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Show: Chop Socky Chooks
Episode: 7
Year: 2008

Writer(s): Lienne Sawatsky, Dan Williams

Ok, stop me if you've heard this one before: "Three chickens who know kung fu work undercover at a mega mall run by an evil piranha and his army of ninja chimps and fat idiot gorilla sidekick." I never thought those words would ever be used in a sentence together. Chop Socky Chooks (‘chop socky’ is martial arts slang for “kung fu”, and ‘chooks’ is Australian slang for “chicken”) was definitely a weird ass show, kind of cliché yet kind of enjoyable in a strange way. This is actually one of the very few shows Aardman Animations made that wasn't made in stop-motion, though the CGI models do kind of look like they'd work in that style as well. The animation style actually reminds me of this video game called de Blob. And despite my hatred of poultry, I do like the show. That being said, even Aardman makes mistakes.

You remember the Kim Possible episode "Grande Size Me"? And the Super Mario World episode "King Scoopa Koopa"? Both of those episodes tried and failed to teach the lesson that fast food isn't good for you; no shit it isn't, but it's so fucking tasty! And both failed for different reasons; the former failed because morals were forced into the 4th season and it taught a lesson completely different from what was going on, and the latter failed because Mario was never meant to be educational, but I'll get into Super Mario World when I review "A Little Learning". Right now, I want to get into probably the weirdest and dare I say most disgusting attempt at teaching the fast food moral.

Right off the bat, we see where this episode will lead us when our villain Dr. Wasabi is advertising liposuction, while promoting free burgers with every suck. "Why sweat it off when you can suck it off?"; that's sounds so very, very wrong. Chuckie Chan, who is supposed to be the Shaolin Monk of the group, for some reason is enticed by these new burgers and gets fat; I thought monks treated their bodies like temples, not trash cans! I don't really think Wasabi's greatest enemies would buy into one of his obviously evil plans so easily! And next to Chick P, Chuckie is the LEAST LIKELY to fall for something like this! Granted, they themselves work at his mall undercover, but still.

To investigate why these burgers are so addictive, Chuckie and K.O. Joe get their jobs at Wasabi Burger to go undercover. This doesn't help Chuckie's addiction since he even eats a burger off the dirty floor. It isn't long though before they discover the secret sauce is actually being piped in from an unknown location. I get they're trying to make fat jokes with Chuckie, but the animation doesn't make him look that fat, honestly; his gut is barely noticeable. It actually doesn't take long for the Chooks to discover the sauce's secret: it's the fat of the liposuction customers! Wasabi sells the burgers so the customers get fat; they buy liposuction, and Wasabi serves them burgers topped with their fat so they get even more fat! Congrats, you got how the American fast food industry really works! Just kidding, but it kind of makes sense; it doesn't make it any less disgusting, though! Especially since it was so obvious! And that's the problem with the show in general: you can see where plot threads are coming, from a mile away.

Get this: Wasabi honestly believes he'll be able to use these burgers to rule the world… Bullshit. I'm not sure how things work with food in the UK, but in the USA, we have the FDA, so you're LIPO would become MIA and you'd be F'd in the A. And to make things even nastier, Wasabi's brain gets lipoed into the disgusting fat sauce and it becomes a cycloptic monster; I told you this was a weird ass show. This monster is absolutely nothing like Dr. Wasabi despite having HIS BRAIN; it's mindless and is essentially 1958’s The Blob, only badly animated. And Wasabi is reduced to a drooling baby without his brain. And Chuckie's burger cravings get him sucked into the monster. And Chick P basically spells out the moral: "Too much fat is bad for you"… Really? That could've been worded a whole lot better, it doesn't even take any thought whatsoever.

Needless to say, Bubba can't handle being in charge and Wasabi, being a mindless baby, shits his fucking pants! I'm no neurologist, but how can the blob split into separate beings with only one brain? I mean, with things like DBZ’s Majin Buu, he only did it to regenerate, but this thing can multi-form! Most blob-like beings cannot multi-form! They can just pull themselves together! I know it sounds like a nitpick, but it is honestly a real problem.

