I called my West Coast brother today to wish him a happy birthday. I mentioned that even though I’m not a big “Family Guy” fan, I would probably watch their “Star Wars” special tonight. My brother’s response was that he wouldn’t watch “Family Guy” if they were doing a parody of his own family.

Actually, though, the special is great — and I’m not, as I say, a big “Family Guy” fan. It’s a scene-for-scene parody of the original 1977 movie, with some surprisingly detailed animation of the space battles. In some ways, it’s even funnier than the very funny “Robot Chicken” “Star Wars” parody from earlier in the year.

Fans of Seth Green may want to check out one of the umpty-leven repeats of “The Soup” this weekend. I had not seen the weird You Tube clip of the weird, pathetic little guy defending Britney Spears, but even without knowing the source material that well I had to laugh at Seth’s impersonation of it.

You can also see it here.

I had been trying to figure out how to describe this sketch from “Robot Chicken,” without giving too much away, and John at Locusts & Honey solved the problem by finding a clip online.