And one of the greatest- Mark Hamill coming on to do The Joker for " The Arkham Redemption".For example, Cree Summer voicing Penny in an Inspector Gadget parody, Soleil Moon-Frye voicing Punky Brewster in No Need for Glomer, Dana Snyder portrays Master Shake as a critic of the Robot Chicken show, and the late Robert Culp reviving his character Bill Maxwell for a The Greatest American Hero parody.
Cash Cow Franchise: Qualifies as this from the Star Wars specials alone.Call Back: To the skit featured under Too Soon: The stormtroopers before executing the Lars deliver a message from Darth Vader that NOW Owen can laugh about the Little Orphan Annie joke.The Season 4 Christmas Special is The Robot Chicken Full-Assed Christmas Special. Brick Joke: The Season 3 Christmas Episode was The Robot Chicken Half-Assed Christmas Special.
Black Comedy: the series is LOADED with it!.Breast Expansion: In the No Need For Glomer sketch (based on the animated version of Punky Brewster), where Punky asked an abused Glomer to make her boobs bigger.except Glomer kept going to the point where it was absolute Body Horror.Balls of Steel: In a short titled "Ode to the Nut-shot", we see two instances of this, one straight and one played with in one case, a lumberjack repeatedly punches himself in the nuts to no effect, and in another, one robot kicks another in the groin, at which the victim simply stands there and shrugs.It includes, amongst other things, his drill and a Skeletor figure with a missing tooth." Ascended Meme: "Mo-Larr, Eternian Dentist" was so popular that Mattel created a figure of him as a convention exclusive.And I Must Scream: The actual state of the Robot Chicken character.Then later, in a simultaneous parody of this trope and Deliverance, the hicks gleefully surround the alien, bent over and tied to a tree stump, and bluntly announce how they're going to perform "scientific experiments" in his backside. A group of flannel-wearing, toothless rednecks in a pickup truck abduct an alien from his home planet. The Robot Chicken staff, of all people - Seth Green's a corporate shill, Matthew Senreich is a sociopath, Breckin Meyer is Small Name, Big Ego personified.In fact, Santa Claus should be feared in the Robot Chicken universe. Santa Claus is either a drug lord or a Badass that kicks Coco-Cola executives' asses for using his likeness without his consent.And he was manipulated the entire time by one of his apparent Unwitting Pawns the true Dark Lord of the Sith.Also, in the final special, he apparently gets a Death Equals Redemption fate (that or Redemption Equals Death). Palpatine in the Star Wars specials is portrayed as Laughably Evil, in addition to being a Jerkass and a huge potty-mouth.The other members of the group have other characteristics played up. The Justice League of America are more Jerkass like than heroic, but most especially Superman.