Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy

Laugh It Up, Fuzzball The Family Guy Trilogy consists of three episode specials 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. The first episode, Blue Harvest 2007 was created in honor of the original films 30th anniversary. Due to its popular success, it was followed by two directtovideo sequels Something, Something, Something, Dark Side 2009 and Its a Trap 2010, which were subsequently aired on television, in edited versions, omitting most profanity and sexual references. The trilogy was released on Bluray and DVD in the United States on December 21, 2010. Its title comes from an insult Han Solo said to Chewbacca in The Empire Strikes Back.

At the 2007 Comic Con, a series of clips was shown at a panel for Family Guy from the season premiere episode, showing the Family Guy characters as Star Wars characters. The episode aired on September 23, 2007, with some slight changes from the clips shown at Comic Con. Parts of this episode were shown at Star Wars Celebration IV, at which Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, a Star Wars fan since childhood, was a special guest, and again at ComicCon International 2007. The episode was officially endorsed by Lucasfilm, especially George Lucas, who revealed in his conversation with MacFarlane that he has TiVoed every single episode of Family Guy without having to buy the DVDs and, in addition to Jackass, its the only show he watches. MacFarlane said they were extremely helpful when the Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.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 coexecutive producer of the Family Guy spinoff series The Cleveland Show. Butler wrote the first draft of the episode in four weeks, under the guidance of series creator Seth MacFarlane. The episode was directed by Dominic Polcino, who had previously directed Blue Harvest. This was the last episode in the series to use handdrawn animatics, before transitioning to computerdesigned animatics. ........

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