Robot Chicken / Tropes A to H

Robot Chicken Trope Examples
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A

• Accidental Murder: In "I Know What the Bratz Did Last Summer", the Bratz are too busy gossiping to pay attention to the road while riding in Sasha's car, and they end up running over and killing Barbie.
• Acid-Trip Dimension: A blatant parody of Yellow Submarine complete with an entire skit and an Art Shift that doesn't use dolls, and it's even lampshaded by Ringo, who, when asked how he knew to use the hole in his pocket to stop the glove from destroying the submarine, responds "I didn't, I'm on acid".
• Action Insurance Gag: In one episode, the producers of a theatrical play version of The Avengers watch as a full costume rehearsal goes wrong when the giant mechanical Hulk goes haywire and the actors all get injured. The producers look on in horror for a moment.
  Producer 1: Uhh... We're insured, right?
  Producer 2: Yes! Soup to nuts!
  [both light up Molotov cocktails to add to the destruction and run]
• Adam and Eve Plot: After Fraggle Rock is destroyed, the core five Fraggles are the only ones left; once they find a safe spot, they turn their attention to re-population. Mokey and Red are not pleased.
• Adam Westing: Many of the skits poking fun at celebrities are voiced by the actual person.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Played for Laughs with Bossk. He was portrayed as a nasty piece of work in the old EU, which was the official canon when the Star Wars sketches were made. Here he's so Affably Evil that it's hilarious on its own.
• Adaptational Villainy: Played for Laughs on multiple occasions, with heroic characters being amusingly jerkish and brutal compared to their canon portrayals. One good example from early in the show has the Autobots ambush the Decepticons, who are stockpiling Energon by a dam, with an explosive blast and then rushing in to literally Kick Them While They Are Down; many seasons later, the Avengers would do the same thing to Thanos after the Pink Panther tricks him into letting go of the Infinity Gauntlet.^note That was technically a Dying Dream as the Pink Panther gets beaten to death by T'Challa, but the point is the same. The Autobots also remark afterwards that Megatron was defeated with only fifty humans killed in the crossfire—"A new record!"
• Aerosol Flamethrower: In the "Bake-Off Beatdown" sketch, a brawl between Betty Crocker and Sara Lee ends with Crocker using this to set Lee's head on fire, which instantly burns it down to just her skull and she screams in pain before a passing ambulance hits her.
• Affably Evil:
  • Bossk in the Star Wars parodies comes off as a classy, well-mannered gentleman who takes off his boots when visiting the imperials, equips them again while the other bounty hunters rush for the hunt and takes out a tavern brawl while wearing a suit.
    Bossk: Manners are their own reward, gentlemen!
  • While Palpatine is for the most part portrayed as Faux Affably Evil, there are times where he shows genuine camaraderie and/or appreciation with a select few individuals. This is demonstrated especially in his interactions with his barber Alfonso, in which he outright calls the guy a lifesaver for coming up with the idea of Bounty Hunters after Vader failed to capture the Rebels. He is also seen joking around with Mas Amedda and Sim Aloo about his battle with Yoda, and there is no evidence to suggest any underlying malice in either of the two examples.
  • One sketch depicts Jason Voorhees as being this, living a relatively normal life outside of murdering teenagers on Friday the 13th.
• The Afterafterlife: "Super Heaven", Jesus files a complaint to God about how impractical The Grim Reaper (both in his appearance and execution of his job) is after he unceremoniously reaps an old lady named Gladys. When Gladys is asked her opinion, she says that she finds that death is scary enough without a skeleton coming at her as she's dying, prompting the Grim Reaper to reap her in Heaven. When Jesus questions this, God remarks that this means that she has now gone to Super-Heaven.
  Jesus: You can't die in Heaven! Dad, tell him!
  God: Actually, you can. You see if you die in Heaven, you go to Super-Heaven.
  Jesus: What?!
  Gladys: Super-Heaven is awesome!
• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: While drunk at her quinceañera, Dora thinks she can fly and tries to jump off the roof of her house into the pool, but misses.
• All Men Are Perverts:
  • This trope occasionally appears in the show. In The Bionic Woman sketch, The Six Million Dollar Man uses a life-threatening injury as an opportunity to give her breast implants, built-in knee pads, and an automatic hand jerking feature.
  • Another example parodies the Pantsless Males, Fully-Dressed Females trope, in which Gadget decides to ditch her usual jumpsuit for a skimpy jacket and no lower clothing whatsoever. When they object, she points out that her fellow male Rescue Rangers have never worn trousers. But all of them are so aroused that they rush off to masturbate (even Zipper), leaving Gadget confused and annoyed.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Done several times in-universe, whether with fictional characters or real people.
  • Little Orphan Annie is a Rich Bitch after being adopted by Oliver Warbucks. Almost-ditto for Richie Rich, except he acts more like a wannabe gangsta/playa.
  • Calvin has serious mental problems and Hobbes is a persistent hallucination who encourages him to violence.
    Calvin: Mars is amaaaaazzzing!
  • The Justice League are more jerkass than heroic, but most especially Superman. The other members of the group have other characteristics played up.
  • Palpatine in the Star Wars specials is portrayed as Laughably Evil, in addition to being a Jerkass and a huge potty-mouth. Also, in the final special, he apparently gets a Death Equals Redemption fate (that or Redemption Equals Death). And he was manipulated the entire time by one of his apparent Unwitting Pawns; the true Dark Lord of the Sith... Darth Jar Jar Binks!
  • Ponda Baba is actually an architect Nice Guy who just got his arm cut off as a misunderstanding.
  • Santa Claus is either a drug lord or a badass that kicks Coca-Cola executives' asses for using his likeness without his consent. He is not jolly at all. In fact, Santa Claus should be feared in the Robot Chicken universe.
  • The Robot Chicken staff, of all people - Seth Green's a corporate shill, Matthew Senreich is a sociopath, Breckin Meyer is Small Name, Big Ego personified, and Mike Lazzo and Keith Crawford ([adult swim]’s President and Vice President, respectively) are cheerfully amoral Corrupt Corporate Executives having a passionate affair with each other.
  • The female cast of Strawberry Shortcake are usually displayed as thugs and gangsters.
  • The Baby-Sitters Club is a cult/monopoly made up of sociopathic Alpha Bitches.
• Anal Probing:
  • Inverted when a group of flannel-wearing, toothless rednecks in a pickup truck abduct an alien from his home planet. Then later, in a simultaneous parody of this trope and Deliverance, the hicks gleefully surround the alien, bent over and tied to a tree stump, and bluntly announce how they're going to perform "scientific experiments" in his backside.
  • Another sketch has an alien (that has just participated in a kidnapping of a human for — apparently — experimentation) lament the PR problem they have, and wonder how the false anal probing rumor got started (turns out one of the other aliens is a sick, sick bastard).
• And I Must Scream:
  • The actual state of the Robot Chicken character until the 100th episode. Then the Mad Scientist for two seasons. Then the Robot Chicken again in season 8.
  • Do you know where Rubix goes when you jumble his colors? A dark, cold netherverse!
  • Darth Vader being haunted by the ghost of an adoring Jar Jar Binks for all eternity.
  • Turbo Teen is knocked out accidentally, then reverts to car form. He's then driven by drunks headfirst into a telephone pole, wrecking him, (and they then vomit on him). Then a homeless man comes over and takes a huge crap on him. Next, two punks come along and smash his frame, windows and lights with baseball bats. Then thieves come and remove his wheels, doors, non-damaged pieces, and immediately after, his frame is taken to the junkyard. Then his transformation reverts, and all the damage to his car form are transferred to his human form, resulting in a bloody, blind, limbless, screaming, crying mess of a man (implying that he regained consciousness at some point)...and then he's crushed into a cube by the compactor twice. Oh, and his best friend and girlfriend hooked up and had sex in his backseat.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: The citizens of Pastryville celebrate Bitch Pudding's supposed death by volcano with a "The Bitch Is Dead" festival, complete with Toss-a-Bitch and Whack-a-Bitch carnival games, a Bitch Pudding-shaped piñata, volcano-fried Bitch Pudding on a stick, and a giant painted mural of Bitch Pudding falling into the volcano with the words "Bye Bye Bitch!"
• Animation Bump: The animation became much more elaborate and expressive for Season 5. It gained another bump for Season 6, when the series switched animation teams from Shadowmachine and Screen Novelties to Seth Green's own Stoopid Buddy Studios.
• Artistic License – History:
  • The trailer for 1776. "From the people who told you 300 was based on a true story. It ain't accurate, but it'll blow your fucking mind!"
  • In the Lil' Hitler sketch, the first nation (or student's desk) annexed by Hitler is Poland, followed by Czechoslovakia. This should have been the other way around, and Austria isn't even brought up. Japan also seems to lack any of China's desk. In addition, the USA is portrayed as "Not my problem!" until Japan knocks over his juice; by December 1941, America had already been providing supplies for the British and Chinese.
  • One sketch has a Nazi soldier ask Hitler and Himmler who took his sandwich. Himmler tries to deflect towards Hitler by pointing out that he didn't murder six million Jews. In real-life, Himmler was one of the men most responsible for the Holocaust, and many argue that, had he been Fuhrer, he would have been even worse than Hitler.
