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"Sometimes I'm like a chicken, Can't find my egg
But I feel it in my feathers, Love will find a way
Can you feel the cosmic love? x3"— The series' Ending Credits theme titled Cosmic Love
Space Chickens in Space (often shortened to Space Chickens or abbreviated SCIS) is a Mexican-Australian-British-Irish science fiction-surreal comedy animated television series created by José Carlos García de Letona and Rita Street, and is directed by Norwegian twin brothers Tommy and Markus Vad Flaaten, with Fernado De Fuentes S., Jose C. Garcia de Letona, Tom van Waveren, Ed Galton, Andrew Davies and Julia Adams as executive producers.
Produced by Ánima Estudios, Studio Moshi, co-produced by Gingerbread Animation and distributed by Cake Entertainment and Disney EMEA, the series premiered on September 30, 2018 on 9Go! in Australia and had its Disney XD premiere on November 19, 2018. It was developed for television by Alan Keane and Shane Perez.
50 11-minute episodes, one 22-minute double-length episode (titled 'Academy Rules') and 11 shorts were produced.
Plot
Follows the surreal adventures of a trio of chicken siblings, Chuck (David Menkin), Starley (Laura Aikman) and Finley (Nick Mohammed/Dash Kruck), that after hatching from their eggs, are taken from their home and find themselves mistakenly enrolled in an elite intergalactic former military academy known as the Slurp Academy, S.L.U.R.P. or simply Slurp (short for "Space Legion of Unequivocal Reconciliation and Pacifism"). They now encounter innumerable challenges, and will need all their wits, strength and teamwork to survive in this extraordinary world that they happily call home.
Not So Cosmic Qualities
- The majority of the characters are bland, unlikable and cliche.
- First off, the main reason why this show is hated, the notorious and despicable main protagonist Chuck. Thanks to all his pitiful qualities including being a selfish coward, a liar, a lustful creep, a megalomaniac private, an indolent slacker and a mean-spirited teammate, he's arguably a chicken version of Johnny Test but way worse. However, some of the scenes of him getting hurt or made fun of are still not satisfying but actually cringeworthy. It often seems less like karma and more like the world is out to torture him, especially since he is punished for being mildly rude or annoying but not when he's at his absolute worst.
- Adele is the pretty and smart girl who conveniently happens to be the main character's love interest. She never gets any real development or interest from the writers to redeem her genericness as a supporting character. She also has better grades than Finley yet she is utterly oblivious to Chuck's creepy feelings towards her even when it's obvious. She also switches between feeling sorry for or relating to Chuck and being one of the many who laugh at him.
- Finley is the overcautious fearful nerd and brains of the group. He isn't much better than Chuck, this can be seen when he interacts with Pal, as he sometimes is outright abusive to the robot.
- Glargg is the crusty sadist school principal with a soft side. Much to his dismay, he usually falls under the Butt-Monkey trope, especially in the episodes 'Being Glargg' and 'Cadet Clarkk'. He also hates Finley equally to Chuck even though Chuck is way worse. He also had some wasted potential, showing two different sides to him, one being a wannabe tyrant and the other caring deeply for the chickens. But alas neither is explored
- You is the cool and popular guy who never speaks. He never gets any full-blown dialogue at all unlike the other background characters, and is just there as a filler and badly done comic relief. He is Chuck's idol who occasionally gets along with the selfish chicken, but this is never expanded upon.
- Starley is the stereotypical sweet, cheerful and fun-loving girl. Sometimes her actions are extremely selfish and petty, most notably in 'The Egg'.
- Dweezil is the apathetic and arrogant rich kid.
- Barring comprehensive content explained earlier, this show has hideous, vile and foul animations which are thoroughly painful to witness, chiefly the stilted walking of Barnetta and Glargg (albeit avowedly funny) and a handful of cringy faces, opposed to usual.
- The original English voice acting is inconsistent. While enjoyable a shade, it can also feel somewhat dense, then range to annoying, just to finally collapse into vapidity. It quickly gets annoying when it comes to Glargg's shrill voice.
- On a side note, Monserrat Mendoza's performance as Piπ in the Latin American Spanish dub isn't really the most memorable out of the main cast as her bland performance sucks out the charm of Piπ's intentionally annoying trendy teenager-like accent
- This is unacceptable however considering that Monserrat Mendoza provided the Latin Spanish voice of Lynn Jr. from The Loud House, Runo Misaki from Bakugan, Panini from Chowder, Margo from the entire Despicable Me franchise and so on, all with excellent voice acting.
- On a side note, Monserrat Mendoza's performance as Piπ in the Latin American Spanish dub isn't really the most memorable out of the main cast as her bland performance sucks out the charm of Piπ's intentionally annoying trendy teenager-like accent
- Were you not to utilize the out of this world song that was employed in the show's trailer? Tasteless news, as it was replaced by an awful theme song that's made up of repetitive lyrics.
- A ton of mean-spirited disgusting episodes, such as:
- The Egg: Shows how cheap gross-out comedy never works out for SCIS, as well as questionable interactions and out of character behavior
- Green Eyed Monster: A generic green eyed monster-type episode where the predictable story of a character feeling jealous over one's more positive life is put into practice
- Being Glargg: A torture episode for a character that already goes through a lot was clearly not a good idea, of course featuring cruel scenarios, terrible comedy and segments that are painful to witness
- Cadet Clarkk: As if the previous torture episode wasn't enough, this doesn't improve but worsen the latter's mistakes, repeating them shamelessly
- Little episode plots are generic or downright bad, sometimes without any sort of coherent storytelling:
- 'Trolling Thrognak' is the space war/invasion episode
- 'Bliblisitting' is the "look after my pet while I'm gone" episode
- 'Best Pal' and (partly) 'Friendchip' are the "unbelievably advanced AI brings out unfavorable consequences" episodes
- 'Green Eyed Monster', 'Food Fight', 'Final Exam' and 'Blibli²', already displayed by deducing their names
- 'Finley Cleanly' is the "characters swap roles" episode
- 'Camp Ghosty Pants' is the camping episode
- Despite most vague designs succeed in complimenting the personality of their characters, having polar opposites Big Steve (tough little guy) and Gub (shy big girl) as a good example, on the other hand there are characters like You, whose design while doing its job correctly, is still lazy and stupid, looking not only generic but akin to the characters of The Emoji Movie.
- Unfunny humor that tries too hard to be random and cool, and it isn't safe from being forced occasionally.
- While not relying on it that much, the show did suffer from a sub-par praxis of gross-out humor, and knowing perfectly that gross-out was never good friends with Disney to begin with, it would be obvious to think that, in the end, they'd mess up once again by experimenting with this genre.
- Superfluous mean-spirited moments suddenly pop out of nowhere, which delivers an uncomfortable and crude tone. One formula in particular which consists of a character doing something mean only to apologize in the end becomes tedious very quickly.
- All the villains that aren't as original as Atori fall flat in disappointing ways:
- Thrognak, a microscopic bug and leader of a generic horde of darkness. He is presented in the first episode as a rude power-hungry meathead and a weak recreation of most space dictators and internet trolls. The actions of his that are mentioned in 'Jail Birds' further display the exact thing you'd imagine when thinking of him as a bad guy
- Sweet Skulls, despite her memorable design and song, is a blatant imitation of our beloved Atori; a manipulative lady and wanted criminal. Much like Thrognak, she was underused and only participated in 'Bad Bad Bad', one of the last episodes which clearly shows how uninterested the writers were in expanding this character's role. It was also a lazy decision to have her randomly betray Chuck, rather than have him choose for himself
- The show lasted for only one season, most likely due to SCIS' underrated and somewhat forgotten nature.
Cosmic Love Qualities
Despite all the flaws mentioned, it's still good enough to have a good media page. Give this page a read.
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Reception
Space Chickens in Space has a 5.4/10 rating on IMDB.[1]
References
- ↑ Space Chickens in Space at IMDb.
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Trivia
- José C. García de Letona, creator of the series, is the co-founder and current CEO of Ánima Estudios.
- You may remember Rita Street by her work on the animated series Ruby Gloom and Hero: 108.
- The ending song was arranged by the directors of the show, brothers Tommy and Markus Vad Flaaten.
- This show is one of Disney's international collaborations with other countries in animation, hosting the participation of Australian Studio Moshi, British Cake Entertainment, Irish Gingerbread Animation and Mexican Ánima Estudios, making it the first ever Disney animated series to be produced in part with a Latin American studio.
- With that being said, this is no Disney Television Animation original production.
- Speaking of Ánima, they are actually the biggest animation studio in Latin America and are famous for producing the well-known Las Leyendas animated movie franchise in México, yet at the same time infamous for producing El Chavo Animado and the disreputable Top Cat movies in favor of Warner Bros. worldwide.
- Specific audiences will be turned away by the deranged, off-model and uncanny animation that quite possibly references the style of Ren & Stimpy, relating the show to the gross-out genre regardless of it not relying on gross-out.
- Ommm and Pal were voiced by the Vad Flaaten brothers.
- Some of the writers and storyboarders would later work on 101 Dalmatian Street, another good Disney show.
- Despite popular belief and the difference between Breadwinners and this show's announcement and release dates, the Vad Flaaten brothers have already stated in frequent occasions that the chickens' designs were created before the announcement of that other show, denying any idea of Space Chickens in Space ripping-off the style of Breadwinners.
- The character Dweezil Gearle is named after famous rock guitarist Dweezil Zappa.
- According to the Vad Flaaten brothers, Chowder served as an inspiration for the show.
- Dwaqu and Marigold were originally meant to be called Briqu and Peg respectively. This was later changed.
- Harry Gregg, the son of Marigold's voice actress Sarah Kennedy, voices Hugo. He would later be replaced by Lucy O'Connell.
- Adele has the same name as one of the twins' wife.
- The character design for Narcibelle could be inspired by the Pokémon Chansey, due to both designs sharing a lot of similarities like pink skin color, a simplistic face and the hair-like growths on each side of their heads.
- In an interview with the show's creator, he revealed that co-creator Rita Street initially came up with the concept of the show, starting from the concept of fish out of water, until they swapped fish for chickens and Earth for space.
- The creators say that Finley is the oldest and Starley is the youngest, however the intro implies Chuck was the last to hatch. Furthermore, it's implied that Chuck and probably his siblings are preteens in 'Green Eyed Monster' and 'Personal Space Time'.
- Like a lot of shows, the chickens are main characters without parents. It's possible they were raised by Glargg, since they seem attached to each other deep down, especially him and Starley.
- Chicken Out has no English dub.
- This show used to have a page in Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki until its removal in May 29, 2021.
- From March 1, 2022 onwards, this article was the longest page in Best Shows & Episodes Wiki.
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