17:07 Remember that in this scene of Chewbacca and his wife lovingly looking into each others eyes, its actually just two super tall guys awkwardly staring at each other dressed as giant dogs.

@zeusathena26

Жыл бұрын

😂🤣👍

@Sephiroth144

Жыл бұрын

No, no, as mogs: half man, half dogs. They're their own best friends.

@skylx0812

Жыл бұрын

Ever seen behind the scenes pics from 70s Sesame Street? Those puppeteers basically had to spoon and face one another in the armpit just to work one character. Getting uncomfortably close came with the territory.

*13:50** - An animated Han Solo walks into a cantina. The bartender goes "Why the long face?"*

I don’t know what’s more surprising, the fact Star Wars survived this, whomever created this script for the holiday special in the 70’s survived the amount of drugs it needed to think this was a good idea, or that Star Trek V is still somehow worse than this.

@dust_bin_gaming7319

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't just the script writer! xD Nearly everybody needed 'something' to help them make it through this one!

@jbvader721

Жыл бұрын

@@dust_bin_gaming7319 I want whatever Carrie Fisher was snorting to survive this "holiday special".

@jimb.7523

Жыл бұрын

@@jbvader721 Cocaine. Plain ol' normal cocaine. I'm wondering if maybe George promised her to have Harrison Ford pop out of her closet naked for her next birthday if she agreed to appear in this special?

@PotentFrost

Жыл бұрын

Advantages of no Internet. Anyone who missed the airing would have just missed it and you'd have to be a subscriber to magazines and the like to see the reviews

@tommywhite7092

Жыл бұрын

Star Trek 5 is nowhere near as bad as this trash.

There's a lovely story about Peter Mayhew running into the woman who played Chewie's son at a convention many years later, instantly recognizing her, and saying she should be behind the table with him signing autographs.

@FIRING_BLIND

Жыл бұрын

WAIT WHO?!! I WANT LUMPAWAROOS AUTPGRAPH!

It's a really good thing that Empire Strikes Back was so great that it made everyone forget that this exists. It also shocking that Harrison Ford didn't quit after this

@flappysquirrel5132

Жыл бұрын

...and he wanted to kill his character off repeatedly.

@gmgz

Жыл бұрын

@@flappysquirrel5132 He got his wish 38 years later

@flappysquirrel5132

Жыл бұрын

@@gmgz ...yes. He did.

@actiaslunatn7729

Жыл бұрын

He was always high as a kite, so he was the luckiest one.

@gmgz

Жыл бұрын

@@actiaslunatn7729 And he was the only one whose career was not destroyed by Star Wars

I now understand why Carrie Fisher used this to clear out a party

Was honestly expecting to just have them play the whole thing!

@SgtSupaman

Жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone would make it through their video if they had subjected us to that.

@teruin2

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised that the sins video wasn't an hour longer than the special.

@dennismoon6693

Жыл бұрын

I was expecting just one giant sin: that it exists at all. I came across the special on youtube the other day. Even knowing its reputation, I tried to watch it out of curiosity. I made it through five minutes, maybe ten. This is something that should be allowed to pass into obscurity, known only as the rumor of a rumor of a memory - something people will claim existed, but can never actually prove.

@graciegj63

Жыл бұрын

It's so difficult to get through even with rifftrax and the 70's commercials.

As a child, I watched this on TV on the night it aired-and loved it. For years, when I was older, I couldn’t find any evidence that it ever existed, making me start to wonder if I had dreamed it. The emergence of the internet proved that it was real! (I still kind of love it, LOL!)

@herbcraven7146

Жыл бұрын

I watched it too, and so did my friends. We were all excited about it, until we saw it. The next day, we didn't really talk about it.

@MoonjumperReviews

Жыл бұрын

@@herbcraven7146 - LOL! I actually remember thinking, “Maude is singing! Cool!” (I was a weird kid.)

@MrRezRising

Жыл бұрын

I saw this and Hardware Wars on HBO.

@johandejong2292

Жыл бұрын

I, too, thought I had been dreaming some odd Star Wars stuff for years, remembering Stormtroopers and wookiees on some woodland planet. We didn't have cable yet and were very dependent on the weather for a quality broadcast through the air, to our rooftop antenna. So I didn't remember very much else.

I personally LOVE seeing these looks into a time where Star Wars was popular and a big hit, but BEFORE it even came close to becoming what it is today. A New Hope wasn't the title, the imperial march hasn't been written yet, no one knows Darth's secret...it so fascinating!

