Like most sketch comedy shows, Robot Chicken is a tightly packed series of skits that occasionally overlap, but are mostly standalone. At the front-end of each episode’s 11-minute runtime, the premise is set up through the eyes of the titular robot chicken, who was once roadkill before being brought back to life by a mad scientists who wants to perform experiments on him.
Saturday Night Live and Madtv kick off with a roll call, talk about the upcoming musical guests and hosts, and the live studio audience straps in for as many laughs-per-minute as the writers can jam into each segment.
Robot Chicken, on the other hand, bombards its viewers with skits that are seemingly playing in tandem on a wall of televisions that the chicken from the opening sequence is strapped in front of like Alex from A Clockwork Orange. When the chicken changes its point of focus, so do the skits, as if you’re being brainwashed along with the poor animal who only exists to function as a frame setup for the multiple narratives that are about to assault you.
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