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Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animated film, the first of three collaborations between DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Animations (along with French studio Pathé) and Aardman's first feature overall. It is best described as The Great Escape — with chickens. The film is directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park, and written by Karey Kirkpatrick. It's currently the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.A ginger chicken named "Ginger" (voiced by Julia Sawalha) is the ringleader in the attempts of the chickens to escape from Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Farm, a prison where any chicken who fails to lay eggs risks being beheaded and cooked for dinner. Ginger is at her wits' end trying to talk the others into any new escape attempts, (all of which fail and earn her a trip to solitary confinement in a coal bunker). Then a rooster named Rocky (Mel Gibson), who can apparently fly, falls from the sky and agrees to teach the chickens how to fly like him, in return for Ginger keeping mum on his presence.However, the farm’s owner, Mrs. Tweedy (Miranda Richardson), tired of the low profits selling eggs brings her, decides to convert her business into chicken pot pies. Needless to say, things get drastic in a hurry and Ginger must get the whole coop into the air before they all become mincemeat.A sequel titled Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget was released on Netflix on December 15, 2023.
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Creator Cameo: Nick Park voices the chicken clucking for the tea kettle disguised as a chicken.
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Artistic License – Linguistics
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Artistic License – Linguistics: While Nick's use of "Voilà!" is correct and French, his later line to Rocky of "El merchandiso", is not Spanish as Fetcher says it is. In Spanish, "the merchandise" (as he wanted to say) would actually be "La mercancías". Then again, it may be justified as Nick doesn't seem like the sort of character to know that.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Ginger loses hope and is about to give up after Rocky's deceit is revealed along with his departure.
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Trailers Always Spoil
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Trailers Always Spoil: The theatrical trailers completely spoil The Reveal of the pie machine, while a TV commercial and the Burger King toys were all based around the plane. Then there's one DVD trailer which is comprised almost entirely of clips from the last 15 or so minutes of the film and the final scene in particular.
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Totem Pole Trench
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Totem Pole Trench: One of the early escape attempts has the chickens on a wire-frame dummy of Mrs. Tweedy, hidden under a dress. Which snags on the fence and falls off, alerting the dogs.
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Improvised Zipline
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Improvised Zipline: Rocky ziplines from the chicken coop into the pie machine building using a telephone wire and a coat hanger.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: With the filmmakers citing The Great Escape as their primary influence, the setting of the Tweedy farm where the chickens are held has many blatant similarities to a Prisoner of War camp, along with some particularly unsettling parallels to the concentration camps used during The Holocaust. Also, take a closer look at Nick's attire. Along with the zip, it looks almost like a suit and tie.
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So Long, Suckers!
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So Long, Suckers!: Ginger saying "Bye-bye" to Mrs. Tweedy before letting her fall from the sky.
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Punishment Box
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Punishment Box: Ginger is put in the coal bunker everytime she's caught trying to escape.
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Trailer Spoof
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Trailer Spoof: The two trailers that were released prior to this movie were rendered in a way that parodied the first Mission: Impossible movie, complete with stop-motion explosions, "spy camera character bio" graphics, and initials of Chicken Run 's actual title rendered to resemble Mission: Impossible's logo. Observe.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: The book Chicken Pies For the Soul goes into a lot of insight on the characters, such as Rocky being brought up in Kentucky by his mother and Mr. Tweedy's Uncle Jimmy being "done in" by a big rooster named Brute, which could explain his suspicions toward Ginger and the other chickens. Another tie-in book Cutting Loose: Behind the Fences at Tweedy's Farm, also expands into a ton of details not revealed in the movie, including what became of Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy after the chickens escaped: they decided to move to Scotland to run a seaweed farm.
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Artistic License – Biology
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Artistic License – Biology: Due to the character designs maintaining Aardman's signature style, the chickens' beaks move and emote like human mouths and have visible teeth, which real chickens don't have. A mild example, but chickens aren't completely incapable of flight as the movie would imply. Their body structure simply doesn't allow them to maintain altitude for very long. With that said, it would still be impossible for chickens to fly over a ten-foot-tall fence such as the one in the movie. Bunty claims to have laid five eggs in one morning, and is seen again later producing multiple eggs at once. In real life, chickens produce exactly one egg each day.
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And This Is for...
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And This Is for...: A slight variation. Ginger smacks Rocky hard ("That's for leaving") and then goes in to kiss him ("And this is for coming back").
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Never Trust a Trailer: The advertising for the movie focused on the action sequences and screwball slapstick elements while glossing over the parallels to World War II, the references to prison escape films, the love story and the constant threat of death.
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Say My Name
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Say My Name: Ginger screams Rocky's name when she falls down the pie machine chute. Rocky and Ginger when Rocky makes his triumphant return. In slow-motion, even. Mrs. Tweedy when she falls from the plane and goes through the barn window.
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Twirl of Love
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Twirl of Love: Rocky and Ginger do one of these as the crate is flying away, a few seconds before The Big Damn Kiss.
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Ginger is not impressed by Rocky's roguish charm since she sees him as being irresponsible with their lives, and only falls for him after he does something genuinely selfless and heroic.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: Many as expected from such a film: When first discussing compensation for acquiring stuff for the chickens, Ginger tosses Nick a bag of chicken feed. note "Chicken feed" is slang in English speaking nations for a pittance or otherwise pathetically small amount of money. Coupled with Literal Metaphor, when the pie machine goes wrong, a spanner is literally in the works. When Fowler shouts "Chocks away!", it shows the chickens removing "Tasty-Choc" chocolate bars from the wheels that are very similar to the widely known Toblerone bar. In the end, they really DO fly the coop...
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Poor Communication Kills
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Poor Communication Kills: Had Rocky not been so reluctant to just tell the hens right away that he couldn't fly, they'd have had much more time to work on plan B.
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Those Two Guys
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Those Two Guys: Nick and Fetcher are only ever seen together, and one has no plot significance without the other.
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Hamster-Wheel Power
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Hamster-Wheel Power: The "crate" is a vehicle powered entirely by the chickens themselves, who, in a variation of this trope, use bicycle pedals.
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POW Camp
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POW Camp: The farm is meant to invoke a prisoner of war camp, with wire fences and constant patrols as well as regular inspections.
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Laugh of Love
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Laugh of Love: Rocky dancing with Ginger is when the two start developing feelings for each other, and Ginger is heard laughing at one point.
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Stealth Pun
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In the end, they really DO fly the coop...
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Dare to Be Badass
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Dare to Be Badass: Ginger gives this speech to Fowler when he says chickens were never trained to fly planes, so he can't be their pilot for the escape crate. She says today is his day to be the hero, giving him his Airforce medal. With encouragement from Bunty, Fowler decides to take the pilot's seat.
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Closest Thing We Got
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Closest Thing We Got: Fowler wasn't a pilot, but he'd been around them and might have picked up a thing or two.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: The farm is depicted as one for the chickens. They have no freedom and spend their whole lives laying eggs, and when they can't lay anymore, the farmers kill them. It gets worse when Mrs. Tweedy decides she can make more money by turning all of them into pies.
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Exploited Trope
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Fowler, too, continuously rambling about the RAF and his time there. Ginger makes use of this later.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: While the chickens' circumstances are undoubtably played for dramatic effect, they're still first and foremost intended to be funny. The slapstick mudfight during Ginger's Heroic BSoD, for example, is a very silly way of showing just how quickly the entire group devolves into chaos without Ginger's guidance.
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Toothy Bird
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Toothy Bird: The animators depict the chickens with human-like teeth, which they do not have in real life.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The hole dug under the fence at the beginning with the spoon. First used in that scene, then it's later revealed Rocky used the same hole to escape from the farm. Fowler's RAF medal. It gets referenced several times, and Rocky leaves it behind when he flees the farm after Fowler awards it to him. Then Ginger gets a look at the medal, and realizes it's a plane. Fowler knows how to help them fly out of there! Cue their most daring escape plan. Gnomes. One shows up in the opening scene and one of the dogs bites its head off. Nick and Fetcher later hide inside two other gnomes to steal tools the chickens can use to build the crate with from Mr. Tweedy. Mrs. Tweedy's axe. Shown first when Edwina is killed, then comes back in the climax. Ax-Crazy, indeed. Rocky's tricycle. Shows up first after he has fled the farm, and returns in his second Big Damn Heroes moment when he uses it to save Ginger from Mrs. Tweedy. Why on earth did they make such a big deal of showing the Christmas lights getting caught on the plane's wheel? Oh, now they're using it to climb! But surely the lights don't serve any other... WAIT A MINUTE! IS THAT MRS. TWEEDY?!? Both Babs' passion for knitting and Bunty's egg laying capabilities come in pretty useful when building the 'crate'. Later, she lends her scissors to Ginger so they can cut the safety line when Mrs. Tweedy grabs ahold of it. Another example is the turnip catapult from the escape meeting scene, which shows up again in the climax when it's used to launch eggs at the attacking Mrs. Tweedy. But it doesn't stop her.
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Conveyor Belt o' Doom
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Conveyor Belt o' Doom: Three, all in the pie machine. The first one is sideways with Ginger upside-down. The second is when Ginger and Rocky have their feet stuck in the balls of dough in danger of being crushed. The third is when they are in the pie tin and in danger of being squirted by gravy.
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Ironic Echo
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Ironic Echo: A couple in the scene where Rocky is discovered to be on the run. Rocky first uses "It's a cruel world" to Ginger, who later in the scene uses it to him. Rocky stops Ginger from squawking by grabbing her beak. Ginger does the same thing to him later in the scene when she gets fed up of him calling her "doll face".
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Brutal Honesty
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Invoked by Rocky (while not wrong), who tells Ginger that Brutal Honesty isn't going to work ("You know, if you want to motivate someone, don't mention death.") Indeed, the chickens' morale is at its lowest after one of Ginger's speeches where she brutally tells them that the Tweedys are setting them up for slaughter.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Woman: Ginger is the only chicken who is both clear-headed about the danger of staying on the farm and doesn't have any qualms telling the horrible truths.
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Dope Slap
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Dope Slap: Mrs. Tweedy smacks her husband on the head with a clipboard for saying something stupid.
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Great Escape
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Great Escape: Complete with a Suspiciously Similar Song version of the theme!
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Anachronism Stew
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Anachronism Stew: While thwarting a trap in the machine, Ginger and Rocky give each other a high-five, despite the fact that this film takes place in 1959 and this gesture did not become popular until at least the late 1970s. Rocky sings along to "The Wanderer" by Dion, which wasn't released until 1961.
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Fat and Skinny
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Fat and Skinny: Mr. Tweedy is short and stocky and his wife Mrs. Tweedy is Lean and Mean; meanwhile, Nick is shorter and fat while his partner Fetcher is tall and skinny.
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: During roll call near the beginning of the movie, Bunty pushes aside a dark brown chicken who was sleeping on the spot to make room for Ginger. In the next shot, we see the brown chicken getting up and looking dazed. When Mrs. Tweedy starts walking down, Fowler gets on the other side of Bunty; knocking over the dark brown chicken again! Mrs. Tweedy rolling her eyes and pulling the plug on the malfunctioning pie machine. Followed by her then picking up a pie and looking at her husband. When Mr. Tweedy is trying to repair the pie machine after Rocky saves Ginger from it, he gets it working, but then it stops again. As he presses a button on it, it sends a jet of gravy right at Mrs. Tweedy behind him and it hits her in the face. In retaliation, she kicks him in the backside. And before that, he plugs in two cables and it covers Mrs. Tweedy's face in smoke. As Mrs. Tweedy is standing at the pie machine near the end, Mr. Tweedy can be seen through the window behind her, covered in the chickens attacking him. After the pie machine explodes, the dogs can be seen behind Mrs. Tweedy happily licking up the gravy all over the floor.
