Seth MacFarlaneLaugh It Up Fuzzball: Family Guy Trilogy (Blue Harvest/Something, Something, Something Darkside / It's a Trap)

I bought this as a gift for my brother. He was thrilled to get it. He’s a huge fan of both Star Wars and Family Guy, so it was perfect. Highly recommend!

Better than the Simpsons, better than South Park, Family Guy was a show ahead of its time. Reporetedly, sales of this DVD have been so good, Fox is going to bring back the series.This DVD collection features the following episodes:Death Has a Shadow: Peter is fired from his job after a stag party. Afterwards, the welfare office overpays him in unemployment benefits and he must make amends to both Lois and the government.I Never Met the Dead Man: After crashing the town's satellite, Peter convinces Meg to take the blame for the town's loss of TV. Peter then learns to live without TV, until a trip with William Shatner.Chitty Chitty Death Bang: After screwing up reservations Lois made at Cheesy Charlie's, Peter must make arrangements for Stewie's first birthday party. Meg learns how to be popular.Mind over Murder: When Peter is forced to drink at home, he builds a bar in the basement to entice his friends over. Lois finds the attention she's starved for by singing at the bar. Zaniness follows.A Hero Sits Next Door: Peter convinces his next door neighbor to play softball at the company picnic, only to discover his neighbor, Joe, is handicapped. Peter is jealous of the attention Joe receives. Zaniness follows.The Son Also Draws: To convince Chris's boyscout troup to let him back in, the family travels to New York. But they lose their car at an Indian Casino where Peter must go on a Spirit Quest.Brian, Portrait of a Dog: Brian is frustrated when Peter treats him like a dog. Brian leaves, and is arrested and sentenced to lethal injection. It's up to Peter to save him.Peter Peter Caviar Eater: Lois's great aunt dies and leaves the family her summer home. Wealth goes to Peter's head, and he has to figure a way out.Holy Crap: Peter's father, a devout Catholic, comes to live with the family. Peter is unable to bond with his father, and zaniness follows. (Guest appearance by the pope).Da Boom: a Y2K horror story: bombs fly, airplanes drop from the sky, and chickens hand out coupons.Brian in Love: Brian must come to terms with his life after a series of embaressing "accidents." After some psychological help, he believes he's in love with Lois.Death is a Bitch: Due to a clerical error, Death comes to take Peter. Death (played by Norm McDonald) breaks his ankle and has to stay off his feet. Peter must become death, and is ordered to kill the kids from Dawson's Creek.The King is Dead: Lois realizes her directing dream when she becomes the director of the Quahog players. But Peter's meddling ruins her production of "The King and I."I am Peter, Hear me Roar: Peter is forced to go to a feminist camp to get in touch with his feminine side. Lois must bring back the old Peter when he returns.If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin': Peter tells the make-a-wish foundation that Chris is dying from a rare disease in order to get a show back on TV.Running Mates: Peter and Lois both run for School Board. Zaniness ensues.A Picture is Worth a Thousand Bucks: The family travels to New York when they discover Chris has real talent as a painter. Chris, however, must chose between his father or his painting.Road to Road Island: Brian goes to pick up Stewie from Stewie's grandparents'. But the two miss their plane and are forced to find a way back home. On the way, Brian confronts his mother.Let's go to the Hop: Licking toads becomes popular at Quahog high school. Peter goes undercover to convince the kids not to do drugs and gets a date to prom with the most popular girl in school.Damnit Janet: Stewie goes to daycare and falls for a girl. But he discovers she's only after his cookies. Lois becomes an airline stewardess, but discovers Peter is using her to take free flights across the globe. Zaniness follows.He's too Sexy for his Fat: Chris decides to go on a diet after being mistaken for a van. Peter decides to get plastic surgery.E Peterbus Unium: Due to a zoning error, the family's house is not a part of the United States. Peter finds he is not respected at the U.N., so he invades his neighbor's house to annex his pool. The family comes under seige from the U.S. Army.The Story on Page One: Meg joins the school newspaper in order to have extra curricular activities for college. But Peter switches her story with a story that Luke Perry is gay. Luke Perry ensues.Wasted Talent: Peter wins the golden ticket to tour the Pautuckett Pat breweries. Lois discovers Peter can win the paino talent show, if he's drunk. Stewie requests Peter play the sad walking away music from the Hulk TV show.Fore, Fathers: Peter tries to teach Chris how to be responsible. He then tries to teach Cleveland's son how to play golf. He fails.Some episodes have commentary with Seth McFarlane and various other writers, directors, or actors (Seth himself did the voice of Peter, Brian, Stewie, and Quagmire). The commentary is hilarious, but it's only on a few of the episodes.No doubt, this is some of the funniest stuff you'll ever see on DVD. If you even remotely like Simpsons, the Critic, or South Park, you should definately pick up this DVD.

