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Chicken Joke
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One of the oldest Stock Jokes ever told, this joke involves the classic setup: "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Most often, this leads to the classic punchline: "To get to the other side", though the punchline may vary sometimes. There are also times where an actual chicken may be involved. A common variant is to simply replace the chicken with another creature. (Why did the duck cross the road? It was the chicken's day off.) Or in an alien culture, someone might ask "why did the Smeerp cross the road?" The joke is seen as an example of Anti-Humor, in which the listener might expect a traditional punchline, but instead gets a simple statement of fact. The joke appeared in the 1847 edition of the magazine The Knickerbocker: "There are 'quips and quillets' which seem actual conundrums, but yet are none. Of such is this: 'Why does a chicken cross the street?['] Are you 'out of town?' Do you 'give it up?' Well, then: 'Because it wants to get on the other side!'" The music critic Gary Giddins in the Ken Burns documentary Jazz states that the joke was spread through the United States by Minstrel Shows, beginning in the 1840s, as one of the first national jokes. There are others who think the joke is actually a suicide joke with "The Other Side" referring to the afterlife. Either way, of course, these days everyone and their grandmother has heard it a million times ever since they were far too young to grasp the concept of humor, rendering the joke itself a case of Once Original, Now Common. See also: Lightbulb Joke and "Knock Knock" Joke. |
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In Puyo Puyo Fever, Raffina references the joke when she dodges Hohow Bird's attack and responds with "Hey! Which way are you looking? I'll bet you don't even know why you crossed the road!" | |
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Clue: In book #7, The Picture-Perfect Crime, Mr. Boddy has been telling several jokes, including one of these. His guests are not amused. | |
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In an episode of Alphablocks, S, A, and Y hold hands and spell the word "SAY", which leads to S saying, "I say, why did the chicken cross the road?". A asks, "What's a chicken?" and Y asks, "What's a road?" and then they all shrug, suggesting that even S doesn't know what a chicken and a road are. | |
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The Far Side: One strip shows a chicken looking across a road at a sign that reads "THE OTHER SIDE. Why do you need a reason?" Another strip had a chicken couple confronting each other at their home's threshold: "Oh, I see! You return covered with blond feathers, and I'm supposed to believe you crossed the road just to get to the other side?" |
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One Get Fuzzy strip had Bucky attempt to tell this joke as "Why did THIS chicken cross the road?", with Rob telling Bucky to knock it off as that joke confuses Satchel. Sure enough, Satchel ends up confused from the joke, trying to figure out which road the chicken was trying to cross. | |
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In Mongrels, Nelson (a fox) helps a chicken across the road, and says he has to ask; why she was doing so? The chicken replies that it was because she saw a black man coming and was afraid he might mug her. | |
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There was a Looney Tunes short where Foghorn Leghorn is trying to eliminate a baby rooster. Foghorn tells him that the chicken crossed the road "to have a ball", and throws a ball into a busy 2-lane road to have him retrieve it. The baby rooster calmly walks out and gets the ball while narrowly avoiding speeding cars, then asks Foghorn to show him how to do it properly. Naturally, Foghorn gets his feathers plucked by two passing vehicles. | |
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Beast Boy invokes this trope in the Teen Titans Go! episode "Video Game References". Beast Boy is within a Frogger-like game and he has trouble crossing a road. He gets past all the cars no problem when he turns into a chicken. | |
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In one of the extra story mode chapters of Puyo Puyo Tetris, for a comedy routine with Tee, Maguro tells a variant of this joke where it's a tetrimino walking across the road. Tee guesses it's because of a dimensional merge, but it's actually because the road was "blocked". | |
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In Freefall, Dvorak spent two weeks studying it, but was pleased with how it paid off when Florence thought he was developing a sense of humor. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-583 is a videotape that changes the perception of people who see it: after seeing a particular scene, the watcher will perceive every character, fictional or not, watched on TV or in a movie, hear on radio, or read about, to choke and die. This includes incredibly short jokes as well. | |
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Richie Rich shows Richie and his friends telling each other jokes. They crack up after hearing, "To get to the other side." Cadbury, overhearing, doesn't get it. In an effort to understand the humor by role-playing the part of the chicken, he clucks, flaps his arms, and crosses a road. As the watching children are rolling on the ground in hysterics, Cadbury still doesn't see what's so funny. | |
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In one episode of The Muppet Show, the Swedish Chef does his "Spring Chicken" sketch which ends in bouncing chickens escaping and the Chef pursuing them. Immediately afterward, Fozzie goes up to a stressed Kermit and starts to ask, Why did the chickens cross the road?" Kermit answers, "Because an angry Swede was chasing them with a cleaver!" The "Veterinarians' Hospital" sketch from the Roger Miller episode is also centered around such jokes, especially since Cluckitis is spreading through the theater and turning everybody into chickens. |
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The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon tells this joke: "Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the same side." | |
