Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-12343352-20170716212429/@comment-37627195-20190108192228

Okay.....it's official. I'm completely done with Robot Chicken! I saw a season 9 episode I missed last night and it was the stupidest and most ridiculous 15 minutes of garbage I've ever had to sit through. It officially convinced me that modern Robot Chicken is just as bad as season 12 Family Guy (y'know the awful one where they killed Brian), Brickleberry, Mr. Pickles, Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon, season 6 SpongeBob, and Teen Titans Go! (except for the TTG movie which was surprisingly good). It has all the qualities of a terrible cartoon. The title of the episode was We Don't Get Much of that in 1940s America and the name couldn't be any more accurate,

Here are all the individual skits I witnessed:

1. The Honey Nut Cheerios be graphically stings a child. They show his stinger graphically stabbing into the child's arm with blood and bee guts as his mother walked in the room and violently yanked the bee out of her son's arm. Being someone who's always been afraid of needles and things like that, the realistically animated scene of a kid getting stabbed in the arm with a stinger was not pleasant to watch at all.

2. A stupid, immature parody of The Girl on the Train that ends with Thomas The Tank Engine appearing out of nowhere and rolling his tongue in a sexually suggestive manner. Ummm, okay. What the hell was that!? One of the main things that I really can't stand about modern Robot Chicken is their obsession with toddler shows. I mean, it's one thing for them to constantly reference older kid shows such as SpongeBob, Pokémon, Garfield, etc. but nowadays they seem to love throwing in random references to baby shows. Do I need to remind the writers of this show that the network is called ADULT swim and probably shouldn't be loaded with references to baby/toddler oriented cartoons? I'm just saying!

-He-Man's battle cat, Cringer starts pooping, peeing, and vomiting for no reason. That's literally the entire sketch. The way they animated the poop this time really got to me, it looked like real cat poop which only added to the disgustingness of the skit.

-The Magic School Bus crashes off the Grand Canyon where the students are forced to murder and cannibalize Miss Frizzle to survive. That's not funny, just gross.

-Harry Potter is sitting at a bar, getting drunk while conversating while a talking snake. Being a HUGE Harry Potter fan, this scene had so much potential. As soon as it started up, I even thought to myself

"If there's anyway they could save this so far God awful episode, it could be this sketch,"

But no, it was just a very obvious joke that anyone who knows even a little bit about Harry Potter could come up with. Yeah, we get it Harry has the ability to talk to snakes. That's not even a joke, okay. They are just stating a fact about that character by now, should be common knowledge to any Harry Potter fan (regardless of how much they like the series).

-Dominic Toretto from The Fast and the Furious stops the Titanic from sinking. Again, there was no joke this time. Just a ridiculous mashup of two movies that don't even go together.

-Nanny MacPhee arrives to babysit two children who start an insult war about her and roast her to the point where she literally explodes. Her blood, guts, and bones splattered all over the screen and everything. Again, shocking does not equal entertaining.

-A guy is at the doctor and he says "I can't move my left hand anymore," the doctor rudely replies "Then don't move left your hand, idiot!". A screen then pops up reading "Steve had cancer,". Seriously....that's not funny at all. That's a tragic scenario that could actually happen in real life.

-Seal Team Six tries to defeat Osama bin Laden by distracting him with dance moves. All they did in this scene was make fun of one of the worst tragedies to ever happen on American soil (September 11th) in a way that isn't even remotely clever or witty. I personally love dark humor myself and 9\11 jokes can be extremely funny, if they are done properly. This scene merely mentioned the horrifying terrorist attack. Do they honestly expect any sane person to laugh at the mere mention of 9/11? That's so stupid.

-Jem from the '80s cartoon Jem and the Holograms is being interviewed by a studio recording company and she gets fired when she says she doesn't have an Instagram. Does anyone here get that joke? Because I just don't see how any of that is funny.

-The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang gets a surprise visit by who other than Chris Hansen himself. Come on, that is the most obvious joke anyone could make about that movie. His name is literally the Child Catcher for crying out loud! Portraying him as a pedophile is boring, predictable, and lazy on the behalf of the writers themselves.

-A kid falls off of the merry go round at the park and breaks his neck. Just like the "Steve Had Cancer" one again, this is not the least bit funny. It is a tragic circumstance that could easily happen in the real world.

-James Bond stars on The Bachelor and makes an annoying amount of sexual innuendos. The real James Bond movies are loaded with sexual references. This doesn't even feel like a parody, it's basically just a cut scene from a real James Bond movie.