• Art Shift: Though the vast majority of sketches are in Claymation, the show occasionally dips into live-action, animation, puppets, and even Synchro-Vox.
• Art-Style Dissonance: One "low budget" sketch has all the characters be adorable googly-eyed popsicle sticks. It's a recreation of the porno Debbie Does Dallas, which is about cheerleaders selling their bodies to pay for their friend's ticket to Dallas. What would otherwise be pretty explicit sex scenes are mitigated by Stylistic Suck.
• As You Know: There are plenty of sketches where the (often) lead character from a franchise will either introduce themselves or be introduced by another character already on screen. This is especially true of cult or lesser known franchises.
• Ascended Meme: "Mo-Larr, Eternian Dentist" was so popular that Mattel created a figure of him as a convention exclusive. It includes, amongst other things, his drill and a Skeletor figure with a missing tooth.
• Asians Eat Pets: A Running Gag throughout Season 1 involves an animal or animal-like character walking down an alley and getting snatched by a Chinese chef.
• Ass Shove:
  • During a prostate exam.
    "Take it easy, OK, Doc?"
    "You got it, Sal!" [winds up and jams his fist inside]
  • A sketch based on The Flintstones has Fred getting a colonoscopy, with a live stork acting as an endoscope.
    Doctor: Now tell me what you see.
    Stork: Me going back to college.
    Doctor: (laughs) Did you hear that?
    Fred: Get the stork out of my ass!
• Asshole Victim:
  • Uncle Owen, for mocking Anakin while he was cradling the corpse of his mother.
    Beru: You know what, Owen? You really are an asshole.
  • The chicken gets his revenge on the Mad Scientist in the new post-100th-episode opening.
  • After finding Keebler Incorporated innocent in the murder of the Cookie Monster, the Judge made a joke about it in front of said monster's grieving mother. She then proceeds to snap and eat the upper half of the judge's head before getting gunned down by the bailiffs.
• Assimilation Backfire: The Borg attempt to assimilate Captain Jake of the Enterprise night crew, but his beer-filled blood and love of partying instead corrupt the collective.
• A-Team Firing: Invoked in one of the G.I. Joe shorts. A soldier hits three perfect shots, two to the center body, and the third to the head. The Joe was shocked by the shooting, saying, "If you shoot like that, your enemy could end up dead!." It later bites the Joe in the ass when a suicide bomber isn't scared off with the missed bullets.
• Atomic F-Bomb: Palpatine closes out the third Star Wars special with a bleeped-out Slow "NO!" version of one of these:
  Palpatine: Well, if you want some final words of wisdom, here it is. (Turns to the camera while Flipping the Bird as the second Death Star explodes) Fuuuck yooouuuu!'
• Attending Your Own Funeral: Green Arrow in the second DC Comics Special, being shown after Batman goes on a rant about how Death Is Cheap when it comes to Superheroes. Batman was at his funeral giving a eulogy, when he stopped and assured the audience that the whole death thing in the comic book world is total bullshit, and that given a, most likely, short period of time, Green Arrow will be back, and then we cut to the audience applauding Batman for his speech, along with Green Arrow, who, all of a sudden, shows up at the funeral as one of the mourners, much to Ice's surprise.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Invoked by the ThunderCats.
  Panthro: You FORGOT the Sword of Omens!?
  Lion-O: I'm a cat, Panthro. I get distracted easily.
  Panthro: So am I, but you don't see me— (hears a crow fly overhead) BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD!
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Apparently, the Mad Scientist can hold his own fight against the Chicken, who wiped the floor with every other character that had a recurring appearance on the show.

B

• Bad Boss: Ernest lets some of the Keebler elves get eaten alive by a rampaging Cookie Monster so he doesn't have to give them overtime.
  Random Keebler Elf: But you owe me overtime! (sees Cookie Monster approaching, and both run for their lives) Which is no big deal!
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • In "I Know What the Bratz Did Last Summer," the Bratz (accidentally) kill Barbie by running her over, and are soon hunted down and killed one-by-one by a shadowy figure in a pink trench coat. We're led to believe that it's Barbie, either Back from the Dead or Not Quite Dead in the first place, but it's actually Draculaura from Monster High.
  • One Karate Kid sketch has Johnny point out how easily telegraphed and out of place the crane kick looks to Daniel, who continuously denies the move will be performed. When the next round begins, he immediately kills Daniel with a Hadouken.
  • In "Purple Stuff" where they parody the classic Sunny D commercial, the boys stop on the purple stuff wondering what the liquid in an unmarked container actually is. When one of the boys asks if it could get them high, the other one said there's only one way to find out, making it seem like they're going to drink it like a couple of idiots...and it cuts to them doing extensive scientific research on it.
• "Balls" Gag: A sketch in the episode "Celebrity Rocket" had an overweight gym teacher shocked to see that all of his footballs, basketballs and soccer balls have been flattened and exclaiming "My balls! What happened to my balls? Why would anyone do this to my balls?" We then see two children observing him, one of them sarcastically remarking "This show is so clever".
• Balls of Steel: In a short titled "Ode to the Nut-shot", we see two instances of this, one straight and one played with; in one case, a lumberjack repeatedly punches himself in the nuts to no effect, and in another, one robot kicks another in the groin, at which the victim simply stands there and shrugs.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy:
  • Providing the quote for the image on the page itself:
    Ken: I'm sorry, this never happened to me before.
    Barbie: NOT HAVING A PENIS NEVER HAPPENED TO YOU BEFORE!?
  • This is lampshaded in the Fight Club parody where Ken and all of Barbie's other boyfriends over the years let out all their frustration over how Barbie always got the attention.
    "Rule #4 of the Fight Club: Hitting in the groin is allowed, because, let's face it: we're all pretty much smooth down there."
• Bestiality Is Depraved:
  • Belle from Beauty and the Beast goes in for a gynecology exam. The doctor has to share his thoughts on the subject.
  Doctor: Look, I don't condone bestiality, but if you're going to have sex with dogs, you're going to get a yeast infection.
  • One sketch has it revealed that a Scottish shepherd named Stuart invented the bagpipes to cover up his attempt to screw one of his sheep. He laments that he killed two loves that day, his beautiful Bessie and music.
• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  • Linus wants so badly to see the Great Pumpkin that he conducts a Satanic ritual to summon him. The Great Pumpkin appears...and promptly kills him.
  • In the short "Christmas 1914", Private Doyle asks Santa to bust through the German line, but before Santa comes to do it, the Christmas Truce is initiated.
  • In a Fraggle Rock/Watership Down parody, after being brutally mauled by a dog, one of the Fraggles' dying wish is for the others to put him out of his misery...which they do via collectively bludgeoning him to death over his desperate pleas.
• Berserk Board Barricade:
  • When a priest sees a family playing "Humping Robot" he boards up the door and pours gasoline on the ground. Before he throws a match inside, he changes his mind and decides to join them.
  • In a He-Man sketch, Evil-lyn and Beast Man board up the doors in Skeletor's castle after the three kill He-Man and fear the consequences.
  • In "The Twist", M. Night Shyamalan boards up his door after he finds his house on the moon and aliens trying to get in, and when one tries to reach under the door, cuts off its fingers with a kitchen knife. Turns out they just wanted to borrow a cup of sugar.
• Be the Ball: One skit uses a variation of this trope when Ash punishes Pikachu for pissing on his rug by stuffing him in his Poké Ball and using it as a tennis ball in a game with Misty.
• "Better if Not Born" Plot: In a Popeye-themed sketch parodying It's a Wonderful Plot, Wimpy's guardian angel tries to deter him from committing suicide by showing him what would happen if he died. However, it is then instead shown how much better the world is without his existence. Popeye has a full head of hair, he and Bluto open up their own bank, Olive Oyl has a much sexier and curvier figure, Alice the Goon found a Cure for Cancer, there is no pollution or war, and hamburgers are free. After seeing all this, his guardian angel then kicks him off the bridge himself.
• Big "NO!": In the "Heimlich Begins" sketch, the titular character lets out a Big "NEIN!" when his father chokes to death on candy.
• Big "WHAT?!":
  • The Lorax (2012) sketch in "Butchered in Burbank" ends with the Lorax having this reaction to the narrator saying that his story ends with him dying of AIDS, presumably as karma for embracing capitalism and going against the original book's Green Aesop like the movie itself.
  • In a parody of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, this is Daniel's response to being told he has dwarfism as the explanation for why he looks like a kid despite being at the age where tigers are fully grown.
• Bilingual Bonus: Corey Haim's shirt in "Federated Resources" says ばか ("baka"), which is Japanese for "idiot".
• Black-and-White Morality: Santa Claus gets a song that lampshades that nobody can be purely naughty or nice. It leaves him doing some soul-searching after realizing how much life sucks and how most naughty children are only so because their lives suck.
• Black Comedy: All over the place. If you watch this show long enough, there's a very big chance it'll ruin your childhood. There's even a playlist for it for those who want to streamline the process.
• Black Comedy Cannibalism: A sketch in the episode "S&M Present" features two cows eating hamburgers. One of them comments "Damn, Jonathan is really tasty."
