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Chickens are not a trope on their own, even if they're PlayedForLaughs. You may be looking for one of the following:

Chickens are not a trope on their own. You may be looking for one of the following:

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->''"Remember: Wit, satire, clever sayings, puns... ''none'' of this is as funny as a man in a chicken suit!"''
-->-- '''Garfield,''' ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''

Chickens -- small flight-inhibited birds with a tendency to break out in screeching panics over the smallest things -- are inherently funny, like [[QuackingUp ducks]], [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]] and [[SillySimian monkeys]], maybe because they're being ComicallySerious. Unlike penguins and monkeys, they're also regularly eaten (they [[ShapedLikeItself taste like chicken]]). And that's pretty much it. This isn't really a family of tropes that has a whole heck of a lot of logic behind them.

Some useful notes on chickens. The domesticated chicken is known scientifically as ''Gallus gallus domesticus''. They were most likely domesticated in UsefulNotes/{{India}} and Southeast Asia 8000 years ago, bred from the Red Junglefowl (''Gallus gallus'') found in the region's rainforests, probably with some Grey Junglefowl hybridization tossed in. The domesticated chicken passed from India to the whole Old World, reaching China in prehistoric times, the Middle East by 2000 BCE, Africa by 1400 BCE, and Europe by 1000 BCE. They are the most common bird on the planet, some 24 billion strong -- in other words, they outnumber human beings more than three to one.

Also, the [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Romans]] practiced [[WhateverMancy augury]]: reading the future from the acts of birds. Chickens were the most common; the state had official flocks of fortune-telling chickens, as did each ship and legion.

"Chicken" is also slang for DirtyCoward, possibly due to their tendency to run away squawking from any sign of danger (and they're surprisingly fast runners). Imitating a chicken's "bawk, bawk, bawk," is thus a classic way to tease someone for being scared, which may lead to the retort "NobodyCallsMeChicken" Alternatively, someone might play a GameOfChicken to see who's the first to chicken out, such as running into traffic, and hoping that other drivers might chicken out and stop before they either hit you, or you decide to reconsider your stupid decision.

Roosters, i.e. fully grown male chickens are often an exception from the comical portrayal, depicted as [[CockyRooster boisterous, violent animals]] instead.

Then of course there's the venerable ChickenJoke that raises the conundrum of why she decided to cross the road. Interestingly, it's believed that the joke was originally an example of AntiHumor, beginning with what appears to be a standard setup for a comical {{punchline}}, but instead offering the [[MathematiciansAnswer mundane factual answer]] "To get to the other side." The effect is [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny somewhat diluted]] since we've all [[IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime heard it a million times]], but tons of variations on the premise exist. This is an overlap with this trope since the reference to the chicken is funny in itself. (Imagine the same joke as "Why did the cow cross the road?" and you'll see it.)

The comedic nature of chickens is often used to bring levity to a ChickenpoxEpisode. While the real disease isn't very fun and has nothing to do with chickens, many works make it funnier by having the afflicted characters literally act like a chicken or even transform into one.

Also, being birds, chickens are members of the Maniraptora family of the theropod dinosaurs. Like all other avians, they are in fact under the group of Paraves, which along with true birds, also contains their close relatives, the famous deinonychosaurs such as Velociraptor.

Repeat: '''CHICKENS ARE MODERN-DAY LIVING DINOSAURS AND ARE CLOSELY RELATED [[RaptorAttack TO RAPTORS.]]''' Chickens deserve a bit more respect due to this.

Yes, technically chickens are a literal RealLife example of DomesticatedDinosaurs. [[RussianReversal In the modern age]], [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted you eat Raptor]]... and it TastesLikeChicken. Oh, HowTheMightyHaveFallen.

As noted in the Real Life folder, chickens’ actual temperaments will vary from breed to breed, but even the ones that are friendly to humans are still omnivores and can eat ''anything'' with the misfortune of landing in their pen (often mice, lizards, frogs, and snakes). And if they’re starving, [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty they'll try to eat a sick or injured member of their own]].