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Hurricane of Puns
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Hurricane of Puns: Nick and Fetcher make pun after pun while laughing at the chickens' flight experiments: "In all my life, I have never heard such a fantastic... load of TRIPE!!!" They flew the coop!
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I Meant to Do That
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I Meant to Do That: A variation. Nick says that the radio at the start of the dancing scene is as solid as a rock, and Fetcher lightly punches it. The knob next to him flies off and a spring shoots out. After a brief moment of awkwardness, Fetcher says, "It's supposed to do that."
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Accent Adaptation
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Accent Adaptation: In the Swedish dub, Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy speak in a Scanian accent. note An accent in Southern Sweden which has similarities to Danish pronunciations. And Mac, to correspond to the Scottish accent, speaks heavily in a Jämtland accent. However, it wasn't enough to make her unintelligible, so she also speaks Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness wise, and fast. The same thing happens in the Norwegian dub where Mac speaks in a heavy Northern accent with added Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Something similar happens with the Dutch dub, giving Mac a Frisian accent, and compensating by letting her speak fast. The Portuguese dub gives three cases of this. Mac talks with a vague Madeira/Porto accent (muffled a bit by her fast speech and big words). Mr. Tweedy speaks in a distinctive Porto accent (But not Mrs. Tweedy, for some reason). And the mice talk in an Alentejo accent. The Italian dub renames Mac 'Von' and gives her a Swiss accent. She says "Switzerland!" instead of "Scotland" when Rocky describes America to them and has them guess where he's from. These changes are possibly because, like how Scotland is north of England, Switzerland is directly north of Italy. The German dub makes Mac speak with a heavy Dutch accent and she says "Holland!" instead of "Scotland" when Rocky is talking about America.
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HypocriticalHumour
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Hypocritical Humour: When Fowler first meets Rocky, he comments "I don't like the look of this one. His eyes are too close together!" in spite of the fact that, as a staple of the Aardman art style, every single character’s eyes, including Fowler's own, are too close together.
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Plot Armor
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Plot Armor: Despite Ginger severely angering Mr. Tweedy with all her escape attempts, he lets her live and she isn't 'taken for the chop' until she and the audience need to learn about the pie machine.
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Emerging from the Shadows
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Emerging from the Shadows: Ginger's introduction has her hiding in the shadows, and then stepping into the light.
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The Drifter
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The Drifter: Rocky likes to imagine himself as a wandering hero who doesn't like staying in one place too long, and plays this part in front of the chickens. He eventually realises that this is merely his excuse to leave whenever the going gets tough, and ends up settling down with Ginger instead.
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
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When Mrs. Tweedy has supposedly beheaded Ginger with her axe while on the string of lights, it is revealed that not only did Mrs. Tweedy miss Ginger, but she cut the wires between the two of them and falls as a result. To top it off, she falls into the warehouse and plugs up the gravy tank, causing the pressure to build until it blows up the pie machine she had built up her entire plot around.
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Ax-Crazy
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Mrs. Tweedy's axe. Shown first when Edwina is killed, then comes back in the climax. Ax-Crazy, indeed.
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Talking in Your Sleep
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And when Rocky is recovering in the hut, he's heard mumbling something about not wanting to get stuffed in there again. It sounds like prison. It's the cannon.
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Fearsome Foot
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Fearsome Foot: Mrs. Tweedy is often introduced in her black boots marching through the chicken farm during inspections, purposely parallelling the sight of an approaching concentration camp officer.
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Ring Around the Collar
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Ring Around the Collar: The chicken character models were made of a combination of plasticine for their heads and silicone rubber for their bodies. To hide the join, all the chickens wear scarves, necklaces, or any other kind of neckgear.
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Rummage Fail
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Rummage Fail: When Ginger asks for scissors during the climax, Babs pulls out first knitting, then a brush, then an enormous lipstick dispenser, before finally finding the scissors.
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Just Eat Gilligan
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Just Eat Gilligan: While the arrival of the pie-making machine was inevitable, Rocky could have saved a lot of heartbreak had he just told the hens from the beginning that he can't really fly (he tries to tell Ginger after the dance scene, but by then, they had already gotten their hopes up and their disappointment would have been more painful than it needed to be).
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Becoming Part of the Image
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Becoming Part of the Image: During the climactic scene, Mrs. Tweedy gets rammed into a billboard advertising her chicken pies, and has the smiling version of her face from the billboard stuck over her real one. When she rips the paper off, her actual expression is completely Ax-Crazy.
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Five-Second Foreshadowing
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Five-Second Foreshadowing: When Rocky and Ginger are moved into the final stage of the pie machine, Rocky suddenly feels an intense heat and points out that it's "like an oven in here". No sooner does he say this when long tongues of flame begin firing up all around them as the door starts closing, causing them to realize that they're in an oven and are about to be cooked. When Ginger finds the piece of paper Rocky left behind and is slowly walking towards his poster, circus music can be heard in the background. When Mrs. Tweedy is winding up to decapitate Ginger as they're both hanging from the Christmas lights dangling from the airborne crate, Ginger, absent any blade to cut the line and unable to bite through it, briefly glances down the lights below her neck and back at Mrs. Tweedy ready to chop her head off. Shortly afterwards, it's revealed she quickly ducked and tricked her oppressor into cutting her only connection to the plane herself.
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Actor Allusion
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May overlap with Actor Allusion, given Miranda Richardson's earlier roles.
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Fun with Homophones
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Fun with Homophones: When the chickens attack him, Mr. Tweedy calls out "Mrs. Tweedy! The chickens are revolting!". Mrs. Tweedy, without even looking up, replies, "Finally, something we agree on."
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Properly Paranoid
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Properly Paranoid: Mr. Tweedy is right about the hens being smart, and this fact comes to bite Mrs. Tweety in the bum.
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Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption
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Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: Rocky when Ginger falls down the chute in the pie machine:
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Closet Shuffle
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Closet Shuffle: Whenever Rocky's presence needs to be hidden from the Tweedys, he gets stuffed by the chickens into a cramped space under the floor.
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Took a Level in Kindness
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Took a Level in Kindness: Rocky starts as an irresponsible bluffer who thinks that the chickens' plight is not his problem as long as he can escape himself, but by the end he becomes genuinely invested in helping them escape.
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Captain Obvious
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Captain Obvious: This little exchange near the end. It's meant to be a big plot twist, but it's just so obvious that you can't help but laugh.
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Smart People Wear Glasses
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Smart People Wear Glasses: Mac is the only chicken with eyeglasses and also the biggest engineering genius among them.
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Recycled Soundtrack
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Recycled Soundtrack: Building the Crate and The Chickens Are Revolting end up in Miss Congeniality 2 as the background music for a show called Treasure Island.
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Pie in the Face
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Pie in the Face: Mr. Tweedy receives one from Mrs. Tweedy at the end of the pie machine sequence, but thanks to a Match Cut, the scene cuts away before the pie makes contact.
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Establishing Series Moment
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Establishing Movie Moment: After a few seconds of what looks like the opening to a typical prison escape movie, the foot of a would-be escapee comes out of the shadows, revealing itself to be that of... a chicken.
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Zerg Rush
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Zerg Rush: When Mr. Tweedy catches the chickens with his tools they use to build the crate to escape, they stand there in fear as usual. And then Ginger yells "ATTACK!" and the chickens all descend on Mr. Tweedy.
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Non Sequitur, *Thud*
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Non Sequitur, *Thud*: Replace "thud" with "gets a feeding trough dropped on him."
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Heroes Gone Fishing
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Heroes Gone Fishing: After seeing the chickens so depressed by Ginger rather bluntly telling them they were all being fattened up for slaughter, Rocky gets Nick and Fetcher to steal a radio and cheer them up by getting them to dance to a jazzy number. Ginger appreciates the effort, and so does Fowler when he's forced to participate.
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Court-martialed
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Court-martialed: Fowler threatens Rocky with a court martial at one point, but it's an empty one as he doesn't really have the authority to go through with it.
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Ask a Stupid Question...
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Also Mr. Tweedy, the current page quote provider for Ask a Stupid Question.... However, he actually did assemble the pie machine, so that has to count for something.
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Ginger says this in the climax. She says that Fowler all along had the knowledge to help them fly when he shows them his RAF memorabilia. They just have to listen to his instructions to build an escape plane.
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Scavenged Punk
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Scavenged Punk: As provided by literal scavengers, Nick and Fletcher, the chickens build everything out of human stuff. Also, check out the Nick and Fletcher's homemade costumes (there's a full-sized human zipper).
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What Does This Button Do?
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When Mr. Tweedy is trying to repair the pie machine after Rocky saves Ginger from it, he gets it working, but then it stops again. As he presses a button on it, it sends a jet of gravy right at Mrs. Tweedy behind him and it hits her in the face. In retaliation, she kicks him in the backside. And before that, he plugs in two cables and it covers Mrs. Tweedy's face in smoke.
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Bad Vibrations
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Bad Vibrations: All of the chicken coops are rattled ominously when the pie machine turns on. The use of this trope also gets Lampshaded.
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Becoming the Boast
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Becoming the Boast: Rocky and Fowler are an interesting contrast. Both of them make big boasts that they can't live up to — Rocky's claim that he can fly, and Fowler's vague allusions to being in the Royal Air Force, which the others mistake for him having been a pilot. Rocky runs away rather than face the shame of exposure, only to return when his guilty conscience gets the better of him. After revealing that his service in the RAF was as a mascot, Fowler agrees to take the wheel of the plane because he still has more familiarity with airplanes than anyone else.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ginger can be a little stick in the mud when it comes to honesty (even when she gets called out by Rocky for her Brutal Honesty), but she still cares about what happens to her friends. Rocky. Ginger couldn't stand him at the beginning, and he flees the farm out of shame, but he proves to be fearless and caring in the end. He organizes the "Flip, Flop, Fly" number to motivate the chickens to escape (and rightfully calls Ginger out by telling her that Brutal Honesty won't work), after he flees the farm, his conscience makes him return and he saves Ginger's life twice. Bunty as well. She doubts the plans to escape and seems to pour scorn on them, but she does care for the others. Nick and Fetcher. They refuse to work for Ginger unless she pays them in eggs, mock the chickens' attempts to fly and insult Rocky once or twice behind his back. On the other hand, they gladly retrieve the items the chickens need to build the crate with once they receive the eggs they want as payment, attempt to fight off Mrs. Tweedy with Rocky (at the expense of the eggs Ginger paid them with) and are just as happy as the chickens are when they finally escape.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Nothing ever goes right for Mr. Tweedy, who gets injured and humiliated throughout the movie.
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: Near the very end the credits, Nick and Fetcher have a argument about the which came first, the chicken or the egg. The two rats want to take an egg or a chicken and make a chicken farm to make their own eggs. However, they can't decide if they need a chicken or an egg. Finally, Rocky the Rooster pipes in and says to "please pipe down".
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Race Against the Clock
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Race Against the Clock: The final act runs on this. With the Tweedys' pie machine damaged thanks to Ginger and Rocky, the chickens race to build themselves an airplane before Mr. Tweedy fixes the machine, complete with a montage of both parties working on their projects and performing similar actions.
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Gory Discretion Shot
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Gory Discretion Shot: Just before Mrs. Tweedy cuts off Edwina's head, the camera cuts to the other chickens. The sound of the axe is all we need to hear to know that she's dead.