@stephenbrady4829

Жыл бұрын

That's a unique and positive way to look at it. Its a snapshot of an interesting juncture in pop culture

@david2869

Жыл бұрын

The market was so thirsty for Star Wars merchandise and material that this crapshow was greenlit.

14:47 Considering most people think having her in it was one of the very, very, very few redeeming things about it, we should be damn well happy she's in it.

@SharpDesign

Жыл бұрын

Even Disney puts her as canon.

@skylx0812

Жыл бұрын

Someone made an action figure of her. That scary Lucielle Ball statue looked more accurate.

". . . he deserves an Order of Star Wars Sins!" The Sin counter increases by 66. I see what you did there.

Best parts were TV Sins Vader and "This exhaust room needs a skylight!"

🎵 "Just one round, friend. Then Homeward bound, friend I'll see you in your dreams." Bea Arthur running the Cantina Bar has to be the best part of the special, outside of the Boba Fett cartoon.

@tenebrousoul9368

Жыл бұрын

✊

@jbvader721

Жыл бұрын

Bea Arthur did what she could with what she had to work with.

@bastardsuperstar2636

Жыл бұрын

Disney 100% needs to make Bea the owner of the cantina in one of the shows or movies. They can use their evil face-mapping tech to just casually drop her in the background chewing out the bartender we met in Ep4.

@skylx0812

Жыл бұрын

That, _"...a slut and a moron"_ line from The Golden Girls just says today's Disney.

@david2869

Жыл бұрын

"Whip, whip, stir. Whip, stir, stir. Whip, whip, stir, stir. Whip, whip, stir."

4:10 The real sin here is for Luke's guyliner. Also, now you totally need to do the Ewok TV movies. They'll make you appreciate the Special.

@jonsmith5058

Жыл бұрын

Tooooo be fair, it had just been in a disfiguring car accident. They needed to position his hair and use a ton of makup to cover his mangled face.

@kaizen5023

Жыл бұрын

So disturbing on Hamill! It's not a play FFS!

When I saw the title I instantly worried the sun counter would break… glad it made it thru 👍🏻

Of course we had that little of Mark Hamill, they literally took him out of the hospital, filled him with drugs, filmed the scene so that it won't be strange to not have Luke and took him back

@etherealtb6021

Жыл бұрын

Yeesh. That explains why he looks like a drag version of himself.

Handling his lightsaber

1:27 Kenny Baker wasn’t brought into this, since R2 wasn’t scripted to move, but they weren’t going to omit him from the credit, hence the “character as himself” credit

You had espresso machine skip available and you blew it!

17:47 He actually exits stage LEFT. Stage direction are from the perspective of the actor as they face the audience. **DING**

My mom talks about this every year 😂 she said she never got to see it when it aired and was so devastated she missed it. Then she couldn’t find it till she saw it on VHS and she couldn’t even finish it. She said she was so glad she didn’t see it when it aired 🤣🤣🤣 this is awful

@ThubanDraconis

Жыл бұрын

I remember being a little kid and all excited to see it. Then, when it started, I remember thinking it had to get better soon. I don't know how much more I watched before I gave up, but even as a little kid I found it painfully bad.

@kennethfharkin

Жыл бұрын

The trauma of “one chance to see it” in the 70s was real. My entire Cub Scout pack raced home to catch this and it left us all scarred. Your mom may have thought to trauma of missing this on its one airing was bad but I am here to state seeing it at a young age while in love with Star Wars was far more traumatizing. Imagine seeing this, not being able to rewatch the film and having to wait years for another movie.

@SunnysFilms

Жыл бұрын

I have seen it in full. After Nostalgia Critic's review of it, watched after years of thinking it was something Al Yankovic made up for his White and Nerdy music video, I sought it out out of morbid curiosity. I - I feel like I survived something truly terrible and watching others make fun of it is my therapy.

"I think George Lucas is gonna sue somebody!"

Im not even halfway but dropping a like for you for actually suffering through that because i cant even handle a short recap of this "special"special 🥴🤯

Idea for a new sin, the willhelm scream. its used in everything now.

How about the fact that apparently Chewbacca has a family that he never sees because he’s off being a smuggler.

If you read the script, you realize that Chewie's family WERE saying words and we were hearing growls without subtitles for no reason.

@jbvader721

Жыл бұрын

And George Lucas can't pass the buck on that idea.

