Family Guy Something Something Dark Side Full Movie
"Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" | |
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Family Guy episode | |
Episode no. | Flavor viii Episode 20 |
Directed past | Dominic Polcino |
Written by | Kirker Butler |
Product codes | 6ACX21 6ACX22 |
Original air appointment | May 26, 2010 (2010-05-26) |
Guest appearances | |
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"Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" is a directly-to-video special of the animated series Family Guy which later served as the 20th episode of the evidence's eighth season and is the second function of the series' Star Wars parody trilogy Express mirth Information technology Up, Fuzzball. It originally was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on December 22, 2009, and later aired on Fox in the United states of america on May 23, 2010. The episode is a retelling and parody of the 1980 Star Wars film sequel The Empire Strikes Back, recasting characters from Family Guy into roles from the picture show.
The episode was written by Kirker Butler and directed by Dominic Polcino. It received high praise from critics for its accurate depiction of the original film, also as its inclusion of many cultural references. According to Nielsen ratings, information technology was viewed in 6.13 million homes in its original ambulation. The episode featured guest performances past Jon Benjamin, John Bunnell, James Caan, Jackson Douglas, Joe Flaherty, James Greene, Phil LaMarr, Kevin Michael Richardson, George Rogan and James Woods, along with several recurring guest vocalization actors for the serial.
Plot [edit]
As the Griffin family is watching television, the power all of a sudden goes out once again, leading Peter to retell the story of The Empire Strikes Back.
Later on the "opening clamber" an Royal Star Destroyer deploys a series of probe droids in search of the Insubordinate Alliance. One of the probe droids (Joe) lands on the ice planet Hoth, where the Rebels have ready a base. Rebel commander Luke Skywalker (Chris) is patrolling when he is attacked by a large wampa (Cookie Monster) and taken back to its lair. At the base of operations, Han Solo (Peter) announces his intention to get out the Rebellion to Princess Leia (Lois) and Carlist Rieekan (Dr. Hartman), with Leia objecting to his decision, however she denies it when confronted, saying she would rather kiss George Takei. When he finds out that Luke has not yet returned, Han sets out on his "Dondon" to observe him. Luke escapes the wampa lair and has a vision of his tardily mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Herbert), who tells him to go to the Dagobah system to learn the means of the Strength from Jedi Master Yoda, afterward offer him a basin of Zima soup. Han speedily locates Luke, and the two are rescued soon after.
Soon after, the Empire discovers the Insubordinate base, and Darth Vader (Stewie) orders an attack. The Royal fleet exits hyperspace too early, giving the Rebels fourth dimension to evacuate the base while Luke leads his squadron of snowspeeders to hold off the Empire's battalion of Imperial Walkers. Royal stormtroopers break into the base, forcing Han to escape in the Millennium Falcon with Leia, C-3PO (Quagmire) and Chewbacca (Brian), while Luke escapes in his X-wing with R2-D2 (Cleveland), stopping to come across R2'south niece's violin recital. The Millennium Falcon enters an asteroid field and Han decides to dock inside a cave to repair the ship. They flee when they discover they have actually landed in the abdomen of a space slug (Meg). Meanwhile, Luke crash-lands in the swamps of Dagobah and finds Yoda (Carl) amid the foggy landscape. Yoda trains Luke, guiding him through a series of training exercises, including watching "sweet-ass DVD releases", and a grooming montage that parodies Rocky IV.
Darth Vader is ordered by the Emperor (Carter) to capture Luke and plough him to the dark side of the Force. Vader recruits bounty hunters to track downwards and capture Luke's friends, intending to apply them as allurement to trap Luke, including Raggedy Andy, whom he orders to leave. With the Millennium Falcon 's hyperdrive broken, Han and company escape by hiding amid a field of tending trash, but are tracked past Boba Fett (Ernie the Giant Chicken), after hitting a "infinite bum" collecting some of the garbage. Luke has a premonition that his friends are in danger and leaves Dagobah to save them, although he has not finished his Jedi training. Yoda initially doesn't desire him to go, merely encourages it after Luke suggests Yoda fight Vader himself.
