Friday, April 20, 2007

The Mechanical Rooster vs. The Little Christian Boy

I have overheard many arguments as to which is the better. Robot Chicken, or Moral Oral. Robot Chicken, like “Family Guy” caters to those with a lack of attention span. In the form of clay and action figure stop-motion, they parody many movies along with characters and actors in the eighties. Moral Oral takes a different stance and makes fun of dogmatic Christianity and the many teachings found in the Bible. Needless to say the outcomes are as outrageous as the miracles in the New Testament.
Arguers claim, “Robot Chicken is godsend for claymators. It is funny, stream line entertainment and relatively artistic free. It’s hilarity makes up for the lack of frames per second. It really is a good show and when the hell is the next season coming up.”
Moral Oral gets less support as it doesn’t feature celebrity voices mainly found from “That 70’s Show”. “It’s funny and true. Christian ideals are as fundamentally flawed as the ones Oral brings about. It’s more character developed, unquestionably, and follows a linear storyline.”
With the diverse amount of comments upon both claymations which air one after the other late at night on Adult Swim, these seem to be the summary of arguments. But according to this which one would be better.
And so begins the battle of--------
The Mechanical Rooster vs. The Little Christian Boy
Round one: Laugh factor

Moral Oral brings about many jokes about the Church and spends much time building up a story with great punch lines throughout. Robot Chicken has no story but is just a series of punch lines in the form of short sequences.
Winner: Robot Chicken
Round two: Artsy Fartsy factor.
Moral Oral creates a fifties like city in which all the people of Moral County live in. Plus they have more bendable parts then action figures. Robot Chicken creates action figures to look like celebrities, but damn those rigged action figure joints for taking away claymation realism.
Winner: Moral Oral
Last Round: Enlightening factor.
Moral Oral conveys a great satire of life in the church. Making fun of every facet of Christian life. Robot Chicken has speils about every movie and actor in the past twenty years, plus adult film star Ron Jeremy. But will that be good enough.
Winner: Moral Oral.
Winner by Knock Out: me for fixing the fight.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have to agree. Morel has a lot more substance than Robot. That isn't to say that Robot Chicken isn't funny, because it is. But really it's almost like comparing apples to oranges in terms of content. Robot chicken doesn't have the plot or the characters, or the satire, or the lessons... but then they were never going for it in the first place. Robot does what it does extremely well, as does Moral.

Of course I am also partial to Moral because I am such a huge fan of religious satire. Such a fan in fact that I have my own blog about it!

http://www.biblec2c.blogspot.com/

Keep up the good work!

- Mr. Bible