We had about 45 minutes of content online. Keith Crofford senior vice president of Adult Swim : We had 5, cartoons with no original programming, and one thing led to another. So when Seth Green reached out about doing an animated short, it just seemed like a very natural transition. Seth Green : I never expected to get here. That has nothing to do with our show. And Mike and I were only there sporadically because we were based in Atlanta.
The oral history of ‘Robot Chicken,’ Adult Swim’s unruly answer to ‘SNL’
Seth Green : We set about trying to understand how to produce stop motion, and I was thinking about self-financing a one to two-minute short piece.
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And it was in the early days before this kind of network even existed. Once the writing happens, it gets put to storyboards and voices at the same time. So we would basically break the toys and rebuild them.
