Family Guy Star Wars Blue Harvest
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as Galactic political commentator. as herself. Don Tai as Thai TIE Fighter pilot. as Dr. Barry Rumack (archive audio)Episode chronology← Previous'Next →' Blue Harvest' is the hour-long premiere of the of the American and the first part of the series' trilogy. It originally aired on in the United States on September 23, 2007.
The episode is a retelling and of the 1977 blockbuster film, recasting the show's characters into Star Wars roles. The plot follows as he retells the story of Star Wars while the electricity is out in their house.It was written by and directed.
To produce the installment the staff asked, the company who owns the rights to the Star Wars franchise, for permission. Blue Harvest guest starred,. The episode also included recurring voice actors,.
It was viewed by 10.86 million viewers on its original broadcast and received generally positive reviews from critics. Contents.Plot While the are watching television, the power goes out and they are left with no other form of entertainment. While they wait for the power to return, decides to retell the story of Star Wars beginning with 'Part IV.'
A is captured by a. On the ship are the and the rebel leader. While the ship is boarded by, Leia tries to send an to through R2, but encounters so many complications that R2 offers to deliver the message himself. Leia is captured by while R2 and 3PO flee to in an escape pod, where they are captured by.The droids are sold to a family of moisture farmers, whose nephew wishes to join the and fight the. While cleaning the droids, Luke stumbles upon Leia's message inside R2, who later decides to leave the farm. Luke and C-3PO pursue him, but are attacked by Sand People. Luke is knocked out by one of them and is found by , who takes them to his hut.
Leia's message explains that R2 contains the plans to the, which must be sent to her father on her home planet of and asks Obi-Wan to help. Obi-Wan tells Luke that he must learn the ways of and accompany him to Alderaan, and gives him his own.
Realizing that the Empire must be looking for the droids, Luke returns home to discover that his home has been destroyed and his aunt and uncle killed.Luke, Obi-Wan, and the droids travel to to find a pilot to take them to Alderaan. At a local cantina, they hire smuggler (Peter) and his co-pilot , who agree to take them with their ship, the. The group is soon spotted by stormtroopers and they flee into space, evading the pursuing Star Destroyers before jumping into. Leia is imprisoned on the Death Star, where commanding officer has Alderaan destroyed. The Millennium Falcon exits hyperspace and is captured by the Death Star's tractor beam and brought into its hangar bay. Disguising themselves as stormtroopers, Han and Luke along with Chewbacca set off to rescue the captive Princess while Obi-Wan goes to shut off the tractor beam and R2 and C3PO stay behind. Han, Luke and Chewie rescue Leia, and the four dive into a garbage chute to escape stormtroopers and find a couch in the garbage masher below.
As they flee the Death Star, Obi-Wan turns off the tractor beam before being confronted by Darth Vader in a lightsaber duel. Vader strikes Obi-Wan down as the others board the Falcon, taking the couch with them.The Falcon journeys to the Rebel base at, where the Rebels analyze the Death Star plans and find a weakness.
Luke joins the assault team while Han collects his reward for the rescue and prepares to leave. The Rebel fighters (who also include, the and an anthropomorphic pack of gum) attack the Death Star but suffer heavy losses during the assault.
During his run, Luke hears Obi-Wan's voice telling him to use the Force, and he turns off his targeting computer. Vader appears with his own group of fighters, and is about to fire at Luke's starfighter when Han arrives in the Falcon and attacks Vader and his men, sending Vader's ship off into space. Guided by the Force, Luke fires into the port, destroying the Death Star, and he returns to the Rebel base with his friends to celebrate their victory.Back at the Griffins' home, Peter wraps up the story as the power comes back on. Everyone thanks Peter for keeping them entertained, although Chris points out that already told. Peter dismisses and mocks the show, and Chris storms off.Production. Family Guy creator served as executive producer for the episode.'
Blue Harvest' originally aired on September 23, 2007, as the premiere for the of Family Guy. The episode was written by, who has been with the show since the fourth season. It was directed by series veteran, who has been directing for the series since its first season. Series regulars and served as supervising directors. The episode's music was composed by Walter Murphy.Family Guy creator explained that the reason they made a parody of Star Wars in particular was because the show's staff members were huge fans of the films. They also chose Star Wars because allowed it.
MacFarlane stated that creating parodies based on or was originally considered, but they assumed they would be unable to gain permission from the owners of those properties (in this case ). Lucasfilm only gave the show's staff one condition, which was that the characters had to look exactly like they do in the movies.Clips of the episode were shown to audience members at IV, where a panel was hosted by MacFarlane, Sulkin and Polcino, and executive producer.
The episode was also previewed at the 2007.In addition to the regular cast, actors and, musician, singer, and political commentator made guest appearances. Recurring guest voice actors, writer, writer, executive producer, executive producer writer and Alec Sulkin also made minor appearances in the episode. Cultural references. The episode was a retelling of '.' Blue Harvest' contains many references to popular culture, particularly to the. Most of the episode itself is a retelling of George Lucas' film Star Wars.
