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"Why Robot Chicken Almost Got Cancelled"

A few years back there was an uproar in the Robot Chicken fanbase where people believed it was cancelled because there was no word on season 9. While season 9 has come out now, here is the real reason why season 9 got delayed for two whole years. I'll admit it, I let my 2-year-old daughter Jessica watch a little bit of Robot Chicken from time to time. She's a huge fan of lions she has lion plushies, posters, and all kinds of decorations all over her room. So I usually just show her the ThunderCats skits on the show although we have also watched a few other lion-related skits together such as The Wuzzles parody from Season Four and the "King of the Jungle" sketch from Season One. Unsurprisingly, she thinks those skits are awesome due to her endless fascination with lions. I don't care that she watches those particular skits occasionally because she's too young to understand the sexual content and the violence doesn't seem to phase her, for all I know she probably thinks the blood is just strawberry jam in those skits as she's too young to understand the concept of death yet. But one day, as I watched Robot Chicken I saw a skit that seemed like it would be right up my daughter's alley on a new episode of the show. It was called "Jack the Lion" and centered around the adventures of a new Robot Chicken original character, who's simplistic yet hilarious personality and voice basically made him an animal expy of The Nerd. Strangely, it was made in a much different style than the rest of Robot Chicken. Rather than using action figure stop-motion it was done in a puppet style, rather low budget at that appearing to have been filmed in some guy's basement or something. I assumed it was just part of the joke as the sketch seemed like it would be centered around some sarcastic comment mocking the crappiness of low budget public access kid shows like Robot Chicken often does. So without further hesitation, I rushed my daughter into the room excited as ever to show her the latest lion sketch on the show. But boy, do I wish I'd screened the skit first before showing it to her. The sketch was basically just a lion puppet making stupid animal puns and stuff, while it certainly dragged on FOREVER I assumed that was "the joke" a la Family Guy's infamous Conway Twitty scenes. But midway through the skit, the lion began to address Jessica personally through the camera in a breaking the fourth wall-style fashion, even using her last name (which I have withheld for safety reasons) and everything. The lion puppet told Jessica to go into other room, pick up a knife, and kill herself with it. Even giving her a tutorial on how to do so! I was shocked, I contacted [adult swim] that night and asked them what the hell had happened. The "Grand Poobah" of [adult swim], Mike Lazzo claimed that the sketch had nothing to do with them at all and was accidentally broadcast without their knowledge. So I did a little bit of research by closely examining the sketch and saw something rather peculiar happening in the background. I could clearly see OUR house and car outside of the window of the lion character's house. So I rushed outside to our closest neighbor's house, snuck inside to investigate and sure enough a man was right there holding a lion puppet and laughing manically. So I pulled out my cell phone, called 911 and the FCC both of which made sure that sick bastard was sent straight to jail for the rest of his life. I find it incredibly disgusting and infuriating that a person would use one of an innocent little girl's favorite TV shows to basically murder her. After the incident, [adult swim] was worried sick and vowed never to make any new Robot Chicken episodes again just to make sure that a similar situation never occurred in the future. They feared that Robot Chicken's random, rapid fire, multimedia nature would allow it to be an easy platform for satellite hackers to produce more shocking content. But eventually, due to high demand they continued Robot Chicken anyway but made sure to protect their systems heavily to prevent anymore circumstances to happen in the future. Seth Green even briefly visited our house and took my Jessica and I out for ice cream together. He's a very nice guy and tons of fun to be with, he's actually become somewhat of a family friend of ours by now and Jessica will occasionally even refer to him as "Uncle Seth". Although the incident was certainly alarming, I still couldn't help myself to take advantage of being in cahoots with Seth Green, the writer of my favorite show Robot Chicken. Most of the skits this season were honestly requests that I had told Seth about because you know, one of the best perks of being friends with Seth is that ability to possibly contribute to the show's content by giving him some clever ideas for skits I've always wanted to see them do.