You'll never guess what the blobs weakness is. Just guess, go ahead, and guess! VEGETABLES! Super Mario World’s “King Scoopa Koopa” also had this problem, but it wasn't this bizarre. Eating vegetables doesn't automatically mean you'll lose weight; in fact, they can also be fattening. What you need to do is balance your diet in a healthy way AND exercise to lose weight; sure, it doesn't work for everyone, but it's the most efficient way. Realistically, liposuction is only a viable solution for those who are morbidly obese, and even then, it can be fatal; it isn't meant for people like Lindsey Lohan, it’s more for people like John Goodman or the late James Gandolfini. But in this episode, liposuction is used to defeat the blob of fat and sent it right back at Wasabi's office. So it's actually very confused; you could cut out the scene with the vegetables and the episode would largely be the same.

Episode, what the hell are you trying to tell me here? That liposuction IS the best way to get rid of fat and that veggies are just a temporary solution? Because in reality, it's the exact OPPOSITE of what you're saying! I really don't know. Also in the end, Chuckie hasn't learned a damn thing as he tries to sneak one last burger anyways after swearing them off. Also, this doesn't have anything to do with the episode, but in America, Chuckie's voice was redubbed by a different actor because, apparently, the voice Rob Rackstraw gave him was offensive to Asians; the again, 2/3 of the Chooks are kind of racist, regardless.

Cringe-Inducing Audio: 3
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 4
Lackluster Writing: 4
Annoyance: 0
Disturbing Content: 5
Unnecessary Cruelty: 0
Rancid Morality: 3
Low Production Values: 0
Unfortunate Implications: 4
Character Derailment: 0

Final Score: 23/100

Chop Socky Chooks is owned by Aardman Animations, Decode Entertainment and DHX Media.

Animated Atrocities is from

Regulas314

Description
Show: Chop Socky Chooks
Episode: 7
Year: 2008

Writer(s): Lienne Sawatsky, Dan Williams

Ok, stop me if you've heard this one before: "Three chickens who know kung fu work undercover at a mega mall run by an evil piranha and his army of ninja chimps and fat idiot gorilla sidekick." I never thought those words would ever be used in a sentence together. Chop Socky Chooks (‘chop socky’ is martial arts slang for “kung fu”, and ‘chooks’ is Australian slang for “chicken”) was definitely a weird ass show, kind of cliché yet kind of enjoyable in a strange way. This is actually one of the very few shows Aardman Animations made that wasn't made in stop-motion, though the CGI models do kind of look like they'd work in that style as well. The animation style actually reminds me of this video game called de Blob. And despite my hatred of poultry, I do like the show. That being said, even Aardman makes mistakes.

You remember the Kim Possible episode "Grande Size Me"? And the Super Mario World episode "King Scoopa Koopa"? Both of those episodes tried and failed to teach the lesson that fast food isn't good for you; no shit it isn't, but it's so fucking tasty! And both failed for different reasons; the former failed because morals were forced into the 4th season and it taught a lesson completely different from what was going on, and the latter failed because Mario was never meant to be educational, but I'll get into Super Mario World when I review "A Little Learning". Right now, I want to get into probably the weirdest and dare I say most disgusting attempt at teaching the fast food moral.

Right off the bat, we see where this episode will lead us when our villain Dr. Wasabi is advertising liposuction, while promoting free burgers with every suck. "Why sweat it off when you can suck it off?"; that's sounds so very, very wrong. Chuckie Chan, who is supposed to be the Shaolin Monk of the group, for some reason is enticed by these new burgers and gets fat; I thought monks treated their bodies like temples, not trash cans! I don't really think Wasabi's greatest enemies would buy into one of his obviously evil plans so easily! And next to Chick P, Chuckie is the LEAST LIKELY to fall for something like this! Granted, they themselves work at his mall undercover, but still.

