Transcription:Emperor Phone Call

Matthew Senreich: So, the Emperor Phone Call, which is starting right now, which most people have seen on the internet or through one of our Robot Chicken episodes, Seth MacFarlane really knocked this out of the park playing the Emperor himself.

Seth Green: This sketch is really what gave us the opportunity to make this entire project. Tracy Cannobio at LucasFilm had seen this and it had been sent around virally for a period of time, and she approached us about airing it on starwars.com. We did an interview that accompanied that, and that ran for a while, and we just generally started workshopping a relationship with LucasFilm. They approached us about doing other kinds of things with them.

Matthew Senreich: It actually just started where they offered us a free trip up there to get a tour of the facility. We kind of geeked out at the moment, and just said, "sure". While we were up there, we just threw out casually the idea of making a special and it just kind of spiralled into actually doing it, which we never thought was possible.