Die Semi-Hard (11 Dec. 2011)

To help pass time while posing in a holiday nativity scene, Cleveland tells his family his own version of one of his favorite holiday stories, "Die Hard." In Cleveland's version, when ... See full summary »

Director:

Seung Woo Cha

Writers:

Seth MacFarlane (creator), Richard Appel (creator),

Stars:

Mike Henry, Sanaa Lathan, Kevin Michael Richardson

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Mike Henry	...	Cleveland Brown / Rallo Tubbs / Bruce the Performance Artist / Consuela / Larvell / Arch / Coach McFall (voice)
Sanaa Lathan	...	Donna Tubbs (voice)
Kevin Michael Richardson	...	Cleveland Brown Jr. / Lester Krinklesac / Reverend Jenkins (voice)
Reagan Gomez-Preston	...	Roberta Tubbs (voice) (as Reagan Gomez)
Jason Sudeikis	...	Holt Richter (voice)
Seth MacFarlane	...	Tim the Bear (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ava Acres	...	Girl (voice)
Aseem Batra	...	Kendra Krinklesac / Female (voice)
Alex Borstein	...	Mrs. Lowenstein (voice)
Nickie Bryar	...	Various (voice)
Frances Callier	...	Cookie (voice)
Nat Faxon	...	Apologetic Janitor (voice)
Jess Harnell	...	Tim (voice)
Corey Holcomb	...	Robert (voice)
Arianna Huffington	...	Arianna (voice)

Storyline

To help pass time while posing in a holiday nativity scene, Cleveland tells his family his own version of one of his favorite holiday stories, "Die Hard." In Cleveland's version, when Waterman Cable Company is taken hostage on Christmas Eve by a group of terrorists, including Tim the Bear, Lester, Federline and Kendra, a barefoot Cleveland - wearing a tank-top much like the one Bruce Willis wore in the movie - must endure window-shattering shoot-outs and fist fights with his friends to save his wig-wearing wife, Donna, in a parody of the greatest holiday-themed blockbuster movie ever told.

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Plot Keywords:

christmas | nativity scene | reference to scooby doo | body landing on a car | child driving car | 

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy

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Details

Release Date:

11 December 2011 (USA)

Company Credits

Did You Know?

Trivia

The show's first full entry satire of any movie.

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Goofs

The story is supposed to be set in 1988, but the police car that Cleveland Jr. drives is based on a 1998-2012 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interpreter

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Connections

References McMillan & Wife (1971)

User Reviews

A well done parody

I was laughing through almost the entire episode. They succeeded in making a very funny parody. Die Hard was a great movie and one that people haven't thought about in a while. Bringing it back into the public eye you will find yourself cracking up at the memories of the movie that came out over 20 years ago. I think one of the biggest problems people were having with the show is that it tends to have younger viewers that have never seen the first die hard and thus don't understand the jokes even so the episode was funny and if you didn't know exactly what they were talking about from the movie it will still make you laugh. I recommend it fully and can not wait for the 2nd one.