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[[WMG: The whole thing is a dream that R2-D2 had while falling asleep in front of a holovision]]
Okay, first of all, if we're going by George Lucas's comments, all the main movies in the Skywalker Saga are from R2's point of view and he's just recounting it to the Whills centuries into the future.
Second of all, let's assume droids can have dreams.
You ever fall asleep with the TV on, and your brain just sort of mixes up everything you're hearing into a super-crazy dream? The Holiday Special is exactly that. R2 had a holovision on that was airing a documentary on the Wookiee holiday of Life Day, another about the Mos Eisley cantina, a cooking show, a rock concert and a cartoon one after the other, and he's dreaming that they're all just one big program.
Centuries later, he's running out of stories to tell the Whills. But they want to hear one more. R2 then starts with "Okay, lemme tell you about this crazy dream I had about Life Day..."
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If you're wondering, SOPA and PIPA failed in spite of Hollywood money and enthusiasm, because [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA the Internet protested hard]] -- Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} blacked out its home page in protest. So we're not likely to see Lucas succeed any time soon.
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If you're wondering, SOPA and PIPA failed in spite of Hollywood money and enthusiasm, because [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA the Internet protested hard]] -- Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} Website/{{Wikipedia}} blacked out its home page in protest. So we're not likely to see Lucas succeed any time soon.
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Every year, when Ceraxian's Comet reaches its perihelion, the kindly old galactic trader Saun Dann comes down to the planet's surface in a starship pulld by pygmy nerfs. He delivers toys to all the good sentient beings, before returning to the comet and his workshop, where his Toydarian employees make all the toys for the next Life Day. The "Saun Dann" seen in the ''Holiday Special'' is actually a Rebel agent smuggling weapons to the Alliance while undercover as an "office Santa" [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-]
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Every year, when Ceraxian's Comet reaches its perihelion, the kindly old galactic trader Saun Dann comes down to the planet's surface in a starship pulld by pygmy nerfs. He delivers toys to all the good sentient beings, before returning to the comet and his workshop, where his Toydarian employees make all the toys for the next Life Day. The "Saun Dann" seen in the ''Holiday Special'' is actually a Rebel agent smuggling weapons to the Alliance while undercover as an "office Santa" [-[[RecycledInSpace [-[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-]
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[[WMG:''The Star Wars Holiday Special'' is in-universe propaganda.]]
TheEmpire created it to torture Rebel sympathizers and make them so annoyed by the Alliance heroes that the Rebels would never want to see them again.
* Some of it was probably also part of the unseen torture that Darth Vader used on Princess Leia in ''Film/ANewHope'', especially the parts with Chewie's family. The scene at the end where she's singing? She ''is'' singing, alright... alone in her cell under the influence of whatever that hovering droid injected her with.
** That would certainly explain [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs her appearance and behavior]] in the special.
** It's even more likely it was used too as part of the torture used on Han Solo in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* Or that it is a weapon designed by the Sith to turn Jedi to the dark side.
* It's an Imperial propaganda film that was a botched attempt to discredit the Rebellion in the wake of the Death Star's destruction and how Life Day was portrayed was just typical Imperial racism. Instead, it became a source of [[invoked]]SnarkBait in-universe and Vader then gave the director a slow and excruciating [[YouHaveFailedMe telekinetic throat hug]].
* It was meant to justify committing genocide against the Wookies.
* They obviously couldn't find an actor who looked enough like Luke, hence the heavy makeup.
[[WMG:''Life Day'' itself was created by the Empire to keep the Rebellion too discombobulated to be effective.]]
* It's celebrated with colorful holographic dancers, psychedelic 1970s-style music, and drugs (note the drugged-out look on poor Leia's face). The men were also required to wear thick makeup (as seen on Luke), and those not able to wear the makeup (such as Wookiees) had to watch long pointless instructional videos instead. Or porn.