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Welcome Back, Kotter: Julie tries to tell some jokes but she mixes up the punchline of this joke with the punchline of "Why do firemen wear suspenders?" a less famous but very similar joke. | |
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A variation from Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird. | |
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Also, Pepper from Littlest Pet Shop (2012) (as well as pet celebrity Old Bananas) crack a few jokes of this variety on the show. | |
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In Octodad: Dadliest Catch, we have the following conversation between two sailors: | |
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In the xkcd strip Super Bowl Context, the Alt Text shows how the character who overexplains everything might tell the Chicken Joke: | |
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From Larry Gonick's The Cartoon History of the Universe, in which he illustrates the origin of language, which soon led to the first jokes: | |
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In the A is for Amber books from the Amber Brown series, Amber's best friend Justin declares that first grade is the "year of the Chicken Joke" and tells only chicken jokes the whole year. This was a form of Author Appeal, as series author Paula Danziger stated in the About the Author section of one of the original books "I love chicken jokes." | |
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In the Steven Universe episode "Log Date 7-15-2", Peridot tries to acclimate to life on Earth by practicing telling jokes, including the old "Why did the chicken cross the road?" joke. She not only stumbles over the punchline, but after awkwardly laughing at herself she wonders what a chicken is. She later asks Amethyst to shapeshift into a chicken, then laughs and says that she gets the joke now. | |
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In I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Congruence tells this kind of joke in one of her classes, but because she's an A.I., the answer is completely in binary. When converted to text, the answer is, "To get a byte to eat!" | |
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In Jungle Junction, Ellie Van tries to make someone else laugh by asking why the chicken crossed the road. | |
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It serves again in the fourth book Wizard and Glass, when the characters travel inside Blaine, a sentient schizophrenic train which asks them riddles (it'll commit suicide with all its passengers if they don't manage to tell a riddle that it would be unable to solve). Blaine is eventually defeated by Eddie, who told it a series of jokes and various nonsense, including the chicken joke mentioned above. | |
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The "Honesty" episode of Adventures from the Book of Virtues has Aristotle telling the joke "Why did the bobcat cross the road? To bother somebody else for a change!" | |
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A variant in the Garfield and Friends episode "How To Be Funny", where Garfield claims that the very first joke, which had been told by a caveman comedian, was roughly translated as "Why did the brontosaurus cross the road?" | |
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Crossy Road may be reminiscent of Frogger, but the starting player character is a chicken. Activision's Freeway is basically both games' predecessor. |
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In the Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Mathmagic", Janna tells Star this joke during math class. Having never heard the chicken joke before, Star finds it hilarious that instead of a punchline, the answer is simply logic. When Star gets stuck in an unstable "Groundhog Day" Loop, one of the things that keeps changing is the punchline to Janna's joke. | |
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In The Loud House episode "Undie Pressure", Luan is trying to win a bet by not telling jokes, during which, Bobby arrives and says that he had to wait for a chicken to cross the road and wonders why it would, which causes Luan to break and tell jokes. At the end, he is seen chasing that very chicken demanding answers. | |
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In the Myth-O-Mania book Have a Hot Time, Hades!, Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, shares one after introducing herself to her uncles and aunts, Zeus' siblings: | |
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In the eighth season of Knightmare, a dungeoneer named Duncan was given the task of giving Motley the fool some new material: | |
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Stripes: John Winger leads a squad of soldiers in a close drill where they recite this joke: | |
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In episode 3 of the 2015 series of The Vote Now Show, former Conservative Party campaigner Danny Finklestein told the true story of how, during the 1997 election campaign, the Conservatives sent a man in a chicken suit to follow Tony Blair around, because he was "chicken" to debate John Major. And then the party started worrying that spending all that time with Blair might make the chicken more sympathetic towards Labour, so Finklestein had to have regular lunches with him to ensure he was still on-message. He concluded the story with "We lost the election, but the chicken did not cross the road." | |
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Activision's Freeway is basically both games' predecessor. | |
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Happy, Texas begins with the protagonists Working on the Chain Gang. One of them raises the question, "Why did the armadillo cross the road?" This turns out to be a trick question, as the armadillo is roadkill. | |
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In Toy Story 2, the toys have been walking for a long, long time now to reach Al’s Toy Barn, whose mascot is a giant chicken. At one point, when complaining about how exhausting the trip is, Ham says, ‘Why did the toys cross the road? To get to the chicken on the other side!’ and points out that they’re right across the street from it. | |
