How Star Wars Ruined Christmas, and Vice Versa

[John Markley]

How Star Wars Ruined Christmas, and Vice Versa

The Star Wars Holiday Special - George Lucas wishes it never happened, and so do we. But at least it gave us Boba Fett.

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[Neverhoodian]

Speaking as someone who forced himself to watch the entire thing out of morbid curiosity a few years back, I can only offer my deepest condolences. I know your pain.

By far the most entertaining segments were the commercials.

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The "Union Label" song is heartbreaking in hindsight, though...

At the very least we can rest easy knowing that whatever Disney produces will never reach such abysmal lows.

 

[Scow2]

Why do we not let this monstrosity actually die?

 

[CaitSeith]

No images of the cartoon? Why?

Spoiler: Was it really that bad?

Yep! And that's their best side...

 

[FirstNameLastName]

Why do we not let this monstrosity actually die?

Because George Lucas wants it to die, so it can act as a blight upon Star Wars for him, in the same way the prequels are for everyone else.

 

[Naraka]

Why do people still care about Star Wars? Is the marketing really that freaking effective? It was a fun trilogy in its time, and for years after. It wasn't great acting, it wasn't an amazing story, it was fun though. Why does it all have to be a "Culture" now?

This is what you get for trying to turn a movie into a culture.

 

[RedDeadFred]

If you don't want to sit through this shit, but still sort of want to experience it, I highly suggest watching I Hate Everything's video about the movie. It's probably worse than you're imagining.