Episode
Robot Chicken: Help Me
Overview
Seth and Matt enlist the help of Joss Whedon, Ron Moore and Seth MacFarlane to get their show renewed. PaRappa the Rapper is facing criminal charges when he takes his teacher's advice and does a rap that rats out the real criminal. Filming of an episode of Tila Tequila's "A Shot at Love" is interrupted when it's revealed that she's an experimental cyborg. Movie and TV favorites are trimmed down to "Just the Good Parts."
Details
- Series
- Robot Chicken
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2008-12-07
- Runtime
- 12 min
Episode context
Help Me is Episode 1 in Season 4 of Robot Chicken. It aired on 2008-12-07. The runtime is 12 min.
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