@DEATHBYFLYINGCDS

Жыл бұрын

Given how horrible the dialogue we understood is, think about how bad their dualogue is

@TheSaltySeaman

Жыл бұрын

IIRC, they were going to have the subtitles per the script, but Lucas scrapped it, and said wookies don't get subtitles. To this day, they don't, but it really made it awkward for this special, which already had 1 million things wrong with it.

@jbvader721

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSaltySeaman Like I said, Mr. Lucas can't pass the buck on that one. And it's really saying something when this special is one of his biggest mistakes with the franchise. But, it's Disney's problem now, not his.

@attorneyrobert

Жыл бұрын

There was a script? lol

Let's talk about the makeup that Luke has on. They made him look like a bleeding '80s Ken doll!

I appreciate that Star Trek: The Final Frontier, something Star Trek was lucky to survive, is also referenced in this...thing that Star Wars was lucky to survive.

Words cannot convey both the immense anticipation 6 year old me had for this leading up to its broadcast in 1978 nor the level of what the fuckitude did I just see after watching it.

Fortunately for England it was never broadcast here, so we never got to snigger over Chewy’s “shaggy carpet” we didn’t get to see it until KZread came along and the holiday special was uploaded.

@chadharger9323

Жыл бұрын

So what happened to the poor /b/tard that uploaded the video?

I'm really loving the increasing number of Star Trek after credits with every episode.

Could have just been a KZread short. 1,000 sins for existing. Done

I remember pre-internet when getting your hands on a bootleg VHS of this was like finding some kind of subversive contraband

Imagine having Star Wars agree to be the theme of your special, and then having it be about THIS plot!

@Amokra

Жыл бұрын

Lucas didn't realize what they were going to do and didn't have the pull at the time to fix it. He did make sure there were do more "holiday" specials after that :)

@madmojo-im6jz

Жыл бұрын

The network Executive got a pink slip for Christmas after this abomination

We were out the night this aired. Came back at the very end. My mom said I'd see it next year. I thought but that's a whole year, almost 10% of my life up to that point. It took 40 years before I actually got to see it. And found out why it never aired again. Also, the second wave of Star Wars action figures were actually going to be based on this special. They replaced Chewbacca's family with droids, and only released a total of 8. Plus a mail-away for Boba Fett.

Drinking game: Take a shot every time someone says “minute”

@jrcarter9175

Жыл бұрын

You trying to kill somebody with alcohol poisoning?

@arielfilmsinc1926

Жыл бұрын

@@jrcarter9175 How bout every time a wookie makes a noise?

The Holiday Special was never shown in the UK. Apparently it was bought by one of the channels before it was made, then they saw it about two weeks before it was due to be shown in the UK and demanded their money back. All things said a pretty close call.

That this didn't hit the million sin mark is quite stunning.

I'm juuuust too stoned for that Bonus Round. EDIT: Good Lord. I just realized the genius of the entire Holiday Special, and what Lucasfilm expected from their audience.

Oh.. nearly the *entire* cast was.. 'having fun' on this shoot, allegedly... xD

@Paulafan5

Жыл бұрын

Anyone being honest would tell you that late 70s, early 80s a lot of Hollywood was "having fun" and that's why most movies and shows sucked from that era. The few gems were ones in which they weren't having fun on set (or in the writer's room).

I never thought the Star wars theme would have lyrics somewhere

For your information (I'm not forcing you to read this): Me and my brother watched this movie, but in the french version. It has a lot of content removed, being roughly 1h12, but lemme gonna say... It was a challenge. We both said that if we were able to sat through all this ''movie'', we'd be immune to cringe for good. And, in fact, it did work. Whenever I see something that make me want to puke my breakfast, I think of this movie and feel a lot more cringeproof. What I'm trying to say is... Watch this thing. Don't skip it and after that, everything will seem less worse. Anyway, merry christmas to y'all🎄

Prayers. Answered. What a fucking treat. Thank you Tv sins, you've just made Christmas.

@ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM

Жыл бұрын

This should be top comment. I really needed the multiple laughgasms this video gave me.

... I'm actually amazed this isn't 3 hours long...

Oh boy here we go…I’m guessing that the ding counter breaks down in tears

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. My favorite part was how the arrow pointing at Michael Meyers had the common courtesy to move around Gweedo's head as he moved in the foreground. Thank you, Jeremy. Lmao!

18:54 Is it a sin on TVSins' part that this sin didn't use the Luke quote about everything someone just said being wrong? You were right on the verge of greatness, guys.

