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Flogging a Dead Force

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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‘The 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is the worst piece of Star Was trash in history!’ The Acolyte: ‘Hold my beer.’ It really is that bad. It took four decades for Disney to turn a $4,000,000,000 franchise into compostable garbage, but they managed to pull it off at last. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Well, it took more than 40 years, but they finally did it.

0:03.6

Somebody finally, after years of effort, made something worse than the 1978 Star Wars holiday special.

0:11.4

Hey, everybody.

0:12.0

I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott, and this is Right Angle, brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.

0:17.2

Gentlemen, if you've never seen it, and I've never been able to watch the whole thing, it's that bad.

0:22.1

The Star Wars Holiday Special must be seen to be disbelieved. You will literally not believe it happened

0:27.6

as you're watching it, as you're watching a play out. It's that bad. It was the show that answered the

0:33.4

question. Nobody was asking, What a Star Wars was a 70s variety show with B. Arthur, Harvey

0:38.9

Corman in drag, Jefferson Starship, scenes of wookies speaking their native language to one another

0:45.4

with no subtitles, and Luke and Leia on enough cocaine to blow up the Death Star without getting

0:51.3

anywhere near the ventilation shaft. This thing was just, it was the worst thing ever.

0:56.5

Horrific.

0:57.2

According to Rotten Tomatoes, the holiday special is rated 21% fresh by audiences and 25% by

1:03.0

critics.

1:04.0

And I think the positives, everybody were as drugged up as Carrie Fisher and Mark

1:08.4

Hamill were when they shot this thing.

1:10.8

But get this. Over at Disney Plus, Star Wars, were as drugged up as Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill were when they shot this thing.

1:12.0

But get this.

1:18.0

Over Disney Plus, Star Wars the Acoly, which I think has got five episodes out now,

1:21.3

is rated just 14% fresh.

1:30.8

Disney actually made something that people like even less than the 1978 holiday special. Bill, to its credit,

1:35.3

I guess, the holiday special has a pretty solid excuses. They had a low budget. I think they shot the thing for $14. Crap tons of cocaine. George Lucas was not involved at all. And the whole

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