Han and the others go to Deject City on the planet Bespin to obtain assistance from Han's friend Lando Calrissian (Mort), "the simply black guy in the galaxy", simply to be turned over to Darth Vader. Han willingly reveals the location of Luke and the Rebel base of operations but is tortured by being forced to listen to Paula Cole's "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?", every bit penalization for clogging a toilet on the 16th floor of Cloud Urban center, which forced Vader to use the "little pig people's" bathroom. Han is used to test a carbon freezing bedchamber Vader intends to apply on Luke to have him to the Emperor. Leia professes her love to Han, just Han tells her to "fuck off" and is then frozen in carbonite for posterity. Lando later double-crosses the Empire, freeing Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO, motivating the guards with a pizza party. Despite R2-D2 having sex with the combination lock, and afterwards being discovered past her hubby, to go the door open up, they are as well belatedly to end Boba Fett from flying off with Han. Luke arrives at Cloud City and, afterward being briefly interrupted by Ryan Seacrest on American Idol, engages Vader in a lightsaber duel. Vader cuts off Luke's right hand. With Luke cornered and defenseless, Vader goads Luke to join the night side, revealing that he is his male parent. Luke casts himself into an air shaft and, later discovering that a worker has shoved his severed hand down his pants, ends upwards hanging on an antenna beneath the urban center, calling out to Ben, Leia, and Tom Selleck. Leia senses Luke's call from inside the Millennium Falcon and has him rescued. On board a Nebulon-B frigate, Luke is fitted with an artificial hand, but told to practice masturbating with a hot dog first. Lando, dressed in Han's clothes, sets off with Chewbacca on the Millennium Falcon to rescue Han. Luke angrily protests the story'due south cryptic catastrophe, but then he receives a letter from Doc Brown, a reference to the ending of Back to the Futurity Office II.
In the Griffins' habitation, the ability returns as Peter finishes his story, simply to get into some other argument with Chris over Robot Chicken. Chris vows to not let Peter get his caprine animal this time, but eventually storms off when Peter brings up Without a Paddle.
Production and development [edit]
The episode was written past serial regular Kirker Butler, earlier the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, and earlier his leave from the series in club to become co-executive producer of the Family Guy spinoff series The Cleveland Evidence. Butler wrote the get-go typhoon of the episode in four weeks, under the guidance of serial creator Seth MacFarlane. The episode was directed by Dominic Polcino, who had previously directed "Blue Harvest". This was the concluding episode in the serial to employ hand-drawn animatics, earlier transitioning to computer-designed animatics.
In improver to the regular cast, voice actor Jon Benjamin reprised his role as Carl, who portrays Yoda, and Sheriff John Bunnell fabricated his second advent in the series, the showtime being in the 8th flavor episode "Quagmire'due south Baby". Actor James Woods, in his third appearance in the series, as an exaggerated version of himself, guest starred. Actors James Caan, Jackson Douglas and Joe Flaherty, forth with vocalism actors James Greene, Phil LaMarr, Kevin Michael Richardson and George Rogan made appearances. Recurring guest voice actors Johnny Brennan, Chris Cox, Ralph Garman, Wally Wingert, writers Kirker Butler, Danny Smith, Alec Sulkin, John Viener, writer and showrunner Mark Hentemann, and producer Chris Sheridan as well fabricated minor appearances in the episode. Alive-action clips of actor Dolph Lundgren, actress Brigitte Nielsen and actor Michael Pataki from the film Rocky IV, and actor Tom Selleck from the motion picture Her Alibi were also used in multiple sequences throughout the episode.
The DVD release of "Blue Harvest" on January fifteen, 2008, contained an easter egg of a cursory read through of $.25 from "Something, Something, Something, Night Side", as well as a teaser trailer for the episode equally some other easter egg.
