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| 7 | * SafeUnderBlankets: In one sketch, a couple of monsters sarcastically lament that they can't get a kid under the covers... and then bust out the baseball bats. |
| 8 | * SelfMadeOrphan: In the "Happy Birthday, Calvin" skit, Calvin's parents are concerned about his mental health and try to make him stop believing Hobbes is real, with electroshock therapy and pills. Hobbes comes back to life when they aren't looking, and, well... |
| 9 | -->'''Hobbes''': Calvin, your parents don't believe...we have to kill them. ''(pulls out a chainsaw)'' |
| 10 | * TheScottishTrope: One sketch features a young Seth Green acting in a Burger King commercial and repeatedly flubbing his line, his attempts getting increasingly less coherent as he takes more bites from the Whoppers he's provided until he gets sick and throws up since he declined the director's suggestion to spit his bites into a bucket after every take. In the present day, he can't hear or even say the word "cheeseburger" without throwing up. |
| 11 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: When the Archie characters are dying off in the style of the ''Film/FinalDestination'' movies, Veronica pays the Grim Reaper a million dollars in exchange for not killing her, and he accepts. |
| 12 | * ScrewYourself: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in one sketch starring a pair of [[Franchise/StarWars Clone Troopers]], one of which asks his partner if masturbation is gay, since them two having sex would technically be that. Said partner states that masturbation isn't on its own but even if them two doing it with consent counted as gay, who cares? |
| 13 | * SecretaryOfEvil: Parodied in the ''Star Wars'' sketches, where [[PunchclockVillain Palpatine and Vader]] often consult with [[TheGhost Sheila]], who seems to be their shared secretary. She's also apparently married to the bounty hunter Dengar. |
| 14 | * TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: The sketch 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. |
| 15 | * SecretSanta: The Legion of Doom holds one in the DC Comics special. Luthor has to make a rule against exploding toys, and Toyman complains that he's being persecuted. |
| 16 | * SelfDeprecation: |
| 17 | ** Co-Head Writer Doug Goldstein likes to put himself down in a few of the sketches, portraying himself as a loser and ButtMonkey who's not as popular as Seth and Matt. |
| 18 | ** The entire premise of the show is that the Robot Chicken is being ''forced'' to watch the sketches, implying they're not something anyone would watch willingly. In the episode where the {{Mad Scientist}}'s son kidnaps all the living presidents, he tortures them by making them watch the show. |
| 19 | * SeriesFauxnale: Every season actually ends in this manner. Season 5's actually takes the cake, [[spoiler:with the Robot Chicken escaping and killing nearly every reoccurring character in the series]]. |
| 20 | * ShapeshifterWeapon: In the Season 5 finale [[spoiler:the Robot Chicken reveals his bionic arm is capable of forming whatever weapon he wants: [[BladeBelowTheShoulder sword]], hammer, [[PowerFist fist]], etc]]. |
| 21 | * ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: The 2017 Christmas episode is ''"Freshly Baked: The Robot Chicken Santa Claus Pot Cookie Freakout Special: Special Edition"'' |
| 22 | * ShoutOut: Maybe not the most affectionate ones, sure... |
| 23 | ** The most affectionate, probably, being the end credits music, a chorus of chickens singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66m52YFZBg "The Gonk"]] from ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' soundtrack. The ''Franchise/StarWars'' specials have the chicken chorus singing the film series' standard end credits theme. |
| 24 | ** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzzqE7EPoIc&feature=g-vrec The Rescue]]" took TheOner from Tony Jaa's ''Film/TomYumGoong'', and had one of the two recurring nerds lampshade this fact in the middle of the chicken's rampage. |
| 25 | ** A reporter in "Junk in the Trunk" is named Jerry Poppendaddi, after the similarly named ska band Cherry Poppin' Daddies. |
| 26 | ** Season 10 episode 6's opening credits is a recreation of the opening to ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. |
| 27 | ** The season 11 intro is one to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', with the Monolith being made out of television screens. |
| 28 | ** The season 11 finale is a GroundhogDayLoop that takes after both the [[Film/GroundhogDay film]], and ''Film/HappyDeathDay''. The nerd notes he has to fix a personal flaw like the first movie, and he only has so many tries until his [[MalevolentMaskedMen masked murderer]] kills him off permanently like in the latter. |
| 29 | * ShrunkInTheWash: In the "[[Series/BigBrother Big Horror Movie Brother]]" segment, [[{{Film/Scream}} Ghostface]] pisses off [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]] by shrinking his iconic sweater. |
| 30 | -->'''Freddy''': YOU FOOL! The label CLEARLY says permanent press! |
| 31 | * SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: The message of the "Revised Lessons of Dr. Seuss", where in The Lorax learns that morals are lame and ultimately it's better just to sell out. |
| 32 | * SimpletonVoice: [[spoiler:[[Franchise/ToyStory Buzz Lightyear]]]] starts speaking in a goofy tone of voice in the "Toy Story 4" sketch after being effectively lobotomized in the process of being turned into a makeshift bong by a college-aged Andy. |
| 33 | * SingleTargetLaw: PlayedForLaughs in the first DC Comics Special: ComicBook/LexLuthor issues a new rule to the LegionOfDoom, banning them from gifting each other with explosive toys during "Secret Santa". Toyman immediately complains, pointing out that he's literally the only one affected by that rule. |
