Stoopid Monkey

Background

Stoopid Monkey is the vanity card of Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, creators of the Robot Chicken stop-motion animated series. The company was formed in 2005. In 2011, Stoopid Monkey became a partnership of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.

Contents

1st Logo (February 20, 2005-December 6, 2009)	2nd Logo (September 27, 2009-March 6, 2011)	3rd Logo (October 23, 2011-)	4th Logo (December 16, 2013-December 7, 2014)

1st Logo (February 20, 2005-December 6, 2009)

Visuals: Every episode of Robot Chicken displays one of many still Stoopid (spelled Stoop!d) Monkey production logos following the credits; each depicts a cartoon monkey performing a foolish and/or life threatening activity (or the aftermath of one). All of them have the text "sTOoP!d MoNkEy" in a jumbled white font surrounded by a thick black border, as well as a smaller white border around that.

Variants:

Later Robot Chicken episodes have the monkey drawn differently. The monkey now has sharp teeth as well as chest fur.
There are a lot of variants, just about for every episode, so here are all the variants seen at the moment.
- Season 1:
  - The Deep End: He has just pulled the pin from a hand grenade.
  - Junk in the Trunk: He is about to hit his tail with a hammer.
  - Nightmare Generator: He is about to drop a toaster into his bathtub.
  - The Sack/Adultizzle Swizzle: He is eating his own brain.
  - Nutcracker Sweet: He is smoking an entire pack of cigarettes in his mouth.
  - Gold Dust Gasoline: He is about to whack a beehive with a stick.
  - Kiddie Pool: He is climbing into the mouth of a crocodile.
  - Plastic Buffet: He is drinking a gallon of bleach.
  - A Piece of the Action: He is being cooked by a headhunter.
  - Toyz in the Hood: He is sticking one hand in a blender while turning it on with the other.
  - Vegetable Funfest: He has doused himself in gasoline and is holding a lit match.
  - S&M Present: He is holding a banana in his hand and a gun in his mouth.
  - Badunkadunk: He is looking at a world history book upside down.
  - Toy Meets Girl: He is running with scissors.
  - Midnight Snack: He is being cooked by a headhunter again.
  - Atta Toy: He is about to bite his own tail.
  - Joint Point: He is sticking his index finger up his nose and it comes out of an ear.
  - Operation: Rich in Spirit: He has his head in a toilet.
  - That Hurts Me: He is about to sever his tongue with a blade.
  - The Black Cherry: He is nothing more than a skull.
- Season 2:
  - Suck It: He has a test tube of bird flu in his face. The purple background is bubbly animated.
  - Easter Basket: He has blown himself up. A series of lights are moving around in the red background.
  - 1987: He is eating poison oak leaves.
  - Celebrity Rocket: He is pressing the big red button while a mushroom cloud appears out of the window behind him.
  - Federated Resources: He is about to chop his head off in a guillotine.
  - Dragon Nuts: He has jumped off a cliff with homemade wings strapped to his arms.
  - Cracked China: He has severed his head with a hedge trimmer.
  - Rodigitti: He shaved off most of his fur with a razor.
  - Password: Swordfish: He is hitting on a female monkey and her ape boyfriend is behind him.
  - Massage Chair: He has fallen in love with a python.
  - Metal Militia: He is throwing darts with one stuck in his right eye.
  - Veggies for Sloth/Blankets in a Pig: He has been impaled with a chainsaw from behind.
  - Sausage Fest: He is about to stick his finger in an empty light bulb socket.
  - Drippy Pony: He has been run over by a car after trying to get across the road with a chicken.
  - The Munnery: He is walking away from a fish bowl with a goldfish hanging from the end of his fishing rod.
  - Adoption's an Option: His face is shown above his scientific name "Simian Stoopidicus".
  - Day at the Circus: He has poked a pool cue in his right eye.
  - Lust for Puppets: He has inked an upside-down tattoo onto his chest.
  - Donkey Punch: He has stuck his hand into a meat grinder.
