Ashley Tisdale | Robot Chicken

• Genre: Sketch comedy, Dark comedy, Satire
• Created by: Seth Green, Matthew Senreich
• Based on: ToyFare
• Directed by: Matthew Senreich, Doug Goldstein, Tom Root, Seth Green, Chris McKay, Zeb Wells, Tom Sheppard
• No. of seasons: 11
• No. of episodes: 220 (and 11 specials)
• Running time: 11 minutes
• Original network: Adult Swim
• Original release: February 20, 2005 – present

Pop culture references fly thick and fast as stop-motion animation is featured in sketches lampooning everything from television movies to comic books.

"Snarfer Image"

Voltron's transformation includes a suggestive new addition; a classroom sketch about a teacher who wants to put some realism into what black slavery was like is based on what one of the writers went through in the fifth grade; Superman's Earth father gets humiliated during a tornado; Bones gives the original Star Trek crew prostate exams; what if Sylvia Plath botched her suicide after writing The Bell Jar; why giraffes are hard to execute by hanging; a Pacific Rim parody that shows why linked memories aren't always good; a prequel to the "Failed Giraffe Hanging" sketch; scientists discover a polar bear that has bipolar disorder, lives in Arctic and Antarctic regions, and is bisexual; it's Looper meets Looney Tunes when Elmer Fudd uses time travel to get past TV censorship rules over him having a gun; a kid outs his father's murder plan when he puts a therapy tape into his Teddy Ruxpin; a couple can't decide which famous fictional orphan (Annie, Harry Potter, Pippi Longstocking, Oliver Twist, and Bruce Wayne) to adopt, as they're all terrible; and Skeletor goes back in time to kill He-Man's mother.