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“Robot Chicken” is officially returning for its newest special “Robot Chicken: Self-Discovery Special” to celebrate its 20th anniversary. And of course, we’ve got all the details about when it hits TV screens.

When Seth Green and Matthew Senreich launched “Robot Chicken” on Adult Swim in 2005, it became an instant hit that fans stayed up late to watch. Between jokes targeting pop culture and Hollywood giants like Mario and Luigi and filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, “Robot Chicken” has stood the test of time as an adult animated classic.

“Robot Chicken” is executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. Green and Senreich also write, voice and direct the award-winning series. Stoopid Buddy Stoodios partners, John Harvatine IV and Eric Towner, also serve as executive producers.

Here’s everything you need to know about how, when and where to watch the new “Robot Chicken” special.

“Twenty years in, and they’re still surprising us. Join a more mature ‘Robot Chicken’ on a journey of introspection.”

That’s how Adult Swim and HBO Max are teasing their upcoming “Robot Chicken” Self-Discovery Special in honor of the animated adult stop-motion sketch comedy series’ 20th anniversary. To celebrate, co-creator and star Seth Green got introspective with TheWrap, discussing everything from the show’s celebrity guest stars to how the formation of Wbd impacted their output.

“The special came about because Discovery Media bought Warner Bros. and all its subsidiaries, which trickled all the way down to Adult Swim. So there was a shift — not just in the volume of global workforce that were employed, but also the priorities of any of these smaller subsidiaries at the behest of these much larger companies,” Green told TheWrap. “All that to say, no one was green-lighting a new season of 20 quarter-hours.

It's something of a miracle that "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" veteran Seth Green and Matthew Seinreich's animated TV series "Robot Chicken" is still going as of 2025. The show debuted in 2005, a time when a certain kind of aggressive "shock" humor was in vogue and a Gen-x-focused pop culture obsession was riding high in the American consciousness. Green and Seinreich often made use of toys and pop characters that came into vogue in the 1980s (who remembers the Peculiar Purple Pieman from "Strawberry Shortcake?"), likely hoping to inspire a spark of recognition in a very specific subset of their late-night audience. 

That "Robot Chicken" remains popular proves a new generation has become savvy to its sense of humor (either that or 50-year-old men are relentlessly devoted). Of course, if "Family Guy" can play a similar hand for 23 seasons, why can't "Robot Chicken?" Also, why is it called "Robot Chicken?" It's a sketch comedy show,...

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Robot Chicken, the stop-motion animated series is getting an all-new special. While the special is coming to Adult Swim in Summer 2025, the news was officially announced 20 years to the day after the series premiered its very first episode.

Robot Chicken first premiered on Adult Swim on Feb. 20, 2005. Created by and starring Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, the series has since earned 23 Emmy nominations with six total wins, including its most recent win in 2022 for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program. Teased to feature parodies of fan-favorite shows from Discovery, Food Network, and TLC, The Robot Chicken Self-Discovery Special, follows "the hapless Robot Chicken Nerd as he seeks self-discovery America’s way: going on reality shows! Will he find a 90 Day Fiancé – or end up Shark Week chum?"

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Adult Swim’s iconic stop-motion sketch comedy series Robot Chicken is marking its 20th anniversary with a new special set to air this summer.

The Robot Chicken Self-Discovery Special featuring parodies of fan-favorite series from Discovery, Food Network and TLC, “follows the hapless Robot Chicken Nerd as he seeks self-discovery America’s way: going on reality shows! Will he find a 90 Day Fiancé – or end up Shark Week chum?”

First premiering February 20, 2005, the acclaimed series created by and starring Seth Green and Matthew Senreich has gone on to earn 23 Emmy nominations and six wins, the most recent in 2022 for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program.

“20 years ago, we set out to make the kind of funny and unexpected show that we’d want to watch. And somehow, we’re still here, making sketch comedy with toys and making each other laugh,” said Green and Senreich. “As always, the fans are the true wind beneath our wings,...

Exclusive: Syfy continues the rapid slate expansion of its Tzgz weekly late-night animation block with one more series orders and three pilot greenlights.

Tzgz is going two-for-two with with its first internally developed animated pilots ordered in January, the 15-minute Wild Life and Devil May Care. Syfy has given a seven-episode series pickup to Devil May Care, starring Alan Tudyk (SyFy’s Resident Alien) and Asif Ali (BoJack Horseman). It follows the six-episode series order for Wild Life in April.

The newly greenlighted 15-minute Tzgz pilots are The Chronicles of Frank, From ShadowMachine, The Black Hole from Starburns Industries, and The Pole, from Yeti Farm Creative,

Airing on Syfy every Saturday at midnight-ish, Tzgz is a 90-minute block of adult comedic, animated, genre-based programming of varying lengths. Since its November 2019 debut, Tzgz has grown...