| 34 | * SirSwearsALot: |
| 35 | ** Palpatine in the ''Star Wars'' specials is probably the worst offender in regards to swearing. In particular, he uttered exactly nine usages of the F-word, six of which were in a chain, in the skit where Vader calls him at his office when telling him about the destruction of the Death Star. He later gives four usages of the F-word in a later skit detailing his bad day on the Death Star, two of which were, again, in a chain. In fact, with the exception of two Stormtroopers in Episode II and Lando Calrissian, a large majority of the more profane language (i.e. the ones that are required to be bleeped out when in syndication) are from Palpatine's mouth. |
| 36 | ** The alien that keeps shouting, "DAMN IT, DAMN IT, DAMN IT!!!" in triplicate whenever his and his less blue partner-in-crime's plans go horribly wrong. |
| 37 | ** We can't discuss ''Robot Chicken'' and not mention the queen of the guttermouths, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjRxVxquOrY Bitch Pudding.]] |
| 38 | * SirVerbALot: One skit actually features Sir Mix-A-Lot as a member of King Arthur's court. [[BeenThereShapedHistory He's the one who suggests the concept of the Round Table]], via the song "Table Be Round" (a parody of "Baby Got Back"). |
| 39 | * SitcomArchNemesis: |
| 40 | ** UsefulNotes/BillClinton often serves as this towards UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. |
| 41 | ** Santa Claus and Superman also share this role with each other in a few skits. |
| 42 | * SmokingIsNotCool: One sketch involves several famous cartoon characters being treated for lung cancer in a hospital. These include WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther, the caterpillar from ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', [[WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} Olive Oyl]] (who suffered from secondhand pipe smoke from Popeye, who ironically [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity built up an immunity to lung cancer from the antioxidants in his spinach]]), and [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]] (who speaks through an electrolarynx as a result of smoking too many Winston cigarettes). |
| 43 | * SmugglingWithDolls: A short documented that Santa Claus from ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRednosedReindeer'' was a coke pusher, with his preferred method of hiding the coke inside toy bears. |
| 44 | * SmugSuper: Superman. ''Robot Chicken'' takes SuperDickery to a whole new level. |
| 45 | * SodaCandySplosion: After hearing of the myth of a kid's demise from consuming Pop Rocks and soda, a bunch of kids dare their friend Mikey to try it and see what happens. One kid even bets a dollar that he'll do it. Mikey quickly turns into an out-of-control {{Gasshole}} who's ignited farts cause him to run faster than the nearby train before his body ultimately starts spinning out of control. A nearby citizen caps his butt with a softball, only for the explosion to turn upward and send his head flying off to land by his friends feet. In their StunnedSilence, the one kid hands a dollar to the other. |
| 46 | * SorrowfulStutter: Parodied in the sketch about a ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''[=/=]''Franchise/TheTerminator'' when [[spoiler:Dr. Claw's cat dies of leukemia.]] TheStinger of the episode has him seemingly stuttering in grief and about to tearfully eulogize him, only to [[MoodWhiplash suddenly break out in anger with,]] "I'll get you next time, Gadget! NEXT TIME!" |
| 47 | * SpaceOpera: The page image is one of the most brilliant parodies of this. |
| 48 | * SparingTheFinalMook: In "The Rescue" (the one that parodies the famous fight scene from [[Film/TomYumGoong The Protector]]) the Chicken goes to rescue his wife and battles his way through more or less every notable original character on the show. After having killed them all, even some that weren't fighting him, the Chicken comes to the final door, which is guarded by the Nerd. When the Nerd meekly steps aside, the Chicken lets him live. |
| 49 | * SpinningPaper: |
| 50 | ** Parodied with a headline reading "Spinning Newspapers voted 'Lamest Cliche' by TV viewers." |
| 51 | ** Another episode lampshades the trope by having one of the papers be named "The Spinning Times". |
| 52 | * SpinOff: The Stoopid Monkey videos seen [[https://www.youtube.com/user/StoopidMonkey here]] could be counted as a spin-off. |
| 53 | * SpoilingShoutOut: In a ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' skit, Munsun begins to reference plot points from episode 3 that detail how the characters got out of situations very similar to what him and the Nerd found themselves in. The Nerd objects and says how he has so many episodes backlogged on his DVR that he hasn't seen it yet. |
| 54 | * SquashedFlat: In one sketch where [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Zordon]] selects the Series/{{Teletubbies}} to be his new Rangers, they get crushed on their first mission. Unlike most examples, it's fatal. |
| 55 | * StagingAnIntervention: |
| 56 | ** One sketch had ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'s friends confronting him over his addiction to spinach. |
| 57 | ** A parody of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' had the bears holding an intervention for Tummi over his addiction to gummiberry juice. |
| 58 | * StarkNakedSorcery: In a sketch parodying ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', [[FairyGodmother the Fairy Godmother's]] wand wasn't working, so she decides to use dark magic, complete with her taking her clothes off to reveal her [[FanDisservice elderly and sagging body]]. It turns out [[ShaggyDogStory her wand just wasn't turned on and didn't need the dark magic]]. |
