Subservient Chicken

[pegkerr]

Can somebody explain how they do this, please?

www.subservientchicken.com/.

Got this as a random hit from Cool site of the day.

Edited to add: jonquil provides the explanation here. Thanks, jonquil!

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

They filmed a whole bunch of actions which are now cued up on a hard drive. When you type in a keyword it recognizes, the Website streams you the pre-recorded action.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Wow. Unbelievable.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

See here: http://www.adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000828049

For the Web site, creatives thought up about 400 commands and filmed an actor in a chicken suit acting them out, and then programmed them into the Web site to allow anything viewers typed in to get a response.

[dragonpaws.livejournal.com]

I can't explain it, but dear bloody goodness, the chicken is wearing a garter belt. *is squicked, for it is a chicken*

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

I think because it's a limited space, they figured there was only so many commands that most people would give it. Basic stuff, like roll over, and jump and sit. Commands you'd give a dog.

I wasn't trying to but I fooled it quite easily. It wouldn't touch the ceiling when I asked it. It wouldn't pretend-vacuum the floor. Things like that.

[faeryguinevere.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't swim or do the conga, either.

[90-percent-sure.livejournal.com]

It won't "shit on the floor" but it will "lay an egg". Sans egg.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

It did do the Funky Chicken.

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

That reminds me: No macarena.

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

BK also had that computerized 20 questions that I've seen all over the place- BUT, it was Darth Vader reading your mind with the power of the force. If I wasn't at work, I'd dig up the link. At on point that wretched BK king that creeps me out to no end comes in behind Vader.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

They've thought of everything beforehand. Amazing, isn't it?

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