Not to be confused with WhatsAHenway

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Luxury car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz came up with a brilliant idea to advertise their new suspension system for their S-Class line: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69os9jzKF14 jiggle some chickens around]], because one of the quirks about the birds is while their bodies can move in all sorts of directions, their head stays in the same position.
* Their competitor, Jaguar, topped them with a replica of the commercial ending with their titular mascot [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PQS8SFWNQw eating one of them.]]
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Ayanoi Gakuen in ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'' apparently has chickens in their courtyard worth tens of millions of yen each and everyone calls them the very respectful name of "oniwatori-sama," or Lord Chickens.
* In the dark fantasy manga ''Manga/DGrayman'', Jasdevi's hunt for General Cross ends at one point with the General leaving his hat (and a bill for $20,000) on a chicken for them to find. They don't take it well.
* Generally [[AvertedTrope averted]] in ''Anime/JuuniSenshiBakuretsuEtoRanger''; Tart the Chicken is [[ActionGirl one of the most mature and competent members of the team]]. She was turned into a laughingstock ''once'', [[TheWoobie but that was more sad than funny]]. Played straight, however, during moments where she accidentally gets hit in the face in her second form, [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter forcing her beak to show up again out of nowhere]].
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' features a chicken demon who first appears to be a ridiculous, fat rooster, then transforms into a scary giant-chicken-thingy.
* Kasugano-sensei from ''Manga/{{Sketchbook}}'' has a pet chicken, which she endearingly calls "P-chan". She also takes that bird everywhere--including to ''school''.
* One episode of ''Anime/LostUniverse'' involves the cast taking a flight that is hijacked by religious fanatics in chicken suits. They were apparently trying to force a dignitary in first class to publicly state that chickens were more inherently holy than cows (Don't ask).
* Played with by Chicken George of ''Manga/{{Fourteen}}'': He is a horrifying [[GoneHorriblyWrong abortion of science,]] a featherless ToothyBird, and a MadScientist in his own right as well. But being a dangerous monster derived from such a ridiculous animals is part of the manga's {{Surrealism}}.
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[[folder:Card Games]]
* The ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' joke set Unglued had a chicken subtheme, with cards such as Poultrygeist, Free-Range Chicken, and, of course, Chicken à la King. There's also an aura called Fowl Play, that turns creatures into chickens.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}} has Curse! Chicken On Your Head! (Possibly a reference to the Dungeons and Dragons example below.) It's one of the more persistent penalties if you weren't wearing Headgear, but if you were you can just discard your Headgear and the chicken along with it.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In the "Transfer of Power" arc of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' after a year of hell at the hands of the G7 nations and some of the richest people in the world, as well as having "The Twenty Billion Dollar Bastard" Seth beating everyone on the team, including virtually killing the Midnighter (only a combination of the Doctor's magics and Engineer's surgical skills saved him), Swift (a nominal pacifist) has the Doctor turn Seth into a coop of chickens and dumps them on the doorstep of his own inbred rapist hillbilly family. His future was short.
* Filipino comic book artist Gerry Alanguilan (who inked Superman: Birthright) has a self-published work called [[http://www.alanguilan.com/sanpablo/elmer/ Elmer]], about what happens when chickens achieve sentience and fight for their rights.
* Chickens are SeriousBusiness in the world of ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'', because of their tasty-but-illegal-due-to-bird-flu-meat. That or their superior cock-fighting skills in the case of Poyo!
* Gyro Gearloose from the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse and ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''. He's a fairly competent inventor, but still provides plenty of funny moments.
* ''ComicBook/{{Mighty Avengers|2013}}'': The Four Who Rule send numerous were-beasts to capture Blade, but it's the were-chickens that catch him. Ninja were-chickens. ''Fire-breathing'' ninja were-chickens. Blade mutters that it figures the most ridiculous thing in the world would catch him.
* "Power Picnic," a story from the DC run of ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'', dealt with a family of giant one-eyed alien chickens who land in Townsville for a picnic, unaware there are living creatures underclaw.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Gary Larson's ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' comics sometimes involved chickens, usually portraying them as farm animals with an attitude. One collection, titled ''The Chickens Are Restless'', has a cover of a chicken mob wielding TorchesAndPitchforks and throwing eggs at a cow.
* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} once had a rubber chicken who he eventually named Stretch.
* A chicken is how ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' comes to be. In a ''Thimble Theater'' arc, Castor Oyl comes upon a breed of poultry called a Whffle Hen, which, on top of being unkillable (something he learns over the course of several strips), can also bring good luck to those who rub its three hairs. Deciding to get rich by taking advantage of this, Castor decides to sail to Dice Island, location of a deluxe casino. After buying a boat, he hires a crew of one...
-->'''Castor:''' Hey, you there! Are you a sailor?\\
'''Popeye:''' Ja think I'm a cowboy?!
* One of the recurring characters in the comic ''ComicStrip/{{Pluggers}}'' is a hen named Henrietta Beak.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Plenty of fan works featuring Scootaloo reference the popular "Scootachicken" meme in some way.
** ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops:'' At one point in the ''My Little Pony Loops'', Twilight Sparkle takes to dressing up as a chicken. Why? No one knows, because whenever they ask, some disaster strikes. When her friends finally work up the courage to ask, just as she's about to answer, the loop resets.
* The almighty Clucky from ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries''. It's Naruto's ultimate weapon after all.
* ''Fanfic/LincolnsMemories'': In "Lincoln's Seventh Birthday", [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Luna Loud]] gives him a card that has a chicken clucking out the Happy Birthday to You song.
* ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11249784/8/ Phineas and Ferb Visit Jurassic World]]'': Dr. Doofenshmirtz accidentally transforms the ''Indominus rex'' into a chicken due to confusing his blueprints for the Dinosaur-Trust-inator with that for the Chicken-inator. At first, this seemed to make it easy for the ACU troop to capture the ''Indominus'', but unfortunately, the ''Indominus'' retains her ferocity (and teeth) while in chicken form. HilarityEnsues when the -inator goes out of control and turns several ACU soldiers into chickens. Luckily, the effects turn out to be temporary. Unluckily, this meant that the ''Indominus'' [[OhCrap would turn back to normal as well]].
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Chicken Joe from ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'' is clearly there just for the humor. Doubles as TheStoner, although he also turns out to be a BunnyEarsLawyer when [[spoiler: he legitimately wins the big surfing competition]].
* The movie ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''. Pretty much ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' '''[-[[RecycledInSpace WITH CHICKENS]]-]'''!
* As a twofer, [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins the penguin]] in the WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit short ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers'' disguises himself as a chicken by wearing a rubber glove on his head.
* "Baby" Brent's rebirth as Chicken Brent in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs''.
* Both Lady Kluck and Alan-A-Dale from ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973''.
* One of the animals Mad Madam Mim turns into during the WizardDuel from ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' is a red chicken. ItMakesSenseInContext because Merlin had just escaped an attack by turning into a caterpillar.
* At the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', the title heroine ties a bag of chicken feed to her dog Little Brother to feed the chickens. Little Brother then leads the chickens all around the Fa Family residence and into the Ancestors' shrine.
* Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/RockaDoodle''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' has main antagonist Al dressing up in a chicken suit for commercials. The LivingToys find him creepy.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' has Master Chicken who's basically a joke character.
-->'''Mantis:''' Even Master Chicken's going in there! And he's a ''chicken!''
* Panchito Pistoles from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' is a Mexican cowboy rooster.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'', about all animals, especially birds, are intelligent and able to communicate with each other... except for chickens, who are portrayed as google-eyed and stupid.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' has Heihei, the idiot rooster who accidentally ends up tagging along on Moana's journey.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', Topper Harley runs out of arrows for his bow and [[ImprovisedWeapon decides to use a chicken instead]]. It turns out to be more effective than an arrow.
* In ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'', Creator/WoodyAllen's character encountered a giant chicken.
* Several chickens can be seen running around the background of ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''. They've become a meme within the fan community, spawning chicken-centric fics, art, and more. All hail Rosalinda, dread chicken of destiny. Viva la revolution!
* ''Film/NeverRarelySometimesAlways'': At one point Autumn finds a peculiar attraction in an arcade where she can play tic-tac-toe with a live chicken.
* Probably the reason the chicken that is chased in ''Film/CityOfGod'' (leading to a confrontation between drug dealers) got in the poster.
* ''Film/{{Stroszek}}''. Just... ''Stroszek''.
-->''"We have a 10-80 out here, a truck on fire, we have a man on the lift, we are unable to find the switch to turn the lift off, we [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking can't stop the dancing chickens]]."''
* ''Film/{{Borat}}'' carried a chicken with him (in a suitcase) for a large portion of the film.
* In ''Film/OSS117CairoNestOfSpies'', Agent 117 goes undercover as the owner of a poultry business. At some point, he fights a bad guy by ''hurling chickens at each other''. They also start panicking whenever the lights turn on, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSPuLN1rhaE leading to a scene]] where 117 [[EasilyAmused does it over and over.]]
* At the beginning of ''Film/USMarshals'', we see Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard staking out the suspected residence of a fugitive disguised as the mascot of a chicken-based food chain giving away free samples. Making Creator/TommyLeeJones possibly the only person in film history capable of looking badass in a chicken suit. Ironically, originally the scene was supposed to have Gerard disguised as a priest.
* Juli, the lead female character in ''Film/{{Flipped}}'', oversees the birth of five baby chickens for a science project and raises them on her own after they hatch. The chickens end up playing a role in one of the film's subplots.
* An ''epic'' case in the ''Film/TheMuppets'' when Camilla and her fellow hens cluck out Music/CeeLoGreen's "[[ClusterFBomb F**k You]]". Although, you can tell from the number of syllables, that they were actually clucking the censored version of that song "Forget You". Still, that's one heck of a StealthPun: [[spoiler:"Cluck You"]].
* ''Film/PrincessDiaries2'': "Do you have a chicken for my table?"
* One of Jack Sparrow's multiple hallucination-clones in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' wanders around the deck clucking, flapping, and laying eggs. There's also the part from ''Curse of the Black Pearl'' when Will regains consciousness in the street surrounded by chickens.
* The legendary Chicken of Bristol from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.
* In ''Film/MidnightRun'', an attempt is made to lighten up a tense moment:
-->'''Jonathan Mardukas:''' Did you ever have sex with an animal, Jack? Remember those chickens around the Indian reservation? There were some good-looking chickens there, Jack. You know, between us...
-->'''Jack Walsh:''' ''[laughing]'' Yeah, there were a couple there I might've taken a shot at.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In the novel ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', a carnivorous dinosaur spontaneously "evolves" into a chicken, in an effort to make itself useful enough for the Unseen University faculty not to blast it with fireballs. They end up roasting and eating it instead of just roasting it.
** ''Literature/MovingPictures'' in its parodies of movie tropes included a wheelchair crashing into a barn and emerging surrounded by clucking chickens... much to the farmers' surprise, since the last time they looked it was full of cabbages.
** In ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'', a mishap with a cornucopia leads to Nanny Ogg's house being filled with hundreds of live chickens. ''Werk...'' Not a bad thing, as Rincewind in [[Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld ''The Science of Discworld II'']] has accurately observed that the chicken is Lancre's standard unit of currency.
** Methodia Rascal, the MadArtist appearing in flashbacks in ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' thought he was being stalked by a giant chicken. And that he was the giant chicken himself. He was found dead, mouth full of chicken feathers, with the paint of his greatest work, "Battle of Koom Valley" still wet (he also thought he could hear the sounds of that battle). [[spoiler:It turns out the Ancient Dwarfish word to activate indestructible recorder cubes sounds a lot like "Awk!"]].
** Quetzovercoatl, the Feathered Boa, is, or rather ''was'', a demon worshiped by the Tezumen, described by Rincewind as half man, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking half chicken]], half jaguar, half serpent, half scorpion and half mad (for a total of three homicidal maniacs).
** ''Literature/ReaperMan'' has an unforgettable ''dyslexic rooster''.
** In ''Literature/{{Snuff}}'', there's a parody of the StockPhrase "Don't hurt me, I'm a simple..." from a character who claims to be a "complicated chicken farmer". It eventually transpires that it's [[AmbiguousSyntax the chickens that are complicated, not the farmer]]. They lay square eggs.
** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Lord Vetinari performs a spontaneous comedy juggling act to convince the Klatchian guards that he, Colon and Nobby are traveling performers. His routine includes making a baby chick appear under Colon's hat.
** Averted in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', where Legba actually gives [[CatsAreMean Greebo]] pause, despite being an ordinary black cockerel (with two-inch spurs). Greebo, who's fought wolves and makes local alligators go away by staring at them.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** The Weasleys create fake wands that turn into other objects when you try to use them. Among the alternatives: rubber chickens.
** The Weasleys have chickens in their garden. It's a pretty funny coexistence with their gnomes.
* In the grim darkness of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', there is ''not'' only war. They can appreciate a good joke, such as those told by trained Fools. One of them is named Butterbumps, an enormously fat man who tends to wear a chicken suit.
* The "Chicken That Was Not a Chicken" in the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series. Supposed to be scary, ended up as NightmareRetardant. ''"This was no chicken... This was evil manifest!"'' Worst ultimate incarnation of evil ''ever''. It's more an example of failure to get across the unnerving nature of a humble domestic animal behaving strangely. People who have never dealt with animals, especially farm animals, have no idea how nightmarishly creepy it can be. And city folk especially tend to overrate their own competence in a situation like that. People who have never experienced the rural lifestyle get scared absolutely spitless by cows, sheep, squirrels. Plus, it's easy to laugh at the protagonist being scared by a chicken, till you consider that, comedy tropes about flightless fowl to the contrary, it was still a large, angry bird with sharp claws, a beak, and that was ''possessed by a demon'' a few feet from her face. The problem was that Goodkind presents it as a ''rational'' fear, while from a rational point of view, ''it's a '''chicken'''''.
* A chicken plays an important role in Creator/GordonKorman's ''The Chicken Doesn't Skate''.
* Three guesses what the main characters become in [[Literature/{{Goosebumps}} Chicken Chicken]].
* In ''[[Literature/HisDarkMaterials The Golden Compass]]'', there's a brief reference to a maid running out of a house (that's just been attacked by a [[BearsAreBadNews polar bear looking for his armor]]) with her chicken daemon squawking alongside her.
* In the first ''Literature/HankTheCowdog'' book, chickens are described as being so dumb that they only have six words in their own language, three of which are just different cries for help. J.T. Cluck, the head rooster, is shown speaking fluently on other occasions, so he may be smarter than your average hen. Of course, it's Hank describing the Chickens, an UnreliableNarrator who affects a jaundiced viewpoint.
* In ''[[Literature/LandOfOz Ozma of Oz]]'', Dorothy is accompanied by a talking yellow hen called Billina.
