Smash Cut

On this most wonderful Christmas Eve, I’ve got a special treat for all of you: the travesty that Jedi-mastermind George Lucas would like to have buried under Mt. Everest and never see unearthed again. No, I’m not talking about Hayden Christensen either.

It’s The Star Wars Holiday Special, the bonkers 1978 TV feature that has the considerable plus of providing the first-ever (animated) introduction of the bad-ass bounty hunter Boba Fett. However, it also sports the mind-numbing musical ineptitude of Beatrice Arthur and Jefferson Starship, amongst many others, and weird, holiday-inspired Wookie digressions with Chewbacca and his family.

If you view a collection of clips from the program here, you can really understand Lucas’s embarrassment. But his pain is our pleasure, I suppose.

Happy Holidays to all, and have a laugh with/at Princess Leia as she croons…uh…”Happy Life Day.”