Worst performance ever! Really! EVER! This passed for entertainment in the '70s?
John Thompson 
I just HATE this number.
Shitty choreography
Shitty lip syncing
Didn't know the youngest Osmond was a lesbian.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 118 | May 16, 2021 9:26 PM |
Rosie O’Donnell looks fanTASTic!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 8, 2021 9:57 AM |
It didn't pass. The Osmond Family Show was a failed vestige of Donny & Marie and was canned after a couple of months.
Donny & Marie was an anomaly in that it was a successful variety show at a time when variety was dead: 1976. It was a hit because it gave horny Tiger Beat readers something to watch on Fridays at 8pm. When Donny got engaged, the ratings tanked, and by 1979, nobody wanted to watch that shit.
But yeah, damn, Jimmy Osmond was the dykiest dyke ever to actually have a penis. (Allegedly.)
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 8, 2021 9:58 AM |
R1 That was my first assumption, her in Grease, lol.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 8, 2021 10:26 AM |
Heaven Knows, a classic by Donna Summer and Brooklyn Dreams.
Who told that Osmond half boy/half lesbian he could prance all over the queen's music?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 8, 2021 10:44 AM |
I thought that was Melissa McCarthy in the thumbnail.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 8, 2021 10:49 AM |
R5, I came here to post the same thing!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 8, 2021 10:51 AM |
Even back in the day, we understood that Jimmy was not as talented as the older brothers and was just riding their coattails.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 8, 2021 12:04 PM |
He suffered a stroke a few years ago.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 8, 2021 12:17 PM |
I thought Marie was the only Osmond daughter.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 8, 2021 12:18 PM |
[quote]we understood that Jimmy was not as talented as the older brothers
And that's a low bar to begin with.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 8, 2021 12:35 PM |
I never liked that little queen.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 8, 2021 12:55 PM |
HE looks like he has a VAGINA
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 8, 2021 1:44 PM |
You bitches are downright cruel. Jimmy had way worse skits on 'The Donny & Marie' show. They'd try to shoehorn him in, and he stuck out like a fat, lesbian sore thumb. Here's a good example...he actually resembles the fat Osmond mother the most of all the kids.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 8, 2021 1:48 PM |
The two blondes are giving me major Landers SIsters energy!
Wonder what became of them.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 8, 2021 1:48 PM |
perky little number there took me back a ways. Wish we could still bop around like that these days. (No, I'm not going to an elder gay street dance in Palm Springs to do it!)
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 8, 2021 1:49 PM |
Ellen Degeneres would totally have him on as is.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 8, 2021 1:50 PM |
Worst performance ever?
OP obviously did not see Uta Hagen on Broadway in CHARLOTTE.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 8, 2021 1:58 PM |
I’m getting a special needs vibe
Very low production values. Looks like it was shot in a basement
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 8, 2021 2:05 PM |
He always comes off as if he’s channeling the kid who played the Artful Dodger in Oliver.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 8, 2021 2:14 PM |
[quote] It didn't pass. The Osmond Family Show was a failed vestige of Donny & Marie and was canned after a couple of months.
Strange that there is no entry for the Osmond Family Show on IMDB.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 8, 2021 2:22 PM |
I want to know what Satin is up to these days. They were good!
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 8, 2021 2:27 PM |
I think they were trying to push Jimmy as the successor to Donny's teen heartthrob crown. Of course they seemed to ignore that he couldn't sing, was odd looking, and came off as gayer than a basket of ribbons and kittens.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 8, 2021 2:33 PM |
And that's why the whole Osmonds enterprise went bankrupt shortly thereafter.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 8, 2021 2:33 PM |
The Osmond’s father mismanaged their money.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 8, 2021 2:40 PM |
[quote]He suffered a stroke a few years ago.
Probably after watching this clip.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 8, 2021 2:43 PM |
[quote] Donny & Marie was an anomaly
They were also an anomaly in the Osmond family. They got the best combination of their parents genes. They were the only 2 attractive Osmonds. Their siblings looked like the fun house mirror versions of Donny and Marie.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 8, 2021 2:46 PM |
They are the whitest family on planet Earth. Not one iota of soul or passion.
Jimmy would have carbface if he was on his deathbed with AIDS.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 8, 2021 2:49 PM |
God. The canned applause at the end.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 8, 2021 2:53 PM |
On some of those early 70's Osmond hits, whichever brother who sang lead (was it Jay Osmond? Not sure) tried SO HARD to mimic a black soul singer, but he had zero of what it took, and it's just painful to listen to. Just pathetic, off-key shrieking. It only worked because the songs were catchy and AM radio was so lo-fi, you couldn't really hear how bad it was. As annoying as little Donny was, at least he sang on key and wasn't trying to be Wilson Pickett.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 8, 2021 2:55 PM |
From February 2020 . . .
