Line #6 Fridge/ChickenRun


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2	* Buried Entertainment [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DQVLHphan0Q makes an elaborate analysis]] of the financial situation of Tweedy's farm and the reasons for the shift into the poultry business.
3	* Mrs. Tweedy's skepticism about the chickens being organized is further compounded by the fact that she almost never personally works with the chickens herself. Mr. Tweedy is the one who runs all the guard-patrols, while she handles the farm's finances and sleeps at night. She's never seen any of their escape attempts, so she isn't aware of them using any complex tricks or plans. Mr. Tweedy meanwhile has seen all these hijinks himself so he's all too aware of it.
4	** It may even be ''why'' she doesn't believe him: she just thinks he's losing his mind from hanging around chickens all day and night by himself for too long. She doesn't think too highly of his intelligence to begin with, and his inability to keep (supposedly) dumb flightless birds from escaping their secure pen daily doesn't help his credibility at all.
5	** The scenarios that he would probably relate back to her are [[RefugeInAudacity so far-fetched that she would have a hard time believing it anyway]]. If he were to say that he found several chickens digging a hole under the fence at night in order to escape? Or if he found chickens hiding under food and water holders in an attempt to escape when he's literally working in the chicken coop? Mrs Tweedy already has very little patience with him, she's never going to believe a claim like that in the first place.
6	* Rocky and Fowler's polar opposite reactions to having their true natures exposed can actually be pinpointed to their upbringings. Rocky was in the Circus, so when the time came for him to face the truth, he ran away. That kind of "care-free" lifestyle he wanted meant he didn't want to face down the disappointment that came after he built everyone up so much. Fowler by contrast was a military bird. So when his failing came out, despite his building himself up as well, he faced it head on like a good soldier would.
7	* Rocky and Fowler take an immediate dislike to each other, and spend most of the movie with an antagonistic relationship. This makes a lot of sense because they're both roosters, and roosters are known to fight like crazy with each other if forced to coexist (usually to the death in real life).
8	* Mrs. Tweedy wanting to kill all the chickens in her farm with her pie-making machine may seem StupidEvil, given she would have no chickens left to make more pies, except she could hypothetically buy more chickens thanks to the profits she would make by selling pies.
9	* The dozens of chicks living on the island at the end must have been fathered by Rocky and/or Fowler. (And Ginger and Bunty need not have been the only mothers.)
10	* Notice how, after being told by Mac about how the chickens were lacking thrust in their previous escape attempts, Rocky appears to be much more confident with the next day's attempts to escape the farm, as well as how this new attempt -- which involves them being launched -- [[YankTheDogsChain at first]] appears to be a lot more successful than their previous attempts. Considering that Rocky himself was ''thrust'' out of a ''cannon'', it's possible that Mac's hypothesis was a EurekaMoment for him, and that this time, he was trying to legitimately apply his ''true'' experience onto their next attempt.
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13	* In the scene where it's discovered Edwina hasn't laid any eggs, Ginger whispers to Bunty, "Why didn't you give her some of yours?" Bunty replies, "I would have, but she didn't tell me. She didn't tell anyone." Since going a week without laying eggs lands a chicken on the chopping block at the Tweedys' farm, which has already been established as a pretty rotten place to be, Edwina effectively committed [[DrivenToSuicide suicide.]]
14	** Later, we get treated to a scene inside of the Tweedys' house, where the bones of a roasted chicken sit on the dinner table, picked clean.
15	** Another bit of FridgeHorror less explored is ''why'' Edwina doesn't lay any eggs. Clearly, she had to have been a layer at one point, otherwise, she wouldn't there on the farm but, with life being so terrible on the Tweedy's farm, maybe she stopped laying eggs entirely due to being stressed.
16	** When Bunty says that she would’ve provided Edwina with eggs had she asked, could that be an implication that in the past there were hens who should’ve been given the axe for not laying, but had their lives spared by other hens who donated their eggs to them?
17	** If one makes the assumption that Edwina's lack of eggs was unintentional, it opens up a whole bunch of questions about the situation. Was she, as Bunty said, too busy escaping to lay? Was she scared and/or ashamed about it, and chose to just accept her fate rather than causing any of the rest of them to worry? Even though the rest of the flock would have helped her, it's possible that she didn't want to just burden them.
18	* Despite all her escape attempts, Ginger isn't taken for the chop, which means that either Bunty is sharing some of her eggs with her...or Ginger is laying them herself, forced to contribute to the farm she's desperately trying to escape.
19	* The main page doesn't omit the fact that Tweedy's Farm is a CrapsackWorld. Real chickens in factory farming have it much, much worse. At least these chickens can go outside.
20	* There's a very good reason why the chickens are shown living on a small island at the end. Had they settled down in a field or in the woods, they would be living under the constant threat of predators instead.
21	* We see on the truck that the pie machine comes from a company called Poultry Products. It’s never really shown in the movie as to whether or not Mrs. Tweedy looked at any other products besides the pie machine, but one would assume that an entire company isn’t going to just focus on one particular product. And since poultry covers a range of birds, it’s very likely that a lot of farm birds in the Chicken Run Universe meet their fate by machine.
22	* Given Rocky's refusal to go back to the circus, who's to say the ringmaster isn't as horrible to his animals as the Tweedys are to the chickens?

Context Fridge / ChickenRun