Stop-motion animation insanity

“Robot Chicken” is a unique show. Nowhere else on television can you see ten minutes worth of stop motion animation where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inspects the immigration status of Dora the Explorer or witness Nicole Richie stage a prison break for an incarcerated Paris Hilton.

 It’s an animated free-for-all where the Super Friends get super pets, Pac Man is residing in the Matrix and “Ocean’s Thirty-Eight” becomes a reality.

The show manages to find some of the most obscure pop cultural references (“Fraggle Rock” and “{Thundercats” for example) and combine them with fart jokes, obscene violence and crude innuendo. Nothing is off limits in the world of “Robot Chicken.” It even manages to turn Popeye’s reliance on spinach into an unhealthy addiction.

A staple of “Adult Swim,” the late night programming on Cartoon Network, “Robot Chicken continues its shameless parody of pop culture with the release of season three on DVD.

This two-disk box set contains all 20 episodes of the season as well as a plethora of special features. Unfortunately, these extras are nowhere near as entertaining as the show itself.  

Like most special features on a television series released on DVD, “Robot Chicken” includes commentary for all the episodes.

Actor Seth Green carries on conversations with his co-creators, casting directors and special guests, but it does not bring much insight in to the show itself.

Other extra’s include a gag real of the most violent scenes of the show, alternative audio, deleted scenes, unrealized episode sketches, video blogs and a studio tour.

“Robot Chicken” excels at offensive humor that pokes fun at everything in pop culture. Sometimes gory and obscene and at other times down right insulting, season three is everything to be expected out of late night animation.