Return of the Jedi is considered the episode of the classic Star Wars Trilogy ripest for ridicule, so how will the Family Guy version stack up? Coming December 21st on Blu-ray ($29.99) and DVD ($22.98) is "the final chapter" (it's a safe assumption that they won't go back and spoof Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith), It's a Trap!, so named for the most famous line of dialogue ever uttered by the Rebel Alliance's squidly military strategist, Admiral Ackbar. This release will debut as a disc exclusive, much as the previous installment Something, Something. Something Dark Side, which aired months later as the season finale of the weekly TV series.
As before, the Family Guy cast of characters takes on the roles of the iconic men, women and creatures of the Star Wars universe. As in Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker (Chris, voiced by Robot Chicken's Seth Green) and Princess Leia (Lois, Alex Borstein) travel to Tatooine to liberate Han Solo (Peter, Seth MacFarlane) from the clutches of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt (Joe, Patrick Warburton, thereby foiling my guess that Jabba would be poor Meg's most recent unflattering cameo). From there, the heroes join forces with the fuzzy little Ewoks of Endor in a bid to overthrow the evil Empire once and for all. The Emperor (Carter Pewterschmidt, MacFarlane) and Darth Vader (Stewie, also MacFarlane) conspire to turn Luke to The Dark Side, while the young Jedi has his own plans, to bring Vader, his father, back to the side of good. A portion of the cast's original table read for It's a Trap! (then titled We Have a Bad Feeling About This) was included on the Something, Something. Something Dark Side disc.
Family Guy: It's A Trap! will also be released in Blu-ray and DVD triple-packs containing the entire trilogy of special Star Wars episodes. This will then mark the first time that the original Family Guy Star Wars event, Blue Harvest, has been available on Blu-ray.
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