* In Creator/JohnMoore's ''Bad Prince Charlie'', one running gag is a discussion of how a wizard tried to banish all the snakes from the kingdom, but botched the spell and banished all the chickens instead (And since he never figured out why the spell went wrong, he couldn't reverse it). As a result, it is impossible to get any kind of food that involves chicken or eggs, except on an annual festival where they import the meat and eggs from a neighboring country.
* In one chapter of ''I'll Mature When I'm Dead'', Creator/DaveBarry tells that when he and his friend Gene Weingarten felt they wanted to write a movie, they wanted to write something really original, and so came up with the concept of evil mutant superhuman chickens wreaking havoc on Iowa during the caucuses. One of the notes they wrote down was "METHANE--chickenshit raining down on Wolf Blitzer in Des Moines," though Dave Barry couldn't recall why; "maybe we were just responding to the universal human longing to see Wolf Blitzer inundated by chickenshit." Eventually they realized that their movie would actually be better ''without'' chickens, so they wrote them out.
* Jimpy the cock from ''Literature/EscapeFromWarsaw''.
* Creator/OscarWilde's ''Literature/TheCantervilleGhost'': When the Otis family tricks and out-wits the Ghost, he swears a terrible oath that shall start his revenge when a rooster crows twice: "When Chanticleer had sounded twice his merry horn, deeds of blood would be wrought, and murder walk abroad with silent feet." One crow comes immediately, but the cock, for some strange reason, did not make a sound again. The Ghost later found that on every other occasion when this oath had been used, a rooster had always crowed a second time. The Ghost's response? "Perdition seize the naughty fowl!"
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode "Two and a Half Dead", a rubber chicken is found stuffed inside a corpse and the assistant coroner wants Grissom to use "I suspect ''fowl'' play" or "This is ''poultry'' evidence" as a QuipToBlack. He goes for "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
* ''Series/GrangeHill'': When Benny hesitates to do something which might get him and his friends in trouble, Jenkins flaps his arms and makes clucking noises.
* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': In "The Egg", Walter Denton brings a hen to school.
* When the characters meddle with a DNA-altering machine in ''Series/RedDwarf'', they briefly turn Lister into a chicken.
-->'''Cat:''' What was it like, being a hamster?\\
'''Lister:''' Better than being a chicken. You've seen an egg. You've seen the size of a chicken's bum. I was trying to say, in chicken, "For god's sakes give me an epidural!"
* The ''Series/ICarly'' episode "iHatch Chicks"; and in "iPsycho" and its sequel "iStill Psycho" the antagonist Nora had a pet chicken named Maurice.
* ''Series/MorkAndMindy'': Orkans are implied to have evolved from some sort of space chicken. This explains the constant egg motif, but not the fact that they sit on their face, drink with their fingers or anything else about them.
* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': Earl Hickey inadvertently develops a bad and costly gambling habit trying to "man up" his gay pal Kenny, that he ends up in a dirty back room spending his last dollar on chicken bingo -- which apparently involves putting a live chicken on a giant gameboard and betting on which number the bird will take a dook on.
* In ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' season 1, Creator/TerryGilliam's Knight would march into scenes and hit someone with the (real, deceased) chicken he carries, generally [[DropTheCow when they couldn't think of another way to end a sketch]]. He was also shown slinging it over his shoulder and dejectedly tromping away when told he wouldn't be necessary for an episode.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
** As a child, Sayid stepped in and killed a chicken when his brother Omar couldn't bring himself to do it, thus starting a lifelong pattern (and an unhealthy co-dependent relationship).
** There's also the chicken raised by the Others on the island. An EasterEgg (heh) in the Season 2 DVD shows the tail section survivors struggling to capture a hen, and it's fairly hilarious.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Made-for-TV Movie]] has a truck full of chickens in the traffic jam scene.
** The principle of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath Scaroth's time-altering machine]] makes use of a chicken regressing into an egg and back again, making light of the "chicken or the egg" question.
--->"[[ComicallyMissingThePoint It's the Jagaroth that need all the chickens, then?]]"
** The Eleventh Doctor, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice while in Venice]] apparently makes note that he owes Casanova a chicken.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]": It's not pretty when they blow.
* ''Series/{{Mongrels}}'' has a song and dance routine [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppCM2Ey9YYE explaining]] why everything isn't better with chickens
* ''Series/HeeHaw'':
** Often if someone would tell an especially lame joke, someone else on the cast (or offstage) would hit them with a rubber chicken.
** There was also a regular animated segment on the show, with a chicken mistaking anything and everything for an egg. The chicken would sit on items, such as a ringside bell, a man's bald head, a billiard ball, a football, a golf ball, and even a bomb, with various disastrous results.
* The DVD commentary for the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Serenity" features Creator/JossWhedon and Creator/NathanFillion going into an entertainingly irrelevant digression about the chickens pecking around the marketplace on Persephone.
* Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'s (technically Arthur's) [[Recap/MerlinS02E10SweetDreams "It's destiny, my love. Destiny and chicken, what a lovely combination."]]
* At the end of ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' episode "Mysterious Egg!", Jimmy the Robot entrusts Jimmy Jr. to a random chicken he found on a nearby farm.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'', "The Frogs and the Lobsters":
** When a French royalist soldier aboard the ''Indefatigable'' tries to take an officers' chicken and cook it for himself, our lower-deck seamen get violently protective. Oldroyd offers his most sincere advice in [[ElSpanishO English tinged with French accent]]: "No steal-ie, savvy! You steal-ie, get chop! plenty!! damn!! vite!!!" Horatio settles the issue, and Styles then inconspicuously attempts to take the chicken for themselves, and Horatio must reprimand him. Cuts from this scene appear in {{Fan Vid}}s and Styles' love for chickens gets mentioned in FanFic.
** Marquis Moncoutant is a French Royalist, attempting to restore the monarchy in France. When he returns to his château, he's horrified to find out that peasants have been living there, using his paintings as fuel and raising their animals in his rooms. When a frightened chicken, poor thing, runs through the room, jumps on the table, and clucks aloud, he does ''not'' find it funny. Some viewers do.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Chandler and Joey kept a chick and a duck as their pets for some time. They got the chick when s/he was a cute yellow ball of fluff, but the little Yasmine grew up into a nice and loud rooster. {{Hilarity Ensue|s}}d, many times. One guy who dated Rachel had a serious bird phobia, though, and he did not find them cute, funny, or mildly disgusting. He was genuinely scared of them.
* ''Series/{{House}}'': One episode features Drs. House and Wilson's bet that whoever manages to keep a chicken in the hospital longer without getting caught wins. It is a thing to behold: chickens in the office of the head of the oncology department. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o7hRCcbfrA Check this video.]]
* British documentary series ''The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door'' had an episode that showed that everything is ''not'' always better with chickens. A man moved into a house with hundreds of chickens and was given an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour_order Anti-Social Behaviour Order]] due to the noise from constantly clucking chickens. It got so bad that animal-welfare agencies considered the birds mistreated and had to take them all away! But... the sheer amount of them meant that it took weeks to get every single chicken.
* There was actually a chicken-themed MonsterOfTheWeek on ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. (No, seriously, [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Chunky_Chicken take a look.]])
* ''Series/GetSmart'' - KAOS, making Max look mentally unstable to undermine his credibility as a court witness, alerts him to a (fake) assassination plot at an official function costume party, resulting in him crashing a formal dinner party in a chicken suit.
* On ''Series/MythBusters'', the gang once fired a chicken out of an air cannon to test whether a bird strike could bring down an airplane. They successfully punched through the plane's windshield only to later learn upon [[ReadTheFreakingManual RTFM'ing]] that the windshield they'd bought wasn't rated as bird-resistant to begin with. They did discover an amusing way to de-bone an oven-stuffer, though. That said, they ''did'' eventually confirm the point of the experiment; it makes a difference if the birds are ''frozen'' first before firing.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': The sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAxJg74NbwA "Spaceship"]] features a super-intelligent chicken being the captain of a spaceship, which causes some friction with the human crew. And Creator/ChrisHemsworth has been dating her since the Academy.
* Who could forget Kramer's buddy Little Jerry Seinfeld on ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}''?
* Just once, there ''was'' a live chicken on board the USS ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Enterprise-D]]''. In this case, brought on board by a bunch of [[{{Oireland}} Irish throwback colonists]] who were being evacuated from an unstable star. Ridiculous enough for you yet? [[HilarityEnsues The chicken suddenly flying out of the Transporter Room was simply the first hint of what was to come.]]
* A recurring gag on ''Series/{{Svengoolie}}'' has the HorrorHost pelted with rubber chickens whenever he makes a [[LamePunReaction particularly bad pun]]. He also sometimes has a wisecracking rubber chicken puppet named "Kerwyn" as a sidekick who helps him read viewer mail.
* The October 9, 1986 episode of ''Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson'' featured Johnny announcing the death of Baby, a rooster who had appeared on the show in 1978. He then proceeds to deliver a eulogy, during which he is joined onstage by a comically large number of hens, ostensibly the rooster's many "widows." Afterward, he notes to cohost Ed [=McMahon=] that the birds used in the skit are in fact legitimately "showbiz chickens" with a list of impressive credits.
* The ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Once Upon a Time," wherein Buster Keaton travels in time between 1890 and 1961. The town of Harmony, New York, is obviously bigger and busier in the then-present day, but why the past version of the town would have had random chickens roaming the streets simply because it was 1890 is left as an exercise for the viewer. (One of said chickens becomes an unwitting time traveler as well.)
* The Series/BBCHistoricalFarmSeries has some episodes involving funny antics by poultry. An episode of ''Wartime Farm'' includes [[https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=1473 a scene]] where the presenters have a surprised hen briefly waving her wings and legs at them, after they carefully pick her off from a henhouse perch, in order to examine her age and health.
* One of Sal's punishments on ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' has him wrangling a bunch of chickens while his father watches.
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[[folder:Music]]
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7KQAw4hQE Chicken Reel]]". In fact, it is a StandardSnippet whenever chickens appear in old cartoons.
* The solo guitarist Music/{{Buckethead}} has named many songs related to chickens, such as "Chicken for Lunch", "Chicken" and "I can only carry 50 chickens at a time". He also wears a KFC bucket on his head.
* Many a child of the '90s could tell you about that era's favorite embarrassing dance: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_MPCUyuqJ8&feature=related the Chicken Dance]].
* Music/RayStevens has done plenty of chicken songs, including "Teenage Mutant Kung Fu Chickens" and renditions of "''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra''" and "In the Mood" entirely in chicken clucks.
* Hasil Adkins has an album called "Poultry In Motion".
* Celtic Folk Rock band Emerald Rose has "The Chicken Raid of Cymru", a very bizarre and funny song in the style of ZZ Top, about a Celtic livestock raid that decided to go after chickens instead of the traditional cattle or sheep.
* In the Music/JimiHendrix instrumental "Third Stone From The Sun", an alien fleet arrives at Earth to search for intelligent life and somehow conclude that the only creature that qualifies is the chicken. At the end, they make off with all of the chickens before blowing up the planet.
* Chinese pop star Wang Rong Rollin's song Chick Chick is all about chickens, accompanied by an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjxSJ0482U4 equally bizarre music video]].
* Music/TallyHall gave us the hip-hop standard "Mucka Blucka", which is essentially what would happen if you gave a chicken a hip-hop recording contract. It was infamously featured in an episode of ''Series/TheGoodWife'', to which Creator/JoelMcHale proclaimed on ''Series/TheSoup'' to be "The greatest transition in TV history!"
* One of Music/LouisJordan's hits is titled "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens". Naturally, it was covered on ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.
* The lyrics of the Music/{{Queen}} song "One Vision," as presented in the liner notes of the ''Music/AKindOfMagic'' album, end in a simple TitleDrop; however, on the album track itself, as well as in live performances, the phrase "fried chicken" is substituted for "one vision." Presumably this is a bit of in-studio silliness that was allowed to remain in the final cut.
* "Cows with Guns" by Dana Lyons is mainly about cows, but the bovine rebellion gets some surprise air support from chickens in choppers.
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[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* Averted with the Sarimanok of Filipino mythology, a mystical, rainbow-colored rooster that essentially functions as the Philippines' take on ThePhoenix. It is said to be majestic and beautiful, able to soar like an eagle, and was essential to the creation of the first man and woman when it pecked them out of the bark of a tree. It was a frequent pet/companion to the Filipino creator deities.
* The EasternZodiac has the Year of the Rooster as the tenth year because the Rooster was the one who spotted a conveniently placed raft, and he, [[SweetSheep the Sheep]], and the Monkey used teamwork to sail across the river and head to the finish line together.
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[[folder:Pinballs]]
* In ''Pinball/MedievalMadness'', a chicken is one of the items you can catapult at the castle.
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* While training to face [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin "Stone Cold" Steve Austin]], [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon Shane [=McMahon=]]] urged his father [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] to chase a chicken around a pen. Exactly what this was supposed to accomplish, neither seemed to know, but it resulted in wrestling fans everywhere getting to watch the 50-year-old CEO of the company hunched over, running through snow and mud after an uncooperative chicken. An obvious shout-out to the Rocky series, where Mickey makes Rocky chase a chicken to become more agile.
* [[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/c/chicken-neck.html Chicken Neck!]]
* [[Characters/{{ECW}} ECW's "The Angry Amish Warrior" Roadkill]]'s CatchPhrase, said at the end of every promo with his TagTeam partner "Dastardly" Danny Doring, was "'''CHICKENS!'''"[[note]]This was the only word he would say.[[/note]]
* As part of Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie's parody of Wrestling/ScottHall during the BWO's debut at the start of ''ECW November to Remember 96'', he had a chicken bone in his mouth taking the place of Hall/Razor Ramon's toothpick.
* [[Characters/WWERockNWrestling The Red Rooster]]
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* There's lots of chickens in ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
** The Great Gonzo (who may himself be some sort of bird, although probably not a chicken) is in love with Camilla the Chicken and has chased other chickens romantically (namely out of confusion). [[MST3KMantra Don't think about it too hard]].
** While Gonzo is a Whatever (or an alien, if you take ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' as canon), his interest in chickens actually comes from an improvised joke. Originally they were trying to use dancing chickens, but none of the so-called "trained chickens" could dance, so it just showed Gonzo auditioning them. The line that established his chicken fetish was "Nice legs, though."
--->'''Statler:''' How come chickens are so big on this show?\\
'''Waldorf:''' Well, chickens thrive on corn!
** This trope is taken to its natural extreme when, during one episode, EVERYBODY turns into a chicken, so that all the skits and acts have to be done as chickens. Well, Creator/JimHenson thought chickens were the funniest animals in the world, so naturally, an episode devoted to chickens makes sense.
** One of the most memorable sketches was chickens clucking "Baby Face", and the puppeteers performed that at Henson's memorial.
--->'''Statler:''' Why would they have a bunch of chickens clucking "Baby Face"?\\
'''Waldorf:''' Because the alligators were sick.\\
'''Statler:''' Makes sense.
* In ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'', Fozziwig (the movie's version of Fezziwig, Scrooge's old boss) runs a rubber chicken factory.
