The only Star Wars actor to appear in parody episodes of Family Guy

Fisher first appeared as Angela in the Season 4 “Family Guy” episode “Jungle Love”. Bringing in a geek icon as part of the recurring cast feels like a repeat of how the show enlisted former Batman actor Adam West as the crooked Mayor of Quahog, also named Adam West. (In the first Star Wars parody episode, “Blue Harvest,” Mayor West plays Grand Moff Tarkin.)

Of course, after Fisher’s death in 2016, Family Guy retired the Angela character. Peter delivers a eulogy for Angela in the episode “Pawtucket Pete” paying homage to Fisher’s most iconic role by noting that “her voice will live on in the little messages dropped on the robot.” The most serious part of the eulogy, which sounds more like Fisher herself, is that Peter concludes: “You may have lost a president, but heaven has gained a princess.”

Now, the original “Star Wars” trilogy did not have a surplus of female characters. (There’s a reason why Meg Griffin, the series’ constant butt of jokes, gets to play various monsters: the Garbage Squid in “Blue Harvest,” the Space Slug in “Something, Something, Something, Dark Side,” and the Sarlaac in “It’s a Trap.”) So When Mon Mothma appears, Peter/Han describes her as “the only other chick in the galaxy.”

In Return of the Jedi, Caroline Blackiston plays Mon Mothma. The film does not focus on her character, but she is implied to be a leader in the Rebel Alliance; She’s the one making the big show about the second Death Star.

Lucas brought back Mothma in the final “Revenge of the Sith” trilogy, now played by Genevieve O’Reilly. Most of the younger Mothma’s scenes were cut, but they would have established her as a Republican senator and founding member of the Rebels alongside Padmé (Natalie Portman) and Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits). Later “Star Wars” films/TV shows, incl “Rogue One” and “Andor” brought back O’Reilly as Mon Mothma for expanded roles.

In It’s a Trap, Fisher only manages to recreate a 30-second Mothma scene from Return of the Jedi. Given Angela’s role as Peter’s boss (i.e., an authority figure like Moon), the scarcity of women in Star Wars, and Angela’s casting as Leia would be pretty obvious, as fitting a role as it could have been.