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* RealityEnsues: after all, chickens cannot fly by themselves.
** The Royal Air Force doesn't let chickens behind the controls of complex aircraft.
** It's impossible to cut the wire with the toy scissors.
** The Royal Air Force doesn't let chickens behind the controls of complex aircraft.
** It's impossible to cut the wire with the toy scissors.
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* AlliterativeName: Rocky Rhodes.
--> Catchy, ain't it?
--> Catchy, ain't it?
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* RedheadedHeroine: Ginger. Not that it really stands out, what with the main cast being chickens instead of humans, but it's apparently notable enough to have her named after it and for the Tweedys to identify her as "that ginger one".
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* FeetFirstIntroduction: Ginger and Mrs. Tweedy.
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* ActorAllusion: Rocky yells "[[{{Braveheart}} FREEDOOOOOOOOM!]]" when he first flies into the farm. Also, one of the chickens says "I'm not even certain he was American.", a reference to the fact that many people, even in the UK, think Mel Gibson is Australian (he was born in the US, but moved to Australia at age 12). Another {{Braveheart}} allusion occurs when asked where he's from:
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* ActorAllusion: Rocky yells "[[{{Braveheart}} "[[Film/{{Braveheart}} FREEDOOOOOOOOM!]]" when he first flies into the farm. Also, one of the chickens says "I'm not even certain he was American.", a reference to the fact that many people, even in the UK, think Mel Gibson is Australian (he was born in the US, but moved to Australia at age 12). Another {{Braveheart}} Film/{{Braveheart}} allusion occurs when asked where he's from:
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** The Video Game adaptation borrows its mechanics from {{Metal Gear}}.
* [[{{TheAllegedCar}} The Alleged Plane]]: Subverted. While the crate is made of whatever the chickens could find, it appears to run quite well.
* [[{{TheAllegedCar}} The Alleged Plane]]: Subverted. While the crate is made of whatever the chickens could find, it appears to run quite well.
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** The Video Game adaptation borrows its mechanics from {{Metal Gear}}.
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*[[{{TheAllegedCar}} [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Plane]]: Subverted. While the crate is made of whatever the chickens could find, it appears to run quite well.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler: The look on Ginger's face when Babs reminds her of Rocky by calling her "Doll Face," including looking at his poster in a sad manner (why didn't she remove that poster anyway..?), and Rocky's reaction when he thinks Ginger's been killed]].
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* BadBoss: Mrs Tweedy, especially regarding her [[IncrediblyLamePun henpecked]] husband.
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** Averted by Ginger and Mac, who are ''considerably'' skinnier than all the other hens. They're about the same size as Rocky and Fowler.
* BigNo: Done by Rocky when [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy seemingly kills Ginger.]] Includes a {{Futile Hand Reach}}.
* BigNo: Done by Rocky when [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy seemingly kills Ginger.]] Includes a {{Futile Hand Reach}}.
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* BigNo: Done by Rocky when [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy seemingly kills Ginger.]] Includes a{{Futile Hand Reach}}.FutileHandReach.
* BigNo: Done by Rocky when [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy seemingly kills Ginger.]] Includes a
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--> '''Rocky:''' [[{{CrowningMomentOfFunny}} That's because it takes twice as much work as perseverance!]]
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* TheDitz: Babs, the farm's resident [[IncrediblyLamePun "knit-wit"]].
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* {{Expospeak Gag}}: After Rocky wakes up with an injured wing, there is this bit of dialogue:
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-->'''Ginger''': She said you hurt your wing. She fixed it.
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* FeatherFingers: This is a movie which features a ''chicken'' using ''scissors''.
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* FeatherFingers: This is a movie which features a ''chicken'' using ''scissors''.
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-->'''Mrs Tweedy''': (To her husband after he voices his suspicions of the chickens) They're chickens. They don't plot, they don't scheme and they are not organized!
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-->'''Mrs Tweedy''': (To her husband after he voices his suspicions of the chickens) They're chickens. They don't plot, they don't scheme and they are not organized! organized!
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ginger ''almost'' did 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 gutsy move.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ginger ''almost'' did 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 gutsy move.]] ]]
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* PhonyVeteran: At least semi-phony. Fowler did serve in the military, but only as a mascot.
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* PhonyVeteran: At least semi-phony. Fowler did serve in the military, but only as a mascot.
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* PunishmentBox: Ginger is put in the coal bunker everytime she's caught trying to escape.
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* PunishmentBox: Ginger is put in the coal bunker everytime she's caught trying to escape.
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* TheRenfield: Mr Tweedy.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Rocky never knew how to fly. When Ginger saw him he had been shot out of a cannon.]] Bummer.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Rocky never knew how to fly. When Ginger saw him he had been shot out of a cannon.]] Bummer.
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* TheRenfield: Mr Tweedy.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Rocky never knew how to fly. When Ginger saw him he had been shot out of a cannon.]] Bummer.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Rocky never knew how to fly. When Ginger saw him he had been shot out of a cannon.]] Bummer.
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* ShownTheirWork: The way Mac lands square on her head and falls forward after attempting to fly? That would earn a perfect score in caber tossing.
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* ShownTheirWork: The way Mac lands square on her head and falls forward after attempting to fly? That would earn a perfect score in caber tossing.
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** Well he did come back and help save them, that counts for something.
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** Well [[spoiler:Well he did come back and help save them, that counts for something.]]
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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Ginger]] gets one in the final escape attempt. Lasts considerably shorter than most examples, though.
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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Ginger]] gets one in the final escape attempt. Lasts [[spoiler:Lasts considerably shorter than most examples, though.]]
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[[spoiler: '''Fowler''': Don't be ridiculous. I can't fly this bloody contraption.]]\\
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Babs thought [[spoiler:Rocky left to go to the store]]. This got on Bunty's nerves, and this escalated into a huge brawl until Ginger stops it.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Babs thought [[spoiler:Rocky left to go to the store]]. had just gone on holiday]]. This got on Bunty's nerves, nerves[[hottip:*: "Maybe he just wanted to get away from YOUR INFERNAL KNITTING!!"]], and this escalated into a huge brawl until Ginger stops it.
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* TheDitz: Babs. "I don't want to be a pie! ...I don't like gravy!"
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* TheDitz: Babs. "I Babs, the farm's resident [[IncrediblyLamePun "knit-wit"]].
-->"I don't want to be a pie! ...I don't like gravy!"