• Black Comedy Rape:
  • Crosses the Line Twice (or forty times) example with "Pimp My Sister", a Pimp My Ride spoof where the host kidnaps a teenage girl at the request of her younger brother and trains her to become a prostitute so he can win money. It ends with her vomiting at the prospect of having "unconventional" sex with the neighbor.
  • "I Know What the Bratz Did Last Summer" ends with Draculara about to take Sasha's "butt virginity", declaring, "Maestro, I'm gonna need a little butt virginity music!"
• Blah, Blah, Blah: In the "Villain Car Pool" skit, Lex Luthor says he should have taken the teleporter instead of getting stuck in traffic. Mumm-Ra says this as he's heard Lex say it a million times before.
• Body Surf: Quantum Leap is parodied when Sam leaps into the body of a woman doing a sex tape. "Ziggy says you have to work the shaft!"
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: While preparing for her quinceanera, a 15-year-old Dora asks the audience which beer has the most alcohol (and runs out without paying), where to find her drug dealer, and who she should make out with at the party.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick:
  • When the Nerd sings about how Lucasfilm could potentially mess up The Force Awakens, he says that he's been previously burned by Green Lantern (2011), Prometheus, and "2 Girls 1 Cup" ^note A video of two girls engaging in escalating coprophagia.
  • 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—er, her tonsils out.
• Breakfast in Bed: Parodied in the Peanuts-Misery mashup skit "Misery, My Sweet Babboo", where Sally is holding Linus captive in her bedroom and brings him a bowl of "snowflake soup" that turns out to be just hot water. He doesn't even get to drink it because she spills it on him when she runs to get the doorbell.
• Breast Expansion: In the "No Need For Glomer" sketch (based on the animated version of Punky Brewster), where Punky asked an abused Glomer to make her boobs bigger except Glomer kept going to the point where it was absolute Body Horror. This actually happened to Soleil Moon Frye. She developed breasts so huge she had to have breast reduction surgery.
• Brick Joke:
  • The Season 3 Christmas Episode was The Robot Chicken Half-Assed Christmas Special. The Season 4 Christmas Special is The Robot Chicken Full-Assed Christmas Special.
  • The joke mentioned under Too Soon? It came back to bite Owen and Beru in a big way.
    Stormtrooper: Oh, and I have a message from Lord Vader. He says - "You may now laugh about the 'Little Orphan Ani' joke."
  • The season 4 premiere opened with Seth & Matt being attacked by Joss Whedon and Ron Moore, believing Seth to be respectively a werewolf (as he was on Buffy) and a Cylon. The last sketch of the episode is "Just the Good Parts", which ends on a segment dedicated to Galactica - basically every major character nonchalantly announcing themselves to be a Cylon. Including Seth, who confusedly states "uh, I'm-I'm a Cylon," and then immediately gets his head blown off by Ron Moore.
  • The season 4 finale had a pretty clever joke as well. In one sketch, Seth Green and Matt Senriech mentioned that co-head writer Doug Goldstein bought a timeshare. At the end of the episode, when Mike Lazzo says that the show is cancelled, Doug himself is seen on the phone, begging his wife to sell the timeshare.
• Bring My Brown Pants: When the Keebler Tree is being attacked by Cookie Monster:
  Keebler Soldier #1: I didn't sign up for this! I just wanted to make cookies!
  Keebler Soldier #2: I'm making cookies in my pants right now!
• Broke the Rating Scale: The finale of season 8 has Doug Goldstein revealing that he put up a poll asking people if they want a finale about him or Seth & Matt. When the poll is 100% for the latter, Doug claims that his finale involves him "wearing a dope jacket from Wet Seal, kicking ass on a flying motorcycle and open-mouth kissing Christie Brinkley with [his] whole tongue". The counter for his ending changes from 0 to negative infinity.
• Brutal Honesty: When it's Bitch Pudding's turn to give a speech at Granny Grahamcrackers' funeral, she remembers Granny's smiles, her sugar cookies...and also her chronic farting problem, gambling addiction, and habit of Going Commando.
• Buried Alive:
  • A sketch featuring the Shirt Tales fighting in World War II has them being mistaken for Axis pilots and shot down by the American forces. When their shirts are laid on their graves, most of them change to read "R.I.P.", while Bogey's begins rapidly blinking and reads "I'm Buried Alive!".
  • Invoked by Sally Brown in "The Time of the Great Pumpkin." After Linus Van Pelt is killed by the titular monster, she decides she doesn't want to live without her "sweet babboo" and throws herself into his grave, after which Pigpen fills it up.
• The Butler Did It: One Scooby-Doo parody has Daphne bulking up and ripping the fake monster's head off his shoulders, then pulling his severed head out of his mask, nonchalantly saying that he was the butler and that she called it.
• Butterfly of Doom: Used in episode 17 to a ridiculous degree. As in causing earthquakes or volcanic eruptions just by killing an insect.
• Butt-Monkey: 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." According to Word of God, the sketch was originally supposed to go on even longer and end with her getting the electric chair.
• By Wall That Is Holey: King Kong falls on top of Unsinkable Molly Brown (famous for surviving the Titanic), but luckily, it lines up in such a way that she enters his anal cavity instead of being crushed to death. Her nickname is changed to "King Kong's Butthole Molly Brown," which she doesn't appreciate as much.

C

• Call-Back:
  • Palpatine's trip to the Death Star included a throwaway gag where a surfboard is shown on the luggage conveyer belt (a reference to the "Beachtrooper" in the LEGO Star Wars games.) In the last skit of the Star Wars special, where Palpatine is falling to his death, he passes the Beachtrooper (who he'd also told earlier to "Go fuck yourself!") dressed in his usual bathing suit and Stormtrooper helmet on a balcony within the Death Star, drinking from a coconut. When the Emperor falls past him, he says hello again, to which the Emperor yet again yells for him to go fuck himself.
  • In Death Star Orientation a Private Perkins is shown as an example of someone who Vader thinks he killed, but just goes around with a false beard and glasses. In Jar Jar Returns, Vader gives orders to the same Perkins, not realizing that he's supposed to be dead.
• Captive Audience: The chicken in the opening credits for the first five seasons, then the Mad Scientist in seasons 6 and 7, and then the chicken again in season 8.
• Career Not Taken: There's a sketch where Mojo Jojo says that he wants a steady job, maybe own a pottery shop, but he's stuck in a life of crime now.
• Casting Gag: Many, many voices are brought on just for the gag. For example, Cree Summer voicing Penny in an Inspector Gadget parody, Soleil Moon Frye voicing Punky Brewster in "No Need for Glomer", Dana Snyder portrays Master Shake as a critic of the Robot Chicken show, and the late Robert Culp reviving his character Bill Maxwell for a The Greatest American Hero parody.
  Master Shake: People watch this. On TV!
  • And one of the greatest—Mark Hamill coming on to do The Joker for "The Arkham Redemption".
  • Joining in on that greatness is Patrick Stewart reprising the role of Gurney Halleck from Dune (1984), noting how much more awesome and practical riding Dune Buggies are compared to the spice worms. This is actually a double Casting Gag, since it's likely also a reference to the infamous dune buggy scene in Star Trek: Nemesis.
  • A sketch about a musical starring The Avengers has none other than Avengers co-creator Stan Lee lend his voice and likeness to the piano player.
  • Billy Dee Williams regularly reprises his role as Lando Calrissian for the Star Wars skits. Carrie Fisher (Leia), Mark Hamill (Luke), Anthony Daniels (C-3P0), and Ahmed Best (Jar Jar) also reprised their roles for the odd sketch.
• Censorship by Spelling: From the "Fruity Fables" sketch:
  Arthur: Barry! Just where the H-E-C-Letter-that-comes-after-J have you been?
• Character Catchphrase:
  Fidel Castro: I love doing that!
  
  Bitch Puddin: Blam! You just got a taste of the Bitch Puddin'!
• Chew-Out Fake-Out: In "Bring a Sidekick To Work Day", The Flash reprimands Kid Flash for stripping Wonder Woman in public, then whispers "Superspeed high-five!"
• Chunky Salsa Rule: A skit with a tabletop RPG subverts this trope. A werewolf is reduced to goo by a Gatling gun and cremated. His ashes are snorted and subsequently shat out. He's still alive because it wasn't a silver bullet.
• Cluster F-Bomb: During the FUCK Rogers skit and when Dick Cheney got his hands on the prototype Iron Man armor.
  Dick Cheney: Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! [continues ad nauseum]
  • In the Bitch Pudding Special, Bitch Pudding lets out a long string (23 seconds long, to be precise) of F-bombs as she rolls down the side of a volcano. Almost every time she bounces, she swears, finally ending with one long, drawn out "FUUUUUCK!" at the end. (If you listen closely to the censored version, you can hear some of the echoes between the bleeps.)
  • Also previously done in a sketch where Mumm-Ra pulls a Mrs. Doubtfire, only for his bandages to get caught on the stuffed body of Snarf (long story). At this point, he gets unraveled and curses up a storm.
• Cold Sniper: Fumbles in one of the G.I. Joe sketches, though he'd started as a Friendly Sniper.
• Comically Missing the Point: When the Care Bears discuss committing genocide against the Care Bear Cousins, Don Cheadle shows up to offer another solution.
  Don Cheadle: You don't have to do this! I've built a hotel where the Cousins can be safe!
  Love-a-Lot Bear: Yeah! We can keep the corpses in there!