The title of this episode is a reference to a specific line from the flavour five episode "Barely Legal", which was used in a cutaway relating to Star Wars. The line is an inside joke relating to the Emperor "figuring out the formula for not bad dialogue" for Star Wars. While the Emperor talks to a kneeling Darth Vader, he says "Something, something, something, dark side. Something, something, something, complete". "Barely Legal" was written by Kirker Butler, who also wrote this episode.
Cultural references [edit]
Equally the episode opens with a shot of the Griffin family, they are seen sitting in front of the television watching a parody of several Aaron Sorkin shows, including Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, entitled The Kitchen. Once the scene ends, the power unexpectedly goes out, to which Stewie responds by asking "What are we in, Iraq?" Reminiscent of the previous Star Wars-inspired episode, "Blue Harvest", Meg insists her father tell another story about Star Wars. Peter and then begins to retell the film Black Ophidian Moan before beingness interrupted past Stewie and Chris.
In the same fashion as the original Star Wars films, the story opens with a big, yellow clamber of text, with the text in this variation calling out 20th Century Play a joke on for their lack of foresight in terms of merchandising rights, thus allowing George Lucas and Lucasfilm to keep all the rights to every picture show in the Star Wars franchise. The text and then addresses the stockholders of 20th Century Trick, and cites Family Guy 's 2 cancellations every bit another example of the visitor's short-sighted decisions, and spending budget money in a useless manner.[two] Equally the Imperial Armada approaches, a Star Destroyer deploys Elroy Jetson, a character from the Hanna-Barbera animated sitcom The Jetsons, forth with a serial of probe droids. Elroy Jetson proceeds to the Little Dipper School, in imitation of the original intro to The Jetsons. One of the probe droids, portrayed by Joe Swanson, then lands in the snow near Luke Skywalker.[three] Luke mistakes the droid for a meteorite and approaches the device, before beingness attacked by a snow fauna, which looks like Cookie Monster from PBS' Sesame Street.[iii] [4] The character had previously appeared in the fourth flavor episode "Model Misbehavior" as a "cookie addict".[2] [five]
Before leaving, Han Solo runs into Princess Leia, who insists on Han staying with her. Apologizing to Leia for having to leave her, Han gives her his e-mail address, which is hosted past the nearly defunct company CompuServe at "hansolo64@compuserve.com." Han Solo so questions why Leia wants him to stay, and suggests that she is afraid that she will not go a "goodbye kiss" before he leaves. Leia and then mulls over the thought, and tells him that she would rather kiss Star Trek actor George Takei. Abruptly entering, C-3PO and R2-D2 alert Han Solo of Luke Skywalker's disappearance. Han goes out to look for Luke on his "Dondon", which has the torso of a tauntaun, and the head of role player Don Knotts.[iii] [5] Once Han locates Luke, comedian Rodney Dangerfield appears, to which Han responds, "There are manner besides many elderly comedians out here in the snow."[half dozen] [7] Before being rescued, Han first appears in a 1980s commercial for the chewing gum Juicy Fruit, with the original audio from the commercial and Juicy Fruit's current logo.[4] [five] [8] The sequence was originally planned for the 5th season episode "Road to Rupert", with Stewie and Brian taking the place of Peter.
Continuing on their approach to the Hoth system, the Imperial Armada passes past a mailbox with the surname 'Nimoy' on it. Darth Vader, as portrayed by Stewie, hits the mailbox with a baseball bat as the send passes.[9] As the Majestic Walkers, or "robot camels", begin to approach the rebels, 1 of the rebels looks through his binoculars at the group of robots and spots 1 of the Walkers wearing Crocs, a type of shoe reminiscent of the wooden clog but made out of plastic.[10] When Luke's aircraft is shot downward during the battle, he contacts OnStar, a company that provides vehicle security. As Han decides to outrun a series of TIE fighters, Sheriff John Bunnell then begins narrating the chase, in a parody of World'due south Wildest Constabulary Videos,[3] which Bunnell hosted from 1998 to 2002.[9] [11] This is Family Guy 'southward 2d reference to the show, as well as Bunnell's 2d appearance in the series. His first appearance was in "Quagmire's Babe", which first aired before long before the DVD release of "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side".[eleven] Han then seemingly goes through an asteroid field, much to Leia's chagrin. Han responds by stating that it is meliorate than going through the nearby strawberry field, with The Beatles members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison and so appearing. The other Beatles are so seen teasing Paul about Heather Mills having one leg, calling her "Peg" and "Eileen". After much maneuvering, Han is able to escape the Tie fighters, eventually parking in a handicapped zone, citing vertigo every bit his medical condition. This leads Leia to question Han'south determination making, and causes Han to film a "video confession" similar to those on the MTV reality testify The Real World.