-->"I don't want to be a pie! ...I don't like gravy!"
--> '''Ginger:''': We'll either die free chickens, or die trying!
--> '''Babs:''' Are those the only choices?
--> '''Babs:''' Are those the only choices?
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* RousingSpeechRousingSpeech: Bunty wasn't convinced however.
--> '''Bunty:''' In all my life, I've never heard such a fantastic...LOAD OF TRIPE!
--> '''Bunty:''' In all my life, I've never heard such a fantastic...LOAD OF TRIPE!
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Rocky never knew how to fly. When Ginger saw him he had been shot out of a cannon.]] Bummer.
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* LiteralMetaphorLiteralMetaphor: "Really? Because it seems like we're going round in circles." (Cut to the other chickens, who are doing exactly that.)
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* ShoutOut: "[[StarTrek A cling-on! The engines can't take it!]]" spoken by a Scottish chicken. Also Ginger repeatedly bouncing a sprout against the wall of her cell, like the "Cooler King" (Steve [=McQueen=]) in ''TheGreatEscape''.
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* ShoutOut: "[[StarTrek "[[Franchise/StarTrek A cling-on! The engines can't take it!]]" spoken by a Scottish chicken. Also Ginger repeatedly bouncing a sprout against the wall of her cell, like the "Cooler King" (Steve [=McQueen=]) in ''TheGreatEscape''.
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Babs thought [[spoiler:Rocky left to go to the store]]. This got on Bunty's nerves, and this escalated into a huge brawl until Ginger stops it.
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: ComicallyMissingThePoint: Babs thought [[spoiler:Rocky left to go to the store]]. This got on Bunty's nerves, and this escalated into a huge brawl until Ginger stops it.
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* ChekhovsGun: Why on earth did they make such a big deal of showing the lights getting caught on the plane's wheel? Oh, now they're using it to climb! But I'm sure they don't serve any other...[[spoiler:IS THAT MRS. TWEEDY?!?]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Why on earth did they make such a big deal of showing the lights getting caught on the plane's wheel? Oh, now they're using it to climb! But I'm sure they don't serve any other... [[spoiler:IS THAT MRS. TWEEDY?!?]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Why on earth did they make such a big deal of showing the lights getting caught on the plane's wheel? Oh, now they're using it to climb! But I'm sure they don't serve any other...[[OhCrap IS THAT MRS. TWEEDY?!?]]
** A better 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.
** A better 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.
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* ChekhovsGun: Why on earth did they make such a big deal of showing the lights getting caught on the plane's wheel? Oh, now they're using it to climb! But I'm sure they don't serve any other...[[OhCrap IS [[spoiler:IS THAT MRS. TWEEDY?!?]]
**A better 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. [[spoiler:But it doesn't stop her.]]
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** 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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** With a bit of FridgeLogic: Until Rocky's arrival, the only male chicken is Fowler. This is a chicken farm, where the eggs are farmed. Eggs are the unhatched offspring of the chickens. Who impregnates them? Fowler. ALL the chickens.
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** With a bit of FridgeLogic: Until Rocky's arrival, the only male chicken is Fowler. This is a chicken farm, where the eggs are farmed. Eggs are the unhatched offspring of the chickens. Who impregnates them? Fowler. ALL the chickens.
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* ChickMagnet: Rocky. Quite literally...
* DeathCourse: The pie machine.
* DopeSlap: Mrs Tweedy to her husband.
* FatAndSkinny: Mr and Mrs Tweedy; Nick and Fetcher.
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** Upon seeing Ginger being taken to the pie machine, Babs exclaims "Bloomin 'eck, he's got Ginger!" "Blooming heck" is a lighter form of "bloody hell." Not so bad in the UK, but still...
* GreekChorus: Nick and Fetcher.
* TheRat: Bonus points for the farm's resident [[TheScrounger scroungers]] being ''actual'' rats.
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** When Fowler shouts "Chocks away!" it shows the chickens removing chocolate bars from the wheels that are very similar to the widely known Toblerone bar.
*** They also happen to be called "Tasty-Choc."
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*** They also happen to be called "Tasty-Choc."bar.
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* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler: Wait a sec, wouldn't that door KIL Mrs. Tweety?!]]
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler: You just gotta love the look on Ginger's face when Babs reminds her of Rocky by calling her "Doll Face," including looking at his poster in a sad manner (why didn't she remove that poster anyway..?). Also, there's Rocky's reaction when he thinks Ginger's been killed]].
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler: You just gotta love the The look on Ginger's face when Babs reminds her of Rocky by calling her "Doll Face," including looking at his poster in a sad manner (why didn't she remove that poster anyway..?). Also, there's ?), and Rocky's reaction when he thinks Ginger's been killed]].
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--> '''Mrs. Tweedy:''' Bring me the chickens, Mr. Tweedy?
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-->'''Mrs. Tweedy:''' ''[inside the house]]'' Finally something we agree on.
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-->'''Mrs. Tweedy:''' ''[inside the house]]'' house]'' Finally something we agree on.
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* TakeThat: Edwina, the chicken that gets beheaded, was named after former politician Edwina Currie who is (in)famous for starting a nationwide salmonella scare in 1988.
** Might not count. Edwina was originally supposed to have Bunty's role of being an egg-laying machine, and another hen was going to get the axe. Then they decided to consolidate characters, and the other hen ''did'' [[IncrediblyLamePun get the axe]].
*** WordOfGod is that the reference was indeed intentional.
** Might not count. Edwina was originally supposed to have Bunty's role of being an egg-laying machine, and another hen was going to get the axe. Then they decided to consolidate characters, and the other hen ''did'' [[IncrediblyLamePun get the axe]].
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* TakeThat: Edwina, the chicken that gets beheaded, was named after former politician Edwina Currie who is (in)famous for starting a nationwide salmonella scare in 1988.
** Might not count. Edwina was originally supposed to have Bunty's role of being an egg-laying machine, and another hen was going to get the axe. Then they decided to consolidate characters, and the other hen ''did'' [[IncrediblyLamePun get the axe]].
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** Might not count. Edwina was originally supposed to have Bunty's role of being an egg-laying machine, and another hen was going to get the axe. Then they decided to consolidate characters, and the other hen ''did'' [[IncrediblyLamePun get the axe]].