I've had the misfortune to have watched the Star Wars Holiday Special in its entirety; it's ~95 minutes of my life I won't get back, and a Sin Tally of only 596 is being FAR to generous by at least several orders of magnitude!

This is the holy grail of TV sins.

This is a fever dream kenobi has after taking some expired death sticks

Hey, this isn't what I wanted for Christmas! I wanted a sins video for the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special!

@Fictionboy16

Жыл бұрын

It can still happen, maybe on the day of or after Christmas. Then again, they can do it next year...

You forgot to question how the whole gang is suddenly in that wookie space tree place.

And now we sit back and wait for the comments from those who had no idea this even existed until this video was made. Every year, some kid finds out about this monstrosity for the first time and falls into the curiosity trap and agrees to watch the whole thing just to get me to show it to them. It's in that moment that I discover the glee of The Mads, Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank.

Carrie Fisher said she had absolutely no memory of recording that song, because she admits she was so fucking high on drugs at the time. You can even see how dilated her eyes are in the scene.

@jbvader721

Жыл бұрын

In Carrie's defense, I would be high as a kite if I had to do this "special" too.

I feel like this should've been a two-parter collab with CinemaSins since the special is as long as a movie...

@ScottKorin

Жыл бұрын

But is it a collab when it's all the same company?

@Fictionboy16

Жыл бұрын

@@ScottKorin Maybe, maybe not. I mean, when the Sins team sinned the old It, the first part was at CinemaSins and the second part was at TVSins.

I wasn't aware this existed, now I'm scared for life.

@captaincrunch784

Жыл бұрын

LOTS of Scotch helps getting through this

If TV SINS really wanted to give a present Jeremy would be narrating.

Please do Everything Wrong With The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

10:41 what many don't get that what Carney was doing was a hesitation gag he would do as Norton on The Honeymooners, where he would keep gearing up to do something, but hesitate, until finally Ralph Kramden gave him a shove, saying "Will you come on!". Does this make Ralph Kramden a part of the empire?

I love the Star Wars Holiday Special, I watch it once a year...

MARVELOUS!

This is now the only proper way to watch the holiday special.

@CelestialReturner

Жыл бұрын

I wholeheartedly agree!

@karenstarr

Жыл бұрын

The proper way is to watch it with RiffTrax.

That thumbnail made me laugh XD

A friend of mine wanted to show this at his families Christmas. Then I told him it features a wookie getting what amounts to a VR lap dance while he orgasams. He didn't believe me and boy was he sorry he didn't 🤣

@dylanbowlin3646

Жыл бұрын

Even though I wasn’t born for nearly another 20 years AFTER this was released (1995) I’ve heard what a poop storm this was from various sources and… well… I can most definitely see why they wanted sooo badly to pretend that this was just a fever dream/false memory…😅

That thumbnail...I started to wonder if maybe the holiday special was claymation or maybe puppetry. [edit] Is X kiss and O hug? I thought the X was the crossed arms and the O was the lips.

The reason Mark Hamills face looks so weird in the special is because he was in a car accident after A New Hope so had to wear heavy makeup for this special

@briansayles1615

Жыл бұрын

I recently did research on Mark Hamill's 1977 car accident, and there are conflicting accounts about just how serious the accident and his injuries were. Hamill himself has not been consistent with the details. In a couple interviews he said his car flipped and he broke his nose and cheekbone and had to have cartilage from his ear to reconstruct his nose. In one BBC interview from 1980 that can be found on KZread, he said his car only skidded and he only broke his nose. All of the details about him needing a complete facial reconstruction, or having to wear heavy makeup in this special, or the Wampa attack being written into Empire to explain his new face, are all more myth than fact.

@johnsensebe3153

Жыл бұрын

@@briansayles1615 But Hamill is definitely wearing a lot of makeup in this, and there's something odd about the lower right side of his face. I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

@joshfacio9379

Жыл бұрын

@@johnsensebe3153 is it me or is he wearing eyeliner?

@Poizenne

Жыл бұрын

He also looks high af.

@johnsensebe3153

Жыл бұрын

@@Poizenne Pain meds, perhaps?

This sinning is the greatest gift I've ever received.

I appreciate the Final Frontier references.

