Appearances
- Early in the first Holiday Bowl, uninformed security guards attempted to eject the Chicken from the field. He refused to leave the game, sitting on the sidelines as the mistake was ironed-out. Meanwhile, as Brigham Young University was working their way through the "red zone" for a touchdown the crowd was chanting, "We want the Chicken."
- The Chicken was on hand at Jack Murphy Stadium on September 10, 1978, when the Oakland Raiders beat the Chargers on the infamous "Holy Roller Play". After the Raiders recovered the winning touchdown in the end zone, the Chicken fell on the ground and lay motionless as though he'd been shot.
- The Chicken appeared at WrestleMania XV and WrestleMania 2000 although the costume was worn by Pete Rose at WrestleMania XV during which he was Tombstoned by Kane.
- The Chicken made a cameo appearance in the cult movie, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes as one of the citizens stomping the remaining killer tomatoes in a parking lot.
- Giannoulas was once sued by the producers of the show Barney & Friends for beating up a Barney look-alike. The Chicken won the case, with the court holding that his performance was satire protected by the First Amendment.
- In 1979, the Chicken recorded a cover of Rod Stewart's disco hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
- In the 1980s, the Chicken would appear in McDonald's commercials with Ronald McDonald. McDonald's founder Ray Kroc was also the owner of the Padres, at whose games the Chicken appeared frequently.
- The Chicken appears on a card in the 1982, 1983, and 1984 Donruss sets with an offer on the back of the card where you could send the card to The Chicken himself to autograph it.
- The Chicken is featured in the educational economics video, "Chickenomics".
- In 2008, The Chicken was featured in a Sony commercial that also featured Dale Earnhardt, Jr., James Brown and Peyton Manning. In the commercial, The Chicken gets angry and is held back by Manning when a customer says he does not like sports.
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Famous quotes containing the word appearances:
“We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.”
—Muriel Beadle (b. 1915)