I need to know if it was real, or if I was having an acid flashback when I thought I saw it!
2007-01-10 20:51:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Man, I thought I imagined that too! How much straight wookie talk can a guy take? Seriously, like 10 minute blocks of the movie with nothing but growls and roars!
2007-01-10 21:16:31 · answer #1 · answered by Eho 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Someone posted the whole thing, in about 10 parts, on Youtube just before Christmas, and I watched the whole thing.
What can I say?
Oh. My. God.
Chewbecca's family grunting WITH NO SUBTITLES, for the first 10 minutes. Then a bit in the Falcon as Han talks with Chewie about getting back home in time for "Life Day"
Chewie's family call Luke on their secret video phone asking where Chewie is.
Some human trader shows up at Chewie's house, Stormtroopers show up looking for Chewie, they don't find the secret video phone. A curfew is announced by the local Imperial constabulary.
The trader shows an Imperial dude a hologram of Jefferson Starship singing a song, and he kinda digs it, until his superior wanders over.
Chewie's kid (we guess) watches a Rebel propaganda cartoon about Han and Luke meeting their "friend" Boba Fett, but Boba was just trying to betray them. This cartoon was the only part of the special which had any effort put into it, very Ralph Bakshi(?)-esque 70s animation.
The trader gives Grandpa Wookie some kind of virtual reality porno device with a nudge and a wink, which for some reason calls up a human woman instead of a Wookie babe, she sings something (I had to skip it, I couldn't take it anymore)
Trader leaves, more long long minutes of Wookie-ese with no subtitles.
One of the old chicks from the Golden Girls (Bea Arthur?) is the bartender at a (the?) Cantina, she sings some Yiddish sounding song and DANCES with Greedo and the alien with a peach for a mouth who threatened to kill Luke in Ep IV.
Han and Chewie eventually get to Chewie's place (cue recycled Falcon footage from the movie) and toss a Stormtrooper over the railing off Chewie's treetop home. The trader lies that the Trooper was going AWOL or something. All is well.
Then all the Wookies wear long red robes, holding glowing orbs and do some kind of ceremony, which, for some reason centers on the main characters, Princess Leia shows up, smiling WAY TOO MUCH (I'd like whatever pills she was on then) and she SINGS A SONG to the Wookies, and gives a short Leia-style speech about goodness and such.
The End
I can really understand why George Lucas (who was not in the credits) wants this thing buried.
My impression was that CBS (or whichever network) gave this "Make a Star Wars special" assignment to some staff, who spent most of thier assigned time stoned. Then, 2 days before air, they just came up with all this wacky disconnected crap while still very, very high, and filmed it.
Harrison Ford now gets new respect from me for doing it all with a straight face.
It is defnitely worth searching for if you like laughing AT (not with) terrible mst3k-worthy stuff.
My God, if the mst3k crew could do this special without getting sued... pure gold.
2007-01-11 08:46:46 · answer #2 · answered by Ken O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one were Chewy goes home to his family? Yes it was real me and my brother saw it but never heard of it again
2007-01-11 04:56:07 · answer #3 · answered by Captain Shamrock 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are, I'm having the same one. I saw it a long time ago and haven't seen it in ages.
2007-01-11 09:37:34 · answer #4 · answered by Bamabrat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know, I often wondered if I just dreamed it up too - but it really happened. Boy, was that bad.
2007-01-11 05:35:27 · answer #5 · answered by slipstreamer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