festive cheer: deck the halls with Force-ful folly

one of the worst Christmas... things... ever made is so awful that it's essential viewing

Behind today’s door of my Curmudgeonly Movie Lover’s Unpleasant Advent Calendar is a quote from the absolutely notorious Star Wars Holiday Special, the 1978 TV movie that George Lucas will deny exists.

If you haven’t seen it, you simply must. From my 2005 review:

This entertainment travesty could well be a public-service announcement about how cashing-in …