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Solo4357 Has A Gander At The Looming FAMILY GUY Parody Of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!!
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Last year’s “Blue Harvest,” which parodied “Episode IV: A New Hope,” remains easily the funniest episode of “Family Guy” I’ve seen, and now we’re upon an “Empire Strikes Back” parody from the same crew titled “Something Something Something Darkside.”
A publicist told me review copies would not be available until the DVD’s Dec. 22 release, but “Solo4357” somehow already has a review:
Basically, it’s what you’d expect, with Family Guy bringing the funny to the Empire Strikes back. There are several laugh out loud moments and being a DVD, F-Bombs do reign down, however with surgical strike precision rather than carpet bombing. Is it better than the first one?
I’d have to say yes with some caveats. The jokes are better overall with some real shockers. Meg is destroyed again. And even more thankfully is that Herbert makes few appearances and even less pedo-inspired jokes. They also wisely sidestepped the whole Leia kissing Luke scene as there’s probably no good way to make Chris tongue-kissing Lois funny. Mort shows up as Lando which is particularly inspired. The throwaway jokes work as do some jokes referencing the family guy mythos. Cleveland’s “no no no no no NO NO!” shows up, I’ll let you figure out where. And a Shut Up Meg also makes an appearance. Also enjoyable is the epilogue which once again the battle of Seth’s is on again thinly disguised between Chris and Peter on the merits of Robot Chicken. McFarlane FTW again as Green’s choices of movie roles are hit. Sorry Green, I love ya, but you deserve it if you keep taking crap like “Old Dogs.”
And that’s the problem, Robot Chicken. If you’ve seen their takes on Star Wars, you feel like they bogarted all the best gags. I know McFarlane plays the Emperor on RC and Mr. Pewterschmidt is a poor substitute. And there are far too “bruised knee” jokes. No I don’t mean the one from the trailer where the Walker actually bruises his knee. I mean those jokes that go on and on and on and on and on and on. Example is Peter trying to figure out what “cave” they are in by shooting the ground. Again and again and again and again…. til you wish horrible deaths on everyone involved. There are a few of these and they are not funny every time.
Still Stewie shines, Peter and Lois work well as Han and Leia and everyone has a chance to do something that should at least put a grin on your face. Overall, I’d say it’s worth picking up, if for no other reason, Tom Selleck’s live action cameo.
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I’d have to say yes with some caveats. The jokes are better overall with some real shockers. Meg is destroyed again. And even more thankfully is that Herbert makes few appearances and even less pedo-inspired jokes. They also wisely sidestepped the whole Leia kissing Luke scene as there’s probably no good way to make Chris tongue-kissing Lois funny. Mort shows up as Lando which is particularly inspired. The throwaway jokes work as do some jokes referencing the family guy mythos. Cleveland’s “no no no no no NO NO!” shows up, I’ll let you figure out where. And a Shut Up Meg also makes an appearance. Also enjoyable is the epilogue which once again the battle of Seth’s is on again thinly disguised between Chris and Peter on the merits of Robot Chicken. McFarlane FTW again as Green’s choices of movie roles are hit. Sorry Green, I love ya, but you deserve it if you keep taking crap like “Old Dogs.”
And that’s the problem, Robot Chicken. If you’ve seen their takes on Star Wars, you feel like they bogarted all the best gags. I know McFarlane plays the Emperor on RC and Mr. Pewterschmidt is a poor substitute. And there are far too “bruised knee” jokes. No I don’t mean the one from the trailer where the Walker actually bruises his knee. I mean those jokes that go on and on and on and on and on and on. Example is Peter trying to figure out what “cave” they are in by shooting the ground. Again and again and again and again…. til you wish horrible deaths on everyone involved. There are a few of these and they are not funny every time.
Still Stewie shines, Peter and Lois work well as Han and Leia and everyone has a chance to do something that should at least put a grin on your face. Overall, I’d say it’s worth picking up, if for no other reason, Tom Selleck’s live action cameo.
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Cousin? Business Is A-Boomin' Dec. 15!!
