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Robot Chicken
Season 1 DVD

Robot Chicken
Critic Score
Metascore: 83 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.0 out of 10
based on 6 reviews
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based on 29 votes
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Starring Seth Green

Cartoon Network's popular and fast-moving late-night stop-motion animation show features a variety of toys acting out short skits rife with pop culture references.

GENRE(S): Animation, Comedy
CREATED BY: Seth Green
Matthew Senreich
RELEASE DATE: March 28, 2006
# OF DISCS: 2
# OF EPISODES: 20

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

91
The Onion A.V. Club Nathan Rabin
Robot Chicken's satire can be deceptively brainy, but to its credit, the show never loses the joyously retro feel of kids playing with toys.
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90
TVShowsOnDVD.com Gord Lacey
The DVD set is awesome; the extras kick ass and the show is great.
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88
People Weekly
Will make pop-culture fiends cackle with delight. [17 Apr 2006, p.43]
80
IGN Michael Drucker
Ultimately, Robot Chicken is an amazing stop-motion cartoon show that proves you don't need a huge-budget and network support to create amazing comedy.
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75
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Philip A Stephenson
[The episodes,] at 11 minutes each, are a bit short in length but long in terms of ironic irreverence and politically incorrect humor.
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70
Amazon.com Donald Liebenson
Each episode is hit and miss, with moments that border on mad genius.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this tv show is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 29 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

William T gave it a10:
Filled with pop-culture parodies and sick, twisted, sexual humor. I LOVE IT!

Byro gave it a10:
Awesome!

lil devil gave it a10:
Robot Chicken is the only thing i watch on adult swim. At home i have Robot Chicken seson one on dvd, my mom gets mad because I watch it all the time, but I still watch it.

John Doe gave it a9:
one of the best cartoons ive srrn in a long time

Sam H gave it a10:
Okay my parents absolutley HATE me watching TV-14 or TV-M rated shows but when I was watching this on demand with my dad and his buddies in the room he was laughing his head off!

[Anonymous] gave it a10:
Best Show on TV 2nd to Lost

G Unit gave it a10:
this is true genius. just like the guy who gave it 3 said, it's seth green. he's hilarious.

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