YMMV / Family Guy Presents: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball

• Awesome Art: The covers that perfectly and beautifully emulate the original films' posters.
• Better on DVD: You get all the jokes that had to be cut in order to fit the episodes into a 45-minute format and none of the commercial breaks.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Han/Peter forcing the Imperials to dig their own graves as they beg for mercy starts out uncomfortably realistic. However, it quickly becomes hilarious as his demands become increasingly heinous and absurd, culminating in him ordering one to cut off his friends face, go home to his family wearing the face and see how long he can impersonate the guy before they notice it's not him.
• Dancing Bear: The specials are all just one joke: the original Star Wars trilogy as re-enacted by characters from Family Guy.
• First Installment Wins: It's generally agreed that "Blue Harvest", the first installment, remains the best one.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • You know the scene where Peter/Han has various Imperial soldiers dig their own graves using their own helmets as shovels and then line them up to be killed, that he did in order to "make the film darker?" Well, the 2012 Essential Guide to Warfare kind of shows that the Ewoks during the battle essentially did something similar.
    • Adding to this, the Ewoks stabbing the Stormtroopers and Scout Troopers with their spears, while cooking and eating other Imperials during the celebration of the Rebel Alliance’s victory at the Battle of Endor also gets more disturbing, since the 3rd "From a Certain Point of View" showed Ewoks capturing Stormtroopers to cook as their meals during Wolf Trap, with a Scout Trooper named TK-841, aka Hoyel, being one of their victims.
  • In "Blue Harvest," Herbert/Obi-Wan at one point shouts that he'll "get the hell outta here!" and runs off, only to promptly return and dryly note what kind of person he'd be if he did so. In The Last Jedi, the reveal that Luke Skywalker did run off and abandon everyone he cared about is a major part of the Broken Base over the movie.
  • Lois’s Leia not liking Angela’s Mon Mothma in "It's a Trap" becomes less humorous in the New Republic era, where the 2 major ladies of the Rebel Alliance have differing ideals on how the New Republic should deal with the remnants of the Empire, since Leia endured the destruction of Alderaan and adopted a more hardline stance against the Imperial Remnant, while Mon wanted to demilitarize the New Republic Navy by 90% and keep 10% of it for peacekeeping after the Rebels won the Galactic Civil War.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Osama Bin Laden saying "Still alive!" after popping out of the Tatooine desert wouldn't be true three weeks after the episode premiered.
  • In "Blue Harvest," a shot of TIE Fighters flying outside of the Death Star is capped off by a single, repainted TIE blasting some dope beats from its subwoofers. Star Wars Rebels sees Sabine, the Ghost's resident explosives expert and art aficionado, spruce up a TIE Fighter her buddies hijacked several episodes earlier with a similar paint scheme. No subwoofers, but it does come with an electromagnetic pulse.
  • Speaking of Rebels, R2-D2's characterisation here (courtesy of Cleveland) is much ruder, snarkier and more prone to violence, including shooting down a TIE fighter during the escape from the Death Star. An out-of-character parody of Artoo, yes - but it's almost uncannily close to the behaviour of Chopper.
  • In "Blue Harvest," the Death Star's infamous Achilles' Heel was "kind of an aesthetic choice by the architect". Come Rogue One, and that turns out to be true: Galen Erso, the chief designer of the Death Star, built it on purpose as a discreet form of sabotage.
• Misblamed: Invoked. Chris blames Seth MacFarlane for releasing Family Guy DVD sets with only a few episodes per volume. Peter replies, "That is not up to him, that decision is made at the corporate level."
• Sequelitis: It's generally agreed that "Blue Harvest" is an amusing one-shot episode that's simply the end result of the show already doing so many Star Wars gags. Doing the other two films from the trilogy ruins this joke and, as the show often won't do, takes an Overly Long Gag that works once and continues to do it until you forget why it was ever funny in the first place. Even the creators eventually got sick of them and only made the last two on the executives orders because they sold well. By the time they're about to do Return of the Jedi, everyone's reaction (including Peter's) is pure This Is Gonna Suck.

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