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Awards Foudren is an American computer animated motion&#x20;comedy sketch comedy television series, created and executive produced for Studio T by Jerry Sho and Matthew Fueller along with co-head writers Stephen Markbaugghier and Thomas Cloaker. The writers, especially Sho, also provide many of the voices. Matt, Steven, and Cloaker were formerly writers for the own custom created figure. Awards Foudren has won an &#x20;Award Annie Award and five &#x20;Award Emmy Awards.

Production history
Robot Chicken is based on "&#x20;ToyFare&#x20;Theater Twisted ToyFare Theater", a humorous photo comic-strip appearing in ToyFare: The Toy Magazine. The show's name was inspired by a dish on the menu at a &#x20;Hollywood,&#x20;California West Hollywood &#x20;Chinese&#x20;cuisine Chinese restaurant, Kung Pao Bistro, where Green and Senreich had dined; the series originally was intended to be called Junk in the Trunk.

The show was created, written, and produced by &#x20;Green Seth Green and &#x20;Senreich Matthew Senreich, and produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (&#x20;Films ShadowMachine Films Seasons 1–5) in association with &#x20;Monkey Stoop!d Monkey, &#x20;Street Williams Street, and &#x20;Pictures&#x20;Television Sony Pictures Television (&#x20;Pictures&#x20;Digital Sony Pictures Digital Seasons 1–5). The series first appeared as Sweet J Presents on the Sony website Screenblast.com in 2001. In the first episode ("Conan's Big Fun"), &#x20;O'Brien Conan O'Brien was a featured character, voiced by &#x20;Guy Family Guy creator &#x20;MacFarlane Seth MacFarlane (2005–present). Sweet J Presents ended after 12 episodes and moved to &#x20;Network Cartoon Network's &#x20;Swim Adult Swim in 2005 as Robot Chicken, premiering on Sunday, February 20, 2005.

Some television networks and sketch shows rejected Robot Chicken, including &#x20;Central Comedy Central, MADtv, &#x20;Night&#x20;Live Saturday Night Live, and even &#x20;Network Cartoon Network. However, someone at Cartoon Network passed the pitch along to &#x20;Swim Adult Swim, around the same time that Seth MacFarlane told Seth Green and Matthew Senreich to pitch the show to Adult Swim.

The show mocks popular culture, referencing toys, movies, television, games, popular fads, and more obscure references like anime cartoons and older television programs, much in the same vein as comedy sketch shows like &#x20;Night&#x20;Live Saturday Night Live. It employs &#x20;motion stop motion animation of toys, &#x20;figure action figures, &#x20;animation claymation, and various other objects, such as tongue depressors, &#x20;Game&#x20;of&#x20;Life The Game of Life pegs, and popsicle sticks.

One particular motif involves the idea of fantastical characters being placed in a more realistic world or situation (such as &#x20;Armstrong Stretch Armstrong requiring a corn syrup transplant after losing his abilities because of aging, &#x20;Prime Optimus Prime performing a prostate cancer &#x20;service&#x20;announcement PSA for the humans, and Godzilla having problems in the bedroom). The program aired a 30-minute episode dedicated to &#x20;Wars Star Wars which premiered June 17, 2007, in the US, featuring the voices of Star Wars notables &#x20;Lucas George Lucas, &#x20;Hamill Mark Hamill (from a &#x20;of&#x20;Robot&#x20;Chicken&#x20;episodes#6 previous episode), &#x20;Dee&#x20;Williams Billy Dee Williams, and &#x20;Best Ahmed Best. The Star Wars episode was nominated for a 2008 [] Award as Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour).

The show airs in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of &#x20;(UK&#x20;and&#x20;Ireland) Fox and &#x20;(UK&#x20;and&#x20;Ireland) TruTV's &#x20;Swim&#x20;UK Adult Swim block, in Canada on &#x20;(Canadian&#x20;TV&#x20;channel) Teletoon's &#x20;(Canadian&#x20;TV&#x20;channel)#The&#x20;Detour&#x20;on&#x20;Teletoon&#x20;and&#x20;F-Night TELETOON at Night block, in Australia on &#x20;Comedy&#x20;Channel The Comedy Channel's Adult Swim block, in Russia on 2x2's Adult Swim block, in Germany on TNT Series' Adult Swim block, and in &#x20;America Latin America on the [] Adult Swim block (after the Adult Swim block was cancelled from &#x20;Network&#x20;(Latin&#x20;America) Cartoon Network Latin America in 2008). Many of the show's sketches from Sweet J Presents were redone for Robot Chicken.

