you, you’ll never complain about a modern sitcom quite as vociferously again.
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