TV Episode Review: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Written by Russ Crandall   
Saturday, 20 February 2010 20:29


Something, Something, Something, Dark Side is many things. It's the season eight finale of Family Guy. It's a spoof of The Empire Strikes Back. And it's the sequel to Family Guy's season six finale, which is a spoof of A New Hope, called Blue Harvest. These episodes are so popular that they are released as standalone DVDs, so I decided to check this one out. I liked Blue Harvest when it came out in 2007; as much as I have grown tired of Family Guy's constantly berating pop culture references and side jokes, I love a good Star Wars spoof.

It's funny, because The Empire Strikes Back is easily the best Star Wars film, yet somehow the people behind Family Guy couldn't make this episode very funny. There are seriously only a handful of truly funny moments in this episode (like use of the Cookie Monster as the cave-dwelling monster on Hoth), and though that might be okay for an hour of TV, we are also faced with 58 minutes of moments that are not funny. This imbalance left me looking forward more to the end of the show than the next joke.

Maybe I've just grown tired of this series as a whole, but it really felt like Family Guy was grasping at straws, even with a foundation of content that's ripe for the picking.
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