Best TV ever
Published by on August 14th, 2006
jEN recently introduced me to [adult swim], now appearing on a Bravo channel near your Sky box.
My absolute fave, as you might guess from the image above, is Robot Chicken. The ever so slightly maniacal scientist fellow discovers a slightly squished chicken on the road just outside his evil castle of demonic experimentation and proceeds to rebuild him somewhere between the Bionic Man and a Borg drone. Then, strapped to a chair with both electronic and real eyes clamped wide open, our cyborg chicken is forced to watch a multitude of television programmes.
Those programmes, which is what we see, are odd, often dark, satirical and downright, nose-squirtingly funny sketches where stop-frame animated celebrity and movie/TV character figures are used and abused.
Interestingly, the chicken doesn’t appear in the above graphic, nor does he seem to appear in the show after the titles. Which is great, because he looks like he might have a problem with body odour.
I have the Robot Chicken closing theme as my new ringtone, get it here.
In a close second comes…
Yup, you guessed it, a shake (Master Shake, with the ability to be, erm… annoying), a carton of fries (Frylock, with articulated fries and other eye-zapping powers) and a ball of meat (MeatWad, with the unique ability to transform into any shape - as if it were made of meat: “Just take the meat bridge!”) are super heroes who all live together. Hilarity ensues. jEN does a fantastic impression of MeatWad. He’s difficult to understand at first; but stick with him, he’s only a young ‘un. It doesn’t quite have the same effect without the rather unique timbre of MeatWad’s voice, but here are some MeatWad and other classic Aquateen quotes.
If you don’t have access to Bravo, then you can see full episodes at the [adult swim] website. Enjoy.
