Robot Chicken Satire

In the entertainment world, there are many forms of humor that appeal to certain kinds of people. The most popular forms of humor of today’s culture is slapstick, parody, irony, and, satire. High rated comedy shows like the Family Guy and the Simpsons focus their content on these types of humors. Although, there are comedy shows that take their humor too far like Robot Chicken. It’s a parodic show the mocks popular culture, using movies, games, toys, and tv shows as reference. There are some clips in Robot Chicken that are amusing, but most of its content is so violent and disturbing that it gives a warped view of childhood innocence. Since parodies are so popular, there are plenty of people who find this show funny.

Each robot chicken episode

In the episode, “Hemlock, Gin, and Juice,” the character Dora the Explorer is shown as a fifteen-year-old girl who drinks, curses, and does drugs. The show uses satire to mock juvenile delinquency by showing what an innocent cartoon character could be like going through a rebellious stage. Most people enjoy these kinds of clips because it exposes serious subjects like delinquency through jokes that they can understand. Robot chicken overplays their uses of satire jokes by pushing the boundaries of adult content that can be shown on television. An example would be the clip “Toy Story 4”, where the character “Andy” is depicted as the college student stereotype “The Party Guy”- A person who drinks and does drugs to have a good time. The show starts the clip with Andy bringing a college girl home to have sex and uses his “Buzz Lightyear” action figure as a bong. The excessive use of mature content ruins the image of not just the franchise it uses, but everything innocent in the entertainment

On a website named “Wired”, a publisher named Angela Watercutter post an article called “Here Are The 10 Best Bits From Robot Chicken’s First 10 Years.” In this article, it quotes: “Everything cute and cuddly from our childhood has horrible violence committed against it.” (Watercutter para.8) This quote sums up what the Robot Chicken series is about, taking children content and rewriting it for adult entertainment. The reason why many individuals think Robot Chicken is funny because takes innocent children entertainment and exposes it to the adult world. This allow the viewers to enjoy the same cartoons they watched in their childhood that relates to current state of thinking. In my opinion, the ideal of children’s cartoons is for kids to understand the world in a sense. They learn right from wrong, how the world works, what is today’s culture like, and etc. Robot Chicken creates clips that contradict everything these cartoons represent, leaving a huge scar on that