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Special Event: Late Seating: THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL

MST Club presents! Word wound its way around to us that the podcast Late Seating has done riffs of a number of Christmas movies, and one of them is the dreaded (yet strangely entertaining) Star Wars Holiday Special. CHTucker mixed the video of the SWHS with Late Seating's audio, and tonight that's what we're watching! Do I have to describe the indescribable? The Star Wars Holiday Special is from a strange mixture of multiple pop culture phenomena: the height of Star Wars mania, the era of the TV variety show, and the careers of Harvey Korman, Art Carney and Bea Arthur. The results include a lengthy segments of Chewbacca's family talking to each other entirely in Wookese without subtitles, Carney playing a space trader, Korman doing three comedy segments, Arthur running a cantina on Tatooine, and a disturbing VR performance by Diahann Carroll for Chewie's pater. Riff dates to around 2020; the SWHS hails from 1978. Previously on Fanfare, far too many previousies on Metafilter to recount here.
posted by JHarris on Feb 20, 2025 - 8 comments

Mystery Science Theater 3000: YONGARY, MONSTER FROM THE DEEP  Season 11, Ep 9

A monster movie from South Korea, in which a petroleum-eating monster awakened from the Middle East attacks Seoul. Whatever geopolitical metaphor is intended by this is obscured by the fact that, oh Gamera, we have another little kid protagonist. Yongary's death scene is rather protracted. Ah, another little kid monster movie! And not a Kenny kid either, this is a full-on obnoxious lil brat along the lines of Time Of The Apes' Johnny, or that kid from Godzilla Vs. Megalon. When we meet this kid, he's aiming his superscience itch ray at relatives driving by in their car! There's a lot of other crazy on display here too. Episode 1109 is on YouTube. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Jun 7, 2017 - 14 comments

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