77-555: Robot Chicken is an American adult stop motion-animated sketch comedy television series created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich for Cartoon Network 's nighttime programming block Adult Swim . The twelve-minute show consists of short unrelated sketches usually satirizing pop culture characters or celebrities. Toys are employed as the players, animated via stop motion and supplemented by claymation . The voice cast changes every episode, and features many celebrity cameos . The writers, most prominently Green, also provide many of
154-517: A commentary track for the season one episode " Home Insecurity ". Warner Home Video chose to omit this track from the Season One DVD due to space limitations and some minor sound quality issues. Publick also stated that the commentary could be downloaded. For the video release of the Season 3, a soundtrack album was also released, titled The Venture Bros.: The Music of JG Thirlwell . This
231-419: A "meta-commentary on a whole sub-section of male nerd culture " and that it had become one of the funniest contemporary shows. Critical reception to the first season was more mixed than later seasons but was still mostly positive. The A.V. Club ' s Emily VanDerWerff felt that the pop-culture references of the first season fell flat, especially in the beginning of the season, but grew better and funnier as
308-555: A 30-minute episode dedicated to Star Wars that premiered June 17, 2007, in the US, featuring the voices of Star Wars notables George Lucas , Mark Hamill (from a previous episode ), Billy Dee Williams , and Ahmed Best . The Star Wars episode was nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award as Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). The series was renewed for a 20-episode third season, which ran from August 12, 2007, to October 5, 2008. After an eight-month hiatus during
385-469: A DVD of the second half of the season and a Blu-ray box set of the entire season to be released after the full season has aired. On March 28, 2023, it was announced the series will have a complete series DVD set which was released on June 13, 2023, from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. It was also released on digital. The first four seasons are available in the UK (both halves of Season 4 are sold as
462-450: A bias towards live-action and raunchy animated sitcoms, compared to early pioneers. However, the result is a new audience that is ready for narratively-sophisticated adult animated works and a new crop of creators exploring the adult animation space. This development allows creators to continue challenging the perceived limitations of animation. Many animators and adult animation fans, both international and non-Disney respectively, boycotted
539-421: A cartoon, and I know it's about superheroes, and superscience, and villains, but for us, it was about life. It was about relationships, it was about existence, it was about growing up in society with toxic masculinity. It's about everything that we experienced, and we just threw it into a show and hoped it was funny. And failure is one of the things that we think is funny, inevitable, and absolutely beautiful. But so
616-449: A good father - if not a better father than his own. "This is - this is everywhere; this is the road to forgiveness. You have to embrace this, and not perpetuate it. The Venture Brothers wasn't trying to be public service announcement... it was trying to entertain you in a way that kinda made you feel uncomfortable, but helped you learn about yourself, as you were watching it." In the same interview, Hammer continues on, saying that having
693-589: A guest column in Variety criticizing the Academy for the remark and how Hollywood has been treating animation. The column commented that "no one set out to diminish animated films, but it's high time we set out to elevate them." Alberto Mielgo , director of The Windshield Wiper , later gave an acceptance speech for the Oscar: "Animation is an art that includes every single art that you can imagine. Animation for adults
770-586: A masked scientist, revealed to be a descendant of the Mad Scientist who first reanimated the Robot Chicken. The descendant mad scientist then proceeds to force the Robot Chicken to watch a wall of projected images with different shows. In an extended version (seen in the season 8 episode "Garbage Sushi" and the season 9 episode "3 2 1 2 333, 222, 3...66?"), the sequence begins with a destroyed Statue of Liberty buried in snow (a reference to Planet of
847-508: A pilot episode on February 16, 2003, the series premiered on August 7, 2004. The Venture Bros. was one of Adult Swim's longest-running original series in terms of years, and had the record for fewest seasons produced of a scripted show per year of continuous production, with seven produced seasons over fifteen years of production. Throughout its run, the series has received critical acclaim for its writing, characters, humor, animation and world building. It ended its run on October 7, 2018, with
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#1732781099562924-471: A set). Madman Entertainment have also released all seven seasons on DVD in Australia. No Blu-ray editions have yet been released in Australia. It's also the first Adult Swim series in Australia to be given a restricted MA15+ rating for Season 1 and later the higher R18+ rating for Season 4 Part 2, due to strong dialogue in the finale episode. Jackson Publick revealed that he and Doc Hammer had recorded
