Sunday, September 23, 2007

I WAS WAITING FOR A GOLD BIKINI JOKE: As (I believe) EW noted, tonight's Family Guy: Star Wars freed Family Guy from what it does poorly (the creation of plot or character) to do what it does best (random 70s-80s pop culture jokes). Points are warranted because, while the entire episode is kind of structured around a "remember that time when..." setup, there's minimal (if any) reliance on that joke structure in the show, and the show itself is a fairly faithful retelling of Episode IV. But the biggest shock was that the Family Guy producers (who open the show with a Bush/Cheney=Galactic Empire joke) somehow managed to get Rush Limbaugh to voice himself for a brief joke. But, yes, as the (overly long) meta joke at the end pointed out, Robot Chicken did it earlier and better.

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