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Laugh It Up, Fuzzball:
The Family Guy Trilogy
Blu-ray cover, featuring Stewie as Darth Vader
Directed by
Dominic Polcino
Peter Shin
Produced by
Seth MacFarlane
Alex Borstein
Mike Henry
Chris Sheridan
David A. Goodman
Written by
Alec Sulkin (1)
Kirker Butler (2)
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
David A. Goodman (3)
Based on
Star Wars
by George Lucas (uncredited)
Starring
Seth MacFarlane
Alex Borstein
Seth Green
Mila Kunis
Mike Henry
Music by
John Williams
Additional music
Walter Murphy
Production
company
Fuzzy Door Productions
Fox Television Animation
Distributed by
20th Century Fox Television
Release date
December 21, 2010 (2010-12-21)
Running time
159 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy consists of three episode specials of the American animated sitcom Family Guy. The episodes are a crossover and parody retelling of the original Star Wars trilogy Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983). The first episode, "Blue Harvest" (2007) was created in honor of the original film's 30th anniversary. Due to its popular success, it was followed by two direct-to-video sequels: "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" (2009) and "It's a Trap!" (2010), which were subsequently aired on television, in edited versions, omitting most profanity and sexual references. The trilogy was released on Blu-ray and DVD in the United States on December 21, 2010. Its title comes from an insult Han Solo said to Chewbacca in The Empire Strikes Back.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 "Blue Harvest"
3.2 "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side"
3.3 "It's a Trap!"
4 Blu-ray region code inconsistency
5 Future spoofs
6 References
7 External links
Plot[edit]
During power outages, Peter Griffin tells his family the stories of the original Star Wars trilogy films, with characters from Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, and American Dad! playing the Star Wars roles. A running joke at the end of the episode deals with Chris Griffin (voiced by Seth Green) criticizing Peter's take on Star Wars as a ripoff of Robot Chicken: Star Wars, to which Peter argues back about his disappointment with Seth Green films.
Cast[edit]
Seth MacFarlane
Peter Griffin as Han Solo
Brian Griffin as Chewbacca
Stewie Griffin as Darth Vader / Anakin Skywalker
Glenn Quagmire as C-3PO
Carter Pewterschmidt as Owen Lars / Emperor Palpatine
Roger as Moff Jerjerrod
Tim the Bear as Wicket
Tom Tucker as Death Star News Anchorman
Alex Borstein
Lois Griffin as Princess Leia
Barbara Pewterschmidt as Beru Lars
Seth Green
Chris Griffin as Luke Skywalker
Mila Kunis
Meg Griffin as the Dianoga / the Exogorth / the Sarlacc
Mike Henry
Cleveland Brown as R2-D2
Herbert as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Bruce as Greedo / Captain Piett
Rallo Tubbs as Nien Nunb
Consuela as Darth Vader's maid (herself) / Jabba's doorguard
Adam West
Adam West as Grand Moff Tarkin
Patrick Warburton
Joe Swanson as Biggs Darklighter / the probe droid / Jabba the Hutt
Johnny Brennan
Mort Goldman as a Jawa / Lando Calrissian
H. Jon Benjamin
Carl as Yoda
Danny Smith
Ernie the Giant Chicken as Boba Fett
Dee Bradley Baker
Klaus Heissler as Admiral Ackbar
Carrie Fisher
Angela as Mon Mothma
Blue Harvest
Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold
Beverly D'Angelo as Ellen Griswold
Rush Limbaugh as Himself / Red 6
Helen Reddy as Herself
Mick Hucknall as Himself
Alex Thomas as Himself
Judd Nelson as John Bender
Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
James Woods as Himself / General Veers
John Bunnell as Himself
Elizabeth Banks as Herself
Dolph Lundgren as Captain Ivan Drago (live-action footage from Rocky IV)
Brigitte Nielsen as Ludmilla Vobet Drago (live-action footage from Rocky IV)
Michael Pataki as Nicoli Koloff (live-action footage from Rocky IV)
Tom Selleck as Himself (live-action footage from Her Alibi)
James Caan as Himself
Joe Flaherty as Western Union worker from Back to the Future Part II
It's a Trap!
