Chicken suit
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A chicken suit is a novelty costume that exaggerates the features of chickens. Chicken suits usually fit someone up to 6' 1" and 200 lbs.
Description
A chicken suit can be used at parties and other events or as a costume for school mascots. Some chicken barbecue companies bring a chicken suit with them for members of the group for whom the barbecue is held to wear in order to advertise the event. Whereas some other costumes such as a Gorilla suit may have the same approximate physical size as the actual animal and under some circumstances roughly pass for the real thing (i.e., in movies and television), chicken suits are always a form of caricature with a cartoonish appearance. One such example is the San Diego Chicken.
Use of chicken suits
Once as a joke European ice skater Oksana Baiul entered the ice skating rink wearing a chicken suit.
For an episode of the MTV show Jackass, skateboarder Tony Hawk drove through a looping ramp in a chicken suit.
A chicken suit was used in the "Harvey Korman" episode of The Muppet Show. As Kermit the Frog worries the guest isn't having a "great time", Harvey complains about being the token person on a show with "dogs and frogs and pigs and chickens" and the fear of hoof-and-mouth disease. Feeling weird about his experience, the Muppets dress him in a chicken suit. Upon the experience, Harvey pronounces he feels like laying an egg backstage. The chicken suit was later refurbished when it was used to portray a Giant Chicken in the "Nancy Walker" and "Edgar Bergen" episodes. The chicken costume returned as a regular costume in The Muppets Take Manhattan, where it was worn by Gonzo the Great's boat driver "Margaret" at the aquacade.
Series 9 of the Lego Minifigures featured the Chicken Suit Guy who is a Minifigure in a Chicken Suit.[1]
On October 22, 2014, a man wore a chicken suit helped a man in a protest to picket for Congressman Curt Clawson to engage in a debate as the general election approaches next month.[2]
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