Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-12343352-20170716212429/@comment-28396600-20180719061023

While overall the season was pretty funny, looking back on the latest edition of Robot Chicken now that it's nearing it's season finale. This season was exceptionally mean spirited, offensive, and distasteful even by that show's standards. The season including countless jokes about unsavory topics including (but certainly not limited to) pedophilia, sexual assault (in the #MeTooMovement era nonetheless), domestic abuse, drug overdose, abortion, concentration camps, 9/11, school shootings, cancer, AIDS, religion, politics, racism, environmentalism (portraying environmentalists as crazy!? Giggles would not approve!), incest, mocking the handicapped, sexism, redneck stereotypes, violence against little cartoon children (including a particularly scarring scene of a little girl getting attacked by a Satanic chicken. That one still haunts me to this day!), bestiality, and euthanasia (out of all the Walking Dead scenes they have to make fun of. Why did they have to choose the terribly sad "Look at the flowers, Lizzy!" scene!?). Plus there were a few particularly crude bits that stood out to me such as a scene where they refer to an overweight person as Jabba the Hutt, personally insulting Rihanna by making fun of the time Chris Brown heat her, and 80s cartoon character ALF doing an entire rap song about how he loves to eat kittens (you know how I feel about any type of violence humor against adorable felines). While I still think Robot Chicken is one of the best shows ever, I really don't want to see it go the way of Family Guy and start relying almost entirely on shock humor. I just don't understand why such a creative and witty show would feel the need to rely on such crap. It's pointless, stupid, and unfitting for what I consider to be one of the most clever shows on television right now to feature such simplicity and poorly written "jokes" on a near episodic basis. Some of the bits this season felt more like badly written creepypastas than comedy sketches (the Hey Arnold! parody where Helga decapitates Arnold and wears his skin for example). While it certainly featured more than a few hilarious and memorable skits, in the longrun I'm kind of disappointed by all the freaking stupidity that was overused this season. I hope season 10 is better. Just because something is gross and weird doesn't make it funny! I thought that Robot Chicken of all shows knows better than to include such nonsense.