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Go figure.
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Hell Yeah!!
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Missed it by 18 seconds
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"If for no other reason than Tom Selleck's live action cameo" - SOLD.
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It has been leaked already on the internets.
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I know this will suck, but now I MUST HAVE IT!I saw an old episode of Magnum the other day, and renewed my love for the Moustache.
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I laughed once. Once.
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Selleck's cameo was great but there are a ton of great moments. "Ah, Jim. Robot Camels."
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No, It's FAMILY SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING DARKSIDE GUY! Just like STAR THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK WARS!
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Family Guy utilizes "cutaway jokes." If you consider them to also be "throwaway jokes," that's your opinion, but there is a difference between the two.
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That entire long second paragraph is about nothing but them reusing old jokes that have long since stopped being funny. Pass.
The first Star Wars special, while a lovingly redrawn/musiced homage, completley failed on the funny, I don't forsee this being any different. -
Also, SKIPPING Chris tongue-kissing Lois sounds like it is avoiding the funniest possible joke they could have in the entire thing.
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Dec 13, 2009 8:58:19 PM CST
Lucas had a say in this, prob why Chris/Lois kiss doesn't happen
by supermans
Just a guess..
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took a nice jab at Lacey Chabert. not sure if she was actually fired or just quit but yeah it was totally unexpected and funny. of course anyone who isnt a big time fan wont get it at all but yeah...i laughed.
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That episode let me know Family Guy wasn't funny anymore.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbJwbDCtoZU
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Tonight's episode about the rapture was pretty darn cool, I thought anyway. I don't always watch because the alien living with them is quite annoying, but tonight was a winner.
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Dec 13, 2009 9:16:40 PM CST
Uh blue harvest was okay but da boom...
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
Remains the greatest episode of family guy ever. And nothing from post cancellation comes close to it.
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i don't promote ilegal downloading, but a search on any torrent site unviels dozens of links to this special
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Although, I do give credit to FAMILY GUY for finally breathing life to the hyperspace/Tom Baker DOCTOR WHO opening credits thought that some of us have had in the back of our geek brains for years.
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Now that I have looked it up online to find out who Lacey Chabert is, could you repeat the joke?
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Should have had Francis Griffen play the Emperor and Wallace Shawn's character (Stewie's half brother) should have been Yoda
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You may be right, that looks Alan Scott era ring.
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you know it
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Dec 13, 2009 10:15:20 PM CST
Something-something-something, 80's movie reference
by nasty in the pasty
Something-something-something, 70's TV referenceSomething-something-something, fart joke.There, I just saved you 90 minutes.
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Dec 13, 2009 10:16:09 PM CST
And name ONE FG episode WITHOUT a Lucasfilm reference
by nasty in the pasty
There ARE NONE!!!
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I prefer a straight to all this sneakin around!
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Or did they just insert their characters into it mindlessly without any true creativity whatsoever yet again as they always do? "Hey, we've seen the same things you have! We're funny!" Right.
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Every Boba moment is like the best pizza you ever had and you never get full. It says a lot about McFarlane that he even bothers to do his take when Robot Chicken slam dunks it so hard. "Who has two thumbs and thinks Family Guy Star Wars sucks? THIS GUY!ha-ha-ha...what? Too soon?"
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If this reviewer downloaded a copy off of a torrent site which is the only way he could have seen this early.
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Why's it the shit? Tell me Herc, I'm all ears.
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when they obviously came from leaked pirate downloads?
Anyway, saw it a week ago like most everyone else. It's a pre-release version. The reason I say this, is because some things appear in the official trailer which weren't in the downloaded movie. So I expect some changes in the final store-buy version.
