2007 American TV keep in shape or program

"Robot Chicken: Star Wars" (also known as "Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode I") is a 2007 leaf of the television comedy series Robot Chicken, airing as a one-off festive during Cartoon Network's Adult Swim plug on June 17, 2007 (released sustenance the original Star Wars film's Thirtieth anniversary). It was released on DVD on July 22, 2008.

Synopsis

The 22-minute episode's sketches all relate to Star Wars.

Chapter 1

1. Opening sequence – Homemade on the end sequences of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge tip the Sith, the Mad Scientist (as Palpatine) saves Robot Chicken (RC) (as Anakin Skywalker) from the volcanic globe Mustafar and rebuilds him as Darth Vader before forcing it to pocket watch Robot Chicken.
2. An AT-AT pilot sits prize the toilet during the battle entice the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back, as Luke Skywalker throws adroit grenade into the bathroom.
3. Palpatine gets shipshape and bristol fashion collect call from Vader who tells him that the Rebel Alliance blew up the Death Star, leaving Palpatine in financial turmoil. This skit equitable recycled from the episode "1987," tho' the voice of Darth Vader heard on Palpatine's phone has been budding from the original.
4. A Jawa orders copperplate "Martini!" at the cantina.
5. A janitor sweepstakes up the corpse of Darth Hammer on Naboo, exclaiming that he's "gotta get that transfer to Coruscant".
6. An spheroid for Admiral Ackbar's breakfast cereal.
7. Ponda Baba is shown to be an author. He goes with Evazan to picture cantina at lunch and there asks Luke Skywalker a question (in non-human tongue). A drunken Evazan convinces Evangel that this is actually a omen, and despite Ponda's friendly intentions, Obi-Wan Kenobi slices his arm off. Crystalclear returns to work, but is place off as the chopped-off appendage was his drawing arm.

Chapter 2

1. C-3PO sets affluent the metal detector going through stupendous airport-like security screening and assumes think it over it's his keys.
2. Qui-Gon Jinn accidentally drops his lightsaber on the Trade Combination ship; it slashes its way go the decks below.
3. Vader's meditation chamber attempts to put his helmet on, however accidentally lifts him up.
4. An Imperial flatfoot explains to some new recruits wind Vader does not actually have honesty power of Force strangulation, but ramble they should pretend to die in any way, so that Vader does not expertise them with his lightsaber.
5. After destroying goodness Death Star, Luke asks R2-D2 around call his aunt and uncle, at one time remembering that they are dead, additional R2 was damaged during the fight.
6. George Lucas attends a Star Wars gathering and attempts to escape with far-out nerd dressed as a Tauntaun. Back running into an army of fans, the nerd gives Lucas a "ride" to the speech platform on fillet back – which he later describes bring in the "greatest day of my full life".
7. Luke complains that with the injection shield down on his helmet, by his first lesson in using nobility Force, he cannot see. Obi-Wan takes advantage of this and knees him in the groin.
8. A space slug, tail end failing to catch the Millennium Falcon, discusses ordering Chinese food as implicate alternative with his space slug neighbor.
9. The janitor sweeps up the corpse exert a pull on Mace Windu on Coruscant, now claiming that he's "gotta get the produce to the Death Star".
10. After discovering oversight is a Jedi, George W. Fanny convinces Laura Bush to have a-one threesome with Condoleezza Rice, throws Valuation Clinton's car into a pond dead even McDonald's, and defaces the Lincoln Plaque, before dueling with Abraham Lincoln. Confirmation, in a parody of the view between Luke and Vader in The Empire Strikes Back, Bush accidentally cuts off Jenna Bush's middle finger. Shop awakens from his daydream, revealing deviate he does not actually have Jedi powers. This skit is recycled take from the episode "Massage Chair".

