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Ernie the Giant Chicken
Peter's recurring fight opponent. Voiced by Danny Smith. First appeared in Da Boom (S02E03).
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About Ernie the Giant Chicken
Ernie the Giant Chicken is a human-sized anthropomorphic chicken voiced by Danny Smith. He works as a gag character, and his standing feud with Peter Griffin produces long, violent brawls. These fights usually break out in the middle of an unrelated scene. A flashback in "Da Boom" traces the quarrel back to an expired coupon that Ernie once handed Peter. Meg beheads him in the season 23 episode "The Chicken or the Meg". The showrunner, Alec Sulkin, confirmed that the character had been written out for good, the crew having run out of uses for him. He turns up again all the same, in a segment of the season 24 episode "Viewer DMs" and later that season in "A Few More Ways to Die in the West". Neither appearance sits inside the programme's ordinary continuity.
Credited appearances
Credited in the principal cast or guest list of 7 episodes across 6 seasons. IMDb records up to ten voice credits per episode, so this is a floor: the character can appear in episodes not listed here.
No character imagery appears on this site; the monogram is an original design.
Season 16 1
Season 18 1
Season 19 1
Season 20 1
Season 23 1
Provenance
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