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| “ | That's fake. | „ |
| ~ Ernie as he hears Chris' clucking. |
| “ | Ernie: You… saved me? Why? Peter: Because I hate you! Every day, I wake up not knowing if you're gonna come out of nowhere and punch me in the face, I flinch every time a door opens, I look over my shoulder every time I bend down to tie my shoes, and I flip my porch light on every night before I go to bed just to see if you're standing there! Do you have any idea how exciting that is? So I didn't save your life because I like you. I saved it because… because I hate you. Ernie: [Smiling] I hate you too, Peter Griffin. Peter: Also, if you die, I'll be solely responsible for all the destruction we've caused over the years, so this decision is both emotional and financial. |
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| ~ Ernie after Peter cured him of the bird flu to preserve their rivalry. |
| “ | Ernie: Meg, either you hate your dad, or you leave this house? Meg: [gasps] An ultimato! You're just like him! Ernie: What did you say? Meg: You're just… like… him! [Ernie and Meg glare at each other up close] Ernie: Wait, I-I can't hit you. You're a girl. Meg: Huh. |
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| ~ Ernie's last words after he threatened Meg to either hate Peter or leave his house. |
Ernie the Giant Chicken is the secondary antagonist of Fox's Family Guy franchise.
As his name implies, he is an immortal, anthropomorphic chicken and the arch-rival of Peter Griffin. Every time Peter sees Ernie, Peter completely stops what he is doing and engages in a lengthy fight scene with Ernie that takes them through the entire town of Quahog, often causing chaos and destruction throughout the segment. Peter always seems to have killed Ernie, but then he is revealed to be an immortal who never succumbs to any gruesome fatality, successfully surviving multiple times, which foreshadows their next inevitable confrontation between them.
He is voiced by Danny Smith.
Biography[]
Origin[]
It was suggested that Ernie was accidentally created in a lab by Dr. Hartman who relayed the tale of him once trying to clone a chicken but ended up creating a "hostile man sized chicken" that ended up escaping the lab. When the story was relayed, Peter said they would have to discuss it later. At some point, Ernie married another giant chicken named Nicole. It was mentioned by Stewie Griffin that the two have at least one child who attends his preschool class.
In the series[]
Their rivalry started when Ernie (possibly unintentionally) gave Peter an expired coupon, leading Peter to assault Ernie and start a massive battle, causing chaos, destruction, and deaths in the crossfire. Despite Ernie seemingly dying from falling off of a building and Peter landing on top of him, in the aftermath of the conflict, he is later revealed to be alive.
Their second fight starts when Ernie ambushes Peter when the latter is trying to defend Glenn Quagmire. Ernie ends up getting chopped up by an airplane propeller, but he survives again.
Their third battle starts when Ernie ambushes Peter when the latter was talking with Lois, breaking into the Griffins' house to kill Peter. During their fight, they got into the sewers; a crocodile was attempting to devour them, but then they beated the crocodile to death before Ernie uses the crocodile's body to beat Peter. Then the fight continued, resulting in the destruction of a subway train, a theme park and a building. After the building collapsed, 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. The fight ends with Peter bashing Ernie's head with a frying pot.
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 greeted an amnesiac Peter who was walking by. After he was ignored, he confronted him and hit Peter (when he insulted his yard) with an object giving his memory back. Peter recalled Ernie but got hit again with another object after insulting, 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 Something, Something, Something Dark Side, 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.
In "Yug Ylimaf", Stewie and Brian Griffin witness Peter and Ernie fighting in reverse, which started when Peter hit Ernie with his car door while Ernie was riding a bicycle. Stewie also revealed Ernie has kids, with one going to the same school as him.
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 because of the headphones.
In "Follow the Money", it's revealed that Ernie is friends with Peter's wife Lois Griffin. 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. Peter is revealed not to like the friendship and told Lois not to associate with him again.
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 hits 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.
In "Fecal Matters", it is revealed that Ernie is suffering from "bird flu", a disease that is leading to his death. He refused the vaccine because it was loaded with mercury and antifreeze. Peter, who was working as a hospital nurse at the time after a flu outbreak, refuses to give Ernie medical attention due to their rivalry. However, he is convinced by Dr. Hartman to do so. Ernie also reveals that his wife, Nicole, left him for a chicken bigger than him, and mentions that it would be best to him to die. Peter shows no concern, saying that he finally won their conflict. He leaves the hospital, almost letting Ernie die.
