Robot Chicken jumps the shark
 

A pointless thread? Maybe. I'm also as hammered as you can be. Regardless, the point must be made. Tonight's Robot Chicken was the largest steaming pile of garbage I've had the sad misfortune to see in a very long time. Maybe it will pick back up, but for now...puke.

What happened?

I always thought it was a pile of dog crap:sleep: lol oh well did it make fun of something you enjoy?

The show in general has it's moments but is certainly lacking at points. I especially dislike how Seth Green seems to fancy himself the next Seth MacFarlane with all the voice acting he does on the show. Problem being that he isn't anywhere near as good of a voice actor as Seth MacFarlane is, and he tends to bite off far more than he can chew in most episodes.

I just always saw the show as an unfunny drugged out version of the little comic strips they do in Toyfare Magazine.

I have to agree about Green doing to many voices, but even MacFarlane is rather limited as a VA. I like Robot chicken, if only because it is action figure stop motion, similar to the comic strip form of Twister Toyfare Theatre, and it has some good bits like this...

"Just re-build it? Real f***in' original. And who's going to give me a loan, jack hole? You? You got an ATM on that torso Lite Brite of yours?"
(This kind of illustrates the above statement, in that the Emperor sounds a lot like Quagmire from Family Guy...:P)

It IS Twisted Toyfare Theatre. Literally.

And I will hear no more criticism of Seth MacFarlane's voice acting, I'd like to see you pull off half of when he does in one episode of Family Guy

haha you won't hear it from me but I can do more I could litterly fill in for the man if he ever got sick. I love Family Guy. But yeah that's why I don't enjoy this show it was sort of funny some times to me as a comic strip but something is lost for me even in that clip I just found it to be them just trying to be vulgar and ripping on star wars more so than it being funny.
But maybe you have to be a big star wars fan which I'm not either.

To me Robot Chicken is the kinda show where seeing parts of it are funny here and there but it doesn't hold up for a full episode very well at all.

I mean it has some pretty funny moments but I've seen some pretty stupid sketches.

Ahhh Robot Chicken...that show that only has about one or two good sketches...

It's pretty good, i think... but i only have seen a hand full of skits...

My favorites are

The Electric mayhem, Behind the music
Sesame Street Bird Flu (much funnier than MadTV was)
Senor Mutant Ninja Turtles
and
Inspector Gadget

Actually, he does do quite a bit on Family Guy too. But somehow McFarline has one of those odd voices that is just extremely versitile.

Doom, are you being sarcastic? I can't tell. Seriously, Seth MacFarlane is good, but he only has about 3 or 4 diffrent voices, characters like Tom Tucker and Carter Peutershmit sound almost identical. and like Putrescent, I pride myself in my ability to pull off most of the Seths' voices.

I've never seen that one before, that killed me :lol:

Captain Planet!!!!!!!!!

I agree that only a handful of Robot Chicken sketches are funny, the rest are just okay, meh. They are very vulgar in a lot of their sketches, which is stupid and unnecessary. They also manage to really offend me every season with a sketch or two.

I will most likely continue to watch the show, because they do have some enjoyable sketches here and there like the Inspector Gadget spoof.

Robot Chicken and Family Guy have nothing on South Park and Venture Brothers. Robot Chicken has a funny sketch here and there. Family Guy has run its course. South Park made some tweaks to its formula halfway through, which has helped keep the show from getting as old as FG and Simpsons. They realized the Kenny killing was getting old, but apparently Seth McFarlane still likes to bring out the chicken fight whenever he has writer's block.

I am now offically boycotting Robot Chicken. Those *bleep* bags continue to make fun my religion. I just watched half of their newest episode and turned it off after they pulled their *bleep* again. *bleep* you Robot Chicken! I must stand for something and have morals, instead of watching your moronic *bleep*

The entire show is dark, violent, crude, and stupid. I hope they get cancelled. *bleep* you Seth Green and your team of *bleep*ing *bleep*holes!

What exactly did they do?

They had a skit called 'everybody hates Christ' and were making fun of Jesus being tortured and nailed to the cross. They even had a laugh track and a Jesus action figure smirking.

Again, *bleep* you Robot Chicken!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually typing "bleep"? Really? Are you sure?

Getting offended period makes you a douche bag. Seriously your going to get offended by a TV program? That's pretty juvenile if you ask me. Doesn't matter how bad it is it's a TV show. Not like the walked up to you and shoved it in your face, made you watch it. If you were so offended then why didn't you turn it off?