* ''WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow'': BAWK!
* Chica the chicken, a kazoo-voiced puppet who interacts with human hosts in the live "[[Series/TheSunnySideUpShow Sunny Side Up Show]]" block on Creator/PBSKidsSprout and has toplined the block's spin-off series, ''Series/TheChicaShow'', since 2012. In that show, the supporting cast includes her parents, who can speak English but are also [[LargeHam large hams]] (or chickens as the case may be).
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has a commoner-only flaw: "chicken infested". A character with this flaw must roll whenever he reaches for something, and on a failure, pulls out a chicken. It is possibly the silliest rule in ''D&D'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103915 which has not stopped optimizers]] [[LethalJokeCharacter from doing terrifying things]] with this unlimited conjuration power. From ''Magazine/{{Dragon}} Magazine'' #330, page 87.
* Post-apocalyptic TTRPG ''After the Bomb'' (which originated as, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer if you'll believe it]], a ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' TTRPG) uses the chicken-dinosaur connection in the backstory to explain the monstrous enemy allosaurs roaming the countryside: they were the... [[GoneHorriblyWrong unexpected results]]... of an experiment in [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke bioengineering a better chicken]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}''
** There was a rather excellent modification that gave you a chicken launcher (complete with feathers, clucks, and screams). Nothing quite like rounding a corner and eating a high-velocity chicken.
** There was also a somewhat less excellent, but still very funny, mod for the original Doom that turned the rocket launcher into a chook launcher.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIII'' featured an arcade minigame called "Astro Chicken," the purpose of which was to land a chicken on a trampoline. The soundtrack was the aforementioned "Chicken Reel." The sequel game, "Ms. Astro Chicken," appeared in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIV''.
* Live chickens form the base of your dungeon's food chain in ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper''. You can also just swat or possess them [[RuleOfFunny for fun]], though there's generally not much point to it.
** An {{Intermission}} video from ''Dungeon Keeper 2'' has a [[PlayerMooks Bile]] [[{{Fartillery}} Demon]] showing off his skills with using a [[ImprobableWeaponUser pair of live chickens]] as [[https://youtu.be/1gxiLnTUz24 nunchakus]].
* The PlatformGame ''Flood'' featured an awesomely destructive flamethrower, but after drawing it a few times, your character Quiffy would pull out a rubber chicken instead, which clucked loudly to Quiffy's shock. (Then you pull out the flamethrower again.)
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'':
** The ultimate RandomEncounter is the Evil Chicken. [[LargeHam It plays its role well.]]
** It gets better than that! One quest has you infiltrate the chickens lair to which you are greeted by [[TheDragon Black Dragons]] some of the most feared creatures in the game.
** There was also a chicken sword given out for an event at some point.
* Typing [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} "idkfa"]] as a cheat code in ''VideoGame/{{Heretic}}'', instead of giving all weapons, full ammo, and max armor, turns the player into a chicken. There also exists an item called the Morph Ovum that does this to all monsters but the bosses.
* The [=MMORPG=] ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Online'' solves the problem of [[{{Griefer}} ganking]] in an innovative way: if a player tries to enter a [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]] zone that he or she is too high a level for, a powerful debuff hits them that, among other things, turns them into a chicken.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' video game:
** It allows you to use a chicken as a ''sniper rifle''. (It fires eggs with deadly accuracy.)
** For some reason, a bunch of turkeys were led by one murderous cock.
* The cross-platform computer game ''Tribal Trouble'' pits Vikings against natives, with three tiers of raw material for building increasingly powerful weapons: wood, iron, and... chickens.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', if your persistent Brave stat (measured on a scale of 0-100) drops too low during a battle, you literally chicken out and become a fowl. The AI takes over your character and makes him or her run to a corner of the battlefield to escape the conflict, and about 1/4 of all changes to Brave remain after the battle. (Click [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/197339-final-fantasy-tactics/faqs/15053 here]] for an explanation of the mechanics.) There is a spell, "Chicken," designed to make someone's Brave score plummet. It's on your side, and it's awesome.
* The otherwise-forgotten FightingGame ''VideoGame/MaceTheDarkAge'' gave us the ''fire-breathing'' chicken Pojo. In his ending, he acquires the titular artifact, grows gigantic, and is said to inspire the legends of dragons. In ''{{VideoGame/Gauntlet}} Legends'' and its UpdatedRerelease ''Dark Legacy'', grabbing an Egg power-up briefly turns you into Pojo.
** Entering "EGG" as your initials in ''Gauntlet Legends'' makes you Pojo for the entire duration of the game.
* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' franchise gives us Chocobos, giant adorable (mostly) flightless birds used as mounts.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has a few chicken-related things:
** There is an easter egg to acquire a chicken pet. It involves the /chicken taunt.
** Engineers can make a Gnomish Battle Chicken. It usually hits for pitiful amounts of damage but occasionally enrages. It may also buff its owner with extra attack power. A non-combat version is also available from a series of quests
** Engineers can also build a Gnomish Poultryfier, which will temporarily turn the target into a chicken, making it unable to attack. It has a chance to malfunction and turn the user into a chicken or turn the target into a giant chicken, increasing its attack power.
** A warlock quest chain involves a gnome trying to summon a mighty demon... but the result is a giant chicken aptly named El Pollo Grande.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** Beating up cuccos (the equivalent of chickens in the setting) causes them to swarm-attack you in revenge. Best. Video game death. ''Ever.''
** Not to mention the trading quests and minigames involving cuccos, and the fact that you can use them as gliders.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', you [[KarmicTransformation turn into a Cucco instead.]] Also insanely awesome.
** In [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda the manga]] based on ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Seasons]]'', Link has a pet Cucco chick named Piyoko.
** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors''
*** Cuccos spawn on some maps as friends, neutrals, or enemies depending on the mission. Lana can summon them with an alternate weapon.
*** [[spoiler: A giant cucco gets PromotedToPlayable in the "Boss Pack" DownloadableContent, unlocked by getting an "A" rank in all of the Ganon's Fury missions.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Octogeddon}}'', the Chicken tentacle is one of the most goofy-looking ones It attacks by shooting explosive eggs from its beak and clucks comically every time it does so.
* ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E28WrhpTzQA "Madre de Dios! Es el Pollo Diablo!"]]
** Not to mention the rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle from ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland''.
* A SillinessSwitch power of ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' is a rain of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot meteor chickens]]. [[MadeOfExplodium That explode]]. Into [[CoveredInGunge purple slime]].
* The campaign "Valley of the Mad" in ''VideoGame/RiseOfLegends'' features Chicken Hallucinations - which are dwarfs in gas masks riding armored chickens and carrying spears. Giacomo, your mind is a dark and scary place...
* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'', there's a shop that's overrun with deranged, violent chickens, and you can summon the swarm with a cheat code. (The code? [[ShoutOut "thegreatgonzo"]].)
** Further, in one area of the game you can come across a talking chicken, who claims to be a mage who tried out a new spell that went awry. If you bring him back to his master (as the mage is a mere apprentice), there's a chance he can be turned back via a spell called "antichickenator". The [[PlayerCharacter PC]] can be a {{Jerkass}} and make several unkind puns about the situation.
--->'''Protagonist:''' This bird is possessed! This chicken is FOWL!
** Also, if you click many times a chicken, its joke quote reads "Nobody here but us chickens."
* The Morph-O-Ray in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002'' game turned enemies into chickens. In ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando Going Commando]]'', someone apparently got the idea to turn all the resulting chickens into killer robots.
** In later games this evolved into phoenix ducks from hell.
* You know what would've improved ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' a lot? If it had been more like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oxH6LVX8Wc this]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' series embraces this trope. In each game, there are plenty of chickens in rural areas that you can violently punt to relieve boredom/laugh at the pain of helpless animals. There are achievements for chicken-kicking, and there is one Demon Door that can be opened by kicking a chicken into it. Each game also has at least one sidequest involving chickens, and each game has some kind of wearable chicken suit. A chicken is also featured as the protagonist of ''VideoGame/FableIII'''s opening FMV.
** WANT ... MEAT!
* ''VideoGame/TheBardsTale'' has chickens running around the first town, which can be killed for meat. If you kill too many, though, you get to fight a rather peeved boss chicken.
* Everything's better with... [[VideoGame/BackyardSports the Rowdy Roosters]]!
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Chansey vaguely resembles a hen, but she is often portrayed as TheMedic.
** The Torchic family. Although they are based on the badass blood-sport chickens from Thailand, rather than the silly aspects of chickens.
** Part of Tapu Koko's name comes from clucking sounds, and in the anime, it sounds very chicken-like. However, aside from being a playful JerkassGod at times, it's not that silly [[spoiler:especially when you face it as ''Sun and Moon's'' PostFinalBoss]].
* ''VideoGame/TotalOverdose'' has many, many chickens running around, which of course can be shot. The nice twist is ammo is rare so you have to balance blasting bad guys to destroying fowl.
* Everything is not better with General [[ThatOneBoss Tsao]] in ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'', despite being a chicken. Instead he's an armored warlord who abducts women and [[KickTheDog kicked a puppy]]. ''Twice''.
** There's a level in [[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus the first game]] where you have to kill a large number of chickens in a fixed time period in order to get one of the treasure keys to the third boss. The roosters carried explosives.
* In ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'', first you would find dynamite, a standard grenade-type weapon. Then, you find a crossbow and tie the dynamite to its ammunition. Redneck Rocketlauncher, a la ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard''. ''Then''... you find a chicken. You tie the chicken to the arrow and jam a stick of dynamite into the then-obvious place. ''Guided'' Redneck Rocketlauncher.
* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstone}}'' has chickens in the player character's hometown, from which a Thief character has the option of stealing eggs. One of the dungeons includes a room populated by nothing but chickens which prove to be inexplicably hostile. Possibly a ShoutOut to ''The Legend Of Zelda'' and its deadly cuccos, but this is unconfirmed.
* If [[DeepFriedWhatever a roasted kind]] counts, then ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 3's Tekken Force'' heath powerup ''had'' to be mentioned.
** [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound * gulp* CHICKENN]]
* ''VideoGame/ForeignLegionBucketsOfBlood'' has chickens hidden in each of the levels. Finding all the chickens in a single level nets you an achievement.
* ''VideoGame/{{Drakan}}: The Ancients' Gates'' had, as a semi-hidden mini-BonusBoss, a ten-foot-tall man-eating chicken with glowing red eyes. It was actually a bit nightmarish, as its cave was littered with blood and dead bodies, and it was perfectly possible to run into it at the beginning of the game without knowing about it.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'' has a map that includes, amongst other things, many caged chickens. Of course, there is an achievement you can get for [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential killing a certain number of chickens in so many seconds.]]
* In the first ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'' game, a prankster known as "The Gremlin" leaves a live chicken on Sgt. Dooley's desk while he's gone. It flaps around and shits all over the place. This does not make Dooley happy.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' has Colonel Pluck, the boss of the level "Feather Fiend," who is a chicken controlling some kind of giant mecha, which also happens to shoot enemy robot chickens. As you can see [[http://uk.ign.com/videos/2010/11/20/donkey-kong-country-returns-world-7-b-feather-fiend?objectid=14354707 in this IGN video]], the sheer concept looks absolutely hilarious.
* Some of the enemies found in Level 2 of ''VideoGame/Stinkoman20X6'' are robotic chickens known as Terrells (the ones that resemble bouncing, disembodied chicken heads), Grundies (the ones that run back and forth), and Stobats (the ones that spit bones at you). The level's boss is even a giant chicken robot called Brody, who actually tries to stomp Stinkoman with his feet!
%%* ''VideoGame/BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg''.
* [[http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=25395 Mort the Chicken]], a low-budget platformer released near the end of the [=PS1=]'s lifespan (in America), was about a chicken who has to rescue the farm's chicks from evil cubes. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Seriously]].
* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 3'':
** The multiplayer map "Old Town" has chickens wandering around aimlessly. You can shoot them, kick them, and even ''grenade tag'' them to make them explode in a puff of red mist.
** The single-player campaign has a chicken on the first level that, if you shoot it, will transform into a giant golden chicken that chases you around the level and ''breathes fire''. If you manage to kill it, it explodes into confetti. Later, in Act IV, if you're playing on the highest difficulty, there's a storeroom containing a chicken wearing a pirate hat. This one skips the fire-breathing golden chicken phase and goes straight to confetti.
* Burn Rooster of ''VideoGame/MegaManX 8'' gives the term "[[PlayingWithFire fried chicken]]" a new meaning.
* A bug in beta versions of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' caused chickens to report crimes if they happened to be in the area when it was committed. Development lead Todd Howard ''said'' they fixed it since it wouldn't be fair to players unaware of it, but amused players resolved to [[GameMod mod it back in]] once the game was released, and [[http://www.gamesas.com/chickens-still-detect-crimes-t195403.html it was still being reported almost half a year later.]]
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' featured chicken-like enemies found in various desert levels that threw bombs at the player instead of eggs.
* A RandomEncounter in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Storm of Zehir'' had you run across a flock of chickens, one of which carried a note in its beak. Turns out it was an adventuring party that had been [[BalefulPolymorph turned into chickens]].
* ''VideoGame/MondayNightCombat'' introduced an arena-specific boss: A big mechanical chicken named Chickey Cantor (a play on the announcer's name Mickey). While a pretty serious thing game-wise, the whole presentation plays the RuleOfFunny.
* In ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' and [[VideoGame/Dota2 its sequel]], Rhasta the Shadow Shaman has an ability that turns his target into a chicken. He can get pretty excited over it.
* The BonusDungeon in the original ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'' is filled with crazed chickens named after several of the developers and executives. The boss of them drops the Chicken Gun, a super-powered ranged weapon that fires chickens at your target. The expansion, ''Legends of Aranna'', has in its bonus room the nature magic spell "Bubberjack's Orb of Poultry," which causes a chicken to fly around your head firing eggs at any enemies that are in range.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', there's a very rare chance that a Chicken Jockey spawns in place of a zombie. It's pretty hilarious seeing a tiny zombie riding on a chicken.
* ''Videogame/{{Guacamelee}}'': Chickens appear as a recurring visual theme, and as the butt of jokes as well.
* In the MMORPG ''Seal Online'', there are creatures called Piyas that have many chicken motifs. As pets, they have a rare chance of evolving into King of All Chicken or Queen of All Chicken in their fifth stage.
* ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'''s Witch Doctor has the Angry Chicken Hex which turns them into a chicken for two seconds before exploding for massive damage [[LethalJokeCharacter and it's not entirely useless]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Alchademy}}'': In contrast to most of the other alchemists, who look just a little creepy, Chicha is a plump, silly-looking chicken. She admits to the player that she sometimes tries to drink the cauldron's water when no one is looking.
* The ''VideoGame/MedievalCop'' series first gave us Mel Vin, [[WindmillCrusader sworn protector of humanity against the evil chickens]], then in the spin-off series it turned out that there ''is'' actually a chicken maffia planning to take over the world... To be fair it was also revealed in that game that the rabbits are trying to seize the means of production.
