June 26, 2009 10:20 AM
What happens when you ask the writers of the hit show Robot Chicken to brainstorm ideas for missions in the upcoming Spore expansion, Galactic Adventures? Toilet humour and lots of it! Let's face it, who doesn't love toilet humour?
Fans of the show will be familiar with Robot Chicken's format of short stop-motion sketches made with toys, collectibles, dolls and figurines sometimes from the crew's own personal collection. If your mint condition Star Wars figurines outnumber the pairs of socks that you own or the number of friends you have on Facebook and you've not yet seen any of Robot Chicken, you owe it to yourself to get your Dorito covered hands on a copy and find out what you've been missing.
Luke Plunkett of Kotaku sat down with Tom Root, one of the producers on the show to find out more about their time at Maxis.
"Our Final Fantasy VII sketch from season two is one of my favorites", he enthuses. "We were all such big fans of that game when it came out. I think when I pitched that sketch, I was playing clips from the soundtrack CD to help sell the moments I was making fun of, and the other writers were like, 'YES!' And then the animation and the graphics were so spot-on. I'm really proud of that one".
And his second-favourite? "Another one of my favourite concepts -- which got cut prior to animation, sadly -- involved the Needler weapon from Halo. Because everyone knows the Needler sucks. I'd rather fight the enemy with a pair of nail clippers than a Needler". This scene, while cut from the show, will be included in a rough form on the release of season four on DVD.
Aww, not the needler! Who can't see the fun in pumping an enemy full of pink alien glass that explodes? Personally, I could never get the hang of using the weapon effectively, certainly not as well as the enemy could apparently wield it against me anyway.
When asked how he found the experience, when compared to writing for Robot Chicken, Tom had this to say:
Read the rest of the interview here.