ROBOT CHICKEN
Adult Swim · Aug. 31 · 11:30 PM · Number of episodes: 6
The Scoop
As the Adult Swim series returns, exec producer Seth Green and his merry
band of stop-motion pranksters turn their attention to a show just
begging to be parodied: Fox's 24. ''We had a hard time trying to find our
way into [spoofing] it because it's so outrageous,'' says Green. Their
solution? ''We made Jack Bauer [into] Dracula to see how that altered the
dynamic of him interrogating people. For half the day, he's in a
coffin.'' While Kiefer Sutherland didn't get to lend his pipes for the
show, another late-'80s sensation did. ''Oh, my gosh, man, we got Sir
Mix-A-Lot to do a Knights of the Round Table sketch,'' says Green
excitedly. ''We wrote the rap for him, and then he added his own
flourishes to make it his own.... I mean, we try to rap and sing on the
show, and we're terrible performers in that capacity. So every once in a
while it's nice to get a professional to show you just why they get paid
to do that for a living.''
Screech, Meet Jigsaw
''We have a really great Saved by the Bell sketch coming up,'' raves
Green, ''if you can imagine Saved by the Bell crossed with Saw. The
greatest thing is, this is the first unofficial Saved by the Bell reunion. We got Mario Lopez, Lark Voorhies, Dustin Diamond, Mark-Paul
Gosselaar, and Mr. Belding, Dennis Haskins — who was pretty f---ing
awesome, by the way.'' Well, of course he was. —Adam B. Vary
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