"Jimmy Osmond has made a miraculous recovery from his stroke.
His elder brother, Merrill Osmond says the star is 'getting better everyday' and is even painting and jogging again.
The singer, 56, suffered a stroke in December 2018 during a pantomime performance of Peter Pan in Birmingham, where he was playing the role of Captain Hook.
The Osmonds star began to feel unwell during his Thursday night performance, but 'pushed through' the show, his rep said.
As soon as the curtain dropped, the star was rushed to hospital, where he was diagnosed as having suffered a stroke.
A spokesman for Jimmy at the time, confirmed that he would not be returning to work on the production, which ran until late January.
"He is grateful for all the well wishes and will be taking time out in the new year" the statement read.
It was feared that the the much-loved star may not perform again."
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 8, 2021 3:09 PM |
I liked her better as Audrey Griswold in European Vacation.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | May 8, 2021 3:10 PM |
R18 that’s because all the other kids were the products of polygamous Mormon couplings. Only JIMMAAAAY was the offspring of first wife coupling.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 8, 2021 3:20 PM |
The Osmond bros patterned themselves after the Jacksons. There were no boy groups who sang and danced before that.
And not that many after, not til the late 80s.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | May 8, 2021 3:20 PM |
Previously, we only had Lawrence Welk so this is a definite improvement
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 8, 2021 3:38 PM |
They always seemed White adjacent to me (not to conjure THAT troll), and I remember they made a big deal about their DNA results a while back. Allegedly all northern and western European. I’m not buying it, though Miss Jimmy certainly looked Caucasoid.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | May 8, 2021 3:49 PM |
R41-They did/do all seem a bit ETHNIC
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 8, 2021 3:51 PM |
R41- ALL people from India are Caucasian too.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 8, 2021 3:55 PM |
Is Marie still a great big fat person?
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 8, 2021 3:59 PM |
Fuck you, OP, the late 70s were a Golden Age of Lesbian entertainment.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 45 | May 8, 2021 4:00 PM |
[quote] [R41]- ALL people from India are Caucasian too.
An absurd statement. Aryans invaded the north of India and intermixed with the darker Indus Valley people but even northern Indians aren’t Caucasians. And the people in the south are very dark. Indians are Asians, not Caucasians.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 8, 2021 4:01 PM |
[quote] It was feared that the the much-loved star may not perform again."
Feared by whom??
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 8, 2021 4:06 PM |
R46- WRONG
Their phenotype is CAUCASIAN.
Chinese people are Asian. Indian people are CAUCasian.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 8, 2021 4:06 PM |
This was yet another precocious child star who set my teeth on edge as a kid. Add Mason Reese and I was livid these no-talents had the fame and fortune that was rightfully mine! Who sang every one of Julie Andrews’ parts in “Sound of Music” on key with matching hand movements? ME.
What’s worse is that my mother decided she could replicate that poser’s haircut for me. I have two years worth of school photos with that bullshit on my head. My dad finally took me to the Veteran’s barbershop and got me a crewcut.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 8, 2021 4:51 PM |
hell, I THOUGHT THAT WAS MELISSA MCCARTHY AT FIRST! LOL!....
weird-a-rama all of it!...
did donnie at least end the show shirtless with a bowtie and black spray painted on rip away spandex pants?
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 8, 2021 5:34 PM |
He look like Blair's cousin on The Facts Of Life
Geri Jewell
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 8, 2021 5:50 PM |
The taller of the two girl dancers the young Laura Dern
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | May 8, 2021 6:02 PM |
[quote]It was feared that the the much-loved star may not perform again."
Feared or HOPED?
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 8, 2021 6:05 PM |
That clip makes Ross Matthews look and sound like The Marlboro Man.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | May 8, 2021 7:05 PM |
R18- What the HELL is one of those creatures from HR Pufnstuf doing dancin with that young LESBIAN.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 8, 2021 8:09 PM |
R36 I don’t know the production Peter Pan in Birmingham, do like the rhyme. So is it’s like Peter Pan taking place in a gritty, Northern industrial city instead of quaint London and the kids are street urchins in that version? Did he play Hook?
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 8, 2021 8:12 PM |
R18, rare footage of the only known drag queen Sleestak.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | May 8, 2021 8:44 PM |
This is the real reason why the disco sucks movement. I mean, not because of Jimmy per se but because of this type of horrible saturation of the music everywhere.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | May 8, 2021 8:46 PM |
OP I’m will to get behind your endorsement as long as we call all agree that this is the worst performance of the 1980s.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 59 | May 8, 2021 8:51 PM |
R54... hilarious! lol! good one!..
