

As a result, the show does not actually focus on the Robot Chicken until the 100th episode when he finally makes his escape and later kills the mad scientist when he kidnaps a hen who is the chicken's girlfriend.īeginning in the sixth season, the role of the Robot Chicken and the mad scientist are reversed in this opening sequence: The Robot Chicken turns the mad scientist into a cyborg and then subjects him to watch the television sets. In the episode 1987, Michael Ian Black claims that this sequence tells the viewer that they (The audience) are the chicken, being forced to watch the skits.
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The mad scientist then straps the re-animated Robot Chicken into a chair, uses calipers to hold his eyes open, and forces him to watch a bank of television monitors (An allusion to A Clockwork Orange) this scene segues into the body of the show, which resembles someone frequently changing TV channels. Claypool also composed and performed the show's theme song. Midway through the opening sequence, the titular chicken turns his laser eye towards the camera and the title appears amidst the laser effects as Les Claypool of Primus can be heard screaming It's alive! a-la Frankenstein. On a stormy night, a mad scientist finds a road-killed chicken, which he takes back to his laboratory to re-fashion into a cyborg. An eighth season premiered in 2015, a ninth in 2018 and a tenth in 2019, containing the 200th episode. The seventh season premiered on April 13, 2014.


In May 2012, Adult Swim announced they were picking up a sixth season of Robot Chicken, which began airing in September 2012. The 100th episode aired on January 15, 2012. The second group of episodes began broadcasting on October 23, 2011. In early 2010, the show was renewed for a fifth and sixth season (40 more episodes total).
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The series was renewed for a fourth season which premiered on Decemand ended September 20, 2009. After an eight month hiatus during the third season, the show returned on August 31, 2008, to air the remaining 5 episodes. The series was renewed for a 20-episode third season, which ran from August 1, 2007, to September 28, 2008. The show is rated TV-MA and many of the sketches from Sweet J were redone for Robot Chicken. on Adult Swim, in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of FX's Adult Swim block, in Canada on Teletoon's TELETOON at Night block, in Australia on The Comedy Channel's Adult Swim block, in Russia on 2x2's Adult Swim block, in Germany on TNT Series' Adult Swim block and in Latin America on the I.Sat Adult Swim block (After being cancelled from Latin Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block in 2008 for unknown reasons). It is produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios ( ShadowMachine Films Seasons 1-5) in association with Stoop!d Monkey, Williams Street and Sony Pictures Television ( Sony Pictures Digital Seasons 1-5). The show premiered on Sunday, February 20, 2005, as a part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. In the first episode ( Conan's Big Fun), Conan O'Brien was featured, but he was instead voiced by Seth MacFarlane. The show ended after 12 episodes and returned to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in 2005 as Robot Chicken.

The show was created, written and produced by Green and Senreich. The series first appeared as Sweet J Presents, produced for the Sony website in 2001. The show's name was inspired by a dish on the menu at a West Hollywood Chinese restaurant, Kung Pao Bistro, where Green and Senreich had dined, although the series originally was intended to be called Junk in the Trunk. It is a sketch comedy that parodies a number of pop culture conventions using stop motion animation of toys, action figures, claymation and various other objects, such as tongue depressors, The Game of Life pegs and popsicle sticks during a joke about a loss of budget. Robot Chicken is inspired on Twisted ToyFare Theater, a humorous photo comic-strip that appeared in the now-defunct ToyFare: The Toy Magazine - which Matthew Senreich, Tom Root and Doug Goldstein had previously written for. Robot Chicken has won two Annie Awards and six Emmy Awards. Senreich, Goldstein and Root were formerly writers for the popular action figure hobbyist magazine ToyFare. The writers, especially Green, also provide many of the voices. Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated sketch comedy television series that airs on Adult Swim, created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (Seasons 6–Present)