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ChickenRun is a stop-action animated film. Described as ''TheGreatEscape'' -- [[RecycledINSPACE with]] [[EverythingsBetterWithChickens chickens]].
A ginger chicken named "[[ShapedLikeItself Ginger]]" is the ringleader in the attempts of the chickens to escape from Mr and Mrs Tweedy's Chicken Farm, a prison where they must lay eggs at least once a week or face being beheaded and end up on the dinner plate. Ginger is at her wit's end having found she is now unable to convince the others into anymore escape attempts (which end with them in failure and her being locked in solitary confinement in a coal bunker). Then a rooster named Rocky, 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 Mrs. Tweedy, tiring 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.
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* ActorAllusion: Rocky yells "[[{{Braveheart}} FREEDOOOOOOOOM!]]" when he first flies into the farm. Also, one of the chickens says "I'm not even certain he was American.", a reference to the fact that many people, even in the UK, think Mel Gibson is Australian (he was born in the US, but moved to Australia at age 12). Another {{Braveheart}} allusion occurs when asked where he's from:
-->'''Rocky''': Oh, just a little place I call the land of the free and the home of the brave...
-->'''Mac''': Scotland!
-->'''Rocky''': No! America!
** To top it off, there's also a RunningGag with Rocky finding Mac's Scottish accent incomprehensible.
-->'''Rocky''': Was that English?
* AffectionateParody: of ''TheGreatEscape''
** There are also a good number of references to ''{{Stalag 17}}'' and ''HogansHeroes''.
** The Video Game adaptation borrows its mechanics from {{Metal Gear}}.
* [[{{TheAllegedCar}} The Alleged Plane]]: Subverted. While the crate is made of whatever the chickens could find, it appears to run quite well.
* AlmostKiss: ...How do you animate chickens kissing, anyway?
* AlreadyUndoneForYou: 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...
* AlternateAnimalAffection: No, seriously, how ''do'' you animate chickens kissing?
** Same way you give them [[ToothyBird teeth.]]
* AmericaWinsTheWar
--> '''Fowler:''' Pushy Americans. Always showing up late for every war. Overpaid, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar over-sexed]] and [[YankeeDoodleDandy over here!]]
** This was an actual complaint that British soldiers had of American soldiers in WWII, due to the US Army paying better, and their willingness to use that extra money to get girls. The Americans usually countered that complaint by saying that the problem with the British troops was that they were underpaid, under-sexed, and under Eisenhower.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler: You just gotta love the look on Ginger's face when Babs reminds her of Rocky by calling her "Doll Face," including looking at his poster in a sad manner (why didn't she remove that poster anyway..?). Also, there's Rocky's reaction when he thinks Ginger's been killed]].
* AxCrazy: Mrs. Tweedy in the climax. Double points for actually wielding an ax.
* BabiesEverAfter
* BadBoss: Mrs Tweedy, especially regarding her [[IncrediblyLamePun henpecked]] husband.
* BadVibrations: Lampshaded.
* BambooTechnology: The crate.
* BarefootCartoonAnimals: Nick and Fetcher.
* BecomingTheBoast: Rocky and Fowler are an interesting contrast. Both of them make big boasts that they they can't live up to (Rocky's claim that he can fly, and Fowler's exploits in the Royal Air Force). Rocky runs away rather than face the shame of exposure; Fowler comes clean about the fact that he was a mascot, not a pilot, and at Ginger's urging he takes the pilot seat in the chickens' homemade aircraft.
** To be clear, Fowler never claimed to be a pilot and seemed surprised Ginger assumed he was. He was just openly proud to have served.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Ginger and Rocky have traces of this.
* BigDamnHeroes: Rocky's return in the climax; while Mrs. Tweedy has Ginger pinned to the ground and is threatening to kill her, Rocky comes ''flying over the fence on a tricycle,'' screaming Ginger's name as he does so.
* BigEater: Most of the hens, especially Babs.
--> '''Babs:''' Chicken feed. My favorite!
** Averted by Ginger and Mac, who are ''considerably'' skinnier than all the other hens. They're about the same size as Rocky and Fowler.
* BigNo: Done by Rocky when [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy seemingly kills Ginger.]] Includes a {{Futile Hand Reach}}.
* BigShutUp: From Ginger to the other chickens during the mudfight.
* BonnieScotland: Mac
* BoxedCrook
* BreakTheCutie: Ginger goes through all ''kinds'' of hell, no doubt about it.
* BriefAccentImitation: Ginger, when arguing with Rocky.
* BritishAccents: Everyone except Rocky, of course, who makes a point of not understanding a word the Scottish-accented Mac says.
* CaptainObvious: 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.
-->[[spoiler: '''Ginger''': But you're supposed to be up there! You're the pilot!]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Fowler''': Don't be ridiculous. I can't fly this bloody contraption.]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Ginger''': "Back in your day"? The Royal Air Force?]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Fowler''': 644 Squadron, Poultry Division - we were the mascots.]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Ginger''': You mean you never actually ''flew'' the plane?]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Fowler''': Good heavens, no! I'm a chicken! The Royal Air Force doesn't let chickens behind the controls of complex aircraft!]]
* CaptivityHarmonica: Parodied
* CassandraTruth: Mr. Tweedy's belief that the chickens are "organized."
* ChekhovsGun: Why on earth did they make such a big deal of showing the lights getting caught on the plane's wheel? Oh, now they're using it to climb! But I'm sure they don't serve any other...[[OhCrap IS THAT MRS. TWEEDY?!?]]
** A better 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.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: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.]]
* {{Claymation}}
* ClosetShuffle: Whenever Rocky's presence needs to be hidden from the Tweedys.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Babs and Fetcher.
* [[CoincidentalBroadcast Coincidental Article]]: "Sick and tired of making miniscule profits?"
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Babs thought [[spoiler:Rocky left to go to the store]]. This got on Bunty's nerves, and this escalated into a huge brawl until Ginger stops it.
* CompositeCharacter: Bunty was originally two separate characters, the pushy one and the overly productive egg-layer (who, ironically, was going to be Edwina).
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack
* ConspicuousCG: The rain and the gravy explosion. This is why FlushedAway was all-CGI; it's near-impossible to do with clay.
* ConveyorBeltODoom: though this one is sideways with the chickens upside-down.
%% Please put Crowning Moments on the respective subpages. That also applies to Crowning Music.
* CrapsackWorld: The farm is depicted as one.
