Gino the Chicken

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Dextop: He's lost in the web! He wants to save the world, but he's just a poor chicken.
Gino: Poor, but at least good looking!

Um... where to begin with this one?

It's an Italian series, and it's pretty much as weird as it can get. Don't believe me? Keep reading.

Our story begins where a villain (sort of) named Chief Colby (leader of Chicken Investigation Agency), aided by his assistant Ray Mundo, kidnaps a chicken, and after virtualising it traps the poor animal in the interwebz, in order to cook it.

You're following me so far? Good.

Gino is aided by his fiancée Gina and other guys who, alongside a kid capable of self-virtualising, form a resistance of sorts.

Please note, however, that the article is about a Lighter and Softer dumbed down version of a previously existing web series of the same name which contained much smart satire in it. Anyway...


Tropes used in Gino the Chicken include:
  • Action Girl: Dolly, a kung-fu master version of the famous cloned sheep. Also the karateka cow Lucy Kiai and Gina.
  • Brick Joke: The vampire episode features a very big one. The episode opens with a disclaimer:

Gino: This episode will contain extremely graphic violence and other scary stuff. Please stop watching this!

    • Then the episode continues normally, until, towards the end, Gino gets a chainsaw to fight the vampires, but first he pauses for a bit:

Gino: ...are you still watching this? Are you crazy? The violent part is starting by now! Cover your eyes and ears, change channel, please don't look at this!

Gino: An Aesop? Sunglasses make me look cooler.

  • Dumb Blonde: The Cheercritters are a whole species made only of these.
  • Getting Crap Past the Radar: a brief sequence features Gino in a luchador attire in front of a "Parental Advisory - Explicit Content" banner. Anyone who knows what that banner means will get the nasty reference.
    • In the "Splatter Rock" episode a variant of this shot is featured, with Gino warning the audience in front of the banner (but without the luchador attire) about the following fight between him and Ozzy Osbourne Rozzie Rock.

Gino: My dear yet horrible violence maniacs, this scene will be extremely violent, so cover your eyes and ears if you don't like it. The Power of Rock can do horrible things if used wrongly!

a Bullet Bill.

    • When Andrea gets his first Cyberboy costume, he says it sucks. And then Grandpa Ringo says: "The guy who sewed this preferred instead to wear a spider costume".
    • Tiger Ping is clearly a furry version of Cloud Strife, down to the hairdo and the giant sword.
  • Spoof Aesop: every episode ends with Gino giving an Aesop... which actually teaches nothing. In the Kalinka episode:

Gino: Alright! Today's aesop is: Russian robots are great and everything will be fine if you own one of them.

    • Or, in the Splatter Rock episode:

Gino: Well, today's aesop is that I have an awesome voice.