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WHAT WENT WRONG

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Flop, Film, Film History, Blockbuster, Acting, Disaster, History, Tv & Film, Movie, Directing, Hollywood

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

How does George Lucas top the most successful film of all time? He outsources the writing and directing, finances it himself, and then wonders if it could've been as successful if it had just been a little bit worse! This week, Chris & Lizzie head to Hoth to watch Irvin Kershner's cameras freeze, Dagobah to bear witness to Frank Oz create our favorite little bog freak, and navigate the asteroid field of Han and Leia's all too meta verbal sparring!

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... Hello and action. Hello and welcome back to what went wrong, your favorite podcast, Full Stop,

0:44.5

that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them,

0:48.5

let alone a good one, let alone the ultimate sequel, perhaps, made amidst a bit of personal turmoil.

0:56.4

I can't wait to hear about this story.

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I'm one of your hosts, Lizzie Bassett, here, as always, with Chris Winterbauer.

1:01.9

And Chris, what's today's date?

1:05.2

May the fourth be with you, Lizzie.

1:08.4

And also with you.

1:09.6

It is a date for Star Wars fans and our Lisp-bearing audience all the world over.

1:16.9

Yes, we changed up our schedule so we could land a Star Wars film on May the 4th because

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it is on a Monday this year.

1:23.5

We're very excited.

1:24.6

We also ran a poll a couple months ago.

1:26.7

Our last audience selected poll because now that we're doing weekly, it's very difficult to

1:31.7

candidly have you guys throw wrenches in our schedule constantly.

1:35.2

But the Empire Strikes Back did win the poll, and second place went to Temple of Doom.

1:39.8

So Chris is doing sequel month this May.

1:42.0

Yay.

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