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Family Guy may strike back

by Brad Trechak, posted Sep 25th 2007 10:01AM

Family Guy Star Wars SpecialAccording to James Hibberd at TV Week, the team behind the Family Guy Star Wars episode may take a crack at parodying The Empire Strikes Back next year, possibly even having it be an annual event like The Simpsons Halloween specials.

One good thing about parodying Empire is that they can touch on the Han/Leia romance since the roles are played by Peter and Lois Griffin, respectively, who are married on the show. The producers weren't allowed to touch the Luke/Leia kiss because they wanted to play on the incest angle (which would have worked doubly so since Luke was played by Lois' son Chris). This logic may also explain why Princess Leia is played by Lois rather than Meg.

In my experience, the entertainment business usually gets caught up in anything that is even moderately successful and automatically thinks sequels. It makes sense, considering the good ratings the episode got. However, unlike the unlimited potential for The Simpsons Halloween, they have only a limited number of movies to parody. In five years, they'd be done. What would they parody after that? The Ewok Adventure?

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Bash

I thought about it and think they should go directly from "Return of the Jedi" to "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Episodes I to III are simply too bad to spoof. And I guess they would never do it because of "Hi, and I'm Haiden Christensen". Or maybe they would like to do what Patton Oswalt would do if he got a time machine and a shovel.

Star Trek is definitely a nice idea. I hope they do some of the original stuff and then First Contact, the only good one with the TNG crew. There I said it :-)

September 25 2007 at 8:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
KIrsch

they should do a sez=qual if lightning strikes twice it was ment to be if it doesnt well then we would know it wasnt meant to be

September 25 2007 at 4:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Diego M

damn for reals? star trek? that sux!

they should do empire next, it's the best movie out all of them and it would be great to see how chris reacts to darth stewie being his fater.

September 25 2007 at 1:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bash

Where's the problem?

They'll do Indiana Jones after that. Simple as that. Like Peter said in the Mos Eisley Cantina: "Hi, my name is Han Solo and I'm the only actor who's career won't be ruined by this movie".

They'll be fine until Season 10 with Star Wars, until Season 13 with Indy and after that - who knows?

September 25 2007 at 11:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Unearthed Ruminator

According to Wil Weaton's blog, they'll be doing Star Trek soon enough...

September 25 2007 at 11:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oreo

I think it would be funny if they did the first three and then when they were going to do the prequels Peter goes... "Those are not real Star Wars".

And the show will be on the air in 5 years, there are a lot of dumb people that keep The Simpson's on 20 years, King of the Hill over 10 years. While not enough smart people to keep Futurama on.

September 25 2007 at 10:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CPav

If the show is still around in 5 years and needs to worry about what to parody next, it will be a welcome problem to have.

September 25 2007 at 10:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ronan

After Ewok Adventure they can do the Holiday Special.

September 25 2007 at 10:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rick cokely

I think it'd be a great idea. Like Lucas said "It takes 3 years to make a star wars movie" it could be "It takes 1 year to make a star wars parody." :)

September 25 2007 at 10:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jim

Let them do another one. I'll know not to tune in next time.

September 25 2007 at 10:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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