My new favourite TV show - Robot Chicken

flogen

You may have seen some of the clips on various websites, and after seeing a good few I liked I decided to check out some actual episodes (which are all just over 10 minutes long); Google Video has a fair few of them if you're interested.

It's basically a sketch show that uses stop animation and kids toys, plenty of references to old and new shows, often quite dark and usually a bit odd.
Seth Green (Austin Powers, Buffy, and a cameo/guest apperance in pretty much every other US tv show... also the voice of Chris in Family Guy) co-creates it and has plenty of guest voices (people like Mila Cunis and Seth McFarlane-Family Guy connection; one episode featured the entire cast of that 70's show, another had Pedro/Napoleon Dynamite)...

I'm hoping to pick up the 1st season DVD based on what I've seen, most of it is good, some is average and some is just superb... some clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpVY-b39Vio (Ted Turner is Captain Planet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MR8N_cV7fM (Dicks with Time Machines)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBxWi3C2ZzU (Morning Wood)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ampEhQvWQ (Keanu Reeves Sausages)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR7pTi3aIpk (Terrorism)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTa2f3yRiP0 (Senior Mutant Ninja Turtles - probably my favourite)

Anyone else a fan?

sprinkles

Brilliant.


"Heroes in a wheelchair...."

flogen

sprinkles wrote:

Brilliant.


"Heroes in a wheelchair...."

Uh-oh, I just cowabunga'd in my pants!!!

I think I found my new sig image

Ivan

I've been a big fan for quite a while now. I got about 10 episodes a while ago, I show them to everyone I can.

My favourites are Dicks with Time machines, the Buffy Season 9 skit and the FFVII skit.

All classics

Mr E

Sometimes they have long drawn out skits that aren't very funny (there was one a few weeks ago that wasn't great - can't even remember what it was), but for the most part, its a very funny show.

That robot humping metal objects makes me laugh every time.

Basq

Find it quite hit and miss but haven't watched much of it recently!

Mossy Monk

i think this show is brilliant. the one with the guy who got the serial killers balls in a transplant

and from the same episode

Morning Wood!!!!

another good one was when Noah gave all the monsters etc. the wrong time for when the arc was leaving

shame no one has picked it up over here

flogen

TmB wrote:

Sometimes they have long drawn out skits that aren't very funny (there was one a few weeks ago that wasn't great - can't even remember what it was), but for the most part, its a very funny show.

Yeah, generally the short and snappy ones are better.

True about no-one picking it up, I suppose it's odd length doesn't help matters, if one of the main channels did pick it up you'd probably see it just slotted in whereever they had a gap to fill... C6 might pick it up for cheap though, and Paramount may start showing it, given their connection to Comedy Central/Adult Swim

flogen

Good news for RC fans with digital:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds33821.html (scroll down)

James: "Do you know if the Adult Swim series, Robot Chicken, will arrive in the UK anytime soon?"

Neil: Adult Swim - including Robot Chicken - lands in the UK on Bravo beginning July 8 (and airs every night thereafter at around midnight).

Ivan

Nice

sprinkles

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5395083952125133994&q=robot+chicken