[8], Ephant Mon liked to take justice into his own hands and his massive build made him an effective fighter,[1] with above average strength and slightly below average fighting ability, but far below average speed. [3] Luke mistakes the droid for a meteorite and approaches the device, before being attacked by a snow beast, which looks like Cookie Monster from PBS' Sesame Street. Abruptly entering, C-3PO and R2-D2 alert Han Solo of Luke Skywalker's disappearance. [10] Adam Rosenberg of MTV Movies Blog called the episode "hilarious"[17] and Paul Semel of Metromix praised the episode for featuring "some very ribald humor", and "[skewering] the original movie with some rather insightful moments". After much maneuvering, Han is able to escape the TIE fighters, eventually parking in a handicapped zone, citing vertigo as his medical condition. Pleased, Mon organized the store's inventory in order of greatest potential profit based on Undervine demand and historical analysis of the invisible market. It's A Trap! I grew up in a place where star wars wasnt really relevant, so when I came to the US and stared to watch FG i knew who star wars was about but didn't really relate much or laughed as much as other regular episodes. . I took a muscle relaxer. [7] The movements of the AT-ATs seen in The Empire Strikes Back were based on footage of Mardji walking. I think its time that Seth MacFarlane and his minions should make an animated movie. [9] Early in his life, the Chevin decided that his career would be more secure if he devoted himself to selling weapons instead of using them, as it was less dangerous. Peter Shin, James Purdum, They flee when they discover they have actually landed in the belly of a space slug (Meg). In the Griffins' home, the power returns as Peter finishes his story, only to get into another argument with Chris over Robot Chicken. Sometimes on a major film undertaking, the script doesnt quite match up with the special effects. [7] John Scott Lewinski of Wired praised the faithfulness to the original film, saying that it "becomes clear that MacFarlane and his writers are legit Star Wars fans". [16], Reviews of the television broadcast were highly positive, praising its close attention to detail in parodying the original film. [23] He was number 37 on the Return of the Jedi creature list, with Crumb as 37a. | Comic-book parodist Kevin Rubio did a similar gag in A Death Star is Born (2000) in Star Wars Tales, where the Emperor pinches pennies on things like railings. One of the probe droids, portrayed by Joe Swanson, then lands in the snow near Luke Skywalker. The argument at episodes end between Peter and Chris (voiced by Robot Chicken creator Seth Green) about the merits of the Robot Chicken Star Wars parody from earlier in 2007 encapsulates this point in time. (Because the action moves so fast, we dont have time to stop and think about it.) "Barely Legal" was written by Kirker Butler, who also wrote this episode. Blue Harvest named after the fake working title for Return of the Jedi marks a time when Star Wars parodies were starting to become ubiquitous and mainstream. While most fans might assume that Meg wears her hat because she's insecure, there's a much more . Well blue harvest is one of the tamer family guy episodes.So a younger kid could probably handle it.Imean Stewie does blow up princess leigh's home and so they attack the Death Star and blow it up which is where Stewie spends most of the ephsode. [1] By 10 BBY[4] the Chevin had come to work for the unscrupulous human arms dealer Masse Goskey at Masse Goskey's Arms Emporium and Explosives Mart in Mos Eisley spaceport on the planet Tatooine. direct your movie ." I'm sorry. [6] Series creator Seth MacFarlane also commented on the situation via Twitter stating "Disney keeps a tighter hold on it, so it's unlikely", though this could change following the buyout of 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets by Disney. Blue Harvest proves it is written by true fans by repeating the shot FOUR times. Ephant Mon was present when Jabba sentenced Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Luke Skywalker to death. Despite R2-D2 having sex with the combination lock, and subsequently being discovered by her husband, to get the door open, they are too late to stop Boba Fett from flying off with Han. Due to its success, it was followed by two direct-to-video sequels: "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" (2010) and "It's a Trap!" [4][5][8] The sequence was originally planned for the fifth season episode "Road to Rupert", with Stewie and Brian taking the place of Peter. "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" is a direct-to-video special of the animated series Family Guy which later served as the 20th episode of the show's eighth season and is the second part of the series' Star Wars parody trilogy Laugh It Up, Fuzzball. [1] With diplomatic skills slightly below average,[9] Mon endured poor treatment while working under Masse Goskey before finally reacting and killing his boss during an argument. [6] Critics of the DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases gave the episode high praise for its ability to accurately reflect the original film. I loved H. John Benjamin as Yoda and poor Meg once again stuck as an unspeaking creature. Something, something, something, complete." The DVD and Blu-ray disc for this episode went on sale December 22, 2009, well in . Stars: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy consists of three episodes of the American animated sitcom Family Guy.The episodes are a crossover and parody retelling of the original Star Wars trilogy Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983). Thats how Zero Hour became Airplane! Get to work on that, Family Guy crew. He was seen carrying the Model 434 blaster . [7], A spoof of the Indiana Jones series was also considered for development, but has not received any updates concerning its production.