Trivia / Family Guy Presents: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball

• Budget-Busting Element: The opening crawl in "Something Something Something Dark Side" is full of Biting-the-Hand Humor at Fox for their lack of faith in the Star Wars franchise, boasting that if Fox can be foolish with their money, so can Family Guy. They then throw a random CG-animated elephant onscreen and point out that it wasted $58,000.
• Creator Breakdown: "It's A Trap!" opens with the word crawl complaining they are completely sick of doing the Star Wars spoofs, but are forced to because the executives saw dollar signs. And as the DVD Commentary makes clear, it's not even a joke.
• Deleted Scene: A number not aired in the first episode were on the DVD release.
• Edited for Syndication: Due to their hour long nature, the specials are often split into two parts with many scenes cut to make a 30 minute broadcast.
• Executive Meddling: In the DVD commentary, MacFarlane confirmed that the opening crawl to It's A Trap! was 100% accurate. FOX forced him to do it, holding Ted hostage to get Seth to agree.
• Money, Dear Boy: The word-crawl opening of the third episode is all about how the creators only created the last episode because the first two made enough money that that they were forced into doing so.
• The Other Darrin: In the European French dub of Something Something Something Dark Side, none of the series actors reprised their roles. For example, Peter and Brian were respectively voiced by Bruno Magne and Philippe Valmont instead of Michel Dodane.
  • As for Meg, she was voiced by her regular actress Sylvie Jacob in the first special, Charlyne Pestel in the second, and Dolly Vanden in the third.
• The Other Marty: Paul Reubens was to voice Pee-wee Herman in "It's a Trap!". According to Seth MacFarlane, the results weren't what the staff wanted so MacFarlane dubbed over the lines with his voice.
• Role Reprise: Joe Flaherty reprises his role as the Western Union deliveryman from the ending of Back to the Future Part II for "Something, Something, Something Dark Side."
• Written-In Infirmity: In-Universe example with Blue Harvest. Because Biggs Darklighter was portrayed by Joe Swanson, Biggs Darklighter was confined to a wheelchair. He explains that he got an injury from an accident regarding his repairing a Y-Wing that left him paralyzed.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Quagmire was considered to play Han Solo at one point.
  • Some jokes were mentioned, but not put in the final episodes, including a Back to the Future reference when Leia kissed Luke, Han mentioning he had OCD, and a Monty Python and the Holy Grail scene with the wampa.
  • Death was originally meant to be Emperor Palpatine, but the role was given to Carter instead because his voice fit the character more.
• Working Title: "It's a Trap!" was originally titled "We Have a Bad Feeling About This" at some point.

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