• Constructive Body Disposal: One segment has Bob the Builder dealing with a gang of thugs who tell him he doesn't have the right equipment for the job and proceed to beat him up. Bob and his crew retaliate by killing all of them and burying them and covering the hole with concrete.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Rambo recalls all the terrible punishments he suffered through while he was locked up by the enemy. Tortures include having The Twilight Saga read to him, being forced to play E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, being forced to listen to Rick Astley, and engaging in dance numbers, among others.
• Companion Cube: Wilson the Volleyball ends up getting washed away from Chuck Noland, and soon finds himself being passed around a series of other people, each of whom act like he's a real person. He is.
• Contest Winner Cameo: In-Universe. Robot Chicken once held a contest to win a PlayStation 3 in between seasons. At the start of the next season, the winner of the contest got stabbed to death by Seth Green.
• Cooking the Live Meal (deconstructed): A sketch from "Kramer vs. Showgirls" has Darkwing Duck selling his body to a Chinese restaurant to pay for Gosling's needed kidney transplant. The scene then cuts to him in the oven getting roasted alive, banging against the oven door from the inside and begging the chef to kill him; the latter however refuses because "the live ones cook better". Darkwing is then served up to Michael Moore in front of Gosling.
• Crazy Workplace: The Star Wars sketches recurringly turn the Empire into a goofy workplace, due to Palpatine and Darth Vader being rewritten into Pointy Haired Bosses. Amusingly it often only requires some Denser and Wackier tweaking of the original film's format to make it work a lot of the time.
• Creator Cameo: Happens with a lot of the show's personnel during the Season 2 finale. They get killed. And then return as zombies.
• Creator's Pet: Parodied in-universe. One sketch featured the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation figuring out how to get people to like Wesley Crusher, after the fans paid for a billboard threatening to ass rape Wil Wheaton if they didn't kill Wesley. The producers decide to add in an annoying alien character, ala Great Gazoo, called "Snirkles", so Wesley would look better in comparison (although one writer suggested they try to make Wesley a better character...and is promptly fired). The episode airs, and all Snirkles does is play a "space banjo song". The fans change the billboard to read "Kill Wesley. Keep Snirkles". Wil Wheaton, after seeing the skit, said he would've loved to voice Wesley if they'd asked him.
• Credits Gag: The most common end credits gag is on the fourth-to-last screen, which always includes something flattering or positive written next to "Sarah Gellar" and "Mila Kunis" and something humorous written next to another crew member. This is an example from the episode "Maurice Was Caught":
  Amazing: Sarah Gellar
  Great: Mila Kunis
  Ew...: Andrew Racho
  • Many of them are similarly silly:
    Buffy Summers: Sarah Gellar
    Meg Griffin: Mila Kunis
    Matt Peake: Matt Peake
  • One of the crueler variations from "The Ramblings of Maurice":
    Girl: Sarah Gellar
    Girl: Mila Kunis
    Cup: Andrew Racho
  • A complete list of the "special credits" is on the Robot Chicken wiki. Additionally, the "original dialogue mixer" is always credited as Kate "Superkate" Slepicka.
• Crippling the Competition: Sinestro (accidentally) cuts off both of Green Lantern's hands. Green Lantern counters by finding someplace else to wear his ring.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Kevin McAllister undergoes one when the traps he invented to keep out burglars backfire horribly on him.
• Cue the Flying Pigs: One sketch has a girl ask her mom if her curfew can be midnight. Her mom says, "When pigs fly". The girl was prepared and has a pig attached to a rocket shoot into the sky. The mom then agrees her new curfew is midnight.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • "The World's Most One-Sided Fist Fights Caught On Film"
  • The Season 5 finale, the Robot Chicken kills nearly every single character with ridiculous ease, the one exception being Bitch Pudding.

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• Dance-Off: A Voltron sketch has the team's robot face a Robest this way. They beat it the old fashion way, but gets "served" beforehand.
• Dark Parody:
  • In the Wonder Pets! parody, the pets accidentally send a calf to the slaughterhouse because they thought it was a comedy club due to the missing "S" making it read "laughterhouse".
  • In one parody of The Jetsons, George is killed, presumably by Rosie, and in another, Elroy brings home a pet alien who kills him.
  • In the Calvin and Hobbes parody, Calvin kills his parents and blames it on Hobbes. He gets carted off to a mental institution, believing he and Hobbes are going to Mars. Cut to him wrapped in a straitjacket and locked in a padded cell, sitting next to Hobbes and muttering, "Mars is amazing...Mars is amazing!"
  • In their Happy Days parody, Ralph dies and Fonzie tries to resurrect him but turns him into a zombie. Richie asks to be killed so he doesn't get zombified.
  • Their attempt at a Toy Story 3 trailer, which happened before the movie, followed the same premise of Andy being grown up but the difference is he's a junkie and used Buzz as a makeshift bong, effectively lobotomizing him in the process, so Woody has to give him a Mercy Kill.
  • They make an epilogue of Revenge of the Nerds that shows the nerds being arrested and then killed in jail.
  • The two G.I. Joe sketches show them being so useless they get instantly killed.
  • The iCarly skit starts with Carly getting her nudes leaked online and ends with her father nuking Iran.
  • The Beauty and the Beast sketch in "Garfield Stockman in: A Voice Like Wet Ham" has Belle singing a song about the high mortality rate and unsanitary living conditions of France in the time period that the movie takes place in, then it ends with her sneezing blood and acknowledging that such a thing was a death sentence back then.
• The Danza: In-universe, in the Murder, She Bitched sketch, Ernie Hudson plays both Detective Ernie and Judge Hudson.
• Deadpan Snarker: They tend to pop up in sketches to hang a lampshade on the movie/series being parodied. Especially popular is Emperor Palpatine in their Star Wars parodies.
• Death by Adaptation: Given the nature of the show, it's to be expected that many characters who didn't die in their original works can and will die in sketches featuring them.
• Death by Gluttony: When Cookie Monster attacks the Keebler Tree, the elves defeat him by pouring more and more cookies into his open mouth until his stomach explodes.
• Death Is Cheap: Mocked in the second DC comics special. Batman stops a eulogy for Green Arrow and proceeds to rant about this trope. After getting gasps from the congregation, Bruce then proceeds to call them out on it, pointing out many of them themselves came back from the dead, which several of them concede, and he proclaims he's done with arranging and attending their funerals—which everyone applauds. To hammer this point home, Ollie himself, the man they're supposed to be mourning, is attending his own funeral and is among those clapping.
• Decapitated Army: Lampshaded at the end of the second Star Wars special. It doesn't matter how many thousands of ships the Empire has, the Rebels just blew up the second Death Star AND killed the Emperor, which means the Rebels won and the Empire is no more — all delivered in the same matter-of-fact way a 12-year-old would use to explain the rules of a game of tag.
• Deconstructive Parody: Has its own page.
• Deconstructor Fleet: Everything cute and cuddly gets deconstructed and/or subverted. No exceptions.
• Decon-Recon Switch: "G.I. No" has the Joes deployed in Afghanistan, where there are terrorists with actual guns who are willing to kill, and they're all slaughtered as a result. That also means that COBRA is pitted against actual Navy SEALs who dispatch them with little effort.
• Department of Redundancy Department:
  Bitch Pudding: Some asshole just tried to kill me, so now that asshole's gonna get my boot, up his asshole!
• Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: In a Supergirl sketch, the main protagonist's enemies build an assault vehicle out of kryptonite to defeat her, but it goes comically slow and falls apart before reaching her. Then they go to plan B: have Livewire give her a kryptonite vibrator. She claims that it's just a regular vibrator with glow-in-the-dark paint, then Supergirl dies using it one night when it turns out Livewire lied and it was kryptonite after all.
• Depraved Kids' Show Host: Several, especially the host of Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego, who turns into one immediately after being dumped by his girlfriend while in the middle of the show.
• Designated Girl Fight: In the DC Comics special, when the Legion of Doom attacks the Justice League, Wonder Woman fights off Catwoman and Cheetah. Penguin comments that he'd fight her too, but he's a man. She responds by decking him.
• Determinator: Max Rebo don't never miss no gig.
• Deus Angst Machina: Parodied in the "Randy's Halloween" sketch, where Randy is given the Pink Power Ranger for a Halloween costume, and a frilly women's handbag 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.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Said almost word-for-word in a sketch parodying Drake & Josh: after Josh switches faces with Drake Face/Off-style, they have a shootout and accidentally blow up the movie theater that Josh works at. The police arrive and apprehend Josh, who gloats that he'll still be popular in prison until the officer points out that it just means he'll get raped, causing Josh to admit that he didn't think about that.
  • A Wizard of Oz-themed sketch involves the Wicked Witch of the West taking a shower. The water begins to melt her because she didn't count on that happening. As the Witch melts, she says "I'm such an idiot!"
• Disaster Dominoes:
  • Mocked in a skit that's a Crossover between Final Destination and Archie. In a mirror of Mrs. Lewton's aforementioned death scene, Mrs. Grundy is killed after an overly elaborate series of gags practically ripped from the Mouse Trap board game (eventually) results in a somehow previously-unnoticed car suspended above her head dropping on her.