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | May 8, 2021 8:59 PM |
i'm actually dying of laughter watching this!...
did he even HAVE a penis? it literally looks like he has NO BULGE whatsoever!....like he has a cameltoe!
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | May 8, 2021 9:05 PM |
r56, I suspect it doesn't rhyme in Britain (as opposed to Alabama), where they say "Birming'm," not "Birming-ham."
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | May 8, 2021 10:10 PM |
I met one of the Osmond Brothers children (Alan I think) circa 1999 when he signed up at the West Hollywood tanning salon I worked at. When he gave his last name and with the set of teeth on him, I asked if he had a large family in Utah. He laughed and confirmed it.
Marie's make-up artist for decades was Kim Goodwin who was a big ole 'mo that made the most beautiful Marilyn Monroe dolls. Died a couple/few years ago from liver failure.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | May 9, 2021 1:43 AM |
Uh what
[quote] during a pantomime performance of Peter Pan in Birmingham
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | May 9, 2021 3:19 AM |
[quote] Geri Jewell
He's got her down perfectly those first few seconds he prances out on stage and bows to the audience.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | May 9, 2021 3:27 AM |
To be fair to Jimmy, he no longer looks like a teen lesbian.
He doesn't look good, exactly, but not much worse than any of the other Osmond men.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 9, 2021 3:31 AM |
I think after this thread we can all agree Dolf and Jack shit birthing babies has got to be the worst performance, scarring even.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 72 | May 9, 2021 3:50 AM |
[quote]Strange that there is no entry for the Osmond Family Show on IMDB.
Not worth the effort.
Donny & Marie morphed into the Osmond Family Show for the last 13 episodes or so of the 1978-79 season. It moved from Friday at 8pm to Sunday at 7pm, adding 100% more production numbers with Jimmy Osmond.
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | May 9, 2021 6:12 AM |
As awful as that performance is I can't help coming back to this thread to watch it.
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | May 9, 2021 4:41 PM |
[quote]a pantomime performance of Peter Pan in Birmingham
Oh dear god.
| by Anonymous | reply 75 | May 10, 2021 1:34 AM |
The blonde women are like two halves that, once united, would amount to Laura Dern.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 10, 2021 4:18 AM |
Who the fuck were Satin?
Why were they allowed to dance so close to Jimmy?
Or were only the women in Mormonism sexually policed?
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 10, 2021 4:18 AM |
As a gayling I had a crush on Donny. He’s not aging too badly as I recall.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 10, 2021 2:40 PM |
This is probably the worst thing I've ever seen. I love it.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | May 10, 2021 2:54 PM |
That head toss he did. Hahaha!
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 10, 2021 2:57 PM |
OP- What have you done to me?
I keep watching your video OVER and OVER.
I'm addicted to this CARB face Lesbian strutting his/her stuff.
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 10, 2021 3:04 PM |
She definitely looks like she was squeezed out of Wane Newton's pre-op vagina!
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | May 10, 2021 4:02 PM |
Almost looks like they put some cocaine in his drink. I’M DANCING AND SINGING!!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | May 10, 2021 4:51 PM |
Like Starsky & Hutch the Osmonds were inexplicably more popular in the UK than at home. Makes sense that little Jimmy was in a pantomime there when he had his unfortunate stroke.
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | May 11, 2021 1:05 PM |
Donny and Merrill seem so proud of Jimmy in that introduction.
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | May 11, 2021 3:12 PM |
R88 Because he was spending too much time with Chastity Bono and Kristy McNichol, his brothers worried about their influence on him and worried about him becoming a lesbian. Jimmy was quickly introduced to Satin. Merrill told him "These are the type of girls you need to be hanging around, little brother. Not those dykes."
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | May 11, 2021 3:45 PM |
WHET Satin? Severely underrated for their amazing cultural contribution.
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | May 11, 2021 4:20 PM |
R90, they were confused with Satan and were swept back to hell during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants.
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | May 11, 2021 5:23 PM |
Somewhere in Siberia Navalny is strapped in an Easy Boy chair with this video playing endlessly. Every hour the Jailers ask him if he is ready to endorse Putin and if not they will fire up more Jimmy Osmond.
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 11, 2021 5:58 PM |
"Donny & Marie was an anomaly in that it was a successful variety show at a time when variety was dead: 1976."
Huh? Not sure which Seventies decade you lived through, but the one I lived through had endless variety shows: Carol Burnett, Sonny & Cher (and then just Cher), Captain & Tennille, The Jacksons, The Muppet Show, Glen Campbell, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Hudson Brothers, Tony Orlando & Dawn, Starland Vocal Band, Shields & Yarnell, The Manhattan Transfer, Sha Na Na, Pink Lady and Jeff... And then there were the annual Andy Williams, John Denver, Pat Boone, and Carpenters Christmas specials. Not only was the variety show not "dead," you couldn't get away from it if you tried.
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | May 11, 2021 9:50 PM |
In 1976, the variety show as a form was basically dead. Sonny & Cher, Carol Burnett, and Tony Orlando & Dawn were scraping the bottom of the ratings. Sonny & Cher and Tony Orlando were canceled in 1977 and Burnett hung it up in '78.
Captain & Tennille, The Jacksons, The Brady Bunch Hour lasted one season or less in '76-'77.
Donny & Marie became a hit in 1976 and ran for several seasons, making it an anomaly for a variety show at that time.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | May 11, 2021 9:59 PM |
I’m guessing the Shields and Yarnell show wasn’t very chatty?
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | May 12, 2021 12:23 AM |
Robert Shields of shields and yarnell was pretty damn handsome and sexy back in the day during his 1970s heyday...
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | May 12, 2021 1:02 AM |
Come on, let’s keep this disco party going.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 97 | May 12, 2021 3:33 AM |
Marie has talked about many times--most recently on 'The Talk' last year--how she was sexually harassed and nearly starved to death on the set of 'Donny & Marie'. The Osmonds built that huge studio in Bumfuck, Utah to film the show, and guest stars like Paul Lynde bitched about having to fly up to Utah to do the show. (Though to his credit, Lynde was a regular guest on the show.) I don't recall specifically which Osmond brother bankrupted the family by investing in citrus (couldn't even make that up), but then the family had to sell the studio, their jet, etc to pay off some bills and keep afloat.
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | May 12, 2021 6:16 AM |
R98, Yes, but I believe Jimmy has been credited with getting the family's financial affairs back on track, with his strong business sense.
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | May 12, 2021 6:21 AM |
Citrus? Were they jumping on the Anita Bryant train?
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | May 12, 2021 6:50 AM |
i’m guessing Jimmy was Olive Osmond’s rash decision to have an abortion because she didn’t want to raise yet another child at her advanced age, and it angered Mormon founder Joseph Smith so much that he decided to reach down from heaven and smite her and allowed the abortion to live. They named it Jimmy.
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | May 12, 2021 7:10 AM |
You just know Joseph Jackson watched Jimmy “performing” and thought “that boy need a taste or my belt” to start singing and dancing right!”
| by Anonymous | reply 103 | May 12, 2021 11:36 AM |
donny was the only one with actual talent....and looks of course....
and i must say i think marie looks prettier now than when she was young... (yeah, i know, i know as kathie griffin says she has had "dental work")....
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | May 12, 2021 1:49 PM |
Donnie is not the only with actual talent. Marie Osmond has done quite well for herself in the theater. She went into The King and I on Broadway and was well received there and when she headed the National Touring company of the production.
She would have made a very good Annie Oakley. Better than most who land the role.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 105 | May 12, 2021 2:15 PM |
Donny lost his looks, he’s fallen under the plastic surgery spell.
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | May 12, 2021 2:34 PM |
R105 Cause she was a lil bit country?
| by Anonymous | reply 107 | May 12, 2021 2:42 PM |
Who knew Marie had an operatic voice?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 108 | May 12, 2021 4:10 PM |
Are any of the Osmonds friends to the gays? Doesn't Marie have a gay daughter?
| by Anonymous | reply 110 | May 12, 2021 5:20 PM |
I think Marie is gay friendly and Donny being in musical theater must be, as well. I saw Marie on something recently and she looks like a Pacific Islander...
| by Anonymous | reply 111 | May 12, 2021 6:47 PM |
Yeah, Marie is gay friendly. But she wasn't when her gay son decided to jump off a building because he was gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | May 12, 2021 8:16 PM |
R114, No Osmond blood/genes.
| by Anonymous | reply 115 | May 13, 2021 12:45 AM |
Marie's daughter Jessica is a fairly butch lesbian, and she just married her partner I believe right before the quarantine. Marie went to their wedding at city hall, wherever they live. She posted about it on IG and of course got some backlash from her frau fans. It's not surprising to me that she's supportive of her lesbian daughter; after all, she grew up with her lesbian brother Jimmy!
| by Anonymous | reply 117 | May 16, 2021 9:18 PM |
Worst performance ever? Betty Buckley in her recent tour of "Hello, Dolly!"
| by Anonymous | reply 118 | May 16, 2021 9:26 PM |