  - Book of Corrine: There are two variations in this episode:
    - 1. He is tangled up in tape. "Please Stand By, We are Experiencing Technical Difficulties" is posted below him along with the Adult Swim logo.
    - 2. He is hanging from a tree branch in one hand while sawing it off with the other.
- Season 3:
  - Werewolf vs. Unicorn: He is holding up a sign that reads "WAR IS THE ANSWER."
  - Tubba-Bubba's Now Hubba-Hubba: He's eating a pack of "Montos" (a parody of Mentos) and drinking a diet coke.
  - Squaw Bury Shortcake: He is holding a knife in his hand and an octopus on his head at the sushi bar.
  - Rabbits on a Roller Coaster: He has fallen to a giant carnivorous monkey eating plant.
  - Tapping a Hero: He is holding a bow and arrow in his eye.
  - Shoe: He is feeding the animals when the sign says "Don't Feed the Animals" and has also lost a paw as a result.
  - Endless Breadsticks: He is eating from a kitty litter box.
  - Yancy the Yo-yo Boy: He attempted to eat a puffer fish.
  - More Blood, More Chocolate: He's wearing an "I'm with stupid" shirt that indicates himself.
  - Robot Chicken's Half-A*sed Christmas Special: He is in bed, smoking a cigarette, next to a sock monkey, looking at "her" with love in his eyes. Hearts also cover part of the text.
  - Celebutard Mountain: He's chasing a butterfly off a cliff.
  - Moesha Poppins: He's attempting to steal a banana that belongs to a very large gorilla.
  - Ban on the Fun: He has fallen in love with a cactus.
  - Losin' the Wobble: He's focusing the sun's rays with a magnifying glass into his eye.
  - Slaughterhouse on the Prairie: He's in a giant condor's nest holding an egg, with the bird about to swoop down on him with his talons.
  - Boo Cocky: He's on a water tube and about to be eaten by a shark.
  - Bionic Cow: He's gnawing on a bone while its pit bull owner looks on angrily.
  - Monstourage: He's about to mine for diamonds in a mine field.
  - President Evil: He's about to take a dip in a pool of molten lava.
  - Chirlaxx: He's gotten stuck in the La Brea Tar Pits.
- Season 4:
  - Help Me: He's on top of a fire hydrant, thinking he is King Kong.
  - I'm Trapped: He's about to whack a butterfly sitting on his head with a hammer.
  - In a DVD Factory: He just pulled the plug out the bottom of his lifeboat.
  - They Took My Thumbs: He's "surfing the 'net" by standing on a surfboard on top of his computer monitor.
  - Two Weeks Without Food: He's looking into the rear end of a skunk.
  - Tell My Mom: He's attempting to roast marshmallows over a fire ant hill.
  - I Love Her: He stuck his paw into a fish tank full of piranhas.
  - But Not In That Way: He's about to freshen his breath with a can of mace.
  - Love, Maurice: He's juggling knives while consulting a book on how to do it.
  - P.S. Yes, In That Way: He's a matador wearing red.
  - Dear Consumer (aka Robot Chicken's Full-A*sed Christmas Special): He's selling Santa's reindeer by the pound.
  - We Are A Humble Factory: He's about to poke some stalactites in a cave with a broom handle.
  - Maurice Was Caught: He's in a cowboy duel with bananas instead of guns.
  - Unionizing Our Labor: He's cooking himself on a spit, happily turning it.
  - President Hu Forbids It: He's playing baseball with an upside-down bat.
  - Due to Constraints of Time and Budget: He scored a "birdie" by stuffing a bird into a golf hole.
  - The Ramblings of Maurice: He's taking a bath in radioactive waste.
  - Cannot Be Erased, So Sorry: He's "eating" a backwards ice cream cone with his eye.
  - Please Do Not Notify Our Contractors: He's a vampire swooning over a crate of blood oranges.
  - Especially the Animal Keith Crofford!: He's jumping rope with his intestines, all while a butcher knife is flying towards him.
- Specials:
  - Robot Chicken's Christmas Special: He's hung himself from a Christmas tree.
  - Robot Chicken: Star Wars: He's severed his hand with a lightsaber.
  - Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II/2.5: He's diving off the barge and Sarlacc swallowed.

