Topic: Family Guy season premiere to be one hour long Star Wars parody

[Mashiro]

Source: IGN.com

At comic con it was revealed that the season premiere of Family Guy will be an hour long "airplane!" style spoof of the first Star Wars film. Robot Chicken star wars was awesome so I am sure this will be as well =). They also went on to reveal other plots coming up for the season (finally bonnie will give birth!).

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Before audience questions began, the jam-packed room was treated to several clips of what's sure to become a classic episode. Entitled, "Blue Harvest," the season premiere will be an hour-long Airplane style spoof of the first Star Wars film, all with the permission of Lucasfilm. In the hilarious clips, we saw that Peter plays Han, Lois is Leia, Stewie is Darth Vader, Chris is Luke, Brian is Chewbacca and Quagmire and Cleveland are C3-PO and R2-D2 respectively. The scenes shown had the crowd roaring with laughter.

The panel then gave small glimpses of episodes being prepared for the upcoming season. Some of what we can expect included an episode where Brian starts to show his age and the Griffins get a new dog. Another episode has Peter believing he's a pirate and includes a five-minute scene of Peter attempting to pick something up. There will also be episodes where Bonnie gives birth, Peter discovers he's an illegal alien who was born in Mexico and Goldman accidentally travels back to Nazi Germany and must be rescued by Brian and Stewie. Yet another episode that has us excited involves three parodies of Stephen King films, including a Misery segment staring Brian and Stewie.

[vudu]

When is the season premiere?  I stopped watching Family Guy after season 3, but I might tune in to check this out.

[ShyGuy]

Didn't Robot Chicken just do an episode dedicated to Star Wars parody about a  month  ago?

[Bill Aurion]

I've known about this Star Wars spoof since the beginning of the year...Did I get insider infoz or is this just really old? =3

[Bloodworth]

They announced this a really long time ago.  I saw about 5 or 10 minutes of the episode at the Star Wars Con and someone else put it up on YouTube.

[Mashiro]

Ah well I musta missed the news oh well.

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
They announced this a really long time ago.  I saw about 5 or 10 minutes of the episode at the Star Wars Con and someone else put it up on YouTube.

Yep, and from what I have seen, my largest complaint with it is... well, it's more of a reenactment of A New Hope with the Family Guy characters for most of it, rather than a good parody or spoof. The jokes just seem too few, like the writers felt they could coast mostly on the fact that it already had a story established, while the number of great bits where also very small from what I saw (mainly just the couch gag and the buffering joke really stood out in memory).  

[Bloodworth]

coach gag?  I hope you mean couch. That gag is awesome.

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
coach gag?  I hope you mean couch. That gag is awesome.

Damn these fingers!

[Ian Sane]

I saw clips of this at the comic con.  Really funny stuff.  I haven't watched Family Guy for a good year at least but I'll tune in for the premiere.  Bloodworth is dead on about the couch gag.  Just hilarious!