If Robot Chicken Wins an Emmy, Calvin & Hobbes and The Mario Brothers are to Thank

The Emmys are just around the corner and everybody is talking about what television dramas and comedies should win an Emmy. Everybody wants to debate which actors and actresses will win an Emmy. Let's put all those categories aside though and instead take a look at who should win the Emmy in the category of Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour).

The Emmy in Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) is awarded to one particular episode with each of these shows being represented: Avatar: The Last Airbender and Spongebob Squarepants from Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network's Robot Chicken, Comedy Central's South Park and Fox's The Simpsons.

This Emmy should go to Robot Chicken. Robot Chicken is easily the most unique of the five Emmy nominees. Unlike the others, Robot Chicken is a stop animation television program so it looks completely different that the other four Emmy nominees. Robot Chicken is also like a sketch comedy show with several shorts rather than one ongoing plot. The different sketches could give Robot Chicken the advantage in this Emmy category or it also could be a disadvantage.

The positive is that if the episode submitted for the other shows in this category aren't good then obviously the Emmy voters aren't going to like any of it. With a sketch comedy program it's possible for the Emmy voters to not like a particular sketch, but like the show as a whole because of the other sketches. It could also hurt Robot Chicken's chances of an Emmy though because comedy is very objective and when you have a program with six or seven sketches not everybody is going to agree on how many of them are good.

The episode of Robot Chicken that was submitted for this Emmy is called "Lust for Puppets." It's a pretty strong episode with two out of the three main sketches being really good.