1001-408: A short comics story and proposed that Comedy Central air The Venture Bros. as an animated series, but the network rejected it. Although the first draft of the pilot script was written in the spring of 2000, the premise was not greenlit until around the summer of 2002 by Adult Swim. Publick had not previously considered Cartoon Network because he "didn't want to tone The Venture Bros. down," and
1078-623: A short time in October 2014. Robot Chicken has partnered with various brands to produce television advertisements, including KFC in 2015, Burger King in 2017, and most recently, Kellogg's Pop-Tarts in 2023. Revolver Entertainment have released the first four seasons and all three Star Wars specials on DVD in the United Kingdom. A box set including the first 3 seasons and a box set including all three Star Wars specials have also been released. Madman Entertainment has released
1155-460: A show in production for such a length of time allowed them to process their own growth as creators, and how much the early seasons were a product of the social norms of their time. "We made our mistakes as creators. We've done some things that we look back on and go, 'boy, that was a young kid trying to be funny.' ... Luckily, we were on the air long enough to go: 'Please forgive us', and 'This is I think what we're talking about here'." Hammer highlights
1232-510: A sixth season of Robot Chicken , which began airing in September 2012. The seventh season premiered on April 13, 2014. Season eight premiered on October 25, 2015. Season nine premiered on December 10, 2017. Season 10 premiered on September 29, 2019, containing the 200th episode. Season 11 premiered on September 6, 2021. Following the 2020 cancellation of The Venture Bros. , Robot Chicken became Adult Swim's longest running series, until it
1309-543: A total of 81 episodes over the course of seven seasons as well as four specials . On September 7, 2020, series creator Jackson Publick announced on Twitter that the series had been canceled. A direct-to-video film, The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart , was released on July 21, 2023, on digital and July 25, 2023, on Blu-ray and premiered on Adult Swim and Max 90 days later. The film serves as
1386-412: Is a fact. It's happening. Let's call it cinema. I'm very honored because this is just the beginning of what we can do with animation." They also suggested to the Academy that the category should be presented by filmmakers who respect the art of animation as cinema. Another factor is that numerous feature-length animated films have been made for older audiences or with ranges of PG-13 or more, starting in
1463-474: Is beautiful at it and Jackson and I suck at what we do, and we try to be beautiful at it, and failure is how you get by...It shows that failure's funny, and it's beautiful and it's life, and it's okay, and it's all we can write because we are big...failures. (laughs) In 2013, Publick and Hammer discussed moving away from the theme and embracing the "successes" of the characters as well. Publick stated: I think you and I are both sick of every interview mentioning
1540-699: Is mainly targeted and marketed towards adults and adolescents, as opposed to children or all-ages audiences. Animated media (includes animated films , television series , and web series ) in this medium could be considered adult for any number of reasons, which include the incorporation of toilet humour , nudity , sexual content (either explicit or suggestive), graphic violence , profanity , dark comedy , political themes, or other thematic elements inappropriate for children and/or younger viewers. Works may explore philosophical, political, or social issues. Some animated productions are noted for their complex and/or experimental storytelling and animation techniques,
1617-532: Is the same audio CD included as a bonus with the Blu-ray version of Season 3. While the CD release was originally made available at Adult Swim's website, it was given a wide release on May 12, 2009; the vinyl LP release came out a month earlier. It can also be downloaded from most major digital retailers. The CD features 20 tracks, while the vinyl LP release is 16 tracks and a download link of the complete release including
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#17327810995621694-399: Is tiny successes, so is the rise of [Henchman] 21. These are absolutely beautiful things and I think, you know [the] show was never about failure, but we embrace the beauty of failure. In 2023, shortly before the release of the series finale Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart , Hammer and Publick further expanded on the evolution of the series' themes, and their feelings on what has been
1771-511: The Canadian version of Adult Swim . The series' principal reference is to the 1964 animated science fiction adventure television series Jonny Quest , as it is the basis for many of the main characters. Dr. Venture is modelled after what a child such as Jonny Quest might have grown up to be like after having lived through a childhood filled with bizarre, life-threatening events. Brock is modelled on Race Bannon . The Venture boys are based on
