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From creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, Robot Chicken is stop motion animation with a demented twist. Old-school stop-motion animation and fast-paced satire are the hallmarks of this eclectic show created by Seth Green and Matt Senreich. Action figures find new life as players in frenetic sketch-comedy vignettes that skewer TV, movies, music, and celebrities. It's television especially formulated for the Attention Deficit Disorder generation. Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo) 20 episodes on two discs Episode commentaries Behind-the-scenes footage Deleted scenes Original "Sweet J Presents" skits Wire comparisons Alternate audio takes Deleted animatics
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The Robot Chicken was born May 12th, 1997. He went to college. He wrote up a novel. It sold a few copies, and the Chicken had a normal life. Until he got hit by a car near a road!! A road that wasn't even near a chicken farm!!
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As all Robot Chicken fans know, the show swings back and forth from target to target like a kid with an itchy trigger finger on the remote control and that format hasn't changed. Some scenes are only a line or two long, while a few run a minute or two. Quick-fire targets in the season premiere include Fantasy Island, The Snorks, and the Clapper. Longer scenes are devoted to "The Defenders of the Earth" (a great segment with Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician being pretty crappy super heroes), a hilarious take on the way the game of LIFE really should go, and a slightly awkward bit with Governator Ah-nuld dealing with the immigration problem, even in the world of superheroes (note: El Dorado doesn't have legal papers).
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In Robot Chicken, no pop culture target is safe. Legions of action figures are used to spoof everything from Quentin Tarantino’s blood-spattered action epics to The Real World, in which a cast of superheroes takes the place of drunken 20-somethings. A team of artists and technicians create miniature sets, tiny yet elaborate costumes and props and intricate action scenes for sketches skewering popular entertainment, politics and celebrity culture. Green and Senreich lead the writing staff and provide voices for the fast-moving weekly series, and a number of celebrities will provide voices, including Scarlett Johannson, Burt Reynolds, Ryan Seacrest, Mark Hamill and Macauley Culkin.
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Brevity ranks as one of Robot Chicken's chief virtues. Some skits fly by so quickly that they border on subliminal, while others function as the television equivalent of single-panel gag strips. Even the show's more involved and ambitious skits, like the robot-based parody of You Got Served, or the Seven spoof re-cast with Smurfs, seldom last longer than a few minutes. How could they? Minus commercials, Robot Chicken itself is only a 10-minute show. Because it's so briskly paced, it's ... one of the densest comedies on television: Its pop-culture-damaged writing staff crams an entire season's worth of ideas, references, and gags into an episode.
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Robot Chicken is hit-or-miss, and Hi Hi is terrible. Aqua Teens has gone down in quality recently, though the movie might put some more steam into it. As for Avatar, TT, and Fosters, there is no doubting they are great shows, but are about the same quality as certain cartoons from the '90s. In particular, shows like The Simpsons, Batman: TAS, Rocko's Modern Life, Pinky and the Brain, and Dexter's Lab are equal to, if not greater than the previously mentioned shows.
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