Review wise, it starts off slow and kinda weak. But it gets progressively better. A few really funny WTF laugh out loud moments. But if anything, it errs on the side of homage rather than piss-take. -
Dec 13, 2009 11:36:21 PM CST
It was mildly amusing. Definitely not worth buying.
by flim springfield
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with the first Star Wars parody. Seth and the crew are such huge fans of the SW franchise that it looks like they lost their nerve once they met Lucas. Watch the special features and it's obvious that they are all ga-ga about Star Wars, meeting their heroes, and it felt like they couldn't go all out parodying the films themselves. Instead, the gags are primarily based on what we know about the family's character quirks. It never really takes a wicked stab at the cultural impact of the Star Wars franchise...and Family Guy is so wickedly damn good at making us laugh out loud at our fixation with nonsense. I'm sure this new one will have no teeth, as it is made by SW fans, for SW fans.
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Dec 14, 2009 12:01:33 AM CST
blue harvest wasnt really a parody, it was family wars/star guy
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
whereas they used to make fun of aspects from the prequels or bad dialouge, now they just inserted family guy characters into star wars and made lame jokes. seriously at times its just the star wars movie animated, like during the battle scenes.
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there will be at least 5 instances where the awkward/outdated moments of ESB's dialogue or plot inconsistencies will be "called out" with fourth-wall breaking, minute-long exchanges between the characters about said awkwardness/plot holes. blue harvest was littered with this bullshit and it detracted from the genuinely clever moments ("helen reddy, standing by"). tonight's episode was as predictable as the rest of the season has been, and, as an ex-huge fan, this show needs some kind of shake-up if it wants to end up like latter day south park, not latter day simpsons.
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It's REALLY amusing in parts, just amusing in others. If you're a SW/FG geek you'll probably love it. If not a fan of one or both, you won't, e.g the wife kept giving me looks of "When does it end?"
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Not a single laugh all season, and the trailer for this looked about as funny as being ass raped with a rhino horn.
Family Guy is dead for me. -
However, then I realized that Family Guy is fucking retarded and, like Ansari, comedic anti-matter.
No thanks. -
About time!
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Remember that time we did a crap spoof on a 30 year old movie for no other reason than to whore out some DVDs to Star Wars fans who'll buy anything that references it in a half-assed way?
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The funniest things in it for me were : Brians Lando line, Stewies incest gags, Stewie using the force to jerk off the black guy, Megs put down, how they used Nerfherder, Hans pose in the carbonite, Hans response to Leia's "I love you", Stewies reaction when asked to turn Skywalker to the dark side.
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That scene is ripe for the Family Guy treatment. They definitely lost their balls if they didn't utilize that scene.
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Or is this a strictly straight-to-DVD episode? Not a Family Guy fan or viewer, but the Star Wars spoof was worth a few chuckles.
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Blue Harvest was great, keep em comin Seth
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I watched it the other day and it took some effort to get through the whole thing. I laughed maybe 4 or 5 times over the course of the whole hour. Most of its appeal was watching how they replicated shots in animated form. Otherwise, it was very forgettable.
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at the behest of Lucasfilm.
They played it like a Back to the Future reference.
Lois : "I don't know what it is, but when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing my brother"
Anyway, Lucasfilm didn't like it, so "snip" it went. -
the season finale. But like Blue Harvest, it will be cut for tv broadcast.
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So why would we wait and pay for it again?
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Because it seems a little odd to try to push a Blu-Ray for a regular or even double length episode.
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Anybody watch the Jesse Stone movies he does for CBS? Pretty good, I think.
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a LOT of extras on the DVD.
Still, Blu-ray seems excessive for animation of Family Guy's quality. -
Is it the giant chicken? Please say it is.
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I'll probably Netflix it then.
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to the letter become parody?
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The show was never funny, even in it's "glory days." Why would this be any different?
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get too pleased with that, as he's BARELY in the episode. I'd say they faithfully reproduce 80% of Boba Fett's appearances, and I can't remember a single joke using him.
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are out of touch with real life. For example, they think Simpsons is intelligent humor.
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the ten or so seconds with him are by far the funniest in the show. all in all, this 'special' is actually quite dull. or so i'm told, not that i've seen it or anything, if you know what i mean.....
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Because it's finished season 8 and has been "cancelled" by Fox twice, and it didn't take.
