Well, there ya go. Anyone surprised that Luke and Leia were revealed to be brother and sister in Return of the Jedi obviously missed this.

this sort brings the whole Donny and Marie/ luke and leia incet thing to another level. I can hear red foxx in the back ground yelling, i'm coming elizabeth!

oh god why???
must
find beer. make memory go away...

That was horribly awesome! With Paul fucking Lynde no less and Tony the Tiger voicing Vader. As bad as that was, it was still better than the Holliday special..

I think Awesome might want to look into a paternity test. There's a good chance Awful had been fooling around with the milkman, Excruciating.

Damn it, EO! STOP WINNING!! There won't be any internetz left for the rest of us!

I have never before seen anything as awesome. You are to be worshipped for providing this link. Paul Lynde as Tarkin, Thurl "Tony the Tiger/Mr. Grinch" Ravenscroft as the voice of Vader. It just gets better and better.

Ah, Tony the Tiger...I was trying to place the voice. The horror of seeing Kris do that...words fail me. Paul Lynde was the only thing that wasn't completely horrible about that...and yet I couldn't stop watching.

Marie can play with my lightsaber any time she wants.

Every second I watched I thought "Yep - that's as bad as it can get" and then the next second it proved me wrong.

Seriously - why do you do this to us? Is it just a "spread the pain around" thing?

Endroren — I'm pretty sure this video is the nerd version of The Ring. If I didn't make at least one of you watch it I'd die within the week.

somebody help me... I can't un-see this now!

This is just why the Old Man Lucus has such a death grip of a hold on his copyrights!!!

Hollywood hated STAR WARS when it came out, but they new it was making bookuu money!!! So they used their creative liesence where ever possible to put on this GAWD AFFUL RENDITION of the most precious property of NerdDom at that time!

THIS PROVES JUST HOW & LIVE ACTION VARIETY SHOW WHENT OUT OF STYLE, AS DONNY & MARI NEW THEM!! AND I'M SO GLAD IT DID!!!

OR WE'D HAVE THE SAME TYPE OF CORNY CRAP ON TV NOW!

female storm troopers? you can see the look of pain and embarrassment on C3P0's face.

"fly me to the stars..."

Fuck.

Marie as Leia? Sooooo many dormant adolescent fantasies have come back to life - IN MY PANTS!

This clearly proves that George Lucas was the luckiest bastard alive with timing and other people saving his ass.

We are all lucky that this wasn't Star Wars.

The 70's: You pushed to hard.

It was still better than Episode 1.

Well, I made it to 2:58.

holy shit, that is unbearable. as continuously shockingly bad as that is, it's a treasured viewing experience just because you can't get suck like that now days.

Karl is right.

Which is very, very sad.

I SAW THIS ON TV WHEN I WAS A KID... THE FIRST TIME IT AIRED...

Why couldn't my little brain put 1+1 together? I should have seen ep. 1 coming from 20 years away.

Oh man... Proof positive that human being were slightly retarded in the 70s...

Okay, am I the only one that thinks Marie was kinda hot?

I need eye bleach! Ear and brain bleach mightn't be so bad, either. This was terrible. I was going to go to bed directly after watching but I am too afraid. And I didn't even get through the whole thing!

Actually, Paul Lynde and the Stormtrooper Girls kept me watching. Lynde for the funny, the Girls for the yummy.

I refuse to believe this "episode" wasn't directed by John Waters. Or that Kris Kristofferson wasn't incredibly "high" when he agreed to do this. TR- get over the Transformers franchise posts and give us more crazy shit like this. That said, I've been drinking for a while before seeing this.

That skit made Jesus cry.

i would totally tap Marie.

First... I would do horrible horrible things to Marie

Secondly... TR just popped the cork of a bottle of suck so concentrated that it just might tear a hole in the fabric of time.

Seriously. This video caused me physical pain, but I am proud to have watched the whole thing.

Wow, I had seen this when it first aired and because I was so young when it first aired, I thought it was always a nightmare. Until now.

You know what's awful and not at all awesome? Posting this shit and not giving props to Geek Orthodox who actually hunted it down and blogged about it before you:

http://geek-orthodox.blogspot.com/2009/06/donnie-marie-star-wars-spectacular.html

...and considering he caught you, I'd say you owe him one:

http://geek-orthodox.blogspot.com/2009/06/you-know-i-dont-usually-use-profanity.html

Marie Osmond dressed as Princess Leia? All else is forgiven.

I have the vaguest childhood memory of seeing this as a small child with an insatiable appetite for anything Star Wars related. It was part of a Donnie and Marie Salute to Star Wars Special, or some such thing, though this may have been the only Star Wars related part of it. I remember digging the Stormtrooper's song. Seeing it now, this thing makes the Star Wars Holiday Special look like high art. Although I still like d it better than the prequels.

This is the nightmare that you have after an evening of screening the original Trilogy accompanied by a gallon of Rocky Road and a bottle of Vodka.

Space Travel as envisioned by Mormons.

More proof that the 70s were just as wonderful as I remember :P
OK, so maybe some timecapsules are best left buried. I can't believe I sat through the whole thing ...thinking "it can't possibly get any worse... oh wait... it CAN!"
My only regret is that Paul Lynde's toupee stayed on, though for a moment there I had my doubts. :)
I need to go lie down. I'm feeling this strange maliaise coming on ...I think it's 70s flashbacks... gaslines.. WIN buttons... flare-legged doubleknit leisure suits... AMC Matadors.... ..grnnnh.. (thud)

Ramone — Actually, I got it from the Star Wars twitter, who got it from ThinkGeek, who credited... no one at all actually. All I saw was the SW twitter anyways, so I actually screwed them (I never know how to attribute tweets, since not all reader use or give a shit about Twitter, and it's not like StarWars.com is hurting for readers). I hadn't heard of Geek Orthodox before your comment. If he's the one who dug this gem up for the internet, he certainly deserves praise.

"I vow by the power of my Force"?

If only they'd put Marie in the Leia bikini...

I normally attribute Twitter by linking to the "page" of whomever is tweeting. The ThinkGeek feed, f'rinstance, is: http://twitter.com/thinkgeek

Rob, that makes sense. Sorry to rip you a new one--that was a little harsh of me! Saw what you wrote on the G.O. site--bonus points for being a stand up guy.

Cheers!
Ramone

Ramone — No worries at all. It was an awesome find. Like I said on his site, I look forward to legitimately stealing his articles and crediting him for them in the future.

I think that video just stole my soul. God knows how I managed to sit through the whole thing.

Marie DID look hot as Princess Lea

I played this entire clip over the radio this past Saturday, and then promptly apologized when it was over. Then I put on a song from Bruce Willis' "The Return of Bruno".

Wow, unbelievable....I'm stunned. Time to go home and put on the Stormtrooper suit and dance around. Thanks so much for posting that clip! Now I can die.