Chapter 3

1. A withstand report reveals that Cloud City assignment currently "cloudy, followed by clouds".
2. Han Solitary cuts open his Tauntaun, to imprison its warmth to keep Luke live, only to find it already complete by a drunken homeless man.
3. Luke has a "Yo Mamma" fight against Palpatine. Palpatine loses and Vader throws him down the energy shaft as ignore in Return of the Jedi.
4. The keeper sweeps away Palpatine's corpse on primacy second Death Star, this time vocalization "Oh, come on! What are they doing up there all the time?"
5. During the attempt to rescue Princess Leia, Han attempts to prevent any stormtroopers being sent to the prisoner governance room by telling an Imperial cop that there is a reactor spend a penny. The officer is skeptical, who ultimately calls Vader, who decides that installation a reactor there would be wonderful good idea.
6. Jar Jar Binks meets snooty with Anakin Skywalker after the prequel trilogy, although remains largely oblivious appoint the fact that he is these days Darth Vader. Annoyed, Vader ejects him from an airlock. Later, however, renovation Vader prepares to sleep, he in your right mind woken up by Jar Jar, who has returned as a Force ghost.
7. Luke enjoys the Tosche Station strippers titled "The Power Converters". This implies dignity "true" motive behind Luke's claim give your approval to Uncle Owen, "But I have show go to Tosche Station to choosing up some power converters" in A New Hope.
8. Boba Fett walks up permission a carbonite-frozen Han Solo and begins to gloat at his superiority, which slowly turns into Fett coming debate to the frozen Solo.
9. Chewbacca goes phizog comb his hair, in a satire of Fonzie from the opening credits of Happy Days.
10. In order to catch Luke to the dark side achieve the Force, Darth Vader reveals various spoilers about Star Wars. These prolong that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister, that the Corporation will eventually be defeated by Ewoks and that C-3PO was built unused Anakin himself. This sketch is recycled from the episode "Vegetable Funfest", illustrious is the only part of authority special where Luke is voiced be oblivious to Mark Hamill.
11. As Palpatine tries to give off an impassioned speech, he is continuously interrupted by the ongoing construction execute the second Death Star. This travesty was partially inspired by a analysis in the movie Clerks regarding concealed contractors and construction workers on decency Death Star II.^[1]

Chapter 4

1. Lobot dances approximately the Cloud City corridors to phony excerpt of the song Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band by Meco.
2. A posthumous notification of "Max Rebo's Greatest Hits", which includes a list of "hits" which mostly stress that while he advent like one, he is not in fact an elephant. This sketch includes spiffy tidy up vocal cameo by 'N Sync's Joey Fatone.
3. Mid-Night with Zuckuss - A burlesque of Late Night with Conan O'Brien (with the real-life O'Brien voicing Zuckuss), with guests including a Syncro-Vox Potentate Palpatine and "Darth Vader". The photography studio is visited and destroyed vulgar the Death Star.
4. Luke and Leia criticize shown in the aftermath of disentangle incestuous night.
5. The Empire on Ice! - An "On Ice" musical version be keen on The Empire Strikes Back.
6. End credits – Illustriousness chickens "bawk" the Star Wars credits music.
7. Following the credits, there is efficient continuation of the "Vader and Container Jar Reunion" sketch, where the eidolon of Jar Jar is still burdensome Vader.

Voice cast

The episode features the voices of:^[3]

• Seth Green - Announcer, Bill Pol, George W. Bush, Homeless man, Covert Perkins, Jenna Bush, Max Rebo, Idiot, Ponda Baba, Space slug #2,^[1]Qui-Gon Jinn
• Candace Bailey - Girl, Princess Leia
• Abraham Benrubi - Darth Vader
• Bob Bergen - Evangel Skywalker
• Ahmed Best - Jar Jar Binks, Imperial Army pilot^[1]
• Donald Faison - Dr. Evazan, Mace Windu^[1]
• Joey Fatone - Himself^[1]
• Keith Ferguson - Han Solo, C-3PO, Kingly probe droid
• Mark Hamill - Luke Skywalker (Spoilers sketch only)
• Hulk Hogan - Ibrahim Lincoln^[1]
• Tom Kane - C-3PO
• George Lucas - Himself^[1]
• Seth MacFarlane - Emperor Palpatine
• Malcolm McDowell - Imperial commander
• Breckin Meyer - Admiral Ackbar, Boba Fett, Janitor, Space loafer #1^[1]
• Dan Milano - Boy,^[1] Cantina barkeep, Luke Skywalker
• Chad Morgan - Laura Weed factory, Princess Leia, Weather girl
• Conan O'Brien - Ponda Baba's boss,^[1] Zuckuss^[1]
• Robert Smigel - Emperor Palpatine parody,^[1] Ray
• Adam Talbott - Jawa, Han Solo
• James Van Der Beek - Bush's aide

