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If you missed the Family Guy panel at Comic Con 2009 then you’ll want to watch the video put together by Fox revealing details of the new season.

Full coverage of this year’s Comic Con event for the Family Guy universe can be found in our Comic Con 2009 section.

Probably the biggest draw to this year’s Family Guy panel at Comic Con was the inclusion of footage from the second part of Family Guy‘s Star Wars trilogy, Something, Something Dark Side.

The panel showed 10 minutes of footage from Something, Something Dark Side which begins with the text “a long time ago, when gays weren’t so in your face about it”. They screened the battle on the ice planet Hoth. Expect to see them rip into Fox in the episode too.

Unfortunately we’re going to have to wait a little longer to see the final product as its début has been put further back to December in order to allow them time to finish it.

The Return of the Jedi episode has been renamed from The Great Muppet Caper to We Have a Bad Feeling About This; according to David Goodman they were concerned that the original title would have caused confusion. The third instalment sounds like it is going to be a real treat for any fan of Seth MacFarlane’s shows as it will see characters from American Dad and The Cleveland Show join the characters of Family Guy!

Seth MacFarlane and fellow cast members Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Alex Borstein, as well as Steve Callaghan, David Goodman, Mark Hentemann, and Kara Vallow made up this year’s Family Guy panel at Comic Con. IGN have called it: “one of the funniest panels at Comic-Con ’09”.

Here’s what they said we could expect from season 8 of Family Guy:-

• Peter, Joe and Quagmire search for the source of all dirty jokes
• Meg goes to prison and comes back angry
• Chris finally reveals the Evil Monkey to the family
• Lois takes up boxing
• Brian gets behind the wheel drunk, then kills a dog; after confessing he learns that nobody cares
• Lois hires Superman’s maid, Consuela
• Peter has an affair with a cardboard cut out of Kathy Ireleand

There’s also going to be an episode about an unwanted pregnancy, but this is being kept for a DVD-only release as Fox have decided that it is inappropriate for television.

Also, expect to see an hour long two-part ‘who done it?’ episode featuring James Wood in the future!

Just a quick reminder that Seth MacFarlane, Mila Kunis, Seth Green and others from Family Guy will be at Comic Con in San Diego tomorrow. The Family Guy panel takes place in ballroom #20 at 11.15am with a sneak peek at the much anticipated Something, Something Dark Side episode.

As announced by Fox, Seth MacFarlane and cast are set to participate in panel discussions for Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Schedule details are as follows:

SATURDAY, JULY 25:

11:15am -12pm Join Seth MacFarlane, Mila Kunis, Seth Green and the brilliant creative minds behind Family Guy for a raucous discussion of what goes on behind the scenes of tv’s most subversive animated hit. They’ll also be offering a not-to-be-missed sneak peek at Something, Something Dark Side, the Empire Strikes Back parody follow-up to Star Wars: Blue Harvest. Giggity! Ballroom 20.

12-12:45pm Con fans will get the FIRST LOOK at The Cleveland Show, the wickedly funny new spin-off of Family Guy starring America’s favorite beleaguered animated African American, Cleveland Brown. Co-creators Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry and Rich Appel and voice cast Sana’a Lathan and Kevin Michael Richardson will all be on hand to discuss this new series premiering on Fox in the fall. Ballroom 20.

SUNDAY, JULY 26:

11:15am-12:15pm American Dad showrunners Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman and stars Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schall and Dee Bradley Baker are back to regale the fans with an insider’s look at how an episode of the hilarious Fox animated comedy is made, from table read to animatic to color. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind Comic-con event. Ballroom 20.