# Family Guy - Why is the Star Wars spoof called Blue Harvest? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560 "2008-01-15T03:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/1 "2008-01-15T03:08:37Z")
The title pretty much covers it. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/2 "2008-01-15T03:10:01Z")
> **[Blue Harvest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Harvest)** > > "Blue Harvest" is the hour-long premiere of the sixth season of the American animated television series Family Guy and the first part of the series' Laugh It Up, Fuzzball trilogy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on September 23, 2007. The episode is a retelling and parody of the 1977 blockbuster film Star Wars, recasting the show's characters as Star Wars characters, created with permission from Lucasfilm on the condition that the characters had to look exactly like they do in t... ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/3 "2008-01-15T03:11:37Z")
“[Blue Harvest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_harvest)” was the title part of Return of the Jedi was filmed under, to try and avoid attention/info stealing. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/4 "2008-01-15T03:25:14Z")
Thanks for the fast response. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/5 "2008-01-15T10:05:48Z")
Now that this thread has pretty much played itself out, I feel like I can hijack it. Has Family Guy gotten really lame? The jokes that go on too long were funny once, maybe. The self-referencing, long running gags (eg chicken fight) weren’t funny the first time around. Christ, it took the Simpsons years to fall to this sort of low. What say you? Am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/6 "2008-01-15T12:34:05Z")
Family Guy is funny, but its half life seems to have been shorter than The Simpons’. South Park has them both beat. Well, that’s my opinion, in any case. In reverse order: Futurama (yes, I know nobody said anything about it) Family Guy The Simpsons South Park The Simpsons would go number one only because of their longevity, but I’ll discount that for right now. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/7 "2008-01-15T13:02:37Z")
**Bell** , yes it has. The chicken thing isn’t even the worst of it, it’s just plain not funny anymore. And this annoys me, since back in the first 3 seasons it was the best damn show around. Far funnier than the Simpsons. But it didn’t get the acclaim for it, and now it certainly never will. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/8 "2008-01-15T13:18:48Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] The Simpsons would go number one only because of their longevity, but I’ll discount that for right now. [/QUOTE] The Simpsons have been going number two on TV screens for about the last five seasons. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/9 "2008-01-15T13:30:42Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] “[Blue Harvest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_harvest)” was the title part of Return of the Jedi was filmed under, to try and avoid attention/info stealing. [/QUOTE] Hmm… is there a word for spinoff/parodies/etcetera that take their title from the fake titles of other shows/movies? Like ‘Torchwood’, which was the code name for the earlier 21st century doctor who seasons, and then became a show in its own right. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/10 "2008-01-15T15:13:17Z")
Family Guy’s biggest problem is that it thinks it’s far better than it actually is. Yes, it is funny. But it’s not _that_ funny, and never was, and if they knew it and accepted that most of their comedy sucked, they might work on (a) impriving it and (b) be a little less self-conscious abut it. The self-referenc jokes are sklightly amusing… the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/11 "2008-01-15T15:16:02Z")
South Park nailed Family Guy with their bit on the jokes that never stem from the plot, and the bit about manatees picking random balls to get their flashbacks “like the time I was cosmic bowling with Mindy Cohn on Koosbane”- ugh. When will they learn a reference isn’t funny in and of itself- Ooh they said Conrad Bain, I remember him! And? They’ve turned into their own gag about Murphy Brown and their political references “blah blah blah John Sununu”, only its “blah blah blah Great Space Coasters”. Or Gorf, etc. Judging from the lack of love for American Dad on this board, a lot of people are missing out because I think the reason for the FG decline is Seth is using all his good writers and gags on American Dad now, like they did with Futurama. Who’d have though when South Park started and it was just crude doody jokes, that it would turn into quality comedy and satire that kicks SImpson and FG’s ass? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/12 "2008-01-15T15:31:45Z")
I think Family Guy is still funny, and that Star Wars spoof was one of the five funniest bits of entertainment I saw all last year. . .along with Knocked Up, Superbad, and Simpson’s Movie. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/13 "2008-01-15T15:59:29Z")
I dunno. I haven’t seen Superbad yet or Knocked Up, but I have a hard time thinking that the Simpsons Movie is top 5 funny movie of the year material. Maybe I haven’t seen or heard of enough funny movies last year. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/14 "2008-01-15T16:25:44Z")
FG has definitely been in decline, but still gets me laughing out loud at least once or twice per episode, so for that alone, it’s better than recent Simpsons, and worth my continued watching. and Blue Harvest did something I didn’t think possible: made me laugh at new Star Wars jokes. As a life-long SW fan, I thought I’d seen every possible joke you could make about the movies. But they managed to find some new and funny ones, which is a pretty amazing feat after 31 years of people mining the same territory. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/15 "2008-01-15T18:33:22Z")
I didn’t like the Star Wars episode, it had it’s funny moments but 50% of it was just a recreation of the actual movie. FG is still very funny, except I really don’t like the gay-ifying of Stewie. What happened to the megalomaniac matricidal genius from the earlier seasons? Now he wants to have sex with a dog, ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/16 "2008-01-15T18:48:13Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] What happened to the megalomaniac matricidal genius from the earlier seasons? Now he wants to have sex with a dog, ugh. [/QUOTE] Tell me about it- I’m nowhere close to a prude, but the whole Stewie now wants Brian to fuck him thing is so…stupid- I wonder if they’ll ever actually do it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/17 "2008-01-15T21:45:45Z")
A DVD with one freakin’ episode, for that much dough? Good joke there! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/18 "2008-01-15T22:14:47Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Tell me about it- I’m nowhere close to a prude, but the whole Stewie now wants Brian to fuck him thing is so…stupid- I wonder if they’ll ever actually do it. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] A threesome with [Meg](http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Barely_Legal)? CMC +fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/19 "2008-01-15T22:43:53Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Tell me about it- I’m nowhere close to a prude, but the whole Stewie now wants Brian to fuck him thing is so…stupid- I wonder if they’ll ever actually do it. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] When the hell did that happen? I know Meg wanted to fuck Brian (and would have gotten away with it to if it wasn’t for those meddling kids…), but when did Stewie decide he wanted to as well? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560/20 "2008-01-15T23:03:57Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] When the hell did that happen? [/QUOTE] I think it was from the direct-to-DVD movie that was split into three episodes for broadcast. Brian and Stewie are spying on…future Stewie I think?..and Stewie’s dressed up like Veronica Lake. When their target walks out past them Stewie grabs Brian and does that cliché “pretend we’re making out” thing. After Stewie says to Brian “Freakin’ shot in the dark here…you maybe wanna do something sometime?” It’s not like Brian hasn’t been the object of human affection before. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-guy-why-is-the-star-wars-spoof-called-blue-harvest/433560.md?page=2)