# Family Guy; The Empire Strikes Back (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521 "2010-05-24T00:33:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/41 "2010-05-26T14:59:28Z")
How are you all missing the jokes? Maybe they weren’t a mile a minute, and very little (if any) were flashbacks…but how are the jokes being missed? I can understand if you think they aren’t funny, or if they’re too “Star Warsy” for you, but I don’t see how you can watch the episode and not pick up on the jokes being said. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/42 "2010-05-26T17:31:18Z")
I liked the Meg/monster, and that they told her to shut up when she complained about not having any lines. And the the parasite in the Meg/monster’s insides was the evil monkey. Oh, and Luke singing that song from _The Three Amigos_ with his own severed head. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/43 "2010-05-26T18:34:10Z")
It gets even more MEH-ish if you hold it against what Spaceballs did 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/44 "2010-05-26T18:37:15Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > The part that had me absolutely howling was the cut away to Tom Selleck. The look on his face and his acting in the scene were priceless. That bit with Tom Selleck wasn’t shot for the episode - it’s a clip from one of his old movies. I got that from the DVD commentary. Also, if I had known they were going to broadcast it, I wouldn’t have bought the DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/45 "2010-05-27T17:09:26Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > That bit with Tom Selleck wasn’t shot for the episode - it’s a clip from one of his old movies. I got that from the DVD commentary. Also, if I had known they were going to broadcast it, I wouldn’t have bought the DVD. Boo! I didn’t know that… It takes away from the comedy of it a bit…but overall I still think that it’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/46 "2010-05-27T17:18:17Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > How are you all missing the jokes? Maybe they weren’t a mile a minute, and very little (if any) were flashbacks…but how are the jokes being missed? > > I can understand if you think they aren’t funny, or if they’re too “Star Warsy” for you, but I don’t see how you can watch the episode and not pick up on the jokes being said. I’m with you on this. I found myself chuckling quite a bit during the entire show. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/47 "2010-05-27T17:32:05Z")
Their version of the famous “I love you”/“I know” exchange was eminently predicatable but absolutely awesome. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/48 "2010-05-27T17:54:13Z")
[QUOTE=SlickRoenick] I found myself chuckling quite a bit during the entire show. [/QUOTE] Yep, me too. [QUOTE=Cliffy] Their version of the famous “I love you”/“I know” exchange was eminently predicatable but absolutely awesome. [/QUOTE] Exactly! Plus, I’m just enough of a Star Wars geek that I loved the recreation of the “look up” that Han/Peter does right before he gets frozen. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/49 "2010-05-27T18:08:32Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > Their version of the famous “I love you”/“I know” exchange was eminently predicatable but absolutely awesome. > > –Cliffy I don’t have it on DVD…what’d he say that was beeped? I think I can lip read it but any conformation? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/50 "2010-05-29T01:56:53Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Took me forever to remember the character who played Yoda. I still wouldn’t know if it hadn’t been brought up in this thread. Meh. Should’ve used Bertram or something. > [@johnspartan](#): > > It gets even more MEH-ish if you hold it against what Spaceballs did 20 years ago. Or Hardware Wars did 30 years ago… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/51 "2010-05-29T02:32:10Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Also, if I had known they were going to broadcast it, I wouldn’t have bought the DVD. But the TV broadcast was censored. One bit that made it into the TV ADS failed to make it to broadcast (the conversation between Chrisluke and the medical droid about his artificial hand). Since I haven’t seen the DVD version, that’s the only one I can say for sure, but… ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/52 "2010-05-29T14:01:30Z")
> [@Ruby Sees](#): > > I am looking forward to ROTJ and I wonder if they’ll get around to I-III. I am sure they will do RotJ but wouldn’t mocking Episode 1 be like punching a baby? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/53 "2010-06-01T02:12:57Z")
They could have done Yoda better. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/54 "2010-06-01T04:18:21Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Or Hardware Wars did 30 years ago… Never knew about that until now… it was horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/55 "2010-06-01T04:21:25Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I am sure they will do RotJ but wouldn’t mocking Episode 1 be like punching a baby? They could joke about doing an episode one parody for the rest of the show’s existence, but I don’t think they are stupid enough to actually make one. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521/56 "2010-06-01T12:16:24Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I don’t have it on DVD…what’d he say that was beeped? I think I can lip read it but any conformation? Lois/Leia: “I love you.” Peter/Han: “…Fuck off.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-the-empire-strikes-back-open-spoilers/540521.md?page=2)