Star Wars (Robot Chicken episode)
| Robot Chicken: Star Wars | |
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| Created by |
Seth Green Matthew Senreich |
| Written by | Jordan Allen-Dutton Mike Fasolo Doug Goldstein Seth Green Charles Horn Breckin Meyer Tom Root Matthew Senreich Hugh Sterbakov Erik Weiner |
| Directed by | Seth Green |
| Starring | Seth Green Candace Bailey Abraham Benrubi Bob Bergen Ahmed Best Donald Faison Joey Fatone Keith Ferguson Mark Hamill Hulk Hogan Tom Kane George Lucas Seth MacFarlane Breckin Meyer Dan Milano Chad Morgan Conan O'Brien Robert Smigel Adam Talbott James Van Der Beek |
| Theme music composer | Les Claypool |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production company(s) |
Lucasfilm Sony Pictures Digital Stoopid Monkey ShadowMachine Films |
| Distributor | Williams Street |
| Release | |
| Original network | Adult Swim |
| Original release | June 17, 2007 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | "Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II" |
"Robot Chicken: Star Wars" (also known as "Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode I") is a 2007 episode of the television comedy series Robot Chicken, airing as a one-off special during Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block on June 17, 2007. It was released on DVD on July 22, 2008.
The 22-minute episode's sketches all relate to Star Wars.
The episode features the voices of:
Robot Chicken had previously featured several Star Wars parodies in standard episodes of the show. One such sketch from the second season in 2006 featured Palpatine receiving a collect call from Darth Vader informing him of the Death Star's destruction, shortly after the conclusion of A New Hope. The sketch was pitched by Doug Goldstein (with Palpatine originally portrayed as a Bob Newhart-esque character) and rewritten by Breckin Meyer. The skit became popular and was uploaded to YouTube until it was eventually seen by Star Wars creator George Lucas. Impressed, Lucas invited the show's creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich to Lucasfilm for a meeting. They permitted Green and Senreich to produce a 30-minute full Star Wars parody. Green noted "The people at Lucasfilm realized you could do a comedic take on Star Wars without compromising the integrity of any dramatic take."
The duo and the rest of the show's writing staff then spent three weeks writing material for the episode, with it being twice the length of a standard episode. The writers did not intentionally tone down their material as they knew that Lucasfilm would inform them of any items unsuitable for broadcast. Lucasfilm's director of marketing Tom Warner noted that "There were definitely a few [sketches] I batted an eye at, and if I were producing probably wouldn't have put in. But they were having fun with it." The writers decided not to choose "obvious" things to subvert so, for example, rather than just penning a sketch mocking Jar Jar Binks, had Jar Jar meet up with Darth Vader and react to the changes he has undergone since they last met. Goldstein noted "It was a wild challenge to come up with fresh, new stuff since Star Wars has already been parodied for 30 years now." On the style of the humor, Green opined: "We love to emphasize the mundane in the extraordinary, and Star Wars was perfect for that. You have something that's intergalactic, and yet there's got to be some textural machinations of day-to-day business: How can you run an industry that large without paperwork? And where are the bathrooms?"
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