266: The Star Wars Holiday Special

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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A short time ago in a galaxy right right here: we watched the notorious Star Wars Holiday Special, which takes place through the eyes (and the grunts) of Chewbacca's wookie alien family. It's so universally panned that George Lucas has tried to bury it, but we decided to dig it up. So what's our verdict? Probably pretty good, right? For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu266 Support GTTU on Patreon! Depending on the tier you choose, you get one, two, or FOUR full bonus episodes per month, early access to the video version of the show, a private Discord, and more at patreon.com/gttupod. Thank you so much! See everything GTTU-related at gttupod.com. Watch videos of all of our episodes at youtube.com/gttupod Follow us online: https://www.instagram.com/gttupod https://www.facebook.com/gttupod https://www.twitter.com/gttupod Join our private Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/gttupod

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0:00.0	It's like not fun for my eyes to experience.
0:03.7	Yeah, this is all very...
0:05.2	It's like if the Muppets sucked.
0:06.5	Hello, welcome to guides the unknown. I'm Kristen. And I'm her little brother
0:15.4	William and happy life day. Happy life day. We are venturing into space to
0:21.4	discuss the Star Wars holiday special.
0:24.2	Ironically, this began as us trying to find something about aliens to talk about
0:27.9	her holidays.
0:29.0	Technically, it's correct.
0:30.3	Yeah, exactly.
0:31.4	So this is, you know, it's got the Star Wars brand of aliens. It does. Mainly Chubaka.
0:38.0	Mostly Chubaka's. Yeah. Wookies, they're called on the planet Keshik right although in this special they call it kazook
0:46.4	It's like mispronunciations and stuff. I can't pretend to have like an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars I don't know.
0:54.3	I feel like you know a good amount.
0:55.7	I know a good amount but it's all pretty like normy like watching the movies pop culture
1:01.4	knowledge like I don't have any Wikipedia deep dive that's awesome I didn't know
1:05.4	that was Wikipedia but it makes total sense yeah we've definitely talked about it for
1:08.8	some reason but okay but this is a special that genuinely aired on television.
1:15.0	Yes, it sure did.
1:17.0	1978.
1:19.0	So it's about 45 years old.
1:21.0	Yep.
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