If you’ve never seen it, “Robot Chicken” is a stop-motion animated show that has aired on Cartoon Network’s late-night Adult Swim lineup since 2005 and is filled with short sketches featuring raunchy action figures in hilarious situations. The move has extended their brand of creative work to commercials, movies (they are responsible for the cool end-credits sequence in “The Lego Movie”) and they were even offered to put their own spin on the iconic opening of “The Simpsons."īut “Robot Chicken” is still the foundation of the company. The success of the show led to the creation of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in 2012, which Green runs along with “Robot Chicken” co-creator Matthew Senreich and one-time animators on the show, John Harvatine IV and Eric Towner.
The idea for Cartoon Network's late-night animated series “ Robot Chicken” was born and the animation world suddenly changed. Once again, if anybody at Adult Swim is reading this, please have more sketches at the level of Hogan's Heroes or Inspector Gadget, even if that means cutting down the size of the season.(Adult Swim/"Robot Chicken") The mad scientist and his chicken from the "Robot Chicken" opening title sequence.ġ6 years ago Seth Green decided to take his love of action figures and combine it with one of his major passions: stop-motion animation. As for right now it seems as though the creators have run out of really good ideas and are left giving us some really average and mediocre skits. Hopefully next week Robot Chicken can get back on the right page. Also the Heathcliff/Garfield sketch would have been funnier if it was those two in a celebrity courtroom like Judge Judy's.
For instance having the X-Men (acted out with Marvel Legends figures which overpopulate the IGN TV cubicles - thank you, Eric Goldman) getting killed by a sentinel only to be replaced by the Police Academy crew would have been hilarious, that is if it would have stopped there. By giving them so much time, it exposed how much funnier they could have been if they were shortened. Both of these skits were given plenty of time, which usually makes them funnier, but instead the time worked against them. Garfield or the Police Academy crew taking the spots of the X-Men. Hands down this was the funniest sketch of the show. This skit could have been offensive, but instead was outright hilarious with Lil Hitler looking innocent as he took over the classroom. From here the skit had a Jewish boy go missing, leading to the rest of the class disappearing with Lil Hitler hoarding the desks - that is until the kid with a USA shirt came in. At first he complained about how much space he had, and thus asked his teacher if he could take the Polish kid's desk as well. In the sketch Lil Hitler was taking over his classroom like he did as the leader of Germany. This skit was broken up into a couple of pieces, in order to spread out the laughs. Our favorite sketch had to do with Lil Hitler at school. Some of the skits were all right, such as the Lil Hitler and the dying giraffe, but mostly these sketches were boring filler between the good skits. In this episode we got to see skits referring to: smoke signal sex, the CEO of Burger King killing his son, Ghostbusters at a urinal, Lil Hitler, Heathcliff taking Garfield to court, a giraffe in quicksand experiencing the stages of death, and the X-Men being replaced by the cops from Police Academy. to bring us hilarious and original episodes like they used to.
But here we find ourselves pleading to Seth Green and Co. Fans of the first season remember the great references to memorable shows, making for some of the best animated comedy to air in years.
Not to say that "Sausage Fest" was bad, but it wasn't what we are used to seeing. As mentioned, Robot Chicken used to rule the roost, with its unique animation style and its hilarious references to childhood toys and television shows, but now they are settling for simple gags that aren't so funny. Now that we got that out of our system - " Sausage Fest" was a rather average episode in the midst of a season of average to pretty good episodes.
has finished its season, you should be ruling the Sunday night Adult Swim block… so why is it that you are kicking out mediocre episodes? Please work your issues out, and come back to us at full strength. What happened to you, Robot Chicken? You normally are so funny, why have you been burning us? We hate to say it, but you are getting competition from Metalocalypse.