Rush Limbaugh as the Rancor
Ted Knight as Judge Smails (live-action footage from Caddyshack)
Anne Hathaway as Hot Blonde
Bruce McGill as John Williams
Mary Hart as Herself
Conway Twitty as Himself (archive footage)
Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Worf
Production[edit]
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane served as executive producer for the trilogy.
"Blue Harvest"[edit]
Main article: Blue Harvest
At the 2007 Comic Con, a series of clips was shown at a panel for Family Guy from the season premiere episode, showing the Family Guy characters as Star Wars characters. The episode aired on September 23, 2007, with some slight changes from the clips shown at Comic Con. Parts of this episode were shown at Star Wars Celebration IV, at which Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, a Star Wars fan since childhood, was a special guest,[1] and again at Comic-Con International 2007.[2] The episode was officially endorsed by Lucasfilm, especially George Lucas, who revealed in his conversation with MacFarlane that he has TiVoed every single episode of Family Guy without having to buy the DVDs and, in addition to Jackass, it's the only show he watches. MacFarlane said they were extremely helpful when the Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.[3]
"Something, Something, Something, Dark Side"[edit]
Main article: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
The episode was written by series regular Kirker Butler, before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, and before his leave from the series in order to become co-executive producer of the Family Guy spinoff series The Cleveland Show. Butler wrote the first draft of the episode in four weeks, under the guidance of series creator Seth MacFarlane. The episode was directed by Dominic Polcino, who had previously directed "Blue Harvest". This was the last episode in the series to use hand-drawn animatics, before transitioning to computer-designed animatics.
"It's a Trap!"[edit]
Main article: It's a Trap!
It was announced in March 2009 that the cast of the show had read through an early draft of the script under the working title, "Episode VI: The Great Muppet Caper".[4] The second working title, "We Have a Bad Feeling About This," was a reference to the recurring catchphrase used in the Star Wars films. The settled-upon title is a reference to the line by Admiral Ackbar in the film.
Blu-ray region code inconsistency[edit]
While the first and third episodes are "Region All", and therefore able to play on any Blu-ray player worldwide, "Something, Something, Something Dark Side" is region-locked, forcing viewers to buy the set marketed towards their own region if they don't own a multi-region Blu-ray player.[5]
Future spoofs[edit]
When asked about the possibility of a Family Guy retelling of the other Star Wars trilogies, Alec Sulkin stated that a spoof of the Star Wars prequel and sequel trilogies were unlikely to happen due the difficulty and struggle of spoofing The Empire Strikes Back and the 2012 Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm being the primary reasons.[6] Sulkin stated, "We like the first three but by the time we were done with the third one I think we were about ready to kill ourselves, The new regime at Star Wars slash Disney is a little more difficult to deal with. Before we were just dealing with Lucasfilm and Seth had a good relationship with them... I just think that [Disney's] a little more rigid".[7] Series creator Seth MacFarlane also commented on the situation via Twitter stating "Disney keeps a tighter hold on it, so it's unlikely.[8]
A spoof of the Indiana Jones series was also considered for development, but has not received any updates concerning its production.[9]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "The Force is With Family Guy". IGN. May 30, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
Jump up ^ "Programming for Saturday July 28". Comic-Con. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
Jump up ^ Burton, Bonnie (September 21, 2007). ""Family Guy" Creator Reveals Star Wars Cred". Starwars.com. Archived from the original on September 5, 2011. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
Jump up ^ "Family Guy to parody Return of the Jedi". thrfeed.com. 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
Jump up ^ "Blu ray Region Test: Family Guy Trilogy — interesting results". MovieTyme.com Blog. January 12, 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
Jump up ^ http://www.indiewire.com/2016/07/comic-con-2016-family-guy-preview-star-wars-1201709346/
Jump up ^ https://www.cinemablend.com/television/1538159/why-family-guy-is-probably-done-with-star-wars-episodes
Jump up ^ https://twitter.com/sethmacfarlane/status/583414469419634688?lang=en
Jump up ^ http://www.tvovermind.com/tv-news/family-guy-wont-tackle-star-wars-prequels-maybe-indiana-jones
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Blue Harvest on IMDb
Something, Something, Something, Dark Side on IMDb
It's a Trap! on IMDb
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