Episode
Robot Chicken: They Took My Thumbs
Overview
A contractor demonstrates the various death traps being built to protect a temple from intruders. Jason Voorhees gets ready for Friday the 13th. Wildman shares some summer fun tips with a group of kids. What happens when the Justice League struggle through "Bring a Sidekick to Work Day?"
Details
- Series
- Robot Chicken
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2008-12-14
- Runtime
- 12 min
Episode context
They Took My Thumbs is Episode 2 in Season 4 of Robot Chicken. It aired on 2008-12-14. The runtime is 12 min.
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Episode 1: Help Me
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."
Episode 3: I'm Trapped
Homonyms are explained in an educational musical. Vice President Dick Cheney is captured by terrorists and held captive along with Tony Stark. The truth behind James Bond's sex life is revealed. Skeletor's plot involving a less-than-perfect clone of He-Man doesn't work out well.
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