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December 01, 2005

Stewie Does William Shatner's Rocket Man

Yeah, you've seen it. I'm linking it so I'll always know where it is.

Question: How many of you guys saw Shatner do Rocket Man, when it aired originally? I did.

Anyone remember what that was on? (I do. It's a trivia question.)

The Original: Wicked awesome.

Tried... to find Chris Elliot's terrific spoof of this, way back from a 1992 episode of the David Letterman show. Alas, there are numerous references, but no video.

posted by Ace at 03:37 PM

Comments

Wasn't it some kind of sci-fi award show?

Posted by: Bohemian on December 1, 2005 03:47 PM

yeahp. It was a silly made-up sci-fi award show in 1978 which existed solely to give awards to Star Wars (and cash in on the phenomenon with some cheesy TV).

Posted by: ace on December 1, 2005 03:55 PM

Was it the Star Wars Christmas Special?

Posted by: Bart on December 1, 2005 04:00 PM

Oh boy.

I always thought the words were:

Rocket Man, burning up the streets of heaven--oh.

Posted by: Lipstick on December 1, 2005 04:06 PM

Correction:
Star Wars Holiday Special

Does anyone remember this?
I just did a search on IMDB.
SWHS aired on CBS in 1978

The story takes place sometime after Episode IV and finds Chewbacca's family waiting for him to come home for something called Life Day (I dunno, maybe it's a day where they worship board games). The wookies are nothing short of nauseating. Mama bear (Chewie's wife) gushes over a picture of her beloved and is forever scolding Chewie's son Lumpy.

Posted by: Bart on December 1, 2005 04:07 PM

I kinda remember it. It was awful. It's so bad that Lucasfilm has pretty much destroyed all the known copies and the only way you can see it is by buying a bad nth generation copy from someone on eBay who recorded it at the time.

Posted by: ace on December 1, 2005 04:20 PM

Lipstick,

Yeah, I didn't know a lot of the words either, it turns out. I always thought he was saying "I'm not the kind of man they think I am at all.."

Posted by: ace on December 1, 2005 04:21 PM

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Posted by: spurwing plover on December 1, 2005 04:23 PM

I always thought he was saying "I'm not the kind of man they think I am at all.."

Oh, that's not correct either? Sheesh.

Posted by: Lipstick on December 1, 2005 04:27 PM

"If I had time and a hammer, I would track down every bootleg copy and smash it..."

-George Lucas

Now I think I'll buy one from ebay.

Posted by: Bart on December 1, 2005 04:31 PM

Ace,

OMFG!

A couple of weks ago I saw the Stewie-bit-thingy and thought it was hilarious...

but.I.had.no.fucking.idea...

from whence it came.

And now I do.

That was the funniest thing I have ever seen.

Really.

Really, really.

Thanks.

And I mean that most sincerely.

(BTW, even the Bernie Taupin intro was fucking-HI-larious!)

Posted by: MeTooThen on December 1, 2005 06:07 PM

Damn you.

I hold you personally responsible for my recent fascination with all things Stewie.

And...speaking of animation...

Did anyone see the South Park episode where Satan was trying to decide between staying with his gay-lover, Chris, or getting back together with Saddam Hussein?

Posted by: jmflynny on December 1, 2005 07:20 PM

Actually I DL'd a copy of the Star Wars holiday special. VQ is, of course, pretty bad, but at least it was free...

Posted by: zetetic on December 1, 2005 08:03 PM

So he's a rocket man.

I'm a warrior! Hear me, Shatner?

W-a-r-r-i-o-r.

Three words for you, James T.: Texas Cage Match.

Two more words for you, flyboy: Pay-per View.

In the Omni. The Warrior versus the Rocketman.

Posted by: Marguerite Perrin on December 1, 2005 08:44 PM

so that's why I was late to my chemistry class the next day

Posted by: Dave in Texas on December 1, 2005 08:54 PM

Zetetic, I bought a copy off ebay for $6.

Bea Arthur is in it.
Music by Jefferson Starship.

Bea Fecking Arthur!

Posted by: Bart on December 1, 2005 09:01 PM

The scene with Art Carney is a real tearjerker.

Posted by: zetetic on December 1, 2005 09:09 PM

Okay, don't give it away.

Posted by: Bart on December 1, 2005 09:12 PM

Did anyone see his interview on Talk Soup about 5 years ago? It was damn hilarious....

Posted by: gibson. on December 1, 2005 09:40 PM

Jefferson Fucking Starship!

George Lucas needs to be beat to death with Dick Cheney's penis.

Posted by: Don Carne on December 1, 2005 10:47 PM

Crap. I went through 2 years of electro-shock therapy to remove that memory from my brain, and now you bring it back in?! Damn you! Damn you to Hell!

Posted by: physics geek on December 1, 2005 11:23 PM

Sorry guys, but nothing tops Bill doing Lucy in the Sky. Also, if you can find the Leonard Nimoy album, check out The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.

Posted by: CraigC on December 2, 2005 12:00 AM

Hey Ace,

I thought that I was the only living soul to see that.
It was on WGN and was the 29th? Science Fiction and Fantsy Awards show, commonly know as the Hugos.

Shatner must have been on something that night. However I thought the Futurama had the best take off on that when Zeth Branigan mounted a stool and told the audience the he was know as "The Velvet Fog", a name I now find liked (in my mind) with Shatner.

The touching moment of the night was the lifetime achivement award for Forrest J. Ackerman. The world's oldest fanboy.

Posted by: Sindarian on December 2, 2005 01:02 PM

"nothing tops Bill doing Lucy in the Sky."

Not even Bill doing Mr. Tambourine Man?

Posted by: Knemon on December 2, 2005 06:01 PM

Hey, I saw Nimoy's 'Bilbo Baggins' live. Was it on "The Smothers Brothers"? (That part I don't remember.)

Posted by: MrJimm on December 27, 2005 08:46 PM

from the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=ALV6PF6tV_g

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