With the Griffins stuck at home during a blackout, Peter tells the story of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.With the Griffins stuck at home during a blackout, Peter tells the story of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.With the Griffins stuck at home during a blackout, Peter tells the story of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
Mila Kunis
- Meg Griffin
- (voice)
Luke Adams
- Watto
- (voice)
Tom Baker
- The Doctor
- (archive footage)
John G. Brennan
- Mort Goldman as Jawa
- (voice)
- (as Johnny Brennan)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMark Hamill pulled out of doing a DVD commentary in protest over Peter's line about how Harrison Ford was the only actor whose career wasn't destroyed by Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
- GoofsTowards the end of the episode, just after the Death Star gets blown up, Chris's (Luke's) uniform has the buttons on the front but they aren't colored in & are white for a few seconds. in the next scene, they are colored in again like supposed to be.
- Quotes
Lois (Princess Leia): Aren't you a little fat to be a stormtrooper?
Chris (Luke Skywalker): Well, stay here and rot, you stuck-up bitch!
- Alternate versionsThe 2008 DVD release includes a rough animatic version which includes different versions of several scenes, such as the pre-blackout sequence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Episode #38.14 (2008)
- SoundtracksOriginal Compositions and Themes from 'Star Wars'
(uncredited)
from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Composed by John Williams
Featured review
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.
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- xredgarnetx
- Oct 9, 2007
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