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Ernie the Giant Chicken is a giant talking chicken from Family Guy and the archenemy to Peter Griffin. Almost everytime Peter sees Ernie, he completely stops what he is doing and engages a long fight scene with Ernie ultimately taking them through a bunch of places, often causing chaos and destruction throughout the segment. The fued started when Ernie (possibly unintentionally) gave Peter an expired coupon. However, in "Meet the Quagmires", Peter's meddling in his past allows him to accidentally punch Ernie while dancing at Enchantment Under The Sea, giving a new birth to the rivalry, and the new reason Ernie gives him the bad coupon, and 15 more years of balled up anger.
Rivalry with Peter[]
heir rivalry started when Ernie (possibly unintentionally) gave Peter an expired coupon, leading Peter to assault Ernie and start a massive battle, causing destruction and deaths in the crossfire.
After the third battle, they actually stopped fighting and Ernie took Peter to dinner with his wife, Nicole. They then started their feud again when Peter wouldn't let Ernie pay and insisted that he pay and also because Peter spoke badly to Nicole.
One time when Peter traveled back in time to the 80's he accidentally punched a young Ernie in the face at a dance angering him but another guy stopped Ernie saying "whoa calm down you're probably never going to see him again".
In "Big Man On Hippocampus", Ernie was gardening and hit Peter with an object giving his memory back but then hit him with another one blanking his memory again but Peter's memory was restored because Ernie had an odd number of objects to hit him with.
In the second Star Wars parody episode Ernie is Boba Fett while Peter is Han Solo. He returns in the third, and falls into the Sarlacc's mouth offscreen rather than having an epic battle with Han/Peter as they do in the series.
In the episode "New Kidney in Town", Dr. Hartman tells the Griffins about his failed cloning attempt, which resulted in a violent and destructive man-sized chicken that ended up escaping the lab. That prompts Peter to tell Dr. Hartman that they need to have a talk. In Trading Places, Chris taunts Meg for being a chicken for not wanting to go on Peter's dirtbike and even going so far as clucking like one. This makes Ernie perk up his ears and call the clucking fake.
In the episode "Internal Affairs", Peter has another run-in with Ernie leading to another epic fight, this time because Peter accidentally backs into Ernie's car. During their struggles they land on Stewie's time pad and fight their way across time itself, eventually ending up in a genetic research lab and in space. Crashing back to earth on an oil rig, they continue to fight. Their struggle destroys the oil rig and Ernie is hanged, pierced and then roasted by the rocket engines. But as Peter struggles to shore, Ernie shows he survived.
Ernie also appears in two Family Guy games, Back to the multiverse as a boss/minor antagonist, who appearing in a parallel universe and in Quest for Stuff as the main antagonist, his purpose is to cancel the series "Family Guy" takes to defeat Peter.
Ernie has a cameo in "Trump Guy", where he is seen visiting the Smithsonian Museum with his son, not noticing the brutal fight between Peter and Donald Trump behind them.
In Follow the Money, It's revealed that Ernie is friends with Peter's wife Lois. In that same episode, Lois and Nicole get into a similar fight at a coffee shop, with Ernie trying to convince them to stop. Instead of having excessive violence and causing massive destruction and deaths, they just slap and tackle/wrestle each other, breaking a tip jar and dislocating the character RJ's right arm in the process.
For the Viewer Mail 2 Segment "Chap of the Manor", which shows a British version of the series, Ernie is replaced by a Giant English Pheasant, who accidentally hit's Peter's Counterpart Neville with his chair. The two get into a similar fight except for a few differences: It's a 3 second long slap fight with their arms and they exchange pleasantries when it's over.
Personality []
Ernie is mean, evil, sadistic, violent, cruel, rude, evil genius. He has no problem killing people to get what he wants and is all around not a very nice chicken. He is also willing to put children in danger and is very impaitient and bossy. However, He is very polite to his enemies. He is also (unlike most evil leaders he knows) not afraid to fight the heroes himself and is a very skilled combatant.
Trivia[]
- According to Stewie, Ernie is married and has a kid that goes to his preschool.
- In one Family Guy episode called "Kidney In Town", Ernie's origin may have been revealed. At one point, Dr. Hartman comments that he once tried to clone a chicken, and the result was a man-sized, hostile chicken that may have been Ernie.
- In a way, it's Peter's fault Ernie is evil, as Ernie didn't know the coupon expired, and Peter, being the violent idiot he is, started the fight. Ernie probably wouldn't even be evil if it wasn't for Peter.
- Ernie is the most commonly recurring antagonist in the series.
- Ernie also appears in the Family Guy Video Game! and in Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse.
- Ernie's British counterpart from the "Family Guy Viewer Mail No. 2" segment "Chap of the Manor" is an English Pheasant. While setting up for Queen Elizabeth II's visit, he gets into a brief slap fight with Neville, the British Peter.
- Ernie appears in the special opening of "Valentine's Day in Quahog".
- Peter's conflict with Ernie was referenced by a headless chicken in "Life of Brian". In the vet, Stewie mentions that they had to share an ambulance with a chicken, and when Peter asks the headless chicken why he isn't running around, the chicken angrily says to Peter, "Don't talk to me; you have a bad reputation in the chicken community."
- In a paradox video, Ernie gives Deadpool the expired coupon. While Deadpool started the fight, it is well known you don't give expired coupons for chimichangas to Deadpool.
- It is possible that the reason Ernie always comes back from stuff that would usually probably kill normal chicken, is because he may have a healing factor.
- Ernie was originally supposed to finally be killed by Peter in the episode "Internal Affairs", but Seth McFarlane decided to keep him alive so he could make an appearance in the planned Family Guy movie.