** [[Theatre/AvenueQ The Viewmaster is for porn/The Viewmaster is porn/Wookiees won't have their hair shorn/But the Viewmaster is for porn.]]
** Old, decrepit Wookiees get to use the Viewmaster for that — this is a way for TheEmpire to {{Squick}} out anyone and everyone nearby.
** Said porn consists of weird, quasi-psychedelic weirdness with mermaid-human ladies chatting at you and singing in sexy fashion.
[[WMG:The entire thing was just a nightmare that was had by one of the characters.]]
Because you know, I had a nightmare after watching it!
* Lumpy? Is that you?
[[WMG:Imagine the special had come out before VHS tapes or other home recording happened...]]
''Franchise/StarWars'' as a franchise goes along like it normally would, as does for the most part its fandom and expanded universe... but in the 1990s, rumors start to go about in the more hardcore sects of the fandom about a holiday special that supposedly aired in the late 1970s, how apparently it had Bea Arthur and Art Carney in it, and Wookies talking for 20 minutes. But, sadly, no known copies of the special exist, and the only thing people have to go on is testimonials or maybe some still photos.
Can you ''even imagine'' how much of a legend the special would become, even moreso than it is now? It would surpass ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'' in reputation as the most horrible film nobody ever saw. Books would be written, documentaries would be made, countless people would spend countless hours of their lives trying to unravel the mystery. Creator/CarrieFisher stating that the drugs blocked out all memory of the production would take on a whole new significance. The cels from the animated segment that were auctioned in our world would go for three times their original price in this world, as would the 45 single pressing for the Jefferson Starship song. People would constantly wait for the day Creator/GeorgeLucas either dies, has a change of heart, or slips up on security enough that the original masters of the special get released/leaked, upon which they will pass from hand to hand underground for ludicrous prices.
Then, when somebody has enough of a generous spirit to forego their profits and copy the master onto the Internet for all to see, all of those who spent a decade or two trying to unravel the great mystery that is ''The Star Wars Holiday Special'' will inevitably scratch their heads and go "''This'' is what all the fuss is about? ''This'' is the animation I spent my kid's college fund on to get a single frame?!"
* Television shows were still being distributed via 16mm film in the late 70's. It would not be unlikely if an enterprising Star Wars fan got a hold of a network print and made copies.
[[WMG:The special will NEVER be released.]]
Creator/GeorgeLucas will state so in his will. Not that that will have any legal backing, but they will do so out of respect for the dead.
* Well, let's hope he included a clause when he sold Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} to Creator/{{Disney}} prohibiting the sale of the Holiday Special.
[[WMG:The special is the true reason why SOPA and PIPA exist.]]
SOPA and PIPA did not come about as Hollywood's ultimate plot to [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil stop online piracy]] and copyright infringement forever. It's actually George Lucas's ultimate plot to remove the Holiday Special's existence from the internet forever.
* Why did they need to keep that fact secret? No one would object, everyone would support it.
** Because there's always one nutter uploading it to Website/YouTube for the sheer heck of it/to satisfy people's curiosity that is the exception that proves the rule, 'tis why.
TheEmpire created it to torture Rebel sympathizers and make them so annoyed by the Alliance heroes that the Rebels would never want to see them again.
* Some of it was probably also part of the unseen torture that Darth Vader used on Princess Leia in ''Film/ANewHope'', especially the parts with Chewie's family. The scene at the end where she's singing? She ''is'' singing, alright... alone in her cell under the influence of whatever that hovering droid injected her with.
** That would certainly explain [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs her appearance and behavior]] in the special.
** It's even more likely it was used too as part of the torture used on Han Solo in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* Or that it is a weapon designed by the Sith to turn Jedi to the dark side.
* It's an Imperial propaganda film that was a botched attempt to discredit the Rebellion in the wake of the Death Star's destruction and how Life Day was portrayed was just typical Imperial racism. Instead, it became a source of [[invoked]]SnarkBait in-universe and Vader then gave the director a slow and excruciating [[YouHaveFailedMe telekinetic throat hug]].
