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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Turner Home Ent
Salesrank: 4389
Released: March 28, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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
Description of Robot Chicken, Season 1:
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
Robot Chicken, Season 1 Reviews:
Adult Swim: animated television show. 
2009-11-05 - After awhile, the humor becomes repetitive, and the animation gets old. In any case, it's still worth checking out, for a few laughs.
The Chicken is your GOD now!!!!!!!!!!! 
2009-07-12 - Robot Chicken, Season 1, is a brilliant display of comedic genius and is just plain freaking awesome. Wish I got paid to play with dolls and hilarious references to pop culture! Lucky guys and gals.
I love all the episodes for their own specific reasons, so I won't be able to say my favorite episode.
I was dissapointed but it still has its moments.
2009-05-09 - I purchased this after watching the two uproariously funny Robot Chicken Star Wars specials. This first season is not nearly as funny. There are moments of course that are just flat out hilarious and others that are simply groan inducing. If you like the show, its a great buy. If you dont, id pass.
Fun with Toys
2009-03-31 - Great show,
hilarious,
memories from the past will flood your brain...
Although, my toys were boring compared to the ones
reunited in this work of art....
I can save you the trouble of watching 
2009-02-09 - Ready? Imagine Godzilla. You know, he's stomping around Tokyo but then WHOOPS! A building hits him between the legs! He rolls in pain for a little bit. Okay, now imagine umm... let's see what's something cool from the 80s... ok Voltron! This big robot is about to fight someone but instead he uhh... BREAKDANCES! Wow this is wacky stuff right here. Now you don't have to buy this dvd.
You might like this DVD if:
Getting hit in the balls is super hilarious.
Farting is pretty funny.
It makes you laugh when a celebrity is referenced in the same skit as an 80's cartoon.
