#Mario voice actor robot chicken series#

The program aired a 30-minute episode dedicated to Star Wars which premiered June 17, 2007, in the US, featuring the voices of Star Wars notables George Lucas, Mark Hamill (from a previous episode), Billy Dee Williams, and Ahmed Best. One particular motif involves the idea of fantastical characters being placed in a more realistic world or situation (such as Stretch Armstrong requiring a corn syrup transplant after losing his abilities because of aging, Optimus Prime performing a prostate cancer PSA for the humans, and Godzilla having problems in the bedroom). The show's creators were inspired by works such as Monty Python's Flying Circus, Pee-wee's Playhouse and The Kentucky Fried Movie. It employs stop-motion animation of toys, action figures, claymation, and various other objects, such as tongue depressors, The Game of Life pegs, and popsicle sticks. 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. The show was created, written, and produced by Green and 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).

#Mario voice actor robot chicken series#

On February 20, 2005, the series premiered on Adult Swim. However, someone at that network passed the pitch along to its nighttime programming block, Adult Swim, around the same time that Seth MacFarlane (various voices, 2005–present) told Green and Senreich to pitch the show to the channel.

(Other ideas for the series' name included Junk in the Trunk, The Deep End, and Toyz in the Attic some of these would be reworked into episode titles for the first season.) Some television networks and sketch shows rejected the series, including Comedy Central, MADtv, Saturday Night Live, and even Cartoon Network. Ĭontinuing the concept of the web series, the show creators pitched Robot Chicken as a television series, the name being inspired by a dish on the menu at a West Hollywood Chinese restaurant, Kung Pao Bistro, where Green and Senreich had dined. Conan O'Brien is voiced by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane in the first episode ('Conan's Big Fun'). This led to the 12-episode stop-motion series Sweet J Presents on the Sony website in 2001. Months later, Green asked Senreich to collaborate on an animated short for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, featuring toy versions of himself and O'Brien. Matthew Senreich, an editor for ToyFare, got in touch with actor Seth Green when the former learned that the latter had made action figures of castmates from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and asked to photograph them. Robot Chicken was conceptually preceded by ' Twisted ToyFare Theatre', a humorous photo comic strip appearing in ToyFare: The Toy Magazine.