Robot Chicken season 1

Robot Chicken (season 1)
Season 1
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No. of episodes	20
Release
Original network	Adult Swim
Original release	February 20 – July 18, 2005
Season chronology

The first season of the stop-motion television series Robot Chicken originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. Season one officially began on February 20, 2005 on Adult Swim, with "Junk in the Trunk", and ended with "The Black Cherry" on July 18, 2005, with a total of twenty episodes.

Many of the episode names in this season ("Junk in the Trunk", "Nightmare Generator", etc.) were rejected titles previously considered for the show before settling with the current title.

The first season was released on the Season One DVD on March 28, 2006 in Region 1, September 29, 2008 in Region 2 and April 4, 2007 in Region 4.

Overview

The first season of Robot Chicken includes many TV, movie, TV commercial, and pop culture parodies and non-sequitur blackouts, all acted out by dolls and action figures, including parodies like Rachael Leigh Cook smashing more than eggs in her latest This Is Your Brain on Drugs public service announcement, Walt Disney's severed head with its giant robotic spider-body attacking Cuba, the animals Noah left behind trying to survive the flood in their very own ark, America sending Harrison Ford and Aerosmith into space to take out a killer asteroid, the world's most diabolical supervillains getting stuck in traffic, the Teen Titans strengthening their roster by adding Beavis and Butt-head, a teenage girl getting a fashion makeover in "Pimp My Sister," icons from Star Trek and Tiger Beat alike uniting for canned sitcom laughs in "Two Kirks, a Khan and a Pizza Place," the last surviving member of 'N Sync, Joey Fatone, having to avenge his murdered bandmates in a deadly martial arts tournament in "Enter the Fat One," the Masters of the Universe being rocked by a Paris Hilton-style sex tape, William Shatner's toupee having adventures the action star can only dream of, a man in a public restroom encountering the terror known as "Dumplestiltskin," the world's most famous monkey bursting loose on Skull Island in "Ding Dong, King Kong," Sailor Moon encountering a bone-chilling villain, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen uniting to fight a rampaging dragon, JAWS getting a special edition DVD, a man running away from an Oriental masseuse looking for a "happy ending," Alien vs. Predator on the battleground of love in a special episode of "First Date," a crime-fighting monkey saving monkeys from a monkey supervillain, and the laughter being canned for the sketch comedy show "You Can't Do That on Robot Chicken."

Guest stars

Many celebrities have guest starred in Robot Chicken season one. They include Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mila Kunis, Joey Fatone, Rachael Leigh Cook, Scarlett Johansson, Conan O'Brien, Ryan Seacrest, Mark Hamill, Christian Slater, Phyllis Diller, Macaulay Culkin, Jamie Kaler, Abraham Benrubi, Donald Faison, Dax Shepard, Kurtwood Smith, Matthew Lillard, Danny Masterson, Ashton Kutcher, Debra Jo Rupp, Topher Grace, Burt Reynolds, Wilmer Valderrama, Dom DeLuise, Mike Henry, Erika Christensen, Rory Thost, Alex Borstein, Lance Bass, Pat Morita, Phil LaMarr, Ginnifer Goodwin, Ming-Na, Amy Smart, Freddie Prinze Jr., Don Knotts, Dave Coulier, Melissa Joan Hart, Linda Cardellini, Kelly Hu, Stuart Townsend, Scott Adsit, Dean Cain and Jon Heder.

Episodes

See also: List of Robot Chicken episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
1	1	"Junk in the Trunk"	Matthew Senreich	Seth Green, Pat McCallum, & Matthew Senreich	February 20, 2005 (2005-02-20)	102
2	2	"Nutcracker Sweet"	Doug Goldstein	Seth Green, Matthew Senreich & Mike Fasolo	February 27, 2005 (2005-02-27)	105
3	3	"Gold Dust Gasoline"	Tom Root	Seth Green, Matthew Senreich & Mike Fasolo	March 6, 2005 (2005-03-06)	106
4	4	"Plastic Buffet"	Tom Root	Seth Green, Matthew Senreich & Mike Fasolo	March 13, 2005 (2005-03-13)	108
5	5	"Toyz in the Hood"	Matthew Senreich	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, Pat McCallum, & Matthew Senreich	March 20, 2005 (2005-03-20)	110
6	6	"Vegetable Funfest"	Doug Goldstein	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, & Matthew Senreich	March 27, 2005 (2005-03-27)	111
7	7	"A Piece of the Action"	Seth Green	Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, & Mike Fasolo	April 3, 2005 (2005-04-03)	109
8	8	"The Deep End"	Seth Green	Seth Green, Pat McCallum, & Matthew Senreich	April 10, 2005 (2005-04-10)	101
9	9	"S&M Present"	Tom Root	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, Pat McCallum, & Matthew Senreich	April 17, 2005 (2005-04-17)	112
10	10	"Badunkadunk"	Seth Green	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, & Matthew Senreich	April 24, 2005 (2005-04-24)	113
11	11	"Toy Meets Girl"	Matthew Senreich	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, Pat McCallum, & Matthew Senreich	May 1, 2005 (2005-05-01)	114
12	12	"Midnight Snack"	Seth Green	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, & Matthew Senreich	May 15, 2005 (2005-05-15)	115
13	13	"Atta Toy"	Tom Root	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, & Matthew Senreich	May 22, 2005 (2005-05-22)	116
14	14	"Joint Point"	Doug Goldstein	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, & Matthew Senreich	June 5, 2005 (2005-06-05)	117
15	15	"Kiddie Pool"	Doug Goldstein	Seth Green, Matthew Senreich & Mike Fasolo	June 12, 2005 (2005-06-12)	107
16	16	"Nightmare Generator"	Matthew Senreich	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, Pat McCallum, & Matthew Senreich	June 19, 2005 (2005-06-19)	103
17	17	"Operation: Rich in Spirit"	Seth Green	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, & Matthew Senreich	June 26, 2005 (2005-06-26)	118
18	18	"The Sack"	Matthew Senreich	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, Pat McCallum, & Matthew Senreich	July 3, 2005 (2005-07-03)	104
18A	18A	"Adultizzle Swizzle"	Matthew Senreich	Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, Mike Fasolo & Pat McCallum	May 16, 2008 (2008-05-16)	104A
19	19	"That Hurts Me"	Matthew Senreich	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, & Matthew Senreich	July 10, 2005 (2005-07-10)	119
20	20	"The Black Cherry"	Doug Goldstein	Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, & Matthew Senreich	July 18, 2005 (2005-07-18)	120

DVD Release

Title	Release date			Episodes
	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
"Season One: Uncensored"	March 28, 2006	September 29, 2008	April 4, 2007	1–20
This two disc boxset includes all 20 episodes from Season 1 in production order. While it contains many sketches that were edited from the TV airings, several of the original Sony Screenblast webtoons, and the words "Jesus" and "Christ" as an oath unbleeped (though "fuck" and "shit" are still censored out), the episodes are not all uncut. One particular segment that featured the Teen Titans meeting Beavis and Butt-head was omitted from the DVD because of legal problems (the version shown on Hulu Plus has the sketch). The Voltron/"You Got Served" sketch shown on the DVD has a replacement song because of legal issues over the song that was used on the TV (the Hulu Plus version has the original song). At a performance of Family Guy Live in Chicago, during the Q&A session that ends each performance, Seth Green was asked how they came up with the name Robot Chicken. He explained that the title of each episode was a name Adult Swim rejected for the name of the show. A Region 2 version of the set was released in the UK on September 29, 2008.