| 59 | * StealthPun: |
| 60 | ** In one skit, [[Franchise/ToyStory Woody]] smothers a brain-damaged Buzz with a pillow after Andy uses him as a makeshift bong. What a buzzkill. |
| 61 | ** The eleventh episode of Season 9 is titled [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror "Never Forget"]]. |
| 62 | * StopMotion: Animated using a mix of action figures and claymation. |
| 63 | * {{Storyboarding The|Apocalypse}} ApocalypseHow: If you give a mouse a cookie, the world ends in nuclear holocaust. And that's why [[spoiler:[[BlatantLies Mommy had to stab Daddy]]]]. |
| 64 | * StoryBreakerTeamUp: All the time and played for laughs. The Mario Brothers in [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto Vice City]], and Yoshi in [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Raccoon City]]. |
| 65 | * StylisticSuck: The Mrs. [=McNally's=] Third Graders Present sketches. |
| 66 | * StupidEvil: Hitler in "Hitler and The Ten Commandments" is furious with [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Arnold Ernst Toht]], [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Johann Schmidt]], and [[Film/Hellboy2004 Ilsa Haupstein]] for failing to secure the magical artifacts he was counting on to win the war, ignoring and killing them when they attempt to tell him that in this timeline these things don't exist and that he should try to come up with real battle strategies. Hitler scares Toht so much that he pretends the Ark of the Covenant is in his briefcase....which Hitler happily runs directly into the American forces with trying to use the power of the ark to melt their faces. The only reason they don't shoot him on the spot is their curiosity about where his stupidity will lead him. |
| 67 | * SubvertedKidsShow: While many of the sketches are based on family-friendly source material, the content itself is about as far from family-friendly as you can get. |
| 68 | * SuddenlySpeaking: At the end of season 10, the mad scientist from the intro, whose only previous lines had been given via TalkingWithSigns, finally speaks, giving a presentation on the findings of his experiment. |
| 69 | * SugarApocalypse: Among other examples, the Franchise/CareBears decide that to save their ratings, they must kill all of the Care Bear cousins in an act of genocide. Not even [[Film/HotelRwanda Don Cheadle offering to put all the cousins in a hotel]] could stop them. And, to punish the Care Bears for genocide, the Cloud Keeper turns Care-a-Lot into [[{{Joisey}} Hell on Earth]]. |
| 70 | -->"Mmm, that's good rainbow." |
| 71 | ** "My Little Pony, Apocalypse Pony! Punish mankind for their sins!" |
| 72 | * SuicidalLemmings: Parodied in a sketch parodying nature documentaries, where lemmings gain the title of "Nature's [[TooDumbToLive Retards]]" for not only the typical behavior, but also running right into the path of moving cars, jumping into a blender, and not using condoms. |
| 73 | * SummonBiggerFish: Charlie Brown defeats The Great Pumpkin by siccing The Kite-Eating Tree on it. |
| 74 | * SuspectExistenceFailure: Unnecessarily [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] just before the end of the "Michael Jackson vs. Michael Jackson" sketch. |
| 75 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Invoked. |
| 76 | ** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in a sketch about Libertarians from an episode in Season 4. During multiple election years, they chose similar-but-not-copyrighted versions of popular songs such as "We Are The Victors Of The Globe" instead of "We Are The Champions" by ''Music/{{Queen}}'' and "We Are Close In Group" instead of "We Are Family" by ''Sister Sledge''. They ended up getting sued for copyright violations anyway. |
| 77 | ** Earlier on, it was used twice, and both times for the ''same reason''--and it was even mentioned in the [[DVDCommentary commentary]]. Used for a Season 1 sketch about Anime/{{Voltron}} getting served, where the aired version used a similar version of the DMX song "Get It On The Floor" (which the crew even made lyrics for) for the dance-off, which was apparently so similar to the actual song that it THEN had to be dubbed over with a generic production song (that they recorded more new lyrics for) for the DVD. One of the behind-the-scenes extras even shows a couple of seconds of Seth and another crew member recording "WHAT? WHOA!" for the original version of the dance-off theme. |
| 78 | ** Also, "Playing with a Car" ([[Film/TopGun "Playing with the Boys"]]) from Season 1 (and the Season 2 DVD menu) when the valets [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff joyride]] [[Series/KnightRider KITT]] instead of parking it. |
| 79 | ** "Let's Have a Party" ([[Music/BlackEyedPeas "Let's Get It Started"]]) from Season 4 (and the DVD menu) during [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Castle Greyskull's]] dance party where Faker goes in place of real He-Man. |
| 80 | ** In a crossover of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', they used [[MusicalPastiche takeoffs]] of the music from both games. |
| 81 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In the Bitch Puddin' Special, a new character named Raspberry Parfait appears to be a replacement for Strawberry Shortcake. American Greetings ''has'' gone after people who they feel have misused the character in the past, or alternatively, the licensing fee might have gone up. |
| 82 | * SynchroVox: One of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' episodes spoofs Conan O'Brien's use of this. |
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| 86 | * TakeThat: What the show more or less revolves around. |
