Confession #1: Up until roughly 1999 I was a card carrying member of the Star Wars cult. I wasn't so bad that I would dress up as my favorite characters, but I did once go as far as driving eight hours out of my way just to see the Star Wars: The Magic of the Myth exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. and I did wait in line for at least four hours when they rereleased the films on the big screen (Note: I did not camp out). My love for that franchise has waned greatly over the past decade, but it still holds a special place in my heart, so when I saw that Madison's Matt Sloan, part of the Blame Society Productions team that brought the Internet the viral sensation Chad Vader, was going to be the voice of Darth Vader on Deal Or No Deal I thought it would be worth casually checking out. As you may or may not know, in Blame Society's parody Chad Vader is Darth Vader's younger brother who is day manager at Empire Market.

Confession #2: For me, Deal or No Deal is like a car crash. If I'm flipping through the channels and see the Howie Mandel hosted program during my journey I need to stop and look. Always. I can not resist. The worst part about this is I don't own a television so this always happens when I am watching television outside of my home and typically results in me trying to convince my host that the program is actually "quality programming and if you give it a minute you'll love it." I know this is a lie and the program is simply fluff that seeks to manipulate our base desires, but I need to justify my lack of will.

So, thanks to Matt Sloan, I just visited NBC to watch the preview of tonight's Star Wars episode and see if it had any audio of him doing Darth Vader. I thought I would pop over, check out the video, and go, "hmmm...neat." The result, my emotions betrayed me and giddiness ruled.

Seriously, my adrenal glands embarrassingly sent a surge into my system like a screaming school girl upon seeing the Beatles for the first time: Chewbacca! R2! Deal or No Deal models in Princess Leia slave girl bikinis! Stormtroopers! Wait, rewind that, Deal or No Deal models in Princess Leia slave girl bikinis!

Sigh. I'm so ashamed. The preview is below with Sloan's dead on impersonation and free advertising for NBC. (The video may default to the Princess Leia snippet).