this show have no plot line outside of a mad scientist who force a home make robotic chicken to watch random tv clip . it all do in stop motion animation and use popular cartoon character and toy from the late seventy and early eighty . the skit could be anything from a parody of a movie or tv show and a fake commercial and or just random event ( presumably tv show a the robot chicken be be force to view a multitude of tv screen at the opening of every episode ) . the humor be often dark and deal with subject like psychosis and murder and terminal illness and abuse and rape and the awkwardness of adolescence and and violence in general and but the writer be not above make light of even that . one memorable skit involve the three possible ending to a story in which an abusive husband murder his wife a his son and the tooth fairy listen in from the child bedroom and at the end of which a parade of character come into the boy room with banner proclaim and celebrate it a the dark sketch in television history . while the humor be definitely not clean in nature and it appeal to older adolescent and adult and particularly those who grow up with the toy and cartoon they most often utilize in the show ( transformer and thundercats and rainbow bright and smurfs and scooby doo and gi joe and etc . ) .