The Chicken from Outer Space

Infobox Television episode
Title=The Chicken from Outer Space
Series=Courage the Cowardly Dog


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Episode=Pilot
Writer= John R. Dilworth
Airdate= December 31, 1995
Director= John R. Dilworth
Episode List= List of Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes
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Next= A Night at the Katz Motel

"The Chicken from Outer Space" is a cartoon short by John R. Dilworth that featured the first appearance of Courage, the Cowardly Dog, and his owners, Eustace and Muriel Bagge, thus starting the Courage the Cowardly Dog series. In 1995, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. [Cite news | volume = 4 | issue = 8 | last = Miller | first = Bob| title = The Triumphant Independent | work = Animation World Magazine | accessdate = 2007-10-29 | date = November 1999 | url = http://www.awn.com/mag/issue4.08/4.08pages/millerdilworth.php3] Currently, this film is only seen on reruns of "What a Cartoon!".

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An alien chicken arrives on the farm, hoping to invade. Courage witnesses his arrival and alerts Muriel and Eustace, though they don't believe him. Courage follows the chicken to find him in the chicken coop, strangling the chickens to death. He calls his owners once more, and this time they follow him. Back at the coop, all the chickens have mysteriously vanished, except the alien chicken, which is posing as a normal chicken. Muriel takes a few eggs from it, and begins to cook them for breakfast. Courage fights with the Chicken in 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 own 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!"

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