* DanceOfRomance: Arguably, the dance scene is when Ginger starts to fall for Rocky.
* DeathGlare: Ginger does this several times.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Lampshaded.
--> '''Rocky:''' Flying takes three things; hard work, perseverance and...hard work.
--> '''Fowler:''' You said "hard work" ''twice!''
--> '''Rocky:''' [[{{CrowningMomentOfFunny}} That's because it takes twice as much work as perseverance!]]
* {{Determinator}}: Ginger.
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Ginger]] gets one in the final escape attempt. Lasts considerably shorter than most examples, though.
* TheDitz: Babs.
* DoingItForTheArt
* DoubleEntendre: When Mr. Tweedy is outside begin attacked by the rebelling chickens.
-->'''Mr. Tweedy:''' ''[covered in chickens]'' Mrs. Tweedy! The chickens are revolting!
-->'''Mrs. Tweedy:''' ''[inside the house]]'' Finally something we agree on.
* {{Eagleland}}: Well, for Fowler's reaction to Rocky, go to AmericaWinsTheWar. The funny thing is, Rocky is indeed a ''mixed flavour'' leaning towards ''flavour 2''. Quite frankly, Rocky actually [[FridgeBrilliance is also indeed "overpaid, oversexed and over here"]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: For Babs.
-->'''Babs:''' Mornin', Ginger. Back from holiday?
-->'''Ginger:''' I wasn't on holiday, Babs, I was in solitary confinement.
-->'''Babs:''' Oh. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint It's nice to get a bit of time to yourself,]] [[TheDitz isn't it?]]
* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: Does this really need to be explained?
* EverythingMakesAMushroom: a gravy explosion looks an awful lot like a mushroom cloud.
* EvilOverlooker: The main posters and DVD cover have Mrs. Tweedy's face projected onto a cloud in the background.
* ExecutiveMeddling: DreamWorks and composer HansZimmer (who heads the Dreamworks music department) forced director NickPark to drop an already-recorded musical score by WallaceAndGromit composer Julian Nott because Zimmer decided his people should do the score (Zimmer has a history of doing this). This was one of many reasons why Aardman would leave DreamWorks in 2006 to go to Sony.
* {{Expospeak Gag}}: After Rocky wakes up with an injured wing, there is this bit of dialogue:
--> '''Rocky''': Ouch! What happened to my wing?
-->'''Ginger''': You took a rather nasty fall.
-->'''Mac''': And sprained the anterior tendon connecting your radius to your humerus. I gave her a wee bit of a tweak, Jimmy, and wrapped her up.
-->'''Rocky''': Was that English?
-->'''Ginger''': She said you hurt your wing. She fixed it.
* FakeUltimateHero: Rocky, who let the "flying chicken" myth go to his head. Once he had to give an actual demonstration, he [[IncrediblyLamePun chickened out]].
** To a lesser degree, Fowler. While he never outright said he was a wartime hero, his ramblings gave off that impression. When he finally admits he was just the mascot, he insists that should have been obvious, since no one used chickens as pilots.
* {{Fanfare}}: With kazoos!
* FiveManBand: An almost perfect one at that:
** TheHero: Ginger
** TheLancer: Rocky
** TheBigGuy: Bunty
** TheSmartGuy: Mac
** TheChick: Babs
** TeamDad: Fowler
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Whenever Fowler gets to talking about "the crate."
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: The rats, Nick and Fetcher.
* FunnyAnimal: though with some anthropomorphisms, mostly limited to cues based on clothing
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Pops up quite often. Notable examples:
** Fetcher's hat.
** "So... which bunk is mine?" And the enthusiastic response from nearly all the hens in the place.
** "Overpaid, over''sexed'', and over here!"
*** That's more an example of The Radar Does Not Exist.
** During the TrainingMontage, there's a precious moment where Ginger is leaning over and stretching and Rocky ''is checking out her bum. And then she catches him. And he coughs and continues instructing the class. Wow.''
** Upon seeing Ginger being taken to the pie machine, Babs exclaims "Bloomin 'eck, he's got Ginger!" "Blooming heck" is a lighter form of "bloody hell." Not so bad in the UK, but still...
** Mr. Tweedy pretty clearly jumps after Mrs. Tweedy apparently grabs his rear off-screen.
* GilliganCut: This wonderful exchange.
-->'''Mrs Tweedy''': (To her husband after he voices his suspicions of the chickens) They're chickens. They don't plot, they don't scheme and they are not organized!
-->(Cut to Ginger banging a gavel at one of their escape meeting)
--> '''Ginger:''' Order, ''order!''
* GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath: Spoofed.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The death of Edwina.
* GrayRainOfDepression: When the chickens find out that [[spoiler:Rocky was shot out of a cannon and couldn't really fly.]]
* GreatEscape: Complete with a SuspiciouslySimilarSong version of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUDCbOVmSdU theme]]!
* [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Rooster]]: Fowler.
* GutPunch / MoodWhiplash: When Edwina gets beheaded, albeit offscreen, and later ''her bones'' are seen on the kitchen table. As RogerEbert stated in his review, Mrs. Tweedy is not fooling around. This is not a film that pulls punches, and there's a very real threat to the chickens.
* HardWorkMontage: Several of them.
* HenpeckedHusband ([[StealthPun hee hee!]]): Mr. Tweedy
* HeroicBSOD: Ginger after [[spoiler:Rocky's deceit is revealed along with his departure]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ginger ''almost'' did 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 gutsy move.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns: Nick and Fetcher, when the chickens are trying various methods of getting off the ground.
-->'''Nick:''' "''Poultry'' in motion!"
** Did anyone else realize that [[FridgeBrilliance they flew the coop?]]
* IJustWantToBeFree: Ginger's personal reason for escaping.
* ImprovisedZipline: The chickens did it with coat hangers.
* IndyEscape: Done with gigantic gears while avoiding bolts bolting from the walls.
* IndyHatRoll: Ginger rescuing her beret.
* KarmaHoudini: Rocky [[spoiler:lies to the chickens about being able to fly, abandons them in their time of need]], and the only punishment we ever see him get is a slap across the face from Ginger.
** Well he did come back and help save them, that counts for something.
* KillEmAll:
--> '''Mrs. Tweedy:''' Bring me the chickens, Mr. Tweedy?
--> '''Mr. Tweedy:''' Um, which ones?
--> '''Mrs. Tweedy:''' ''All'' of them.