  • In a skit parodying If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, giving a mouse a cookie makes him want milk, which makes him develop a taste for human blood, which turns him into a vampire, which results in him turning an entire neighborhood into vampires, which causes the National Guard to be called out and get eaten by the vampires, prompting the President to call in a nuclear strike and reducing America to a blighted atomic wasteland, which causes all the other nations of the world to start shooting off nukes until the planet is destroyed in an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. Or at least that's what would have happened, if Mommy hadn't killed Daddy because she caught him giving a mouse a cookie...at least that's what she tells her son.
• "Die Hard" on an X: Specifically, Die Hard with Dilbert in the role of of John MacClaine with the reveal that the villain is none other than Scott Adams attempting to find a case filled with his "readers' good will" to prevent him from being canceled online.
• Died on Their Birthday: In one skit, a family is celebrating grandma's birthday. When they tell her to blow out the candles, grandma suddenly dies.
  Grandpa: [Walks in, putting his arms around his wife and son] What'd I miss?
• Dishonored Dead: In the "I Know What The Bratz Did Last Summer" sketch, the Bratz accidentally hit Barbie with their car, dump her corpse on the side of the road and drive off.
  Yasmin: Welcome to your new dream house!
  Chloe: Rest in peace, bitch!
• Dismembering the Body: Taken to an extreme in a sketch where a warrior defeats a werewolf by pulling out a minigun, liquifying the werewolf into goo, collecting the goo in a bucket, cooking the goop and turning it into ashes, lining out the ashes and snorting it through his nose, excreting him out, and having the fecal matter burned in the waste processing plant. The Game Master then explains that the werewolf still isn't dead because the rules say it has to be killed with silver.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Sonic the Hedgehog starts off his last life in Green Hill Zone by speeding through a 35 MPH zone with no rings on him. The police lay down a spike strip to kill him.
    Officer 1: Uhh, couldn't we have just pulled him over and given him a ticket?
    Officer 2: Heheh, we could have, but we didn't.
  • In the "Apocalypse Pony" sketch, the children and their parents are killed by the ponies as "punishment for their sins" because the kids drew on the wall.
  • "Fumbles" the sniper quits The Joes, joins Cobra, and kills all but one of his former squadmates because they gave him an embarrassing nickname and proceed to mock him mercilessly over it. Cobra ends up giving him an even worse name, but giving Cobra's ignorant sincerity to it, "Fumbles" didn't really care.
    Duke: You motherfucker! You killed everything I loved! Take me too! TAKE ME TOO!!!
    Fumbles: No... no, you'll live with it.
  • One sketch has Batman and Robin bullying, tormenting, and murdering a group of kids for singing the "Batman smells" song. This is all just a story being told by the music teacher for shutting up the kids singing it during rehearsal. Which also counts as this trope as well.
  • Cobra Commander executes a guy for making oral sex jokes about him at his roast. But then, he is a bad guy.
  • The other citizens of Pastryville trying to kill Bitch Pudding for being a bitch, specifically after she gave an extremely rude speech at Granny Grahamcrackers' funeral. She's mean, but she previously never did anything to warrant getting killed.
  • Strawberry Shortcake sentencing Huckleberry Pie to be hanged after she suspects him of sleeping with the Purple Pieman (who actually was fucking a huckleberry pie...the dessert, that is).
  • One sketch involves three cowboys holding down their buddy and sticking him with a branding iron that says "Jew Lover". All because he bought a jar of Picante sauce in New York City.
  • The "Farting and Retards" sketch involves a guy shooting his roommate just because he didn't want Robot Chicken on their DVR anymore.
  • In the "Superman's Marriage" sketch, Clark forgets to remind Lois to TiVo Top Chef, and she asks him to go back in time like he did at the end of his first movie to remind her. When Clark refuses, Lois threatens to divorce him.
  • In the "Where is Mordor?" sketch, the Nerd is arrested by the FBI, waterboarded, and sent to prison, all because he accidentally hacked into the Pentagon while trying to find cheats for his Lord of the Rings game.
  • When Abby declines an invitation to join The Baby-Sitters Club, they get her boyfriend to dump her by telling him that she has AIDS, seduce him into having a four-way with them, throw a brick through her window, put a rabid wolf in her closet, gun down her parents with sniper fire and finally blow up her house.
  • The cast of Schoolhouse Rock! beating the shit out of random people for making basic grammar and math mistakes.
  • In "Mike Pasolo's Treehouse", he shoots at least a dozen monkeys to death...for laughing at him because he sits down to pee.
• Distracted from Death:
  • In the Peanuts sketch where Linus summons the Great Pumpkin, the Pumpkin kills the entire Peanuts crew until just Charlie Brown and Lucy are left. Charlie Brown is talking to Lucy at her "psychiatrist" stand and briefly looks away while talking. During that moment, the Great Pumpkin kills and eats Lucy.
  • Inverted with Smokey the bear, who murdered a baby. Despite placing a baby in a furnace, the judge only gave him "7 million hours of community service" as opposed to the Death Sentence or Life Imprisonment.
• The Dog Bites Back: The Robot Chicken gets his revenge on the Mad Scientist by doing the exact same punishment to him that he suffered through for the first 5 seasons.
• Don't Explain the Joke: In "Horror Movie Big Brother".
  Freddy Krueger: If Ghostface got voted out, take it from Freddy, that would be a dream come true. You get it? A dream? I kill people in their nightmares, man, it's what I do, it's my thing.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: The beliefs at work behind this are played totally, unironically straight in one skit where it shows a victory screen for Street Fighter II where Ryu just defeated Chun Li and she's acting like a stereotypical battered spouse making excuses for why her "partner" beat her, while Ryu suddenly realizes with horror that he's "severely beaten a woman".
• Drive-Thru Antics: The "Hissing Noise" skit has Cobra Commander, Destro, Major Bludd, and Baroness stop at a drive through. When attention is brought up to Cobra Commander's Snake Talk, the others have a laugh at his expense.
  Employee: Could I interest you in a bonus meal today?
  Cobra Commander: NO! Why would assssk that, assss if you could influenccce my decccision right before I order?
  Employee: What would you like, sir?
  CC: Yess, I'll have a sssssssssssssssssmall Sssssssssssssprite and a-
  Employee: Could you repeat that sir, I'm getting a... hissing noise.
  CC: I ssssssssaid I'll have a ssssssssssmall Sssssssssspite and a-
  Employee: Could you speak more clearly, sir?
  Destro: Tell him I want seven super sized special sandwiches.
  Baroness: With sweet and sour sauce.
  CC: You're all doing this on purpossse!
  Major Bludd: I'll have a hamburger.
  CC: Thank you, Sssssebastion.
  Major Bludd: (Baroness whispers in his ear) Oh, and a strawberry shake!
  CC: UGGHH! (hits the car horn in frustration)
• Driven to Suicide: Shows up all over the place, from Dora the Explorer jumping off the roof at her quinceanera (after admitting "I've never been able to hear you" to the audience) to Lionel Richie shooting himself after the media reminded the entire world that Nicole Richie, currently in the midst of a prison escape with Paris Hilton, is his daughter.
  • Suicide as Comedy: The Bloopers host would close out the sketches with him committing suicide in different ways. In the show's first episode he hung himself, then later episodes show him OD'ing on prescription drugs and immediately chasing with alcohol, suffocating himself with a plastic bag, and getting in a bathtub before dropping a toaster in.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Hinted at in a sketch where a Scooby-Doo villain gives up on Plan A, burns down the spooky old house for the insurance money, accidentally kills the human cast as collateral damage, and turns up four years later in a hot tub with several vessels both filled with and drained of of alcoholic beverages. He recounts all this with mixed feelings about his plans to a stranger, who turns out to be Scooby-Doo, who literally drowns the villain in the hot tub.
• Dumbass DJ: Dr. Ryan Stone accidentally calls a couple of these while trying to reach NASA. They annoy her so quickly that she just ends it all by jumping into the vacuum of space.

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• Easily Forgiven: Brought up during the "Smurfatar" sketch, by one irate Smurf towards Gargamel.
  Smurf: People! He beat Clumsy to death with a pipe!
• Ear-Piercing Plot: In one of the parody sketches for Inside Out, Riley is at a slumber party and one of her friends wants to pierce her ears as a teenage rite of passage. Her Emotions discuss if this is a good idea or not. As one of her emotions panics, it quickly turns into an Inception reference as her emotion's emotions and two "extractors" try to make Riley decide for herself. It later smash cuts into Riley's funeral, revealing that Riley went thought with the ear piercing but then bled to death after asking her friend to "stab her in the ear."
• Electrified Bathtub:
  • The fourth Bloopers sketch ends with the host killing himself by dropping a toaster in a bathtub.
  • The "Baby Terminators" sketch ends with the Terminator Baby destroying the Terminator Puppy by throwing it into an automatic washer before ripping out the control panel and throwing it in.
  • One sketch features a guy using The Brave Little Toaster to off himself this way.
• Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture: In a short parodying Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin is sent to therapy because he thinks his stuffed toy is a real tiger. He's given shock therapy when he begins showing violent thoughts. Ominous music plays as Calvin is shocked against his will and left twitching afterwards.