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Credits Gag
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Credits Gag: Nick and Fetcher continue their argument of which came first, the chicken (Fetcher) or the egg (Nick), until Rocky tells them to stop.
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie: The one time Ginger outright gives up on the possibility of escaping is after she discovers that Rocky couldn't fly.
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands: When Rocky shoots eggs at Mrs. Tweedy during the climactic escape, a stray axe swipe winds up knocking the scissors out of Ginger's hand.
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Wham Shot
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Wham Shot: Ginger putting up the bottom quarter of Rocky's torn poster, showing the cannon he's getting shot out of and revealing that Rocky can't actually fly.
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Squashed Flat
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Squashed Flat: Rocky and Ginger almost suffer this fate inside the pie machine with their feet stuck in balls of dough. Also happens late. During the building of the crate, one hen removes all the nails from a top bunk, causing it to fall and flatten an unfortunate hen on the bunk below.
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Chicken Run / int_4eb5691c
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Liar Revealed
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Liar Revealed: Played with. As mentioned above, Rocky lets the "flying rooster" reputation go to his head and decides to play along, most likely due to fear of being kicked out (which is how the trope usually works), until he decides to flee and leave behind the piece of the poster that reveals his secret.
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Chicken Run / int_4ee61c1f
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Friend in the Black Market
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Friend in the Black Market: The rats, Nick and Fetcher, are acquaintances of Ginger who sell stolen items to help in her escape attempts. This overlaps with Honest John's Dealership since their merchandise is stolen and heavily used, but hey—at least it works!
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Chicken Run / int_4f23ab52
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Sarcasm-Blind
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Sarcasm-Blind: When Mrs. Tweedy answers her husband's question about the pie machine making apple pies, he says they're his favourite.
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Chicken Run / int_4fff0dfe
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Unintelligible Accent
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Unintelligible Accent: The first time Rocky hears Mac, the Scottish-accented technical minded hen of the flock, she fires off a rapid explanation of how they found him with such a think accent that Rocky asks, "Was that English?" Afterwards, he makes comments on how she must be speaking another language.
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Chicken Run / int_509de06e
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Technology Porn
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Technology Porn: Nick Park's love of crazy machines is on full display here with both the pie machine and, later, the crate.
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Chicken Run / int_50f848cc
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Bamboo Technology
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Bamboo Technology: The chickens manage to make some elaborate mechanical contraptions out of spare parts and wood. Eventually they build a working airplane out of their chicken coops, which is entirely pedal-powered.
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Chicken Run / int_52748705
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Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain
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Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy are the two main villains of the movie. Mrs. Tweedy is mostly evil because she kills chickens when they don't lay eggs anymore and attempts to turn them into chicken pies. Mr. Tweedy is more sympathetic because he gets abused by his wife who never believes him about the chickens being 'organized'. He eventually stands his ground against her and crushes her with the barn wall.
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Chicken Run / int_553c2ade
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Let's Get Dangerous!
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Let's Get Dangerous!: All the chickens get this in the climax: Ginger orders everyone to work together to build the plane. For once, the chickens are completely serious and focused on the task, dismantling their coops for the wood and nails. Then when Mr. Tweedy catches them just as they're about to finish, they join in on attacking him when Ginger orders them to charge. Babs gets this as she leads the manufacturing department. While flitting around, she successfully creates plane wings that can handle Mac's equations. Fowler reveals that chickens were never trained as pilots so he doesn't know how to fly or navigate. With a pep talk from Ginger and encouragement from Bunty, however, he steps into the pilot seat and successfully engages in takeoff, driving, and flying. Everyone is impressed at his courage. Rocky pulls a Big Damn Heroes moment by tackling Mrs. Tweedy, helping Ginger mount the exit ramp, and telling her to grab onto the Christmas lights so they escape with the others.
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Chicken Run / int_562abd51
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Sapient Eat Sapient
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Sapient Eat Sapient: Being the protagonists, the chickens are all anthropomorphic to the point of regular speech and partial clothing. The humans in the movie cannot understand them, but Mrs. Tweedy remains determined to make chicken pies out of all of them, even after seeing they're capable of constructing complex machinery. (And despite their wearing little hats and scarves they can knit for themselves, for that matter.)
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Chicken Run / int_56ade6eb
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Feather Fingers
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Feather Fingers: In order to show the chickens using human tools, the film treats their wing feathers as if they were fingers. How else would you depict a chicken using scissors?
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Chicken Run / int_5707e92c
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Genius Ditz
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Genius Ditz: Babs is a few sandwiches short of a picnic, but is an expert in all things sewing and knitting. Watch her surf through the fabric as the chickens sew the wings for their plane.
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Chicken Run / int_58626d87
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Coincidental Broadcast
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Coincidental Broadcast: Coincidental Article. Just when Mrs. Tweedy exclaims that she's sick and tired of making minuscule profits, a magazine ad catches her eye; it says, "Sick and tired of making minuscule profits? Turn your chicken farm into a gold mine!" It's for the pie machine.
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Chicken Run / int_58970413
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Failure Montage
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Failure Montage: The film begins with a montage of Ginger's plans to break out of the farm, each one ending with her being stuck in solitary confinement as punishment.
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Chicken Run / int_58b70952
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False Reassurance
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False Reassurance: Most of Rocky's promises (including the one to teach the hens how to fly) are true except for a few little details which he doesn't bother to mention.
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Chicken Run / int_5a963d1c
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Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change
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Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change: The Portuguese dub was always stated to take place in Portugal, with Fowler's references to the Royal Air Force (RAF) being changed to the Força Aérea Portuguesa (FAP)note Portuguese Air Force and Rocky, despite still being American, says he came there for the lovely latin chicks. And yet, all the characters have their original names and the text in the movie is clearly all in English, with some of it being read out loud. Then again, there's not much they could do about that last one.
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Million to One Chance
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Million to One Chance: The chances of the chickens escaping, according to Bunty. Ginger calmly tells her that this means that there's still a chance, then excuses herself to go outside and cry as she realises how right Bunty is.
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Chicken Run / int_5b12f598
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Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario
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Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Rocky abandons Ginger and the other chickens right before the climax because he can't actually fly, but comes back to help in the nick of time. While she slaps him for leaving them (and possibly for lying), she forgives him because he came back and they get together at the end.
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Chicken Run / int_5be919ae
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Suddenly Shouting
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Suddenly Shouting: Bunty, twice. Rocky does it too when talking to Ginger early on:
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The Casanova
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The Casanova: Rocky says he is brought to England because of all the beautiful English chicks. A few moments later, he is mid-sentence in that scene when he meets the rest of the chickens properly, he turns to one of them, winks at her and goes smoothly, "Hi, how are you?", causing her to faint.
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Chicken Run / int_5e2e55e4
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Let's Meet the Meat
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Let's Meet the Meat: The label for Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pies is a chicken's head popping out of a pie, smiling.
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Chicken Run / int_5eb7e838
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Big Eater
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Big Eater: Most of the hens are pretty gluttonous, especially Babs. The exceptions are Ginger and Mac, who are considerably skinnier than all the other hens. They're about the same size as Rocky and Fowler.
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Chicken Run / int_5fcedca
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Bumbling Sidekick
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Bumbling Sidekick: Downplayed in Fetcher's case. He occasionally comes across as one because he's not as smart as Nick and is a bit slow on the uptake, but otherwise he's just as good at thievery as Nick.
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Chicken Run / int_605b8f40
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The Leader
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The Leader: Ginger is a combination of Types II and III.
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Chicken Run / int_60e49895
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Sacrificial Lamb
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Sacrificial Lamb: Edwina is a minor character who gets killed off to show the film is serious and that the chickens really need to escape.
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Chicken Run / int_61996785
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Death Glare
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Death Glare: Ginger does this several times. Perhaps unsurprisingly, so does Mrs. Tweedy. Mr. Tweedy also gives a few of these to Ginger.
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Chicken Run / int_627264e0
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The clipboard Mrs. Tweedy has during the first roll call shows the farm is located in the fictional town/village of Dulldale, North Riding (now North Yorkshire). When Mrs. Tweedy slams her fist down to shut Mr. Tweedy up, their wedding photo is glimpsed in the background. It can also be seen behind her desk. When Mr. Tweedy briefly catches the chickens all doing push-ups in unison, Bunty is doing hers one-handed. When Mrs. Tweedy almost beheads Ginger while hanging from the Christmas lights there is a very easy-to-miss frame where you can see Ginger ducking her head away◊ and the axe severing the Christmas lights. On the tree behind Bunty and Babs at the end, there is a heart carved into the trunk with two names inside it. Upon closer inspection, it reads "Bunty + Fowler."
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Chicken Run / int_62f9d08e
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Heroic Sacrifice
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Heroic Sacrifice: Ginger almost pulled this by apparently letting Mrs. Tweedy behead her along with cutting the line that was attached to the crate with the escaping chickens. Turns out she just ducked away, but still, a pretty dark implication. While it's easier to miss in the chaos of the moment, Ginger jumping out of the crate to fix the ramp is also sacrificial on her part since she wouldn't have any way to get back on. Had the crate not been dragging the Christmas lights, she would have been trapped on the farm while everyone else made it to safety. In the very beginning scene, Ginger puts herself at risk of the farm dogs (when she had an opportunity to fully escape the farm herself) to ensure that Bunty was safe from the farm dogs.
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Chicken Run / int_6439de78
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Manly Tears
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Manly Tears: You can see Rocky was shedding some before he discovered that Ginger hadn't been decapitated. Nick and Fetcher shed them too when loading the eggs into the catapult to fire at Mrs. Tweedy during the climax. Nick is also shedding them when he and Fetcher have a Man Hug after this.
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Indy Escape
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Indy Escape: Inside the pie machine, Rocky and Ginger avoid gigantic rolling gears while dodging bolts popping out of the walls. These perils resemble the kind of giant boulder and arrows-from-the-wall booby traps seen in your typical Raiders of the Lost Parody.
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Dance of Romance
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Dance of Romance: The dance scene is when Ginger and Rocky start to fall for each other.
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Only One Name
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Only One Name: Obviously a given for almost all of the chickens who are given names, averted in the cases of Rocky and Fowler. Rocky's name is Rocky Rhodes (short for Rocky the Rhode Island Red), and when Fowler is inspired to pilot the crate, he calls himself "T. I. Fowler", suggesting Fowler is actually his surname.
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We Hardly Knew Ye
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We Hardly Knew Ye: Edwina is killed early in the movie for not laying enough (read: any) eggs for the last five days.
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Chicken Run / int_676e942c
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Chewing the Scenery
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Chewing the Scenery: One word from Rocky when we first see him: "FRRREEEDDOOOM!" Because he's just escaped the circus, and shows Ginger a way for the chickens to escape.
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Chicken Run / int_69fb91e8
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: During the argument with Ginger, Rocky isn't wrong when he calls Ginger out for not realizing how she's hurting the other chickens with her Brutal Honesty.
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: Rocky never knew how to fly. When Ginger saw him, he had been shot out of a cannon.
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Techno Babble
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Techno Babble: Mac speaks about the problems of escaping in technical jargon that is hard to understand. It's Played for Laughs.
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Loud Gulp
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Loud Gulp: The chickens gulp in unison (swallowing the heaps of chicken feed they all had in their mouths) after Ginger tells them that the extra food they've been eating was to fatten them up for slaughter.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Nick (as in English euphemism for steal) and Fetcher. Also, Ginger is ginger (i.e. reddish). The chicken killed by Mrs. Tweedy is called Edwina. It's a clear reference to Edwina Currie, a British politician who started a health scare about salmonella poisoning in British eggs, leading to the cull of millions of chickens.