* [[DudeLooksLikeALady Lady Looks Like A Dude]]: It's hard to tell that Mac is female, because she's a tomboy and speaks ''really'' fast in technical jargon.
* LadyMacbeth: Mrs Tweedy
* LastMinuteHookup
* TheLeader: Ginger is a combination of Types II and III.
* {{Leitmotif}}
* LetsMeetTheMeat
* LiteralMetaphor
* LoudGulp: The chickens gulp in unison (swallowing the heaps of chicken feed they all had in their mouths) after Ginger tells them that the food they've been eating was to fatten them up for slaughter.
* MeaningfulName: [[StickyFingers Nick]] (as in English euphemism for steal) and [[StickyFingers Fetcher]].
* MillionToOneChance: The chances of the chickens escaping, according to Bunty. Guess what happens in the end.
* MomentKiller
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Happens to Babs, who then adds with a deadpan, "It was really boring."
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: It's not Dollface, it's Ginger.
* NeverSayDie: Played straight with the humans ("You are going to be a pie!") but averted with most of the chickens.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The advertising for the movie focused on the action sequences and screwball slapstick elements while glossing over the parallels to WorldWarTwo, the references to prison escape films, the love story and the constant threat of death.
* NiceHat: Ginger's. She's the only chicken that has one.
* NonSequiturThud: Replace "thud" with "gets hit on the head with a feeding trough."
-->'''Rocky''': Thank you ladies and gentlemen, you've been a wonderful audience.
* NoYouGoFirst
* OffWithHerHead: Poor, poor Edwina.
* OnlySaneMan: Ginger.
* OopNorth: The setting.
* OrphanedPunchline
* PackedHero: During the pie machine sequence, Rocky and Ginger briefly get trapped inside a pie.
* PeriodPiece: Although it's never outright stated in the film itself, WordOfGod is that the movie is set in 1959.
* PhonyVeteran: At least semi-phony. Fowler did serve in the military, but only as a mascot.
* POWCamp: The farm is meant to invoke this.
* PreAsskickingOneliner: "Bye-bye."
* PunnyName: Rocky the Rhode Island Red, or Rocky Rhodes for short. [[hottip:* :[[DontExplainTheJoke It's a pun on "Rocky Roads".]]]]
* PunishmentBox: Ginger is put in the coal bunker everytime she's caught trying to escape.
* RecycledSoundtrack: ''Building the Crate'' and ''The Chickens Are Revolting'' end up in ''[[MissCongeniality Miss Congeniality 2]]'' as the background music for a show called Treasure Island.
* RedHerring: 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 ([[WhatCouldHaveBeen and originally it was going to be]]), but in the final film nothing ever comes of it and the crate flies without a hitch.
* TheRenfield: Mr Tweedy.
* RingAroundTheCollar: 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.
* RousingSpeech
* SacrificialLamb: Edwina
* SayMyName
* SealedWithAKiss
* SeriousBusiness: The whole plot, really.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Mac, at times, especially when she's [[InformedFlaw supposed to be]] hard to understand.
* ShoutOut: "[[StarTrek A cling-on! The engines can't take it!]]" spoken by a Scottish chicken. Also Ginger repeatedly bouncing a sprout against the wall of her cell, like the "Cooler King" (Steve [=McQueen=]) in ''TheGreatEscape''.
** Hey, the whole movie is a ShoutOut to ''TheGreatEscape''. Even the music.
*** During the escape montage at the beginning, one of the escape attempts is exactly like the tunnel from The Great Escape. Also, the hut number '17' is a shoutout to the escape film ''{{Stalag 17}}''.
*** And there are some references to ''HogansHeroes'', with the rolling-up maps, the movable bunks, the slapstick escape ideas (which are more in line with Hogan's usual routines than with ''TheGreatEscape'')
** Oh, and the IndianaJones references, as they're escaping the chicken-pie-making machine.
* ShownTheirWork: The way Mac lands square on her head and falls forward after attempting to fly? That would earn a perfect score in caber tossing.
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy:
-->'''Ginger''': Ladies, please. Let's not lose our heads.
-->'''Bunty''': Lose our heads?! [screams]
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan
* SittingOnTheRoof: Ginger has a habit of doing this. In one scene she goes up to the roof and discovers Rocky already sitting there. [[SincerityMode "I'm sorry, is this your roof?"]]
* SlapSlapKiss: There is a RunningGag that every time Ginger and Rocky would be about to kiss, they would be interrupted; one of these instances was near the end, when Ginger slaps Rocky across the face as they're about to kiss.
** This was because the filmmakers were nervous about showing Rocky and Ginger kissing onscreen, fearing that the sight of two birds touching beaks would look too awkward. When the kiss finally comes, it is staged so that the actual contact of "lips" is hidden.
* StealthPun: Stealthier in the US than in the UK, but as mentioned, the coal bin that Ginger is repeatedly thrown into is called a bunker.
** Likewise, Nick, whose name is also slang for "steal" in BritishEnglish.
* StockBritishPhrases
* TakeThat: Edwina, the chicken that gets beheaded, was named after former politician Edwina Currie who is (in)famous for starting a nationwide salmonella scare in 1988.
** Might not count. Edwina was originally supposed to have Bunty's role of being an egg-laying machine, and another hen was going to get the axe. Then they decided to consolidate characters, and the other hen ''did'' [[IncrediblyLamePun get the axe]].
*** WordOfGod is that the reference was indeed intentional.
* TechnoBabble: Mac is full of it.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Rocky never knew how to fly. When Ginger saw him he had been shot out of a cannon.]] Bummer.
* ThisIsNoTimeToPanic:
--> '''Bunty:''' We mustn't panic! We mustn't panic!
--> ''[beat]''
--> '''All Chickens:''' AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
** 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.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Nick and Fetcher.
* ToothyBird
* TotemPoleTrench
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The theatrical trailers completely spoil TheReveal 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.
* VillainousBreakdown: Mrs. Tweedy.
* VisualPun: Many as expected from such a film:
** In the end, they really DO [[StealthPun fly the coop...]]
** When Fowler shouts "Chocks away!" it shows the chickens removing chocolate bars from the wheels that are very similar to the widely known Toblerone bar.
*** They also happen to be called "Tasty-Choc."
* WhenIWasYourAge: This is part of Fowler's shtick.