| 87 | ** There's a pretty epic one against the comedian Gallagher. He gets his niece a [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin Teddy Ruxpin]] doll, and goes to put a tape of his comedy performance into it. The doll comes to life, tries to fight him off, and eventually commits suicide via CyanidePill rather than do it. Gallagher then comments that they'll just have to listen to the performance on the family's stereo, at which point his 5-year-old niece also tries to commit suicide. [[http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/ruxpin-goes-melon-crazy.html And it's one of the highest-rated videos on Robot Chicken's site]]. |
| 88 | ** Following in ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'''s footsteps, not even Robot Chicken can resist making fun of WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange. In this case, showing what each of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' weapons do in their spare time, with Thor's hammer being exceptionally annoying. |
| 89 | ** Though if anyone is gonna be portrayed as a moronic drunk mess of an idiot by the Robot Chicken guys, it will '''''always''''' be Creator/LindsayLohan. Not even Lohan's family was safe in one sketch. |
| 90 | ** The last sketch of "Help Me" shows a service that allows you to skip the boring parts of a movie or TV show and watch only the good parts. For Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/{{King Kong|2005}}'', it just goes straight to the end credits. |
| 91 | ** In "[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} The Arkham]] [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Redemption]]" sketch, when Batman searches a sewer pipe thinking that the Joker escaped through it, he comments that it smells like ''Film/BatmanForever''. |
| 92 | ** In the ZombieApocalypse sketch in "Collateral Damage in Gang Turf War", to learn what caused the outbreak, Gyro Robo consults the "zombie backstory generator" (a magic 8-ball) and the result is "supervirus"... then he sees that every message on it says the same thing, as a potshot at how often works use a supervirus as the origin of a zombie outbreak. |
| 93 | ** In one sketch in "Babe Hollytree in: I Wish One Person Had Died", [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the Ark of the Covenant]], [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom the Sankara Stones]], and [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade the Holy Grail]] are having breakfast and are hesitant to let [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull the Crystal Skull of Akator]] join in. |
| 94 | ** In one sketch where an e-sports player starts masturbating on live ESPN, the announcer yells to "cut to a real sport". Cut to a paunchy middle-aged golfer slowly putting a ball. |
| 95 | --->'''Announcer''': Wow. A true athlete, folks. |
| 96 | ** Their lone ''Series/DoctorWho'' sketch amounted to them openly hating on the entire franchise, and the writers have dropped a few mentions in various sketches that they also do not like ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. |
| 97 | * TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot: Taken to a funny extreme when Gary the Stormtrooper takes his daughter to work ... to the ''Devastator'' ... where she meets Darth Vader, participates in the boarding of Leia's Blockade Runner, and ends up with her father on Tatooine where he's the subject of Ben's JediMindTrick. |
| 98 | * TeamRocketWins: In one Smurfs skit, due to the Smurfs' village being flooded, Gargamel finally gets to capture some of their corpses and make a meal out of them. He takes one bite... [[MasochistsMeal and with some thought]], dunks the rest of it into the trash and orders Chinese. |
| 99 | * TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe: Two rival gangsters stop fighting during an AlienInvasion (apparently the Chitauri from ''Film/TheAvengers2012'') and decide it ''really'' doesn't seem worth it in light of the scale of things. Then ComicBook/ThePunisher busts into the room and spends a few seconds chasing them with guns blazing before he also notices the invasion. He ''also'' concludes this changes everything, but adopts the use of one of the aliens' vehicles to pick up where he left off, otherwise. |
| 100 | * TemptingFate: In the second ''Star Wars'' special, referred to by name. Emperor Palpatine has arrived on the Death Star and is having [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlrbtLlQZ8 a crappy day]]. He turns to a nearby Red Guard and says, "Wanna see me [[InvokedTrope tempt fate?]] Could this day get any worse?" [[ForegoneConclusion It does.]] |
| 101 | -->'''Palpatine''': I did it ironically so I think I'm safe. |
| 102 | * ThatPoorCat: In the ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'' sketch, "Bob the Union Scab", Pilchard does this before she mauls one of the union workers to death. |
| 103 | * ThinksOfSomethingSmartSaysSomethingStupid: In a ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer''-themed sketch, Dora is sick of Boots saying he loves everything and asks him if there's anything he ''doesn't'' love. |
| 104 | -->'''Boots' Brain:''' Tell her, man! Tell her her hair looks like Creator/JavierBardem in ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen''! This is your chance, Boots! Don't puss out! |
| 105 | -->'''Boots:''' ''(beat)'' Nope! |
| 106 | -->'''Boots' Brain:''' ''You pussy...'' |
| 107 | * ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: |
| 108 | ** One skit involving ''Franchise/GIJoe'' has Snow Job getting rejected for missions for not only wanting to go to places where skis wouldn't work, but also for wearing bright white, making him a very shootable target. |
