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Robot Chicken is a stop-motion sketch comedy show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. The series, co-created by Seth Green, features short stop-motion animated vignettes created with action figures, toys, and clay puppets of pop culture figures.
References to Peanuts
- In the episode "Vegetable Funfest", there is a segment called "The Time of the Great Pumpkin" that refers heavily to the Peanuts special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin makes an appearance after Linus summons him in a Satanic ritual, and eats many of the Peanuts characters. Charlie Brown manages to escape the Great Pumpkin and sees it destroyed by the Kite-Eating Tree. Meanwhile, those eaten are seen in Hell, literally dancing with the Devil (Sally is not eaten, but buried alive in Linus' grave because she refuses to leave him). This segment also depicts Peppermint Patty and Marcie as a lesbian couple, and Charlie Brown as kicking Lucy instead of falling for the old football gag, calling it revenge for "years of humiliation, b*tch!" He also complains that he can never understand the adults. In this segment, Rory Thost, who voiced Peppermint Patty in He's a Bully, Charlie Brown, voices Charlie Brown and Linus.
- In the episode "1987", the segment "Snoopy's Back Problem" features Snoopy going to the doctor with a stiff back, and the doctor asks, what he has been sleeping on, a reference to how he sleeps on top of his doghouse.
- In "Robot Chicken's Half-***ed Christmas Special", the segment "Misery, My Sweet Babboo" features Sally holding Linus hostage and forcing him to write her the love letter she always wanted. Sally kills Snoopy when he attempts to rescue Linus. In the end, Linus strangles Sally with his security blanket, choking her then kills her with a lamp. This segment also states that Charlie Brown has cancer and receives chemotherapy, a reference to a long-standing theory as to why he is bald.
- In "But Not In That Way", the segment "Geography Day" shows different Peanuts characters getting assigned a different country. While Linus gets Italy and Lucy gets Russia, Charlie Brown sighs, "I got Iraq".
- In "Saving Private Gigli", the segment "Deaf Parents" features Charlie Brown and Lucy learning that all adults are deaf, which is why they never speak real words.
- In "Beastmaster & Commander", the segment "Ren McCormack" features Ren McCormack (a character from the movie Footloose, with Kevin Bacon reprising his role) deciding to join the Peanuts gang, and watches them dance the way they danced to "Linus and Lucy" in A Charlie Brown Christmas. He yells at them (especially Shermy) that they are simply repeating the same move over and over again. Ren then goes back to his own town because he is so fed up with them, only to find that while dancing is still allowed (since outlawing it is a flagrant First Amendment violation), Reverend Moore has gotten the school to reject the theory of evolution in favor of creationism, and a crudely-drawn World War I-era German biplane flies across the screen and shoots Ren. Meanwhile, Snoopy fantasizes about doing an 80s-style dance routine, in reference to It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown.
- Snoopy has also made an appearance in "The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking".
- In "Hey, I Found Another Sock", the segment "The Doctor Is In" features Lucy putting up a green cross sign on the front of her psychiatry booth in which she sells medical marijuana to the other kids.
- In "Mr. Mozzarella's Hamburger Skateboard Depot", the segment "Peanuts Allergy" features Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and Snoopy making an appearance after a teacher asks "Who brought the Peanuts?"
- In "Garfield Stockman in: A Voice Like Wet Ham", the segment "Lucy and her Grandpa" shows Lucy's grandpa suffering from a heart attack. Lucy repeatedly pretends to let him get his heart pills but pulls it away every time (similar to the football gag) until he dies.
- In "May Cause Involuntary Political Discharge", the segment "Snoopy's Flying Aces" features Snoopy as a flight school teacher for the World War I Flying Aces. Snoopy's soldiers naturally question Snoopy's flying doghouses, and the Red Baron's soldiers are revealed to be cats.