SHATNER SUNDAY: HOW TO HANDLE A WOMAN

Good lord, the '70s were a rough decade for The Shat. Sometimes it seems like the guy spent every waking minute between the cancellation of the original Star Trek and the start of production for Star Trek: The Motion Picture racing to different studios around Burbank and filming clips that would embarrass the hell out of him a few decades later. Our Masterpiece of Awkward for today is this clip from the Dinah Shore Show in which Shatner talk-sings his way through How to Handle a Woman (from Camelot) while wearing a shirt that seems like it's probably violating some sort of EPA laws. Seriously, that thing's toxic.

I was insisting that Shatner was an underrated actor even before he started winning Emmys and stuff, but his acting in this clip really is just agonizing. I've never seen Shatner seem more like a bad Shatner impersonator.




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