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Genre | Animated cartoon, Slapstick comedy, Adult |
Created by | Magnus Carlsson |
Directed by | Magnus Carlsson |
Narrated by | Dave Avellone |
Theme music composer | Magnus Carlsson |
Composer | Magnus Carlsson |
Country of origin | Canada Germany Sweden |
Original languages | English Swedish |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 30 |
Production | |
Producer | Magnus Carlsson |
Running time | 3 min (average) |
Production companies | Happy Life TMO Film GmbH Nelvana |
Original release | |
Network | SVT1 |
Release | 1996 |
Related | |
Lisa |
Robin is a 1996 adult animated TV sitcom created by Swedish cartoonist Magnus Carlsson and narrated by Dave Avellone in the English dub. [1] It was aimed at an adult audience. [2]
Every episode focused on the title unemployed bachelor, in his early 20s and his best friend Benjamin, who is African-Swedish. [1] While neither seem to do anything constructive with their lives, they are involved in various misadventures, mostly resulting in a non-sequitur ending. The following episode will feature no mention of past encounters.
The pair (or frequently, Robin alone) will have run-ins with the law, encounter drunks, flashers and other uneven characters.
In 1997, after the screening of Robin on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, British rock band Radiohead approached Magnus Carlsson to make a music video for their song " Paranoid Android" with Robin in it. Carlsson accepted and came up with the original idea for the video after locking himself in his office, staring out the window at a bridge and listening to nothing but Paranoid Android repeatedly. [3] [1]
During the video of "Paranoid Android", the band makes a cameo appearance at a bar, where they are sitting at a table drinking and watching a person with a head coming out of his stomach dancing on their table. [4]
The show was banned in Singapore and MTV's US version censored elements like nipples and urine streams. [5]