Read more about Robot Chicken at: Wikipedia Official Site: Stoopid Monkey Productions Robot Chicken is an American stop-motion animated comedy television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. In addition, Green provides many voices for the show. Senreich, Goldstein, and Root were former writers for the popular action figure hobbyist magazine ToyFare. The show's reception is positive, with some calling it a cult classic. It has won an Annie Award and four Emmy Awards. Robot Chicken is based on "Twisted ToyFare Theater," a humorous photo comic-strip appearing in ToyFare: The Toy Magazine. It is a sketch comedy that parodies a number of pop culture conventions using stop motion animation of toy, action figure, claymation and various other objects, such as tongue depressors, The Game of Life pegs and popsicle sticks during a joke about a loss of budget. The show's name was inspired by a dish on the menu at a West Hollywood Chinese restaurant, Kung Pao Bistro, where Green and Senreich had dined, although the series originally was intended to be called "Junk in the Trunk". The series first appeared as Sweet J Presents, produced for the Sony website screenblast.com in 2001. The show was created, written, and produced by Green and Senreich. The show ended after 12 episodes and returned to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in 2005 as Robot Chicken. In the first episode ("Conan's Big Fun"), Conan O'Brien was featured; however, he did not do his own voice— it was instead provided by Seth MacFarlane. The show premiered on Sunday, February 20, 2005. It is produced by Stoop!d Monkey, ShadowMachine Films, Williams Street, and Sony Pictures Digital, and currently airs in the US as a part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of FX's Adult Swim block, in Canada on Teletoon's TELETOON at Night block, in Australia on The Comedy Channel's Adult Swim block, in Russia on 2x2's Adult Swim block, in Germany on TNT Series' Adult Swim block and in Latin America on the I.Sat Adult Swim block (after being cancelled from Latin Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block in 2008 for unknown reasons). When the show first premiered, it used a channel flipping style, which was not present in Sweet J Presents. The show also had more violence and language. The show is also rated TV-MA. Many of the sketches from Sweet J were redone for Robot Chicken.
Robot Chicken has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.
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