| 109 | ** [[invoked]]Averted with the {{Trope Namer|s}} where despite having a series of rescues in the ocean, Superman still rejects the idea of letting Aquaman tag along since he could still handle the situation fine without him. |
| 110 | * ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree: Astronauts on the Space Station call a pizza place with this policy in order to get unlimited free pizza for the guys at NASA. |
| 111 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Tom Root and Doug Goldstein, who appear in a few sketches once in a while. |
| 112 | * ThouShaltNotKill: |
| 113 | ** After Batman beats ComicBook/TheJoker literally to within one punch of his life, Joker mentions that if Batman doesn't kill him, [[CardboardPrison he'll just break out of jail]] and keep on killing. Batman contemplates this conundrum and [[LoopholeAbuse persuades the Gotham legal system to give him the death penalty instead]]. Commissioner Gordon chooses to [[Film/TheGreenMile not use the sponge during his electrocution.]] |
| 114 | ** Parodied when the Nerd ends up in ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. After determining that this is the season 2-4 Arrow with this rule, he tries to go for crippling shots only to constantly shoot people in the eye. He succeeds in hitting the leg, only for the man to bleed to death due to being hit in the femoral artery. |
| 115 | * ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Subverted when Percival tries returning Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake and it keeps falling into the lake before even getting close to her arm. He lampshades that a sword's weight balance completely throws off any attempt to properly calculate a throw. |
| 116 | * ThrowThePin: Seen from the outside; two G.I.s sitting in a foxhole with a bunker in the background. One is hit on the helmet with a pin, looks at it quizzically, and a shout of "You idiot--" then the bunker explodes. |
| 117 | * TimeCompressionMontage: Played with in a sketch that featured a Jamaican superhero named ''Mon''tage, whose power was to dilate time by invoking montages. His archenemy is End Credits Man. |
| 118 | * TimeTravelingJerkass: The "Dicks With Time Machines" sketches play this straight by having a time traveler ruin J.K. Rowling's writing career, stop Paul Revere from completing his midnight ride, and inverts it when he prevents Hitler from taking power in Germany. |
| 119 | * ToiletHorror: PlayedForLaughs in a parody of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', with Dumpelstiltskin, "a creature not of this world, but a user of its bathrooms". A man goes to use the toilet in an office building when a monster stomps in, tries to enter his stall, then enters the one beside him. After [[ToiletHumor an incredibly loud and lengthy bowel movement]] that causes the lights to flicker and ceiling tiles to fall, the creature asks him to pass the toilet paper roll, then exits, leaving a crater where the other toilet had been. |
| 120 | * TooKinkyToTorture: |
| 121 | ** The creator of ''Girls Gone Wild'' had become so desensitized that the only way to excite him anymore was to summon [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]] to help him out. |
| 122 | ** UsefulNotes/BillClinton is more than willing to become part of a Human Centipede. |
| 123 | * TooSpicyForYogSothoth: |
| 124 | ** Boba Fett and the other guy he was with both got spit out of the Sarlacc beast because it just couldn't take their annoying activities anymore. |
| 125 | --->'''Sarlacc:''' Umm, hey guys, I don't mean to be a prick, but... you guys gotta get the fuck out. ''[belches them out]'' |
| 126 | ** In a different skit, Bitch Pudding's house is invaded by a ghost. Instead of being scared, she curses it out and [[YourMom trash-talks its parents]] until it agrees to leave town. |
| 127 | * ToyotaTripwire: A businessman does this on a passing motorcyclist. Why should the cyclist be able to move between the cars while he's stuck in traffic? |
| 128 | * TransformationSequence: Anime/SailorMoon's transformation sequence provokes an [[RagingStiffie obvious physical reaction]] in her opponent, much to their mutual embarrassment, and going a long way towards explaining why the monsters she fought were AlwaysFemale. |
| 129 | -->'''Sailor Moon:''' Should we still fight? Because I don't really want to anymore. |
| 130 | * TrojanHorse: The Legion of Doom tries this on the Justice League. It doesn't work out well for either side. |
| 131 | * TrollingTranslator: In a ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody, Evazan does this for Ponda Baba's innocent question to Luke Skywalker. (The two are architects, according to the skit.) |
| 132 | %%* TrustBuildingBlunder |
| 133 | * TurbineBlender: |
| 134 | ** One sketch involves [[WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck Launchpad McQuack]] and seventeen seagulls being sucked into the turbine of the jet engine of the US Airways Flight 1549 airplane. This resulted in an emergency landing and Darkwing receiving an ensuing lawsuit that forced him to donate his body to a Chinese restaurant to pay for his daughter Gosalyn's kidney transplant. |
| 135 | ** A parody of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' has the trio on a plane and Grim working up the courage to kill Billy and Mandy by throwing them into the turbine. |
| 136 | * TurnYourHeadAndCough: |
| 137 | -->'''Doctor:''' Okay, turn your head and cough... It's just as I had suspected; you let a stranger grab your balls. |
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| 141 | * UnCanceled:[[invoked]] A running joke. Every season finale they get canceled, and the next season they get "uncancelled". One wonders when this trick is going to backfire. Discarded in the 100th episode in favor of a bloody {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing the show's AdoredByTheNetwork status. |
