The show's success has seen it run for a total of 4 seasons and has been renewed for a 5th and 6th season.Īll three produce, direct, write and voiceover for the show. The show has seen three of its animators win Emmy awards in 2006, 20 and it has also won an Annie award in 2008 for best character animation. Due to the the show's ongoing success, many celebrities have voiced characters for the show, such as Gene Simmons, George Lucas, Ethan Hawke and T-Pain. ![]() The show uses animated action figurines, some well known and some not so well known, claymation, dolls and other bits and bobs to create pop culture parody skits with a twist. Tom Root and Douglas Goldstein (another co- head writer on the show) revealed that the original name chosen for the show was "Junk in the Trunk"-but they renamed it after eating at a West Hollywood Chinese restaurant that had a dish called - you guessed it - "Robot Chicken." Adult Swim, the Cartoon Network's adult animation segment contracted the Robot Chicken series on the basis of these shorts.īoth Matt Senreich and Tom Root were former writers for the popular action figure hobbyist magazine ToyFare, well known for its satirical humour, a lot of which can be seen in the skits. ![]() Green and Senrich's mutual love of comic books and action figurines led to their creation in 200-01 of a web-based series of animated shorts called Sweet J Presents showed on. Seth Green and Matt Senrich met around 1997, when Green was asked to do an interview for Wizard, a magazine about comic books, where Senrich worked.
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