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The shows joking so you dont crack up ethos made this raw expression of emotion feel earned.
After Hawkeye desperately begged a woman on the bus to quiet her baby, she suffocated it.
The tragedy is initially presented in visual code.
Hawkeye initially claims the woman killed a chicken.
Take the common fallacy that chickens are afraid, Hawkeye says during a card game with Sidney.
Who else has the nerve to run around when you cut their heads off?
Have you ever seen a chicken break out in a cold sweat?
Have you ever known a chicken to have a weak handshake?
I grant you theyre afraid of flying.
In a recent survey, two out of three chickens preferred to take the bus.
Chickens take the bus, Sidney says knowingly.
The episode cuts to the woman on the bus holding a squawking chicken on her lap and looking terrified.
It was driving me crazy.
Every time it made a noise, I was sure the Chinese would hear us and find it.
Everybodys life was in danger because of that damned chicken.
I hadnt seen the episode from start to finish since it first aired.
Rewatching it for this piece, I was struck by how bracing it still is.
The situations, dialogue, and tone are trickier to praise because of recency bias.
It had profanity and nudity and was supposedly the first Hollywood release in which a character said fuck.
Dig too deep too often and the bosses confiscate the pickaxe.
In a way, they were following in the footsteps of the 1968 novel and 1970 film.
People will turn the show off.
Can you change it to an animal?
They did, and then they changed it back.
