Thanks to Joey de Villa, I’ve now seen approximately 2.5 minutes of the 5 minute version of the 2-hour Star Wars Holiday Special in all its mercifully shortened craptabulousness.

May God bless whoever edited the original special down to 5 minutes. Even so, I had to watch Art Carney rock out to the Jefferson Starship as he stood in Chewbacca’s family home, which was being searched at the time by 2 Stormtroopers, a black-helmeted Imperial Guard, and a rather stuffy officer-type with a fake British accent.

I mean…Art Carney…rocking out…while dressed in a really crappy “Star Wars-y” costume.  Norton, the sewer worker, was cooler than this guy. Maybe he did it for his grandkids without really knowing what it was all about, kind of like Richard Harris did when he took the role of Dumbledore for the first two Harry Potter movies.

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