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If you’re a grown adult with an insatiable desire for fart jokes, sex jokes, or puns about farts and sex, then Robot Chicken: Season 6 has you covered. However, if you’re looking for something more this time around, don’t get me wrong. The animated sketch comedy show’s sixth season has some moments of that familiar comedic genius—gold nuggets of funny lodged deep within the nasal passages of Seth Green and Matthew Senreich. You just need to dig around to find them.
Root through a fair amount of sketches in this animated pop culture show, and you’ll find that most sketches use an ‘80s or early-‘90s reference that ends more often than not with an homage to masturbation, sex, or Scorsese-style death scenes. All of them are then saturated with a startling amount of dark humor that borders on unnerving at times. It’s not that these sketches are all bad. I enjoy a good Dark Crystal bit alongside a snarky Oscar the Grouch number before finishing up with a witty take on She-Ra and Spirit. But the layout for many sketches becomes routine, and there are few that poke fun at any current culture (although there is a Walking Dead bit that comes to mind). Watching the show in smaller segments, you probably won’t notice or care. But for marathon viewings (which I tend to do with a series), it feels like we’ve lost a bit of what has always made Robot Chicken an entertaining yet evocative statement about popular culture—from not only days past but also the present.
But don’t despair. The voice work is a treat as always, and the celebrity guests continue to deliver as well. (I’ll never get tired of raunchy dialogue with Sir Patrick Stewart.) And for the diehard fan, the Blu-ray release also includes plenty of extra footage to keep you entertained afterwards, including behind-the-scenes footage and outtakes.
Overall, Robot Chicken: Season 6 delivers an abundance of ‘80s pop culture that holds tight to its tried-and-true methods of entertainment that will at times surprise you with viscid gobs of fresh and clever absurdity.
