In addition to being a brilliant innovator and a technological pioneer, he has an incredible sense of humor and an honest awareness of how people perceive him. Again, it seems entirely improbable, but that’s the great thing about George Lucas.
Seth Green: We got him to do his actual voice. I always feel like I’m always the dad to Seth and George, who are like 8-year-old kids together. Matt Senreich: I remember George coming in to record and he took the script and he threw it up in the air and was like, “I’m just going to be the actor.” Then Seth, who had met him before, was like, “Okay, I’m just going to be the director and tell you to do it one time, exactly how it’s on the page.”Īnd so they were just bantering with each other and I still hadn’t even said hello to him yet. It was one of the easier deals we ever did because back then, when he owned the company, it was just, George wants to do it, so let’s make it happen. But he struck up a friendship with Matt and Seth and so he was on board from the get-go. Keith Crofford: George Lucas is the one we had to thank because he became a fan of Robot Chicken, and that sparked an interest in George, who’s a very reclusive and private guy. Once we got the go ahead, we started writing sketches with their consent and approval. Seth Green: I didn’t think that they would go for it, but they did. Then I said, “Wouldn’t it be cool if we did a whole episode just based on Star Wars?” I still remember Seth stepping on my foot when I did it, but I knew that was the one shot I was going to get.”
Matt Senreich: We didn’t meet George, but we had lunch with the marketing and publicity departments. They invited us to come up to Lucasfilm and take a tour of all of their facilities and meet with some of their top executives and discuss if there was an opportunity for us to produce something with them. Instead, it was expanding on their sense of humor and helping an audience find a different access point. He’d showed it at a board meeting as an example of the type of thing he liked because it wasn’t cannibalizing the sincere value of the brand. After some confusion, she was like, “I love the sketch that you guys did.” How can I help you?” pretending to be an assistant. I looked at Seth and he was like, “Oh my God.” So I pick up the phone and say, “Hi, you’ve reached Matthew Senreich and Seth Green’s office. Matt Senreich: A couple days after it aired, I got a call on my phone and it said Lucasfilm on the Caller ID. So I never wrote any Star Wars sketches, but Doug Goldstein wrote as many as he wanted, and he was getting Star Wars sketches into this show. Tom Root: It was weirdly frustrating because we were told if you mess with Lucasfilm they’re gonna sue.
We liked juxtaposing a businessman doing very mundane office duties with something as fantastic as the Emperor. The other was where the Emperor receives a phone call from Darth Vader after the death star has been destroyed and he has a really mundane conversation with Vader. One was about some silly interpretations of spoilers. By the second season we had done two different sketches. Seth Green: We love Star Wars, and it’s obviously ripe for parody.
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