At home, Peter foolishly decides to celebrate his final victory with champagne, but his family criticizes him for his obsession with the feud. Lois convinces Peter that he needs the Giant Chicken as a rival, and that if he lets him die, a part of him will die as well. Remembering his previous fights with Ernie, Peter decides to save the Chicken from death by giving him a violent CPR. Ernie eventually wakes up, and Peter admits that he saved him because he hates him, as well as not wanting to be solely responsible financially for the damage the two of them have caused during their fights. At night, Peter turns on the outside light before going to sleep, seeing a cured Ernie through the window. With this, Peter confirms that "all is right on the world" before turning off the lights.
In "PeTerminator", Ernie confuses the Peter Terminator for the real one and was about to fight him, only to have his head blown up by a shotgun. Even then however, he was shown to have survived once more.
In "The Chicken or The Meg", when Meg sees an ad for a new reality dating show, Sex Farm, she decides to sign up in hopes of finding her significant other. She initially has no luck until she meets a guy in a chicken suit, though ultimately, the two are the first couple to be eliminated despite their chemistry. Meg's partner soon reveals that he actually is a chicken, going by the name of Nugget, and is the son of Ernie. Despite apprehension regarding what their respective fathers would say, the two decide to date in secret until Peter catches Nugget sneaking into Meg's room.
Peter refuses to tolerate Nugget's presence even after witnessing his caring side at dinner, prompting Meg to move in with him. Despite initially brushing it off, Peter quickly becomes despondent after realizing how much he misses his daughter, especially after seeing how well she gets along with Nugget's family. After the latter pokes fun at Peter, Meg can't help but feel bad for him and confesses to Ernie that she still loves her dad despite also loving Nugget. Ernie orders her to leave if she doesn't renounce Peter, and she responds that he is a bad tomato. Before they can engage in a fight, the Giant Chicken realizes that Meg is a girl and he won’t hit her, Meg settles the fight in a whole new way by completely cutting off his head and killing him for real this time, finally giving Peter the true victory he deserves and ending the long lasting rivalry for good.
Personality[]
Ernie is very hostile, ruthless, and bitter, but only when it comes to Peter Griffin. He and Peter always attack each other on sight ever since Peter started their conflict. This is all without worrying about the massive damage, destruction, and even death that he and Peter cause to Quahog in their bouts, even going so far as to trying to kill each other.
When he and Peter briefly ended their rivalry, Ernie showed an effervescent and sympathetic side, and even apologized at Peter for hurting him before inviting him to dine with him and his wife, Nicole, to be forgiven. In spite of his argumentative and obnoxious attitude to Peter, Ernie also showed much love to Nicole, because he did not like Peter being disrespectful and ill-behaved to her, as both were fighting to figure out who to pay before they start fighting again.
As Peter is the only Griffin family member he despises for their differences, Ernie respects all of the rest of Peter's family even more, as they have nothing to do with his conflict between him and Peter. Unfortunately, his wife, Nicole, and even Peter's wife, Lois, whom Ernie befriended, ended up following the unstoppable mistakes he and Peter had done, as he tried to stop both housewives from repeating this, although the housewives' chicken fight turns out to be completely contrasted from Peter and Ernie's original extreme and brutal chicken fights, as all that they do is relentlessly slap each other.
All in all, Ernie served as Peter's arch-nemesis with the latter's father-in-law Carter Pewterschmidt serving as his archenemy.
Appearance[]
Ernie is a huge chicken who is about the size of a human person. His skin and feathers are yellow, his beak short and orange, and he has a red crest on his head. He can talk, but very rarely does so.
Powers and Abilities[]
Ernie is immortal and never dies/succumbs to any gruesome death, as he has been stabbed, hanged, chopped up to bits, drowned and even "roasted" to death, but he is always immortal and never dies any gruesome death. All of his injuries are also healed, even if he has healed beyond natural healing limits, including limb regeneration. Despite his lack of training, the adrenaline rush he gets from even seeing Peter Griffin from miles away, just gives him an immunity to pain and highly developed combat skills, which rival Peter Griffin's combat skills.
Trivia[]
- Although he constantly loses in his fights against Peter, in Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse, during the co-op battle between him and Peter, he can optionally succeed in defeating Peter and walk off as the winner. This marks the only time in the series where he has won against Peter (even if it's optional).