1848-488: The Hardy Boys and take the places of Jonny and Hadji. One newspaper critic remarked, "If filmmakers Woody Allen and Sam Peckinpah had collaborated on Jonny Quest , it would have come out a lot like this." Despite the homage and references, Jonny Quest himself, as well as Hadji, Race Bannon, and their arch-nemesis, Dr. Zin appear as characters on the show. Cartoon Network, who owns the rights to Jonny Quest, restricted
1925-535: The I.Sat Adult Swim block (after the Adult Swim block was canceled from Cartoon Network Latin America in 2008). Many of the show's sketches from Sweet J Presents were redone for Robot Chicken . Adult animation Adult animation , also known as mature animation , and infrequently as adult-oriented animation , is any type of animated motion media that is catered specifically to adult interests and
2002-561: The Saturday morning animated series The Tick . He created The Venture Bros. storyline sometime prior to 2000. After working for the television program Sheep in the Big City and the live-action version of The Tick , Publick set to turning The Venture Bros. into an animated series. The Venture Bros. was originally conceived as a comic book story for an issue of Monkeysuit . Publick realized that his notes were too extensive for
2079-425: The "It's a show about failure" from five years ago. I don't think we made a conscious effort to fight that or anything, but every year, we push what we do as writers a little more. An area we hadn't gone into very much was positivity. I mean, all our victories are still satiric, but there are definitely places where we said, "I want to see these guys do something. I don't want to just have everything fall on its face all
2156-530: The 12-episode stop-motion series Sweet J Presents on the Sony website Screenblast.com in 2001. Conan O'Brien is voiced by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane in the first episode ("Conan's Big Fun"). Continuing the concept of the web series, the show creators pitched Robot Chicken as a television series, the name being inspired by a dish on the menu at a West Hollywood Chinese restaurant, Kung Pao Bistro, where Green and Senreich had dined (other ideas for
2233-448: The 5th season it is revealed that The Sovereign is actually a shape-shifter who frequently appears as Bowie. Most episodes begin with a cold open and are shot to appear to be in letter-box format. Almost every episode features both a smash cut into the end credits, and a short scene following the credits . The second season of the series premiered on the internet via Adult Swim Fix on June 23, 2006, and on television on June 25, 2006;
2310-546: The Academy over remarking that animation was synonymous with "kids" during the 94th Academy Awards in 2022. The award for the Best Animated Feature was presented by three actresses who portrayed the Disney princess characters in live-action remakes of their respective animated films: Lily James ( Cinderella ), Naomi Scott ( Aladdin ), and Halle Bailey ( The Little Mermaid ) . While introducing
2387-526: The Apes ) when two drones are flying together until one scans the frozen Robot Chicken. In the ninth-season finale, the Nerd dies from a cliff-jump stunt in an attempt to get the show renewed. Beginning in the tenth season, a new opening sequence features the Nerd being turned into a cyborg by both the Robot Chicken and the Mad Scientist and being forced to watch the skits while they high five . The letters "TEN" in
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2464-676: The Heron , officially rated PG-13 by the MPA . For the 22-year history since the inauguration , it became the first adult animated film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 96th Academy Awards ; all the previous winners were either rated G or PG. The Venture Bros. The Venture Bros. is an American adult animated action comedy television series created by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer for Cartoon Network 's late night programming block Adult Swim . Following
2541-407: The Mad Scientist's henchmen) in the process. Beginning in the sixth season (after the events of the show's 100th episode), the opening sequence features a role reversal. The Robot Chicken comes upon the body of the Mad Scientist, which has been decapitated. He turns him into a cyborg with a laser eye (this time blue instead of red, reflected by a title background color change). The chicken then straps
2618-475: The best shows on television" and praised the detailed serial nature of the humor with a favorable comparison to Arrested Development . Also in 2013, The Atlantic ' s Armin Rosen compared the show favourably to The Simpsons , noting that the two shows held the same "slacker optimism" and great comedy. The A.V. Club ' s Zach Handlen commented in 2012 that the show had evolved over its seasons into
2695-476: The cancellation, Adult Swim stated via Twitter that "We also want more Venture Bros. and have been working with Jackson and Doc to find another way to continue the Venture Bros. story". On November 13, 2020, HBO Max general manager Andy Forssell tweeted that HBO Max was "working on" reviving The Venture Bros . On May 12, 2021, it was announced that a direct-to-video film based on The Venture Bros.