* It was meant to justify committing genocide against the Wookies.
* They obviously couldn't find an actor who looked enough like Luke, hence the heavy makeup.
[[WMG:''Life Day'' itself was created by the Empire to keep the Rebellion too discombobulated to be effective.]]
* It's celebrated with colorful holographic dancers, psychedelic 1970s-style music, and drugs (note the drugged-out look on poor Leia's face). The men were also required to wear thick makeup (as seen on Luke), and those not able to wear the makeup (such as Wookiees) had to watch long pointless instructional videos instead. Or porn.
** [[Theatre/AvenueQ The Viewmaster is for porn/The Viewmaster is porn/Wookiees won't have their hair shorn/But the Viewmaster is for porn.]]
** Old, decrepit Wookiees get to use the Viewmaster for that — this is a way for TheEmpire to {{Squick}} out anyone and everyone nearby.
** Said porn consists of weird, quasi-psychedelic weirdness with mermaid-human ladies chatting at you and singing in sexy fashion.
[[WMG:The entire thing was just a nightmare that was had by one of the characters.]]
Because you know, I had a nightmare after watching it!
* Lumpy? Is that you?
[[WMG:Imagine the special had come out before VHS tapes or other home recording happened...]]
''Franchise/StarWars'' as a franchise goes along like it normally would, as does for the most part its fandom and expanded universe... but in the 1990s, rumors start to go about in the more hardcore sects of the fandom about a holiday special that supposedly aired in the late 1970s, how apparently it had Bea Arthur and Art Carney in it, and Wookies talking for 20 minutes. But, sadly, no known copies of the special exist, and the only thing people have to go on is testimonials or maybe some still photos.
Can you ''even imagine'' how much of a legend the special would become, even moreso than it is now? It would surpass ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'' in reputation as the most horrible film nobody ever saw. Books would be written, documentaries would be made, countless people would spend countless hours of their lives trying to unravel the mystery. Creator/CarrieFisher stating that the drugs blocked out all memory of the production would take on a whole new significance. The cels from the animated segment that were auctioned in our world would go for three times their original price in this world, as would the 45 single pressing for the Jefferson Starship song. People would constantly wait for the day Creator/GeorgeLucas either dies, has a change of heart, or slips up on security enough that the original masters of the special get released/leaked, upon which they will pass from hand to hand underground for ludicrous prices.
Then, when somebody has enough of a generous spirit to forego their profits and copy the master onto the Internet for all to see, all of those who spent a decade or two trying to unravel the great mystery that is ''The Star Wars Holiday Special'' will inevitably scratch their heads and go "''This'' is what all the fuss is about? ''This'' is the animation I spent my kid's college fund on to get a single frame?!"
* Television shows were still being distributed via 16mm film in the late 70's. It would not be unlikely if an enterprising Star Wars fan got a hold of a network print and made copies.
[[WMG:The special will NEVER be released.]]
Creator/GeorgeLucas will state so in his will. Not that that will have any legal backing, but they will do so out of respect for the dead.
* Well, let's hope he included a clause when he sold Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} to Creator/{{Disney}} prohibiting the sale of the Holiday Special.
[[WMG:The special is the true reason why SOPA and PIPA exist.]]
SOPA and PIPA did not come about as Hollywood's ultimate plot to [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil stop online piracy]] and copyright infringement forever. It's actually George Lucas's ultimate plot to remove the Holiday Special's existence from the internet forever.
* Why did they need to keep that fact secret? No one would object, everyone would support it.
** Because there's always one nutter uploading it to Website/YouTube for the sheer heck of it/to satisfy people's curiosity that is the exception that proves the rule, 'tis why.
to:
Please do not use the first person -- WMG is for everyone!
Please also be warned that most of these theories make more sense than the ''Holiday Special'' ever did.
