Robot Chicken - Season 4

Blake Matthews READ TIME: 2 MIN.

Robot Chicken is a show on Cartoon Network that has run as part of their Adult Swim section for the past four years. The show comes from the warped mind of Seth Green and others and takes action figures and animates them using stop motion. Robot Chicken pokes fun of pop culture, movies, music, and television nothing is off limits including movies and shows that Green himself have been part of, he's even gotten his friends to do voices.

Robot Chicken has finished its fourth season and continues to be consistently funny. Highlights of this past season include a Star Trek opera, WWE skits, many past Saturday morning cartoons get a send up, and plenty of Star Wars, video game and pop culture references we've come to expect and love from the show.

The DVD lets the episodes run uncensored, allowing them to be viewed as they were intended with each curse allowed and all the nudity un-blurred. The creators always pack their DVD's with extras, all 20 episodes have commentary by cast and crew, Chicken Nuggets is an option that when it comes up on the screen if you select it accesses a variety of short featurettes where the creators of the show explain how something was done or why it was done a certain way. There are also alternate audio tracks for skits, deleted scenes, Robot Chicken panels from both the San Diego Comic-Con 2008 and New York Comic-Con 2009, highlights of the cast's trip to Australia, a day in the life and more.

Robot Chicken has poked fun of the pop culture zeitgeist for 80 episodes and two full length Star Wars episodes with a third one in the works. Hopefully the series will continue to run for years to come as there is so much more than deserved to be parodied.


by Blake Matthews

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