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Dolly: Just think, Mustard! We've left our dull lives behind and are headed for new and exciting careers as Space-Babes! Mustard: I don't wanna be a Space-Babe. I wanna be a Pink Chicken. Dolly: Pink Chickens TM it is then! Just don't blame me if it doesn't sell. —Episode 1: "Spoooog!"

Pink Chickens is an Australian comic created by Patrick A. Reid . It ran in the Australian kid's magazines Mania (from 2001 to 2002, when a parent complained and "spoiled everything for everyone") and Krash (2005-2006), coming to a total of 14 "episodes". The comic has since been hosted on the official Pink Chickens website, which can be found here. According to said website, the current status of the comic is "WHO KNOWS!" - Mr. Alexander saying that he wants to complete the comic, but also that he "...may not be capable of finishing it (or willing to finish it) in its current form."

The comic mainly follows the adventures of Dolly Douglas and Mustard Custard, with two episodes (5 and 10) following Beaver-B of The Baddy-Beavers/Throttle-Me-Beavers (alphabetically-named beavers who like to play Badminton). It blends at-times surreal/"silly" humour with a fairly well-established plot.

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Tropes used in Pink Chickens include:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Blernk towards Mustard.
• Art Shift: Basil's comic in episode 4 and the Lice panels.
• Bilingual Bonus:
  • Some of Mucus and Pidgie's lines in Episode 10 are in Japanese.

Mucus: 私は魚です！ Pidgie: ワンワン！

• • The Baddy-Beaver's war cry in Episode 5

Soy un alce importante! Muerte a todos los molletes! Os nabos comeram meus pastéis! Ich bin ein furry vampire! Ich sauge saft! Café con pan!

• • The shoelace cross-stitch that Dolly holds up in one panel in episode 8 reads ばか (Japanese for "idiot").
• Calling Your Attacks:

PRETTY DRAGON FAIRY STAR CLOBBERING THING!! of doom! MAGICAL FANCY TIGER WISH HURTING MOVE!! of doom!

• Catgirl: Dolly inexplicably becomes one for episode 13.
• Everything's Better with Penguins: A page in episode 13 has "the characters you've come to know and tolerate" drawn as penguins "due to stuff".
• Funetik Aksent: The Baddy-Beavers.
• Funny Background Event: Many.
  • Basil being hit out of one panel and into a later one (and into Mustard) in episode 3.
• No Fourth Wall

Dolly: Brrrrr! No panel border! That's spooky.

• Non Sequitur:
  • So many.

Mr. Custard: So I said to the boss: "Dang froogie-poop, sir! Gimmie the gosh-jiminy cookie-nut before I blow your head up! Arrr!! I'm a pirate! Mrs. Custard: CITRUS FRUIT!! CITRUS FRUIT!!

• • "We interrupt this comic to annoy you! [...] It's an Arctic Neen!"
• Only Sane Man: Basil and Victor.
• Shout-Out: Several.

"But you see, this is no ordinary wardrobe! This wardrobe is a gateway to the magical land of Nanria TM! [...] Yes, Nanria! A magical land of only two metres by one metre by one and a half metres! Nanria: Where it is always dark and smells suspiciously like a musty old cupboard." "And make sure they tape Seachange! It's the Shaun Micallef wacky out-takes special!"

• • Episode 13 is titled I, Rowboat.
  • Regius Flartus has a Garfield plush and a poster for Linkin Park and Nikki Webster in his room.
• Start My Own: In episode 4, Basil tries to start his own comic, The Sensible Adventures of Basil! The Handsome Goldfish.
• Take That: Regius Flartus has a K-Zone (a rival magazine of Mania and Krash) poster in his room - and right across from a poster of Satan.
• Talking with Signs: Frupert uses this as his only form of communication "on-screen", so to speak.
• Tradesnark™

"The shoes are RedTM and were designed by SomebodyTM [...] This panel brought to you by Mutual HatredTM

• Unsound Effect: Many throughout the series.

"DOOR-OPENING AND RAMP-EXTENDING SOUND EFFECTS!!" "Zʊʃ!"