![]() ![]() It’s lowbrow held in place with hydraulics. It’s a more sophisticated version of immature humor. Or made them fight so violently that a toy that came in the box as a single piece ended up looking pre-assembled. However, no one can deny that they’ve taken a toy or two as a child and laughed hysterically as they had them make out. Ultimately, Robot Chicken is a collection of fast-paced, easy jokes. The previously mentioned Brainy Smurf is voiced by Danny Goldman. Also, whenever possible, the actual voices of cartoon, television or film characters are used. Joey Fatone formerly of N’Sync pokes fun at himself. Virtually the entire cast of That 70s Show is there. Additionally, celebrity guest stars show up as well. Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein and Mila Kunis all make "appearances". Green also cannibalized most of the voice actors from Family Guy, the other animated show he works on. The voice work is done primarily by Seth Green. The jerky look of real stop motion has its charms and Robot Chicken takes advantage of these. Turns out computers can recreate that as well exemplified by the recent short film 9 that was nominated for an Oscar, albeit too smoothly, too perfectly. Something that could never be achieved via the new CGI methods. Just last year it could have been said that stop motion was an effect that has its own endearing quality. The set builders spend hours making backgrounds look like they were made by children. Paper cut-out mouths are pasted over the figures heads to give the illusion of lip-sync. The stop-motion effects are deceptively low tech looking. Daryl Hannah (or the toy likeness thereof) has her bad eye healed by The Christ immediately before he severs her in twain. The mash-up of Jesus Christ in the Bride role of Kill Bill has Our Lord and Savior taking out the secular characters involved in Christian holidays, Santa and the Easter Bunny. And the torture victim chained to the wall bit. ![]() ![]() And the kids complaining about Barth’s food gag. But it also has the jokes in the locker gag. A parody of Nickelodeon’s You Can’t Do That On Television has the easy joke of green slime on the man unfortunate enough to utter "I don’t know". These guys know their subjects in and out. What sets Robot Chicken above this easy style of humor is the production involved. Stand-up comedians who favored impersonations would do something similar in the 80s: "What would happen if Optimus Prime from The Transformers got prostrate cancer? I think it would look… something… like… this." Then he would turn away from the audience for a moment to get into character, then turn back around with his very best Optimus-with-a-urinary-malfunct ion imitation. The mash-up comedy routine isn’t new with the technological era. ![]()
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