The episode starts with - you guessed it - another power outage. Peter and the rest of the Griffins are once again left sitting in their living room, with nothing to do. Chris then suggests the retelling of another Star Wars story; and thus the 2nd spoof begins. I felt the writers could have mixed things up this time around. Did the exact same series of events have to lead to the story being retold? It just seemed lazy not to change things, even a little here. We see a similar occurance at the very end of the episode, when Peter once again insults Robot Chicken. However, on the upside, this time he takes a dig at Seth Green's Without a Paddle too.The story essentially picks up where the first one left off; the death star has been destroyed; Darth Vader (Stewie) chases Luke Skywalker (Chris) on the planet Hoth; Luke has a vision of his dead mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Herbert), who tells him to go to the planet Dagobah and learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Yoda (Carl). Luke then has a vision of the Empire capturing his friends. Believing this to be true, Luke forgoes his Jedi training in order to save his friends and confront Vader. Meanwhile, Princess Leia (Lois) somehow manages to fall for Falcon pilot Han Solo (Peter). Basically, the galaxy is at war and we're along for the ride.The writers seem to utilise the Family Guy characters extremely well in these specials, and here is no different. The casting of Mort Goldman in the role of Lando was inspired; he adds something special to the character, and I'm not just talking about the fact that here, he's a black jew. What you'll actually notice is that this time around, the writers have been forced to re-cast some characters into different roles; in the opening scenes, Joe is seen as one of Darth Vader's probe droids, while further into the episode, Meg plays the role of a space-slug, which is perhaps even uglier a creature than what we saw her play in "Blue Harvest". She does however get to speak this time around, which is an improvement of sorts. Still, I can't complain about these changes, as they certainly do "work". Consuela's scenes in the episode will remind viewers of her recent appearance in the season 8 episode "Dog Gone"; she is just as stubborn and ignorant as ever, and not even Darth Vadar can get her to do what he wants. My only gripe I have with her however is that her scenes would have felt far fresher if we hadn't seen it all already so recently.As for actual guest star appearances, we also see the first appearance of James Woods since "Back to the Woods" in season 6; but those looking forward to his cameo may be disappointed to learn that he features in just a single "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" scene. While James Woods is the only visible guest star to appear, we do see Ryan Seacrest (albeit with a different voice-artist) during a short American Idol gag involving Darth Vader cutting him to pieces, among others.While all of this is going on, Peter also puts his own unique spin on Han Solo's relationship with Princess Leia. His constant attempts at winning her over are presented in true Family Guy fashion, but while some of the jokes surrounding this work, others simply fall flat on the ground. These scenes are probably some of the episode's weakest.Like "Blue Harvest", this episode is packed to the brim with Star Wars references, which fans are sure to love. For me, these gags always seem to work. However, probably out-weighing these are references to gags from previously aired episodes of the show. All of these call-backs to old episodes, while they do utilise the Star Wars universe well (Peter's injured knee scene is redone using an AT-AT, for example), make the episode seem less fresh; perhaps the inclusion of more original jokes would have made more sense.Fans will either be intrigued or irritated to discover that Stewie's homosexuality is in full reincarnation in this episode; Darth shows questionable interest in a revealingly-dressed Storm Trooper; even (and quite disturbingly) showing interest in being more than friends with Luke Skywalker, his son. I personally loved these scenes. While Stewie's sexual confusions are a common annoyance for many, many fans, here, we're given the best of both worlds. In this episode, "old Stewie" and "new Stewie" co-exist perfectly. The evil Stewie from earlier seasons of the show is reformed under the guise of Darth Vader, while the sexually confused Stewie that is the Stewie of today is still fully represented underneath.The epic closing battle between Luke and Darth is handled brilliantly, especially Luke's line "I would give my right hand for this day to just end". The episode closes with a Back to the Future reference, which, if I'm honest, feels quite unnecessary, and out of place.All in all, this episode achieves what it sets out to do - parody a Star Wars movie, and poke fun at it at every possible opportunity in the process. While a lot of the non-Star Wars related gags are recycled from previous episodes, the episode will once again please most avid Star Wars fans; the fact that it manages to stick to the original movie's plot so well means that even non-fans of the original movie series shouldn't become too lost along the way. Still, as aforementioned, the gags make this episode seem less fresh than "Blue Harvest" did, and with that, of lower quality. While the novelty has definitely worn off, the episode is still entertaining, and the vast majority will be pleased with this adaptation of a classic science fiction movie.Review originally posted on Family Guy fan site Freakin' Sweet News [...]