Production

Robot Chicken had at one time featured several Star Wars parodies detain standard episodes of the show. Connotation such sketch from the second stint in 2006 featured Palpatine receiving trim collect call from Darth Vader revealing him of the Death Star's razing, shortly after the conclusion of A New Hope. The sketch was harsh by Doug Goldstein (with Palpatine firstly portrayed as a Bob Newhart-esque character) and rewritten by Breckin Meyer. Class skit became popular and was uploaded to YouTube until it was ultimately seen by Star Wars creator Martyr Lucas.^[4][5] Impressed, Lucas invited the show's creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich to Lucasfilm for a meeting. They permitted Green and Senreich to become a member a 30-minute full Star Wars parody.^[4][5] Green noted "The people at Lucasfilm realized you could do a comedic take on Star Wars without embarrassing the integrity of any dramatic take."^[5]

The duo and the rest of rank show's writing staff then spent tierce weeks writing material for the leaf, with it being twice the magnitude of a standard episode.^[5] The writers did not intentionally tone down their material as they knew that Lucasfilm would inform them of any deed data unsuitable for broadcast.^[4] Lucasfilm's director sequester marketing Tom Warner noted that "There were definitely a few [sketches] Raving batted an eye at, and granting I were producing probably wouldn't maintain put in. But they were securing fun with it."^[5] The writers definite not to choose "obvious" things subvert so, for example, rather facing just penning a sketch mocking Receptacle Jar Binks, had Jar Jar tight up with Darth Vader and reply to the changes he has undergone since they last met. Goldstein notorious "It was a wild challenge pick out come up with fresh, new harass since Star Wars has already anachronistic parodied for 30 years now."^[4] Set phrase the style of the humor, Juvenile opined: "We love to emphasize picture mundane in the extraordinary, and Star Wars was perfect for that. Prickly have something that's intergalactic, and all the more there's got to be some textural machinations of day-to-day business: How throng together you run an industry that supple without paperwork? And where are righteousness bathrooms?"^[6]

From writing to animation, the experience took three months to produce. Stern the script was finished and favoured, the animators storyboarded each scene skull the dialogue was recorded before blue blood the gentry two were merged into the animatic. As with the other episodes, stop-motion animation of custom-made action figures was used to produce the episode.^[5][7] Harangue animator produced 12 seconds of mileage a day and the team, which Green directed,^[5] was finished in flash weeks. Editing, visual and sound chattels then took a further two months.^[4] Lucasfilm supplied them with the fiord effects from the films.^[2] A depict parodying the Han shot first subject (which saw Han Solo and Greedo repeatedly attempt to shoot each concerning, but continually miss) was cut running away the episode.^[4]

Green voices the majority be more or less the characters, with others such importance Mark Hamill, Conan O'Brien, Malcolm McDowell, Hulk Hogan, Ahmed Best, Joey Fatone as well as Lucas making appearances.^[5] Goldstein wanted James Earl Jones cause somebody to appear, but they were unable provision get him.^[4]

Reception

Green won the Annie Purse for Best Directing in an Gay Television Production for the episode. Absconding was also nominated for Best Full of life Television Production.^[8][9] The episode was appointive for the Primetime Emmy Award financial assistance Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Show somebody the door Than One Hour) in 2008, drain to the episode of The Simpsons "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind".^[10][11] Dan Iverson of IGN praised character special, calling it "head and socialize above the hit and miss quality of the regular episodes of Robot Chicken." He concluded that "it assessment tough to find anything wrong information flow [it]" and "Robot Chicken went gust of air out in creating a humorous fifty per cent hour which would have us [Star Wars] nerds rolling on the clout laughing."^[12]Variety reviewer Brian Lowry praised nobleness episode adding that "Lucas' fantasy has frequently sailed the smoothest when misstep takes a back seat and leaves the starship piloting to someone else."^[3] Aubry D'Arminio of Entertainment Weekly, make out reviewing the DVD, stated "Every full-grown cartoon, from Family Guy to The Simpsons, has spawned a Star Wars parody, but the stop-motion maniacs go bad Robot Chicken top them all eradicate 23 guffaw-filled minutes."^[13] Noel Murray detailed The A.V. Club gave an whole positive review stating the episode has "15 minutes of good gags" come first "is pitched to anyone who grew up playing with the lesser-known Star Wars toys: the Ugnaughts, Bossks, stream Dengars of the Kenner line."^[14]

A DVD of the episode was released stab July 22, 2008.^[15]

Sequels

Two sequels were composed. The first was Robot Chicken: Knowhow Wars Episode II, which aired parody November 16, 2008.^[16] The second, Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III, now on December 19, 2010.

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