Technique: Traditional ink and paint, with the backgrounds being animated in season 2. All the logos are drawn by artist/actor Adam Talbott. His initials appear in some of the variants.

Audio: The monkey making noise followed by the voice of an irritated Seth Green saying "Stupid monkey!".

Audio Variant: Earlier Robot Chicken episodes like "Junk in the Trunk" use a slightly different, better-quality recording of Seth Green's voice; it can also only be heard from the right speaker.

Availability: Seen on the first four seasons of Robot Chicken.

Legacy: Consider this logo nostalgic, it is a favourite logo for those who watch Robot Chicken on Adult Swim.

2nd Logo (September 27, 2009-March 6, 2011)

Visuals: On a teal background is the monkey, but redrawn, only showing its head, in silver and the name "STOOP!D MONKEY" (the Os in "STOOP!D" are connected, similar to the infinity symbol) below in a custom font. Everything shines.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio: The mono/muffled version of the audio from the last logo.

Availability: Seen on Titan Maximum and early episodes of the fifth season of Robot Chicken, including the special Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III.

3rd Logo (October 23, 2011-)

Visuals: Same concept as the first logo, but the monkey is redrawn to look cuter (like the previous logo) and the text's bars for the "E" this time. Sometimes, the copyright stamp appears below the Stoopid Monkey logo.

Trivia: The monkey's design is also used for Stoopid Buddy Stoodios' web series, entitled The Stoopid Monkey Show; in which the monkey's name was Stoopid (or simply Stoop). His two friends are named Biggie and QT.

Variants:

On the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special, there is a van riding with QT dressed as Wonder Woman, and the one driving was Biggie, dressed as Batman. On the top of the van is the monkey dressed as Superman, acting like he's flying. Beside is the flashlight, that shows the light with the connected "OO" (a la the Batman flashlight).
On SuperMansion (as well as the 2012 Robot Chicken episode "Poisoned by Relatives"), a single variant is used, where the monkey is at a job fair, dressed like Superman from the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special variant and at his own booth searching for super heroes. The text is in an orange gradient with a black outline and situated to the bottom right.
On season 8 episodes of Robot Chicken, the monkey is doing foolish activity again (like the 1st logo). Biggie and QT are absent.
On current episodes of Robot Chicken (season 9 onwards), it has a gradient background. As a result, the logo's outline is no longer used.

Technique: Digital ink and paint.

Audio: Same as above. However, if you listen closely, Robot Chicken's eighth season onwards still have a bit of the last part of the show's season 7 episode "The Robot Chicken Lots of Holidays (But Don't Worry Christmas is Still in There Too So Pull the Stick Out of Your A*s Fox News) Special".

Audio Variants:

On the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special, the monkey's noise is delayed and the audio cuts off before Seth Green's voice is heard.
On the Robot Chicken episode "Freshly Baked: The Robot Chicken Santa Claus Pot Cookie Freakout Special: Special Edition", the ending theme plays over it.

Availability: Seen on later episodes of the fifth season of Robot Chicken as well as the show's sixth season, and the final four seasons. Also seen on SuperMansion and a 2014 animatic of the Robot Chicken episode "The Robot Chicken B**ch Pudding Special" (which can be found on John Martinez's Vimeo account that was uploaded on January 9, 2018).

4th Logo (December 16, 2013-December 7, 2014)

Visuals: The typeface of the two previous Stoopid Monkey logos is shown on a red background. It is colored yellow and is focused on with a spotlight.

Variants:

On the Robot Chicken Born Again Virgin Christmas Special, the logo is colored in red and the background is green. Santa's hat is placed on top of the "S".
On the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise, the logo is colored in red and the background is a pink sunburst.

Technique: A digital graphic.

Audio: Same as above, although on the Robot Chicken episode "Catdog on a Stick", Yasmin (voiced by AnnaSophia Robb) is heard screaming, continuing from the end of the final skit of the episode.

Availability: Seen on the seventh season of Robot Chicken, alongside the specials Robot Chicken Born Again Virgin Christmas Special and Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise.