# Poll: Robot Chicken: Freaking hilarious or fuggin' stoopid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2007, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170 "2007-07-10T08:10:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/21 "2007-07-10T13:39:11Z")
[QUOTE=BluePitbull] I don’t get it. [/QUOTE] spoiler Who’s on first (base).[/spoiler]I’m such a nerd. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/22 "2007-07-10T14:25:26Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] My favorite clip: Doctor Who standing on base in a baseball field for a few seconds before going “D’ja get it?!” [/QUOTE] I got that about five seconds after the clip ended, and I giggled for about twenty minutes. I’m in the freakin’ hilarious camp. My favorite that I’ve seen recently–“Dicks with Time Machines.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/23 "2007-07-10T15:12:26Z")
There’s never been an episode of **Robot Chicken** that didn’t make me laugh out loud at least once. Count me in for “freakin’ hilarious”. One of my favorite old skits was “Voltron Gets Served”. I was SO bummed when they changed the music for reruns and the DVD release. You can see it with the original music [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVswFzaYcCM). Current season favorites are Cuddles, the fabric softener bear (“This is a no-no!”), and the Five Stages of Grief with the giraffe in quicksand. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/24 "2007-07-10T15:20:48Z")
Stoopid _and_ freakin’ hilarious. One skit that had me giggling the rest of the night was when a pole vaulter impaled himself on his pole. Don’t ask me why, bit it had me in knots. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/25 "2007-07-10T15:38:16Z")
Much like British comedies, most Adult Swim shows- including _Robot Chicken_- are hit or miss. But it is often very funny. One of my favorite sketches was from the very first episode, in which Optimus Prime dies of prostate cancer. In fact, a prostate cancer organization thought it was both [funny and informative.](http://www.fightprostatecancer.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5321&news_iv_ctrl=1021) So get yo ass checked, before it’s too late! ---
**Author:** ![t-mobileguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@t-mobileguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-mobileguy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/26 "2007-07-10T16:11:35Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] spoiler Who’s on first (base).[/spoiler]I’m such a nerd. [/QUOTE] Oh. My. God! I spent days trying to figure that out the first time I saw it. And only now thanks to the magic of the STMB and the infinite wisdom of **Bosstone** , did I finally get that joke!!! :smack: Oh and add me to the hysterical group. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/27 "2007-07-10T16:23:12Z")
Freakin’ stoopid. Which is what _makes_ it so freakin’ hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/28 "2007-07-10T16:32:47Z")
freakin hilarious ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/29 "2007-07-10T16:32:50Z")
Oh it is a little of column A and a little of column B. It works because it isn’t a full half hour. I enjoy it quite a bit. My wife likes it until she doesn’t (Some bits don’t work for her) ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/30 "2007-07-10T16:53:49Z")
I’m not sure it’s been said yet… freakin’ hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/31 "2007-07-10T17:16:28Z")
Sure fire ROFL material for me. daHubby wasn’t a fan until the skit where Darth Vader calls the Emperor in tears. Great stuff! ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/32 "2007-07-10T17:39:52Z")
I love it. I’m a longtime Twisted Toyfare (formerly Mego) Theater fan, so I was predisposed toward thinging it was freaking hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/33 "2007-07-10T17:47:28Z")
Count me in: freaking hilarious, most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/34 "2007-07-10T17:55:06Z")
Freakin hilarious. Voltron gets served always cracks me up. Kill Bunny makes me laugh. There’s a little bit with a clown parachuting down, when he pulls the ripcord it just comes off and nothing happens and he goes ‘Happy birthday Billy’ and just looks down. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/35 "2007-07-10T18:09:38Z")
One of my favorites, so help me, was the sketch with B. Rabbit the rapper vs. Elmer Phudd. What made it for me was the voice-over work of Bob Bergen and Bill Farmer, both of whom have Warner Brothers characters to their voice credits. _“I’ll sit on your head just like I was the Thinker. Hmmm…phfttttt! Ain’t I a stinker?”_ ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/36 "2007-07-10T18:18:49Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Much like British comedies, most Adult Swim shows- including _Robot Chicken_- are hit or miss. But it is often very funny. One of my favorite sketches was from the very first episode, in which Optimus Prime dies of prostate cancer. In fact, a prostate cancer organization thought it was both [funny and informative.](http://www.fightprostatecancer.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5321&news_iv_ctrl=1021) So get yo ass checked, before it’s too late! [/QUOTE] That Optimus Prime bit was what made me a fan for life. Especially the follow-up, after the Transformer sketch was already over. Cut to a doctor’s office, where the Human Torch says it burns when he pees. Out of the blue, Prime pops back into frame, “WHAT did I JUST tell you?!” ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/37 "2007-07-10T18:28:10Z")
Freakin’ hii–larrou! ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/38 "2007-07-10T19:03:38Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] My favorite clip: Doctor Who standing on base in a baseball field for a few seconds before going “D’ja get it?!” [/QUOTE] What? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/39 "2007-07-10T19:44:50Z")
Two more votes for freakin’ hilarious. I think I’ve seen the most wrong things I’ve ever seen on television on that show. I liked the telethon bit, where everyone ended up dead. Or William Shatner’s crime-fighting toupé. Or the one where the Golden Girls sit and tallk about their favourite sex stories, while the guy in the next booth desperately tries to leave. Say, do they sometimes have un-credited voices on the show? There are times (like the Golden Girls bit, for example) where I’d swear it’s the original person doing the voice, but they aren’t in the credits. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170/40 "2007-07-10T20:11:22Z")
Freakin’ hilarious. They might miss on a few, but they mercifully keep the show short and don’t stretch… every… joke. Yknow, like a certain famous live sketch comedy show. (They stretch a few too long, but “stretch” means a whole entire _minute_, oh no!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robot-chicken-freaking-hilarious-or-fuggin-stoopid/411170.md?page=3)