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 released to commemorate the original film's 30th anniversary. Due
to its popular success, it was followed by two direct-to-video
sequels: "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" (2009) and "It's
a Trap!" (2010), which were subsequently aired on television, in
edited versions, omitting most profanity and sexual references. The
trilogy was released on Blu-ray and DVD in the United States on
December 21, 2010. Its title comes from a phrase Han Solo said to
Chewbacca in The Empire Strikes Back as the latter was laughing at the
former.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! playing the Star
Wars roles. A running joke at the end of the first two episodes deals
with Chris Griffin (voiced by Seth Green) criticizing Peter's take on
Star Wars as a ripoff of Robot Chicken: Star Wars. In the third
episode, Peter and Chris initially argue about Seth Green then move on
to arguing about Seth MacFarlane which is when the rest of the family
joins in and the characters voiced by Seth MacFarlane (Brian, Peter,
and Stewie) quarrel with those who are not.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 Comic-Con 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, it's 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 2007â€"2008 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. 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 hand-drawn animatics, before transitioning to
computer-designed animatics. Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter