Robot Chicken
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| Genre | Sketch comedy, parody, satire, black comedy |
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| Opening theme | "Robot Chicken" by Les Claypool |
| Ending theme | "The Gonk" by Herbert Chappell |
| Composer(s) |
Michael Suby (seasons 1–4) Adam Sanborne (seasons 2-3) Shawn Patterson (seasons 5–present) Kevin Manthei |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 159 (and 10 specials) (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 11–12 minutes |
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| Original network | Adult Swim |
| Picture format |
4:3 SDTV (2005–09) 16:9 HDTV (2010–present) |
| Original release | February 20, 2005 – present |
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| Website | |
Robot Chicken is an American stop motion sketch comedy television series, created and executive produced for Adult Swim by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. The writers, especially Green, also provide many of the voices. Senreich, Goldstein, and Root were formerly writers for the popular action figure hobbyist magazine ToyFare.Robot Chicken has won an Annie Award and five Emmy Awards.
Robot Chicken is based on "Twisted ToyFare Theater", a humorous photo comic-strip appearing in ToyFare: The Toy Magazine. 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; the series originally was intended to be called Junk in the Trunk.
The show was created, written, and produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, and produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (ShadowMachine Films Seasons 1-5) in association with Stoop!d Monkey, Williams Street, and Sony Pictures Television (Sony Pictures Digital Seasons 1-5). The series first appeared as Sweet J Presents on the Sony website Screenblast.com in 2001. In the first episode ("Conan's Big Fun"), Conan O'Brien was a featured character, voiced by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane (2005–present).Sweet J Presents ended after 12 episodes and moved to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in 2005 as Robot Chicken, premiering on Sunday, February 20, 2005.
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