| 142 | * UndignifiedDeath: There are plenty of examples that are almost always PlayedForLaughs, but Jughead's death in the "Archie Final Destination" sketch is pretty memorable. We learn that not only does he stay thin via bulimia while showering, but he's also bald underneath his pointy hat. In trying to stomp the vomit down the drain, he starts slipping on it and ends up falling and getting impaled on said hat. Even worse, the newspaper headline on his death reads [[LastDisrespects "Stupid Kid Impaled On Stupid Hat".]] |
| 143 | * UnexpectedKindness: In "Bitch Pudding Special: Part 1", Bitch Pudding comes to Granny Graham Crackers's funeral. All the funeral-goers [[MassOhCrap are clearly expecting the worst]], thinking that Bitch Pudding is going to be crass as usual. However, she starts to have a rather sweet eulogy for Granny Graham Crackers and everyone sighs in relief. Then it becomes subverted when [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Bitch Pudding starts making crude jokes]]. |
| 144 | * UnfortunateNames: Lando tells Boba Fett that while the Slave I is a pretty neat ride, he's not crazy on the name. |
| 145 | * UnhandThemVillain: A heroic (of a sort) version. Ted Turner, having dressed himself as Captain Planet, forces someone to sign a pledge not to dump any more sludge by holding them out of a skyscraper window, after which he will let them go. The guy complies, and Turner releases him. |
| 146 | * UnionsSuck: One skit parodying ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'' has Bob and friends kill a group of union thugs who try to stop him from doing some scab work. |
| 147 | * UnknownRematchConclusion: One episode had Superman and Santa Claus competing in a race against each other that was repeatedly interrupted by villains. After dealing with them, Superman and Santa decide to race without any interruptions, with the episode ending without showing the conclusion. |
| 148 | * UnsettlingGenderReveal: A producer for one of Music/JustinBieber's music videos exclaimed how big a hit this singer will be. She's a teenage lesbian who's open about it in her music and videos, and there's nothing the public won't like about this. Then a stagehand tells him the truth. |
| 149 | * UnusualEuphemism: Discussed in the "Girl Code" skit. |
| 150 | -->'''Strawberry Shortcake''': Do boys ask for photos of my berries? Why, yes! Everyone knows I have very good berries. ...That's what I said. My berries. Berries...are you asking about my ''tits?!'' |
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| 155 | * VampireDoctor: A sketch involves vampires taking over TV media. One of their shows was about a hospital where all the doctors and nurses are vampires. They try to treat a patient by giving him a blood transfusion, but since they're, well, ''vampires'', they keep drinking all of it. Ultimately, they just decided to drain the patient of his blood, instantly turning him in the process. |
| 156 | * VictorySex: In "Welcome to the Golf Jam", Cleo promises Tiger Woods a blowjob if he wins. She has a little OhCrap moment when she realizes she has to keep her promise. |
| 157 | * ViewersAreGeniuses: [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]]. [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] is standing on the first base of a baseball diamond. After a few seconds, he just asks [[WhosOnFirst "Do you get it?!"]] |
| 158 | * VillainsOutShopping: ''Loves'' this trope. Famous examples are the obvious "Villains in Traffic" and "Darth Vader Calls" skits. |
| 159 | -->'''Emperor Palpatine:''' "What the hell is an aluminum falcon?!" |
| 160 | * TheVillainSucksSong: In the Bitch Pudding special, the villagers sing a hymn about her supposed death after celebrating all day with a "The Bitch Is Dead" festival. |
| 161 | -->"She made our lives a living hell / So nasty and so mean / And when Bitch Pudding hit the lava / You should have heard her scream!" |
| 162 | * TheVoiceless: The Mad Scientist never talks until the Season 10 finale, which gives him the voice of Creator/DavidLynch. |
| 163 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: Happens quite frequently. |
| 164 | ** In the "Big Bird Flu" sketch, [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]] vomits as a result of being sick with the bird flu. |
| 165 | -->'''Big Bird:''' Ugh, I feel like I'm gonna blow chunks of bird seed! (starts vomiting all over the main apartment steps, then falls over) |
| 166 | * VoodooShark: A mobster interviews the assassin "Waffle Face", who has a waffle for a face. The mobster asks for how he got a waffle for a face. Waffle Face explains an incident with the Triads and a waffle iron but mentions he'd had a ''pancake'' for a face. The mobster becomes irritated and guarantees him no one who asks wants to hear him walk back to the time he had a pancake for a face and threatens him if he tries to say. Waffle Face, with irritation and haste, says he got run over and that's how he had the pancake head; this seems satisfactory until he mentions that it was ''another'' breakfast food before that. The mobster screams bloody murder and shoots him where he sits. |
| 167 | * VorpalPillow: In a skit parodying ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', Woody has to smother Buzz to death with a pillow after Andy used Buzz as a bong, burning out the insides of his head and making him mentally retarded as a result. |
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| 171 | * WantingIsBetterThanHaving: After a flood wipes out the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 Smurfs']] village, Gargamel finally achieves his goal of eating them. As it turns out, they taste really bad. He throws the food out, and orders Chinese. |