The series was renewed for a 20-episode third season, which ran from August 1, 2007, to September 28, 2008. After an eight-month hiatus during the third season, the show returned on August 31, 2008, to air the remaining 5 episodes. The series was renewed for a fourth season which premiered on December 7, 2008, and ended September 20, 2009. In early 2010, the show was renewed for a fifth and sixth season (40 more episodes total). Season 5 premiered on December 12, 2010. The second group of episodes began broadcasting on October 23, 2011. The 100th episode aired on January 15, 2012. In May 2012, Adult Swim announced they were picking up a sixth season of Robot Chicken, which began airing in September 2012. The seventh season premiered on April 13, 2014. Season 8 premiered on October 25, 2015. Season 9 premieres on October 8, 2017.

On a stormy night, a &#x20;scientist mad scientist finds a road-killed chicken, which he takes back to his laboratory to re-fashion into a cyborg. Midway through the opening sequence, the titular chicken turns his laser eye towards the camera, and the title appears amidst the "laser effects" as &#x20;Claypool Les Claypool of &#x20;(band) Primus can be heard screaming "It's alive!" à la Frankenstein. Claypool also composed and performed the show's theme song. The mad scientist then straps the re-animated Robot Chicken into a chair, uses calipers to hold his eyes open, and forces him to watch a bank of television monitors (with allusions to A Clockwork Orange and Watchmen; this scene segues into the body of the show, which resembles someone frequently changing TV channels.

In the episode "[(Robot Chicken episode)|1987]", [Ian Black|Michael Ian Black] claims that this sequence tells the viewers that they are the chicken, being forced to watch the skits. As a result, the show does not actually focus on the robot chicken until the 100th episode, when he finally makes his escape and later kills the mad scientist when he takes his hen girlfriend, Cluckerella.

Beginning in the sixth season, a new opening sequence has been featured with a role reversal. The chicken comes upon the body of the scientist, which has been decapitated. He decides to do to the scientist what the scientist did to him: add robotic parts to him, turn him into a cyborg, and give him a laser eye (although he gives the scientist a blue eye instead of a red one, which necessitates a change in the title's background color), then strap him to the same chair he was strapped to and force him to watch the same TV monitors while the chicken and his girlfriend share a kiss.

Beginning in the eighth season, a new opening sequence has been featured with the Robot Chicken being uncovered in snow frozen in a block of ice by cyborgs. Taken back to the futuristic laboratory, the Robot Chicken is taken out of [animation|suspended animation] by a masked scientist, revealed to be a [descendant|descendant] of the mad scientist who first reanimated the Robot Chicken. The descendant mad scientist then proceeds to force the Robot Chicken to watch a wall of projected images with different shows, as his [] did before him. This new opening was necessary following the plot of the episode "Chipotle Miserables", in which the mad scientist's son rips out his father's remaining eye to open a door controlled by an optical [] reader, and then creates a posse of reanimated half-cyborg animals, as well as a cyborg homeless person. The posse then proceeds to kidnap all 5 living Presidents [Carter|Jimmy Carter], [H.W. Bush|George H.W. Bush], [Clinton|Bill Clinton], [W. Bush|George W. Bush], and [Obama|Barack Obama]. The Robot Chicken and Mad Scientist then team up to rescue the presidents, after which, the Robot Chicken flies away, free.

