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Rue McClanahan in… The Wickedest Witch!

She's only gonna sit in an inch of water? Got a good one for you tonight. In 1989, Rue McClanahan fulfilled the naughtiest clause in her Golden Girls contract by starring in NBC's The Wickedest Witch, a very rare Halloween special that only aired once, maybe twice. It's thirty minutes of Blanche dressed as a bitch witch hag, fiddling around with little reptilian Muppets as she quests to take over the universe. The silly but inoffensive special is a must for Rue fans, and since you've got no chance of seeing the thing if you haven't already, the review includes several video clips. Enjoy.

Posted by Matt on 09/26/2005. E-mail me!

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I remember watching this. I have no idea why but I do. Great review!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Weredog @ 09/26/2005 8:08 PM

baaaaaaaaaahahahahahah! I used to have that on tape once hahaha. i remember it cuz it would be RIGHT after Garfield’s Halloween Special and i’d turn it off cause it was boring haha.

Chestnuts roasted by Willem @ 09/26/2005 8:09 PM

Geez, now I wish I wasn’t devoted to ABC back in the day. This sounds like fun, if unmemorable, Halloween entertainment.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 09/26/2005 8:19 PM

best show ever

Chestnuts roasted by the80sruled @ 09/26/2005 8:29 PM

Anyone else questioning whether or not Schtick is related to Jambi in any way?

Chestnuts roasted by WonKa @ 09/26/2005 8:45 PM

Wow, those clips were pretty good quality, considering. I wonder if this still sits in NBC’s vaults, locked up Animaniacs-style?

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 09/26/2005 8:49 PM

I remember this, barely, it’s in the fuzzy part of my memory. The pic’s n the review remind me of the Fraggle Rock halloween special from the 80′s.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 09/26/2005 9:14 PM

Good ‘ol Rue.

You know, she played the biology teacher in Starship Troopers, one of my all-time favorite movies.

God, I’ve seen it so many times… lol

Chestnuts roasted by Chilipeppers @ 09/26/2005 9:18 PM

I have to admit, when I saw the article on the front page, I kinda hoped the article was about a previously unheralded sequel to "The Worst Witch." But then I felt terrible, because wishing for a sequel to such a bad, awful movie is against all common decency and sense. Much like "The Worst Witch."

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 09/26/2005 9:25 PM

Seeing that little Grievel get turned to stone made me cry. Why couldn’t you just let this special be forgotten by humanity? Poor little Grievel. Poor poor little Grievel.:(

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 09/26/2005 9:31 PM

Wowee. That looks like one shitty movie, but prob. better than The Hogan Family by far!!

I too am a big Rue mark, so this is a great article!! As cool, if not more so, than Bea doing the Urkel!!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 09/26/2005 9:56 PM

Cool. Being three years old when that came out there’s no way I’d remember it even if I did watch it. But i’m glad that I now know about it. Thanks! And that kid looked like a jack-ass in the last clip. Hahaha, I can’t stop the laughter… Good Stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 09/26/2005 10:02 PM

I wish they would’ve found a way to insert this into Golden Girls continuity.

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 09/26/2005 10:08 PM

I can’t believe with my love of muppets and Golden Girls and holiday specials in general during the late 80s, I didn’t see this one… Frig!
Musn’t have been carried by the US station the local cable provider carried.
I do remember seeing that stupid one with Judd Hirsh far too many times.

Chestnuts roasted by AlphaCentaurian @ 09/26/2005 10:09 PM

OK, it wasn’t that stupid, but seeing something 12 times in one season dulls things

Chestnuts roasted by AlphaCentaurian @ 09/26/2005 10:10 PM

Gotta chime in and say, this has been a great countdown so far. I can’t believe how much great stuff has been tackled, and it’s not even October.

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 09/26/2005 10:19 PM

man…rue looks totally hot with her hair down like that…

Chestnuts roasted by gerv @ 09/26/2005 10:20 PM

I’m waiting for the day to arrive when that whole trend of making real-world references in fantasy movies will be funny again. "Create and destroy matter… buy anything wholesale." What? No.

Was it just me, or did Rue’s underground lair look like a warped version of Beast’s castle in the Disney movie?

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/26/2005 10:37 PM

Rue tried so hard with the "wholesale" line, too. She really wanted to make it work.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/26/2005 10:38 PM

I would have prefered a Hogan Family Halloween Special where good old Val comes back from the dead to slaughter her annoying family…including Miss Pool!

Chestnuts roasted by Kevin @ 09/26/2005 11:08 PM

Matt, you never cease to amaze me. You are able to reconstruct every piece of my holiday memories. Growing up, my family was big into recording every holiday special that ever aired, and watching them year after year. This one was in heavy Halloween rotation. I had forgotten it even existed until I clicked onto X-E tonight.

Amazing job at bringing everyone back to a time when holidays made us even more giddy than they do now (if that’s possible)!

Incidentally, I’d give up a testicle for one of those wishing rocks

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Boligarky @ 09/26/2005 11:08 PM

Oh man poor Rue. This thing sounds terrible.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/26/2005 11:18 PM

Since this subject has *however tenuous) ties to the word Muppet, I thought I would share that I just discovered that they’re making a new Fraggle Rock movie to be released in 2006.

Or perhaps everyone already knew this, and I’m a Johnny Come Lately.

But I refuse to be one of those.

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 09/27/2005 12:21 PM

FRAGGLE ROCK MOVIE!!! OMFG!!

Seriously, I didn’t know that, and it is cool. That is one cool ass show, I remember when we first got cable, and watching it on HBO was one of the first shows my family got into! I also remember the little cars from Happy Meals with the Fraggle Rock characters.

I might be jaded, but Skinemax just doesn’t do it for me anymore.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 09/27/2005 12:26 PM

Ima kinda ghosted :0 arr

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 09/27/2005 12:29 PM

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