Inside Robot Chicken: Star Wars

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The entire team, which consisted of various writers, set builders, puppet designers, lighting specialists, and cinematographers, worked together to make the best final product worthy of their fellow Star Wars fans. "Each department had different skits that were more difficult than others," Senreich says.

"For puppets, just the sheer volume of characters associated with the special and the problems we had to solve working on all these different scales, trying to utilize 3 and 3 1/4-inch characters, heads from PEZ dispensers or plush toys -- everyone had different challenges," Green adds. "As far as the set builders were concerned it's hard to say which was the most challenging to design. We had skits that take place in the Death Star in the Emperor's Throne Room, and that set was gorgeous. The thing is that everyone who worked on the show -- building the sets, making puppets, working in the lighting department, cinematography, and so on -- really loves Star Wars and they wanted to replicate it as identically as possible. So people put a ton of extra labor into it just to make sure it was picture perfect."

The company Plastic Earth was also contracted to create a rather startling likeness of filmmaker George Lucas, while the "Robot Chicken" puppet department clothed him in his classic outfit -- right down to his famous flannel shirt. Lucas not only appears in the skit (in puppet form), but he's also lending his voice. "He's an artist who really appreciates the creative process," Green says. "He gave us an unbelievable freedom in playing with what is seemingly his most-prized possession."

In addition to having Lucas, other noteworthy voice actors participating in Robot Chicken: Star Wars include such celebrities as Conan O'Brien, Seth MacFarlane, Malcolm McDowell, Hulk Hogan, James Van Der Beek, Robert Smigel, Donald Faison, Abraham Benrubi, Breckin Meyer and Joey Fatone.

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Inside Robot Chicken: Star Wars