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Punny Name
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Punny Name: Rocky the Rhode Island Red, or Rocky Rhodes for short. It's a pun on "Rocky Roads". Fowler, the RAF vet, shares his name with a type of flap.
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When I Was Your Age...
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When I Was Your Age...: This is part of Fowler's shtick.
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Babies Ever After
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Babies Ever After: In the epilogue, Mac is shown giving a group of peeps a ride in the catapult she had designed at the beginning of the movie. Presumably they're all Ginger and Rocky's, but there are a few alternatives that also involve Rocky.
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Mrs. Tweedy is a dead serious, totally merciless farmer who abuses her chickens (the protagonists) just because she can. Her Henpecked Husband, Mr. Tweedy, is a Butt-Monkey who provides some of the funniest lines in the movie, though his vendetta with Ginger brings out his more sinister side.
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Four-Fingered Hands
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Four-Fingered Hands: Everyone except the Tweedys and the circus master.
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Extreme Omnivore
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Extreme Omnivore: Early in the movie, one of the dogs eats the head of a ceramic garden gnome.
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Masquerade
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Masquerade: The chickens pretend they don't understand English so they can eavesdrop on the humans. When they finally execute their escape plan, they drop the act and start talking to humans.
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Disney Death
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Disney Death: Ginger is seemingly beheaded by Mrs. Tweedy during the final escape attempt. It turns out she just ducked her head at the right moment and the axe severed the Christmas lights instead.
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
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comment
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!: Spoofed.
 Chicken Run / int_6f546e9f
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1.0
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Chicken Run / int_6f546e9f
 Chicken Run / int_6fb7e88f
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No, You Go First
 Chicken Run / int_6fb7e88f
comment
No, You Go First: When Rocky finds Ginger on the roof.
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1.0
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Chicken Run / int_6fb7e88f
 Chicken Run / int_70bdac19
type
Honest John's Dealership
 Chicken Run / int_70bdac19
comment
Honest John's Dealership: Nick and Fetcher sell smuggled products to the chickens, which are stolen and heavily used, and refuse to let them have the good stuff unless they pay in eggs.
 Chicken Run / int_70bdac19
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1.0
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Chicken Run / int_70bdac19
 Chicken Run / int_71ff7f0d
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Cooked to Death
 Chicken Run / int_71ff7f0d
comment
Cooked to Death: Trapped in a machine meant to turn them into chicken pies, Ginger and Rocky evade the meat grinder meant to kill them, but nevertheless end up stuck in a pie in an industrial baking oven, and escape only at the last moment before the hatch closes.
 Chicken Run / int_71ff7f0d
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Chicken Run / int_71ff7f0d
 Chicken Run / int_72852a93
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Henpecked Husband
 Chicken Run / int_72852a93
comment
Mr. Tweedy lives under the heel of his domineering wife, and he spends the movie futilely matching wits with a group of female chickens who end up attacking him en masse in the climax. Thus, he's both a literal and figurative Henpecked Husband.
 Chicken Run / int_72852a93
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Chicken Run / int_72852a93
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Suicide by Cop
 Chicken Run / int_73328e84
comment
If you don't agree with the interpretation that Edwina is committing Suicide by Cop, her not telling anyone about not having laid any eggs until it was far too late is unfortunately this.
 Chicken Run / int_73328e84
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Chicken Run / int_73328e84
 Chicken Run / int_7390323c
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Sticky Fingers
 Chicken Run / int_7390323c
comment
Nick (as in English euphemism for steal) and Fetcher. Also, Ginger is ginger (i.e. reddish).
 Chicken Run / int_7390323c
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1.0
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Chicken Run / int_7390323c
 Chicken Run / int_73f0c42a
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I Just Want to Be Free
 Chicken Run / int_73f0c42a
comment
I Just Want to Be Free: Ginger's personal reason for escaping is her desire to feel grass beneath her feet and go wherever she wants without a farmer to keep her down. The other chickens want this too, although they've become increasingly resigned to their lives. Rocky doesn't want to go back to the circus either.
 Chicken Run / int_73f0c42a
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Chicken Run / int_73f0c42a
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Released to Elsewhere
 Chicken Run / int_73f79f91
comment
Released to Elsewhere: Babs is under this impression all the time when a chicken is beheaded. She believes them to be "on holiday."
 Chicken Run / int_73f79f91
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1.0
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Chicken Run / int_73f79f91
 Chicken Run / int_74e2ef76
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Orphaned Punchline
 Chicken Run / int_74e2ef76
comment
Orphaned Punchline: Rocky's, "And the pig says to the horse, 'Hey man, why the long face?'" No setup is even needed.
 Chicken Run / int_74e2ef76
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1.0
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Chicken Run / int_74e2ef76
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Packed Hero
 Chicken Run / int_74e60c37
comment
Packed Hero: During the pie machine sequence, Rocky and Ginger briefly get trapped inside a pie.
 Chicken Run / int_74e60c37
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Chicken Run / int_74e60c37
 Chicken Run / int_75979171
type
The Cuckoolander Was Right
 Chicken Run / int_75979171
comment
The Cuckoolander Was Right: Mr. Tweedy is correct in his strange-sounding theory about the hens being smarter than they look, which Mrs. Tweedy finds out the hard way.
 Chicken Run / int_75979171
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1.0
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Chicken Run / int_75979171
 Chicken Run / int_75d6bf40
type
Belligerent Sexual Tension
 Chicken Run / int_75d6bf40
comment
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Ginger and Rocky spend much of the first half of the film arguing, but realise there's an attraction there when they get to properly talk and even share a Dance of Romance.
 Chicken Run / int_75d6bf40
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1.0
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Chicken Run / int_75d6bf40
 Chicken Run / int_762b9223
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Played for Laughs
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comment
There's a lot of levity in the opening credits, and horsing around with Fowler and Bunty during the lineup, but then you have Edwina, and her execution is not Played for Laughs. The music becomes mournful and dark, followed by the execution, and to drive the point home, her freshly eaten bones are on the Tweedy dinner table. At that point, Ginger's desperate attempts to escape aren't so funny anymore.
 Chicken Run / int_762b9223
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Chicken Run / int_762b9223
 Chicken Run / int_76dc3807
type
Alone in a Crowd
 Chicken Run / int_76dc3807
comment
Alone in a Crowd: Ginger at first during the dance scene, until another chicken comes towards her and she ends up against Rocky, which starts their Dance of Romance.
 Chicken Run / int_76dc3807
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1.0
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Chicken Run / int_76dc3807
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Amusing Injuries
 Chicken Run / int_78c895c8
comment
Amusing Injuries: Mr. Tweedy banging his head on the roof of the hut and, near the end, getting a whole hut dropped on him. Rocky getting clobbered when an upended feeding trough falls on him.
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Chicken Run / int_78c895c8
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Everything Makes a Mushroom
 Chicken Run / int_791ef98c
comment
Everything Makes a Mushroom: A gravy explosion looks an awful lot like a mushroom cloud.
 Chicken Run / int_791ef98c
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Chicken Run / int_791ef98c
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Boxed Crook
 Chicken Run / int_794095d7
comment
Boxed Crook: Rocky is an interesting variation in that the ultimatum for getting out — without being ratted out and sent back to the circus — is helping everyone else get out as well.
 Chicken Run / int_794095d7
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1.0
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Chicken Run / int_794095d7
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No One Gets Left Behind
 Chicken Run / int_7969f21e
comment
No One Gets Left Behind: Bunty when she can shares her eggs with chickens who have stopped laying to save their lives. She's horrified on realizing Edwina didn't tell anyone, just as the chicken is up for the chop. Ginger explains to Rocky soon after meeting him that it's not so hard for one to two chickens to escape from the farm, but it's about getting all of them out of the farm at once.
 Chicken Run / int_7969f21e
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Chicken Run / int_7969f21e
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Eagleland
 Chicken Run / int_7a265daa
comment
Eagleland: Rocky is a mixed flavour leaning towards flavour 2. Quite frankly, Rocky actually is also indeed "overpaid, over-sexed and over here". Gets even better in certain dubs where Fowler will say "Besides, he's American" [...] "Beware of guys like that, miss Ginger. Americans are unreliable."
 Chicken Run / int_7a265daa
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Chicken Run / int_7a265daa
 Chicken Run / int_7b6e47a5
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Armor-Piercing Question
 Chicken Run / int_7b6e47a5
comment
Armor-Piercing Question: Ginger gives two in quick succession during the meeting in Hut 17. As she tries to boost everyone's morale, Bunty has pretty much given up at this point, which results in Ginger bringing up what happened during roll call that morning.
 Chicken Run / int_7b6e47a5
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Chicken Run / int_7b6e47a5
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Hartman Hips
 Chicken Run / int_7bc076de
comment
Hartman Hips: With chickens. Even Rocky and Fowler have these.
 Chicken Run / int_7bc076de
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Chicken Run / int_7bc076de
 Chicken Run / int_7c203f21
type
This Is No Time to Panic
 Chicken Run / int_7c203f21
comment
This Is No Time to Panic: The DVD has a special bonus feature called the "Panic Button". Click it and it plays a scene when all the chickens are going bonkers.
 Chicken Run / int_7c203f21
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Chicken Run / int_7c203f21
 Chicken Run / int_7cc8d769
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Sore Loser
 Chicken Run / int_7cc8d769
comment
Sore Loser: Mrs. Tweedy. Clearly, she does not like it when her cloudcuckoolander of a husband was right about the chickens being organised.
 Chicken Run / int_7cc8d769
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Chicken Run / int_7cc8d769
 Chicken Run / int_7e6c0522
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Off with His Head!
 Chicken Run / int_7e6c0522
comment
Off with His Head!: Poor, poor Edwina. May overlap with Actor Allusion, given Miranda Richardson's earlier roles.
 Chicken Run / int_7e6c0522
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Chicken Run / int_7e6c0522
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Almost Kiss
 Chicken Run / int_7eb49b31
comment
Almost Kiss: Rocky and Ginger almost kiss at one point before being interrupted by Mrs. Tweedy. And again for the second time, when Mrs. Tweedy's farm goes up in a GRAVY explosion, causing quite a scare for Rocky and Ginger. Wait, how do you animate chickens kissing, anyway? (A quick peck on the cheek, perhaps?)
 Chicken Run / int_7eb49b31
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Chicken Run / int_7eb49b31
 Chicken Run / int_7fbb2a3
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
 Chicken Run / int_7fbb2a3
comment
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The first escape attempt seen in the film fails because Ginger didn't dig the hole big enough for Bunty's size, causing her to get stuck and draw Mr. Tweedy's attention.
 Chicken Run / int_7fbb2a3
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Chicken Run / int_7fbb2a3
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Establishing Character Moment
 Chicken Run / int_7febc23b
comment
Establishing Character Moment: The first scene of Mrs. Tweedy has Ginger, Mr. Tweedy and her guard dogs cowering in fear as she stands in the doorway of the farm house in a plush dressing gown, slippers and a shower cap. The fact that she's still intimidating while looking like this lets us know right away how much of a regular fright she is. Babs' very first line (which also sets up a Running Gag) is asking Ginger if she enjoyed her "holiday" in the coal bin. Immediately, we know she's not exactly playing with a full deck. Fowler is introduced ordering the others to get ready for the roll call when the bell sounds for it, and then talking about his time in the RAF before Bunty tells him to cut it out.
 Chicken Run / int_7febc23b
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Chicken Run / int_7febc23b
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type
Phony Veteran
 Chicken Run / int_815db542
comment
Phony Veteran: At least semi-phony. Fowler did serve in the military, but only as a mascot. To be fair he never actually claimed to be a pilot, he was just vague about the whole thing. Plus, no one really listened to him until the end.
