TV: Robot Chicken – DC Comics Special

Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special (2012) – In just 22 minutes, it manages to be laugh-out-loud funny several times, and it does enough hand-holding (in a sufficiently amusing way) that even those who aren’t super familiar with the broader DC universe ought to enjoy it. 7

TV: Robot Chicken - Season Five

Robot Chicken (Season Five) – The bottom line, I suppose, is that I was entertained, although the show is getting low on funny jokes (and whenever that happens, they lean extra-hard on crudity, gay jokes, and over-the-top violence); there’s some good stuff  here, but the proportion of sketches that don’t involve somebody dying horribly is at an all-time low. 6

TV: Robot Chicken - Star Wars Episode III

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III (2010) – It’s amusing, if rarely funny; it feels pretty scattershot and lacks much of the cleverness of the first two; on the whole, it’s something of a disappointment. 6

TV: Robot Chicken - Star Wars Episode II

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II (2008) – It takes a somewhat more esoteric approach than its predecessor, and it mostly works, although it’s more clever than it is laugh-out-loud funny. 7