• Emergency Transformation: A couple of The Six Million Dollar Man parodies use this:
  • One has Pablo Rodriguez, a Mexican test pilot, crash a donkey into a cactus. He's transformed into the "Six Million Peso Man". As soon as he has the chance, he hops the US border.
    General: There's 283 American dollars we won't see again.
  • In one directly parodying the show, Steve brings in his injured wife so she can be saved with bionic technology. While the scientists are in there, he has them add features that make her superhumanly good... at giving handjobs. She proceeds to use him as a bludgeon to beat the other scientists and Steve himself into pulp. A doctor then bluntly informs all three that bionics cannot save them and they'll die before the night is out.
• Emotional Regression: Parodied in the "Toy Story 4" sketch, where a college-aged Andy turns Buzz Lightyear, a Living Toy based on an adult character, into a makeshift bong, lobotomizing him to an infantile state in the process.
  Lobotomized!Buzz: (Simpleton Voice) 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.
• Enemy Mine: The Scientist and the Robot Chicken join forces in the Season 7 finale to put a stop to the Scientist's son, who took Presidents Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama hostage.
• Enfant Terrible:
  • The unnamed little girl from the "Pegasus Abuse" sketch who cuts off a pegasus' wings, drugs him, paints him to look like a My Little Pony, and repeatedly whips him until he agrees that his name is "Sunny Muffins". She is also shown to have done the same thing to a griffin whom she named "Honey Flake".
  • Sally Brown is portrayed this way in the "Misery, My Sweet Babboo" sketch, kidnapping Linus to force him to write her a Love Letter and killing Snoopy when he catches onto her.
• Entertainment Below Their Age: One sketch is about a teenage girl's father getting addicted to Inuyasha, an anime aimed at teenagers. Towards the end of the sketch, he also gets hooked on Gossip Girl (2007).
• Eskimos Aren't Real: In one sketch, Hobbes claims cowboys never existed in reality and were just made up by Marlboro's marketing department.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Dr. Ball may work for the Empire, but he will not be party to torture, because he's a doctor.
• Everyone Can See It: It took a dad a single episode of Inuyasha to realise that Kagome and Inuyasha would get together.
• Everyone Has Standards: In "A Certain Point of View", Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda spend the entire skit screwing with Luke and singing about how everything is true from a certain point of view, even when Luke asks them if Leia is his sister. After Luke mentions that he and Leia made out, Obi-Wan immediately cuts it out and gives Luke a straight answer while Yoda apologizes.
• Everyone Went to School Together: One skit involves Michael Bay meeting with Hasbro executives to discuss Transformers 5. One of his ideas involves Optimus Prime having met all the Autobots and Decepticons in high school in spite of years of continuity.
• Everything Except Most Things: The show parodied Franklin Roosevelt's famous "All we have to fear is Fear Itself" speech, where people keep popping up and adding their own fears and phobias to the list. By the end of the gag, it's quite a Long List indeed.
• Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: In a sketch where a Scottish shepherd named Stuart is established to have invented the bagpipes to cover up his attempt at screwing one of his sheep, his lamentation that he had to kill the sheep to make the instrument and throw off suspicion includes a jab at the reputation bagpipe music has for being hard on the ears.
  Stuart: That was the day I killed two things I loved most in the world, my beautiful Bessie and music. I also killed music.
• Evil Counterpart: Dark Meat, an evil version of the Robot Chicken, who was built by the Scientist's evil son.
• Evolving Credits:
  • Season 6's opening involves the Robot Chicken strapping the Mad Scientist to the bench, turning him into a robot, and making HIM suffer what the chicken was forced to go through for the first 5 seasons.
  • Season 8 opens with a now frozen Robot Chicken being thawed out and put through the same hell he went through in the early seasons, only with more advanced technology and a descendant of the Mad Scientist.
  • Season 10 has both the Robot Chicken and Mad Scientist digging up the Nerd's corpse and turning him into a robot.
• Exact Words: In a sketch involving Ted Turner running around dressed as Captain Planet and screaming his name at the top of his lungs, he holds a Corrupt Corporate Executive out a window and says he'll let him go if he signs a pledge to not pollute anymore. He does so, and Ted makes good on his word. By letting him go while he's still hanging out the window.
• Excrement Statement: This is how a man in one skit announces his resignation.
  Boss: So this is your two weeks, then? [man pisses directly in his face] I see.
• Executive Meddling: Defied In-Universe. Steven Spielberg knows that Hollywood only wants him to make remakes for movies these days, but he's convinced that making movies is still what he should be doing anyway. He decides to make the mother of all remakes by combining pretty much every movie he ever directed into a remake of Saving Private Ryan.
• Explosive Decompression: Little Orphan Annie is given Mars for her sweet sixteen party, and upon visiting it, trips and loses her space suit helmet, leading to her head exploding.
• Expy Coexistence: In a sketch from "Endless Breadsticks" parodying Sesame Street, two puppets are shown as expies of Elmo and Grover, the former having red fur, light grey hair, a light blue nose, and wearing a striped shirt. In another Sesame Street sketch from a later episode, "Eviscerated Post-Cital by a Six Foot Mantis", the aforementioned puppet was used for the character of Ricky Recycle Bin, who acts as Oscar the Grouch's Foil. Later still in another Sesame Street sketch from "Victoria's Secret of NIMH", Elmo and Ricky can be seen alongside each other at a rave party hosted by Count von Count.
• Eye Poke: In one Star Trek spoof, Spock tries to knock out Scotty with a Vulcan nerve pinch. When that doesn't work, he goes for the eye poke.
• Eye Pop: In the Date My Mom sketch, Chet Cannon does this upon seeing Jessica Rabbit for the first time.
• Eye Scream: In a sketch based on Pee-wee's Playhouse, Pee-Wee goes shopping at a grocery store with Penny, a claymation girl with pennies for eyes. When Pee-Wee tries to pay for his purchases, the clerk tells him he's two cents short. Pee-Wee then tears Penny's eyes off her face and uses them to pay the clerk, with Penny screaming "My eyes! My eyes!" as he does this.

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• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: A woman walks into a pharmacy with a face hugger attached to her face and asks for a Morning-After pill.
• Face–Heel Turn: Aquaman joins the Legion of Doom after being mistreated for so long. The only reason he was able to join was because he knew the codes to get into the Justice League's headquarters.
• The Faceless: Master Chief ends up screwing up one of his missions because he's too obsessed with the fact that his face is hidden behind his helmet. Even though nobody even cares what he looks like, he keeps bringing up the issue that his face is too important to show anyone.
• Facial Horror: Described in needlessly grim detail in one sketch parodying The Brady Bunch revealing the fate of Carol's first husband, who was a scientist who suffered an accident involving radioactive materials, and initially survived the explosion of the laboratory's core but was left with a hole where his face was.
• Fair-Weather Mentor: Palpatine to Vader, whose growing incompetence causes him to resent and belittle his supposed apprentice.
• Faking the Dead: Wile E. Coyote becomes suicidally depressed after failing to catch the Roadrunner so many times, so he tapes a bag around his head and suffocates to death. At his funeral, he knocks down a trompe l'oeil of a casket, revealing that he faked his death, and fries the mourning Roadrunner at point blank with a flamethrower.
• Family-Friendly Firearms: The G.I. Joes mock the US military for loading actual bullets into their guns instead of lasers and for training soldiers to shoot to kill their targets instead of "harmlessly herding them back to the enemy line." A taste of real combat in Afghanistan quickly proves their own downfall. And Cobra's as well immediately afterward.
• Fan Disservice:
  • A Smurfs parody of a Carl's Jr Fanservice burger ad has the elderly warlock Gargamel wearing a bikini and sloppily eating a blue (possibly made out of Smurfs) burger. It does not look good.
  • The Fairy Godmother stripping naked as part of a Satanic ritual to create Cinderella's dress, shoes and carriage.
    Cinderella: What the—? Stop that!
    Fairy Godmother: You want to go to the ball, dear, right?
    Cinderella: Well, yeah, but...
    Fairy Godmother: Well, my spell wasn't working, so I had to go with Plan B. O, PRINCE OF SUFFERING! FREE YOUR MINIONS FROM THE DARKEST CROTCH OF HELL AND SEND CINDERELLA TO THE BALL!
• Fantastic Drug: The fearsome career of the Dread Pirate Roberts is shown snorting iocaine powder.
• Fantastic Fantasy Is Mundane: One sketch had a group of fantasy races playing an RPG about working in an accounting firm.
• Fantastic Racism: When a salt shaker introduced her new boyfriend to her family, they were all shocked to learn he was pepper.
• Faux Affably Evil: While Emperor Palpatine is humanized by his amusing and vulnerable reactions to the various setbacks his Empire experiences during the Original Trilogy, he still does terrible evil and relishes in his own wickedness.
• Favors for the Sexy: The characters of The A-Team won't help an obese and homely young woman rescue her kidnapped father, they reject her because of her appearance and she runs away sobbing. Then comes a blonde, shapely beauty with a similar story, the A-Team gladly offer their help.
• Five Stages of Grief: One of the more famous sketches, where a giraffe is trapped in quicksand and goes through all five stages until reaching acceptance...when he hits the bottom of the quicksand. With his neck still above ground.
• Flaming Emblem: One skit mocked the scene in Daredevil where he forms his iconic symbol with fire from a lit cigarette. In the skit, he visits the site hours earlier just so he can meticulously set up his "flaming Ds".
