At the same time, it didn’t get the same direct death strike as the rest of the EU, and occasionally even gets a lifeline tossed to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special
"Despite its absence from the relevant press releases, this was widely interpreted as applying to The Star Wars Holiday Special as well. This was partially negated in a 2015 interview with J. J. Abrams."

Also, I assume most of us here aren’t 100% happy with George Lucas, I for one want this to stay canon just to continue to piss him off. Anyway, let’s just agree to keep the Holiday Special in our hearts year round however we choose (with Rifftrax, I think it is pretty classic now), and not muck up Frink’s thread any more.

Frink, thanks for those couple of answers, both make more sense now.