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Robot Chicken. . . er, oh. !

wicker woman

10:31 / 20.03.05

Well, so far this has been pretty dissapointingly mediocre. When I first heard about this, it was like, "Seth Green+action figures? Oooo...." Twisted Toyfare Theatre on television.

But so far, there's been about three or four good skits; Voltron Gets Served and The Animals That Missed The Ark among them ("Yeah, well I hope you can reproduce asexually, bitch.") But so far, the show has been more "3 Fast 3 Furious" and less "Jesus Goes Kill Bill On The Rabbi 88's". I can't help but think that the show would be better served by being 1/2 an hour instead of 15 minutes so it could flesh these skits out a little more.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

14:05 / 20.03.05

I don't agree...I don't think there's anything brilliant here, but I find myself laughing more than at most comedy shows when I watch this.

That and ANY show with a closing theme of the mall music from Dawn of the Dead as performed by people imitating chickens is going to be something I watch.

wicker woman

07:17 / 24.03.05

The Buffy skit on the last episode was good. "And that's how the eighth season would've started." "Jesus, no wonder you fucking quit."

I'm holding out hope for the show, at any rate. There's enough good there to hold my attention, at any rate. However, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with me for grooving to the opening theme as much as I do?

John Octave

23:34 / 27.03.05

I was disappointed with the show too (though I've not seen all of them). Couple of good skits, though. I like the Transformers Very Special Episode and the one with Skeletor, Cobra, et al carpooling to work; the show definitely knows how to appeal to its geek demographic. On the whole, though, it's a lot of He-Man gets hit in the crotch/Spider-Man slams into a window type jokes, which aren't even really funny to begin with.

The music is awexome, though. No arguments there.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

01:21 / 28.03.05

Voltron getting served was, no lie, a stop motion masterpiece on par with The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Billuccho!

02:05 / 28.03.05

I dunno if it's brilliant, but it sure is hilarious.

wicker woman

06:52 / 28.03.05

Tonight was just good. The Teen Titans skit was kinda weak, but oh, how I found myself wishing the Charlie Brown Goes To Hell cartoon had made it to network television.

Seth

08:02 / 28.03.05

The Optimus Prime prostate infomercial was pretty hilarious.

wicker woman

08:48 / 28.03.05

I didn't really like most of that skit too much, but the part where he transforms himself into his own coffin is classic.

Illihit

00:40 / 29.03.05

I find that the longer skits (1-2 minutes) tend to be funnier, because of the right set-up. All of the 3 second skits are random, some of them too random. If that's at all possible.

I really enjoyed the one where the movie endings are spoiled:

"And the force? That's really just a bunch of microscopic organism."
"Listen, if you're not even gonna try, don't bother."

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