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The first in a series of unexpected phone calls made by Malla, wife of Chewbacca, to the Rebels. We hope you’ll forgive our lateness with the last couple of strips. Something to remember about the Holiday Special is that (aside from being extremely low budget and entirely camp) it gave us Mark Hamil with eyeliner and a mop haircut.
Watch the second part of the Holiday Special below… What’s up with the Cirque du Soleil? Hang on a second… why am I asking that? The one place that the Cirque du Soleil would actually not look out of place is in the Star Wars Universe… most obviously in Jabba’s Palace. Once you get past the gag factor, it’s kind of fun. Having the ability to skip or fast forward is helpful.
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What the helld id they do to Hamill? Was this before or after his car smash?
Is that Hamill, or Howdy Doody standing In?
OK, that was too effin’ funny! Haha!
And even George Lucas hates it. Considering some of the crap he has put on film*, that is saying something.
* Do you _really_ need a list?
As I wondered yesterday, just how much responsibility does he bear for the abomination? i suppose if I look around the web I’ll find some info. I don’t think it was mentioned on that great ‘Empire of Dreams’ documentary.
There’s probably a reason for that. The Empire of Dreams documentary was commissioned / supported by Lucas Film.
Yup.
I just love how they name every single actor including Anthony Daniels and Peter Mayhew, but when it came to R2D2 they just say R2D2 as R2D2 and don’t even mention Kenny Baker. almost as if he didn’t matter
LOL. Yeah, I thought the same thing. Poor Kenny Baker. By all accounts, he’s one of the nicer Star Wars actors.
And he’d have every right to be bitter and surly, considering he spent his screen time in a metal bullet on wheels at a constant tilt. When he wasn’t getting knocked over. X )
They didn’t credit James Earl Jones when Star Wars was first released I think it was by request.
Jesus – are you serious? Did he think it was a load of nonsense?
‘Othello’ played by James Earl Jones – formerly Darth Vader. Perhaps the Shakespearian ‘luvies’ would look down on him.
Yep, I thought that was pretty crummy of them too.
I’ve tried again and again to think up a reason for why they would do that.
I can’t.
Sounds silly but you never know… they might have actually wanted people to believe in the robot – not the performer inside.
From what I remember, they DID want people to think R2 was a robot. The early specials always hid the fact that Kenny Baker was inside.
Or… they were a pack of shits?
I believe that he now gets credit as R2.
James didn’t want to be credited as Darth Vader because he wanted it to be a mystery and he thought it added to the character.
Bollocks!
I’ll go with the latter.
Just started watching Pt.II. So it actually gets even worse? Jesus.
It that Mark or Dorothy Hamill? 😮
I have to admit, this series prompted me to watch the Star Wars Holiday Special. What has been seen cannot be unseen…
unless it was filmed during A New Hope, it was after the 1st film, because they had to find a look alike for the closing scene, with the medals, due to the accident he was in
Several years late to the party, but honestly the only way to watch this is with Rifftrax running. They did an amazing job on this turkey.