Star Wars Holiday Special: 25 WTF Moments

4. Of Course, There's A Wilhelm Scream

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Would it be a Star Wars production without the inclusion of the now-grating Wilhelm scream? Of course not.

Chewie and Han finally make it back to the homestead, and after Chewie and Lumpy are cornered by a Stormtrooper, Han sneaks up on him, and in their jostling to grab the blaster, the Stormtrooper trips over a railing to his apparent death.

Cue the world's least subtle Wilhelm scream of all time, only adding to the hilarious awfulness of this goofy exchange. While at the time of this airing the scream was still a relatively niche joke shared between sound editors, but today, it's like that 40-year-old gag your grandpa won't stop trotting out every time you visit him.

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