[[WMG:''The Star Wars Holiday Special'' is in-universe Imperial propaganda.]]
It's tempting to see it as ''Rebel'' propaganda, given its focus on Rebel sympathisers and its inclusion of a cartoon of Rebel icon Luke Skywalker. But it's the other way around -- TheEmpirecreated made it to torture Rebel sympathizers and ''discredit'' the Rebels. Part of it was simply to make them so annoyed by the Alliance heroes that the Rebels would never want look foolish -- badly needed after they managed to see them again.
* Somedestroy the Death Star. But another part of it was probably also part of [[SuckinessIsPainful meant to harm the viewers]]. It might even be related to the unseen torture that Darth Vader used on Princess Leia in ''Film/ANewHope'', especially ''Film/ANewHope'' -- the parts bits with Chewie's family. The scene at her in it were being fed to her by Vader on the end where she's singing? She ''is'' singing, alright... Death Star (it conjures a nice mental image of Leia singing to herself, alone in her cell under the influence of whatever that hovering droid injected her with.
** That would certainly explain [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs her appearanceand behavior]] in the special.
** It'sincredibly high). It may even more likely it was used too as part of the torture used on Han Solo in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* Or that it isspecifically have been a weapon designed by the Sith way to turn Jedi to the dark side.
* It's anImperial propaganda film that was a botched attempt to discredit the Rebellion in the wake of the Death Star's destruction and how Life Day was portrayed was just typical Imperial racism. Instead, it became a source of [[invoked]]SnarkBait in-universe and Vader then gave the director a slow and excruciating [[YouHaveFailedMe telekinetic throat hug]].
* It was meant to justify committing genocidecitizens [[FantasticRacism against the Wookies.
* They obviously couldn't findWookiees]], priming them for an upcoming pogrom on Kashyyyk. And they had such trouble finding an actor who looked enough like Luke, hence Luke Skywalker that they had to employ lots of makeup to make it look even remotely convincing.
Whether or not it was ''successful'' in this respect is a matter of debate. What is not a matter of debate, though, is that if theheavy makeup.
[[WMG:''Life Day''film flopped in-universe, Vader was [[YouHaveFailedMe probably not very forgiving of the director]].
[[WMG:Life Day itself was created by the Empire to keep the Rebellion too discombobulated to be effective.]]
* It's celebrated with colorful colourful holographic dancers, psychedelic 1970s-style music, and drugs (note the drugged-out look on poor Leia's face). The men were also required to wear thick music straight out of UsefulNotes/TheSeventies, a lot of makeup (as seen (at least on Luke), the men), a ''lot'' of drugs (if Leia is any indication), and those not able to wear ritual porn viewership.
[[WMG:If themakeup (such as Wookiees) ''Holiday Special'' had to watch long pointless instructional videos instead. Or porn.
** [[Theatre/AvenueQ The Viewmaster is for porn/The Viewmaster is porn/Wookiees won'tcome out before home recording, it would have their hair shorn/But been the Viewmaster is for porn.most sought after print of all time.]]
** Old, decrepit Wookiees get to use The ''Holiday Special'' aired once and [[OneEpisodeWonder never again]], so the Viewmaster for that — this is a only way for TheEmpire to {{Squick}} out anyone would have ever been able to see it is if someone recorded it. And that's exactly what happened -- the special was heavily advertised in advance, and everyone nearby.
** Said porn consistspeople made VHS recordings. This is why pretty much every copy of weird, quasi-psychedelic weirdness the special preserves the commercials from its original recording.
But imagine if that weren't possible. Imagine if the ''Holiday Special'' aired once and never again -- and no one was able to preserve it for their own records.