The episode's name is a reference to the fake working title for the production of Return of the Jedi.When Peter is about to begin telling the story he says that it is about 'love and loss, fathers and sons, and the foresight to retain international merchandising rights', a reference to the fact that gave those rights to Lucasfilm. During the text scrawl actress, her film, and the television channel are mentioned.One of the displays a bumper sticker reading 'Bush – Cheney' a reference to and 's. When the Millennium Falcon enters hyperspace, the visual effect is replaced with the intro sequence from, using the version of that sequence from the era; and when the Millennium Falcon leaves hyperspace, it gets to the. Once Leia is captured, Vader asks her where she hid the Death Star plans, leading her to respond that they are in one of twenty-six briefcases, a reference to the game show.When Luke is watching the sunset, he by introducing Star Wars composer and the, who have been scoring the scene, in a parody of a scene from featuring and his orchestra.
Luke then asks the orchestra to play the theme of. Later in the episode when Luke finds his uncle and aunt murdered, he also finds that Williams and the entire orchestra have been killed as well; this saddens Luke, since the episode will now have to be scored by composer before Luke decapitates him with his lightsaber. While searching for R2-D2, Luke listens to conservative political commentator 's, in which Limbaugh says that the 'liberal galactic media is saying that the planet is melting'.One of the band members that plays at the cantina asks for any song request and then he subtly responds to his own question by saying 'play that same song,' a reference to the fact that the song being played in the film scene lasts a long time.Obi-Wan sings a rendition of ' from the film, in case he never sees Luke again. In a fight with a group of, Luke asks the origins behind their name; the following scene then shows that the pilots are from Thailand.
Leslie Nielsen's character from the movie wishes Han good luck during their encounter with the TIE fighters. When seeking how to destroy the Death Star, the rebels look at an instructional video hosted by basketball player. Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo's characters from the films appear driving by the Death Star. Chris, who is voiced by, points out that already did a Star Wars parody (Green is the creator of Robot Chicken). Reception In its original broadcast on September 23, 2007, 'Blue Harvest' was viewed by 10.86 million viewers. The episode acquired a 5.5, the systems developed to determine the size and composition of in the United States, in the 18–49 demographic.Reviews of this episode were generally positive. Gave the episode three out of five stars, calling it a 'ribald but often hilarious satire of fantasy favorite'.
Brad Trechak of also praised 'Blue Harvest', stating that it 'was a fun episode to watch'; he thought that 'MacFarlane kept to the story pretty well, and there were enough corny jokes to make it amusing'. Ahsan Haque from gave it a score of seven out of ten, criticizing the selection of Herbert as Obi-Wan, but did say that the other choices were 'spot-on'; he ended his review by stating, 'as a tribute to Star Wars, this episode succeeds, but you can't help but wish that there was a bit more to it, considering the nature of the source material'. In a later review of the season as a whole, Haque said that the episode was 'generally entertaining, but certainly wasn't as great as it could have been'.
In 2019, however, Jesse Schedeen, also from IGN, placed 'Blue Harvest' as the second best episode in his list of the 20 best Family Guy episodes, to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary, stating that it 'was Family Guy's first attempt at devoting an hour-length episode to lampooning the Star Wars franchise, and it remains the best.' Daniel Fienberg of also gave it a positive review although he stated that it was released soon after 's Star Wars special and it fared worse because of it. Tom Eames of entertainment website placed the episode at number three on his listing of the best Family Guy episodes in order of 'yukyukyuks' and described the episode as 'pretty much the same as its sequel but better.'
's Diane Werts rendered a more mixed verdict, saying the episode 'veers wildly from bull's-eye satire to gotta-fill-time-now exposition', and was not as enjoyable for non- Star Wars fans. Robin Pierson of The TV Critic also gave it a mixed review, criticizing the writers for using the character of Herbert and the episode's musical moment which he called an 'un-amusing waste of time', although he did praise the way that the episode satirized the Star Wars universe; he ended his review by saying that 'Chances are the more you like Star Wars, the more you will enjoy this.
For those of us who know Family Guy better than Star Wars, there is plenty of bad material here to remind us that nothing much has changed'. He gave the episode sixty-five out of a possible one-hundred.The, a group that has been a frequent critic of Family Guy, criticized the episode for a perceived frequent use of sexual dialogue, enough for the episode to have an 'S' content descriptor for sexual content (the episode was rated TV-14-DLV on Fox).In 2009, ranked 'Blue Harvest' #99 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes. Home media The episode was released on January 15, 2008 for DVD and on August 7, 2012 for in. It was issued on January 21, 2008 for DVD in Region 2, and on February 6, 2008 DVD and on August 24, 2011 for Blu-ray in Region 4. 'Blue Harvest' was also released as part of the which was released on December 21, 2010 for DVD and on December 21, 2010 for Blu-ray in Region 1. It was issued on December 27, 2010 for both DVD and Blu-ray in Region 2.
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More Information Complete Title:Family Guy Presents: Blue HarvestSynopsis:The laughs come full Force when the Griffin clan puts a freakin' sweet spin on the greatest sci-fi saga ever told! With Peter playing the swashbuckling Han Solo, Lois as the sexy Princess Leia, Chris as an adolescent Luke Skywalker, Brian as a well-spoken Chewbacca, and Stewie finally embracing his dark side as Darth Vader, who knows what will happen. Filled with outrageous gags, spaced out droids and more intergalactic satire than you can shake a lightsaber at, this epic spoof is a must-own for every fan of Family Guy! The episode title comes from the code name used when filming Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.