2772-410: The category, Bailey stated that animated films are "formative experiences as kids who watch them," as James put it, "So many kids watch these movies over and over, over and over again." Scott added: "I see some parents who know exactly what we're talking about." The remarks sparked controversy and with those working in the animation industry describing them as infantilizing the medium and perpetuating
2849-457: The evening, but they are not generally pornographic or obscene. AdWeek called adult animation "animated projects aimed at grown-ups, not kids." They also focus on issues that adults handle, and have cheeky, and occasionally crass, humor "that has no limits—bouncing between funny and offensive," while evoking a "balance of reality and fantasy". They may also contain violence or sexual themes. International animators and filmmakers were among
2926-462: The family's self-proclaimed archnemesis , The Monarch , a butterfly-themed supervillain. Initially conceived as a satire of boy adventurer and Space Age fiction prevalent in the early 1960s, it is considered to be an action/adventure series with both comedic and dramatic elements. The characters of The Venture Bros. are largely re-imaginings of characters from Jonny Quest as well as comic book superheroes and supervillains . Throughout
3003-1144: The first 9 seasons of Robot Chicken and specials on DVD in Australia and New Zealand. Adult Swim released Robot Chicken: The Complete Series for digital purchase on iTunes and Vudu in July 2023. The series airs in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of E4 's Adult Swim block, in Canada on Adult Swim (previously Teletoon 's Teletoon at Night block from 2006 to 2019) and also in Quebec on Télétoon 's Télétoon la nuit block, in Australia on The Comedy Channel 's Adult Swim block, in Russia on 2x2 's Adult Swim block, in Germany on WarnerTV Comedy 's Adult Swim block (previously TNT Serie 's Adult Swim block from 2009 to 2017), and in Latin America on
3080-477: The first few seasons, the opening credits show a mad scientist reviving a roadkill chicken as a cyborg , then strapping it to a chair to watch an array of televisions. Later seasons iterate on this premise, such as having the Chicken and Scientist roles reversed. The original theme music is composed by Les Claypool . In the episode "1987", Michael Ian Black claims in the "Best Robot Chicken Ever" sketch that
3157-502: The house show a baby Robot Chicken floating through space. Starting with the episode "May Cause a Whole Lotta Scabs", an extended version (set in a 2.39:1 aspect ratio) begins with a tribe of hominids watching the skits on the TVs while a hominid version of the Nerd bites a remote control to turn on the TV monitors. Suddenly, a hominid tries to take the remote, but the hominid Nerd kills it and gets
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3234-456: The late-1990s with South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut , and for those future adult animated films including The Triplets of Belleville , Persepolis , Waltz with Bashir , Chico and Rita , The Wind Rises , Anomalisa , My Life as a Courgette , The Breadwinner , Loving Vincent , Isle of Dogs , I Lost My Body , and Flee . Most of them were nominated in various categories , though none have won until The Boy and
3311-601: The latter with many distinct styles have defined such unique artistry. Adult animation is typically defined as animation that is aimed at an adult audience. It is also described as something that "formative youths should stay far, far away from" or has adult humor and comes in various styles, but especially sitcoms and comedies. Some have stated that it refers to animations with "adult themes and situations", which uses "explicit language" and make jokes that adults, and occasionally teens, are "more likely to understand" than others. On television, such animations often run in
3388-444: The likeness of celebrities are used to portray them. Each episode is composed of short unrelated sketches varying from a few seconds to a few minutes long. Between each sketch is a moment of static , resembling the act of channel surfing on an analog TV . The show mocks popular culture , referencing toys, movies, television, games, popular fads, and more obscure references like anime cartoons and older television programs, much in
3465-481: The live broadcast; some speculations suggested that the speech played a role in the decision to not broadcast the award. The winner for the Best Animated Short award was The Windshield Wiper , a multilingual Spanish-American film which is considered adult animated, while another nominee in three categories: Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature Film , and Best International Feature Film ,
3542-477: The main theme over the course of the series. "We can go in there and armchair diagnose our characters: Doc is a... narcissist. He was made that way by his father." Publick continued, saying that "This is kinda about escaping your generational, parental kind of bullshit, to some extent." Given that much of Rusty's shortcomings as an adult stem from the emotional abuse he endured from his father and Team Venture, many episodes deal directly with Rusty trying his best to be