* The earliest (and best remembered) games in the ''VideoGame/{{Stronghold}}'' series of castle sims include a lot of detail in their settler characters, including the option to click on any of the human settlers and domestic animals and get some information on their names and current activities. The info on individual animals extends not just to dogs or oxen, but even ''chickens'', who appear under names like "Squawker", "Clucky", etc. Descriptions for the chickens' activities include the likes of "pecking" and "clucking about".
* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'', the Mach Bowl bowling alley holds a special event where if you bowl a turkey (three strikes in a row), [[{{Pun}} you win a Christmas turkey]]. However, something must have gone wrong somewhere along the chain, as upon bowling a turkey, Kiryu instead wins a chicken. A live one. He decides to keep it and names it Nugget. [[RefugeInAudacity And hire it as a manager for his real estate firm]].
** Later games in the series (and sort-of-entry ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'') have since turned Nugget (sometimes under different names) into a RunningGag.
* In ''VideoGame/MuppetMonsterAdventure'', Robin is armed with a [[AbnormalAmmo Ballistic Chicken Launcher]].
* The Yian Kut-Ku of ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' is a Bird Wyvern that resembles a scaly chicken mixed with a cuckoo bird (but with big frilly auricles instead of a comb.) It serves as several games' WarmUpBoss and as a ButtMonkey for several monsters. Almost everything it does is also ''hilarious'', from it charging at you and klutzily falling on its face to it running at you in an incredibly goofy way. You'd best not treat it as a ''total'' joke, however, as it can huck [[AbnormalAmmo Konchus]] and [[PlayingWithFire fireballs]] at you. Very much not the case for its cousin the [[FeatheredFiend Yian]] [[BloodKnight Garuga.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Majesty}}'', building a temple to the local god of chaos allows you to recruit Warriors of Discord--huge, terrifying {{Blood Knight}}s who wield gigantic blade-sticks and will destroy every enemy in their path from a mental location far beyond the edge of reason. They are also strongly associated with chickens. In-game, a Warrior of Discord who chooses to flee will literally cluck like a chicken before running. And their associated Tale on the website relates the tale of one Warrior of Discord who took his beloved pet chicken into battle on his belt (with tragically predictable results).
* In ''VideoGame/NotTonight 2'', there's a slaughterhouse in Louisville, Kentucky, in which you, the bouncer, are tasked with sorting out the chickens by age and the amount of growth hormones used before they can be sent to the slaughter. It's also very funny if you turn away some chickens that are not appropriate for the slaughterhouse, making them grow irritated.
* In the Alcatraz Elementary level of ''VideoGame/NightmareNed'', one of the enemy creatures in a ''VideoGame/StreetFighter''-esque minigame is a chicken sculpture made out of a glove, which can also turn into a fist and punch you. The way to be able to hit it requires moving a mobile with Ned's yo-yo, where it predictably caws at the sun.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* Say what you will about Machinima/{{Leeroy Jenkins|Video}}, but at least he has chicken.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8KQlZJcv8 100 Ways to Die in Skyrim, Part 1]]'' starts with the execution scene in Solitude, only the condemned has been modded out in favor of a rather confused-looking chicken. Also, somewhere around Way to Die #45 is "trampled by giant chicken".
* Romulus, the spoiled brat from ''WebAnimation/OfWeaselsAndChickens'' is a small yellow chick with an annoying voice. The hens in the henhouse also appear often as minor comic-relief characters.
* In the ''WebAnimation/CartoonHooligans'' episode "What if Doctor Strange Ripped His Clothes", a reverse-evolution process is used to depict Doctor Strange shrinking Hulk's penis using {{Visual Pun}}s, with each evolution stage having a chicken sound playing, going from a full-grown [[{{Pun}} cock]] (Mega Blaziken) to a chick (Torchic).
* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsDigitalSeries'': In "Fluttershy's Butterflies", the "Ask Applejack" ending has Applejack advise Fluttershy to [[ImagineTheAudienceNaked imagine everyone in the audience as a chicken]] to help her get over her stage fright.
* ''WebAnimation/BadDays'': At the end of ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'s episode, he is [[BalefulPolymorph turned into a chicken]] (still wearing his helmet) by ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} using the Infinity Gauntlet, and left to cluck powerlessly on an asteroid.
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Perry, Snake, and Duck get chased by a giant chicken in their game in [='VRcade'=]. Duck ends up using it as a BeastOfBattle against their Darkness counterparts later on.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/BeyondTheCanopy''. The Chez Cluck-Off employs chicken chefs. Said chickens turn out to also be full partners in Greliz's confidence schemes. This leads to sight gags with chickens in aprons and chef hats, or ties and fedoras.
* In ''Webcomic/EmergencyExit'', [[CloudCuckooLander Eddie]] believes the chickens are evil and eventually fights a giant chicken.
* ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'' has... well... [=RBCs=] (Random Black Chickens) running around. They are evil and actively plotting to take over the magical land of the resident fae, who developed chicken phobia because of them and really doesn't appreciate the humor the other cast members finding in it.
* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' has a character called "what chicken" that always appears (and looks indignant) when a chicken-related joke is made.
* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=8 This]] ''[[Webcomic/{{Mezzacotta}} Lightning Made of Owls]]'' strip renders two of the main characters as chickens.
* [[http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/mi-21/mi-21.html This]] ''Morning Improv'' comic by Scott [=McCloud=] mentions Chicken Pepsi.
* One ''Webcomic/TheParkingLotIsFull'' comic involves a linguist regretting her creation, a one-word language that had become universally accepted. The word? Well, it's in this trope, so guess.
* [[http://www.savagechickens.com/ Savage Chickens]], naturally.
* ''Webcomic/VenusEnvy'' has a chicken teaching hard science.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Blog/ChickenMaker'' runs on this.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken.]]'' [[https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf The paper]] is available for a more in-depth examination.
* ''Website/DragonCave'' includes, amongst well, dragons, the occasional chicken egg at the front of the cave, which always grows into a hen. There are, similarly, chubby and cartoonish [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]] that are just as comically out of place. The source of both is unknown, but one wonders what fate has befallen the chickens' parents, living so close to a cave full of dragons and all...
* [[http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/ Every Topic In The Universe Except Chickens]]. Basically, Ryan North (author of ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'') thinks that the problem of vandalism on {{Wiki/Wikipedia}} can be solved if all {{Wiki Vandal}}s agree to focus their vandalism exclusively on the article about chickens. Because "Dudes already know about chickens."
* [[http://www.technochicken.com Techno Chicken]]
%%* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'':
%%** Its own gruesome take on this trope, the two-headed [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/cockatross.htm Cockatross.]]
%%** The [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/bucbuclaw.htm Bucbuclaw]].
* ''WebVideo/AutoTuneTheNews'': Schmoyoho recently released the hilarious [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miomuSGoPzI "Chicken Attack"]] featuring world-famous Japanese yodeler Music/TakeoIschi.
* ''Literature/WorldDominationInRetrospect'': Where would Psycho Gecko be without his rubber chicken grenades? Pull their head off to arm them, but they'll attempt to cross the nearest road. Despite inventing them, Gecko is clueless as to why they cross roads.
* ''AudioPlay/LeDonjonDeNaheulbeuk'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTjuc4--xE a song]] where the Ranger fights a chicken. It ends badly for him.
* [[NightmareFuel Disturbingly]] averted in one user's dream in ''Literature/NightmareBeings'', which featured a [[MindScrew mud-covered headless human body that walked around on its hands making clucking sounds]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
%%* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' combines this trope with {{Animal Stereotype}}s for cows.
* Ed from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' loves chickens more than anything else in the world (with the possible exception of buttered toast and gravy), and given that one of his neighbours is FunnyForeigner and suburban farmer Rolf, chickens appear in many episodes. Eddy, on the other hand, is terrified of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' has Chicken Boo, who wears a PaperThinDisguise to look like human guys, but there's always one character who sees through his disguise and tries to convince everyone "He's a chicken, I tell you! A giant Chicken!"
-->''You wear a disguise to look like human guys\\
But you're not a man, you're a chicken, Boo''
%%* Ernie The Giant Chicken from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
* There is also a giant chicken on ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer''. Naturally, his name is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Big Red Chicken]].
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' had some instances of people dressed in chicken suits.
** One episode had a bit analyzing the humor content of certain words. "Chicken" came up as "extremely funny."
** There's also Roy, a chicken who featured prominently in the US Acres segments. Booker was also a young chicken, as presumably was Sheldon (though he never fully hatches).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' had at least two episodes based on this trope: one where Egon becomes a "werechicken," and one where an eccentric man makes a magical wish that causes all the chickens in the world to disappear.
** Writer Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's bosses were very worried about him when he turned that one in...
* Dib from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' encountered "Chickenfoot". He's not a freak, he's just stupid.
** Zim once put a pair of chickens into a centrifuge and fired one into the sun, for no readily apparent reason.
*** [[LargeHam "Hmmmmmmm, CHICKEN!!!"]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' of course. The intro features a MadScientist finding a dead chicken [[StealthPun who failed to cross the road]], turns it into a cyborg, and forces it to watch a bunch of random crap.
** There was also one skit that featured anthropomorphic chickens acting out a ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode. The humor comes from the fact that all dialogue is "buk buk bagok!" and the story can only be told through the title cards and context.
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': Arise, chicken!
** Also, Chicken Biddle in TheMovie. A humanoid chicken nugget shaped like a chicken, voiced by Creator/BruceCampbell.
* Foghorn Leghorn, the blowhard rooster from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' (not to mention Miss Prissy, Egghead, and his other fowl adversaries).
** For completeness' sake, we should also add Fowlmouth from ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''.
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': "Dave and the Giant Pickle": Bob, giving the [[AnAesop aesop]], explains that "with God, all things are possible." Larry promptly asks if God can turn him into a chicken.
** Larry would later attempt to invoke the trope in "The Wonderful World of Autotainment" by randomly wearing a chicken hood on the basis that it was unexpected, thus making it automatically funny. It wouldn't have been funny if it was expected.
* There is a chicken hidden somewhere in every episode of ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks''. A recurring one has a crush on [[TeamPet Radarr]].
* WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack got turned into a chicken in one episode.
* A minor recurring character on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' is "a [[SimpleCountryLawyer simple Hyperchicken from a backwoods asteroid]]".
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer accuses a chicken of hustling him at checkers. Also, in one of the Halloween episodes, Homer becomes part-chicken. In yet another episode, Cletus faces the classic FoxChickenGrainPuzzle.
** In "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", a chicken replaced Homer at the power plant.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill,'' Peggy entered a Boggle tournament and performed miserably. Still, she did better than "Boggle-Playing Chicken."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' episode "Pop-Sicles", Beezy dresses up in a chicken suit and goes about annoying people to prove to his father, Lucius, that he could create misery too. Needless to say, Lucius was unimpressed. Beezy would be seen in the chicken suit in a few later episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' has Scratch, a robotic rooster created by Dr. Robotnik who serves as a member of the Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad.
-->'''Robotnik:''' Hmm...perhaps I made you ''too'' chicken.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' ended with a live-action baby chick hatching out of an animated egg.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' demonstrated that the most logical way to get someone else to read is to make love to chickens.
* Spot, the neurotic chicken who thinks she's a dog from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries''
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Fluttershy has a chicken coop at her house. [[FeatheredFiend The cockatrice]] from the Everfree Forest on the other hand is an inversion since [[TakenForGranite it can petrify anyone that looks into its eyes]].
** After Apple Bloom calls her "chicken" in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]", jokes abound about Scootaloo being an actual chicken.
** "Boneless" is the CompanionCube of party pony [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Cheese Sandwich]]. One MediumShiftGag even shows Boneless as a live-action rubber chicken.
** Gallus the Griffon's name is the Latin word for "rooster".
* Chick Bantam from ''WesternAnimation/TheMooFamilyHolidayHoedown''.
* Nanny from ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula''.
* Lady Baden-Baden from ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons''.
* French series WesternAnimation/AvezVousDejaVu is a firm believer in this trope, judging by the number of episodes they dedicate to chickens. These include (but are not limited to): a chicken who [[MagicPlasticSurgery wants to become an elephant]], a chick visiting his grandma (a rotisserie chicken), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SktCirPRJs8 an extremely rich chicken]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OdNUcJNcJ8 a racechicken]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2qi5ZlZCaE a boy band of chicks]].
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' has Joey and AP fight a creation of [[EccentricMillionaire Mintenberg]] called the werechicken, a mutant chicken that becomes a monster when exposed to moonlight.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': When a hulking were-chicken stalks the camp, [=McGee=] must lead the hunt to prove his innocence in "Curse of The Were-Chicken''.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In the episode "What a Croc!", Dr. Doofenshmirtz [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this trope with his Chicken-Replace-inator, which replaces whatever it hits with the nearest chicken, with the intent of humiliating his brother, the mayor.
--> '''Dr. Doofenshmirtz:''' He goes from prestigious mayor with a major award to just some guy holding a chicken. I mean, have you ever seen anyone not laugh at a chicken? Chicken, laugh! Chicken, laugh! It's obligatory.
* ''WesternAnimation/TumbleLeaf'': The chickens that live on Fig's ship, tending gardens and cooking, and participating in the odd FunnyBackgroundEvent
* Henry Cabot Henhouse III, better known as [[WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle Super Chicken]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "Jeepers! It's the Creeper!", when Scooby and Shaggy hide from the Creeper in a chicken coop, one of the eggs hatch, and the chick [[{{Imprinting}} automatically thinks Scooby is its mother. It spends the rest of the episode following Scooby.]]
* Chuckles from ''WesternAnimation/FluffyGardens'' is a literal funny chicken who likes to tell jokes. However, it takes him a lot of courage to tell jokes since he's ''very'' [[ShrinkingViolet shy]] around others, to the point where he's afraid to go outside.
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' has an egg-shaped planet called Cluckon inhabited by a chickenlike alien species. In "The Boy Wander," PracticallyJoker villain Dr. Screwball Jones steals all their feathers to fuel a giant tickle machine. There's also minor villain General [=McGuffin=], who, while more of a NobleBirdOfPrey with a military {{Eagleland}} vibe, upon being zapped by Lord Hater [[spoiler:turns into a bucket of fried bird resembling the [[UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken classic KFC meal]], and ''remains that way'' in subsequent episodes while still appearing fully sapient and functional.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' has the Chick-A-Lisk, a giant demonic chicken summoned by an arcane ritual. Besides being huge, it can breathe fire and turn people to stone with its eyebeams.
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->[[HehHehYouSaidX Heh heh]], [[DoubleEntendre Cock]].