Nostalgia Critic did this a few years ago and had me rolling on the floor. During what ever it was that grandpa was doing NC says "Why can't we see grandpa's hands"

Luke..."Getting in touch with his DarkSide?"😆😆 (Lightsaber Adjustment) 🤔

Rich Evans: you’ve got Lumpy, Inchy Jay: Inchy? You messed that up

By far, one of THE BEST OUTTAKES 20:36 IMHO!!!🤣🤣🤣👌 That reminds me...are there any plans to create another, unforgettable "OUTTAKES ONLY" compilation? 🙏

The medium who pulled carol ann out and cleaned the house played lumpy

"A Freakin' Ikea Chair!!!" --C. Gore

I found that the key to watching this is to have an edible about 45 minutes beforehand. But the end of it you can damn near interpret Wookiee

I read an article on the web back in 2000, George Lucas himself said they aired it one time, and then never again. That fact that it has survived at all is A miracle. So merry Christmas to you all!

Harvey Korman as the cook looks like a cross between Cinderella's mother and Rosie from the jetsons.

Give this special infinite sins.

It's times like this when I wonder why I watch _Sins_ versions of something I'd never in a million years watch in the first place. Oh, wait, 'cause o' the laughs, that's right. 😄 Happy Winter Solstice, by the way. (Stage _left_ -- frame right.)

You should have taken off a sin for each time Luke blinks or even moves his eyes at all ... 😆

There's no way anyone can make a holiday special with sentient furry animals arguing in space and make it work. James Gunn: "Hold my metal arm..."

You left out the best part: Fighting the frizzes at 11.

I'm so glad I was raised a Star Trek fan and missed all this in the 70's.

@jayo1212

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad I was born in the 80's!

The Death Star had no weakness. It took an amateur space wizard to shoot a missile through a little hole, the missile had to make a 90 degree turn, then go down a narrow tube for miles without prematurely exploding... What are the odds, especially when the Jedi are nothing but a legend?

1:21 Kenny Baker wasn't in the Holiday Special. They just used the remote-controlled R2 model because they didn't need him as a character, but had to use R2 because the Star Wars fans who bothered to tune in would scream if they didn't see him. George Lucas once said that he wanted to destroy every bootleg copy of the Holiday Special, if possible. That boat sailed decades ago, George. Still, although he never wanted to use anything created for the Holiday Special in future Star Wars films, the Wookiees still live in the same-type treehouses in Revenge of the Sith. Yes, they were designed by Ralph McQuarrie, but why would ape-like creatures live in trees?

i like how he went from talking about him in 2002 to actually playing him nearly twenty years later; the circle is now complete

When the special aired in mid-November 1978, _Star Wars_ was some 18 months old and _The Empire Strikes Back_ was still some 19 months in the future. With how little _Star Wars_ media existed at the time, the holiday special was something we looked forward to-long before it became something that every fan should suffer through once. (This Sins video has reminded me that I was 13 when the holiday special aired, creating a new 'I feel old' moment, so..."thanks for that." 😝)

Harvey Korman? Who the hell is that? [Googles] Hedley Fucking Lamarr? That makes the cooking scene even funnier.

Normally I despise any besmirching of this glorious relic, but because the jokes are top notch, I shall forgive this transgression of this most holy moment.

10:55 and then someone told Jefferson Starship and they were like "star what? oh ok"

It’s the holiday special so hated, even George Lucas himself is ashamed of the project. At least Boba Fett’s first introduction was the best part of this.

@samuel-wankenobi

Жыл бұрын

The boba fett animated part was the only thing that has been officially released first as a bonus on the 6 saga blu ray set in 2011 and more recently on Disney plus

I saw this when it first aired in 1978. It was a dark time. Star Wars was no longer in the theater an Empire was nowhere in sight. People were jonesing for more Star Wars and this was the best we could get. Honestly, I'm surprised it only got 596 since. I think it should have started with 500 sins just for existing 🙂

If there's one thing I've learned from the special edition releases and the holiday special, it's that anytime the title of a Star wars property includes the word special, you know it's gonna suck.

I guess you guys AREN’T being Bah Humbugs this year after all! I still don’t know who it took you THIS long to sin a Christmas movie, but at least you sinned one.

I like The Star Wars Holiday Special

Lol in the bar scene they got Michael Meyers and do nothing with him just like every other big celebrity guest😂😂

this actually happened to me once, and i'm still recovering

Missed opportunity for a joke at 17:54. You could've had the Wookiees grunting and growling to the tune of the opening of "Bohemian Rhapsody".

I was wondering how this channel would deal with specials like this or the new marvel specials. Great to see this being covered. Not so great to see the special itself

Fortunately as a kid I survived the Donny & Marie Star Wars episode, so I was somewhat prepared for how bad a Star Wars chash-in could get.