RELATED: Family Guy: A History of the Show's TWO Cancellations Robot Chicken Parodied Star Wars Firstīut Family Guy isn't the only show to parody the Star Wars franchise. Long before shows like The Simpsons had their own Star Wars specials, Seth Green, who voices Chris Griffin on Family Guy, used his sketch comedy stop-motion show Robot Chicken to poke fun at a galaxy far, far away. The show aired a 22-minute special called Robot Chicken: Star Wars, making references to all of the franchise's films, including Episodes I-III, which weren't parodied on Family Guy. Much to the delight of fans of the sci-fi films, they actually do an excellent job of accurately relaying the story. With the blessing of Lucasfilm, Family Guy created three hour-long specials: Season 6's, "Blue Harvest" a parody of Episode IV: A New Hope Season 8's "Something Something Something Dark Side," a parody of The Empire Strikes Back and Season 9's "It's A Trap," a parody of Return of the Jedi. Each episode is a retelling of the popular film, using Family Guy characters in the Star Wars roles. "And we said 'Ah, well, God, that's the end of it,' you know, 'we're not going to be able to do these anymore.' And Lucasfilm surprised us by saying, 'Yeah, no, we like this.'" MacFarlane discussed the Star Wars parodies in Family Guy's Season 11 retrospective episode "200 Episodes Later." "We had done a number of Star Wars gags on the show, and they were so frequent eventually Fox legal said to us, 'If you're going to keep doing these, we have to get clearance from Lucasfilm, because there's just no way we're not going to get sued,'" he recalled.
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