* Averted with Chicken George of ''Manga/{{Fourteen}}'', [[NarmCharm (At least in intention)]] who is a horrifying [[GoneHorriblyWrong abortion of science,]] a featherless ToothyBird, and a MadScientist in his own right as well.

[[folder:Real Life]]
* Chicken: The Poor Man's turkey.
* Having volunteers [[HypnoFool cluck like a chicken]] during stage-hypnosis acts is practically a TruthInTelevision trope of its own.
* Creator/WernerHerzog has a crippling fear of chickens and includes them in several symbolic scenes in his movies.
* Some scientists have theorized on reviving dinosaurs in a strange way: not through time travel or mosquitoes in amber, mind you, but by reverse-engineering a chicken back into a dinosaur! The idea is that chickens, like all birds, still have the genes for dinosaur traits such as teeth and clawed fingers, they just turn off early on in development. In theory, by reactivating the genes that grow these features, a chick could hatch that has a toothed snout instead of a beak, a longer bony tail, and hands instead of wings: basically, a fluffy, yellow mini-raptor.
** Of course, chickens already ARE dinosaurs, so this isn't technically "reviving" a dinosaur, only getting a highly-derived modern dinosaur to exhibit more primitive traits.
* There is at least one scientific paper consisting entirely of the word chicken, [[http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf "Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken"]] by University of Washington's Doug Zonker. (The paper also been [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk presented]] at AAAS.) It emulates much of the structure of a real computer science paper (right down to citing sources, or in this case, appearing to), and at a distance might even be mistaken for one, but upon careful review, [[DontExplainTheJoke it does not advance any novel research, and the programming flowchart isn't particularly useful for software development]] (read: chicken chicken chicken, chicken chickens chicken).
* Sue Lowden made headlines by suggesting that, instead of progressive health care reform, America should revert to the good old days when people paid for health care by bartering with chickens, although it could be argued that this is in fact a subversion of the Trope.
* [[OlderThanFeudalism When]] Creator/{{Plato}} gave Creator/{{Socrates}}' definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, [[TheGadfly Diogenes]] plucked [[ExactWords a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man."]] After this incident, [[MovingTheGoalposts "with broad flat nails"]] was added to Plato's definition.
* [[http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/index.php Mike the Headless Chicken.]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockfight Cockfighting]]. A very brutal sport where two roosters [[DuelToTheDeath fight to the death.]] Two enter a pit or arena where they precede to kick, scratch, and peck each other. In communities where cockfighting is the preferred choice among BeastlyBloodsports, spurs are attached. This allows for [[CleanCut quick kills]] instead of long drawn out [[DeathOfAThousandCuts disfigurement.]] Abhorrent to the modern Western person but a very quick source of entertainment in parts where cows outnumber people.
** Although cockfighting is looked down upon in modern Western society, it's thought to have been instrumental in the introduction of chickens to much of Oceania: eggs and bird meat aren't exactly hard to come by on tropical islands where seabirds roost in huge numbers, but gamecocks could be used for ''gambling'', not just dinner. It's still considered the unofficial national pastime among many Filipinos.
** Interestingly, one theory of the domestication of chickens suggests that chickens were originally tamed for purposes of cockfighting and that the meat and egg uses were secondary to the fighting use for centuries.
* How numerous are chickens? When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, over a ''million'' chickens were lost as a result of damage to chicken farms in that part of the country. How much effect did this have on the cost of chicken in grocery stores due to this loss of supply? None whatsoever, as a [[AMillionIsAStatistic million chickens wasn't even a statistic]], as far as supply and demand went.
* An UrbanLegend claims that an aeronautics company was testing their latest fighter jet and wanted to see how it would deal with running into a bird in midair. A chicken was duly bought at the supermarket and fired at the aircraft, where it promptly shattered not only the windshield but also the crash dummy before embedding itself in the seat. There was much wailing and pointing of fingers as the engineers tried to find out why the cockpit had not held up. After numerous rounds of expensive tests, each ending with the chicken winning against the jet, the solution was finally found: [[spoiler:''thaw the chicken'' before testing.]]
** In her non-fiction book ''Grunt'', which focuses on the science behind modern militaries,[[note]]designing effective, durable field equipment, keeping soldiers healthy on a tour of duty, advances in reconstructive surgery, etc.[[/note]] pop-science author Mary Roach confirms that the chicken cannon is a real thing. She is silent, however, on the above story--which, given her sense of humor, suggests that it didn't happen.
* Every formally-recognized country in the world has chickens, including ones with no other livestock. Even the Vatican maintains a small indoor coop of hens for fresh eggs.
* Farmers note that the personalities of chickens vary from breed to breed; some breeds are docile, but others are notoriously aggressive and all of them have hierarchies within the flock, which is why we have the phrase "PECKING order." And while they're pretty benign omnivores normally (you can feed them a wide range of insects, grain, and table scraps), they're also known to catch all sorts of small mammals/reptiles that wander into the coop. Meaner chickens can get carried away with inter-flock hierarchies and will often pick on their lower-ranking members.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX4Jh-44-Nk This video of a giant chicken coming out of its coop]] has to be seen to be believed.
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** In ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'', a mishap with a cornucopia leads to Nanny Ogg's house being filled with hundreds of live chickens. ''Werk...'' Not a bad thing, as Rincewind in ''The Science of Discworld II'' has accurately observed that the chicken is Lancre's standard unit of currency.

