Sunday, December 16, 2007

The Star Wars Holiday Special

I consider myself a bit of a Trekker and a Star Wars buff. I saw the movies at a young and impressionable age, and I was hooked. Hell, Star Wars is half the reason my husband and I are married! Our love of Sci-fi and fantasy is something that drew us together. Heck half our tree is decked out with characters from the original trilogy of movies. It is a pretty neat tree if I do say so myself.

We used to joke about who was more of a geek, who knew more about each franchise- and today, well lets just say I am happy to give the title up to the hubby. He wins. He is a bigger geek than I am because he knew about and actually watched the abomination I am about to share with you. We may as well change his name to 10101110 and move him back into his parent's basement.

Oh man, this is too baked for words. Beatrice Arthur guest stars, along with what I am sure was a career ending appearance for Jefferson Starship, to sing "Light the Sky on Fire". Carrie Fisher sings too, and I don't know why, or how she managed to get through it without swallowing a bullet. Perhaps this is when her drug problem started.

Here it is, The Star Wars Holiday Special cut down to five festive minutes. And don't say I never warned you.



I cannot believe that people watched that for 2 hours, they will never get that time back. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go wash my eyes.

3 comments:

Jo said...

Good Lord! I couldnt even get through the 5 minutes. lol

WhitbyDude01 said...

In my defense I WILL say that I was only 5 years old at the time and it WAS the 70's.

Oh God though...so bad....just..horrendous...makes me want to burn every Star Wars thing that I own.

I can't even go into describing this clip because doing so would conjure up mental imagery of Bea Arthur dancing in the Star Wars Cantina and I would oh..oh...oh...I think I'm going to be sick......

Nuclear Mom said...

Apparently I just was never a big enough Star Wars fan! And I always thought I was...

I am sending my husband to check this out later today. Ten to one he has seen it before too...