| 172 | * WarmWaterWhiz: When the Nerd is telling stories to his niece and nephew, he falls asleep to dream about his stories, as he does. The kids decide to just pee on him, but he wakes up and thinks that they pranked him with the hand-in-the-water prank... before wondering where the cup of water is. |
| 173 | * WeAreAsMayflies: The characters from ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' cannot get any sleep because the Mayflies themselves are partying, having sex, giving birth, going through a midlife crisis as husband and wife, and finally dying in the span of three hours. Just when they think they can finally get a moment's rest, the eggs hatch and it starts all over again. |
| 174 | * WeCanRebuildHim: Like everything else in life, ''Robot Chicken'' had taken a few shots at the concept: |
| 175 | ** The titular robot chicken was a chicken found in the middle of the road, having been run over. A scientist found the chicken, rebuilt it as a cyborg, then forced it to watch stop-motion animation on a wall of [=TVs=], presumably ForScience. Later, the chicken breaks free, kills the scientist, then rebuilds him and forces him to watch the same [=TVs=]. |
| 176 | ** Parodied and averted in one sketch making fun of ''The Six Million Dollar Man'' and ''The Bionic Woman''. Steve Austin gets the scientists who rebuilt him to do the same to his girlfriend, which they do. The problem is that in addition to the standard cybernetics, they give her padded knees, larger breasts, and a hand that automatically does a jerking motion (for "polishing things"). She's naturally angry and delivers a beatdown to Steve and the scientists, leaving them as nothing more than heads. They ask the people attending to them if they could be rebuilt, but they just get laughed at because the question is considered absurd, and they're told that they won't live through the night. |
| 177 | ** There's also the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-wNI9wn6w Bionic Mexican,]] which features the "Six Million ''Peso'' Man". He promptly uses his stronger and faster body to jump the border into the U.S, and one agent laments their loss of [[CrossesTheLineTwice 283 American Dollars.]] |
| 178 | * WeWillMeetAgain: Promptly turned into a SedgwickSpeech with two bullets to the head during a ''Franchise/GIJoe'' skit where the US military gets involved. |
| 179 | -->'''Cobra Commander''': "You haven't seen the last of me, Seal Team Si-" [[BoomHeadshot *blam*]] [[KilledMidSentence *blam*]] |
| 180 | * WeirdAside: From the cliffhanger of the Enter the Fat One sketch: "Will Joey win the tournament? Will he avenge his former bandmates? Does this look infected to you? Find out next time, on Enter the Fat One!" |
| 181 | * WhamEpisode: "Fight Club Paradise", mainly because it's the only season finale other than the finale of season 7 to end with the series not getting canceled. |
| 182 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' awkwardly makes his way to a board meeting at the BP oil company (even after nearly spraining his ankle when the secretary tripped him) in order to send the CEO to jail for all the sea life they killed with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The CEO tells him that he can't go to jail because the court case was already settled and BP paid a fine. He asked if Aquaman was going to kick his ass, to which Aquaman responded that he wasn't really planning that. The CEO tried to sincerely but sarcastically insisted they were sorry, and Aquaman returned home. The sea life didn't take the news that well, so they beat him up and killed him. |
| 183 | * WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: A black scientist programs his Afrobot to say this. |
| 184 | * WhipOfDominance: A skit paroding ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' has two werewolf {{Mooks}} wondering if the Belmonts [[WeaponSpecialization specialize in fighting with whips]] because of [[CasualKink a fetish]]. |
| 185 | -->'''Werewolf 1:''' What kind of a sadist uses a whip?!\ |
| 186 | '''Werewolf 2:''' ''[shrugs]'' Could be a fetish. |
| 187 | * WhiteGloveTest: In the "Bitch Pudding" sketch, Bitch Pudding does this. |
| 188 | * WholePlotReference: The "Of Moose and Squirrel" sketch is ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' with the cast replaced with characters from ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''. The sketch ends the same as the original, with Rocky about to shoot Bullwinkle in the back of the head with a shotgun to spare him from getting lynched for accidentally killing Natasha, followed by a parody of their show's FindOutNextTime at the end of every episode. |
| 189 | * WhosLaughingNow: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW3dg9VURMU It's "Fumbles"... it was always "Fumbles"...]] |
| 190 | * WhoWritesThisCrap: In the "Pokémon Bloopers" sketch, Pikachu and Squirtle are having a [[PokemonSpeak conversation]] until Squirtle loses his composure, and, to Pikachu's horror, says "Squirtle! Squirtle squir- what the fuck am I saying?! No, I mean it! This shit makes no sense at all!" |
| 191 | * WombHorror: PlayedForLaughs in one sketch, where a giant monster hand comes out of a woman's womb and drags the doctor inside. |
| 192 | * WorldOfHam: Boy howdy. This show is filled to the brim with it, since many of the sketches tend to [[CrossesTheLineTwice be notorious]] for [[LawOfDisproportionateResponse overdramatic reactions to the slightest of actions]]. |
| 193 | * WorstNewsJudgmentEver: In the "Voltron Dance Battle" sketch, a news report focused more on the Voltron team getting "served" in a DanceOff against a Robeast, than the robot defeating it in a traditional battle shortly after. |
