The fifth season of the stop-motion television series Robot Chicken originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim       Season five officially began on December 12, 2010 on Adult Swim, with Robot Chicken's DP Christmas Special,[3] and will contain a total of twenty episodes       The first of the 20 episodes are set to air the first of the official Season 5 episodes on January 9 and the second group of episodes are set to air sometime around October 2011