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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"It's '''alive'''!"'']] |
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4 | ->''"The opening credits sequence basically tells you: you are the chicken, forced to watch this shit."'' |
5 | -->-- '''Michael Ian Black''', "1987" |
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7 | A StopMotion series on Creator/AdultSwim, from Williams Street Productions. Created by Creator/SethGreen and Matt Senreich (editor of ''Toyfare'', a magazine for action figure collectors), the show features a rapid-fire series of stop-motion shorts (inspired by Toyfare's ''ComicStrip/TwistedToyfareTheatre'' comics), ranging in length from a few seconds to several minutes long. The comedy in these shorts tends to vary wildly between BlackComedy, pop-culture parody and satire, out-and-out surrealism, or some combination of the three. |
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9 | Most sketches are {{Dark Parod|y}}ies involving "mashups", a collision of two pop-cultural items (usually [[DemographicDissonantCrossover one "innocent" and the other "mature"]]) degenerating into chaos, like [[VideoGame/MarioKart Mario and Luigi]] travelling to [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]], WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead joining the WesternAnimation/TeenTitans, [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo the Scooby Gang]] encountering [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], Franchise/TheSmurfs doing their version of ''Film/{{Se7en}}'', [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd]] reenacting a rap battle from ''Film/EightMile'', [[Series/FraggleRock the Fraggles]] performing ''Literature/WatershipDown'', and the cast of ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHigh'' meeting [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt the Crypt Keeper]]. |
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11 | Following the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' in 2020, the show took up the mantle of being the longest-running series on [adult swim] (until ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'''s 2023 renewal). 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 “Ultra City Smiths” for 2021. |
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13 | !!''Robot Chicken'' provides examples of: |
14 | [[index]] |
15 | * RobotChicken/TropesAToH |
16 | ** [[DeconstructiveParody/RobotChicken Deconstructive Parody]] |
17 | ** [[Haiku/RobotChicken Haiku]] |
18 | * RobotChicken/TropesIToR |
19 | * RobotChicken/TropesSToZ |
20 | [[/index]] |
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22 | -->[[AC:[[ShoutOut Stoopid Monkey.]]]] |
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