Author Steve Kozak takes us into the making of the cheesy variety show that aired back in 1978.
    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      Or older entertainment traditionalists firmly stuck in the era of variety hours and then importance of “big music numbers to give the audience the ol’ razzle-dazzle!” Hell, some of them probably never got out of a nostalgia for vaudeville.

      Or both that decrepit mindset plus cocaine.

    • TomMasz@kbin.social
      9·
      11 months ago

      This cannot be overstated. Just reading the summary would invoke serious head-shaking, the casting would result in an explosion. Which tells you the snow blew over everyone.

  • Doctor xNo@r.nfEnglish
    17·
    11 months ago

    A long long time ago in a galaxy for away, somehow there was Jesus too…

    That proves it. Jesus is The Doctor.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      This is making me think of the Ray Bradbury story where astronauts reach another planet with alien life and the aliens don’t give a shit about them because Jesus happens to have just arrived as well and the astronauts are boring compared to that. The aliens treat him excellently rather than crucifying him. I think about what Ray was saying about us with that story a lot.

      • Doctor xNo@r.nfEnglish
        18·
        11 months ago

        I can’t say I know this story, but I do have a comic somewhere where aliens meet a priest who asks if Jesus visited them and they reply Jesus still often does many times cause he was praised and welcomed by them. The priest then says: “Still visits often? We’re still waiting for his first return”, to which the Alien asks: “Why, what did you do to him?” 😅

    • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      Do you not mean, Doctor Who was Jesus.

      Explains him coming back after 3 days (probably forgot the screwdriver in Jerusalem), and the floating up to heaven, and the money changers, and the wine…

      • Doctor xNo@r.nfEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        There is no ‘was’ in timetravel. 😜😂

        Anyway, ALONS-Y! 😁

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    12·
    11 months ago

    “The Star Wars Holiday Special” has been rightfully anointed with certified “so bad it’s good” status by forgiving fans

    There’s parts that are kinda good, like the Boba Fett animated part. But my god are parts of it just awful. Doesn’t mean I’m not gonna watch my pirated copy, recorded on a primitive VCR complete with local commercials.

  • ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    I think that entire documentary could be summarized as “Drugs. Lots of drugs. Lots of drugs in lots of varieties.”

  • DannyMac@lemmy.worldOP
    61·
    11 months ago

    This is so aggravating, there are 5 comments in this thread and none of them are visible to me. 😫 Why?

    Update: Thanks to /c/support, I now know that one must also have english selected, as well as, undetermined in your profile settings. I see everything now!

    • snooggums@kbin.social
      2·
      11 months ago

      The odds of all top level commenters being on your blocklist is low since there are multiple top level commenters, it has happened to me when all replies were to a single top level commenter on my block list.

      • DannyMac@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        c/support helped me out. Turns out that I only had “undetermined” selected for my language in my profile settings when I should have also selected “english.”