served as
executive producer for the trilogy.
"Blue Harvest" At the 2007
Comic Con, a series of clips were shown at a panel for
Family Guy from the season premiere episode, showing the
Family Guy characters as
Star Wars characters. The episode aired on September 23, 2007, with some slight changes from the clips shown at Comic Con. Parts of this episode were shown at
Star Wars Celebration IV, at which
Family Guy creator
Seth MacFarlane, a
Star Wars fan since childhood, was a special guest, and again at
San Diego Comic-Con in 2007. The episode was officially endorsed by
Lucasfilm, especially
George Lucas, who revealed in his conversation with MacFarlane that he has
TiVoed every episode of
Family Guy without having to buy the
DVDs and, in addition to
Jackass, it is the only show he watches. MacFarlane said they were extremely helpful when the
Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.
"Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" The episode was written by series regular
Kirker Butler, before the
2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, and before his leave from the series in order to become co-executive producer of the
Family Guy spinoff series
The Cleveland Show. Butler wrote the first draft of the episode in four weeks, under the guidance of series creator
Seth MacFarlane. The episode was directed by
Dominic Polcino, who had previously directed "
Blue Harvest". This was the last episode in the series to use hand-drawn
animatics, before transitioning to computer-designed animatics.
"It's a Trap!" It was announced in March 2009 that the cast of the show had read through an early draft of the script under the working title "Episode VI: The Great Muppet Caper". The second working title, "We Have a Bad Feeling About This", was a reference to the recurring catchphrase used in the
Star Wars films. The settled-upon title is a reference to the line by
Admiral Ackbar in the film. ==Future spoofs==