Recurring sketches
The show features several recurring sketches. Some of the more predominant ones include:


 * Bloopers: A parody of the Bob Saget–era of America's Funniest Home Videos, featuring a host with exaggerated spastic mannerisms who attempts Suicide at the end of each show.
 * &#x20;Buzz&#x20;On&#x20;Maggie The Buzz On Maggie Parodies
 * &#x20;Joe G.I. Joe Parodies
 * Masters of the Universe Parodies
 * The Nerd: The Nerd is an awkward high school or college student with broken glasses who lisps. Although his name was mentioned as "Gary" in an early episode, later episodes give his name as "Arthur Kensington, Jr." The Nerd imagines what it would be like to live in various well-known fantasy worlds. He also has a major fondness for nudity.
 * Robot Chicken Has Been Cancelled: Four of the eight season finales of Robot Chicken perpetuated a running gag in which the Presidents of Adult Swim announce that Robot Chicken has been cancelled.
 * Robot Chicken Has Been Renewed: At the start of season premieres, there was a running gag of events of the previous Robot Chicken is cancelled season finale would be shown and shows Robot Chicken somehow getting renewed.
 * &#x20;to&#x20;Luna Earth&#x20;to&#x20;Luna Parodies
 * Backyardigans Parodies
 * &#x20;Trek Star Trek Parodies
 * &#x20;Ralph Wreck-It Ralph Parodies
 * &#x20;from&#x20;the&#x20;Crypt&#x20;(TV&#x20;series) Tales from the Crypt: Different parodies featuring the Crypt Keeper as he does things like not telling a story about someone he knows, coping with his show's cancellation, telling stories involving the Robot Chicken characters, and having issues with the &#x20;High Monster High characters "stealing" his puns
 * &#x20;Mutant&#x20;Ninja&#x20;Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Parodies
 * &#x20;Puppy T.U.F.F. Puppy Parodies
 * &#x20;Adventures&#x20;of&#x20;Peabody&#x20;&&#x20;Sherman The&#x20;Adventures&#x20;of&#x20;Peabody&#x20;&&#x20;Sherman Parodies
 * Unsolved Case Files: A parody of true crime shows like &#x20;Mysteries Unsolved Mysteries which feature investigation of crimes involving fictional characters such as the murders/deaths of &#x20;Claus Santa Claus or George Jetson. The sketch ends with a promo for the next episode.
 * Where Are They Now?: A sketch in which &#x20;Moore Michael Moore investigates past media celebrities (often stars of old television programs that produced toylines) who have fallen into obscurity.

Home releases
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International

 * Robot Chicken premiered in the United Kingdom and Ireland on &#x20;(British&#x20;TV&#x20;channel) Bravo as part of the &#x20;Swim&#x20;(UK&#x20;&&#x20;Ireland) Adult Swim programming block. The series, along with other Adult Swim shows, moved to &#x20;(UK&#x20;and&#x20;Ireland) FX and ran from 5 June 2010 to 27 November 2010. The block did not air in 2011, but returned in 2012 on &#x20;Classic&#x20;Movies&#x20;(UK&#x20;&&#x20;Ireland) TCM 2. The channel ceased broadcasting in 2013. &#x20;(UK&#x20;and&#x20;Ireland) Syfy currently airs the DC Comics and Star Wars specials. Adult Swim, along with Robot Chicken, returned to UK television starting with a new block on the &#x20;(UK&#x20;and&#x20;Ireland) FOX channel in the fall of 2015. In late 2016 &#x20;(UK&#x20;and&#x20;Ireland) TruTV UK began airing Robot Chicken episodes.
 * Robot Chicken premiered in Australia on &#x20;Comedy&#x20;Channel The Comedy Channel on March 11, 2008, after the Group Programming Director &#x20;Chau Darren Chau secured The Comedy Channel as the Australian home of Adult Swim. The Comedy Channel brought both &#x20;Green Seth Green and &#x20;Senreich Matt Senreich to Australia to conduct a promotional tour to support the launch.
 * Robot Chicken premiered in Portugal on the channel &#x20;(TV&#x20;channel) MOV in February 2013.
 * Robot Chicken premiered in Brazil on &#x20;Swim Adult Swim
 * Robot Chicken premiered in Germany on the pay TV channel Sat.1 Comedy on December 5, 2007 and on the free TV channel &#x20;Germany VIVA Germany in January 2014.
 * Robot Chicken premiered in the Netherlands on the channel &#x20;Central&#x20;Netherlands Comedy Central Netherlands in February 2014.
 * In Canada, the series airs on &#x20;Swim&#x20;(Canada) Adult Swim Canada and &#x20;at&#x20;Night Teletoon at Night, the nighttime programming block on &#x20;(Canada) Teletoon.