Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-12343352-20170716212429/@comment-37627195-20181210044320

NewandImprovedGizmo19 wrote: You guys want to know why I don't talk about Robot Chicken near as much as I used to? I'll admit it right here and right now:I don't really like that show anymore. I know, nobody thought they would see the day when Gizmo stopped caring about Robot Chicken but I just don't think the new episodes are that funny or clever anymore. The jokes are WAY too politically motivated/borderline preachy at times, the non-political skits have been reduced to nothing but immature toilet and sex-related humor, the original characters I once loved are now shells of their former hilarious selves, and the once clever parodies simply just amount to,

"Ha, ha a character from a kid show is doing/saying something adult!" these days.

Not to mention the fact that a lot of the skits are just rehashed versions of ones they already did. For example, they did a sketch of Jesus fighting The Easter Bunny last season. That's literally no different than the Kill Bunny sketch from way back in season one. The only difference is that it was in HD quality and didn't feature the Kill Bill BGM playing in the background. What a waste of time! If they aren't going to even be original and rely on reusing crap from other seasons for "nostalgia sake", that is the ultimate sign of jumping the shark. I don't think the show is that good anymore. The quality of modern Robot Chicken reminds me a little of that Matt Groening show, Disenchantment where some of it is funny at times but most of it is just needlessly bizarre, random for the sake of being random, and completely immature. While I'll admit that the show has most certainly had better days (especially with them taking off Apu now and everything), modern Simpson is still 100 times better than the mindnumbing garbage that is modern Robot Chicken. At least The Simpsons still attempts to be clever without resorting to clichés and annoyingly raunchy content for no reason. I think the fact The Simpsons is still good (in my opinion at least) after 30 seasons and Robot Chicken already sucks after only 9 speaks volumes of the show's poor quality in comparison.

I definitely think Seth Green is a talented and creative person but I don't think he cares much about Robot Chicken anymore. All the effort he put into making the earlier seasons as hilarious as possible has now been dropped in favor of lazy poop, dick, and vomit jokes that a 7-year-old could easily write in his sleep.

I hope that the show someday gets good again like what happened to SpongeBob in recent seasons but as long as [adult swim] continues to simply milk their cash cow series without even attempting to make it good, I think I'll pass on Robot Chicken. It would probably take a miracle to get their good reputation back after some of the sheer stupidity I witnessed in season 9.

Today my dad and I were watching a season 3 episode of Robot Chicken together. It was the one with Thelma & Louise, the Laff-a-Lympics gang, and Crystar the Crystal Meth Warrior. We were laughing really hard at all the well thought out, imaginative scenarios they put all these vastly different pop culture figures into but then we watched a season 9 episode afterwards and it doesn't compare. Watching an old Robot Chicken and then a new one directly after really does prove how lazy the show has become over time. We didn't even laugh once during the entire new episode, in fact we cringed more times than we ever should watching what is supposed to be a comedy show.

I think the one the nail in the coffin for my love of the show was this unbelievably ridiculous and pointless sketch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKw_WC1PPF4

Ummm, I'm sorry but WHERE'S THE DAMN JOKE!? Seeing a little girl getting mauled by a demonic rooster isn't funny unless you attempt to make it funny, this sketch was an epic fail on so many levels. Once that little animated girl died in that scene, my love of Robot Chicken died a long with her. I don't find it offensive or anything, I just think it's moronic and needlessly brutal. I just briefly viewed one of the Robot Chicken Season 9 episodes I missed while flipping through channels and they had an awesome obscure character cameo by Crazy Harry from The Muppets. I can't believe they remember him. Welp, I guess I'm gonna have to start watching that show again. DAMMIT! I swear it's like every time I try to stop watching, they always bring The Muppets into it which pulls me back in. Why they gotta do that? lol.