 Chicken Run / int_815db542
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Chicken Run / int_815db542
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type
Dramatic Thunder
 Chicken Run / int_84764598
comment
Right before Rocky flies in, as Ginger is crying against the fence, we hear and see what appears to be thunder and lightning. It's the cannon that he was launched from in a circus act, meaning he can't actually fly under his own power. Then, when she puts the missing piece on the poster, it's accompanied by Dramatic Thunder.
 Chicken Run / int_84764598
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Chicken Run / int_84764598
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TheFifties
 Chicken Run / int_856a425a
comment
The '50s: According to the filmmakers, the action takes place in 1959. According to a calendar on the wall in the Tweedy's farmhouse, the film specifically takes place in July 1959, as July was the only month of that year where the first day of the month was a Wednesday.
 Chicken Run / int_856a425a
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Chicken Run / int_856a425a
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Humanlike Hand Anatomy
 Chicken Run / int_85ebb64d
comment
Humanlike Hand Anatomy: For this movie, they would have needed to come up with some pretty ingenious ways for all the chickens to use their various tools if they all had actual wings instead of arms.
 Chicken Run / int_85ebb64d
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Chicken Run / int_85ebb64d
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Lineage Ladder
 Chicken Run / int_878ddac8
comment
Lineage Ladder: Mr. Tweedy is initially against the pie machine because the family came from a line of egg farmers, starting from his father and up the family tree, but Mrs. Tweedy shuts him down by calling them all poor, and makes it pretty clear that she refuses to live out the same fate by brandishing a buzzsaw-like blade in front of her husband's face.
 Chicken Run / int_878ddac8
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Chicken Run / int_878ddac8
 Chicken Run / int_87c7f99d
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Sidetracked by the Analogy
 Chicken Run / int_87c7f99d
comment
Sidetracked by the Analogy:
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Chicken Run / int_87c7f99d
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Finger Extinguisher
 Chicken Run / int_894f7465
comment
Finger Extinguisher: A chicken extinguishes a flame with her hand to hide evidence the chicken are organised, before Mr. Tweedy opens the hut's roof to check on them. Unusually for the trope, she's heard saying "Ouch!" right afterwards.
 Chicken Run / int_894f7465
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Chicken Run / int_894f7465
 Chicken Run / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Chicken Run / int_8cf6aa
comment
Coupled with Literal Metaphor, when the pie machine goes wrong, a spanner is literally in the works.
 Chicken Run / int_8cf6aa
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Chicken Run / int_8cf6aa
 Chicken Run / int_8f9f71a8
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Crazy Enough to Work
 Chicken Run / int_8f9f71a8
comment
Crazy Enough to Work: The final escape plain with the plane. Ginger realizes that if they put together Fowler's expertise with the Royal Air Force, Mac's engineering skills, Babs' craftswork, and Bunty's eggs (to pay for tools), they may actually pull it off. She reassures Fowler that he can pilot the plane, and he does so with aplomb. When the chickens are actually in the air, they are surprised that this plan worked.
 Chicken Run / int_8f9f71a8
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Chicken Run / int_8f9f71a8
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Significant Green-Eyed Redhead
 Chicken Run / int_92679f89
comment
Significant Green Eyed Red Head: Ginger has red plumage and green eyes, which makes her stand out visually from the other hens.
 Chicken Run / int_92679f89
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Chicken Run / int_92679f89
 Chicken Run / int_928ca2cc
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
 Chicken Run / int_928ca2cc
comment
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Whenever hens are unable to lay eggs anymore, they get slaughtered and eaten for dinner, as seen at the beginning with Edwina.
 Chicken Run / int_928ca2cc
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Chicken Run / int_928ca2cc
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Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal
 Chicken Run / int_92b9e234
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Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: None of the chickens wear actual clothes, but they distinguish themselves and accessorise with scarves, necklaces, and bandanas. See "Ring Around the Collar". Ginger wears a little knit cap.
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Chicken Run / int_92b9e234
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The Big Damn Kiss
 Chicken Run / int_9438e550
comment
The Big Damn Kiss: When Mrs. Tweedy is finally defeated at the end, Ginger and Rocky have one. After a few Almost Kisses earlier in the film, Ginger grabs Rocky by the beak, turns him to face her, and plants one on him. Considering they had finally managed to escape by then, there is a bit of Smooch of Victory in there too.
 Chicken Run / int_9438e550
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Chicken Run / int_9438e550
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Villainous Breakdown
 Chicken Run / int_957e5fc2
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Villainous Breakdown: Mrs. Tweedy, when she sees the chickens escaping.
 Chicken Run / int_957e5fc2
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Chicken Run / int_957e5fc2
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Faux Affably Evil
 Chicken Run / int_95b7c400
comment
Faux Affably Evil: Mrs. Tweedy comes across as this when talking to the circus master.
 Chicken Run / int_95b7c400
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Recycled Trailer Music
 Chicken Run / int_960810e8
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Recycled Trailer Music: The trailer uses some songs from Antz, specifically the tracks "The Colony" and "The Bar", as well as the main themes of The Great Escape and MouseHunt.
 Chicken Run / int_960810e8
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Chicken Run / int_960810e8
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Not So Above It All
 Chicken Run / int_96b89043
comment
Not So Above It All: Fowler walks in on the other chickens dancing to music, organised by Rocky, and after Bunty tells him to shut up and dance, he also gets in on it, and a later shot shows him dancing with another hen with a rose in his mouth and a grin on his face.
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Chicken Run / int_96b89043
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Big Bad
 Chicken Run / int_970c790a
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Big Bad: Mrs. Tweedy. While Mr. Tweedy seems to have inherited the farm from his parents before he married her, Mrs. Tweedy is definitely the one in charge, continually bosses him around and sets up the plan to kill all the chickens.
 Chicken Run / int_970c790a
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Uncertified Expert
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Uncertified Expert: Fowler is believed to have been a pilot in the RAF and serves as an advisor; it turns out he was really the squadron mascot.
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Barefoot Cartoon Animal
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Barefoot Cartoon Animal: The rats Nick and Fetcher don't wear shoes but are otherwise fully clothed.
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Mass "Oh, Crap!"
 Chicken Run / int_97fa0a10
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": The other chickens have one when Ginger is taken to the pie machine. The chickens have one earlier, when the attempt to escape using the Mrs. Tweedy dummy fails.
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Chick Magnet
 Chicken Run / int_9858c391
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Chick Magnet: Rocky shows up, and practically all of the hens except Ginger are immediately swooning over him. Since they're all chickens, this makes Rocky a literal chick magnet too.
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Let Me Get This Straight...
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Let Me Get This Straight...: Uttered verbatim by Rocky when making sense of Ginger's plan, combined with Suddenly Shouting:
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Ladykiller in Love
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Ladykiller in Love: Rocky eventually falls for Ginger.
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Oop North
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Oop North: The Yorkshire setting gets some of the associated tropes. However, not all of the characters have Yorkshire accents (Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy do, but the chickens' accents are from all over the UK).
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Fowler reminisces several times about "the crate" and his RAF days, which becomes important when Ginger asks him if he can help them build an airplane and fly it. When Edwina is about to be killed, Ginger holds one hand to her neck before the inevitable thud. In the climax, Mrs. Tweedy comes very close to cutting off Ginger's head with likely the same axe, but tricks Mrs. Tweedy into cutting the Christmas lights. The magazine with the headline "Turn Your Chicken Farm Into a Goldmine" foreshadows the whole thing with the pie machine that will come into play later. Right before Rocky flies in, as Ginger is crying against the fence, we hear and see what appears to be thunder and lightning. It's the cannon that he was launched from in a circus act, meaning he can't actually fly under his own power. Then, when she puts the missing piece on the poster, it's accompanied by Dramatic Thunder. And when Rocky is recovering in the hut, he's heard mumbling something about not wanting to get stuffed in there again. It sounds like prison. It's the cannon. Rocky's poster is torn at the bottom portion. The missing piece depicts the cannon. Fowler tells Ginger at one point to watch herself when it comes to Rocky, stating he's "not to be trusted". On Rocky's first night in the farm, he remarks that it can't be hard to escape from the farm and attempts to do so then and there before Ginger gets across to him that she wants all of the chickens to get out of the farm at once. Rocky does manage to escape from the farm later when he uses the hole under the fence that Ginger dug at the start of the film. However, he realises, after seeing a billboard for Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pies, that he can't abandon Ginger and the others, so he returns and pulls off a Big Damn Heroes moment. Then there's Rocky's line under Non Sequitur, *Thud*:
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Mrs. Tweedy to Mr. Tweedy while he was explaining about how the egg farming industry was brought down from their fathers. Bunty, after getting tired of Fowler's rambling about medals: "Oh, would you just shut up about your stupid! Bloomin'! Medals!"
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Gut Punch
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Gut Punch: When Edwina gets beheaded, albeit offscreen, and later her bones are seen on the kitchen table. It shows right away just how much of a threat the Tweedys are.
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Leitmotif
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Leitmotif: Several of them appear throughout the film: The main title theme, of course, plays in a few different places, like during Ginger and Rocky's conversation on the rooftop, and when the chickens finally leap the fence to freedom. A very dramatic theme plays during many action sequences, like during the pie machine sequence, the opening chase scene, and during the climax with Mrs. Tweedy. Rocky surprisingly gets two. The first is an almost patriotic orchestral melody. This version gets several reprises, including a dark one when the flock finds the missing quarter of the circus poster. The second one is a big band-styled jazz tune, perhaps echoing Rocky's at-the-time cocky and conceited nature. This one doesn't play nearly as often as the first. A clarinet-driven melody plays during scenes involving Nick and Fetcher.
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Feminist Fantasy
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Feminist Fantasy: You might not think too much about it as you're watching claymated chickens escape a chicken farm, but just imagine if the movie had been about human characters escaping prison camp: The main cast are 85% female, the main character the brave leader of her group of women trying their best to escape their confinement through various inventive methods. The females are of all shapes and sizes, with unique and fun personalities. The one male in their group is an old man not doing much of importance but offer more comedy relief. While a second male character appears and the females trust him to be their rescuing factor, he eventually turns out to be a phoney, causing the female protagonist to again take charge and come up with the plan that ultimately saves them all. Again, imagine this movie with humans and the trope is in full effect. The trope even extends to the antagonist side. A strong willed and business savvy woman who is determined to turn her family's ailing chicken farm into a profitable business, armed with a steadfast refusal to let anyone, not even her bumbling husband, impede her goals.
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Improvisational Ingenuity
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Improvisational Ingenuity: By the time the film starts, the chickens have already managed to organise themselves, install a network of secret passages throughout the coop and plot a series of elaborate escape attempts, and that's before they get around to building a working plane in the finale.
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Mean Boss
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Mean Boss: Mrs. Tweedy constantly mistreats her henpecked husband while bossing him around.
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Grumpy Old Man
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Grumpy Old Man: Fowler is an irritable old rooster who gets cranky whenever he or the rules are being disrespected.
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Overly Long Gag
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Overly Long Gag: Rocky managing to fall face-down into every single pie while he and Ginger are escaping from the oven.
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Mood Whiplash
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Nick and Fetcher in the Mood Whiplash moment above.
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Rule of Funny
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Rule of Funny: Neither Mrs. or Mr. Tweedy seem to notice or care that the chickens are wearing articles of clothing. Gets especially weird when Mr. Tweedy chooses Ginger to go into the pie machine; you'd think he'd at least remove her clothing at that point so as to not have the pie come out with a beanie and scarf inside. A more frightening guess however is that the makers purposefully didn't have him remove her clothing so not to make too obvious a reference to a certain Holocaust event...
