History WesternAnimation / RobotChicken

* PerpetualSmiler: The scientist never stops smiling, even when about to be killed by [[DeathByIrony falling televisions]].

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* CurbstompBattle:

* DeusAngstMachina: Parodied in the "Randy's Halloween" sketch, where Randy is given the Pink Power Ranger for a Halloween costume, and a frilly women's hand-bag to hold his candy. The humiliation only begins there, when the school bully abducts him (thinking he's a girl) and drives off to parts unknown. His friends think that he's going to rape "her". The bully just wanted someone to listen to his problems that led him to turn the way he did. Eventually, a police officer shows up, the bully finds out who Randy is, and Randy is told that his mom died in a house fire just before killing his dog, and all she left behind was a note saying how she never loved him.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Most of the episode titles of Season 1 episodes are rejected titles for the show. Those of the first half of Season 4 form a letter written by someone trapped in a DVD factory [[BlackComedy who's missing his thumbs]]:

** Season 5's episode titles seem to be mashup of two completely different films that have nothing to do with the episode, one known for being really good, the other known for being awful, leading to titles like ''Film/{{Catch Me If You|Can}} Film/KangarooJack'', ''[[Film/SchindlersList Schindler's]] [[Film/TheBucketList Bucket List]]'', and ''Film/{{Saving Private|Ryan}} Film/{{Gigli}}''.
** Season 6 (for the most part) seems to be named after ways to die (i.e., "Executed by the State", "Punctured Jugular", etc.) Which ends with "In Bed with Loved Ones", revealing it to be a TraumaCongaLine.

* IAmNotSpock: An InUniverse example. In a sketch parodying ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', Creator/HarrisonFord complains that he doesn't want to go into space because he's just an actor, only for a fat nerd to shout "You go, [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]]!" Later inverted in the same sketch, where Creator/MarkHamill says he should have gone up to space because he "destroyed the Death Star", only for the very same nerd to tell him "That was just a movie, dude."

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The titles of Season 1 episodes are rejected titles for the show. The titles of the first half of Season 4's episodes form a letter written by someone trapped in a DVD factory [[BlackComedy who's missing his thumbs]]:

* IAmNotSpock: In a sketch parodying ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', Creator/HarrisonFord complains that he doesn't want to go into space because he's just an actor, only for a fat nerd to shout "You go, [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]]!" Later inverted in the same sketch, where Creator/MarkHamill says he should have gone up to space because he "destroyed the Death Star", only for the very same nerd to tell him "That was just a movie, dude."

* ButtMonkey: The poor female peg in the "Game of Life" sketch, who gets rejected from her dream college, has to work a fast food job to make ends meet and sleep with her boss to stay employed, gets pregnant when the condom breaks, gives birth to quadruplets, gets beaten by her drunken husband and shoots him in front of their daughters. As they hear police sirens outside the house, she mutters, "Fucking spinner."

** In the ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' parody, Calvin kills his parents and blames it on Hobbes.

* ButtMonkey: The poor female peg in the "Game of Life" sketch, who gets rejected from her dream college, has to work a fast food job to make ends meet and sleep with her boss to stay employed, gets pregnant, gives birth to quadruplets, gets beaten by her drunken husband and shoots him in front of their daughters. As they hear police sirens outside the house, she mutters, "Fucking spinner."

* RealityEnsues: A good number of the skits skewer the cartoon logic of the shows they parody. In one ''Chipmunks'' sketch, Dave is exasperated that he even has to explain that the "original" Chipmunks died a long time ago and he's been keeping the franchise going with duplicates.

* ReplacementGoldfish: One ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' sketch reveals that the band members have died repeatedly and simply been replaced with identical chipmunks every time, as real chipmunks only live for an average of 3 years. At a press meeting, Dave states that he can legally do whatever he wants with them [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman because they're rodents]] and unashamedly admits that he ran over one of the Simons and replaced him with a chipmunk from a crate of chipmunks that he keeps in his Jeep.

* VillainsOutShopping: ''Loves'' this trope. Famous examples are the obvious "Villains in Traffic" and "Darth Vader Calls" skits, both of which are frequently considered a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} by many people.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Happens quite frequently.

* NewhartPhonecall: In the ''StarWars'' episode, Palpatine is on the phone with Vader when Vader tells him that the Death Star blew up. Palpatine gets angry with Vader, making him cry over losing Padmé.

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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: If the Mad Scientist hadn't equipped the Chicken with so many cybernetic weapons, he wouldn't have been able to escape, much less kill his former captor.]] Heck, the opening even shows the Mad Scientist finding the chicken dead on the road. He'd still be dead if the Mad Scientist hadn't revived him in the first place.

* SuspectExistenceFailure: Unnecessarily [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] just before the end of "Michael Jackson vs. Michael Jackson" sketch.

* StealthPun: 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.
* StealthPun: Season 9 episode 11 is titled [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror "Never Forget"]].

** The second DC Comics special sees Batman stop his eulogy for Green Arrow, then (to the horror of those attending) rant about how DeathIsCheap in the DC Universe and noting Green Arrow will probably be back in some fashion considering everyone attending the funeral have themselves died and came backat some point. Not only do those in attendance applaud to this fact, [[spoiler:but sure enough, one of the people attending Green Arrow's funeral is ''Oliver Queen himself'', proving Bruce's point]].

** The second DC Comics special sees Batman stop his eulogy for Green Arrow, then (to the horror on those attending) rant about how DeathIsCheap in the DC Universe and noting Green Arrow will probably be back in some fashion considering everyone attending the funeral have themselves died and came backat some point. Not only do those in attendance applaud to this fact, [[spoiler:but sure enough, one of the people attending Green Arrow's funeral is ''Oliver Queen himself'', proving Bruce's point]].

Following the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' in 2020, the show took up the mantle of being the longest-running series on [adult swim]. Other networks have ordered more serialized stop-motion comedies from Green and company’s Creator/StoopidBuddyStudios; the medieval peg-people epic WesternAnimation/CrossingSwords came out on Hulu in 2020, and AMC has picked up the urban baby-doll “Mega City Smiths” for 2021.

* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: The short titled "Krabby Patties" involves a ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' parody where [=SpongeBob=] finds out that Mr. Krabs was using crab meat as an ingredient for the Krabby Patty. When he tells it to everyone in the Krusty Krab, they beat up Mr. Krabs in absolute anger.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: At Granny Grahamcrackers' funeral, Raspberry Parfait recalls how she knit Black Cherry Pie's favorite scarf, fixed Fudge Turnover's leaky roof (while he watched ''Tango and Cash'' on Netflix), and drove Buttermilk Biscuits all the way to the big city to get an abort--[[LastSecondWordSwap er, her tonsils out.]]