Family Guy parody of Empire Strikes Back

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Peter Reynolds

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Just watched Family Guy's parody of Empire Strikes Back. Very funny. I was particularly
impressed how much effort was put into matching the animated shots to the original.
The space sequences we're indistinguishable from the real film (lighting, movement, etc).

Now I realize they probably just overlayed frames for the original film, but the fact that
they went to the trouble was nice to see.

Too many funny scenes to mention, here are three - in no particular order

Best Observation
In the final scene on the Millennium Falcon, why is Lando wearing Hans' clothes?

Best site gag
Dog the Bounty Hunter as one of the bounty hunters hired by Vader

Best line
Leia "I love you" Han "f#$k off"

Another thing I've noticed is no matter how many parodies I see of the original
trilogy, it never ruins the films for me. I think that's the sign of a true classic.

That doesn't hold true for the new films - once I heard the term "Mannequin Skywalker"
I never looked at Hayden Christensen the same way again.
 
I rather enjoyed Han being corrected for misuse of the word 'parsec' and his listing to the left maneuver.

As far as the effort put in, yeah, they definitely made a long term commitment to do this right. Which tells me that the creators weren't just thinking Star Wars would sell. I think it shows their respect for the movies and the effect they had on creators. Pretty incredible what those films became, and how well they hold up.
 
Cassius said:
I rather enjoyed Han being corrected for misuse of the word 'parsec' and his listing to the left maneuver.

As far as the effort put in, yeah, they definitely made a long term commitment to do this right. Which tells me that the creators weren't just thinking Star Wars would sell. I think it shows their respect for the movies and the effect they had on creators. Pretty incredible what those films became, and how well they hold up.
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I like that quote you mentioned as well. "Isn't a parsec a measure of distance?"

In the first Star Wards parody, the other observation I liked was on the Death Star. The
imperial officers were complaining to their union rep that all they wanted was a "railing"

Priceless.
 
You know, calculating hyperspace routes is supposedly about finding spatial 'shortcuts.' So maybe it makes sense to talk about a ship making a run in some number of parsecs; it's not about measurement of time but rather measurement of the shortest hyperspace route that the pilot can find and safely navigate (since it's established in dialog that calculating hyperspace jumps is difficult and dangerous, if you screw it up).

Kind of like your neighbors always taking a certain road to the store that's six miles long, and you find a slightly bumpier, riskier route to the same place that's only three miles long. Damned simple, really.

Anyway, it's fictional technology and it's kind of depressingly easy to come up with ways to make sense of the dialog. I'm surprised that all these years later people are still chewing on it, as if any other tech business in the films actually makes real sense, by comparison.
 
Sad Max said:
You know, calculating hyperspace routes is supposedly about finding spatial 'shortcuts.' So maybe it makes sense to talk about a ship making a run in some number of parsecs; it's not about measurement of time but rather measurement of the shortest hyperspace route that the pilot can find and safely navigate (since it's established in dialog that calculating hyperspace jumps is difficult and dangerous, if you screw it up).

Kind of like your neighbors always taking a certain road to the store that's six miles long, and you find a slightly bumpier, riskier route to the same place that's only three miles long. Damned simple, really.

Anyway, it's fictional technology and it's kind of depressingly easy to come up with ways to make sense of the dialog. I'm surprised that all these years later people are still chewing on it, as if any other tech business in the films actually makes real sense, by comparison.
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That does make sense. So if we put in in current terms, someone could travel from Boston to New York by way of Albany (360 miles) or have a vehicle that uses OnStar and travel from Boston straight to New York (189.90 miles).

So you could say "You've never heard of the Dodge Caravan?" "It's the van that made the Boston to New York run in under 200 miles.

Discussion over. Case closed. Thanks :)
 
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