| Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy |
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| Directed by | Dominic Polcino (1/2) Peter Shin (3) |
| 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) George Lucas (characters & films) |
| Starring | Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green Mila Kunis Mike Henry |
| Studio | Fuzzy Door Productions Film Roman |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Television |
| Release date(s) | December 21, 2010 |
| Running time | 159 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy consists of three episode specials from the American animated television series Family Guy. The episodes are a remake parody of the original Star Wars films A New Hope (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.
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During power outages, Peter Griffin tells his family the stories of the original Star Wars trilogy films, with characters from Family Guy playing the Star Wars roles. A subplot 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.
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]
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 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, which became an Internet meme.
Whilst 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 consumers to buy the set marketed towards their own region if they don't own a multi-region Blu-ray player.[5]
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