Chickenman! He's Everywhere! He's Everywhere!
- Thread starter bryce
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NOBODY!?!?
I guess you had to be there in the 70's and 80's. Especially if you were a military brat, as it played on AFN all the time. (I heard it still does, but I am not sure.)
If you like stuff like "The Tick"...this was The Tick, before The Tick. The humor is very deadpan. But absurdist. It started out as a parody of the Batman TV series which was on at the time Chickenman was hatched.
Honestly, check it out: Scroll down for episode one: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/earwolf/the-adventures-of-chickenman - the episodes are only a minute or three at most.
Unfortunately the creator, Dick Orkin, died a couple of years back: https://wfgr.com/dick-orkin-the-creator-of-the-chickenman-radio-series-has-died/
Transscript of 2nd episode:
I guess you had to be there in the 70's and 80's. Especially if you were a military brat, as it played on AFN all the time. (I heard it still does, but I am not sure.)
If you like stuff like "The Tick"...this was The Tick, before The Tick. The humor is very deadpan. But absurdist. It started out as a parody of the Batman TV series which was on at the time Chickenman was hatched.
Honestly, check it out: Scroll down for episode one: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/earwolf/the-adventures-of-chickenman - the episodes are only a minute or three at most.
Unfortunately the creator, Dick Orkin, died a couple of years back: https://wfgr.com/dick-orkin-the-creator-of-the-chickenman-radio-series-has-died/
Transscript of 2nd episode:
I recall some oddball 5 minute vignettes from a Tallahassee radio station back in the day and just assumed it was some locally created parody. I had no idea it was more widespread.
But "he was 'the Tick' before there was 'the Tick'" is as good as any other way to describe it. Alas, all I readily recall is the parody nature, no specific routine or exchanges. Well, that and the chorus of young ladies who'd exclaim, "He's everywhere! He's everywhere!" from the into and outro sequences.
But "he was 'the Tick' before there was 'the Tick'" is as good as any other way to describe it. Alas, all I readily recall is the parody nature, no specific routine or exchanges. Well, that and the chorus of young ladies who'd exclaim, "He's everywhere! He's everywhere!" from the into and outro sequences.
I passed by this thread because I thought- "No way is it THE CHICKENMAN" I remember. Had to show this to hubs who has thought it was a figment of my imagination for 30 years. I was beginning to doubt of it's existence myself!
Midland, Michigan is baout 100 miles from where I grew up so I too assumed it was regional.
Midland, Michigan is baout 100 miles from where I grew up so I too assumed it was regional.
Oh, ha! Yeah, because it's set in "Midland City"! I thought that was a fictional name.
Honestly, I had all but forgotten about the show, until this played on an NPR show this weekend, and I went "Wait a minute...I know this!"
Winged Warrior
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Chickenman (from 1986)
Apparently it was from a Chicago station, and some other stations picked it up, and it was also played on Armed Forces Radio (I heard it still is repeated there.)
There are places on the radio that have Chickenman, but everyone I have checked out has cut down versions, missing either the end. I am not sure why. Even Stitcher has incomplete episodes. But apparently there are CD collections, so I am going to have to check those out.
I love the deadpan and matter of fact way the characters handle completely absurd and ridiculous situations. It reminds me of shows like the original live-action The Tick and a lot of animated shows like The Simpsons and so forth...