3619-753: The notables of adult animation works: Some television channels and their segments or blocks that focused on broadcasting adult animation: Several highly-acclaimed adult animated films and television series have received substantial recognition from critics. Thanks to Bakshi's Fritz the Cat , the film influenced animators and filmmakers over the course of the late-20th century and into the 21st century, catering such important artistic and narrative structures with mature subject matter. Conversely, several works have been largely ignored by many detractors for their depiction of graphic subject matter and sensitive topics, such as violence, race, gender, and sexuality. They still show
3696-433: The now-reformed Mad Scientist team up to rescue the presidents, after which, the Mad Scientist punishes his son by forcing him to watch the TV monitors and the Robot Chicken flies away, free. Beginning in the eighth season, a new opening sequence features the Robot Chicken frozen in a block of ice under snow, being uncovered by robots. Taken to a futuristic laboratory, the Robot Chicken is taken out of suspended animation by
3773-473: The opening sequence tells the viewers that they are the chicken, being forced to watch the skits. The frame story of the Robot Chicken and the Mad Scientist would not continue beyond the opening sequence until the 100th episode, entitled "Fight Club Paradise", when the chicken finally makes his escape and later kills the Mad Scientist when he takes his hen wife in response, fighting and killing several characters from previous skits (most of them being implied to be
3850-451: The producers were dealing with the time constraints of producing a first-season DVD that contained live action interviews and commentary for several episodes. The third season began on June 1, 2008, and marked the beginning of the show's broadcast in high-definition . A 15-minute rough cut of " The Doctor Is Sin " aired on April 1, 2008, as part of Adult Swim's April Fool's Day theme of airing sneak peeks of new episodes. The fourth season
3927-411: The remote back, segueing into the opening sequence. While Robot Chicken primarily features satirical versions of celebrities and existing popular characters in its sketches, it has also debuted some original characters created for the show. All Robot Chicken episodes from seasons 1-11 are available on Max . The show is streamed censored on the service until Season 5 . The show aired on TBS for
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#17327810995624004-487: The same time that Seth MacFarlane (various voices, 2005–2022) told Green and Senreich to pitch the show to the channel. On February 20, 2005, the series premiered on Adult Swim. The show was created, written, and produced by Green and Senreich and produced by ShadowMachine Films (Seasons 1–5) and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in association with Stoop!d Monkey , Williams Street , Sony Pictures Digital (Seasons 1–5) and Sony Pictures Television (Seasons 6–10). The program aired
4081-627: The same vein as comedy sketch shows like Saturday Night Live . A recurring motif involves fantastical characters being placed in mundane or adult situations (such as Stretch Armstrong requiring a corn syrup transplant after losing his abilities due to age, Optimus Prime performing a prostate cancer PSA , and Godzilla experiencing sexual dysfunction ). Robot Chicken features a rotating ensemble cast of recurring performers and cameos. Its most frequent performers include Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, Breckin Meyer , Tom Root , and Dan Milano . For
4158-586: The scientist to the same chair he was strapped to and forces him to watch the same TV monitors while the chicken and his wife share a kiss. In the seventh-season episode "Chipotle Miserables", the Mad Scientist's son rips out his father's remaining eye to open a door controlled by an optical biometric reader, then creates a posse of reanimated cyborg animals, as well as a cyborg homeless person . The posse then proceeds to kidnap all five then-living US presidents: Jimmy Carter , George H. W. Bush , Bill Clinton , George W. Bush , and Barack Obama . The Robot Chicken and
4235-401: The season finished on October 15, 2006. The considerable delay between the end of the first season and the start of the second was partially caused by Adult Swim's delay in deciding whether to renew the show, primarily because the show is drawn and inked in the traditional animation style (albeit digitally), causing each episode to take considerable time to move through production. Additionally,
4312-468: The series as "one of the most well-written superhero series of all time," a stand-out in the field of adult animation, and said it had "witty writing, tot [sic] pacing, and large yet complex cast of characters." The first season of The Venture Bros. on DVD was released on May 30, 2006, as officially announced by Warner Home Video . It coincided with the June 25 premiere of the second season. Originally, it
