#201: The Star Wars Christmas Special

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Society & Culture, Leisure, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Back in 1978, something truly horrifying happened. Following the worldwide, blockbuster success of the original Star Wars in 1977 (which we now lovingly refer to as A New Hope), audiences waited for what was next. And while The Empire Strikes Back arrived in 1980 and set the world ablaze, there were a few stops along the way, and one of them was almost impossibly ill-advised, in hindsight. The Star Wars Christmas Special aired only one time that holiday season, and it's widely-considered to be the single worst piece of Star Wars anything, ever. (Colin contends it's arguably the worst piece of entertainment ever created.) Not even the original movie's cast and some timely guest stars could save this coke-addled variety show. It's no wonder -- apart from its Boba Fett cartoon -- that it's been completely disowned and disavowed. And yet, we couldn't help ourselves. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback, the retro and nostalgia podcast is brought to you by Well You.
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0:13.9	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Knockback. My name is Colin Moriardium.
0:17.8	Join as always by my brother, Dagen, lumpy Moriardy, Dagen.
0:22.0	Thank you for joining me today. How are you today?
0:23.7	Whipster! Whipster! Whipster! Whipster!
0:27.9	Dude.
0:29.9	Oh, you guys are in for a treat.
0:34.8	Oh, man. You guys are in for a treat.
0:39.3	Ooh, well, you're feeling yourself today, little.
0:41.1	I didn't know. I didn't know I was going to do that.
0:44.4	That's that show. Well, welcome one. Welcome all to Knockback, our retro and nostalgia podcast.
0:50.2	Put up each and every week here on patreon.com slash last stand media. Of course, on YouTube and
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0:59.6	Today, we do the Star Wars Christmas Special from 1978, but before we do, I want to consult with
1:05.5	Dagen on how your life's going. We're recording on an unusual time and date here.
1:09.2	We're recording, so we're stacking up a bunch of episodes so we can take some time off.
1:12.1	So we're recording this on a Friday night, which is a little unusual.
1:15.7	A little unusual for us, but I'm coming off. I've recorded a bunch of podcasts over the last few days.
1:21.5	I'm just I'm rattling them off. Yeah. So making good time here as it were.
1:27.8	And I'm curious how everything's going with you since we last spoke.
1:30.7	I was thinking about that. You're recording a bunch of podcasts the last couple of days.
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