----
ChickenRun is a stop-action animated film. Described as ''TheGreatEscape'' -- [[RecycledINSPACE with]] [[EverythingsBetterWithChickens chickens]].
A ginger chicken named "[[ShapedLikeItself Ginger]]" is the ringleader in the attempts of the chickens to escape from Mr and Mrs Tweedy's Chicken Farm, a prison where they must lay eggs at least once a week or face being beheaded and end up on the dinner plate. Ginger is at her wit's end having found she is now unable to convince the others into anymore escape attempts (which end with them in failure and her being locked in solitary confinement in a coal bunker). Then a rooster named Rocky, 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 Mrs. Tweedy, tiring 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.
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!!Tropes featured:
* ActorAllusion: Rocky yells "[[{{Braveheart}} FREEDOOOOOOOOM!]]" when he first flies into the farm. Also, one of the chickens says "I'm not even certain he was American.", a reference to the fact that many people, even in the UK, think Mel Gibson is Australian (he was born in the US, but moved to Australia at age 12). Another {{Braveheart}} allusion occurs when asked where he's from:
-->'''Rocky''': Oh, just a little place I call the land of the free and the home of the brave...
-->'''Mac''': Scotland!
-->'''Rocky''': No! America!
** To top it off, there's also a RunningGag with Rocky finding Mac's Scottish accent incomprehensible.
-->'''Rocky''': Was that English?
* AffectionateParody: of ''TheGreatEscape''
** There are also a good number of references to ''{{Stalag 17}}'' and ''HogansHeroes''.
** The Video Game adaptation borrows its mechanics from {{Metal Gear}}.
* [[{{TheAllegedCar}} The Alleged Plane]]: Subverted. While the crate is made of whatever the chickens could find, it appears to run quite well.
* AlmostKiss: ...How do you animate chickens kissing, anyway?
* AlreadyUndoneForYou: 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...
* AlternateAnimalAffection: No, seriously, how ''do'' you animate chickens kissing?
** Same way you give them [[ToothyBird teeth.]]
* AmericaWinsTheWar
--> '''Fowler:''' Pushy Americans. Always showing up late for every war. Overpaid, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar over-sexed]] and [[YankeeDoodleDandy over here!]]
** This was an actual complaint that British soldiers had of American soldiers in WWII, due to the US Army paying better, and their willingness to use that extra money to get girls. The Americans usually countered that complaint by saying that the problem with the British troops was that they were underpaid, under-sexed, and under Eisenhower.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler: You just gotta love the look on Ginger's face when Babs reminds her of Rocky by calling her "Doll Face," including looking at his poster in a sad manner (why didn't she remove that poster anyway..?). Also, there's Rocky's reaction when he thinks Ginger's been killed]].
* AxCrazy: Mrs. Tweedy in the climax. Double points for actually wielding an ax.
* BabiesEverAfter
* BadBoss: Mrs Tweedy, especially regarding her [[IncrediblyLamePun henpecked]] husband.
* BadVibrations: Lampshaded.
* BambooTechnology: The crate.
* BarefootCartoonAnimals: Nick and Fetcher.
* BecomingTheBoast: Rocky and Fowler are an interesting contrast. Both of them make big boasts that they they can't live up to (Rocky's claim that he can fly, and Fowler's exploits in the Royal Air Force). Rocky runs away rather than face the shame of exposure; Fowler comes clean about the fact that he was a mascot, not a pilot, and at Ginger's urging he takes the pilot seat in the chickens' homemade aircraft.
** To be clear, Fowler never claimed to be a pilot and seemed surprised Ginger assumed he was. He was just openly proud to have served.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Ginger and Rocky have traces of this.
* BigDamnHeroes: Rocky's return in the climax; while Mrs. Tweedy has Ginger pinned to the ground and is threatening to kill her, Rocky comes ''flying over the fence on a tricycle,'' screaming Ginger's name as he does so.
* BigEater: Most of the hens, especially Babs.
--> '''Babs:''' Chicken feed. My favorite!
** Averted by Ginger and Mac, who are ''considerably'' skinnier than all the other hens. They're about the same size as Rocky and Fowler.
* BigNo: Done by Rocky when [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy seemingly kills Ginger.]] Includes a {{Futile Hand Reach}}.
* BigShutUp: From Ginger to the other chickens during the mudfight.
* BonnieScotland: Mac
* BoxedCrook
* BreakTheCutie: Ginger goes through all ''kinds'' of hell, no doubt about it.
* BriefAccentImitation: Ginger, when arguing with Rocky.
* BritishAccents: Everyone except Rocky, of course, who makes a point of not understanding a word the Scottish-accented Mac says.
* CaptainObvious: 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.
-->[[spoiler: '''Ginger''': But you're supposed to be up there! You're the pilot!]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Fowler''': Don't be ridiculous. I can't fly this bloody contraption.]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Ginger''': "Back in your day"? The Royal Air Force?]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Fowler''': 644 Squadron, Poultry Division - we were the mascots.]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Ginger''': You mean you never actually ''flew'' the plane?]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Fowler''': Good heavens, no! I'm a chicken! The Royal Air Force doesn't let chickens behind the controls of complex aircraft!]]
* CaptivityHarmonica: Parodied
* CassandraTruth: Mr. Tweedy's belief that the chickens are "organized."
* ChekhovsGun: Why on earth did they make such a big deal of showing the lights getting caught on the plane's wheel? Oh, now they're using it to climb! But I'm sure they don't serve any other...[[OhCrap IS THAT MRS. TWEEDY?!?]]
** A better 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.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: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.]]
* {{Claymation}}
* ClosetShuffle: Whenever Rocky's presence needs to be hidden from the Tweedys.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Babs and Fetcher.
* [[CoincidentalBroadcast Coincidental Article]]: "Sick and tired of making miniscule profits?"
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Babs thought [[spoiler:Rocky left to go to the store]]. This got on Bunty's nerves, and this escalated into a huge brawl until Ginger stops it.
* CompositeCharacter: Bunty was originally two separate characters, the pushy one and the overly productive egg-layer (who, ironically, was going to be Edwina).
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack
* ConspicuousCG: The rain and the gravy explosion. This is why FlushedAway was all-CGI; it's near-impossible to do with clay.
* ConveyorBeltODoom: though this one is sideways with the chickens upside-down.
%% Please put Crowning Moments on the respective subpages. That also applies to Crowning Music.
