16 Bewildering Facts About The Star Wars Holiday Special

If you exist in the proximity of anything with a screen, you don’t need to be told what the Star Wars Holiday Special is. It might be harder to explain why it is, or how in Hell -- but the what is a matter of baffling common knowledge. It’s even possible that you love Star Wars and/or hate yourself enough to have sat through it. But even if you experience it yourself, those wasted two hours doesn’t fully convey how utterly bonkers that lost piece of television actually is, or all the ways in which it changed the world -- amazingly, not always for the worse.