The Star Wars Holiday Special: A Bizarre Drug-Trip Space Christmas (Or Thanksgiving) 

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If this looks like Art Carney talking to a Wookiee, that's because it is. Art Carney as Saundan and Patty Maloney, as a Wookie named Lumpy. Photo by CBS via Getty Images

The galaxy far, far away was a gold mine after the success of Star Wars: Episode IV in 1977. Why not a holiday special? That somewhat reasonable thinking is what gave us the Star Wars Holiday Special, a kind of variety show, kind of a drama, starring Bea Arthur, Harvey Korman, and Art Carney. It's about “Life Day,” which is essentially Wookiee Christmas. None of the special makes sense, it barely connects to the larger plot of Star Wars, and your favorite characters are hardly in it, and that’s why you have to see it.