* CrapsackWorld: The farm is depicted as one.
* DanceOfRomance: Arguably, the dance scene is when Ginger starts to fall for Rocky.
* DeathGlare: Ginger does this several times.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Lampshaded.
--> '''Rocky:''' Flying takes three things; hard work, perseverance and...hard work.
--> '''Fowler:''' You said "hard work" ''twice!''
--> '''Rocky:''' [[{{CrowningMomentOfFunny}} That's because it takes twice as much work as perseverance!]]
* {{Determinator}}: Ginger.
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Ginger]] gets one in the final escape attempt. Lasts considerably shorter than most examples, though.
* TheDitz: Babs.
* DoingItForTheArt
* DoubleEntendre: When Mr. Tweedy is outside begin attacked by the rebelling chickens.
-->'''Mr. Tweedy:''' ''[covered in chickens]'' Mrs. Tweedy! The chickens are revolting!
-->'''Mrs. Tweedy:''' ''[inside the house]]'' Finally something we agree on.
* {{Eagleland}}: Well, for Fowler's reaction to Rocky, go to AmericaWinsTheWar. The funny thing is, Rocky is indeed a ''mixed flavour'' leaning towards ''flavour 2''. Quite frankly, Rocky actually [[FridgeBrilliance is also indeed "overpaid, oversexed and over here"]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: For Babs.
-->'''Babs:''' Mornin', Ginger. Back from holiday?
-->'''Ginger:''' I wasn't on holiday, Babs, I was in solitary confinement.
-->'''Babs:''' Oh. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint It's nice to get a bit of time to yourself,]] [[TheDitz isn't it?]]
* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: Does this really need to be explained?
* EverythingMakesAMushroom: a gravy explosion looks an awful lot like a mushroom cloud.
* EvilOverlooker: The main posters and DVD cover have Mrs. Tweedy's face projected onto a cloud in the background.
* ExecutiveMeddling: DreamWorks and composer HansZimmer (who heads the Dreamworks music department) forced director NickPark to drop an already-recorded musical score by WallaceAndGromit composer Julian Nott because Zimmer decided his people should do the score (Zimmer has a history of doing this). This was one of many reasons why Aardman would leave DreamWorks in 2006 to go to Sony.
* {{Expospeak Gag}}: After Rocky wakes up with an injured wing, there is this bit of dialogue:
--> '''Rocky''': Ouch! What happened to my wing?
-->'''Ginger''': You took a rather nasty fall.
-->'''Mac''': And sprained the anterior tendon connecting your radius to your humerus. I gave her a wee bit of a tweak, Jimmy, and wrapped her up.
-->'''Rocky''': Was that English?
-->'''Ginger''': She said you hurt your wing. She fixed it.
* FakeUltimateHero: Rocky, who let the "flying chicken" myth go to his head. Once he had to give an actual demonstration, he [[IncrediblyLamePun chickened out]].
** To a lesser degree, Fowler. While he never outright said he was a wartime hero, his ramblings gave off that impression. When he finally admits he was just the mascot, he insists that should have been obvious, since no one used chickens as pilots.
* {{Fanfare}}: With kazoos!
* FiveManBand: An almost perfect one at that:
** TheHero: Ginger
** TheLancer: Rocky
** TheBigGuy: Bunty
** TheSmartGuy: Mac
** TheChick: Babs
** TeamDad: Fowler
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Whenever Fowler gets to talking about "the crate."
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: The rats, Nick and Fetcher.
* FunnyAnimal: though with some anthropomorphisms, mostly limited to cues based on clothing
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Pops up quite often. Notable examples:
** Fetcher's hat.
** "So... which bunk is mine?" And the enthusiastic response from nearly all the hens in the place.
** "Overpaid, over''sexed'', and over here!"
*** That's more an example of The Radar Does Not Exist.
** During the TrainingMontage, there's a precious moment where Ginger is leaning over and stretching and Rocky ''is checking out her bum. And then she catches him. And he coughs and continues instructing the class. Wow.''
** Upon seeing Ginger being taken to the pie machine, Babs exclaims "Bloomin 'eck, he's got Ginger!" "Blooming heck" is a lighter form of "bloody hell." Not so bad in the UK, but still...
** Mr. Tweedy pretty clearly jumps after Mrs. Tweedy apparently grabs his rear off-screen.
* GilliganCut: This wonderful exchange.
-->'''Mrs Tweedy''': (To her husband after he voices his suspicions of the chickens) They're chickens. They don't plot, they don't scheme and they are not organized!
-->(Cut to Ginger banging a gavel at one of their escape meeting)
--> '''Ginger:''' Order, ''order!''
* GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath: Spoofed.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The death of Edwina.
* GrayRainOfDepression: When the chickens find out that [[spoiler:Rocky was shot out of a cannon and couldn't really fly.]]
* GreatEscape: Complete with a SuspiciouslySimilarSong version of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUDCbOVmSdU theme]]!
* [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Rooster]]: Fowler.
* GutPunch / MoodWhiplash: When Edwina gets beheaded, albeit offscreen, and later ''her bones'' are seen on the kitchen table. As RogerEbert stated in his review, Mrs. Tweedy is not fooling around. This is not a film that pulls punches, and there's a very real threat to the chickens.
* HardWorkMontage: Several of them.
* HenpeckedHusband ([[StealthPun hee hee!]]): Mr. Tweedy
* HeroicBSOD: Ginger after [[spoiler:Rocky's deceit is revealed along with his departure]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ginger ''almost'' did 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 gutsy move.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns: Nick and Fetcher, when the chickens are trying various methods of getting off the ground.
-->'''Nick:''' "''Poultry'' in motion!"
** Did anyone else realize that [[FridgeBrilliance they flew the coop?]]
* IJustWantToBeFree: Ginger's personal reason for escaping.
* ImprovisedZipline: The chickens did it with coat hangers.
* IndyEscape: Done with gigantic gears while avoiding bolts bolting from the walls.
* IndyHatRoll: Ginger rescuing her beret.
* KarmaHoudini: Rocky [[spoiler:lies to the chickens about being able to fly, abandons them in their time of need]], and the only punishment we ever see him get is a slap across the face from Ginger.
** Well he did come back and help save them, that counts for something.
* KillEmAll:
--> '''Mrs. Tweedy:''' Bring me the chickens, Mr. Tweedy?
--> '''Mr. Tweedy:''' Um, which ones?
