John Scalzi calls them “The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials,” but they read like alternate TV history to me.
Alternate Holiday Specials
December 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments
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1 Jonathan Dresner // Dec 31, 2009 at 11:05 am
I finally got to see the mythically bad “Star Wars Holiday Special” on youtube: it really is as bad as the rumors suggest, though nobody ever warned me about the wookie porn.
2 Rob // Dec 31, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Ah yes, and the coked-out Carrie Fisher singing the Wookiee Life Day Song. I am proud (?) to say I actually saw this in the mid 1990s – pre-Youtube, on an eighth-generation bootleg videocassette passed surreptitiously between fin de siecle hipsters and spoken of only in hushed tones.
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