![]() ![]() Not all the extensions are that important (you wouldn't really miss most of them in the TV Version). The DVD Version of Blue Harvest is very similar to most of the other episodes: every now and then there's a little addition to the plot as well as altered scenes of auditory censorship (e.g "shit" instead of "smoke" and the good old religion-alterations: "Jesus" instead of "geez"). Similar to the 3-episode series Imaginationland from the series South Park, the producers decided to leave the episode out of the respective season-box-set and instead released Blue Harvest on a separate DVD.Īs opposed to the 4 boys from Colorado, the source material was not completely revised. Therefore it's no surprise that the DVD Version of the two-part episode Blue Harvest is 4 minutes longer than the TV Version. They also plan to do a third part which then, of course, will deal with Return of the Jedi (this movie will then be called We Have A Bad Feeling About This).Įver since the 5th season it has become a standard procedure for Family Guy to release extended versions of the episodes on DVD. They announced a sequel with the title Something, Something, Dark Side and in december 2009 it was finally released in the USA as well as the UK as a direct-to-DVD release. The title Blue Harvest was used as an alias during the shooting of the movie Episode 6: Return of the Jedi. They were even allowed to use the original soundtrack of the movie. Seth MacFarlane finally could fulfill one of his dreams: after countless references in previous episodes Lucasfilm (to be more exact, George Lucas himself!) gave them permission to produce a very special two-part episode: a spoof / parody of the complete plot of Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope (Krieg der Sterne) with the characters of the Family Guy-universe. In 2007, the 6th season of Family Guy started with the episode Blue Harvest. "Blue Harvest" is a story arc in the Dark Horse Comics series Star Wars: Dark Times.Comparison between the TV Version (represented by a recording from US TV) and the extended DVD Version (represented by the UK DVD) "Blue Harvest" was the title for the season 1, episode 12 of the animated series Ewoks.Īround 1997, the web site began redirecting web browsers to Ī special, 40-minute Star Wars themed episode of the animated television series Family Guy entitled " Blue Harvest" is a parody of the original film, A New Hope. The name Blue Harvest is widely known by Star Wars fans today. The Blue Harvest front not only was used during the principal photography for Return of the Jedi, but was also adopted in other areas such as a retro T-shirt that was made by ILM in the 1990s, a cardboard mailer tube to disguise the shipments of Revenge of the Jedi (the working title for the film) posters, an episode of the 1985–1987 Star Wars animated series Star Wars: Ewoks, and even a popular Star Wars fanzine. The false title prevented this from occurring during filming of Return of the Jedi. While filming The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas found that services would increase their charges based on the speculated high budget. Can you imagine what would have happened if we had said, 'We're shooting the next film in the Star Wars trilogy'? So when a visitor would ask, 'what are you shooting' and we said Blue Harvest, they went on their way. Camera slates, invoices, hotel reservations, call sheets, production reports, and crew hats and T-shirts all read Blue Harvest. When shooting Jedi in the United States we called the film Blue Harvest. Despite erecting a chain link fence, employing a huge security force, and dodging myriad press inquiries, approximately sixty fans saw through the ruse in the end and refused to leave until they had obtained a few autographs and photos. ![]() The filming took place in the dunes over the Thanksgiving holiday, with a reported crowd of 35,000 dune buggy enthusiasts. Additionally, the ruse was employed during location filming in Yuma, Arizona. Several locals began to question the ruse when they say Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher sitting together at a local restaurant in Del Norte county called Jim's. This ruse was used in Northern California, when finding a location for the redwood forest scenes of Endor. The Blue Harvest façade did give a bit of a wink and nod to its true purpose, however, as the supposed film's logo (intentionally or unintentionally) used the distinctive Star Wars logo typeface. The Blue Harvest ruse, credited to producer Howard Kazanjian, was very thorough the fictitious film's logo was emblazoned on a wide range of film production items including shirts, caps, coats, buttons, signs, invoices, and stationery. The title was used in all areas where deemed necessary. ![]()
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