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George Lucas & Seth Green Collaborate On Adult Swim's ROBOT CHICKEN: STAR WARS!!
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Actor-writer-director Seth Green has concocted “Robot Chicken: Star Wars,” a 30-minute stop-motion animated Cartoon Network special which mocks scenes from the movie franchise.
Green made it in collaboration with LucasFilm.
He got George Lucas to play himself and Mark Hamill to play Luke Skywalker.
It premieres June 17 at 10 p.m.
Others lending their voices to the project include Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, Malcolm McDowell, Hulk Hogan, James Van Der Beek, Donald Faison, Abraham Benrubi and Joey Fatone.
Learn how Green and Lucas got together here.
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Robot Chick is funny as heck on a pogo-stick. George can smell the cash from this one.
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Love him or hate him, he's a good sport.
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but having Hulk Hulgan voice a character in a Star Wars spoof - and Joey Fatone might sell it for me.
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that this will be funny, but the fact that Lucas is involved makes me wary. Everything he touches turns to shit... and stuff that was shitty to begin with become even shittier.
Shitty. -
yawnnnnnn
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...Robot Chicken is one of the most hilarious things on the tube these days and in ages, and some of the SW-related stuff they've already done (one of which has already featured Mark Hamill as Luke - small low quality clip here http://you tube.com/watch?v=fVFI_Ra68F0)has been great if not brilliant, so i'm gonna break away from norm and say that this has high potential to turn out Fantastic...
check http://you tube.com/watch?v=rfP90uJ12eQ for another one -
Dude if you ever saw that piece which was from Palpatine's perspective post the destruction of the first death star... hilarious!! Seth and Co definitely has the potential to create something truly outrageous with this property, but damn only 1/2 an hour? That's gonna suck. One hour would be perfect. And I end it with this "Barrywhitus, Candleitus, girlexcitus" (meaning? Next should be a harry potter parody).
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Some of the best Robot Chicken material is when they spoof Star Wars scenes.
Who's they?? WHAT THE HELL IS AN ALUMINUM FALCON!!?!? -
Robot chicken is shit. Its just in joke after in joke. The writers try so hard to appear pop culture savy that they forget to be funny.
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That is it's very hit and miss. Throw everything at the wall and see what sticks and I'd say a lot of it is pretty damn funny. Optimist Prime prostate exam? Most lobsided fights? Wonderfully funny stuff. And can't complain about it only being 30 minutes considering that the show's only usually 12-13 minutes long normally.
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Lucas may get some points for this.
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...Or is it all previously aired skits spliced together? RC has done more than a few SW-related skits, and I'm betting that there may only be one or two new snippets thrown into a compilation. It's still a great idea, and I bet a DVD would sell better than any fanboy-made short film.
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I'm so proud to live in the same city as Adult Swim and work 10 minutes from them. I shall salute them as I leave work tonight. Seth Green can do no wrong in my eyes right now.
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I can't wait.
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And Still have room for a miniseries. You Could do an entire episode based on "Nooooooooooooooo!!" Alone. For the love of God....
"Execute Order 66." "Now, we KNOW Jedi have demonstrated a Spidey sense that can anticipate enemy ambush at close range, but let's ignore that for the Ep. III purge, and the scene where Palps can kill 3 Jedi council members in less than 15 seconds..." -
...tucked somewhere beneath that enormous chin? Who knew?I agree that Robot Chicken is hit or miss, very much like Family Guy or South Park (more like the former, actually). And, when it's "on" it's very much worth the investment of 15 minutes.The Peanuts Halloween parody ruled...as did the supervillain carpool and the Cannonball Run sketches.
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Seriously, it seems like every episode of Robot Chicken is a who's who of hollywood celebrities providing voices.
After the first season of Robot Chicken, I thought it would be too witty and never catch - great to see that it did. One of the funniest shows on TV.
Robot chicken works best in short 5 sec to 2 min shorts, will 30 mins of all one skit work?
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ROBOT CHICKEN deserves much love, if only for the "Enter the Fat One" sketch with Pat Fuckin' Morita.
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Adam and Joe did it. Their Star Wars / TV parodies were hilarious. Of course, most of them reference very British TV shows. But along with their Toy Movie parodies - they have much higher hit rate than Seth and Co.
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"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering... BROTHER!!!"
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"Woah, woah, woah. Slow down. What do you mean they blew up the death star? Awwww ***k! ***K *******K!! Who's 'they?' What the hell is an alluminum falcon? Ahhhhhh..okay, so who's left? Are you sh**ing me?!?! Well, where are you??? You've been flying around for two weeks trying to get a signal?? Eww, you must smell like...feet wrapped in leathery burnt bacon! Oh, oohh, excuse me, I just thought my 'Dark Lord of the Sith' could defend a thermal exhaust port thats only two meters wide! The thing wasn't even paid off yet!!! Do you have any idea what this is going to do to my credit?"
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And I know it probably won't all be Jar Jar Jokes.
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This is going to be the best 30 min of crappy stop motion ever!
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WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN THE SITH AND THIS 24 INCH LIGHTSABER COME AFTER YOU, BROTHER!!
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I find your lack of faith disturbing, brother!!
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Reaganomics!
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Laughed so much it actually hurt.
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does that make me gay?
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if you hadn't got it by now, there ya go :)
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Kinda like how that Doctor Who gag probably flew over most people's radar. The 4th Doctor, standing on the baseball diamond, asking "Who's on First?". I still say the Lindsey Lohan/Highlander skit was probably the best one so far...with the Palpatine one coming in second.
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The Doctor (Who) didn't ask "who's on first". He was just standing on the base for a few seconds and then asked "ya get it?". My bad. Clever though.
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Oh, just build another one. Do you know how much that thing cost?
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If this has the same kind of thought and creativity as the Palpatine/Vader sketch then it'll be 30mins of solid gold!
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We can only hope....
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I'm anxious to see this. One of my favorite Robot Chicken/Star Wars sketches has gotta be this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfP90uJ12eQ
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