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« Notes On A Parisian Honeymoon | Main | Leopard Arrives Oct. 26 » October 14, 2007I Heart "Robot Chicken"So I may well be, as usual, the last guy to the party on this one, but I've recently discovered Robot Chicken, and I'm giggling my ass off. The show, if you don't know, is a stop-motion-animation comedy sketch show that runs on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim (also home to Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which should tell you something right there). RC is the brainchild of Seth Green (he of Austin Powers and Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and Mathew Senreich. I got turned on to the show via a clip called "Supervillian Carpool", whose premise is that Skeletor, Cobra Commander, Lex Luthor one other 80s comic book bad guy are driving home from work together, and being, well, guys. Money quote: "Behold the gaseous stench of Skeletor's breakfast burrito!" So then I get a link for a genius Star Wars parody where Vader calls the Emperor to explain that, um, the Death Star blew up (see it to believe it), and I almost peed myself laughing. O. M. G. Kim told me that Seth and Matt did a segment on NPR, which I downloaded and listened to (also very, very funny); this, in turn, pointed me to a parody they did of "Law And Order" - it's 90 seconds long, contains no dialog, and stars anthropomorphic chickens. Fantastic. The shows are in iTunes, and I just bought a season pass. Riding the bus just got a heckuva lot more entertaining. Posted by Gavin Shearer at October 14, 2007 9:27 PM. Posted to Entertainment. CommentsMy favorite part of the Star Wars one is the whole bit about: And so on... Posted by: Marnie at October 15, 2007 5:01 PM Post a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)« Notes On A Parisian Honeymoon | Main | Leopard Arrives Oct. 26 » |