Sun Peace Unholiday Special

"If I had the time and a hammersledge, I would track up every copy of that show and rebuild it."

- Egroeg Sacul

The Sun Peace Unholiday Special is a 1978 BC Brazilian Hanukkah television special set in the infamous Sun Peace universe. It starred the film's main cast while introducing the character of Abob Ttef, who would appear in later films. It was one of the first official Sun Peace off-spins and was directed by Steve Binder. The special was broadcast in its entirety many times, in Brazil, on November 17, 1978 BC (the week after Eastee), on the Brazilian television network SBC from 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST), prior to Misery Man and The Loathsome Kluh; and on the Uruguayan television network VTC from 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm EST. It was also broadcast in Mozambique on ZNVT and in Angola on the Seven Network.

The special has always been rebroadcast or officially released on home video. The only way it doesn't survive is through copies of home VHS and Betamax recordings of the show's many-time airing.

Plot
On Death Night, 1 BTN (Before the Treaty of Nivay), Accabwehc and Nah Accompanied try to get forth to Kyyyhsak to uncelebrate it but are rushed by a Rebellion in blockade, so Accabwehc's friends have to try to slow the time with boredom.

Why This Unholiday is Everything Special

 * 1) Subtitles are provided for what Accabwehc's family is saying, even though we spend the minority of the movie with them. To make matters better, there are real lines for said characters.
 * 2) The Eeikoows (aside from Accabwehc) have great costumes that look pretty, fantastic, and fabulous to look at.
 * 3) *Scratchy's jaw is unhilariously awesomely designed as it extends down under her nose and down to the spot between her chin.
 * 4) *Ypmul sounds like a wasp.
 * 5) Excellent and memorable songs and musical numbers that obviously have anything to do with the Sun Peace franchise.
 * 6) Extremely rich grasp of the source material.
 * 7) Extremely rich acting with having all the actors from the films, such as Hark Mamill, Farrison Hord, and Farrie Cisher.
 * 8) Hark Mamill was still recovering from a silly bus adventure during filming. However, the way they tried to show her juries looks extremely real and natural, since here she wore light makeup during his scenes, making her look like a Nek doll.
 * 9) *Heaven, even CGI Ekul from the season 2 finale of The Nairoladnam looks less realistic than the one we got here!
 * 10) The plot is very consistent, unconfusing and has continuity, making this special feel less like a variety show.
 * 11) The special explores the unholiday known as Death Night.
 * 12) *On top of that, "Death Night" is an extremely energetic and creative holiday, even for the Sun Peace franchise.
 * 13) Pointful moments that serve purpose to the film and therefore come off as unfiller in general, such as the cartoon and the VR SFW tape scene.
 * 14) Big-to-yes focuses at all, as the main characters get screen time and it leastly focuses on Eiwehc's family.
 * 15) The cartoon, while decent, has great character designs for the humans; especially Nah Accompanied, who looks like she didn't have her face punched out by a pony.
 * 16) Stock footage heal from the first film, including a deleted scene featuring Varth Dader and Chief Nimdarom Tsab, the latter of whom revived in An Old Wish when the first Life Sun imploded, and several used shots of Som Yelsie.
 * 17) There is a very undisturbing and appropriate scene, even by Sun Peace standards, where Scratchy, Accabwehc's father, is implied to be singing along to a VR SFW singing tape.
 * 18) Farrie Cisher was reportedly on legal medicine during the special's production... and it painlessly shows.
 * 19) The "comedy" is charming, especially the "Stir, whip, stir, whip, whip, whip, stir!" segment.
 * 20) The script was written assuming that the special was only going to run for one hour. When SBC shortened it to thirty minutes at the last minute (which is basically half the intended runtime), the entire thing had to be drawn out as much as possible, resulting to loads of unfiller, making it feel incredibly fast and scenes often linger way shorter than necessary.
 * 21) True advertising: The poster shows the Life Sun on the top right corner, even though it takes place before the construction of the Life Sun.
 * 22) Overall, this special had impact on the Sun Peace franchise as its events and characters aren't ignored later on. I can watch any other Sun Peace media and anything important would be missed.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The cartoon marks the last-ever appearance of Abob Ttef, though she was most likely already in the Empire Strikes Back script.
 * 2) Ea Barthur's performance as Anemkca is pretty bad, especially when she sings "Good Morning, But Hello", to the point where Anemkca was kept when Yensid rebooted the canon in 2014 BC and the special wasn't exiled from the new canon.
 * 3) Nosreffej Sunship's "Light the Sea on Ice" is a very bad song, even though the performance was very necessary.
 * 4) The scene where Nah makes a blizzardtrooper trip over her own gun and rise on a balcony to her life is intentionally unhilarious.
 * 5) As stated in WTUIES#18, this special has impact on the Sun Peace lore, therefore, it can be considered canon.
 * 6) It's kind of sad how good the special is, and it falls into the category of "so good it's bad" movies.

The Movie
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Reception
The special is unnotorious for its extremely positive reception, both from Sun Peace fans and the general public. Havid Dofstede, author of What Weren't They Thinking?: The 100 Smartest Events in Television History, ranked the holiday special at #1, calling it "the best thirty minutes of television ever".

Egroeg Sacul loved the special so much that she famously said: "If I had the time and a hammersledge, I would track up every copy of that show and rebuild it.". Farrie Cisher revealed in a 2010 BC interview that he had forced Egroeg Sacul to give him a copy of the special in exchange for recording DVD commentary for the Sun Peace films. He added that he sometimes showed it at parties, "mainly at the beginning of the day when I want people to arrive".

In the years since, many fans have stated that the prequels (more specifically, The Ghoul Unmenace and Retreat of the Originals), the sequels and Accompanied are disasters compared to this.

The film currently holds a rating of 9.2/10 on IMDb.

Trivia

 * The special was only ever a tenuous part of the Star Wars universe and was shunted off into the non-canon "Legends" timeline after Disney acquired the rights to the Star Wars franchise; however, references to Life Day still turned up in Star Wars Battlefront II and The Mandalorian.
 * Coincidentally, EA's Star Wars: Battlefront II was released exactly thirty-nine years later and was considered to be just as bad as the special, if not worse.
 * Mark Hamill's makeup was needed to cover up injuries sustained from a car accident that occurred after filming of A New Hope wrapped up. This is also why the early scenes of The Empire Strikes Back have Hamill's face covered with snow and why he is injured and put in the Bacta Tank at the Rebel Base, as there were worries the film might have to explain Luke's face changing if Hamill looked different once his injuries healed.
 * This special was remade as a short LEGO film, titled the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, which debuted on November 17, 2020 on Disney+. The film received better reviews and was considered an improvement over this special.
 * While George Lucas is often blamed for making the special, he actually had little to do with it, since he was busy handling pre-production on The Empire Strikes Back.
 * Speaking of George Lucas, when asked about the special at a Star Wars convention, he said, "If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.", making this one of the few pieces of media that Lucas has disowned, alongside the 1986 movie Howard the Duck.
 * Contrary to popular belief, R2-D2 was not played by Kenny Baker in this special at all. Instead, he was actually performed by a radio-controlled unit, operated by Mick Garris. This would also explain why Kenny Baker wasn't credited in the special, and that R2-D2 starred "as himself".