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Bicentennial Man: When Sir attempts to teach Andrew about humour, a "chicken cross the road"-style punchline is the third joke he tries (Andrew's Literal Mindedness causes trouble). | |
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The VeggieTales episode "The Wonderful World of Autotainment" demonstrates the randomized nature of humor in the future using the classic setup. | |
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In Alien Nation, Newcomers sometimes have problems with human humor, but George has learned one joke he considers extremely funny. "Stop me if you've heard this one..." | |
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In the Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (1997) level featuring Johannes Gutenberg the alchemist tells you the following joke if you try to drop the sooty chicken on his equally sooty oil lamp: | |
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Lampshaded on a 1968 telecast of The Match Game where Jo Anne was a team captain. A question posed was "Chicken ______," to which everyone assumed Jo Anne would say "Joke." Her answer: "Soup." | |
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Puyo Puyo: In Puyo Puyo Fever, Raffina references the joke when she dodges Hohow Bird's attack and responds with "Hey! Which way are you looking? I'll bet you don't even know why you crossed the road!" In one of the extra story mode chapters of Puyo Puyo Tetris, for a comedy routine with Tee, Maguro tells a variant of this joke where it's a tetrimino walking across the road. Tee guesses it's because of a dimensional merge, but it's actually because the road was "blocked". |
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The opening titles for Robot Chicken show a dead chicken, lying in the middle of the road, having been run over, presumably while trying to cross to the other side. The Season 1 finale ended with a You Can't Do That on Television parody that resulted in the titular Robot Chicken and the Mad Scientist using signs to tell the joke. |
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When Moshi Monsters got pirate-ified temporarily, the ghost pirates would tell the joke "Why did the pirate cross the road? To steal the chicken!". | |
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On an episode of The Mighty B!, Bessie sees a driver speeding, and cries, "He could've hurt a chicken crossing the road!". | |
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Michael Stevens of VSauce did a video about the joke, appropriately called "Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?" | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: In the "Joke Warfare" sketch, "I can only give you name, rank, and why did the chicken cross the road." | |
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In the third The Dark Tower book, The Waste Lands the protagonists are exchanging riddles, and then Eddy Dean tells this one: "Why did the dead baby cross the road? ... Because it was stapled to the chicken". As riddles are Serious Business in his culture, Roland is not amused. It serves again in the fourth book Wizard and Glass, when the characters travel inside Blaine, a sentient schizophrenic train which asks them riddles (it'll commit suicide with all its passengers if they don't manage to tell a riddle that it would be unable to solve). Blaine is eventually defeated by Eddie, who told it a series of jokes and various nonsense, including the chicken joke mentioned above. |
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One of Jo Anne Worley's catch phrases on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was "Is this another chicken joke?" Lampshaded on a 1968 telecast of The Match Game where Jo Anne was a team captain. A question posed was "Chicken ______," to which everyone assumed Jo Anne would say "Joke." Her answer: "Soup." |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: In the episode "Sir Ed-A-Lot" when the Eds are roped into The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party, Eddy is dressed as a jester while forced in entertaining Jimmy and Sarah who are pretending to be a prince and queen respectively. His second attempt at humor ends in this: | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: The "One Fowl Day" episode features Discord attacking in the form of a gigantic chicken which prompts the exchange: | |
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One of the lyrics to Winnie the Pooh's "Cottleston Pie" song is "Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie / Why does a chicken? I don't know why." | |
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Dragon Ball Z referenced this when Goku was tasked with making his trainer, King Kai, laugh. His desperate (and epically ill-delivered) attempt at a joke was "Why... did the chicken... CROSS THE ROAD!" After King Kai guesses the obvious, Goku counters with an actual plausible punchline instead: "It was too far to fly!" | |
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In an episode of The Smurfs (1981), Brainy tells the joke "Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the others egged him on!". | |
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This joke was used visually in Chicken Little by the title character while he also climbs up a telephone pole in a similar vein to Mulan, gets stuck in road gum...and loses his pants, all while trying not to be late for school. | |
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The Season 1 finale ended with a You Can't Do That on Television parody that resulted in the titular Robot Chicken and the Mad Scientist using signs to tell the joke. | |
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Parodied on an episode of Night Court. Harry is depressed because his girlfriend has been forced into the Witness Protection Program. The others try to cheer him up by arranging for him to try a jaywalking case involving a man named De Shicken. (Spelling unknown.) They end up asking "Why did De Shicken cross the road?" | |
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