Robot Chicken is officially one year from legal drinking age (not that that’s ever stopped it). The Seth Green stop-motion show ran its first episode on Adult Swim February 20, 2005, making it twenty years old. It quickly became one of AS’s flagship programs, earning 23 Emmy nominations over the decades, and winning six of them.
Its actual birthday celebration is going to be a bit belated, though. You’ll have to wait until summer for the very meta, very cross-promotional Robot Chicken Self-Discovery Special. The plot connecting the skits this time is that the RC “Nerd” character is going on a journey that takes him through the finest television Emperor Zaslav has to offer. “Will he find a 90 Day Fiancé – or end up Shark Week chum? With parodies of fan-favorite series from Discovery, Food Network, and TLC, the new special arrives on Adult Swim this summer.”
“Robot Chicken has been pushing the boundaries of comedy and animation for 20 years, and we couldn’t be more excited to celebrate this milestone with our incredible fans,” said Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen. “From the very first stop-motion sketch to the upcoming special, the show’s relentless creativity and sharp satire continue to set it apart. This new special is packed with the kind of wild, irreverent fun that only Robot Chicken can deliver.”
If you think it’s been a while since the last new Robot Chicken, you’re not wrong. There hasn’t been a regular season since 2022. And with only this special announced as new content, it looks like that won’t change in 2025. We’d like to be wrong but…it’s a brave new post-cable low-budget world.
What Adult Swim CAN do is marathon the existing episodes in celebration, which they’ve been doing five nights a week throughout the month of February. A late-night double episode serving airs Monday through Thursday beginning at 12:30 AM ET/PT, and selected Robot Chicken specials air late night Sundays at 1 AM ET/PT.
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