• Flawless Token: Discussed in the "12 Angry Little People" sketch.
  Black Juror: Yeah, then the five-oh plant the DNA evidence, you can't trust the po-lice! One time a po-lice take my shoe shine box, beat me with it! My lawdy! ... What? Every black man on the TV gots to be a positive role model?
• Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Most depictions throughout the show look like this. According to a Season 5 sketch, it's possible for people in Heaven to die and go to Super Heaven, which is Fluffy Cloud Heaven with more rainbows, fireworks, motorcycles, and electric guitars.
• For the Evulz: The Mad Scientist, made especially clear the way he taunts Robot Chicken by kidnapping his wife.
• Forced to Watch: The chicken in the opening for Seasons 1 through 5. As of Season 6, the Mad Scientist takes the chicken's place. In Season 8, the chicken is forced into this role again by a descendant of the Mad Scientist.
• Foul Ball Pit: One sketch features the Lice Girls singing about how their host picked them up in a ball pit of a Chuck-E-Cheese's. The girl's father swears they're never going back again as he has to pick them out of her hair.
• Foul Fox: A sketch based on Emmet Otters Jugband Christmas has Emmet invite Frankie Fox as the newest member of the jug band. However, the rest of the band are weary, as foxes are their natural enemies. Sure enough, Frankie attacks them all during their performance of "We're All the Same on Christmas Day."
  Emmet: Wait! Ain't we all the same on Christmas day?
  Frankie: Oh, we're not the same, cause I ain't dead! Merry Christmas!
• Free-Fall Fight: One sketch begins as a skydiving marriage proposal but eventually becomes this.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • The episode "Suck It" includes "If You Are Reading This You Are Too Close = Crappy Bumper Sticker / Robot Chicken Hearts You for Paying Attention to Details" and "The Puppet Dept. Is the Land of Cute Girls / Matt Has Cool Toys / Fasolo Is the Man of the People but Tom Root Is My Hero" during the Six Million Peso Man sketch.
  • Season 3 opener "Werewolf vs. Unicorn" has descriptions for each of the cast members shot during the Season 2 "Everybody Dies" Ending finale on their tombstones.
• Fruit Cart: Parodied in one sketch in "Vegetable Funfest" where a guy avoids having his fruit cart destroyed during a high-speed chase, only for a safe to fall out of nowhere and flatten him.
• Future Imperfect: The Robot Chicken The Walking Dead special starts with the Nerd visiting a museum dedicated to how the zombie outbreak has been cured, both the zombie saliva and the "we were all infected all along" thing, and how they believe it's all thanks to the efforts of "Rick Gremlin" and his daughter, "Carlisle."
• The "Fun" in "Funeral":
  • Benny Hill's funeral was exactly like one of the sketches from his show (with the coffin being hidden, transported to different places, used as a sled and there was even a mourner dressed in a Black Bra and Panties).
  • Another sketch had Diablo Cody delivering a long eulogy only for the deceased to come out of her coffin and question Diablo's presence and whether or not her mom even read the suicide note.
  • Yet another had Casper's brother, Jasper the Douchebag Ghost, possessing an old woman's corpse at a funeral for some hijinks.
  • In the first DC Comics special, Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern attend the funeral of Captain Carrot of the Zoo Crew, and Green Lantern is trying his best not to laugh when he sees that the members of the Zoo Crew are all cartoon animals. Batman also lets out a snicker when he finds out that one member is a mouse named Little Cheese.
  • The second DC Comics special sees Batman stop his eulogy for Green Arrow, then (to the horror of those attending) rant about how Death Is Cheap 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 back at some point. Not only do those in attendance applaud to this fact, but sure enough, one of the people attending Green Arrow's funeral is Oliver Queen himself, proving Bruce's point.
• Funeral Cut:
  • One sketch has a boy announcing he's going to shave "just like Daddy". As he pulls the straight razor toward his face, the scene cuts to his casket being lowered.
  • In a sketch based on Inside Out, Riley attends a slumber party, where her friends have her get her ears pierced as a Rite of Passage. After Riley says "This is my decision!", the next scene takes place at her funeral, where the eulogist advises her family to remember Riley as a good girl and not someone who decided to ask her friend to stab her ear and then bled to death.
• Funny Background Event:
  • In one sketch, two music producers turn off the sound to a recording booth and don't hear the performer as he's attacked and ultimately killed by a zombie, an alien, and a wolfman.
  • There was also an episode where the Playmobil characters were inside the airport, talking about how silly the set was. If you watch the luggage conveyor belt in the corner, you can eventually see a Playmobil kid figure (which came with the set) rolling through.
  • In another sketch, a woman is sitting in a subway car, while in another car behind her a man is getting slapped and throttled by a monster.

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• Gambit Roulette: The Inuyasha sketch, where a father gets way into the show - but only to make his daughter regret not changing the channel so he can watch the Redwings game.
• Games of the Elderly: At the beginning of the sketch, "Senior Mutant Ninja Turtles", a game of Bingo is played at a retirement center. When the Bingo caller calls "I-16", an elderly Leonardo shouts, "Cowabingo, dude!" and holds up his winning bingo card.
• Genius Bruiser:
  • The Mad Scientist. Where after Robot Chicken storms the castle and slaughters everyone in his path, the Scientist is able to block all of Chicken's attacks with no effort.
  • Faker for He-Man. He only acts stupid for the sake of the show, but is both physically stronger and more intellectual than He-Man behind the camera.
• Genre Savvy: The Nerd usually knows the source material of whatever the hell is happening to him. Sometimes it doesn't always go as planned, but he knows well enough.
  • When he finds the Pool of the Drowned Girl, he imagines how awesome his life will be to have the same "curse" that Ranma has. It didn't turn out as well as he hoped.
  • When he dreamed he was in The Wizard of Oz, his knowledge of his companions allowed them to defeat all the flying monkeys.
  • When he dreamed he was riding around in Knight Rider, he complains how much it sucks that he got stuck with the remake version. Even his own dreams had limitations though, but he was able to get what he wanted eventually.
  • When his Christmas was stolen, he soon realizes that the thief had to be the Grinch. He was annoyed to learn it was the Jim Carrey version instead of the cartoon version, but the Grinch says that it doesn't really matter since a Grinch is a Grinch. In response, the Nerd pushes him off a cliff and kills him.
  • When the TARDIS and the Doctor show up, he acknowledges that he's never seen the show, but feels he's absorbed enough information about it through nerd osmosis. Being a companion isn't as fun as he expected it to be. He wasn't impressed with the TARDIS being Bigger on the Inside because Snoopy did it first with his dog house. He thinks that the locations that they travel to are sound stages, and solves the problem of the Doctor's greatest enemy by effortlessly knocking over a Dalek.
  • Sometimes this is just generally played for laughs. A good example is when a museum in the DC Universe is showing off a priceless diamond, and the curator says, "All right, we all know what's coming, so let's try to get through a round of h'ors d'eurves before the first ice-themed supervillain shows up."
  • When the Child Catcher is caught by Chris Hansen, he is familiar with all of the trappings of the show, up to knowing that when Hansen calmly lets him leave it means that the cops are outside waiting for him.
• Genre Throwback: Surprisingly yes. Introducing Dr. Ball, M.D., perfectly in the style of typical 1970's television show openings. Disco music, funky text graphics and everything. Co-Starring Larry Elsworth as Sam.
• Godwin's Law: Gargamel invokes this upon himself after he is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for racial crimes against The Smurfs (1981). He tries to clarify in his defense that all he was trying to do was completely wipe out and eradicate every last Smurf off the face of the Earth. The judge points out that he just gave the textbook definition of "Genocide".
  Gargamel: Oh... soooo... me and Hitler, huh?
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Discussed in one sketch when Mario and Bowser are golfing and Bowser mentions how it's weird that he used to kidnap Mario's girlfriend.
• Gone Horribly Right:
  • In a sketch in "Crushed By a Steamroller On My 53rd Birthday", some scientists decide to bring back a dinosaur, similar to the movie Jurassic Park. Disturbingly enough, the dinosaur is the Totally Radical Robbie Sinclair from Dinosaurs. The scientist's horrified reaction is to shoot him in the head and destroy all of the equipment and research to make sure that never happens ever again.
  • Linus is fed up with the Great Pumpkin never appearing on Halloween, so he attempts to summon him by drawing a pentagram, lighting some candles and sacrificing a chicken. The Great Pumpkin appears...cue the Gory Discretion Shot.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Played with. It's revealed that Grandma Gramcrackers drove Buttermilk Biscuits to the city to get an abortion. Biscuits does not appreciate this bring brought up at Grandma Gramcrackers's funeral.
• Gratuitous English: The show's name came from a dish on the menu of a West Hollywood Chinese restaurant the show's creators ate at.
• Gratuitous Japanese: The MacGuffin that Goku gets from Mrs. Claus in "A Very DBZ Christmas" is called the Tenkaichi Budokai.
• Grievous Bottley Harm:
  • "Bake-Off Beatdown" has Sara Lee breaking a beer bottle against her head to use as a weapon.
  • In a Blue's Clues sketch, when Steve tries to kill Blue to stop her from replacing him with Joe, she breaks a beer bottle and attacks him with it.