When Luke reaches the Dagobah system, he crash lands into a swamp, prompting Allstate spokesperson and player Dennis Haysbert to announced, in a parody of his commercials. Haysbert was reportedly approached to voice himself, but rejected the offer for unspecified reasons. Later getting out of the crashed ship, R2-D2 is eaten and spat back out past a swamp monster, prompting R2 to question what else is located beneath the swamp water. The Legion of Doom lair and then rises from the swamp, which angers Luke. Afterward Luke meets him, Yoda, every bit portrayed past Carl, reveals that the secret to mastering the Force is to "check out sweetness-ass DVD releases", and goes on to reference several films, including National Lampoon's Van Wilder and Iron Homo, as well as Iron Man 's director Jon Favreau.[12] [13] A montage depicts Luke performing various able-bodied feats under Yoda'south guidance, interlaced with clips of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago from the 1985 film Rocky IV.[vii] [xiv] Going on to test Luke's knowledge of various films, Yoda begins to enquire the best and worst "naked chick" scenes, with Luke responding by citing the all-time every bit Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business, and the worst as Kathy Bates in About Schmidt. Yoda then asks about the best scene in the 1985 film Teen Wolf and Luke picks the scene in which Michael J. Fox in wolf make-up opens the bath door to encounter his male parent is also a werewolf. Yoda says Luke is correct, but that he too would have accepted the end celebration in which an actress allegedly exposes himself.[10]
Once the Emperor, portrayed past Carter Pewterschmidt, contacts Darth Vader, he kickoff begins by telling him that he is getting rid of all his CDs because he is "downloading all his music to his new iPod", so proceeds to list several albums, including singer Natalie Merchant's 1995 album Tigerlily, Alanis Morissette's album Jagged Little Pill, and finally Richard Marx's unmarried "Concord On to the Nights", the last of which Darth Vader excitedly agrees to take. Calling upon diverse compensation hunters, Darth Vader reviews a lineup of auditioning hunters, including Dog the Bounty Hunter, IG-88, Zuckuss, Bossk, Boba Fett every bit portrayed by the Giant Chicken, and finally Raggedy Andy, who Vader angrily dismisses.[5] During a confrontation with Han, Darth Vader deflects lasers using his gloves and sings the theme song from the Wonder Adult female tv set series. In one case Han Solo is captured by Darth Vader, he is tortured into confessing his bottleneck ane of the bathrooms on Cloud City. Vader then forces Han to heed to Paula Cole'southward "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" on full smash.[iii] 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 boxing" before he is quickly killed by Luke.[eight] Later on losing his boxing against Darth Vader, Luke falls to the lesser of the floating city and calls out for Leia, forth with Obi-Wan and actor Tom Selleck, the last of which is and then seen briefly looking up from his book in a real-life cameo from the pic Her Alibi.[12] Sensing this, Leia and then orders Chewbacca to turn the send around, prompting a parody of Vicki Sue Robinson's single "Turn The Shell Around", reworded to "Plough the Transport Around".[12]
As the story comes to a close, Luke interrupts the ending sequence and raises the viewer's awareness to all of the "unanswered questions" that the moving-picture show leaves behind. The Western Union postal worker from the 1989 film Back to the Futurity Part II then appears, and hands Luke a message delivered by Dr. Brown from the yr 1885, with the story then ending on the words "To be Ended", in the same fashion of Back to the Futurity.[2] [iii] [15] Composer Alan Silvestri allowed the producers to use his Back to the Future theme since he's a fan of Family Guy.
