{"id":2384,"date":"2009-12-03T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2009-12-02T23:51:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T04:51:20","slug":"family-guy-empire-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/03\/family-guy-empire-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Guy: Empire Strikes Back Parody Available Dec 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/somethingdarksideposter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The TV show <em>Family Guy<\/em> is doing another <em>Star Wars<\/em> parody.\u00a0 This time out it&#8217;s <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> that gets the Seth MacFarlane treatment.\u00a0 The hour-long episode is titled, &#8220;Something, Something, Something, Dark Side&#8221; and will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray on December 22 prior to being aired on television.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a follow-up to the <em>Family Guy<\/em> spoof of <em>A New Hope<\/em> entitled, &#8220;Blue Harvest&#8221;.\u00a0 There are already plans for a parody of <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em> entitled, &#8220;We Have A Bad Feeling About This&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below you will find the hilarious trailer for &#8220;Something, Something, Something, Dark Side&#8221;.\u00a0 Not only is this a spoof of <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> film, it&#8217;s also a spoof of the original trailer for the film.\u00a0 Watch the <em>Family Guy<\/em> trailer below, then watch the original <em>Empire <\/em>trailer (further below).\u00a0 The <em>Family Guy<\/em> trailer is patterned after the <em>Empire <\/em>trailer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o7ENNyGlmQY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Family Guy Empire Parody Trailer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o7ENNyGlmQY\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> if you can&#8217;t see the embedded trailer above of <em>Family Guy&#8217;s<\/em> &#8220;Something, Something, Something, Dark Side&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R6bvuhPyq8Q&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Empire Strikes Back original trailer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R6bvuhPyq8Q\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> if you can&#8217;t see the embedded trailer above of <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Did ya notice the horrible voice-over guy in the <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em> trailer&#8230; yeah, that&#8217;s Harrison Ford.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t believe me, go back and listen again.\u00a0 He might be able to make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, but he sure can&#8217;t do a voice-over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My thanks to <a title=\"Ed's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardcrosby.com\/\">Ed<\/a> from <a title=\"The Unique Geek\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/theuniquegeek\">The Unique Geek<\/a> for directing me to the <em>Family Guy<\/em> trailer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text 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