To everyone who is a fan of this show; you must own the DVDs. The show is wonderfully sarcastic about current events and about popular culture. Peter and his friends (Joe, Quagmire and Cleveland) are so optimistic everytime they try something new which ultimately fails miserably, of course. Stewie always hatches new plans to either kill Lois or achieve world domination. Poor Meg, always being bullied by pretty much everyone. Chris, adorable and naive. Lois, the housewife who tries to keep Peter in line and who is oblivious to Stewie's plans toward her. And Brian is the (only) voice of reason, even though he's the family dog.A lot has been said about the episodes on this box as well as the specials. Now here's what's actually on this set:- This box contains 34 discs, in turn containing 182 episodes. These episodes are all episodes until 'Internal Affairs', minus a few exceptions, listed below.- The special 'Road to the North Pole' is part of this set (season 11) and does not need to be bought separately.- The special 'Happy freakin' Christmas' is made up of the two episodes 'A very special Family Guy freakin' Christmas' and 'Da boom'; both these episodes are part of this box set (seasons 2 and 3) and do not need to be bought separately.- The special 'Ho-ho-holy cr*p!' is made up of the two episodes 'Thanksgiving' and 'Jesus, Mary and Joseph'; the first is present in this box (in season 12), the second will be part of the season 13 release (so it's NOT in this box). But since both episodes are part of the regular releases of the seasons, this special also does not need to be bought separately.- The special 'Stewie Griffin: the untold story' is made up of the three episodes 'Stewie B. Goode', 'Bango was his name, oh!' and 'Stu and Stewie's excellent adventure'; these episodes are NOT on this box set and therefore do need to be bought separately (if one wishes to complete the collection).- The Star Wars episodes ('Blue harvest', 'Something, something, something, Dark side' and 'Episode VI: It's a trap') are NOT part of this box set and are separately available as well as in one box set called 'Laugh it up, fuzzball'. If one wishes to complete the collection, one should buy these specials as well.All of the other episodes are complete, albeit behind on the TV releases. (The final episode on this collection, while stated as being season 12, is actually the last episode of season 10. The DVD set called season 13, will be comprised of the episodes of season 11.)So I hope this clarifies what you will and will not find in this box set, but I definitely recommend it. It took me a while to get used to it, but now I love it. If you're a fan like me and want to watch it more often than just on TV, you should buy this collection.

Being a fan of Family Guy from the start I found that the late-night slot on BBC3 was a bit tiresome so bought the box sets instead. Some people have compared this cartoon family with The Simpsons and certainly there are similarities. Like Homer and Marge Simpson, the patriarch, Peter Griffin has responsibilities far beyond his mental capacity and his wife, Lois is the one holding the family together. The children differ though. Sixteen year old Meg is the one everyone loves to hate and thirteen year old Chris is the awkward one. Stewie is the one year old psychopath who is determined to conquer the world but is never taken seriously by anyone except Brian, the family's talking dog. No one in this series thinks that a talking dog the least bit strange.Compared to The Simpsons, I think Family Guy to be far superior. The occasional strong language is more suited to an adult audience (swearing is bleeped out on BBC3) and fights and bloodshed are not uncommon occurrences. There are regular celebrity guest appearences who play themselves or provide voices. On the downside, this first series DVD boxset is devoid of extras but as an introduction to Rhode Island's premier dysfunctioal family it is well worth a look.

Got to agree that Blue Harvest was funnier, but I think that is because it was first and hit the right chord.This is a great 45 minutes, not packed with laughs but some real gems in here. It just lacks the 'defining joke' such as the struggle to get the old couch onto the Millenium Falcon in the first one. Saying that, I never thought Empire was the best Star Wars film anyway, more of a filler.If there is a downer it is that this is a true bit of money making - the DVD is released before the episode is shown in the new series, but what you get is ONE Family Guy episode from the whole new series. You might just be able to watch it on TV for free.Can't believe the reviews on here giving one star because the T-Shirt was the wrong size or crinkled in the wash............Looking forward to the third in the series - there is a sneak peek on the DVD showing the cast doing a brief read through. Should something something complete the collection nicely.

The first and in my opinion the best of the series available. Family Guy is a cross between The Simpsons and South Park, irreverent, crude at times, but with some wonderful quirks and no leanings whatsoever towards political correctness. If you get huffy about people taking the rise out of race, religion, colour, old age, disability, sex and much more, you will not like this.It is funny due to the fact that the characters do not realise that they are being comic and are oblivious to the unintentional humour they illicit. Like Marmite, it's not to everyone's taste but it cracks me up every time I watch it although some things do make me cringe in a "there's no way I would say that" kind of way.You do need a surreal sense of humour at times, but this DVD is a must for anyone who loves off-beat comedy. If you are easily offended keep away.

3 in 1.Brought as a gift for the girlfriend who loves Family Guy. Since we've been dating I got her in to Star Wars (which she now also loves). Put the two together and you end up with this. Now she has seen all the Star Wars films these Family Guy versions are a lot easier to relate to and she enjoys them more now.No complaints so can't give it anything less than 5 Stars