CHICKENS IN POP CULTURE

PANEL ROOM E22 A-B

Saturday June 1, 2019 - 6:45 pm to 7:35 pm


What is so funny about chickens? Plop into this panel for hilarious clips of Chickens in Pop Culture From Pokemon’s “Torchic” to Family Guy’s “Ernie the Giant Chicken.” Come for the clucks, stay for the easter eggs!

From Kentucky Fried Chicken to the San Diego Chicken, poultry is a part of our civilization and needs to be celebrated. Guy Hutchinson will enrapture you with tales of the amazing political origins of Foghorn Leghorn, beguile you with the account of the chickens KFC sent on the Space Shuttle and a bewitch you with the history of a beheaded chicken that lived to tour the country. Also feast your eyes on clips from the 1943 Disney anti-Nazi film Chicken Little, Troma's Poultrygeist and Rock A Doodle.

Learn how the term "rose colored glasses" came from little glasses for cannibal chickens, find out why the chicken DID cross the road and cringe at the romance of Gonzo and Camilla. Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens... and you.


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