People wouldn't even have known it existed. The ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise goes on without a hitch, and it picks up its fandom and its ExpandedUniverse. It's not until UsefulNotes/TheNineties that the ''really'' hardcore fans start spreading rumours of a holiday special that supposedly aired in the late 1970s, and how it apparently had Bea Arthur, Art Carney, and 20 minutes of unsubtitled Wookiee noises. But there's no ''proof''. Maybe someone finds old ''Magazine/TVGuide'' clippings, promotional materials, maybe some still photos. And ''maybe'' there would be some testimonials -- but remember, in our timeline, Creator/CarrieFisher claimed she didn't remember ''any'' of the special because of [[LaserGuidedAmnesia drug-induced amnesia]]. If she claimed that and ''no one'' could verify the special's existence, that alone would make it legendary.
Soon, the pieces will be put together in the Internet age. The cels of the animated segment might leak out (auctioning for triple the price it did in "our" timeline). The 45 single pressing of the Music/JeffersonStarship song would have been discovered. Slowly but surely, the special will be pieced together. The network prints might leak out -- even in the late 70s, TV shows were still being distributed on 16mm film. Maybe, withmermaid-human ladies chatting at you a little luck, with a lot of hype, and singing with a generous soul with connections, the entire special can be stitched together and put on Website/YouTube.
And it would be the most legendary letdown insexy fashion.
the history of the Internet.
[[WMG:Theentire thing was just a nightmare that was had ''Holiday Special'' will, by one of the characters.definition, never be officially released.]]
Because you know, I had a nightmare after watching it!
* Lumpy? IsCreator/GeorgeLucas engineered it so that you?
[[WMG:Imaginenobody would be able to legally release it. Lucas insisted he never would when he had the special had come out before VHS tapes or other home recording happened...rights himself. Then he sold the rights to Creator/{{Disney}}, but he could well have included a clause prohibiting Disney from releasing the special. And he put a clause in his will, explicitly stating that his heirs could ''also'' never release the special. It will be forever in the legal grey areas.
[[WMG:The ''Holiday Special'' is the reason for Hollywood's constant efforts to [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil ensure strict anti-piracy legislation]] in the United States.]]
''Franchise/StarWars'' as a franchise goes along like it normally would, as does for the most part its fandom and expanded universe... but in the 1990s, rumors start to go about in the more hardcore sects of the fandom about a holiday special that supposedly aired in the late 1970s, how apparently it had Bea Arthur and Art Carney in it, and Wookies talking for 20 minutes. But, sadly, no known copies of the special exist, and the only thing people have to go on is testimonials or maybe some still photos.
Can you ''even imagine'' how much of a legend the special would become, even moreso than it is now? It would surpass ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'' in reputation as the most horrible film nobody ever saw. Books would be written, documentaries would be made, countless people would spend countless hours of their lives trying to unravel the mystery. Creator/CarrieFisher stating that the drugs blocked out all memory of the production would take on a whole new significance. The cels from the animated segment that were auctioned in our world would go for three times their original price in this world, as would the 45 single pressing for the Jefferson Starship song. People would constantly wait for the dayCreator/GeorgeLucas either dies, has a change of heart, or slips up on security enough that is the original masters of the special get released/leaked, upon ringleader behind such proposed laws as SOPA and PIPA, which they will pass from hand would have effectively allowed copyright holders like him to hand underground for ludicrous prices.
Then, when somebody has enough of a generous spiritforce websites like Website/YouTube to forego their profits and copy take down any video without question. He's looking to remove one specific video: the master onto the Internet for all to see, all of those who spent a decade or two trying to unravel the great mystery that is ''The Star ''Star Wars Holiday Special'' will inevitably scratch their heads and go "''This'' is what all the fuss is about? ''This'' is the animation I spent my kid's college fund on to get a single frame?!"
* Television shows were still being distributed via 16mm film in the late 70's. It would not be unlikely if an enterprising Star Wars fan got a hold of a network print and made copies.
[[WMG:The special will NEVER be released.]]
Creator/GeorgeLucas will state so in his will. Not that that will have any legal backing, but they will do so out of respect for the dead.
