The first season of the stop-motion television series Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. Green provides many voices for the show...

 originally aired in the United States

United States

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 on Cartoon Network's

Cartoon Network

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 late night programing block, Adult Swim

Adult Swim

Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...

. Season one officially began on February 20, 2005 on Adult Swim, with "Junk in the Trunk", and ended with "The Black Cherry" on July 18, 2005, with a total of twenty episodes.

The first season was released on the Season One DVD

DVD

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 on March 28, 2006 in Region 1, September 29, 2008 in Region 2 and April 4, 2007 in Region 4.

Overview

The first season of Robot Chicken includes many TV, movie, TV commercial, and pop culture parodies and non-sequitur blackouts, all acted out by dolls and action figures, including parodies like Rachael Leigh Cook smashing more than eggs in her latest This Is Your Brain on Drugs public service announcement, Walt Disney's severed head with its giant robotic spider-body attacking Cuba, the animals Noah left behind trying to survive the flood in their very own ark, America sending Harrison Ford and Aerosmith into space to take out a killer asteroid, the world's most diabolical supervillains getting stuck in traffic, the Teen Titans strengthening their roster by adding Beavis and Butt-head, a teenage girl getting a fashion makeover in "Pimp My Sister," icons from Star Trek and Tiger Beat alike uniting for canned sitcom laughs in "Two Kirks, a Khan and a Pizza Place," the last surviving member of 'N Sync, Joey Fatone, having to avenge his murdered bandmates in a deadly martial arts tournament in "Enter the Fat One," the Masters of the Universe being rocked by a Paris Hilton-style sex tape, William Shatner's toupee having adventures the action star can only dream of, a man in a public restroom encountering the terror known as "Dumplestiltskin," the world's most famous monkey bursting loose on Skull Island in "Ding Dong, King Kong," Sailor Moon encountering a bone-chilling villain, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen uniting to fight a rampaging dragon, "Jaws" getting a special edition DVD, a man running away from an Oriental masseuse looking for a "happy ending," Alien vs. Predator on the battleground of love in a special episode of "First Date," a crime-fighting monkey saving monkeys from a monkey supervillain, and the laughter being canned for the sketch comedy show "You Can't Do That on Robot Chicken."

Guest stars

Many celebrities have guest starred in Robot Chicken season one. They include Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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, Mila Kunis

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, Joey Fatone

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, Rachael Leigh Cook

Rachael Leigh Cook

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, Scarlett Johansson

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, Conan O Brian, Ryan Seacrest

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, Mark Hamill

Mark Hamill

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, Christian Slater

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, Phyllis Diller

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, Corey Haim

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, Corey Feldman

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, Macauley Culkin, Jamie Kaler

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, Abraham Benrubi

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, Donald Faison

Donald Faison

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, Dax Shepard

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, Kurtwood Smith

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, Matthew Lillard

Matthew Lillard

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, Danny Masterson

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, Ashton Kutcher

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, Debra Jo Rupp

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, Topher Grace

Topher Grace

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, Burt Reynolds

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, Wilmer Valderrama

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, Dom DeLuise

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, Mark Hamill

Mark Hamill

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, Mike Henry, Erika Christensen

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, Rory Thost

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, Alex Borstein

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, Lance Bass

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, Pat Morita

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, Phil LaMarr

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, Ginnifer Goodwin, Ming-Na

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, Amy Smart

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, Freddie Prinze Jr., Don Knotts

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, Dave Coulier

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, Melissa Joan Hart

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, Linda Cardellini

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, Kelly Hu

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, Stuart Townsend

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, Scott Adsit

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, Dean Cain

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 and Jon Heder

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Episodes

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DVD Release

Title	Release date			Episodes
	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
"Season One"	March 28, 2006	September 29, 2008	April 4, 2007	1–20
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