The episode then cuts dorsum to the Griffin family unit household, with Peter immediately rehashing the argument between him and Chris that first started in "Blue Harvest",[2] a joke grounded in the fact that Chris' phonation actor, Seth Green, is one of the creators and producers of the stop motion comedy series Robot Chicken. Peter begins by suggesting that Robot Chicken would never be able to height the story he had just told. Hearing this, Chris defends Robot Chicken. Peter continues to poke at Chris and finally states that he "may have more than fourth dimension to tell another story" entitled Without a Paddle, a critically panned film in which Seth Greenish starred. Chris then angrily storms off yelling "Fuck you" to Peter.[3] [7]
Reception [edit]
In a significant decrease from the previous episode, "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" was viewed in 6.13 million homes in its first one-half-hour, and 6.39 in its second (previous episode was viewed in 7.59 1000000 homes). It aired simultaneously with the season finale of The Celebrity Apprentice on NBC, the serial finale of Lost on ABC, and Brooks & Dunn – The Last Rodeo on CBS. The episode acquired a 3.0 and 3.2 rating, in the get-go and 2nd one-half-hours respectively, in the 18–49 demographic. The episode trounce the season finales of The Simpsons and The Cleveland Show in both the eighteen–49 demographic and in total viewership.[xvi]
Reviews of the television broadcast were highly positive, praising its close attention to detail in parodying the original picture. Jason Hughes of Tv set Squad constitute the episode to exist "incredibly [impressive]," going on to note, "As much every bit nosotros fans honey the films, we know they're non perfect, and that they're downright ridiculous in places. Family Guy managed to point out virtually all of those moments in this parody."[3] Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club found the episode to have "a lot of solid laughs", and admired the show for "throwing itself into these outsized picture show parody things".[half-dozen] Critics of the DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases gave the episode high praise for its ability to accurately reflect the original moving picture.[10] Cindy White of IGN gave the episode an 8 out of 10, noting that it "lives up to its predecessor and, like the film it spoofs, arguably exceeds it in some means".[7] John Scott Lewinski of Wired praised the faithfulness to the original film, proverb that it "becomes clear that MacFarlane and his writers are legit Star Wars fans".[x] Adam Rosenberg of MTV Movies Weblog called the episode "hilarious"[17] and Paul Semel of Metromix praised the episode for featuring "some very ribald sense of humour", and "[skewering] the original motion picture with some rather insightful moments".[18] In a subsequent review of Family Guy 's eighth season, Ramsey Isler of IGN listed "Something, Something, Something, Nighttime Side" equally being a "pretty entertaining parody, and a safety mode to wrap things upwardly."[xix] Tom Eames of entertainment website Digital Spy placed the episode at number six on his listing of the best Family unit Guy episodes in gild of "yukyukyuks" and described the episode every bit "nearly as skillful as the first [Star Wars parody], simply much better than the third [Star Wars parody]."[xx] He added that the episode is "a bit bizarre on newspaper, merely it works", and noted that you need to be a fan of the Star Wars franchise to empathize the jokes.[20]
Abode media [edit]
On December 22, 2009, earlier the episode first aired, it was released on DVD in Region 1, and — in a first for the series — the episode was available on Blu-ray Disc.[21] It was released on December 26, 2009 in Region ii,[22] and on December 23, 2009 in Region 4.[23] As with "Blue Harvest", a express edition version is available in the region 2 version, and comes with collectible items, including a T-shirt of The Giant Craven equally Boba Fett.[24] The Blu-ray Disc release features a 2d disc containing a "digital copy" of the episode.
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Sequel [edit]
With the success of "Bluish Harvest" and "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side", a sequel episode, entitled "Information technology's a Trap!" and parodying the flick Return of the Jedi, aired during the ninth season of Family Guy. The episode was written by David A. Goodman and Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, and directed by Peter Shin, in his first episode since the fourth season.[26]
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External links [edit]
- "Something, Something, Something, Nighttime Side" at IMDb
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