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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').

#Mad for chicken on christmas series#

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.

Production history Matthew Senreich Seth Green Robot Chicken has won two Annie Awards and six Emmy Awards.

Senreich, Douglas Goldstein, and Tom Root were formerly writers for the popular action figure hobbyist magazine ToyFare. The writers, most prominently Green, also provide many of the voices. Robot Chicken is an American adult stop motion-animated sketch comedy television series created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim.