Subservient Chicken
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Overview
The Subservient Chicken was a viral online marketing event staged by the American fast food chain restaurant Burger King to promote its TenderCrisp chicken sandwich in 2004. As the digital component of the larger "Have It Your Way" advertising campaign, the event was centered around an interactive webcam channel where viewers could control the actions of a man dressed in a chicken costume by inputing various commands. In 2014, Burger King relaunched the campaign to promote their Chicken Big King sandwich.
Background
On April 8th, 2004, the Subservient Chicken[11] website was launched, featuring a video feed of a man standing in a living room above a text input field in which viewers could type commands to see the man performing a variety of actions.
Notable Developments
On April 16th, 2004, the marketing news blog Clickz[1] published an article about the Subservient Chicken website, which noted it had received over 46 million visits in the first week of launch. On March 7th, 2005, the advertising news blog AdWeek[2] reported that the site reached more than 14 million unique visitors and 396 million hits. In addition, Burger King reported that TenderCrisp sales had increased an average of 9% per week during the campaign.
List of Commands
According to Wikipedia, there were over 300 commands for the original Subservient Chicken web page.
- Moonwalk
- Throw Pillow
- Riverdance or Irish dance
- The "elephant"
- Bowl
- Tango
- Show teeth
- Be an airplane
- Shake your booty
- The Robot
- Lay egg
- Walk Like an Egyptian
- Yoga
- Sleep
- Rage
- Raise the roof
- Dog
- Fall
- Can I eat you?
- Squat
- Peck Ground
- Travolta
- Fight
- Roshambo
- Read a book from his bookcase.
- Have a drink of water
- Blow your nose
- Barrel roll
- Begone or go away
- Turn off the lights
- Jump rope
- Hide behind sofa
- Golf Swing
- Try to do a headstand
- Hide
- Leave
- Sit
- Watch TV
- Pick your nose & eat it
- Spin
- Do the YMCA
- Fly
- Handstand
- Hula hoop
- Cartwheel
- Push-up
- Electric Slide
- Air Guitar
- Tap Dance
- Referee
- Bowl
- Poke your eye out
- 3 point stance
- Paint
- Throw a Football
- Backflip
- Turn off the lights
- Sing
- Die
- Pee on the couch
- Pee in the corner
- Pee like a dog
- Do the splits
- Headbang
- Pray
- Shakespeare
- Headbutt
- March like a German Soldier
- Swim
- Kick an imaginary soccer ball.
- Jump
- Act like a dog
- Puke
- Fart
- Hug
- Cabbage Patch
- Tai Chi
- Hula
- Ballet
- Breakdance
- Make a sandwich
- Playboy
- Be a monkey
- Macarana (note spelling)
- Kiss
- Go to sleep
- Flap around
- Be a duck
- Do the silly walk
2014 Relaunch
On April 27th, 2014, the Associated Press[3] reported that Burger King was relaunching the Subservient Chicken campaign to promote the Chicken Big King triple-decker sandwich. That day, the old Subservient Chicken website was redesigned to feature a video feed of an empty room with a pop-up message informing the viewer of a "Missing Chicken Error" along with options to share the page on various social media accounts. In the coming days, several news sites reported on the relaunch, including NPR,[4] Business Insider,[6] USA Today,[7] Time,[8] Gawker,[5] ABC News[9] and UpRoxx.[10]
Search Interest
External References
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[1] Clickz – Burger King Hen Whets Chicken Yen
[2] AdWeek – Dissecting Subservient Chicken
[3] AP – Burger King Bringing Back Subservient Chicken
[4] NPR – Burger King Revives Subservient Chicken
[5] Gawker – Burger King to Bring Back Bizarre Subservient Chicken Campaign
[6] Business Insider – Burger King is Bringing Back the Subservient Chicken
[7] USA Today – Burger King brings back Subservient Chicken
[8] Time – Burger Kings Subservient Chicken is Back
[9] ABC News – Burger King Bringing Back Subserv Chicken
[10] UpRoxx – Burger King is bringinb back chicken and somehow Dustin Diamond is involved
[11] Subservient Chicken – Subservient Chicken
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