"Family Guy"
Blue Harvest (2007)

Director:

Dominic Polcino

Writers:

Seth MacFarlane (creator)
Seth MacFarlane (developer)

Series de televisión:

"Family Guy" (1999)

Original Air Date:

23 septiembre 2007 (Season 6, Episode 1)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy

Plot:

With the Griffins stuck at home during a blackout, Peter begins to tell a story, which leads to a Star Wars flashback. Acting out scenes from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. |

Plot Keywords:

Tastes Like Chicken Joke | Star Wars | Stock Footage | Star Wars Spoof | Irish American

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Incredibly creative and very funny

US TV Schedule:

Sun. May 18	10:30 PM	TOON	Blue Harvest, Parts 1 and 2	#6.1
Mon. May 19	2:00 AM	TOON	Blue Harvest, Parts 1 and 2	#6.1

Cast

Seth MacFarlane	...	Peter Griffin / Brian Griffin / Stewie Griffin / Glen Quagmire / Tom Tucker / Additional Voices (voice)
Alex Borstein	...	Lois Griffin (voice)
Seth Green	...	Chris Griffin (voice)
Mila Kunis	...	Meg Griffin (voice)
Mike Henry	...	Cleveland (voice)
Lori Alan	...	Diane Simmons (voice)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
John G. Brennan	...	Mort Goldman (voice) (as Johnny Brennan)
Steve Callaghan	...	Various (voice)
Chevy Chase	...	Clark Griswold (voice)
Beverly D'Angelo	...	Ellen Griswold (voice)
Mick Hucknall	...	Himself (voice)
Phil LaMarr	...	Ollie Williams / Redd Fox (voice)
Rush Limbaugh	...	Himself (voice)
Leslie Nielsen	...	Dr. Rumack (archive footage)
Helen Reddy	...	Herself (voice)
Alec Sulkin	...	Various (voice)
Don Tai	...	Thai Pilot (voice)
John Viener	...	Various (voice)
Patrick Warburton	...	Joe Swanson (voice)
Adam West	...	Mayor Adam West (voice)

Clasificación:

Netherlands:AL

Trivialidades:

At the end, Peter and Chris argue over a similar episode of "Robot Chicken" (2005). Seth Green, the voice of Chris, is the co-creator, director, and producer of "Robot Chicken".

Goofs:

Continuity: During the scene where they are trying to get the couch through the doorway, it shows Brian, looking as he regularly does, instead of showing a Brian as Chewbacca.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Title card/crawl: A long time ago, but somehow in the future... It is a period of civil war and renegade paragraphs floating through space. There's cool space battles, and the bad guy is the good guy's dad. But you don't find that out 'til the next episode. And the hot chick is really the sister of the good guy...

Movie Connections:

Features Airplane! (1980)

Soundtrack:

Star Wars Main Title Theme

Incredibly creative and very funny

I have never seen anything like the two-part STAR WARS spoof that FAMILY GUY trotted out for its latest season premier. If this show wasn't light-years ahead of THE SIMPSONS already, it surely was with this incredible saga. I cannot imagine how many weeks or months went into piecing this mini-epic together. The plot has FAMILY GUY patriarch Peter Griffin (voiced by show creator Seth McFarlane) telling his family a variation on the original Star Wars story with himself as Han Solo and everyone he knows standing in for the other characters. His wife, for instance, is Princess Leia, and their dog is Chewbaca. Baby Stewie is Darth Vader, of all people. Keep in mind FAMILY GUY is a Fox show, and 20th Century Fox owns the STAR WARS movies, so McFarlane was able to avail himself of music, sound effects and images from the original STAR WARS movie. The seamless integration of these authentic STAR WARS bits in this cartoon turns this two-parter from an ordinary TV cartoon into something else entirely. If you haven't seen this, make sure you watch for it. It marks a turning point in the history of TV cartooning. Obviously, subsequent episodes will never be able to live up to it, but they need not. I think McFarlane wanted to kick THE SIMPSONS' ass for the season starter. If you saw the season starter for THE SIMPSONS, I am sure you will agree. A sidenote: When Peter has finished spinning his STAR WARS yarn, he and son Chris, voiced by the highly versatile Seth Green, argue briefly but sharply about a Cartoon Network show called ROBOT CHICKEN. Chris, who loves the show, points out ROBOT CHICKEN did a spoof of STAR WARS long before FAMILY GUY's version, while Peter disdains and dismisses and insults ROBOT CHICKEN. Green is the creator of ROBOT CHICKEN. Talk about an inside joke. Maybe the greatest inside joke ever perpetuated. What a perfect ending to a perfect yarn.