# Alanis Morrisette and Darth Vader (Does anyone else remember this?)

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**Created:** [February 20, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alanis-morrisette-and-darth-vader-does-anyone-else-remember-this/1027846 "2026-02-20T12:59:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alanis-morrisette-and-darth-vader-does-anyone-else-remember-this/1027846/1 "2026-02-20T12:59:17Z")

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Something I saw today gave me a flash of memory of a video I remember seeing on the internet in 90s or early 2000s. It was an animated video for the song Hands Clean by Alanis Morrissette done in stop motion with Star Wars figures and the story was Darth Vader and Princess Leia were high school students in two different cliques who liked each other but knew they couldn’t be together. It was a little bit like a Robot Chicken sketch but years before that show and on the Internet and not TV.

I thought maybe it was from the old humor web site The Brunching Shuttlecocks but that site is gone and doesn’t have a real archive to check. Does anyone else remember this?

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**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alanis-morrisette-and-darth-vader-does-anyone-else-remember-this/1027846/2 "2026-02-20T13:29:08Z")

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[This](https://youtu.be/kI1cn04uRNM)?

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**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alanis-morrisette-and-darth-vader-does-anyone-else-remember-this/1027846/3 "2026-02-20T13:35:56Z")

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More stop than motion

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**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alanis-morrisette-and-darth-vader-does-anyone-else-remember-this/1027846/4 "2026-02-20T13:49:51Z")

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For completeness, [the earliest wayback link](https://web.archive.org/web/20020826200327/http://www.brunching.com/leiaandvader.html).

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**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alanis-morrisette-and-darth-vader-does-anyone-else-remember-this/1027846/5 "2026-02-20T14:07:07Z")

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You guys are great. My brain added a bunch of details that weren’t there but I was right about it being from the Brunching Shuttlecocks.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alanis-morrisette-and-darth-vader-does-anyone-else-remember-this/1027846/6 "2026-02-20T15:46:03Z")

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Different canteen, no band:

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Sv5iEK-IEzw/hqdefault.jpg "Suzy Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw)