The Robot Chicken Formula
More and more I’m having people ask me if I like the show Robot Chicken. The answer is “no.” Every time I watch it I’m amazed at how bad and formulaic the sketches are. About 90% of their content follows this formula:
-Formula for a Robot Chicken Sketch-
Choose at least one from each category and repeat:
Pop Culture Icon/80’s Cartoon Character/Character from an old joke +
Catch phrases from said character/icon +
fight/fart/poop/pee/fuck/throw up +
claymation/animated action figures +
little to no actual writing of original jokes = Robot Chicken
The other 10% is kinda funny, but not enough to make me spend 15 minutes watching it.
Still don’t believe me? Let’s shit out some of our own Robot Chicken sketches to see how easy it is:
-Super Man is feeling depressed so he goes to see Sigmund Freud. After sitting on his couch, Freud tells Super Man that he just needs to release some pent up tension, so they butt fuck while Super Man hits him in the head with a baseball bat.
-Al Bundy goes bowling with Big Bird. Before every roll, Bundy yells “STEEERRRIIIIIIKE!” Then Big Bird farts.
-Roger Rabbit walks into a bar drunk where Hannibal Lecter is sitting. Roger starts hitting on Hannibal who is ordering a chianti. Then they start to dance to Huey Lewis & The News. After a while Casey Jones from the Ninja Turtles shows up to throw poop at them.
-A California Raisin sucks on Santa Clause’s dick.
-The Snapple Lady goes on Johnny Carson to read a letter about a Snapple story. Jerry Seinfeld is there to help her. After she begins, Jerry starts saying “What’s the deal? What’s the deal with that?” Johnny Carson then gives birth to the phone booth from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and everyone on the set gets kidnapped for a history project about the 80’s/early 90’s.
-Scrooge McDuck is on Air Force One with the president. A terrorist in the form of a storm trooper takes the president hostage until McDuck gives the terrorists his Number One Dime. Scrooge swallows the dime to prevent it from getting stolen, so the storm trooper/terrorist sends Dr Zoidberg from Futurama up his butt to go get it. While in Scrooge McDuck’s butt, Dr Zoidberg finds a note from J Edgar Hoover about how much he loves the taste of period blood.
Do I have a job working with Seth Green yet?
Seriously, this is exactly the same stuff I used to with my action figures when I was 10.
It’s easy. Try it yourself.
Repost this with your name and a Robot Chicken sketch.
Pete
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Author: petestmart
Keywords: robot chicken sucks adult swim claymation animation formula family guy seth green idiot poop pee barf futurama tom goes
Added: July 6, 2008
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