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: Mrs. Tweedy finds out about the pie machine and tries to shush Mr. Tweedy about his suspicions about the plotting chickens twice. When that fails, cue a fist coming down hard. Realising that Rocky is on the run from the circus and in an attempt to blackmail him into teaching the chickens how to fly, Ginger squawks twice to alert the circus owner and the Tweedys before Rocky clamps her beak shut each time. At the third time, Rocky was ready and immediately clamps Ginger's beak shut as soon as she starts to squawk. When the bell rings for the second roll call, Rocky says "Hide me!" three times, while Ginger is fussing over Babs. After the third, Ginger yells at Rocky to hide himself, which he does, as he is later revealed to have hidden in a watering can.
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Captivity Harmonica
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Captivity Harmonica: Parodied when Rocky comes back to find the chickens milling about the overturned food trough, having just heard from Ginger that they're all going to die, and there's Mac playing a mournful harmonica.
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Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway
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Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: Even though Mac says the Crate hasn't gone through the tests to make sure it works yet, with the pie machine operational, Ginger declares it's now or never.
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"Hell, Yes!" Moment
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"Hell, Yes!" Moment: Nick and Fetcher have one when Ginger make their new plans in building a functioning airplane clear. After Ginger's Oh, Crap! when Mr. Tweedy manages to fix the pie machine, Mr. Tweedy stands back and laughs triumphantly. When Mr. Tweedy catches the chickens adding the last-minute fixes to their plane, Mac asks what the plan is. Realizing they have no choice, Ginger shouts "Attack!" and leads a dogpile — er, chicken pile— onto Mr. Tweedy. Bunty says "Nice plan!" and joins in the fracas.
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Gray Rain of Depression
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Gray Rain of Depression: When the chickens find out that Rocky was shot out of a cannon and couldn't really fly.
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Kazoos Mean Silliness
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Kazoos Mean Silliness: John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams' score often features kazoos to emphasize its sillier and more lighthearted moments.
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Man Hug
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Man Hug: Nick and Fetcher have one after the chickens manage to escape. And before that, Rocky gives one to Nick and Fetcher when they get rid of Mrs. Tweedy.
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Brawn Hilda
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In-universe, Nick and Fetcher get one. When Bunty slams into the fence during the thrust session, they are laughing at Nick's jibe at Bunty's expense, but their laughing turns to screaming as they realise Bunty is about to land on them.
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Rousing Speech
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Rousing Speech: Bunty wasn't convinced however.
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Already Undone for You
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Already Undone for You: When falling towards a load of spinning blades in the pie machine, Rocky grabs a bar at the side which falls down and stops his fall. There is no sign of how Ginger survived moments before, however...
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Red Shirt
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Red Shirt: Edwina gets killed to show the viewers the trouble the Chickens face, as well as why they want to escape.
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
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Mrs. Tweedy gets two in the climax. The first is when Ginger reveals that she cut the string of lights with the axe. The second is when Mr. Tweedy pushes the barn door down on her.
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Oh, Crap!
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Babs has an Oh, Crap! and tells Ginger she hasn't laid any eggs for three days, as the bell is ringing for a roll call, and they have no time to pass off another egg as one of hers. Ginger asks her why she didn't tell them sooner. Babs' reason: "We've been so busy with the flying..." Babs survives, but only because Mrs. Tweedy now intends to kill them all, anyway.
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I Warned You
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I Warned You: Said by Mr. Tweedy to Mrs. Tweedy the Sore Loser in possibly the meekest example of this trope after the chickens revolt and fly the coop.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Mrs. Tweedy belittles her husband with sarcasm.
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Fridge Brilliance
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They flew the coop!
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Take That!
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Take That!: Edwina, the chicken that gets beheaded, was named after former politician Edwina Currie who is (in)famous for starting a nationwide health scare over eggs in 1988 (confirmed by Word of God).
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: If you don't agree with the interpretation that Edwina is committing Suicide by Cop, her not telling anyone about not having laid any eggs until it was far too late is unfortunately this. Babs has an Oh, Crap! and tells Ginger she hasn't laid any eggs for three days, as the bell is ringing for a roll call, and they have no time to pass off another egg as one of hers. Ginger asks her why she didn't tell them sooner. Babs' reason: "We've been so busy with the flying..." Babs survives, but only because Mrs. Tweedy now intends to kill them all, anyway.
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The Rat
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The Rat: Bonus points for the farm's resident scroungers being actual rats.
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Face Framed in Shadow
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Ginger is first seen with her Face Framed in Shadow with her feet visible while trying to keep hidden during an escape attempt.
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Evil Overlooker
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Evil Overlooker: The main posters and DVD cover have Mrs. Tweedy's face projected onto a cloud in the background.
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Not-So-Innocent Whistle
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Not-So-Innocent Whistle: The chickens are caught in the middle of spying on the farm's owners through binoculars. After a Beat or two of silence, every single chicken starts whistling (in unison) and looking innocent, with their hands holding the binoculars behind their backs. They get away with it because Mr. Tweedy convinces himself that it's all in his head—chickens, after all, do not plot.
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Fiery Redhead
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Fiery Redhead: Ginger has red feathers, making her the hen equivalent. Perhaps she's a downplayed example since she isn't Hot-Blooded or irritable to the extent of having a Hair-Trigger Temper, but she is the most brave and defiant hen and often gets angry at Rocky for not taking things seriously.
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My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
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My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: Happens to Babs, who then adds with a deadpan, "It was really boring."
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Ginger gets fed up pretty quickly of being called "doll face" by Rocky. One time he does it, she throws his towel at him. While building the crate, Babs cheerfully calls her "doll face", which makes her sigh wistfully, because at that point, Rocky had fled for parts unknown.
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These Gloves Are Made for Killin'
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These Gloves Are Made for Killin': Mrs. Tweedy wears red rubber gloves to decapitate a chicken named Edwina with a hatchet. Mrs. Tweedy even goes out of her way to sadistically taunt the chickens by pulling on the glove she's not wearing and snapping it in front of them before she selects Edwina for slaughter.
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Putting on the Reich
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Putting on the Reich: There's no reason for Tweedy's farm to be modeled after a Nazi concentration camp, complete with barbed wired fences and chicken houses modeled after barracks, other than to emphasize that this farm is a true prison for the chickens that will eventually become a death camp for all.
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Alliterative Name
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Alliterative Name: Rocky Rhodes.
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Brief Accent Imitation
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Brief Accent Imitation: Ginger imitates Rocky's American accent while saying she wouldn't expect a "Lone Free Ranger" to know anything about caring for her friends; When Rocky gets the idea to launch the chickens with an elastic band, he imitates the way that Scottish-accented Mac pronounces "Thrrrust".
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Indy Hat Roll
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Indy Hat Roll: In the same part Ginger slips under a slowly closing door, and snatches back her hat from the other side just before it shuts.
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Both Sides Have a Point
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Both Sides Have a Point: During a heated argument over warning the chickens of the impending prospect of death, Ginger does state that she cares about what happens to chickens, something that Rocky wouldn't understand. Rocky, on the other hand, was right when he calls Ginger out in return for being difficult and making things worse with her Brutal Honesty.
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Played straight in a brief scene near the end when Ginger slaps Rocky in anger, but for the most part, averted like hell. Mrs. Tweedy is clearly a monster and her husband is just one of many whom she makes suffer.
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Industrialized Evil
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Industrialized Evil: The Pie-Making Machine, from the chickens' point of view at the very least, being a machine designed to kill chickens en masse and turn them into pies. Doubly so when you realize that it's a stand-in for the Nazi concentration camps' gas chambers.
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A Nazi by Any Other Name
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A Nazi by Any Other Name: Due to the film paying homage to prisoner of war stories, Mrs. Tweedy serves as a clear stand-in for a Nazi prison officer or dictator Adolf Hitler. She initially keeps her chickens for their eggs and only kills the ones that have stopped laying, reflecting how the Nazis initially exploited their prisoners for labour and killed those who couldn't work, but eventually decides she will earn more profits from killing the chickens than keeping them alive, even plotting to put them in a literal gas chamber.
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Bait-and-Switch Comment
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: Bunty makes one after Ginger says what it's like outside the farm: "In all my life, I've never heard such a fantastic... load of TRIPE!"
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": Rocky yells "No!" when Mrs. Tweedy seemingly kills Ginger. Includes a Futile Hand Reach.
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Chicken Run / int_c2cedc1c
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Smooch of Victory
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Smooch of Victory: After the chickens escape at the end, Mac gives Fowler a big kiss on the cheek. And then of course, Rocky and Ginger's Big Damn Kiss moments later.
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No, You
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No, You: This moment as the bell is ringing for the second roll call:
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: Inverted while the chickens are building their airplane. They hear the pie machine starting up, suggesting that the repairs on it are complete. Then they hear it wind down and see Mrs. Tweedy kicking her husband so the repairs aren't finished after all.
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For Doom the Bell Tolls
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For Doom the Bell Tolls: When Edwina is killed, the thud of the axe is punctuated by the single mournful toll of a bell.
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Yank the Dog's Chain
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Yank the Dog's Chain: The thrust demonstration Rocky sets up before the second roll call seems to be a success until Bunty hits the fence.
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Briefly, when Ginger is dropped into the pie machine, the camera remains with Rocky when he too is accidentally dragged inside when a compliment of mixed vegetables is dropped on his head, and has to navigate the 'Meat' section of the machine with grinder blades before getting deposited into a blob of pastry dough on a conveyor belt. Despite no obvious means of reaching said section herself (Rocky was dropped into the belt due to a convenient pipe that fell in the right direction), Ginger is already there despite having apparently not used the same method to avoid getting ground up, emphasising her competency compared to the other chickens.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Mostly to The Great Escape and other World War II POW media. Following the opening montage, Ginger is sitting in the coal bunker bouncing a brussel sprout off of the wall the same way Hilts does with a tennis ball in Great Escape. Hut 17 is a reference to Stalag 17. And there are some references to Hogan's Heroes, with the rolling-up maps, the movable bunks and the slapstick escape ideas. Rocky's shout of "FRRREEEDDOOOM!" references Braveheart, as does his Brief Accent Imitation when he says "Thrust" with a Scottish accent, the way Mac would. Nick refers to Ginger as Attila the Hen. When the "flying" hens start plummeting to the ground, Fetcher proclaims "It's raining hen!", a reference to the disco song "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls. The theme from The Archers can be heard as Rocky tunes the radio right before the dance number. Nick and Fetcher are apparently fans of Saturday Night Fever, judging by their dancing. Some 20 years in advance, no less. "Look at the size of that thing." The scene of Rocky and Ginger escaping the pie machine features several references to Indiana Jones, such as outrunning the various falling gears like boulders and Ginger briefly losing her hat when they slide out from under the door to the oven. Mac provides a couple to Star Trek: Bonus points for Fowler only leaning in to talk to Mac on the "Scott".
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Description Cut
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Description Cut: This wonderful exchange;
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The Nicknamer
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The Nicknamer: Rocky, though only with Fowler, whom he calls "Pops" and "Grandpa" at one point; Ginger, whom he calls "Doll face" or "Angel face"; and Nick and Fetcher. He refers to everyone else by their names, and after he rescues Ginger from certain death in the pie machine, he starts calling her by her name too. Nick and Fetcher. Other than themselves, they don't refer to anyone else by their names.
