![]() 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 Saturday Night Live. Green and Senreich cited the likes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Pee-Wee's Playhouse and Kentucky Fried Movie as major influences for Robot Chicken. However, someone at Cartoon Network passed the pitch along to Adult Swim, around the same time that Seth MacFarlane told Seth Green and Matthew Senreich to pitch the show to Adult Swim. Some television networks and sketch shows rejected Robot Chicken, including Comedy Central, MADtv, Saturday Night Live, and even Cartoon Network. Sweet J Presents ended after 12 episodes and moved to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in 2005 as Robot Chicken, premiering on Sunday, February 20, 2005. In the first episode ("Conan's Big Fun"), Conan O'Brien was a featured character, voiced by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane (2005–present). The series first appeared as Sweet J Presents on the Sony website in 2001. The show was created, written, and produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, and produced by ShadowMachine Films (Seasons 1–5) and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in association with Stoop!d Monkey, Williams Street, Sony Pictures Digital (Seasons 1–5) and Sony Pictures Television (Seasons 6–10). The show's name was inspired by a dish on the menu at a West Hollywood Chinese restaurant, Kung Pao Bistro, where Green and Senreich had dined other ideas for the series' name included Junk in the Trunk, The Deep End, and Toyz in the Attic (many of these rejected names would be reworked into episode titles for the first season). Robot Chicken was conceptually preceded by "Twisted ToyFare Theatre", a humorous photo comic-strip appearing in ToyFare: The Toy Magazine. Robot Chicken has won two Annie Awards and six Emmy Awards. ![]() Senreich, Goldstein, and Root were formerly writers for the popular action figure hobbyist magazine ToyFare. The writers, most prominently Green, also provide many of the voices. ![]() He’d rather forget about the Beanie Babies.Robot Chicken is an American adult animated stop motion sketch comedy television series, created and executive produced for Adult Swim by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. Goldstein is known in his field as an expert in popular culture and has been quoted in media including TV Guide, "Entertainment Tonight," Maxim, Vanity Fair, TV Tokyo and CBS-AM radio on subjects ranging from Japanese anime to Star Wars collectibles to Beanie Babies. It has been compiled into several collected volumes. Goldstein has been an editor and writer of the popular humor strip "Twisted ToyFare Theater," read by hundreds of thousands of fans from its inception in 1997 to its end in 2011 alongside that of its parent franchise, Toyfare Magazine. He conceptualized, launched and oversaw projects involving every aspect of youth entertainment, including the publications Anime Insider, Toy Wishes, ToyFare, Toons, Sci-Fi Invasion, and numerous custom publishing works on Hollywood films and entertainment properties. ![]() Goldstein wore many hats at his 13 years at Wizard Entertainment, including Editor, Senior Editor and VP of Special Projects. Goldstein was also writer and associate producer on Robot Chicken's predecessor Sweet J Presents, a series of 12 animated shorts which ran from 2001-2002 on Sony Entertainment's .īefore starting the show, Douglas Goldstein was a founding member of Wizard Entertainment Group, the leading collectibles and entertainment magazine publisher with over 3 million monthly readers worldwide. Along with his partners Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, and Tom Root, Goldstein skewers pop culture using stop-motion-animated action figures as its stars. Douglas "Doug" Goldstein (born September 12, 1971) is the co-head writer, co-director, and co-producer of Robot Chicken. ![]()
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