Family Guy Episodes: Blue Harvest
Blue Harvest is the first episode of the sixth season of the FOX series Family Guy, which originally aired on September 23, 2007.
The episode is a retelling of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, recasting the shows characters into Star Wars roles. For this purpose, and for the first time in the history of Family Guy, this episode runs an hour long with commercials (47 minutes for the DVD version). It was also made to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Star Wars franchise. The name Blue Harvest is a reference to the title of the film ruse used to ensure secrecy and disguise the actual 1981 - 1983 production of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
This episode drew 10.7 million viewers on its first showing, and earned the highest Nielsen rating of any Family Guy episode since the show returned to air in 2005, making it the second most-watched episode in the series behind North by North Quahog which garnered 11.9 million.
“McStroke†is a season six family guy episodes of the FOX animated television series Family Guy, that aired on January 13, 2008. The title is a play on McDonald’s terminology of putting “Mc†in front of common words. The working title of this episode was Peter Strokes His Meat, a reference to masturbation. It guest stars Ricardo Montalbán as the genetically engineered cow.
This was the first new family guy episodes of the show in over a month due to the currently-ongoing writers’ strike. It was also the final episode of the fifth production cycle to air.
Lois Kills Stewie is the conclusion of the two-part 100th Episode story arc of the FOX animated television series Family Guy (Part 1 being Stewie Kills Lois), and also features cameos with characters from Seth MacFarlanes other animated series for Fox, American Dad!. Guest starring are American Idol judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson as themselves, Patrick Stewart as American Dad! character Avery Bullock, and Willem Dafoe as himself.