• Groin Attack: Or "Nut Shot" as they like to call it. There's a song about it. This includes a literal one in which a squirrel knocks over a bunch of acorns. Some of the many other examples are listed here.
  • In the Nerd's dream about Game of Thrones, he's conscripted into service as a handmaiden to Daenerys Targaryen and gives her sex advice, and...well...
    Daenerys: (runs outside the tent) I think I broke his dick!
    The Nerd: You broke his dick?
    Khal Drogo: (clutching his groin and speaking subtitled Dothraki) She broke my dick!
    The Nerd: You broke his dick?
    Daenerys: I broke his dick!
    Khal Drogo: She broke my dick!
    The Nerd: You broke his dick?
    Daenerys: I broke his dick!
    Khal Drogo: She broke my dick!
    Daenerys: I did everything you said!
    [Beat]
    The Nerd: ...OK, full disclosure, I don't know how sex works.
    (Khal Drogo chases him, screaming angrily)
• Grossout Show: If it's not being offensive or bloody, it's usually being this. Major examples being the "Cat and Booger" and the "Captain Jack Fantasy" sketch.
  • "Nice wang!" *squeek squeek squeek* "Nice poodle!" *squeek squeek squeek* "Nice pretzel!"
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: In the 11th season Halloween Episode, the nerd is trapped in one ala Happy Death Day, where he must stop his killer to save himself. In a usual moment of Genre Savvy his first action during the third loop, when he is certain it is real, is to identify his "ticking clock". He only has so many costumes to wear to the party, and he will die when he runs out.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: The inversion from the Death Star prison scene is exaggerated in one sketch. Han keeps coming up with more and more elaborate excuses, only for the guard on the other side to keep reaching out to check Han's story each time. It gets to the point where he even manages to get Darth Vader on the line to see if there really is a reactor down in the prison (there isn't.)

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• Hair-Raising Hare: According to the show, the Easter Bunny has issues with Jesus Christ. Violent issues.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Gadget from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers decides to alter her wardrobe a little, turning her jumpsuit into nothing more than an enticing jacket that barely covers up her breasts, leaving her entire (featureless) bottom exposed. Dale and Monterrey Jack both find excuses to run off and masturbate, while Chip tries to remain the voice of reason and tell her that she's not dressed. Gadget points out the Double Standard presented by this trope, but Chip is quickly overcome and also runs off. Gadget asks Zipper what's going on with all of them, only to see him masturbating as well.
• Half the Man He Used to Be:
  • The G.I. Joe sketch "A Giant Hand" has Duke pulling off the sheet on a traumatized Cobra Commander in bed to reveal that the latter has been bifurcated from the waist down by the toys' owner.
  • A sketch based on the Earthworm Jim cartoon has Jim fighting Evil Jim and intentionally shooting himself in half, believing that the two halves will grow into separate Jims. Evil Jim tells him that's only a myth and shoots him in the head, but Jim's legs develop sentience and run off, which Evil Jim says doesn't even make sense.
• Hands Go Down:
  • This sketch involving Saved by the Bell and Saw: the cast can escape if they press a button that will torture Screech. They refuse to do so, until they are told they will receive free Corvettes. When Belding explains that it was just a trust exercise, the cast beats up Screech and end up in detention.
    Slater: So we really don't get Corvettes?
    Belding: No. Are there any other questions?
    [hands go up]
    Belding: Are there any other questions not pertaining to Corvettes?
    [hands go down]
  • Another great example is a sketch where a school teacher asks if anyone knows the answer to a question. A boy in the front row raises his hand. The teacher freaks out and screams and yells at the kids while flinging away his desk and making death threats. The kid then slowly lowers his hand.
• Harsh Talent Show Judge: In the "Zombie Idol" skit, the roles of Randy, Paula, and Simon are filled in by three Monster Cereals characters. Frankenberry seems to have Randy's role, Boo Berry seems to act like Paula, and Count Chocula acts as the harsh "Simon Cowell" of the three, being the sardonic hard-to-please judge who says that zombie Bob Marley's song is "dreadful".
• Has Two Thumbs and...: In the Star Wars special, Lando Calrissian tries to lighten the mood during the dinner with the rebels and Darth Vader with the quip: "Who has two thumbs and betrayed his friends? THIS GUY! *beat* Too soon?"
• Heads or Tails?: Two-Face determines EVERYTHING he does with the flip of a coin. Flip a coin, go to the bathroom. Flip a coin, walk into the stall. Flip a coin, sit down. Flip a coin, release his bowels. Flip a coin, DON'T WIPE. Flip a coin, DON'T FLUSH.
• Heist Clash: Played for Laughs in the first DC Comics Special, where a quartet of ice-themed supervillains break into a museum one by one, all seeking to steal the same jewel.
• Hellish Horse: "My Little Pony, Apocalypse Pony! Punish mankind for their sins!"
• "Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!": Half of the Season 4 episode titles make up a note from a man named Maurice who is trapped in a DVD factory. The other half is a response from the factory claiming that Maurice was trying to unionize the factory.
• Hermaphrodite: One sketch has a cheerleader who says "Come on team, you really rock", than turns to lift her skirt to the audience while saying "Check it out, I have a..."
• Hero Insurance: Spoofed in the premiere. After a battle, Optimus Prime congratulates the Autobots: "Megatron was defeated with only 50 humans killed in the crossfire, a new record!" Everybody cheers.
• Hidden Depths: For all Munson's mocking of the nerds, he's honestly as nerdy as they are: he knows enough about RPG mechanics to accurately fill out a character sheet, and he's actually farther along in The Walking Dead than The Nerd is.
• High-Altitude Interrogation: One sketch revolving around Ted Turner becoming Captain Planet sees him smash through the window of a corporate office while two executives are contemplating dumping polluted waste in the Grand Canyon. Turner then proceeds to hold one of the two men out the window until he agrees to sign a clause agreeing to not dump waste in the Grand Canyon at which point Ted Turner would agree to let the guy go.
• Hilarious Outtakes: Spoofed in recurring sketches over the first few seasons.
• Hipster: While not specifically called as such, one woman who claims to be a vegetarian, refuses to eat a burger even though she knows that by not doing so, she is dooming the entire human race to be conquered by the Bovine uprising in the future. The only man who can convince her to change her mind stops everyone in the middle of a gunfight to confront her issues with it, revealing that she only chooses to claim herself as a vegetarian because she feels that it makes her different enough, and as such, superior to others just so she could have something for herself. She eventually gives in and eats the burger, thus saving humanity's future.
• Historical Badass Upgrade: Several examples; see the trope page for details.
• Holding in Laughter: : A sketch involves a man at a college party (which also parodies The Hurt Locker) trying to flirt with a woman. He makes fun of her major when she tells him her dead father had the same major. After asking how he died, she told him he committed suicide because he couldn't find a job, resulting in him trying and ultimately failing to hold in a snicker.
• Holy Ground: In a Highlander parody, Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff have to call off their fight when Hilary mentions that The GAP is holy ground. They later attack each other elsewhere.
• Hollywood Acid: An Alien sketch entails an individual Xenomorph's acid melting through multiple floors, resulting in it fallling through several stories before hitting the pavment.
• Hollywood History: A sketch shows Hernán Cortés in battle with, and killing Montezuma atop an Aztec pyramid, who then curses him to suffer from Montezuma's Revenge with his dying breath. In real history, Cortés never fought Montezuma.
• Hope Spot: In the Bitch Pudding Special, the villagers escape the burning church only to find a vengeful Bitch Pudding waiting outside for them with a minigun. Cue the massacre.
• Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: One skit has The Wuzzles asking themselves how they came to be, with all the fathers being the bigger animals (Bumblelion's lion father was stung by an attractive bee and wanted to have sex with her, Eleroo's elephant father warned his kangaroo mother she'd hurt during sex, and Donkeyhuman's origin is rejected).
• Humiliation Conga: This is the plot of the Robot Chicken sketch "The Worst Halloween Ever." Young Randy gets stuck dressing as a pink Power Ranger for Halloween, is given a purse for a trick-or-treat bag and everyone thinks he's a girl. Then a school bully arrives and takes him to look out point with everyone thinking that he's going to rape Randy (he actually just cries and tells him about all his problems), then a cop arrives and tells Randy that his mom just died in a fire, saying that the last thing she did was write a note saying that she never loved him, right before killing his dog.
• Hummer Dinger: In an episode parodying Richie Rich, Richie states he drives a hybrid. Half monster truck, half limousine, that is. It has a mileage of three meters on a full tank.
• Hyperventilation Bag: In a sketch parodying the Fandango commercials with paper bag puppets, one puppet uses another to hyperventilate into after watching scary movies. He breathes so hard, he pops his friend.
• Hypocritical Humor: In the "Keebler Attacked" skit, when Cookie Monster attacks the Keebler elves' tower, they pour massive amounts of cookies down his throat to kill him via Death by Gluttony. Cut to two of the elves producing the cookies:
  Keebler Chef #1: Faster, Buckets! Pack that fudge! Pack that fudge, dammit!
  Keebler Chef #2: (snickers)
  Keebler Chef #1: Save your immaturity for when we're not about to be killed, you idiot! ...Hee hee, fudge.

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