| 194 | * WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:The only person who can match the Robot Chicken's power is Bitch Pudding]]. |
| 195 | * WouldHarmASenior: When Strawberry Shortcake gets the chance to confront her old adversary the Purple Pieman, it turns out that he's now elderly, blind, diabetic, and using a walker. She beats the stuffing out of him anyway, and ends up in jail for it. |
| 196 | -->'''Strawberry Shortcake:''' I ''told'' that motherfucker I'd bury him. And that's not some fruit-related speech impediment. B-U-R-Y. Bury. Like in the fucking ground. |
| 197 | * WouldHurtAChild: Children are abused, both physically and emotionally, or killed as often as the adults are. |
| 198 | ** "Executed by the State" has Duke inadvertently kill a young boy for torturing the toy-sized Joes and Cobras. He [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone quickly realizes his mistake once Roadblock tells him who he just shot]]. |
| 199 | ** One sketch has a couple of children sing the popular "Batman Smells" version of ''Jingle Bells'', and the Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder have no issues beating up and humiliating the children. It then cuts away to a music teacher upsetting the kid who sang the offending lyrics scaring him with this story. |
| 200 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs[=/=]ProfessionalWrestling: |
| 201 | ** In a Season 1 episode (guest-starring Creator/ConanOBrien), there was a wrestling sketch (the Historical Wrestling Federation), featuring Benjamin Franklin and Gandhi in a tag team match against the Wright Brothers. Noted for using ACTUAL Jakks Pacific Wrestling/{{WWE}} figures (instead of the standard figures) for the 4 wrestlers (though their original heads were indeed replaced); the 2 commentators (voiced by Seth, doing his [[HamAndCheese cheesiest]] impersonation of a color commentator and Conan as the driest play-by-play historian you could imagine) were regular figures. |
| 202 | ** A Season 2 episode guest-starring Wrestling/HulkHogan featured the sketch ''Series/HogansHeroes'', where the gang was replaced by (more Jakks Pacific figures, this time from the "WWE Legends" line) Wrestling/HulkHogan and his fellow pro wrestlers [[Wrestling/RoddyPiper "Rowdy" Roddy Piper]] (voiced by Piper himself), "The Mouth of the South" Wrestling/JimmyHart, Wrestling/TheIronSheik, and [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy "Macho Man" Savage]]. |
| 203 | ** Also, since every standard ''Robot Chicken'' action figure is animated in stop-motion, and any aerial shots are on wires, many of the close-range combat stunts you see are usually a wrestling-type maneuver. |
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| 211 | * YankTheDogsChain: In "Annie's Super Sweet 16", Annie Warbucks (who is now a SpoiledBrat and RichBitch) seemingly invites some young orphans to her Sweet 16 birthday party, but it turns out she just wanted to use them as part of her "super special invitations" idea. |
| 212 | -->'''Orphan Girl:''' Thanks for the invite, Annie.\ |
| 213 | '''Annie:''' Oh, you didn't ''get'' an invitation, you ''are'' the invitation! Isn't that clever? Your own little orphan! |
| 214 | * YouAllLookFamiliar: There are only a couple different character models for generic people, so viewers will end up seeing the same faces on different minor characters. |
| 215 | * YouExclamation: At the end of "Sesame Street Rave", [[Advertising/MonsterCereals Count Chocula]] has this reaction to seeing ComicBook/{{Blade}} before getting his head blown off by the latter. |
| 216 | * YouJustHadToSayIt: In the second ''Star Wars'' special, Emperor Palpatine has a terrible day when he visits the Death Star. He says things couldn't possibly get any worse. Cut to a couple hours later and we see the ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' scene of Darth Vader throwing him over the balcony. |
| 217 | * YouMustBeThisTallToRide: {{Subverted|Trope}} and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the sketch, "Attack of the Giant Midget". A midget, turned into a giant by a MadScientist, goes on a rampage through an amusement park. It comes to a "you must be this tall" sign, then [[{{Beat}} pauses a moment]] to let the irony sink in before continuing on its rampage. |
| 218 | * YourHeadAsplode: |
| 219 | ** The above-mentioned ExplosiveDecompression example. |
| 220 | ** "Raiders of the Magic Garden" has Paula's head exploding when [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the Story Box]] is opened. |
| 221 | ** "Hogwarts Lessons" has Ron putting an extra drop of wolfsbane extract in a potion, which causes his teeth to rocket out of his mouth and his head to explode. As Harry and Hermione point out, the ridiculously slim margin for error and result of a botched attempt aren't proportionate for a potion that was just supposed to change their eye color. |
| 222 | ** When [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] is sentenced to death by electric chair, his extra-crispy body suddenly convulses and his head explodes. |
| 223 | ** In "I Know What the Bratz Did Last Summer", Chloe's head explodes when her [[StylisticSelfParody encephalitis]] medication is stolen. |
| 224 | ** One sketch in "May Cause Weebles to Fall Down" shows that this is apparently what happens when a doctor eats an apple ("an apple a day keeps the doctor away"). |
| 225 | * YourMom: ''Robot Chicken'' isn't above doing these every now and then. One notable example is a pull-and-say children's toy. |
| 226 | -->"The cow says '''"MOOOOOOOO"'''."\ |
| 227 | "Your mom says '''"Wabglwgaw"''' because my cock's in her mouth." |
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