History RobotChicken / TropesSToZ

%%* VomitIndiscretionShot: Happens quite frequently.

* SelfMadeOrphan: In the "Happy Birthday, Calvin" skit, Calvin's parents try to make him stop believing Hobbes is real, with electroshock therapy and pills. Hobbes comes back to life when they aren't looking, and, well...

* SelfMadeOrphan: In the "Happy Birthday, Calvin" skit, Calvin's parents try to make him stop believing Hobbes is real with electroshock therapy and pills. Hobbes comes back to life, and, well...

-->'''Strawberry Shortcake''': Do boys ask for photos of my berries? Yes! Everyone knows I have very good berries. ...That's what I said. My berries. Berries...are you asking about my ''tits?!''

* SeriesFauxnale: Every season actually ends in this manner. Season 5's actually takes the cake, [[spoiler: with the Robot Chicken escaping and killing nearly every reoccurring character in the series]].
* ShapeshifterWeapon: In the Season 5 finale [[spoiler: the Robot Chicken reveals his bionic arm is capable of forming whatever weapon he wants: [[BladeBelowTheShoulder sword]], [[DropTheHammer hammer]], [[PowerFist fist]], etc]].

** We can't discuss ''Robot Chicken'' and not mention the queen of the guttermouths, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjRxVxquOrY Bitch Pudding]].

* {{Storyboarding The|Apocalypse}} ApocalypseHow: If you give a mouse a cookie, the world ends in nuclear holocaust. And that's why [[spoiler: [[BlatantLies Mommy had to stab Daddy]]]].

* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler: The only person who can match the Robot Chicken's power is Bitch Pudding]].

* WhipItGood: In the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' sketch, two werewolf servants and Dracula mock Simon Belmont's weapon of choice. They proceed to get the piss whipped out of them.

* WeaponOfChoice: Seth Green's is the [[Franchise/StarTrek Bat'leth]].

* TookALevelInDumbass: {{Justified|Trope}} in the "Franchise/ToyStory 4" sketch, where Buzz actually becomes ''lobotomized'' as a result of a college-aged Andy [[ItMakesSenseInContext turning him into a makeshift bong]]. Suffice it to say that the way he acts afterwards is a far cry from the noble, heroic and decently intelligent space ranger he was beforehand.
-->'''Lobotomized!Buzz:''' "Hello, Woody! (gasp) Do you know what my daddy did? ({{Beat}}) Poop! He pooped! Poop-de-doop-doop-poop! Ah, somebody left some poop in his pants."

* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: After a flood wipes out the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Smurfs']] village, Gargamel finally achieves his goal of eating them. As it turns out, they taste really bad. He throws the food out, and orders Chinese.

* TheVoiceless: The Mad Scientist never talks.

** "Executed by the Stake" has Duke inadvertently kill a young boy for torturing the toy-sized Joes and Cobras. He [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone quickly realizes his mistake once Roadblock tells him who he just shot]].

* WouldHarmASenior: When Strawberry Shortcake gets the chance to confront her old adversary the Purple Pieman, it turns out that he's now elderly, blind, diabetic and using a walker. She beats the stuffing out of him anyway, and ends up in jail for it.

* TookALevelInDumbass: {{Justified|Trope}} in the "WesternAnimation/ToyStory 4" sketch, where Buzz actually becomes ''lobotomized'' as a result of a college-aged Andy [[ItMakesSenseInContext turning him into a makeshift bong]]. Suffice it to say that the way he acts afterwards is a far cry from the noble, heroic and decently intelligent space ranger he was beforehand.

** In one skit, [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Woody]] smothers a brain-damaged Buzz with a pillow after Andy uses him as a makeshift bong. What a buzzkill.

* ToiletHorror: PlayedForLaughs in a parody of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', with Dumpelstiltskin, "a creature not of this world, but a user of its bathrooms". A man goes to use the toilet in an office building when a monster stomps in, tries to enter his stall, then enters the one beside him. After [[ToiletHumor an incredibly loud and lengthy bowel movement]] that [[UpToEleven causes the lights to flicker and ceiling tiles to fall]], the creature asks him to pass the toilet paper roll, then exits, leaving a crater where the other toilet had been.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Nearly every episode has at least one instance of a cartoon's characters coming face to face with a problem that would be faced by ordinary people, and having no idea of what to do. See [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome/RobotChicken this page]] for these examples.

** In "I Know What the Bratz Did Last Summer", Chloe's head explodes when her [[StylisticSelfParody elephantiasis]] medication is stolen.

* TeamRocketWins: In one Smurfs skit, due to the Smurfs village being flooded, Gargamel finally gets to capture some of their corpses and make a meal out of them. He takes one bite.....[[MasochistsMeal and with some thought]], dunks the rest of it into the trash and orders a Chinese.

* ScrewYourself: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in one sketch starring a pair of [[Franchise/StarWars Clone Troopers]], one of which asks his partner if masturbation is gay, since them two having sex would technically be that. Said partner states that masturbation isn't on its own but even if them two doing it counted as gay, who cares?