[8]. (Bizarrely, as MacFarlanes interview of Lucas on the DVD extras shows, the inventor of Star Wars is NOT one of those people. [3] When Luke lands on Cloud City to fight Vader, he is first subjected to appearing on the popular reality competition American Idol, with Ryan Seacrest as host of the ensuing "lightsaber battle" before he is quickly killed by Luke. Whenever you get around to watching it off your DVR, The Cleveland Show managed a nice little wrap-up to its inaugural season. Reading her will is a nice way for Cleveland to put Quahog in the past and make Stoolbend the future. ", He may joke, but in the Legends canon (the. Who's the only damn woman in this whole freaking galaxy?! It also helps hold hot pots: Super-insulated and 100% cotton. ", as punishment for clogging a toilet on the 16th floor of Cloud City, which forced Vader to use the "little pig people's" bathroom. [1], Ephant Mon was created for the 1983 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi,[14] although prior to the film's release he appeared in its Star Wars Legends novelization, which was written by James Kahn. Club found the episode to have "a lot of solid laughs", and admired the show for "throwing itself into these outsized movie parody things". Luke arrives at Cloud City and, after being briefly interrupted by Ryan Seacrest on American Idol, engages Vader in a lightsaber duel. Call outs My favorite jokes in Something, Something generally came from observations about Empire itself: R2 noting that wires nailed to ice probably isnt all that safe, Hans heaving breathing for his smelled bad on the outside line, Hans response to Leias I love you, the slow-paced light saber battles, and the note on Landos wardrobe at the end of the movie. You gonna attack them! Black[1] Ephant Mon [2] As the Imperial Fleet approaches, a Star Destroyer deploys Elroy Jetson, a character from the Hanna-Barbera animated sitcom The Jetsons, along with a series of probe droids. It originally was released on DVD and Blu . Earlier in Family Guys run, and also on The Simpsons, Star Wars gags generally didnt rise above the level of Look, were referencing Star Wars. The collection of clips on the Blue Harvest DVD illustrates this. I just think that [Disney's] a little more rigid". Blue Harvest bumps things up a notch, supplementing broad humor and pop-culture references with parodies of specific moments in the movie (as my top 10 list below illustrates). The exhaust port is the Death Stars only weakness, but it can be fixed tomorrow if cost is not issue. The episode was written by series regular Kirker Butler, before the 20072008 Writers Guild of America strike, and before his leave from the series in order to become co-executive producer of the Family Guy spinoff series The Cleveland Show. Free trial, buy. [1] She provided the voice of Peter Griffin's boss Angela at the Pawtucket Brewery. I've watched it so many times and it still brings me such joy. Seth MacFarlane, Overall a strong finish to an impressive first season of The Cleveland Show. Ill be happy to see it back next season. [3][5] Once Han locates Luke, comedian Rodney Dangerfield appears, to which Han responds, "There are way too many elderly comedians out here in the snow. [1] Once the scene ends, the power unexpectedly goes out, to which Stewie responds by asking "What are we in, Iraq?" Casting Family Guy used up most of its main cast for the characters in the original Star Wars, so they had to get a little more creative for Empire. For the most part, it worked beautifully. In "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire", he tried to make Cleveland Brown so angry he'll beat up Glenn Quagmire for sleeping with Cleveland's wife . Garindan, also called Long-Snoot, was a Kubaz who was considered to be the "greatest spy in Mos Eisley spaceport." With his face hidden beneath his dark hood, goggles and insect-eating snout, few on Tatooine knew his origins. [2] The term "white elephant" was sometimes used to describe an unwanted ornament. Yoda then asks about the best scene in the 1985 film Teen Wolf and Luke picks the scene in which Michael J. [14], Jabba and his court then boarded the Hutt's sail barge, Khetanna, and traveled to the Great Pit of Carkoon to watch the three prisoners be fed to the sarlacc that dwelt there. did James Bond, incidentally. Seth Green, Great Lines Oh, I wont miss you. Is there someone from the military we can talk to? Directors: The two aliens then began fistfighting, causing C-3PO to flee. This is hard to reconcile with Lucas obsessive perfectionist streak, which caused something like Han gunning down Greedo to bug him for decades. Leia professes her love to Han, but Han tells her to "fuck off" and is then frozen in carbonite for posterity. Where is that casual acting shuttle headed? [7][14] Going on to test Luke's knowledge of various films, Yoda begins to ask the best and worst "naked chick" scenes, with Luke responding by citing the best as Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business, and the worst as Kathy Bates in About Schmidt. The trilogy was released on Blu-ray and DVD in the United States on December 21, 2010. Darth Vader, as portrayed by Stewie, hits the mailbox with a baseball bat as the ship passes. Luke is crushed by the death of someone hes known for less than a day. During power outages, Peter Griffin tells his family the stories of the original Star Wars trilogy films, with characters from Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, and American Dad! Animation, Comedy. Even if it was the mentally handicapped horse. [1] Later getting out of the crashed ship, R2-D2 is eaten and spat back out by a swamp monster, prompting R2 to question what else is located beneath the swamp water. In "Something Something Something Dark Side": The first was in the scene where Obi Wan/Old Man Herbert receives