So yeah, the audience is there. -
I think this would have worked better as a single 22-minute episode. Stewie as Vader was the best thing, but not enough laughs still. After watching this, I don't care if they don't do a Family Guy take on ROTJ.
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but Family Guy is still damn funny...i feel sorry for those who can't see that...but continue to bash away if it makes you feel better about yourself.
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Season 8 has been pretty good. I did struggle with Sundays episode though.
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at least....that's what I heard from a friend...
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Truly? Why is that whenever I end up having to see it (usually because a friend "loves" the show) I find myself staring longingly at my watch and rolling my eyes at lazy, bullshit gags every 50 seconds?
Though Tom Selleck is the man. -
I remember Juicy Fruit. Comedy!
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for ten years. Family Guy, meanwhile, has NEVER been funny.
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...is just a clip from the movie 'Her Alibi'.
There's clearly a lot of effort gone into the making of the episode, but that doesn't automatically make it funny.
The only laugh out loud line, for me, was Stewie's "Get the fuck out of my bounty hunter meeting". Everything else was pretty weak. Sorry guys. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeWDg264I9Q
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was hilarious, if for nothing else Marlie Matlin singing Poker Face. Oh and Renee Zellweger trying out for Independence Day. Priceless.
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But having been a big South Park fan when the show started, what I have seen in the show the last few years...not funny. I know a lot of people still find it to be a riot, and while not everything I have seen has been bad, but I feel like the show is not nearly as funny as it used to be, IMO.That being said, Family Guy this season is hit and miss for me. The multiverse episode was great, but it's been an every other episode deal for me since, one good episode, one bad, one good, one bad. It seems like sometimes they concentrate more on doing something shocking rather than funny. I have not lost faith, but they need to step it up a bit, last season was, IMO funnier, at least so far. Still a fan, always will be, but they did kinda drop the ball this season.
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loved it.
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Get in Oliva as Padme and there'd be a lot of comedy potential in there. But McFarlane said they wouldn't do a prequel trilogy, which I understand, but he has been dropping hints about maybe doing either Back to the Future, Wrath of Khan or Indiana Jones, which could also be good. Oh, and I hope McFarlane does his aggravated put-upon yet casually chatty Emperor like he does on Robot Chicken for the Family Guy parody. That's one of the best characters he does and it's not even on his own show. "No speak-o minimum wage-o"
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You get a torrent program, uTorrent is a good one, you go on isohunt.com and you download. Easy, huh.
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isn't it obvious that FG has almost run it's course? Everything you mention screams "Move the Island" (the new term for Jumped the Shark). For me the downward turn began when Stewie outed himself and every episode includes jokes about his sexuality. As far as, Lois not kissing Chris: is this anymore offensive than an outwardly gay baby regularly having sexual relations with adult men? I think the person who said that they didn't want to piss off Lucas hit the nail on the head. Not as many dirty old man jokes?
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They're so damn slow. Get an RS or MU account dude, save youself a whole lotta time!
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That was part of the deal. Apparently he is quite sensitive about that little gaffe in the OT.
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Not because of the squicky incest factor, but because it's the most obvious way to put the lie to the oft-told bullshit that it was all planned out in the begining.
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Dec 16, 2009 12:02:24 PM CST
Well, if Macfarlane had planned out these parodies in advance...
by royston lodge
...he might have held off on using some of the characters in the first one and saved them for much better roles later on.
For example, Joe would have made a really funny Yoda, and Adam West woulda made a really good Emperor. Mr Puterschmidt would have been a good choice to play Jabba in the next one. -
Or whatever the metaphor is... Family Guy isn't really all that funny, gang, so why did you expect this DVD to be funny. The OP nailed it on the head when he said Robot Chicken already covered this territory, and did so much much better.
Simpsons, Family Guy and All the other Fox Cartoons need to go to the retirement home. -
Already downloaded this. Funny stuff. How can anyone seriously review a Family Guy episode? You fucking snobby critics make me laugh.
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Indiana Jones and Star Trek also. Sorry on the repost.
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i think would be better for a family guy parody
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