Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy
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Based on | Star Wars by George Lucas |
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Edited by | Lucasfilm |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Television |
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Running time | 159 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy consists of three episodes of the American
Plot
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 first two episodes deals with Chris Griffin (voiced by Seth Green) criticizing Peter's take on Star Wars as a ripoff of Robot Chicken: Star Wars. In the third episode, Peter and Chris initially argue about Seth Green then move on to arguing about Seth MacFarlane, which is when the rest of the family joins in and the characters voiced by Seth MacFarlane (Brian, Peter, and Stewie) quarrel with those who are not.
Cast
- Peter Griffin as Han Solo
- Brian Griffin as Chewbacca
- Stewie Griffin as Darth Vader
- Glenn Quagmire as C-3PO
- Owen Lars / Emperor Palpatine
- Moff Jerjerrod
- Tim the Bear as Wicket
- Tom Tuckeras Death Star News Anchorman
- Lois Griffin as Princess Leia
- Beru Lars
- Exogorth / the Sarlacc
- Cleveland Brown as R2-D2
- Herbert as Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Captain Piett
- Rallo Tubbs as Nien Nunb
- Consuelaas Darth Vader's maid (herself) / Jabba's doorguard
- Adam West as Grand Moff Tarkin
- probe droid / Jabba the Hutt
- Johnny Brennan
- Jawa / Lando Calrissian
- Carl as Yoda
- Ernie the Giant Chicken as Boba Fett
- Klaus Heissler as Admiral Ackbar
- Angela as Mon Mothma
- Blue Harvest
- Clark Griswold
- Beverly D'Angelo as Ellen Griswold
- Rush Limbaugh as Himself / Red 6
- Helen Reddy as Herself
- Mick Hucknall as Himself
- Alex Thomasas Himself
- Judd Nelson as John Bender
- Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
- 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!
- 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
- archive footage)
- Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Worf
Production
"Blue Harvest"
At the 2007
"Something, Something, Something, Dark Side"
The episode was written by series regular
"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.
Future spoofs
When asked about the possibility of a Family Guy retelling of the other Star Wars trilogies,
A spoof of the Indiana Jones series was also considered for development, but has not received any updates concerning its production.[8]
Notes
- ^ Retroactively subtitled A New Hope
References
- ^ "The Force is With Family Guy". IGN. May 30, 2007. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
- ^ "Programming for Saturday July 28". Comic-Con. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. Retrieved October 2, 2007.
- ^ Burton, Bonnie (September 21, 2007). ""Family Guy" Creator Reveals Star Wars Cred". StarWars.com. Archived from the original on September 5, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2007.
- ^ "Family Guy to parody Return of the Jedi". The Hollywood Reporter. March 4, 2009. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
- ^ Schneider, Michael (July 23, 2016). "'Family Guy' Won't Do Any More 'Star Wars' Parodies, and Here's Why". IndieWire. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- ^ Schwerdtfeger, Conner (July 25, 2016). "Why Family Guy Is Probably Done With Star Wars Episodes". CinemaBlend. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- ^ Seth MacFarlane [@sethmacfarlane] (April 1, 2015). "Disney keeps a tighter hold on it, so it's unlikely" (Tweet) – via Twitter.[dead link]
- ^ Lachonis, Jon (July 26, 2010). "Family Guy Won't Tackle Star Wars Prequels, Maybe Indiana Jones". TV Over Mind. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
External links
- "Blue Harvest" at IMDb
- "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" at IMDb
- "It's a Trap!" at IMDb