Product Description

Old-school stop-motion animation and fast-paced satire are the hallmarks of this eclectic show created by Seth Green and Matt Senreich. Action figures find new life as players in frenetic sketch-comedy vignettes that skewer TV, movies, music and celebrity. It's television especially formulated for the Attention Deficit Disorder generation.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Audio Commentary:On all episodes by creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich.
Comparison Scenes:FX/Wire to Animation Comparisons & Animatic to Episode Comparisons
Deleted Scenes:Includes deleted animatics and scenes from 4 episodes.
Featurette:Behind the scenes of Robot Chicken with the cast and crew.
Gag Reel:Pee Gag Reel.
Other:See the Animation Meetings for three episodes.
Outtakes:Includes alternate audio takes from cast and guest stars.
Photo gallery

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #835 in DVD
• Brand: Robot
• Released on: 2006-03-28
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 333 minutes

Amazon.com
Take the stop-motion animated toy action of Kablam! and the pell-mell-paced gag barrage of, say, Laugh-In and you've got the fast and furiously funny Robot Chicken, the addictive addition to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim late-night lineup. Co-created by geek-God Seth Green and filmmaker Matthew Senreich, Robot Chicken episodes run a scant 12 minutes or so, which invites repeat viewings to catch what you missed during the channel-flipping mayhem through TV, movie, and commercial parodies, and non-sequitur blackouts, all acted out by dolls and action figures. To truly appreciate this series, it helps to have a Family Guy grasp on pop-culture trivia, although you need not remember the failed TV series Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place to enjoy "Two Kirks (Admiral James T. and Cameron), a Khan and a Pizza Place." Suffice to say, if you grew up with the Transformers, Voltron, He-Man, and the Care Bears, you'll cackle loudly at Robot Chicken. Each episode is hit and miss, with moments that border on mad genius, such as The Diary of Anne Frank re-imagined as a vehicle for Hilary Duff, or a sketch involving the Tooth Fairy and a little boy whose happiness is short-lived as his parents brutally bicker off camera. It may just live up to its billing as "the darkest sketch in television history."

Other moments to remember: actress Rachael Leigh Cook (voiced by herself) gets carried away during a "This is your brain on heroin" PSA; the shape-shifting superhero adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen; a popsicle-stick adaptation of Debbie Does Dallas; and a Behind the Music devoted to Muppet house band the Electric Mayhem. Robot Chicken's coolness cache extends to its voice cast, including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane, Mark Hamill, and Macauley Culkin. This two-disc set hatches a wealth of archival goodies, including deleted scenes and "animatics," behind-the-scenes footage of animation meetings, and alternate audio takes. Robot Chicken is a fowl ball! --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews

Some funny stuff...
Robot Chicken is a different show that is much welcomed. It has lots of ideas and they attack lots of different subjects with their stop motion antics.
The only minor problem is that because of the young age of its creators
their material is often geared at young adults. Yes they do touch subjects
that older people will reckonize and enjoy. Bottom line, if they expand
their reach, their audience will also expand. Good creativity.
Enjoy

Assenting Review ~6 Stars ******~
Robot Chicken, Season 1 is funny. I like it a lot. That's all I have to say. The End. Well, and the review below this one sux.
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Product Description
Old-school stop-motion animation and fast-paced satire are the hallmarks of this eclectic show created by Seth Green and Matt Senreich. Action figures find new life as players in frenetic sketch-comedy vignettes that skewer TV, movies, music and celebrity. It's television especially formulated for the Attention Deficit Disorder generation.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Audio Commentary:On all episodes by creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich.
Comparison Scenes:FX/Wire to Animation Comparisons & Animatic to Episode Comparisons
Deleted Scenes:Includes deleted animatics and scenes from 4 episodes.
Featurette:Behind the scenes of Robot Chicken with the cast and crew.
Gag Reel:Pee Gag Reel.
Other:See the Animation Meetings for three episodes.
Outtakes:Includes alternate audio takes from cast and guest stars.
Photo gallery

Dissenting Review: The Decline and Fall of TV
Robot Chicken is not, as an Amazon review says, a mixture of Laugh In and KaBlam!. It would be if someone other than Seth Green had made it, but those shows, to their eternal credit, were PG rated, and Robot Chicken is not. Any truly creative souls can work within the limits and boundaries of a G or PG rating. Look at Lucille Ball. Robot Chicken is the latest in the decline and fall of Cartoon network and Adult Swim. What began as very creative, post-modern humor, with Williams Street and Space Ghost, has steadily declined with its loss of innocence.

It happened with Ren and Stimpy, which started as innovative and creative with John K., went to hades after Nick fired said creator, and ended in the unwatchable mess on Spike TV. It happened with Futurama, which began as one of the most creative and brilliant creations in the history of animation, and gathered a cult following on Cartoon Network, and then unbelievably made a movie for Comedy Central, which was cut into four parts, Bender's Big Score and three others.

It's still very surprising that Star Wars would allow itself to be associated with either the Robot Chicken or Family Guy parodies, since Star Wars is the PG movie that brought people back to the theaters. They were empty before that. Or have the studios forgotten that? Have they forgotten that it's the family audience that revived movies, TV, video (they bought VHS longer than anyone else did), and provided all the non-pornography support for on demand movies? Do studios still not see how eager they are for old TV to come out on DVD? Do the shirts really not know why? If you really can't make imaginative PG and G rated TV and movies, get out of the business. You don't belong there. Go and make trash which you glorify with the name pornography. Do you really go to bed at night telling yourself you're making a diffference by selling condoms? How about abstinence?

But don't be surprised if this audience stops going to movies and quits watching your shows. When they start voting, it will be no. And don't be surprised if someday someone gets into places like Cartoon Network and starts making real TV with PG and G ratings and shows you how it's done.