* "Power Picnic," a story from the DC run of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', dealt with a family of giant one-eyed alien chickens who land in Townsville for a picnic, unaware there are living creatures underclaw.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': Scratch.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "Boneless" is the CompanionCube of party pony [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Cheese Sandwich]]. One MediumShiftGag even shows Boneless as a live-action rubber chicken.

* Ed from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' loves chickens more than anything else in the world (with the possible exception of buttered toast and gravy), and given that one of his neighbours is FunnyForeigner and suburban farmer Rolf, chickens appear in many episodes.
** Eddy, on the other hand, is terrified of them.

* Both Lady Kluck and Alan-A-Dale from ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood''.

Yes, technically chickens are a literal RealLife example of DomesticatedDinosaurs. [[RussianReversal In the modern age]], [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted you eat Raptor]]... and it TastesLikeChicken.

* "Cows with Guns" by Dana Lyons is mainly about [[EverythingsBetterWithCows another funny farm animal]], but the bovine rebellion gets some surprise air support from chickens in choppers.

* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' combines this trope with EverythingsBetterWithCows.

* ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11249784/8/ Phineas and Ferb Visit Jurassic World]]'': Dr. Doofenshmirtz accidentally transforms the ''Indominus rex'' into a chicken due to confusing his blueprints for the Dinosaur-Trust-inator with that for the Chicken-inator. At first, this seemed to make it easy for the ACU troop to capture the ''Indominus'', but unfortunately, the ''Indominus'' retains her ferocity (and teeth) while in chicken form. HilarityEnsues when the -inator goes out of control and turns several ACU soldiers into chickens. Luckily, the effects turn out to be temporary, which meant that the ''Indominus'' [[OhCrap would turn back to normal as well]].

[-[[caption-width-right:330:"He seems to lack the basic intelligence required for pretty much...everything."]]-]

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' has Master Chicken.

* In the Alcatraz Elementary level of ''NightmareNed'', one of the enemy creatures in a ''VideoGame/StreetFighter''-esque minigame is a chicken sculpture made out of a glove, which can also turn into a fist and punch you. The way to be able to hit it requires moving a mobile with Ned's yo-yo, where it predictably caws at the sun.

* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops:'' At one point in the ''My Little Pony Loops'', Twilight Sparkle takes to dressing up as a chicken. Why? No one knows, because whenever they ask, some disaster strikes. When her friends finally work up the courage to ask, just as she's about to answer, the loop resets.

* Their competitor, Jaguar, topped them with an replica of the commercial ending with their titular mascot [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PQS8SFWNQw eating one of them.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' features a chicken demon who first appears to be ridiculous, fat rooster, then transforms into a scary giant-chicken-thingy.

* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops:'' At one point in the ''My Little Pony Loops'', Twilight Sparkle takes to dressing up as a chicken. Why? No-one knows, because whenever they ask, some disaster strikes. When her friends finally work up the courage to ask, just as she's about to answer, the loop resets.

* ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11249784/8/ Phineas and Ferb Visit Jurassic World]]'': Dr. Doofenshmirtz accidentally transforms the ''Indominus rex'' into a chicken due to confusing his blueprints for the Dinosaur-Trust-inator with that for the Chicken-inator. At first, this seemed to make it easy for the ACU troop to capture the ''Indominus'', but unfortunately, the ''Indominus'' retains her ferocity (and teeth) while in chicken form. HilarityEnsues when the -inator goes out of control and turns several ACU soldiers into chickens. Luckily, the effects turn out to be temporarily, which meant that the ''Indominus'' [[OhCrap would turn back to normal as well]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'', about all animals, especially birds, are intelligent and able to communicate with each others... except for chickens, who are portrayed as google-eyed and stupid.

* In ''Film/OSS117CairoNestOfSpies'', Agent 117 goes undercover as the owner of a poultry business. At some point he fights a bad guy by ''hurling chickens at each other''. They also start panicking whenever the lights turn on, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSPuLN1rhaE leading to a scene]] where 117 [[EasilyAmused does it over and over.]]
* At the beginning of ''Film/USMarshals'', we see Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard staking out the suspected residence of a fugitive disguised as a the mascot of a chicken-based food chain giving away free samples. Making Creator/TommyLeeJones possibly the only person in film history capable of looking badass in a chicken suit. Ironically, originally the scene was supposed to have Gerard disguised as a priest.

* An ''epic'' case in the ''Film/TheMuppets'' when Camilla and her fellow hens cluck out Music/CeeLoGreen's "[[ClusterFBomb F**k You]]". Although, you can tell from the amount of syllables, that they were actually clucking the censored version of that song "Forget You". Still, that's one heck of a StealthPun: [[spoiler:"Cluck You"]].

->'''Jonathan Mardukas:''' Did you ever have sex with an animal, Jack? Remember those chickens around the Indian reservation? There were some good looking chickens there, Jack. You know, between us...
->'''Jack Walsh:''' ''[laughing]'' Yeah, there were a couple there I might've taken a shot at.

* ''Series/MorkAndMindy'': Orkans are implied to have evolved from some sort of space chicken. This explains the constant egg motif, but not the fact that they sit on their face, or drink with their fingers, or anything else about them.

** There's also the chicken raised by the Others in the island. An EasterEgg (heh) in the Season 2 DVD shows the tail section survivors struggling to capture a hen, and it's fairly hilarious.

** The principle of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath Scaroth's time altering machine]] makes use of a chicken regressing into an egg and back again, making light of the "chicken or the egg" question.

** Marquis Moncoutant is a French Royalist, attempting to restore the monarchy in France. When he returns to his château, he's horrified to find out that peasants have been living there, using his paintings as fuel and raising their animals in his rooms. When a frightened chicken, poor thing, runs through the room, jumps on the table and clucks aloud, he does ''not'' find it funny. Some viewers do.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Chandler and Joey kept a chick and a duck as their pets for some time. They got the chick when s/he was a cute yellow ball of fluff, but the little Yasmine grew up into a nice and loud rooster. {{Hilarity Ensue|s}}d, many times. One guy who dated Rachel had a serious bird phobia, though, and he did not find them cute, funny or mildly disgusting. He was genuinely scared of them.
* ''Series/{{House}}'': One episode features Drs. House and Wilson's bet that whoever manages to keep a chicken in the hospital longer without getting caught wins. It is a thing to behold: chickens in the office of the head of oncology department. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o7hRCcbfrA Check this video.]]

* The October 9, 1986 episode of ''Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson'' featured Johnny anouncing the death of Baby, a rooster who had appeared on the show in 1978. He then proceed to deliver a eulogy, during which he is joined onstage by a comically large number of hens, ostensibly the rooster's many "widows." Afterward, he notes to cohost Ed [=McMahon=] that the birds used in the skit are in fact legitimately "showbiz chickens" with a list of impressive credits.

* The solo guitarist Music/{{Buckethead}} has named many song related to chickens, such as "Chicken for Lunch", "Chicken" and "I can only carry 50 chickens at a time". He also wears a KFC bucket on his head.
* Many a child of the 90's could tell you about that era's favorite embarrassing dance, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_MPCUyuqJ8&feature=related the Chicken Dance]].

* In the Music/JimiHendrix instrumental "Third Stone From The Sun", an alien fleet arrives at Earth to search for intelligent life and somehow conclude that the only creature that qualifies is the chicken. At the end, they make off with all off the chickens before blowing up the planet.
* Chinese pop star Wang Rong Rollin's song Chick Chick is all about chickens, accompanied by an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjxSJ0482U4 equally bizarre music video]] .

** The Great Gonzo (who may himself be some sort of bird, although probably not a chicken) is in love with Camilla the Chicken, and has chased other chickens romantically (namely out of confusion). [[MST3KMantra Don't think about it too hard]].

** There was a rather excellent modification that gave you a chicken launcher (complete with feathers, clucks and screams). Nothing quite like rounding a corner and eating a high-velocity chicken.

** Engineers can also build a Gnomish Poultryfier, which will temporarily turn the target into a chicken, making it unable to attack. It has a chance to malfunction and turn the user into a chicken or turn the target into a giant chicken, increasing it's attack power.

*** has cuccos spawn on some maps as friends, neutrals, or enemies depending on the mission. Lana can summon them with an alternate weapon.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Octogeddon}}'', the Chicken tentacle is one of the most goofy-looking ones It attacks by shooting explosive eggs from its beak and clucks comically everytimes it does so.

** Part of Tapu Koko's name comes from clucking sounds, and in the anime it sounds very chicken-like. However, aside from being a playful JerkassGod at times it's not that silly [[spoiler:especially when you face it as ''Sun and Moon's'' PostFinalBoss]].

* In ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'', first you would find dynamite, a standard grenade type weapon. Then, you find a crossbow, and tie the dynamite to its ammunition. Redneck Rocketlauncher, a la ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard''. ''Then''... you find a chicken. You tie the chicken to the arrow and jam a stick of dynamite into the then-obvious place. ''Guided'' Redneck Rocketlauncher.

* ''VideoGame/{{Drakan}}: The Ancients' Gates'' had, as a semi-hidden mini-BonusBoss, a ten-foot tall man-eating chicken with glowing red eyes. It was actually a bit nightmarish, as its cave was littered with blood and dead bodies, and it was perfectly possible to run into it in the beginning of the game without knowing about it.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'' has a map which includes, amongst other things, many caged chickens. Of course, there is an achievement you can get for [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential killing a certain number of chickens in so many seconds.]]

** The single-player campaign has a chicken on the first level that, if you shoot it, will transform into a giant golden chicken that chases you around the level and ''breathes fire''. If you manage to kill it, it explodes into confetti. Later, in Act IV, if you're playing on the highest difficulty there's storeroom containing a chicken wearing a pirate hat. This one skips the fire-breathing golden chicken phase and goes straight to confetti.

* ''VideoGame/MondayNightCombat'' introduced an arena specific boss: A big mechanical chicken named Chickey Cantor (a play on the announcer's name Mickey). While a pretty serious thing game wise, the whole presentation plays the RuleOfFunny.
* In ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' and [[VideoGame/Dota2 its sequel]], Rhasta the Shadow Shaman has an ability which turns his target into a chicken. He can get pretty excited over it.

* The ''VideoGame/MedievalCop'' series first gave us Mel Vin, [[WindmillCrusader sworn protector of humanity against the evil chickens]], then in the spin-off series it turned out that there ''is'' actually a chicken maffia planing to take over the world... To be fair it was also revealed in that game that the rabbits are trying to seize the means of production.
* The earliest (and best remembered) games in the ''VideoGame/{{Stronghold}}'' series of castle sims include a lot of detail in their settler characters, including the option to click on any of the human settlers and domestic animals and get some information on their names and current activities. The info on individual animals extends not just to dogs or oxen, but even ''chickens'', whom appear under names like "Squawker", "Clucky", etc. Descriptions for the chickens' activities include the likes of "pecking" and "clucking about".

* In ''VideoGame/{{Majesty}}'', building a temple to the local god of chaos allows you to recruit Warriors of Discord--huge, terrifying {{Blood Knight}}s who wield gigantic blade-sticks and will destroy every enemy in their path from a mental location far beyond the edge of reason. They are also strongly associated with chickens. In-game, a Warrior of Discord who chooses to flee will literally cluck like a chicken before running. And their associated Tale on the website relates the tale of one Warrior of Discord who took his beloved pet chicken into battle on his belt (with tragically predictale results).

* One ''Webcomic/TheParkingLotIsFull'' comic involves a linguist regretting her creation, a one-word language which had become universally accepted. The word? Well, it's in this trope, so guess.

** Writer Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's bosses were very worried about him when he turned that one in....

** There was also one skit which featured anthropomorphic chickens acting out a ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode. The humor comes from the fact that all dialogue is "buk buk bagok!" and the story can only be told through the title cards and context.

** Larry would later attempt to invoke the trope in "The Wonderful World of Autotainment" by randomly wearing a chicken hood by the basis that it was unexpected, thus making it automatically funny. It wouldn't have been funny if it was expected.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' ended with a live action baby chick hatching out of an animated egg.

* French series WesternAnimation/AvezVousDejaVu is a firm believer in this trope, judging by the amount of the episodes they dedicate to chickens. These include (but are not limited to): a chicken who [[MagicPlasticSurgery wants to become an elephant]], a chick visiting his grandma (a rotisserie chicken), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SktCirPRJs8 an extremely rich chicken]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OdNUcJNcJ8 a racechicken]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2qi5ZlZCaE a boy band of chicks]].

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockfight Cockfighting]]. A very brutal sport where two roosters [[DuelToTheDeath fight to the death.]] Two enter a pit or arena where they precede to kick, scratch and peck each other. In communities where cockfighting is the preferred choice among BeastlyBloodsports, spurs are attached. This allows for [[CleanCut quick kills]] instead of long drawn out [[DeathOfAThousandCuts disfigurement.]] Abhorrent to the modern Western person but a very quick source of entertainment in parts where cows outnumber people.

** Interestingly, one theory of the domestication of chickens suggests that chickens were originally tamed for purposes of cockfighting, and that the meat and egg uses were secondary to the fighting use for centuries.

''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' has the Chick-A-Lisk, a giant demonic chicken summoned by an arcane ritual. Besides being huge, it can breathe fire and turn people to stone with its eyebeams.

** An {{Intermission}} video from ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper2'' has a [[PlayerMooks Bile]] [[{{Fartillery}} Demon]] showing off his skills with using a [[ImprobableWeaponUser pair of live chickens]] as [[https://youtu.be/1gxiLnTUz24 nunchakus]].