* Well, let's hope he included a clause when he sold Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} to Creator/{{Disney}} prohibiting the sale of the Holiday Special.
[[WMG:The special is the true reason why SOPA and PIPA exist.]]
SOPA and PIPA did not come about as Hollywood's ultimate plot to [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil stop online piracy]] and copyright infringement forever. It's actually George Lucas's ultimate plot to remove the Holiday Special's existence from the internet forever.
* Why did they needSpecial''. Lucas chose to keep that fact secret? No one his efforts secret -- although Hollywood ''and'' the U.S. Congress would object, everyone would support it.
** Becauselikely sympathize with him, there's always one nutter uploading it to Website/YouTube for the sheer heck of it/to satisfy people's curiosity that is StreisandEffect to worry about which could galvanize the exception that proves fandom to specifically preserve the rule, 'tis why.
''Holiday Special''.
If you're wondering, SOPA and PIPA failed in spite of Hollywood money and enthusiasm, because [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA the Internet protested hard]] -- Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} blacked out its home page in protest. So we're not likely to see Lucas succeed any time soon.
Please also be warned that most of these theories make more sense than the ''Holiday Special'' ever did.
[[WMG:''The Star Wars Holiday Special'' is in-universe Imperial propaganda.]]
It's tempting to see it as ''Rebel'' propaganda, given its focus on Rebel sympathisers and its inclusion of a cartoon of Rebel icon Luke Skywalker. But it's the other way around -- TheEmpire
* Some
** That would certainly explain [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs her appearance
** It's
* Or that it is
* It's an
* It was meant to justify committing genocide
* They obviously couldn't find
Whether or not it was ''successful'' in this respect is a matter of debate. What is not a matter of debate, though, is that if the
[[WMG:''Life Day''
[[WMG:Life Day itself was created by the Empire to keep the Rebellion too discombobulated to be effective.]]
[[WMG:If the
** [[Theatre/AvenueQ The Viewmaster is for porn/The Viewmaster is porn/Wookiees won't
** Said porn consists
But imagine if that weren't possible. Imagine if the ''Holiday Special'' aired once and never again -- and no one was able to preserve it for their own records.
People wouldn't even have known it existed. The ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise goes on without a hitch, and it picks up its fandom and its ExpandedUniverse. It's not until UsefulNotes/TheNineties that the ''really'' hardcore fans start spreading rumours of a holiday special that supposedly aired in the late 1970s, and how it apparently had Bea Arthur, Art Carney, and 20 minutes of unsubtitled Wookiee noises. But there's no ''proof''. Maybe someone finds old ''Magazine/TVGuide'' clippings, promotional materials, maybe some still photos. And ''maybe'' there would be some testimonials -- but remember, in our timeline, Creator/CarrieFisher claimed she didn't remember ''any'' of the special because of [[LaserGuidedAmnesia drug-induced amnesia]]. If she claimed that and ''no one'' could verify the special's existence, that alone would make it legendary.
Soon, the pieces will be put together in the Internet age. The cels of the animated segment might leak out (auctioning for triple the price it did in "our" timeline). The 45 single pressing of the Music/JeffersonStarship song would have been discovered. Slowly but surely, the special will be pieced together. The network prints might leak out -- even in the late 70s, TV shows were still being distributed on 16mm film. Maybe, with
And it would be the most legendary letdown in
[[WMG:The
* Lumpy? Is
[[WMG:Imagine
[[WMG:The ''Holiday Special'' is the reason for Hollywood's constant efforts to [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil ensure strict anti-piracy legislation]] in the United States.]]
