The Worst Show on Earth

If you think Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's marketing avalanche is bad, you clearly weren't around in 1978 when CBS debuted the Star Wars Holiday Special, never to air it again. Featuring almost all of the original movie's cast -- as well as The Carol Burnett Show's Harvey Korman -- our intrepid media masochists learn if it deserves its infamous reputation! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

With special guest Cary Kingdom! The holidays are here, and that means TV specials! For today's pod, we're watching The Hallmark Channel's "A Carol Christmas" starring Tori Spelling. It's like Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", only with Gary Coleman and William Shatner. And also REALLY capitalistic. Follow Cary on Twitter at https://twitter.com/carykingdom --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

If a cannibal is mentioned, but never seen and never eats anyone, do they still scream when the simulation they live in is halted? This is one of the many questions Netflix's The I-Land never answers! Join us as we discuss the show's final two episodes ("The Great Globe Itself" and "The Dark Backward"), and compare it to other crap we've endured!

Netflix has a new series that is purported to be the worst they've ever made... so perfect for our purposes! Dig into the first two episodes of "The I-Land" on this edition of The Worst Show on Earth! We also have a new email address for the show! Drop us a line at worstshowonearth[at]gmail.com!

This one broke us a little. Could it be that 1998's "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfieffer" starring Chi McBride has unseated Cop Rock for being the Absolute Worst? Find out if this Civil War-set "comedy" has what it takes to be The Worst Show on Earth! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hang onto your hats! In a very special episode, we interview real live kids to see what they think of Sid and Marty Kroft's Lidsville -- a show older than their parents! And then those parents ALSO SPEAK!

BUT WAIT! We have a new challenger! Game programmer and friend of the pod Sean Stathatos is our special guest as we trudge through the remaining three episodes of Game Over. Anger abounds as the show sinks to even lower depths and strays farther and farther from its premise! You can watch a trailer for Towers, the game Sean's working on, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpW-q23nzFY --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Time to crack open a fresh new hell -- I mean series! -- for our four compatriots! Will the video game-themed Game Over featuring Patrick Warburton, Lucy Liu, Rachel Dracht and Artie Lange be a contender for The Absolute Worst?