YMMV / Chop Socky Chooks

• Audience-Alienating Premise: The series was a spoof of schlocky, cheaply-made Asian martial arts movies from the 70s, with its characters being based on common archetypes seen in such films, and which modern viewers would likely be unfamiliar with. Combined with its odd title, which can sound like a racial slur to the ears of someone unfamiliar with the terms "chop socky" and "chook", this led to accusations of racism. On top of all that, the unusual character designs (most infamously, the fact that the main trio don't look anything like chickens) only further confused audiences as to the show's nature. This perplexing bizarreness, combined with it being Screwed by the Network, meant that the vast majority of viewers didn't really get it and thus chose not to watch it, condemning the series to low viewership that ultimately resulted in it only lasting a single season before slipping into total obscurity.
• Broken Base: Who is the strongest Chook? It is implied at many points that Chucky is, as in one episode, Joe and Chick P are poisoned and barely able to stand, but Chucky kept standing and still managed to best Kobura in combat. However, similar situations have had some Chooks accomplish tasks that the others couldn't, such as Chick P easily defeating Dead-Eye, who had just easily incapacitated Joe and Chucky.
• One-Scene Wonder: In "Snake in the Class", Chuckie Chan's students Raco, Stroose, and Cho briefly became Junior Chooks. Their code-names were Dung Beetle, Slaying Mantis, and Lady Bug, respectively.
• Quirky Work: This is a cartoon about extremely human-like anthropomorphic chickens who use kung fu to fight an evil fish and his army of ninja monkeys in a city-sized mall. Say what you will about the show, but there certainly aren't any other martial arts movie spoofs like it out there.

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