the SOS signal from Princess Leia/Lois Griffin, where the latter mentions that (Obi-Wan) owes her for keeping several Alderaanian children silent for obviously sexual reasons, but the only thing we got out of her was "Joey Lawrence Haircut" due to Obi-Wan/Old Man Herbert fast forwarding through the details due to Luke Skywalker/Chris Griffin being nearby. The inevitable (and inevitably less good)EmpireandJediparodies would hit DVD before their TV airing, but for the first one, folks were encouraged to gather around their set, just as the Griffins do at the beginning of the episode. This was the last episode in the series to use hand-drawn animatics, before transitioning to computer-designed animatics. Ephant Mon watched the capture of Leia Organa and Han Solo. Han willingly reveals the location of Luke and the Rebel base but is tortured by being forced to listen to Paula Cole's "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? (I loved it, but Im so glad I dont have to write that Show Tracker.). It aired on Fox in the United States on May 22, 2016, and is written by Danny Smith and directed by Greg Colton. The term "white elephant" was sometimes used to describe an unwanted ornament. there's a pillow in the back seat. It was joked that the since-cancelled Cleveland Show could do the prequels (but they did a parody of Die Hard instead).noteAmerican Dad! It started off with the feeling of a chapter being closed, as the Tubbs/Brown family sat down for the reading of Lorettas will. . Die Charaktere der Serie nehmen den Platz der Originalcharaktere ein und erzhlen die Episode auf lustige Art und Weise nach. With the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive broken, Han and company escape by hiding amongst a field of disposed trash, but are tracked by Boba Fett (Ernie the Giant Chicken), after hitting a "space bum" collecting some of the garbage. [9] He was especially perceptive regarding the dangers posed by Luke Skywalker[8] and wisely warned Jabba of the threat to his security. Stars: Its title comes from an insult Han Solo said to Chewbacca in The Empire Strikes Back. Stewie appeared as a Spokesperson for Snapvine.com, speaking as Darth Vader and asking users what they would blow up with . In "Blue Harvest", when the group are fleeing the Death Star, no one is ever hit, even when Han (Peter) and Chewie (Brian) spend about 25 seconds standing at the doorway trying to get a couch through the door. Tell us what you think about this feature. Jabba allowed Organa into his court, but,[14] having been tipped off by Fett that Boushh was not who they seemed,[16] the Hutt had Mon and other members of his court hide within the throne room and lie in wait for Organa to free Solo after she believed they had all gone to sleep that night. Lot #: 351 Ephant Mon (Andy Cunningham) Polaroids, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - Cantina Archeology Part 3: Behind The Scenes of Jabba's Palace, The Ultimate Return of the Jedi Insider's Guide, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. [3][7], In a significant decrease from the previous episode, "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" was viewed in 6.13 million homes in its first half-hour, and 6.39 in its second (previous episode was viewed in 7.59 million homes). but the crappy CG elephant running . | Yoda says Luke is correct, but that he also would have accepted the end celebration in which an extra allegedly exposes himself. Haysbert was reportedly approached to voice himself, but rejected the offer for unspecified reasons. [2][3][15] Composer Alan Silvestri allowed the producers to use his Back to the Future theme since he's a fan of Family Guy. Buy. "[20] He added that the episode is "a bit bizarre on paper, but it works", and noted that you need to be a fan of the Star Wars franchise to understand the jokes.[20]. Leia (Lois) runs into technical headaches while Artoo (Cleveland) plays the patient IT guy. The Pryss-creatures of Verig were large, elephantine beasts. Ephant Mon was a Chevin male with a murky past who was recruited by mercenaries as a teenager to leave his homeworld of Vinsoth. Physical description View Mobile Site [3], The Pryss-creatures of Verig were large, elephantine beasts. The Chevin watched and laughed with Jabba's other courtiers when the Hutt captured Princess Leia Organa during her attempt to rescue the smuggler Han Solo, but then warned Jabba of the danger posed by Solo and Organa's ally Luke Skywalker, a Jedi Knight. Affiliation(s) Ephant Mon was a Chevin male from the planet Vinsoth who worked as a mercenary before deciding it was less dangerous to sell weapons as an arms dealer than it was to use them. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 6.13 million homes in its original airing. They, too, seemed pretty happy with Clevelands first season, and its nice to get the reminder of why Quagmire cant have his own show. [5], Fortuna explained that Jabba was not available, as he had left the palace to attend the Crimson Dawn's auction for Solo. On: July 7, 2022. Freight Train asks Cleveland to be his best man, only to replace him with Donnas first husband Robert and then not even show up for the wedding, earning himself a girly-slap beat-down from Cleveland until he changes his mind. [24], The film's second draft included a scene on Jabba's sail barge in which the protocol droid C-3PO attempted to translate a conversation between Ephant Mon and the Gran Ree-Yees. | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Chris vows to not let Peter get his goat this time, but eventually storms off when Peter brings up Without a Paddle. The pair then attended an arms deal on the planet Bonadan, where Mon also purchased a new writing stylus and a bag of finely shredded savory sweetmeats, electing to continue using the logbook he had found rather than buy a new one. 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