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Family Guy: Blue Harvest

By fred | September 24, 2007

(S06E01) “This, is the story of Star Wars. Let’s begin with part four!”

Way to start a story, but I guess Peter isn’t to blame, I mean, Lucas did it that way first. And so began this episode of Family Guy, a Star Wars special episode. First of all, I’m not sure this is the best way to premiere your season, I mean, this episode was really different than any other episodes of Family Guy. But anyways, who cares, it’s not like things like “stories” even really matter on that show, right?

Well, let this one be the exception!

Because more than just a pretext to make fun with a Star Wars theme, they did a full-on tribute to the movies, the original ones, aka the good ones. As mentioned, part four more than the others, as they kept the story intact, almost, only tweaking things a bit so that it lasted “only” one hour.

And it worked. Pretty good, yeah, it was funny. Especially so if you’re a Star Wars fan, geek, or if you’ve seen the movie (but who hasn’t?). So it worked pretty well, they followed the movie sometime down to the scenes, and while that was nice I wonder if the whole thing wouldn’t have been better off as a regular, half hour episode.

Because really, quite a few scenes were really unnecessary, nothing but spaceships flying by. Oh and, that stupid musical in the middle of it, that did absolutely not belong in here, and was slow, boring and unfunny. Hated that part, please take it back.

But besides that, it was quite good any many (many) jokes worked well. Amongst the ones I liked best, here’s a few randomly selected by my brains, and not in any order :

* The opening scrolling text, about the family drama and how Angelina Jolie - naked in GIA - kissed her brother… just great.

* That little design flaw, you know, the 0.01% vulnerability on the Death Star. Yeah, that small hole that, if you shoot a laser into it, the whole station just blows up.

* In the Cantina scene, we had quite a few guest hidden in the back. Like Futurama’s drunk Bender, evil monkey or the coach from Home Movies - a show I liked a lot, yet never saw entirely… I should try to get DVDs of that one. So should you!

* “Hold your fire! There’s no life form in there” Just one of those things…

* The couch jokes were good. At first, then it became too much of the same thing for too long. Besides, where was scene to win me over, with Peter yelling “Pivot, PIVOT, PIVOOOTT!!!” (You might have to be a member of the “I Hate Rachel Green Club” to get that one…)

* Flying on an asteroid field : it’s like playing one of those old 80’s games.. ah, memories! By the way, do you know why they’re called tie fighters?

* The pimped-up space ship, made me laugh yeah

* R2 opening the window and shooting with his gun : “That’s how we do it in my neighborhood, bitch!”

* “I have moves”, only to move slightly to the left

* “There are alternatives to fighting. - Like what? - LIKE GETTING THE HELL OUTTA HERE!!!” I couldn’t stop laughing on that one!!

* - Red Three, standing by.
  - Red Six, standing by.
  - Red Five, standing by.
  - Red Buttons, standing by.
  - Redd Foxx, standing by.
  - Big Red, standing by.
  - Red October, standing by.
  - Helen Reddy, standing by.
  - Simply Red, standing by.

* And of course, the big finale : Chris - voiced by Seth Green - arguing that Robot Chicken - created/produced by the same Seth Green - beat them to it with their very own Star Wars special weeks ago. Now that thing was hilarious too, and true.

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Shows: Family Guy