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Cloudcuckoolander
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Cloudcuckoolander: Babs and Fetcher are both very air-headed and spacy, jumping to strange conclusions and not fully grasping what's going on. Fowler, too, continuously rambling about the RAF and his time there. Ginger makes use of this later.
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Conscience Makes You Go Back
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Conscience Makes You Go Back: Rocky flees from the farm rather than face the shame of revealing he can't fly, but as he's cycling through the countryside celebrating his newfound freedom, he comes across a billboard for Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pies. It's then that he realises he can't simply abandon Ginger and the others, as he won't ever know if they escaped or not, so he decides to go back, pulling off a Big Damn Heroes moment in the process and joining the others in escaping from the farm.
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Sigh of Love
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Sigh of Love: After Rocky and Ginger have their talk on the roof later on in the movie, Rocky calls Ginger by her name for the first time. Upon hearing this, Ginger lets out a soft happy sigh.
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth: Mr. Tweedy's belief that the chickens are "organised".
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"Eureka!" Moment
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"Eureka!" Moment: Ginger when she reads Rocky's poster when he first arrives, giving her the idea they can fly out of the farm. Ginger staring at Fowler's "medal" (actually one of the commercial flight pins pilots give children), which has wings on it, gives her the idea that they can fly away, just not under their own power.
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That Came Out Wrong
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A funny one later, in the form of the line, "Let's not lose our heads." Taken literally by the other chickens. Bad choice of words.
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Slap-Slap-Kiss
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: Literally. "That's for leaving! ... And this is for coming back." The actual kiss would have to wait until they'd dealt with Mrs. Tweedy first.
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Big "SHUT UP!"
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Big "SHUT UP!": When Ginger has a "Eureka!" Moment while the other chickens are fighting in the mud, she makes them stop and pay attention by yelling, "Everyone! SHUT! UP!".
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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When Edwina is about to be killed, Ginger holds one hand to her neck before the inevitable thud. In the climax, Mrs. Tweedy comes very close to cutting off Ginger's head with likely the same axe, but tricks Mrs. Tweedy into cutting the Christmas lights.
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Hypocrite
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Hypocrite: Mrs. Tweedy boasts that every grocer in the county will be stocked with her "homemade" chicken pies, and proudly advertises them as such on the billboard that Rocky sees later. This is despite the fact that the pies would actually be entirely mass-produced by an automatic machine - which isn't even Tweedy's own patent or invention - making any pies she produces the exact opposite of homemade.
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Help, I'm Stuck!
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Help, I'm Stuck!: Bunty gets stuck under the fence near the beginning of the movie when they're trying to escape.
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Evil Egg Eater
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Evil Egg Eater: Downplayed with the rats Nick and Fletcher. While they are fairly shifty and very insistent that they want eggs in payment for their smuggled goods, which naturally the hens are reluctant to turn over, they are overall helpful to the chickens's efforts to escape. They also don't get to eat any eggs onscreen, as first they're tricked into being promised all of Rocky's eggs - Rocky being a rooster - then all the real eggs they're given end up being used as catapult ammo, Nick and Fletcher weeping as they load and fire.
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Ambitious, but Lazy
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Ambitious, but Lazy: Subtly implied with Mrs. Tweedy. She is never shown contributing any manual labour to the farm, leaving it entirely to her husband (except to kill chickens that don't lay eggs), and instead spends much of the day sat inside calculating their numbers and complaining about their minor but adequate profits. Even when she eventually decides to turn their business from eggs to pies, rather than making and cooking the pies herself, she invests in a giant automated machine that will do all the work for her. She also makes Mr. Tweedy assemble the machine first and repair it when it malfunctions all by himself.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Rocky guiltily abandons the hens before the climax, not having it in him to tell them he can't actually fly. He later has a flash of conscience upon seeing a billboard for Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pies and returns to the farm to save the day. At the end of the climax, Mr. Tweedy runs into the barn to find his wife stuck in the pie-making machine's safety valve and the pressure gauges deep in the red. He calmly closes the door.
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I'm Standing Right Here
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I'm Standing Right Here: Fowler complains out loud about having to share his bunk with Rocky, while Rocky is laying right next to him. Rocky hits back by saying that Fowler wasn't his first choice of bedmate, either.
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Fake Ultimate Hero
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Fake Ultimate Hero: Rocky, who lets his "flying rooster" reputation go to his head. Once he has to give an actual demonstration, he chickens out. To a lesser degree, Fowler. While he never outright says he was a wartime hero, his ramblings give off that impression. When he finally admits he was just the mascot, he insists that it should have been obvious, since no air force would employ chickens as pilots.
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Ginger's "Bye-bye." to Mrs. Tweedy.
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Red Herring
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Red Herring: When Ginger orders the crate prepared for flight after Mr. Tweedy is subdued, Mac tells her that it's not yet ready for use. We're expecting this to be Foreshadowing for some kind of catastrophe during the escape (and originally it was going to be), but in the final film nothing ever comes of it and the crate flies without a hitch.
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Ship Tease
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On the tree behind Bunty and Babs at the end, there is a heart carved into the trunk with two names inside it. Upon closer inspection, it reads "Bunty + Fowler."
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: Fowler. He spends most of the film rambling about the RAF, then in the third act his stories inspire Ginger to build the crate and he ultimately becomes its pilot.
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Awful Wedded Life
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Awful Wedded Life: The Tweedys' marriage is more about work and profit with no romance involved. Not to mention the abuse Mrs. Tweedy puts poor Mr. Tweedy through...
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Subverted with Mr. Tweedy, who's smart enough not to underestimate the chickens, in particular Ginger, whom he decides to use as the first victim of the pie machine.
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Changed My Mind, Kid
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Changed My Mind, Kid: Rocky abandons Ginger and the others before the climax because he knows he's a sham, but after seeing a billboard for Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pies, he realises he can't just abandon them, and he comes back just in time to save Ginger from Mrs. Tweedy and join the escape.
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Pass the Popcorn
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Pass the Popcorn: Upon seeing the chickens' attempts at flying, Nick and Fetcher decide to stop scrounging and watch them repeatedly fail miserably.
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Last-Name Basis
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Last-Name Basis: Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy address each other as such, and it may take viewers a while to realise they're actually a married couple. In rural Yorkshire, it was not uncommon for a married couple to address their spouses that way.
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Dub Name Change
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Dub Name Change: In the Norwegian dub, the "G" in Ginger was removed, becoming Inger, which is a Norwegian girl's name. Edwina was changed to Katrine. Instead of Rocky Rhodes, Rocky's full name was changed to "Rocky'n Roaldsen, Roll for short" becoming Rocky'n Roll. In the Swedish dub, Ginger and Edwina's names were changed to Jenny and Elvira, respectively.
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The Ditz
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The Ditz: Babs, the farm's resident "knit-wit", who is cheerful and friendly but not very bright. Also Mr. Tweedy, the current page quote provider for Ask a Stupid Question.... However, he actually did assemble the pie machine, so that has to count for something.
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Indy Ploy
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Indy Ploy: When Mr. Tweedy discovers what the chickens are doing, Ginger struggles to figure out what to do next, before just yelling, "ATTACK!!!"
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Karmic Jackpot
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Karmic Jackpot: Nick and Fetcher sacrifice the eggs they earned to buy Ginger time to cut the Christmas lights onto their escape plane. For that, they become lifelong friends to the chickens, with as many eggs as they like.
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Empathic Environment
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Empathic Environment: When Rocky is revealed as a fake after running away and his poster is connected — Ginger puts the two bits together — a thunderstorm starts. It is still raining as Ginger is in her Heroic BSoD. It then becomes sunny again when she has a "Eureka!" Moment.
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Disaster Dominoes
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After Rocky's Disaster Dominoes-fueled entry culminates in the feed trough falling on his head, one of the hens can be heard saying, "Ouch!"
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Greek Chorus: Nick and Fetcher comment on the futility of the chickens' escape attempts while observing with detached amusement.
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Death Course: The pie machine is a gauntlet full of deadly booby traps for any chicken trying to escape.
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Determinator: Ginger never gives up no matter how many times her escape attempts fail.
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Hate Sink: Mrs. Tweedy is characterized as a vile and greedy "warden" responsible for all the misery on Tweedy's Farm. She runs the coop like a concentration camp, forcing the chickens to constantly lay eggs to fill her profit margins and sadistically killing any that fails to deliver the quota. When she becomes unsatisfied with their egg production, she decides to turn them all into chicken pies for short-term profits. She is also extremely abusive to her husband, dismissing his concerns about the chickens plotting an escape as mere delusions and forcing him to build (and eventually repair) the pie machine alone.
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Shadow Discretion Shot: When Mrs. Tweedy beheads Edwina near the beginning, we just see their shadows as the prepares her swing followed by the camera cutting away and the sound of the axe.
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Feet-First Introduction: Ginger is first seen with her Face Framed in Shadow with her feet visible while trying to keep hidden during an escape attempt. Mrs. Tweedy is first seen from Ginger's foot-high perspective when she backs into a door... which Mrs. Tweedy opens.
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Exact Words: Rocky's promise to Nick and Fetcher - every egg he lays for a month. Fowler frequently talks about his time in the RAF. At no point did he say he was a pilot. He's rather surprised to learn this caused confusion.
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Period Piece: Although it's never outright stated in the film itself, Word of God is that the movie is set in 1959. It was even filmed with '50s cameras for added effect. Which makes it rather odd that Rocky was singing along to Dion Dimucci's "The Wanderer", a song that wasn't released until two years later.
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Rocky pulls a Big Damn Heroes moment by tackling Mrs. Tweedy, helping Ginger mount the exit ramp, and telling her to grab onto the Christmas lights so they escape with the others.
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Funny Animal: On the anthropomorphic scale, the chickens are funny animals. They have the shape and proportions of real chickens (barring a few human-like traits such as Feather Fingers), but their intelligence, speech, and behavior are almost just like humans'. Nick and Fletcher are also funny animals because of their realistic size despite having more human-like proportions than the chickens; The guard dogs are examples of regular animals because they walk, bark, and behave like actual dogs do.
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Moment Killer: Mr. Tweedy delivers a heaping serving of feed, and the chickens go nuts, cheering and stuffing their mouths as fast as they can. Ginger, unable to get their attention, upends the trough and tells them the Tweedys are fattening them up and plan to kill them. This goes about over about as well as you'd expect, and Rocky even calls her out over it.
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Match Cut: At the end of the pie machine scene, Mrs. Tweedy picks up a pie and aims to hit Mr. Tweedy in the face with it. Before the pie makes contact, the scene cuts to Ginger sticking up the Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pies sticker on a wall for everyone to see.
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Malicious Misnaming: It's not Dollface, it's Ginger.
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Resourceful Rodent
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Resourceful Rodent: Subverted, Nick and Fetcher are a pair of merchants and smugglers who take whatever they can get so they can sell them as tools for the chickens. They use a toffee tin as a suitcase and they offer a shuttlecock as a veil, a thimble as a cup, and a sink plug as a pendant. However, the pair aren't that smart because they couldn't tell the difference between a hen and a rooster (they believed Rocky when he told them he could lay his own eggs). They were instrumental in the chickens' escape because they stole the necessary tools from the farmers by disguising themselves as garden gnomes.
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Mac, at times, especially when she's supposed to be hard to understand.
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The Alleged Car
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The Alleged Car: Subverted with the "crate", an airplane made out of whatever the chickens could find but otherwise flies perfectly. It's not pretty to look at, but it gets them where they need to go.
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Expospeak Gag: After Rocky wakes up with an injured wing, there is this bit of dialogue:
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Proj-egg-tile
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Proj-egg-tile: As Mrs. Tweedy tries to climb into the chickens' airplane, they throw their own eggs at her to try and stop her.