4389-504: The series finale. The series chronicles the lives and adventures of the Venture family: emotionally insecure, unethical and underachieving super-scientist father Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture ; his well-meaning but dimwitted and incompetent teenage fraternal twin sons Hank and Dean Venture ; the family's bodyguard , secret agent Brock Samson , or his temporary replacement, the reformed villain and pederast Sergeant Hatred ; and
4466-399: The series was announced to be renewed for an eighth and final season. On September 5, 2020, one of the show's illustrators, Ken Plume, tweeted that The Venture Bros. was cancelled. Jackson Publick confirmed two days later that the show was cancelled. The script for Season 8 had been partially written at the time of its cancellation a few months before the public announcement. Following
4543-537: The series' name included Junk in the Trunk , The Deep End , and Toyz in the Attic ; some of these would be reworked into episode titles for the first season .). Some television networks and sketch shows rejected the series, including Comedy Central , MADtv , Saturday Night Live , and even Cartoon Network . However, someone at that network passed the pitch along to its nighttime programming block, Adult Swim , around
4620-488: The series, the Venture family has had various recurring antagonists. Many are current or former members of The Guild of Calamitous Intent, an organization founded to save mankind from self-destruction, but which now serves as an ad hoc placement agency matching super villains with appropriate heroic nemeses. The organization is run by the mysterious leader known only as "The Sovereign", who is revealed to be real-life rock star David Bowie in episode 26, though in episode 5 of
4697-430: The show's emotional core took hold. Mike Drucker , writing for IGN, criticized the predictability of some first-season episodes, but noted that the show was "a refreshing cartoon because it willingly indulges in the sitcom fad of the '90s". In 2013 IGN placed The Venture Bros. as number 12 on their list of Top 25 animated series for adults . In January 2021, Sean Cubillas of Comic Book Resources ( CBR ) described
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#17327810995624774-515: The sixth season as of Summer 2013 and that it would enter full-production in September 2013. They tentatively stated that Season 6 would premiere in Fall of 2014, or very early 2015 at the latest. This estimated season-debut date turned out to be extremely premature as Season 6 premiered at Midnight, February 1, 2016. Jackson Publick confirmed on Twitter that Season 7 of The Venture Brothers would be aired on Adult Swim in "Summer" 2018. On June 27, it
4851-474: The stigma that animated works are strictly for children, especially since the industry was credited with sustaining the flow of Hollywood content and revenue during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic . An addition to the controversy was that the award for Best Animated Short Film (the nominees for which were mostly made up of shorts not aimed at children) was one of the eight categories that were omitted in
4928-427: The theme. Publick stated: This show... If you'll permit me to get a 'big picture', this show is actually all about failure. Even in the design, everything is supposed to be kinda the death of the space-age dream world. The death of the jet-age promises. Hammer responded: It's about the beauty of failure. It's about that failure happens to all of us...Every character is not only flawed, but sucks at what they do, and
5005-506: The third season, the show returned on September 7, 2008, to air the remaining 5 episodes. The series was renewed for a fourth season, which premiered on December 7, 2008, and ended on December 6, 2009. In early 2010, the show was renewed for a fifth and sixth season (40 more episodes total). Season five premiered on December 12, 2010. The second group of episodes began broadcasting on October 23, 2011. The 100th episode aired on January 15, 2012. In May 2012, Adult Swim announced they were picking up
5082-404: The time." In a 2023 interview with Chapo Trap House producer Chris Wade, Hammer clarifies that: Failure is always something that we always embraced, but we never embraced it as this kind of clarion call between the two of us. We never just woke up one day and he calls me and he's like "I've cracked the code: we're about failure." ... It's part of life, and we wrote about life. And I know it's
5159-497: The title are highlighted to mark the show reaching ten seasons. In the 200th episode, as the title is shown, David Lynch shouts "Robot Chicken!" in an off-screen voice. In the eleventh season, a new opening sequence features the Mad Scientist launching the Robot Chicken off a space station in a capsule. The capsule then crashes on the ground where the Robot Chicken meets another cyborg chicken, only in an elderly state (alluding to 2001: A Space Odyssey ). The monolith -shaped TVs in
