Friday, December 23, 2011

Must Watch: The Star Wars Holiday Special

If you're looking to kill some time wrapping gifts or wait out the clock during what must be any office's most boring day of the year, allow me to make a humble suggestion. Treat yourself to a viewing of the Star Wars Holiday Special.

It was only broadcast once – on November 17, 1978 – and pretty much everyone involved has spent that last 30 some-odd years pretending it never existed. The only copies that still exist have that grainy, sunsoaked saturation of aging VHS. Thankfully we have the internet, or this gem may have been forever lost to the annals of time.

Yes, that is Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher reprising their roles. Yes, that is the first appearance of Boba Fett. Yes, that IS a 10 minute long conversation entirely in Wookie without subtitles. YES, THAT IS BEA ARTHUR SINGING. I swear, I get a contact high just watching this thing.

Fuck the newly remastered Blu-rays – this is the only Star Wars special I'll be watching this holiday season.




On an entirely serious note, happy holidays you beauties you. It just warms the cockles of my heart that you guys read what we do here on Burgundy Girls, and that's the best gift us gals could hope for.
Hope this season's a wonderful one.

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