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Dumbass Has a Point
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Dumbass Has a Point: Ginger's question was rhetorical, yes, but Babs' responding in saying their life of laying eggs and served by not meeting their quotas is "a living" wasn't off since they couldn't do anything about it and they had little to no say in the matter.
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Easily Forgiven: Rocky's punishment for having lied to the chickens for days on end, making them train for nothing, wasting valuable time that could have been spent on other escape attempts and then abandoning them all to end up as slaughter is... a slap to his cheek, immediately followed by Ginger trying to kiss him instead, as she explains is for "coming back". The other chickens don't even react to him returning other than "aww"-ing at the two's Big Damn Kiss. Then again, Rocky just saved Ginger from Mrs. Tweedy as well, and they're in the middle of escaping, not giving the chickens much chance to interact with him, and it can be assumed he properly apologised to everyone once they landed.
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Sealed with a Kiss
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Sealed with a Kiss: Rocky and Ginger kiss right at the end of the movie, and immediately afterwards, they are shown in the epilogue enjoying life as a couple.
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Dark Reprise
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The first is an almost patriotic orchestral melody. This version gets several reprises, including a dark one when the flock finds the missing quarter of the circus poster.
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Would Hit a Girl
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Would Hit a Girl: Both played straight and averted. Bunty swipes Fowler's medal out his hand, making him hit her on the noggin with his cane, but afterwards is immensely apologetic and says it was ungentlemanly of him to do. Not that it helps him.
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Pungeon Master
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Pungeon Master: Nick and Fletcher share this title, especially during their flight-spectating punning spree.
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Never Say "Die"
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Never Say "Die": Invoked by Rocky (while not wrong), who tells Ginger that Brutal Honesty isn't going to work ("You know, if you want to motivate someone, don't mention death.") Indeed, the chickens' morale is at its lowest after one of Ginger's speeches where she brutally tells them that the Tweedys are setting them up for slaughter. Played straight with the humans ("You are going to be a pie!") but averted with most of the chickens.
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Hard-Work Montage
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Hard-Work Montage: Several montages throughout the film show the chickens building contraptions or digging tunnels for their escape attempts. The biggest one involves them constructing the "crate", or airplane, where every single chicken is working their rump off while sawing and hammering, intercut with Mr. Tweedy as he repairs the damaged pie machine.
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Earn Your Happy Ending: The chickens go through a lot of grief and mortal peril, but everything turns out well for them in the end when they escape in their airplane and get to enjoy freedom on an island sanctuary.
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That's Gotta Hurt: After Rocky's Disaster Dominoes-fueled entry culminates in the feed trough falling on his head, one of the hens can be heard saying, "Ouch!" At the end of the Flip, Flop and Fly song, Bunty swings Babs around and lets her go, causing her to fly backwards across the hut into the wall by the roof. Ginger and Rocky see this and wince.
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Sitting on the Roof: Ginger has a habit of doing this. In one scene she goes up to the roof and discovers Rocky already sitting there. "I'm sorry, is this your roof?"
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Face Palm: Ginger after the Literal-Minded reaction to her "Let's not lose our heads" line.
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Running Gag: Rocky calling Ginger "doll face" or "angel face", and her angrily shouting "Ginger!" at him. After the pie machine scene, this stops and he starts calling her by name. Babs assuming everyone not present being off on holiday. The capper to this is when she thinks they're all on holiday following the escape, and says she'll be sad to go back once it's over. Rocky a few times having to ask Ginger what Mac is saying due to her thick Scottish accent and fast voice. After Mrs. Tweedy tells him to keep telling himself that it's all in his head that the chickens on their farm are organized, Mr. Tweedy mutters 'It's all in your head, it's all in your head' whenever he sees the chickens doing something suspicious.
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The Dog Bites Back
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The Dog Bites Back: The chickens rushing Mr. Tweedy. Mr. Tweedy pushing the barn door down on Mrs. Tweedy when the chickens escape.
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Brig Ball Bouncing: It wouldn't be an Affectionate Parody of The Great Escape without this trope showing up. After every failed escape attempt, Ginger is put in solitary confinement. While there, she passes time bouncing a brussel sprout against the wall just like Captain Hilts does with a tennis ball.
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Comically Missing the Point: Babs thought Rocky had just gone on holiday. This got on Bunty's nerves ("Maybe he just wanted to get away from YOUR INFERNAL KNITTING!!"), and this escalated into a huge brawl until Ginger stops it. Also Babs from much earlier in the film when the chickens learn of the pie machine.
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Stepping Out to React: When Bunty claims the odds of breaking out of the hellish farm are a million to one after many failed escape attempts, Ginger responds that there's still a chance. She then steps out of the henhouse, and then starts to sob out of stress and frustration.
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Department of Redundancy Department
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Department of Redundancy Department: Lampshaded here:
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Impact Silhouette: When Ginger and Rocky try to escape from the oven of the pie machine, Rocky winds up falling into all of the pies that are being cooked, with a bunch of Rocky-shaped holes in all of the pies that he had fallen into.
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Beware the Nice Ones
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Beware the Nice Ones: Babs may be The Ditz and cheerful for most of the time, but during the mudfight, she gets in with the fighting as well, and can be seen at the end biting another chicken's leg. Later, she's one of the chickens that takes down Mr. Tweedy. Mac too, as in that same scene she calls Bunty out for being overly-aggressive and shoves Bunty hard enough to almost knock her over. Bunty and Mac then have to be separated to stop them attacking each other.
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Artistic License – Economics
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Artistic License – Economics: More than a few people have pointed out that Mrs. Tweedy killing all of her chickens for the pie-making machine is awful business sense. Also, chicken varieties that are good layers of eggs tend not to be very good for meat, at least on a commercial scale. Justified in that Mrs. Tweedy isn't exactly established as sensible, and is more Ax-Crazy.
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: During the staff meeting, Fowler is covered by a sock to hide him and prevent Mr. Tweedy from seeing him. When Ginger leaves Hut 17 at the end of the scene, Fowler (still covered by the sock) falls over and hurts himself. The muffled grunt of pain as he hits the floor makes it all the funnier.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: The way Mac lands square on her head and falls forward after attempting to fly? That would earn a perfect score in caber tossing. Babs' knitting was animated to be as accurate as possible. Her needles are actually toothpicks.
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Becoming the Boast / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Binocular Shot / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Bland-Name Product / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Boxed Crook / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Brief Accent Imitation / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Brig Ball Bouncing / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Captivity Harmonica / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Cassandra Truth / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Catapult to Glory / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Chicken-and-Egg Paradox / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
seeAlso
Chicken Run
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Civilized Animal / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Closest Thing We Got / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Cock-a-Doodle Dawn / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Cocky Rooster / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Coincidental Broadcast / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Comically Missing the Point / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Conscience Makes You Go Back / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Conspicuous CG / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Conveyor Belt o' Doom / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Cooked to Death / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Court-martialed / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Cruella to Animals / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Cultural Posturing / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Dartboard of Hate / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Deadly Dodging / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Description Cut / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Did the Earth Move for You, Too? / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Disney Death / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Disney Villain Death / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Domestic Abuse / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Down on the Farm / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Dumbass Has a Point / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Everything Makes a Mushroom / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Evil Egg Eater / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Expospeak Gag / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Failure Montage / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Fake Ultimate Hero / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Fattening the Victim / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Fearsome Foot / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Feminist Fantasy / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Films of the 2020s / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Final Solution / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Finger Extinguisher / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Flight Is the Final Power / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Flying Flightless Bird / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
For Doom the Bell Tolls / int_b0f81f82
 Framestore
seeAlso
Chicken Run
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Friend in the Black Market / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Fun with Homophones / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Funny Animal / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Futile Hand Reach / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Glove Snap / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Gory Discretion Shot / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Grass Is Greener / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Gray Rain of Depression / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Great Escape / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Gut Punch / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Hard-Work Montage / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Help, I'm Stuck! / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Henpecked Husband / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Heroes Want Redheads / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Heroic BSoD / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Homage / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Human Cannonball / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Humanlike Hand Anatomy / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
I Just Want to Be Free / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
I Meant to Do That / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
I Warned You / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Impact Silhouette / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Improvisational Ingenuity / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Improvised Zipline / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Industrialized Evil / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Indy Escape / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Indy Hat Roll / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Jerkass Has a Point / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Job Mindset Inertia / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Keep It Foreign / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Kids' Meal Toy / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Kindhearted Simpleton / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Layman's Terms / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Lean and Mean / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Let Me Get This Straight... / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Let's Meet the Meat / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Liar Revealed / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Lineage Ladder / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Literal Metaphor / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Loud Gulp / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Mask of Sanity / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Masquerade / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Mass "Oh, Crap!" / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Match Cut / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Million to One Chance / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Mood Motif / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Murphy's Bed / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
My Fist Forgives You / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
My Life Flashed Before My Eyes / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Never Say "Die" / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
No-Nonsense Nemesis / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
No, You Go First / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Non-Mammalian Hair / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Non Sequitur, *Thud* / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Not Afraid of You Anymore / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Not-So-Harmless Villain / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Not-So-Innocent Whistle / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Off with His Head! / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Oop North / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Orphaned Punchline / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Out of the Ghetto / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
POW Camp / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Packed Hero / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Palate Propping / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Parental Bonus / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Phony Veteran / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Plan B Resolution / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Plot-Based Photograph Obfuscation / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Prison Films / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Proportional Article Importance / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Punishment Box / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Putting on the Reich / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Race Against the Clock / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Racist Grandma / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Rasputinian Death / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Recycled Soundtrack / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Recycled Trailer Music / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Resourceful Rodent / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Reveal Shot / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Reverse Psycho / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Ring Around the Collar / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Roasted Alive / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Rousing Speech / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Sacrificial Lamb / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Sapient Eat Sapient / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Sarcasm-Blind / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Saw Blades of Death / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Scavenged Punk / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Shadow Discretion Shot / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Sickening Slaughterhouse / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Sidetracked by the Analogy / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Signature Scene / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Sitting on the Roof / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Slap-Slap-Kiss / int_b0f81f82
 Sliding Scale Of Western Animation Obscurity
seeAlso
Chicken Run
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Sobriquet Sex Switch / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Sound-Only Death / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
"Staying Alive" Dance Pose / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Stepping Out to React / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Stock British Phrases / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Stop Motion / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Stupid Evil / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Tally Marks on the Prison Wall / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Technology Porn / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Territorial Smurfette / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Textile Work Is Feminine / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
The Baroness / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
The Blind Leading the Blind / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
The Cake Is a Lie / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
The Cuckoolander Was Right / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
The Ditz / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson / int_b0f81f82
 The Millennium Age of Animation
seeAlso
Chicken Run
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
The One Guy / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
The Presents Were Never from Santa / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
The Scrounger / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
There Is Only One Bed / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
These Gloves Are Made for Killin' / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
This Is No Time to Panic / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Those Two Guys / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Too Gifted to Teach Others / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Totem Pole Trench / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
2D Visuals, 3D Effects / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Uncertified Expert / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Unintelligible Accent / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Upside-Down Blueprints / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
We ARE Struggling Together / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
We Hardly Knew Ye / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
What's a Henway? / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
When I Was Your Age... / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
You Dirty Rat! / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
No Problem with Licensed Games / Sugar Wiki / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Closet Shuffle / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Dance of Romance / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
That's Gotta Hurt / int_b0f81f82
 Chicken Run
hasFeature
Those Magnificent Flying Machines / int_b0f81f82