Mark Hamill FTW

[Nevilledog]

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Mark Hamill
@MarkHamill
“I’ve decided THIS should be on the pardon list, if that’s still in the works.”



2:52 PM · Jun 17, 2022

[highplainsdem]

1. Love his sense of humor.

[d_r]

2. Why is Kenny Baker not named I wonder?

[Nittersing]

4. According to this website

"The R2-D2 unit used in The Star Wars Holiday Special was fully mechanical and remote-controlled. Kenny Baker usually had at least a couple scenes inside of Artoo in the films, but apparently not in The Star Wars Holiday Special."

https://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/characters/r2-d2/

Not much of an answer... and I don't know anything about the website.

[d_r]

5. Wow thank you

Trivia I did not know

[targetpractice]

6. Kenny Baker was only in R2 when...

... R2 was walking or standing on two "legs" with his third leg retracted. Otherwise, R2 was remote controlled.

[BootinUp]

3. DENIED, lol

[MerryBlooms]

7. 😆

[lame54]

8. Some crimes are unforgivable

[Hugin]

20. Seconded.

That show coming as closely as it did to the first Star Trek movie in 1979 permanently (pardon the expression) warped me to the point I actually enjoyed Howard the Duck.

[TheRealNorth]

9. Add Jar-Jar Binks to the pardon list.

[Dr. Strange]

19. Oh come on.

Let's be reasonable.

[catrose]

10. It certainly should--but the answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Marcuse]

11. Sorry. We don't accept imperial credits, beskar or gold pressed latinum.

[Stuart G]

12. I vaguely remember it...Vaguely..If I remember correctly, That one was Crap...It was on TV..when????

[Aristus]

14. November, 1978.

I saw it on its only broadcast. I was nine. HUGE Star Wars fan. Starved for content long before the advent of the Extended Universe.

When it was over, I just kind of blinked a couple of times and thought. “What the fuck did I just watch?”

[Polybius]

15. I loved it in 1978

But I was like 5 years younger than you.

[Hugin]

18. I was so excited to watch it and then...

I coined my lifelong expression of ultimate underwhelment at its merciful conclusion… “Puh!” Which I still use to this very day.

The worst part to me is that it seemed to be cobbled together from about a dozen stock clips. The most vivid of which I remember is Fisher seated at what appeared to be a pre-Mac Apple doing unspecified urgent computery things.

It haunts me to this day. I don’t ever need to see it again.

I suffered a form of PSWHSSD (post Star Wars holiday special stress disorder) which I didn’t snap out of until Indiana Jones was released in 1981 and my closest friends forcibly dragged me into a theater for an intervention.

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. I had just turned 10

Other than that, I could have written your post.

[Ziggysmom]

13. I never saw it. I see it's on YouTube, I need a few laughs after a rough week 😊

[krispos42]

21. I bought and watched the RiffTrax version

And if you're a "God Awful Movies" patron, they did this as a bonus episode.

It's spectacularly terrible. Epically terrible. As bad as you think it will be, it's far worse!

It's like a super hardcore fan kidnapped the main cast and forced them to act out his terrible fan fiction in sets he hand-made in his basement.

[denbot]

16. Gotta love the guy

[YoshidaYui]

17. Mary Trump

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[LiberatedUSA]

23. Here is the Pitch Meeting for that. Hilarious!