Robot Chicken is a television show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Created in 2005 by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, Robot Chicken is a stop-motion cartoon that spoofs popular culture.
References to Back to the Future
Dragon Nuts
- Omaha's Number 1 News Team - The rioting act that breaks out in the town square is reminiscent of that in 1985A.
P.S. Yes, in That Way
- The Inspiration to Draw This - The scene where the doctor got the inspiration to draw a sketch of the Flux capacitor. In this skit, Emmett Brown is hanging himself in the bathroom, when he slips and bonks his head on the sink.
Please Do Not Notify Our Contractors
- 87 MPH - A cop pulls Marty over just one mile shy of 88 - the mileage required to make the DeLorean time machine travel through time.
Dear Consumer
- Comet's Christmas Miracle - The scene where Comet says, "Legs? Where we're going, we don't need legs!" and flies toward the camera is a reminder of the ending scene from Back to the Future Part I.
Major League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Meet the Bachelors - George McFly, Biff Tannen, and Marty are on a game show. When Lorraine says she'll become a nun, this causes Marty to disappear.
Casablankman II
- Doc Brown's Plutonium - This skit goes back story of how Emmett obtained the Plutonium from the Libyan terrorist group.
- Calling Chuck Berry - When Marvin Berry makes the preposterous decision to call his cousin Chuck from a conveniently placed phone during a prom performance, he ends up changing history.
- Jay-Z & the Doc - Jay-Z helps Dr. Emmett Brown get back to the future by performing a rap song about it.
Eaten by Cats
- A Delorian? - Marty keeps criticizing the car that Emmett builds the time machine into. By the time the doctor builds it into a car that Marty thinks is awesome, the doctor drives off without him, since Marty just kept on criticizing him.
BTTF actors in Robot Chicken
- Lea Thompson - Lorraine Baines McFly in "Major League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"
- Christopher Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown in both "Casablankman II" & "Eaten by Cats" (the later of which he also voiced Early Hacker)
- Billy Zane - Pilot & King Ding Dong in "Poisoned by Relatives"
