Subservient Chicken

Thanks to a friend here at the library (Carol, you rock) for pointing me to this frightening Burger King site, one that, as a vegetarian and rare-TV watcher, I would not have ordinarily found. SubservientChicken.com lets you type in commands and the dude in the scary chicken suit does what you say...well, mostly anyway.

And yes, the chicken is wearing a garter belt--you'll have to click on the link to Subservient TV to understand that one.

At first, I thought the chicken was live (yes, I am easily schnookered). The first time I went to the site, the chicken was not in the frame and the text read "summoning chicken." Subsequent visits showed the chicken in the process of, seemingly, fulfilling someone else's commands. Also, telling the chicken to turn off the light yielded 4 different video responses on 4 different visits. But, the editing isn't perfect, so it's kind of obvious that he returns to a stock "starting position" each time. The programming on this site is fairly impressive, so I'd say check it out to see that, or just for giggles. And you can tell the chicken to read, and he'll pick up a book from the bookshelf. That's nice. The garter belt still disturbs me though...