--> '''Mrs. Tweedy:''' ''All'' of them.
* [[DudeLooksLikeALady Lady Looks Like A Dude]]: It's hard to tell that Mac is female, because she's a tomboy and speaks ''really'' fast in technical jargon.
* LadyMacbeth: Mrs Tweedy
* LastMinuteHookup
* TheLeader: Ginger is a combination of Types II and III.
* {{Leitmotif}}
* LetsMeetTheMeat
* LiteralMetaphor
* LoudGulp: The chickens gulp in unison (swallowing the heaps of chicken feed they all had in their mouths) after Ginger tells them that the food they've been eating was to fatten them up for slaughter.
* MeaningfulName: [[StickyFingers Nick]] (as in English euphemism for steal) and [[StickyFingers Fetcher]].
* MillionToOneChance: The chances of the chickens escaping, according to Bunty. Guess what happens in the end.
* MomentKiller
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Happens to Babs, who then adds with a deadpan, "It was really boring."
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: It's not Dollface, it's Ginger.
* NeverSayDie: Played straight with the humans ("You are going to be a pie!") but averted with most of the chickens.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The advertising for the movie focused on the action sequences and screwball slapstick elements while glossing over the parallels to WorldWarTwo, the references to prison escape films, the love story and the constant threat of death.
* NiceHat: Ginger's. She's the only chicken that has one.
* NonSequiturThud: Replace "thud" with "gets hit on the head with a feeding trough."
-->'''Rocky''': Thank you ladies and gentlemen, you've been a wonderful audience.
* NoYouGoFirst
* OffWithHerHead: Poor, poor Edwina.
* OnlySaneMan: Ginger.
* OopNorth: The setting.
* OrphanedPunchline
* PackedHero: During the pie machine sequence, Rocky and Ginger briefly get trapped inside a pie.
* PeriodPiece: Although it's never outright stated in the film itself, WordOfGod is that the movie is set in 1959.
* PhonyVeteran: At least semi-phony. Fowler did serve in the military, but only as a mascot.
* POWCamp: The farm is meant to invoke this.
* PreAsskickingOneliner: "Bye-bye."
* PunnyName: Rocky the Rhode Island Red, or Rocky Rhodes for short. [[hottip:* :[[DontExplainTheJoke It's a pun on "Rocky Roads".]]]]
* PunishmentBox: Ginger is put in the coal bunker everytime she's caught trying to escape.
* RecycledSoundtrack: ''Building the Crate'' and ''The Chickens Are Revolting'' end up in ''[[MissCongeniality Miss Congeniality 2]]'' as the background music for a show called Treasure Island.
* RedHerring: 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 ([[WhatCouldHaveBeen and originally it was going to be]]), but in the final film nothing ever comes of it and the crate flies without a hitch.
* TheRenfield: Mr Tweedy.
* RingAroundTheCollar: 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.
* RousingSpeech
* SacrificialLamb: Edwina
* SayMyName
* SealedWithAKiss
* SeriousBusiness: The whole plot, really.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Mac, at times, especially when she's [[InformedFlaw supposed to be]] hard to understand.
* ShoutOut: "[[StarTrek A cling-on! The engines can't take it!]]" spoken by a Scottish chicken. Also Ginger repeatedly bouncing a sprout against the wall of her cell, like the "Cooler King" (Steve [=McQueen=]) in ''TheGreatEscape''.
** Hey, the whole movie is a ShoutOut to ''TheGreatEscape''. Even the music.
*** During the escape montage at the beginning, one of the escape attempts is exactly like the tunnel from The Great Escape. Also, the hut number '17' is a shoutout to the escape film ''{{Stalag 17}}''.
*** And there are some references to ''HogansHeroes'', with the rolling-up maps, the movable bunks, the slapstick escape ideas (which are more in line with Hogan's usual routines than with ''TheGreatEscape'')
** Oh, and the IndianaJones references, as they're escaping the chicken-pie-making machine.
* ShownTheirWork: The way Mac lands square on her head and falls forward after attempting to fly? That would earn a perfect score in caber tossing.
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy:
-->'''Ginger''': Ladies, please. Let's not lose our heads.
-->'''Bunty''': Lose our heads?! [screams]
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan
* SittingOnTheRoof: Ginger has a habit of doing this. In one scene she goes up to the roof and discovers Rocky already sitting there. [[SincerityMode "I'm sorry, is this your roof?"]]
* SlapSlapKiss: There is a RunningGag that every time Ginger and Rocky would be about to kiss, they would be interrupted; one of these instances was near the end, when Ginger slaps Rocky across the face as they're about to kiss.
** This was because the filmmakers were nervous about showing Rocky and Ginger kissing onscreen, fearing that the sight of two birds touching beaks would look too awkward. When the kiss finally comes, it is staged so that the actual contact of "lips" is hidden.
* StealthPun: Stealthier in the US than in the UK, but as mentioned, the coal bin that Ginger is repeatedly thrown into is called a bunker.
** Likewise, Nick, whose name is also slang for "steal" in BritishEnglish.
* StockBritishPhrases
* TakeThat: Edwina, the chicken that gets beheaded, was named after former politician Edwina Currie who is (in)famous for starting a nationwide salmonella scare in 1988.
** Might not count. Edwina was originally supposed to have Bunty's role of being an egg-laying machine, and another hen was going to get the axe. Then they decided to consolidate characters, and the other hen ''did'' [[IncrediblyLamePun get the axe]].
*** WordOfGod is that the reference was indeed intentional.
* TechnoBabble: Mac is full of it.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Rocky never knew how to fly. When Ginger saw him he had been shot out of a cannon.]] Bummer.
* ThisIsNoTimeToPanic:
--> '''Bunty:''' We mustn't panic! We mustn't panic!
--> ''[beat]''
--> '''All Chickens:''' AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
** 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.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Nick and Fetcher.
* ToothyBird
* TotemPoleTrench
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The theatrical trailers completely spoil TheReveal 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.
* VillainousBreakdown: Mrs. Tweedy.
* VisualPun: Many as expected from such a film:
** In the end, they really DO [[StealthPun fly the coop...]]
** When Fowler shouts "Chocks away!" it shows the chickens removing chocolate bars from the wheels that are very similar to the widely known Toblerone bar.
*** They also happen to be called "Tasty-Choc."
* WhenIWasYourAge: This is part of Fowler's shtick.
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