Can you ''even imagine'' how much of a legend the special would become, even moreso than it is now? It would surpass ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'' in reputation as the most horrible film nobody ever saw. Books would be written, documentaries would be made, countless people would spend countless hours of their lives trying to unravel the mystery. Creator/CarrieFisher stating that the drugs blocked out all memory of the production would take on a whole new significance. The cels from the animated segment that were auctioned in our world would go for three times their original price in this world, as would the 45 single pressing for the Jefferson Starship song. People would constantly wait for the day
Then, when somebody has enough of a generous spirit
* Television shows were still being distributed via 16mm film in the late 70's. It would not be unlikely if an enterprising Star Wars fan got a hold of a network print and made copies.
[[WMG:The special will NEVER be released.]]
Creator/GeorgeLucas will state so in his will. Not that that will have any legal backing, but they will do so out of respect for the dead.
* Well, let's hope he included a clause when he sold Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} to Creator/{{Disney}} prohibiting the sale of the Holiday Special.
[[WMG:The special is the true reason why SOPA and PIPA exist.]]
SOPA and PIPA did not come about as Hollywood's ultimate plot to [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil stop online piracy]] and copyright infringement forever. It's actually George Lucas's ultimate plot to remove the Holiday Special's existence from the internet forever.
* Why did they need
** Because
If you're wondering, SOPA and PIPA failed in spite of Hollywood money and enthusiasm, because [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA the Internet protested hard]] -- Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} blacked out its home page in protest. So we're not likely to see Lucas succeed any time soon.
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Series/{{The Golden Girls}} kept their promise to Rose that when they die they'll be frozen so they can be cured and get back together in the future. Well, it took them a really long time to get thawed, and they found they'd been transported to a galaxy far, far, away. The four opened a cantina on Tattooine; they clearly like hot weather and Blanche just loves bad boys like smugglers and men in uniforms like Stormtroopers.
* This theory makes more sense than the entire special did.
[[WMG: Greedo is the [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Hans Moleman]] of the ''Star Wars'' Universe.]]
* This theory makes more sense than the entire special did.
[[WMG: Greedo is the [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Hans Moleman]] of the ''Star Wars'' Universe.]]
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Series/{{The Golden Girls}} kept their promise to Rose that when they die die, they'll [[HumanPopsicle be frozen so they can be cured and get back together in the future.future]]. Well, it took them a really long time to get thawed, and they found they'd been transported to a galaxy far, far, away. The four opened a cantina on Tattooine; they clearly like hot weather weather, and Blanche just loves bad boys like smugglers and men in uniforms like Stormtroopers.
* This theory makes more sense than the entire special did.
Stormtroopers.
[[WMG: Greedo is the [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Hans Moleman]] of the ''Star Wars''Universe.universe.]]
* This theory makes more sense than the entire special did.
[[WMG: Greedo is the [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Hans Moleman]] of the ''Star Wars''
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[[WMG: That Imperial Guard that visited Saun Dann's shop was on leave with PTSD following a battle with the Mon Calamari in which his entire squad were wiped out.]]
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[[WMG: Disney is planning a big-budget remake of this special in order to rehab its reputation.]]
* Not exactly, but they are producing a Franchise/{{LEGO}} animated parody of the special for Creator/DisneyPlus.
* Not exactly, but they are producing a Franchise/{{LEGO}} animated parody of the special for Creator/DisneyPlus.
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[[WMG: Disney is planning a big-budget remake of this special in order the ''Holiday Special'' to rehab its reputation.rehabilitate it.]]
* Not exactly, but they are producing a Franchise/{{LEGO}} animated parody of It seems like the special for Creator/DisneyPlus.
kind of thing Disney would do. Although it ''may'' have been {{Jossed}} by the existence of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoStarWarsHolidaySpecial''.
