So I recently rewatched the Family Guy Star Wars specials after such a long time since they were first released, most of it is funny but a lot of it is dumb and feels rather insulting to those who really care about the franchise.
Anyways these aren’t the worst in terms of parodies, but after reviewing them again I asked myself: Why isn’t Cleveland playing Lando Calrissian?
Now when it comes to the placement of characters I don’t mind how most of them are portrayed; Chris works as Luke, Peter as Hans is fine, Lois as Leia makes sense, Brian as Chewbacca is obvious and Stewie we all knew had to be Vader; but there are some choices I don’t agree with.
Cleveland would have been better as Lando (and no not just because he’s black), his personality just works better with Lando then it does with Mort who would have worked better as someone like Yoda.
Joe would have been better as R2-D2 since he’s already operating wheels plus it would have given him more screentime in these specials where’s instead he just plays random roles in between movies; Biggs (who they purposely made handicapped), an imperial probe droid and Jabba the Hut who’s the only one that kinda works.
Anyways I suppose it doesn’t really matter, Family Guy has gone downhill so no point in making a big deal out of it but I still think it’s worth bring up simply because they went out of their way to parody the original trilogy so of course people are gonna talk about it so it pays to do better.
(This is pretty much why I prefer Robot Chicken)