Have fun online with the Subservient Chicken

Posted on September 6, 2008 at 5:15 am

Last week I mentioned a retro space shooting game called LaserAge, which I hope you liked. Will it make your day if I tell you there is an online dude in a chicken suit that will obey your typed commands online? This became famous in 2004 and after four years, it still is one of my favorite classic fun website. The URL is subservientchicken.com.

When a friend told me the URL I said “what? subsidized chicken?” See, English is not out first language and “subservient” isn’t in my vocabulary yet at that time. A little query to Meriam-Webster.com got me to the listed definitions: “useful in an inferior capacity, serving to promote some end,obsequiously submissive”.

When you visit the site you will see the chicken standing alert and below it is the text box where you can type in your commands:

Try to enter commands of your own. My favorites are roll over, duck, dance, running man, strike a pose, moonwalk, play dead, and yes, it can do the cart wheel!

There are also commands that make it interact with the environment. The watch TV command makes it turn-on the TV and sit on the sofa. The read command makes it get a book from the shelf beside the lamp.

The link on the Chicken Mask gives a PDF document containing a chicken mask cutout:

The Photos link contains the picture gallery of the chicken:

You might have figured by now how it works. It doesn’t do the commands live by a man in a mascot. Those are prerecorded videos that are fed to your browser upon issuing a command. The idea is clever though. It is one of a great example of viral online marketing campaigns by companies where in this case, Burger King. I think it is effective. I didn’t know burger King is into chickens until I saw this website.

If you like playing games and have an iPhone, you might be interested in 5 cool games for the iPhone. If not, don’t worry, check out GameFly.com, a site where you can rent video games for cheap! Enjoy!

Ben Carigtan writes about computers, technology and how to get the best out of them.

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One Response to “Have fun online with the Subservient Chicken”

kano said on : November 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

lol i was on this for ages,

If you type in “Fly” no quotes

He flaps around for a few seconds, goes behind the sofa, and lays on the top horizontally, and pretends to fly, and it actually looks pretty effectivee :p