“Robot Chicken: Season 7″ retains the adult humor and continues the craziness and bold parodies that the series is known for. While there are some sketches that will appeal to many of the people who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, for the most part, if you are into over-the-top, adult humor, especially involving toys and claymation characters, you’ll love this latest season of “Robot Chicken”!
DVD TITLE: Robot Chicken: Season 7
DURATION: (Episodes 121-139) 220 Minutes
DVD INFORMATION: 4:3, Bilingual Japanese & English, Subtitles: English
COMPANY: Adult Swim
RATED: TV MA
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Directed by Zeb Wells
Written by Douglas Goldstein, Tom Root, Jordan Allen-Dutton, Zeb Wells, Matthew Ireland Beans, Rachel Bloom, Jason Reich, Mehar Sethi, Jessica Gao
Executive Producer: John Harvatine IV, Eric Towner
Co-Producer: Ethan Marak
Supervising Producer: Janet Dimon
Line Producer: Victoria L. Howard
Associate Producer: Nakia Trower
Music by Shawn Patterson
Cinematography by Helder Sun
Edited by Matt Mariska, Jenny McKibben
Casting by Ivy Isenberg
Art Direction by Trisha Gum
Featuring the voices of:
Seth Green
Breckin Meyer
Matthew Senreich
Dan Milano
Tom Root
Laurent Vernin
Seth MacFarlane
Jamie Kaler
Abraham Benrubi
Victor Yerrid
Adult Swim’s Emmy® Award-winning stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken returns on DVD with 20 all-new episodes from Season 7, including the now famous “Bitch Pudding Specialâ€. Packed with hours of bonus content, Robot Chicken Season 7 will include 20 commentaries from show creators and cast, deleted animatics, outtakes, interviews, behind the scenes, and more.
In 2005, actor Seth Green (“Buffy the Vampire Slayerâ€, “Austin Powers†films) and Matthew Senreich along with writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root went on to create “Robot Chickenâ€.
Back when “ToyFare†was published, the magazine writers Senreich, Goldstein and Root would feature a humorous photo comic-strip and sure enough along with Green, the guys would create a sketch comedy featuring parodies of popular American pop culture using toys via stop-motion or claymation. Inspired by a dish at Kung Pao Bistro, “Robot Chicken†was born and it would air on Carton Network’s “Adult Swim†in 2005.
The show has won an Annie Award including three Academy Awards and as the series will continue for another eighth season on Adult Swim, the seventh season of “Robot Chicken†has been released on DVD in July 2014.
And this time around, the crew bring in more celebrities for voicework but also a few female writers for a fun and crazy season!
For those not familiar with “Robot Chickenâ€, each episode is about eleven minutes long and features a number of stop-motion and claymation skits. The episodes are not for children as their is profanity and adult discussions on each episode.
For the seventh season, there are a total of 20 episodes:
1. Bitch Pudding Special
2. G.I. Jogurt
3. Link’s Sausages
4. Secret of the Booze
5. Rebel Appliance
6. Legion of Super-Gyros
7. El Skeletorio
8. Snarfer Image
9. Up, Up and Buffet
10. Panthropologie
11. Catdog on a Stick
12. Super Guitario Center
13. Noidstrom Rack
14. Stone Cold Steve Cold Stone
15. Walking Dead Lobster
16. The Hobbit: There and Bennigan’s
17. The Robot Chicken Lots of Holidays but Don’t Worry Christmas is Still in There Too so Pull the Stick Out of Your Ass Fox News Special
18. Batman Forever 21
19. Victoria’s Secret of Nimh
20. Chipotle Miserables
Plus the following specials “Bitch Pudding Special”, the 2013 Christmas special “Born Again Virgin Christmas Special” and the 2014 Christmas/New Year special “Lots of Holidays but Don’t Worry Christmas is Still in There Too so Pull the Stick Out of Your Ass Fox News Special”.
VIDEO & AUDIO:
“Robot Chicken: Season 7″ is presented in widescreen. While the series received an HD release last year, for the seventh season, the DVD releases is good as one can expect on DVD. The details can be seen on the toy and claymation figures but there are some jaggedness with animation and DNR is applied.
Dialogue is clear and understandable, while certain scenes with explosions have good dynamic range coming from the front channels. For the most part, the episodes are primarily front and center-channel driven.
Subtitles are in English SDH.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
“Robot Chicken: Season 7” comes with the following special features:
- Commentary – All episodes come with audio commentary.
- The Ones That Got Away – (6:07)Â A featurette about sketches that got cut.
- Beneath Harv’s Beard – (6:54) John Harvatine IV gets a shave after losing a bet.
- Favorites from the Room – (4:00) The creators discuss their favorite sketches.
- The Gummy Bear Challenge – (5:01) A few of the staff members take the gummy bear challenge.
- Born Again Virgin Christmas Special – (11:10) The 2013 “Robot Chicken” Christmas special
- Stoopid Buddy Stodios Takes San Diego Comic Con – (4:02) The crew visits San Diego Comic Con.
- Cut Sketches – (18:04) The crew discuss some of their cut sketches and feature the sketches (with voice acting).
- The Making of Bitch Pudding Special – (4:21) A special feature about the making of the Strawberry Shortcake sketch character and how the fan demanded more of Bitch Pudding.
As a fan of “Robot Chickenâ€, the comedy around stop motion and action figures/toys was a fascinating and hilarious concept when it was first conceived and still remains crazy, hilarious and fun today!
Sure, the comedy is mature and each episode is about 11 minutes long but part of the allure is how much stop-motion and the amount of creativity that goes into the making for each small stop-motion story in each episode.
I haven’t personally counted on how many stop-motion toy skits there are per episode but I can imagine that the serious takes a long time just to create but most importantly, the creativity that comes into writing for each episode and trying to emulate what is seen on the script and making it happen and believable with the action figures and toys.
But with the seventh season of “Robot Chickenâ€, it’s even more crazy and raunchy as ever (yes, I know I say this every year).
You can expect a good number of crazy episodes in season 7 as Cobra wants to outdo G.I. Joe when it comes to PSA’s, watch what happens when Punky Brewster become evil, the crew of the video game “Punch Out” visits Doc’s funeral, a Star Trek parody, many “Masters of the Universe” skits, Superman visiting Santa Claus and more!
This seventh season DVD set also features the return of Bitch Pudding, the mean Strawberry Shortcake sketch character in her own special. The DVD also includes the hilarious and crazy Christmas and New Years special titled “Robot Chicken: Lots of Holidays but Don’t Worry Christmas is Still in There Too so Pull the Stick Out of Your Ass Fox News Special”, with one of the craziest parody of “The Chipmunks” which always makes me laugh, each time I have watched it. And also, the inclusion of the 2013 special which was not included on the season six Blu-ray or DVD.
As for the DVD release, this is a jam-packed and fans should love it as their are many hours of special features. For one, each episode has audio commentary, then there are a number of hilarious featurettes included and also many deleted sketches and more.
Once again, this is a series not for children. So, just because there are toys in stopmotion and claymation, there is a lot of profanity and adult humor featured on each episode.
Overall, “Robot Chicken: Season 7″ retains the adult humor and continues the craziness and bold parodies that the series is known for. While there are some sketches that will appeal to many of the people who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, for the most part, if you are into over-the-top, adult humor, especially involving toys and claymation characters, you’ll love this latest season of “Robot Chicken”!
