Warner Home Video announced today that Robot Chicken Vol. 1 will be available on home video on March 28. The two-disc set will contain 20 15-minute episodes of the irreverent stop-motion parody series created by Seth Green and Matt Senreich. Now in its second season, the show debuted last winter and proved an instant hit on Cartoon Network’s late-night block, [adult swim].
Robot Chicken features action figures and other toys brought to life a frame at a time to poke fun at pop culture staples. Celebrity guests who lent their voices to season one installments include Scarlett Johansson, Burt Reynolds, Ryan Seacrest, Mark Hamill, Seth McFarlane and Macauley Culkin. Co-creator Seth Green, who provides the voice of Chris Griffin on FOX’s Family Guy, also voices characters in these short comedy vignettes.
Robot Chicken‘s stop-motion animation is directed by Seamus Walsh, Mark Caballero and Chris Finnegan of Screen Novelties in Los Angeles. The show, which draws an average of nearly a million viewers each week, airs regularly on Sundays and Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT on Cartoon Network.
In addition to the season one episodes, the DVD release will feature never-before-seen bonus materials including deleted scenes, animation meetings, FX/wire-to-episode comparisons, alternate audio takes, deleted animatics, a photo gallery and a pee gag reel. The Warner Home Video release will list for $29.98.
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