Robot Chicken
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2005 · Comedy / Animation

Robot Chicken

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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.

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An absolute cinematic disaster.

A series of pop-culture parodies using stop-motion animation of toys, action figures and dolls. The title character was an ordinary chicken until he was run down by a car and subsequently brought back to life in cyborg form by mad scientist Fritz Huhnmorder, who tortures Robot Chicken by forcing him to watch a random selection of TV shows, the sketches that make up the body of each episode.

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2005
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Comedy / Animation
PLOT SUMMARY

A series of pop-culture parodies using stop-motion animation of toys, action figures and dolls. The title character was an ordinary chicken until he was run down by a car and subsequently brought back to life in cyborg form by mad scientist Fritz Huhnmorder, who tortures Robot Chicken by forcing him to watch a random selection of TV shows, the sketches that make up the body of each episode.

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@ENDING_LEAKS2026-01-15 09:00 UTC

If Robot Chicken was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.

@SCREEN_SHADE2026-01-07 18:00 UTC

Robot Chicken: proof the studio reads its own marketing too literally.

@LATE_SHOW_LURKER2026-01-18 17:00 UTC

Robot Chicken is what improv class warned you about.

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Watched Robot Chicken so you don't have to. You're welcome.

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Robot Chicken (2005) is praised with a low burn score on Roasted Tomatoes with a Burn Index of 24/100. A series of pop-culture parodies using stop-motion animation of toys, action figures and dolls. The title character was an ordinary chicken until he was run down by a car and subsequently brought back to life in cyborg f…

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Robot Chicken works best as a modern catalog staple for comedy fans. With a Burn Index of 24/100, pair it with viewers who can handle that heat level.

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Robot Chicken scores 24/100 Burn — Roasted Tomatoes recommends it as a confident watch.

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r/flicks · u/MidnightMatinee🔥 3.3k points

[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in Robot Chicken?

Director clearly thought Robot Chicken was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.

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r/boxoffice · u/JumpCutJunkie🔥 0.9k points

Hot Take: Robot Chicken's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece

Honestly, Robot Chicken would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.

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r/movies · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 3.0k points

The cinematography in Robot Chicken is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows

Just got out of Robot Chicken and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.

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