5236-405: The use of their characters, with Jonny Quest appearing as "Action Johnny", and Dr. Zin as "Dr. Z". Publick and Hammer have stated that one of the primary themes of The Venture Bros. is failure. Hammer in 2006 said, "Yeah, failure, that's what Venture Bros. is all about. Beautiful sublime failure." In the creator commentary for the episode " Home Insecurity ", Hammer and Publick elaborated on
5313-586: The verbal repartee between Jonas Venture, Jr. and the Monarch in the season 3 episode "The Lepidopterists," in which the Monarch calls Ned, a character with Down syndrome a " retard ," and is chastised by J.J. accordingly. "We very much lampshaded our ideas like idiots." The show received critical acclaim over its run. The Venture Bros. ranked at #56 on the IGN "Best 100 Animated Series" list. In 2013, Slate ' s Chris Wade called The Venture Bros. "one of
5390-714: The voices. Robot Chicken has won two Annie Awards and six Emmy Awards . Robot Chicken was conceptually preceded by Twisted ToyFare Theatre , a humorous photo comic strip appearing in ToyFare . Matthew Senreich , an editor for ToyFare , got in touch with actor Seth Green when Senreich learned that Green had made action figures of castmates from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and asked to photograph them. Months later, Green asked Senreich to collaborate on an animated short for Late Night with Conan O'Brien , featuring toy versions of himself and O'Brien. This led to
5467-517: Was Flee , a PG-13 rated animated documentary about an Afghan refugee. Phil Lord , co-producer of one of the nominated films, The Mitchells vs. the Machines , tweeted that it was "super cool to position animation as something that kids watch and adults have to endure." The film's official social media account responded to the joke with an image reading: "Animation is cinema." A week later, Lord and his producing partner Christopher Miller wrote
5544-464: Was confirmed via Adult Swim's Instagram page that Season 7 would begin August 5, 2018. For this season, Publick stepped back from directing, assuming the role of supervising director. Two-time directing partner and storyboard director for season six, Juno Lee, took over as the series director. Barry J. Kelly also served as Lee's co-director. Show creator Jackson Publick was one of the main writers for
5621-471: Was in production from Adult Swim, On April 18, 2023, it was revealed that the film will be titled The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart , which would serve as the finale to the series. It was released digitally on July 21, as well as on Blu-Ray/DVD on July 25, 2023. In Canada , The Venture Bros. previously aired on Teletoon 's Teletoon at Night block and later G4 's Adult Digital Distraction block. The series currently airs on
5698-448: Was scheduled for March 14, 2006, but was delayed until May 30, 2006. The DVD packaging and interior art was created by comic artist Bill Sienkiewicz . On May 31, 2006, the season one DVD reached #1 on Amazon 's top selling DVDs list. On March 27, 2010, series creator Jackson Publick revealed on his Livejournal that a standard definition DVD of the first half of season 4 would likely be released sometime between July and October 2010, with
5775-542: Was split into two segments airing a year apart, with the first eight episodes airing in the fall of 2009 and the remaining episodes in fall of 2010. A note contained in the closing credits of the Season 4 finale indicated that the series would continue into the fifth season. On February 6, 2013, it was announced that Season 5 would premiere on May 19, 2013. This was later shifted to June 2, 2013, at midnight. On July 8, 2013, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick stated in an interview with Slate Magazine that they had begun writing
5852-715: Was surpassed by Aqua Teen Hunger Force after its renewal in 2023. After not having released new episodes since April of 2022, Seth Green announced in a live-streamed interview that, while a new full season of Robot Chicken would likely not be ready in time for the following year, a new half-hour Robot Chicken special is slated to release sometime in 2025. In a later interview, Green announced that Robot Chicken will be moving away from 20-episode seasons and towards doing specials. Robot Chicken employs stop-motion animation of toys, primarily action figures , as well as claymation and sometimes other objects, such as socks, paper bags, and popsicle sticks. Custom action figures made in
5929-401: Was unaware of the existence of the network's late night adult-oriented programming block, Adult Swim. With the revised pilot, production began in autumn of that year, and the pilot was first run on February 16, 2003. The first season of the series was completed and premiered in 2004, and it was added to the summer schedule in August. After the conclusion of the seventh season in October 2018,
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