Should you watch Robot Chicken?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Robot Chicken
Series · 2005
A series of pop-culture parodies using stop-motion animation of toys, action figures and dolls. The title character was an ordinary chicken until he was run down by a car and subsequently brought back to life in cyborg form by mad scientist Fritz Huhnmorder, who tortures Robot Chicken by forcing him to watch a random selection of TV shows, the sketches that make up the body of each episode.
The sides of Robot Chicken
- Stop-motion action figures in short sketches
- Pop culture parodies, from Star Wars to cartoons
- A cyborg chicken forced to watch TV
Robot Chicken is good for you if…
- you laugh when childhood toys say and do terrible things.
- you like rapid sketches that never stay on one joke.
Robot Chicken is bad for you if…
- you don't watch animated series.
- you want characters and stories to follow.
- you won't commit to eleven seasons.
About: pop culture · parody · nostalgia
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