The Subservient Chicken

Hi guys,

????[/tab]I came across this site just today, following up on some Wired News.. This is actually quite old, but nevertheless nobody seems to have posted about this earlier on. You guys simply got to see this. The site's called Surservient Chicken and it turns out that it's another cool sales gimmick by Burger King - done way back around April 2005.

 

????The site contains a small window showing livecam view of a guy dressed up as a Giant Chicken (from Outer Space ??) .. anyways, there's this small command line box right below the image where you type in a command and the chicken acts it out, LIVE, for you It's terrific fun - all you need to do is start issuing a bunch of commands and see which one turns out to be the most hilarious. For a starter, try "STAND ON YOUR HEAD" and sit back and watch the misery the poor chicken goes through trying to do just that.. lol

 

[tab]Apparently the idea for this gimmick was a rip-off from some of the rather "decadent" (??) sites offering you live web-cam feeds of rather scantily-clad (or completely unclad) and overly well-endowed females entirely willing to do as Your Master Pleases. But apparently the damned gimmick worked like a charm straight out of hell..

 

Now comes subservientchicken.com, a website that mimics the look of an Internet sexcam show to promote a new chicken sandwich from Burger King.

 

Instead of starring a busty young woman or a porn stud with rock-hard abs, the Flash-powered site features an actor in a chicken suit, dressed in lingerie. And unlike previous big-business attempts to cash in on an Internet trend, the Subservient Chicken site quickly became an Internet hit.

 

Launched last Wednesday, the Subservient Chicken site racked up a million hits in the first 24 hours, and between 15 million and 20 million hits so far, according to Crispin Porter & Bogusky, the advertising agency responsible for the site.

 

Source: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

Enough of talking bull on my part... Now I leave you at the mercy of the Subservient Chicken @ http://www.subservientchicken.com/

 

Whoever happens to visit this site, make sure you come back and paste in here the most hilarious action you could get your chicken to do... I can already see the beginning of an ultra-funny thread right here..

 

Have fun

m^e

 

 

 

Forgot to mention - DEFINITELY TRY:

 

I want a chicken sandwich - or any variation of it containing the words "Chicken" & "Sandwich"

LOL ... some commands i tried, just plain hilarious.

 

Tap Dance

 

chicken dance

 

moon ... ( lol .. duno y i tried that )

 

hungry chicken

 

hungry

 

roll over

 

 

Regards

Dhanesh

This is real old (2004 not 2005) but it is a pretty good piece of viral marketing.

 

Some good ones:

make a fort

are you looking at me?

strike a pose

kung fu

moonwalk

eat a big mac

Don't forget to check this page that was mentioned in the article for a complete listing of all of the commands the chicken will or won't do.

Burger King has some of the most inventive and humorous marketing, and I love it (see avatar! ) Subservient Chicken has been around for a while, and another good one they did was Sith Sense, which was a take-off of 20Q.net, and a lot of fun. They also created (?) a band called Coq Rock (a parody of metal bands like Slipknot) to promote their food.

Fly: He goes around claping his hands (and trying to fly?)

Eat a worm: He does the worm instead. Still interesting.

I told him to die...Seemed rather effective...I was satisfiedSo then I exitted to come inform you all of this