Signs the World IS Coming to an End in 2012

[meepmuppaphones]

Well, Robot Chicken made fun of the Muppets in a... worse... way? I guess? Ok, I'm coming off looking like a hypocrite... I rarely watched MAD, so yeah...

 

[D'Snowth]

Well, Robot Chicken made fun of the Muppets in a... worse... way? I guess?

All of these adult cartoons have made fun of the Muppets in bad ways for years.

 

[CensoredAlso]

All of these adult cartoons have made fun of the Muppets in bad ways for years.

They make fun of everybody, it's a compliment, lol.

 

[Drtooth]

All of these adult cartoons have made fun of the Muppets in bad ways for years.

The worst thing I've ever seen was probably the Fraggle Rock Robot Chicken sketch... and that was a quality thing. It could have been better if they did more research and didn't throw in the gratuitous sex joke at the end. BUT they did get Doc and Uncle Matt down perfectly. In fact, take the Uncle Matt postcard thing out and leave it on its own, it was ingenious.

But Mad's Muppet parody, Ribbetless (parody of the movie Limitless, replacing butterflies with drugs) was one of the best parodies I've seen on the show. In fact, Fozzie's dialogue was perfectly genuine, and they even referenced Zoot's show ending flat notes, with Alfred E. Neuman in his place.

Still, the thing is, the Muppets are getting talked about on national television. For the longest time, that was the only way we'd see them... through Robot Chicken sketches and Family Guy cut scenes.

 

[CensoredAlso]

The worst thing I've ever seen was probably the Fraggle Rock Robot Chicken sketch... and that was a quality thing. It could have been better if they did more research and didn't throw in the gratuitous sex joke at the end. BUT they did get Doc and Uncle Matt down perfectly. In fact, take the Uncle Matt postcard thing out and leave it on its own, it was ingenious.

I agree, the one funny joke was Uncle Matt's postcard, lol. Other than that it was just obvious they weren't that familiar with the show.

 

[Drtooth]

I agree, the one funny joke was Uncle Matt's postcard, lol. Other than that it was just obvious they weren't that familiar with the show.

I still think it should have ended with Wembley saying... "uh... how do we do it again?" Still, it's basically an unfamiliarity with any character besides Doc and Uncle Matt that ruined the sketch. I know what it was going for, though I don't know if it was slightly more accurate to Watership Down than Fraggles.

But that's the crapshoot with Robot Chicken. You either get a wonderfully, dementedly brilliant sketch like Captain Planet (look it up it's officially posted).... I mean, that was just wonderfully done.

Or you get 1980's cartoon character doing drugs/drinking/sex/ lame cheap jokes like that.

With Mad, you get consistency... it's been solidly getting better in its second season with better animation. Plus, when it parodies something, it goes for parodying the substance. There's a whole lot of sketches I could recommend... Gordon Ramsy's Kitchen Nightmare before Christmas (done in stop motion), The Cowboys and Aliens parody... Money Ball Z...