He said he turned it off. People get easily offended sometimes, that doesn't make him a douche at all. If someone insulted one of your crappy metal bands you'd probably get pissed, the only difference here is he's pissed because they made fun of his religion. It's still something he cares deeply about. What's the difference what it is?

Some shows DO go over the line and are offensive. Just because most of us are so depraved and desensitized that we don't care about anything anymore doesn't mean other people don't.

Everyone leave him alone. He's allowed to get offended over what is probably a pretty insensitive skit. I haven't seen it mind you, nor would I care, but saying someone is a douche for being offended by something offensive is ridiculous.

Thank you Peanut.

As for you Spitfire, attacking me for nothing makes you the douche. Now let's have peace, because online arguments are just plain moronic.

Dr. Doom, (one of the most awesome comic book villians ever, by the way) I did in fact type the word '*bleep*'.

we have an auto censor on here for most cuss words, no censoring yourself is required ;)

Right, because this is what autocensor looks like:

**** **** **** **** ****er!

Not sure what you mean. I was informing you that you personally don't have to censor it, the forum will do it for you, just in case you didn't know that.

Oh ok. I was just showing Dr. Doom what it looked like.:D Just me being silly.

I agree that some shows go too far these days. Sometimes I might get a little bugged by a joke or two, you kind of have to learn to blow it off.

Even though South Park makes fun of absolutely everyone, I think they are actually not as mean spirited as other shows like Family Guy. Just something about the way they do it, makes it seem less cruel than some other shows.

South Park's humor seems more Tongue-in-Cheek to me. A lot of the writing and controversial topics are done in a similar manner to old Sitcoms by Norman Lear.

Actually, watching the Jesus episode has made me retract my statements. This season has had a few duds, but I found myself spewing my dinner around the room harder than usual laughing at this show.

Yeah not surprised you didn't get it.
You say let's have peace in the same line that you insult me back, then you say online arguments are moronic. That makes a whole lot of sense.

My point was your feelings wouldn't get hurt period by anything if you didn't let them. You got offended because you allowed yourself to be offended.

It's not something that just happens. How much something bothers you depends on how much you let it bother you. Obviously this bothered you alot, and in the very harsh way I have of telling people things I was trying to tell you not to let yourself get bothered by things by TV shows and such.

Honestly it just causes more stress then it's worth and you flying off the handle about it just means they got to you, meaning they won. Most of the time the point of stuff like that is to stir up anger in the people it's targeted at. Your giving them what they want when you react like that.

If you want stuff like that to end then people, not just you, need to stop reacting that way to it. Don't let anyone know it bothers you that much but don't lie and say it's funny either. Saying you didn't like it sways them away alot more then "They offended me their douche bags!" Eventually they will get the hint and stop making crap like that. But until people stop fueling them with the kinda of reactions they want it will continue.

There was nothing to "get", so don't attempt to pull that one out on me. You called him a douche for being offended, that's all there is to it. Not surprised you continue to be one of the biggest hypocrites I've ever met.

hmm I'd really have to see the episode which in it's self is hard on the eyes to start with.
But anyway I have to agree with spitfire {even if his choice of words could be better} on one aspect by getting offend and complaining on a message board is going to do nothing to stop them from doing things like that.
Want to make a differnce protest the show to cartoon network.

Why didn't you just say this in the first place instead of insulting him?

Leo, I haven't see the show in question, but I doubt it was intended to make fun of your religion. You have to understand that these days Jesus is as much of a figure of pop culture as he is of religion. It might not be in the best of taste, but I doubt it's meant to be offensive. I wouldn't get too worked up about it.

That's funny... I actually like Family Guy and loathe South Park because it's obvious that FG is a joke, but SP seems to be nothing but demoralizing shock-value (the main ingredient in most of Comedy Central's programming... which is why I'm so concerned over them taking the reigns of Futurama).

I understand what you guys are saying, but I think the best way to get back at Robot Chicken is to stop watching them. If enough people do that, their ratings will take a dive and they will get cancelled. If I had it to do over again, I probably wouldn't have posted an angry rant towards Robot Chicken here at the forums. I was just trying to vent.

I guess this just really comes down to 'if you don't like it, change the channel.'

Been taking advice from Peter Laird, I see... :P

Sorry to disappoint you, but I like the show too much to boycot. As far as making fun of religions goes, I doubt that any benevolent higher-power would see a joke at their expense as a hell-worthy tresspass or even worth worrying about.

It's one thing to not like the show and not watch it, but wishing it get canceled is pretty selfish. There are folks that like this show, so how would they feel?

Just like Kyle did in the cartoon wars episodes of south park.:lol: