The Chicken from Outer Space

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Chicken from Outer Space was a cartoon short by John R. Dilworth that featured the first appearance of Courage the Cowardly Dog, his owners Eustace and Muriel and his enemy the Chicken from Outer Space. It was shown on Cartoon Cartoons. It was very successful and started the Courage the Cowardly Dog series. In 1995, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 Quotes
4 External links

[edit] Plot

An alien Chicken arrives on the farm, hoping to invade. Courage fights with the Chicken with several different contests, while Muriel feeds Eustace some of the Chicken's eggs, which transform Eustace into a monstrous Chicken. After many competitions and fights, Courage manages to defeat the Chicken by frying it with its laser gun. The Chicken-Eustace is defeated in the same way. However, a mouse starts to eat the Chicken-Eustace's ashes. Courage ends by saying 'This shouldn't happen to a dog!'

[edit] Trivia

This was the very first appearance of the regular cast of Courage. The Chicken from Outer Space could be known as Courage's arch-enemy as he was the first adversary Courage faced, although it is widely known as Katz, and by some as Le Quack.

Eustace, Muriel and the Chicken have no lines in this episode. The only person who speaks is Courage, and only at the end.

All the characters have different designs in this episode. The only character's design that is reused is the Chicken's, but only in flashbacks, as in his next appearance he is fried. However, he (or a similar chicken) appears with the same unfried design in Aqua Farmer and in The Transplant as the chicken the Kangaroo monster stomps on in the video.