“Bad Chicken”(2013) is the Best Chik-Fil-A Commercial I’ve Ever Seen

Brandon Dockery
The Offbeat Movie Emporium
3 min readNov 11, 2020

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When I saw the preview image for “Bad Chicken”, I was amped to see some terrible acting in chicken suits. Even these valley-low expectations were dashed in the first five minutes when the titular chickens were revealed to be puppets.

To be fair, the best performances came from the chicken puppets. “Charlie Chicken” is a sociopathic blend of Goofy, John Goodman, and Hannibal Lecter. He is accompanied by his drugged-out comrades Caesar and Carl, who masquerade as his sound and camera guys when they’re not stealing women’s underwear and Vicoden.

I feel like I still managed to capture the sex offender vibe that these chickens give off

Aside from our squad of chicken puppets we have Norah and Isaak. Norah is an aspiring reality TV actress. Isaak is mainly there to make common-sense observations, and then do whatever stupid thing Norah or the talking chicken tell him to do. He seems to be unacquainted with the concept of acting, as he becomes agitated and confused every time he is asked to pretend to do something.

Now to answer the questions on everyone’s mind:

  1. Yes, someone has muppet sex with a chicken
  2. No, no one finds it odd that chickens are talking.

In this world, anthropomorphic chickens are par for the course. It isn’t brought up once. Even Isaak, who is sketched out by a contract that’s…

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Brandon Dockery
The Offbeat Movie Emporium

It’s not about the destination, it’s about complaining every step of the way there. Writing published in Slackjaw, Points in Case, The Haven and Robot Butt