Robot Chicken
On Adult Swim, there is a stop-motion comedy series called Robot Chicken. Various pop culture subjects, including superheroes, Star Wars, 90s cartoons, current trends, and whatever else they can get their hands on, are parodied in a variety of skits on the show. They convey their stories with a variety of mediums, including board game components, clay, action figures, and even reoccurring doodles from the program. Whether you enjoy or detest popular culture, this program will make you laugh with its surprising, absurdist comedy and its parodies.
Happy Tree Friends
This program appears to be geared for children; in fact, there are parent forums where parents voice their concerns about the violence in the program. The Mondo Media-produced online series has a fervent cult following. It features adorable woodland creatures that play and picnic in the trees, but also get hit by vehicles and rip one other’s innards out. This program depends on the very human “can’t look away” reaction and the humorous attraction of witnessing an adorable cartoon rabbit abruptly mutilated. Watch this show if you like to witness adorable creatures die in unique ways.
The Ricky Gervais Show
This one is a little different since it’s more of a conversation show that happens to be animated than it is a program with a story. The Ricky Gervais Show, a recurring animated talk show on HBO, features Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interviewing their friend Karl Pilkington, a fictional village idiot who has irrational theories and irritated observations about all the innovations and subjects (such as new inventions and evolution) that they bring up. (Karl could be a familiar name from An Idiot Abroad.) You’ll enjoy this program if you’re the sort of person who goes through Facebook comments to find all the ridiculous stuff people post.
