What better way to launch Family Guy's sixth season and commemorate Star Wars' 30th anniversary than with this double-length Very Special Episode, a full-scale, awesomely animated spoof that recasts George Lucas' saga with Family Guy's galaxy of characters: Chris Seth Green is Luke; Lois Alex Borstein is Princess Leia; Peter Seth McFarlane is Han Solo, but not, as expected, Jabba the Hut; Brian Seth, again is Chewbacca; Quagmire and again, Seth is C3PO; Cleveland is R2D2; Herbert, the creepy senior pedophile, is Obi-Wan both voiced by Mike Henry; and, of course, Stewie Seth, already is Darth Vader "My diapers have gone over to the dark side". Poor Meg is reduced to a cameo as the hideous reptilian creature that haunts the garbage compactor. Blue Harvest is reverently faithful to A New Hope, while engaging in typical Family Guy pop-culture references everything from those old Grey Poupon commercials to Doctor Who, Airplane, Dirty Dancing, and Deal or No Deal and bizarre digressions the iconic opening crawl detours into an appreciation of a "way naked" Angelina Jolie in Gia. Along for the wild ride are Judd Nelson, who contributes a voice cameo as John Bender for a Breakfast Club gag, Rush Limbaugh railing against futuristic affirmative action on Tatooine talk radio, and Beverly D'Angelo and Chevy Chase as the vacationing Griswolds observing the rebellion from their orbiting station wagon. A Star Wars spoof in 2007 isn't exactly uncharted territory. As Chris Griffin notes in this episode's final moments, Robot Chicken brilliantly did it months earlier and let us not forget Mel Brooks' Spaceballs from 1987; or, on second thought.... But the Force is strong with Family Guy, and who could resist the opportunity to hear the Muzak playing in a Death Star elevator? --Donald Liebenson
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