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Going with the RealLife fact that Carrie was on drugs when they did the special, Leia would have been on some Star Wars drugs at some point before the beginning of the Holiday Special. This would explain why she doesn't remember being at Chewie's planet before during ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' books - she probably never took the drugs again between the first visit and the second. Think about it: when a person is on drugs when they're doing something, they will not remember it when they're sober. For example, when a person is drunk and leaves their keys somewhere, they won't remember where they left them when they're not drunk, and it will come to them when they get drunk again. The drugs aspect might also explain why "Kashyyk" was misinterpreted as "Kazook", why Greedo appears after dying, all the {{Big Lipped Alligator Moment}}s. All because of some GRatedDrug in the Star Wars universe. Given these events take place a few months after the destruction of Alderaan its probably not to surprising either that Leia is either hitting the bottle or the pills a bit to hard. After this nightmare she swore "Never again!"
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Going with the RealLife fact that Carrie Fisher was on drugs when they did the special, Leia would have been was on some Star Wars drugs at some point ''Star Wars'' drugs. She's self-medicating -- poor girl has to deal with her entire planet getting [[EarthShatteringKaboom blown up before the beginning of the Holiday Special. This would explain why her eyes]]. She got high before she even landed on Kashyyyk and doesn't remember being at Chewie's planet before during ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' books - anything about her trip there -- this is why, in ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', when she probably never took the drugs again between the visits Kashyyyk again, she thinks it's her first visit and the second. Think about it: when a person is on drugs when they're doing something, they will not remember it when they're sober. For example, when a person is drunk and leaves their keys somewhere, they won't remember where they left them when they're not drunk, and it will come to them when they get drunk again. time there. The drugs aspect might also explain why "Kashyyk" was "Kashyyyk" is misinterpreted as "Kazook", why Greedo appears after apparently dying, and all of the {{Big Lipped Alligator Moment}}s. All because of some GRatedDrug in the Star Wars universe. Given these events take place a few months after the destruction of Alderaan its probably not to surprising either that Leia is either hitting the bottle or the pills a bit to hard. other weirdness. After this nightmare nightmare, she swore "Never again!"
off the drugs and has been clean ever since.
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[[WMG: Life Day is the one day when all the galaxy's drugs are made legal by the Empire.]]
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[[WMG: What the hell is Life Day?]]
Post all guesses about exactly what happens on this holiday here.
* Every year when Ceraxian's Comet reaches its perihelion the kindly old galactic trader Saun Dann comes down to the planet's surface in a starship pulled by pygmy nerfs and delivers toys to all good sentients before returning to the comet and his workshop, where his Toydarian employees make all the toys for the next Life Day.
** The Saun Dann seen in the movie was in fact simply a Rebel agent smuggling weapons to the Alliance while undercover as, essentially, an "office Santa".
* In ancient times Wookiee holy men would make a sacrifice on a stone slab at the base of the tree of life as part of a ritual to bring a symbolic end to Kashyyyk's harsh winters.
** According to the old canon it appears to be a form of ancestor worship with Saturnalia elements. In the new canon it hasn't been fully established yet.
* [[LiteralMinded You celebrate life.]]
Post all guesses about exactly what happens on this holiday here.
* Every year when Ceraxian's Comet reaches its perihelion the kindly old galactic trader Saun Dann comes down to the planet's surface in a starship pulled by pygmy nerfs and delivers toys to all good sentients before returning to the comet and his workshop, where his Toydarian employees make all the toys for the next Life Day.
** The Saun Dann seen in the movie was in fact simply a Rebel agent smuggling weapons to the Alliance while undercover as, essentially, an "office Santa".
* In ancient times Wookiee holy men would make a sacrifice on a stone slab at the base of the tree of life as part of a ritual to bring a symbolic end to Kashyyyk's harsh winters.
** According to the old canon it appears to be a form of ancestor worship with Saturnalia elements. In the new canon it hasn't been fully established yet.
* [[LiteralMinded You celebrate life.]]
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[[WMG: What Saun Dann is the hell is [[YouMeanXMas Santa Claus equivalent]] of Life Day?]]
Post all guesses about exactly what happens on this holiday here.
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[[WMG:Life Day traditionally involves a sacrifice of some sort.]]
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* They obviously couldn't find an actor who looked enough like Luke, hence the heavy makeup.
