Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20170821104040/@comment-28396600-20180405061145

GizmotheMogwai17 wrote: Although I love the new episodes of Robot Chicken as their own thing, it's almost sad how much the show's humor has changed over time.

What used to be a show featuring a lot of edgy, politically incorrect commentary on current society has basically evolved into a fully stop motion animated adult version of MAD. The only jokes so far this season that were even mildly controversial were one brief reference to cancer, a 5-second skit about Jesus (although that one was more poking fun at the Easter Bunny that anything else), and a few Trump jokes. Most seasons would've had a BUNCH of controversial and edgy skits by now. The show's once shocking offbeat humor has become so tame that I could probably watch the new episodes in front of my best friend's 12-year-old sister without feeling the urge to turn it off in fear of her seeing something inappropriate. Don't get me wrong, I think the show is still hilarious and it still provides a lot of laughs for me but on the other hand, it has gotten a little too soft in some ways. It's pulled an opposite Family Guy, where instead of getting raunchier over it's long run Robot Chicken has gotten more lighthearted and silly over time. But hey, as long as the show still provides me with laughs and makes me smile on sad days then it is totally worth watching. I still look forward to new episodes every Sunday and nearly every time, I will still laugh at least 5 times (usually more) in one episode. However, I do think it's kind of sad that the show is just another example of how politically correct the world has become.Funny is funny no matter how edgy it is. But it just doesn't seem that Robot Chicken-y anymore if you know what I mean. Despite all of that though, I will keep crawling back to Robot Chicken:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQsqMndoM9E

Fun fact:The reason I posted that particular song is because nearly every line in it can somehow be used to symbolize the above query on Robot Chicken. For example:

"The ranger came with burning eyes," - "The ranger" symbolizes all of the easily offended people who have protested and wrote letters to [adult swim] asking them to change Robot Chicken to a more lighthearted show.

"The chamber maid did act surprised," - This refers to all the surprised fans that were a bit put off by the show's newly developed goofy tone.

"It was just me and my sidekick," - This refers to my Robot Chicken fanatic friend and I.

"She was drunk, I was sick," - The show both made us laugh and helped cheer us up during dark times in our lives. It helped my friend feel better when she dealt with addiction problems and it helped me feel better when I was sick with the flu.

"We got into a barroom fight," - This line is symbolic of the many fans who argued over the new episodes. But mostly it symbolizes the infamous Homestar Runner parody that nearly split up the fandom this past year.

"Until a man came and shut out the light," - "The light" refers to how the show used to make light of dark topics and was considered a coping mechanism for people caught in tragedies (for example, the Euthanasia skit from season one helped me get over the death of my beloved dog Rooster last summer). The "shutting off the light" part refers to how the show is now just a bunch of silly pop culture parodies that won't really make a light at the end of a tunnel for anyone dealing with serious issues. Sometimes the networks need to realize that dark humor isn't always a bad thing, some people such as myself use it a way to cope with the serious issues in question. Okay. So I just re-watched the few episodes from this season over again (most of which I'd only seen like one time or so) and now I completely take everything I said. There were quite a few extremely un-PC jokes found within these episodes that I almost completely forgot about. The kinda stuff you would NEVER find on a mainstream series like The Simpsons or The Big Bang Theory. Some of these scenes included:

-The Nerd making a racist joke claiming that Lando and Boba Fett are brothers.

-Some MARVEL villain being referred to as a "robot rapist".

-A skit making fun of Osama bin Laden.

-James Bond referring to the sun as "that glowing cancer ball in the sky".

-Krampus listing a bunch of bad things people can do. One of the things he listed was was "Yell bomb in airport,".

-Bomberman being confused for a terrorist.

-Butt-Head from Beavis and Butt-Head pronouncing the word therapist as "the rapist".

-Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen kissing each other.

-Basil from The Great Mouse Detective getting killed in a dangerous sex game.

-The Devil giving a tourist a tour guide of Hell like it's some vacation spot.

-The Honey Nut Cheerios bee violently stabbing somebody.

And a couple others. So yeah, while the show isn't as edgy as it used to be it's still just edgy enough to be considered "true Robot Chicken" in my opinion. I completely misjudged that season, that just shows that I should probably at least watch an episode more than once before I judge it like that.