To investigate why these burgers are so addictive, Chuckie and K.O. Joe get their jobs at Wasabi Burger to go undercover. This doesn't help Chuckie's addiction since he even eats a burger off the dirty floor. It isn't long though before they discover the secret sauce is actually being piped in from an unknown location. I get they're trying to make fat jokes with Chuckie, but the animation doesn't make him look that fat, honestly; his gut is barely noticeable. It actually doesn't take long for the Chooks to discover the sauce's secret: it's the fat of the liposuction customers! Wasabi sells the burgers so the customers get fat; they buy liposuction, and Wasabi serves them burgers topped with their fat so they get even more fat! Congrats, you got how the American fast food industry really works! Just kidding, but it kind of makes sense; it doesn't make it any less disgusting, though! Especially since it was so obvious! And that's the problem with the show in general: you can see where plot threads are coming, from a mile away.

Get this: Wasabi honestly believes he'll be able to use these burgers to rule the world… Bullshit. I'm not sure how things work with food in the UK, but in the USA, we have the FDA, so you're LIPO would become MIA and you'd be F'd in the A. And to make things even nastier, Wasabi's brain gets lipoed into the disgusting fat sauce and it becomes a cycloptic monster; I told you this was a weird ass show. This monster is absolutely nothing like Dr. Wasabi despite having HIS BRAIN; it's mindless and is essentially 1958’s The Blob, only badly animated. And Wasabi is reduced to a drooling baby without his brain. And Chuckie's burger cravings get him sucked into the monster. And Chick P basically spells out the moral: "Too much fat is bad for you"… Really? That could've been worded a whole lot better, it doesn't even take any thought whatsoever.

Needless to say, Bubba can't handle being in charge and Wasabi, being a mindless baby, shits his fucking pants! I'm no neurologist, but how can the blob split into separate beings with only one brain? I mean, with things like DBZ’s Majin Buu, he only did it to regenerate, but this thing can multi-form! Most blob-like beings cannot multi-form! They can just pull themselves together! I know it sounds like a nitpick, but it is honestly a real problem.

You'll never guess what the blobs weakness is. Just guess, go ahead, and guess! VEGETABLES! Super Mario World’s “King Scoopa Koopa” also had this problem, but it wasn't this bizarre. Eating vegetables doesn't automatically mean you'll lose weight; in fact, they can also be fattening. What you need to do is balance your diet in a healthy way AND exercise to lose weight; sure, it doesn't work for everyone, but it's the most efficient way. Realistically, liposuction is only a viable solution for those who are morbidly obese, and even then, it can be fatal; it isn't meant for people like Lindsey Lohan, it’s more for people like John Goodman or the late James Gandolfini. But in this episode, liposuction is used to defeat the blob of fat and sent it right back at Wasabi's office. So it's actually very confused; you could cut out the scene with the vegetables and the episode would largely be the same.

Episode, what the hell are you trying to tell me here? That liposuction IS the best way to get rid of fat and that veggies are just a temporary solution? Because in reality, it's the exact OPPOSITE of what you're saying! I really don't know. Also in the end, Chuckie hasn't learned a damn thing as he tries to sneak one last burger anyways after swearing them off. Also, this doesn't have anything to do with the episode, but in America, Chuckie's voice was redubbed by a different actor because, apparently, the voice Rob Rackstraw gave him was offensive to Asians; the again, 2/3 of the Chooks are kind of racist, regardless.

Cringe-Inducing Audio: 3
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 4
Lackluster Writing: 4
Annoyance: 0
Disturbing Content: 5
Unnecessary Cruelty: 0
Rancid Morality: 3
Low Production Values: 0
Unfortunate Implications: 4
Character Derailment: 0

Final Score: 23/100

Chop Socky Chooks is owned by Aardman Animations, Decode Entertainment and DHX Media.

Animated Atrocities is from

Regulas314