Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? 

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So true

Greasin Plays dragonzball p reference

I hate my brother

that or they will say it’s to get to the idiots house and then follow up with a knock knock joke

Lol

Why

do u like fridays FRY-days

lmao

To go to KFC and try to get workers' attention, then become a cooked chicken?

-Hey dude! -what? -why did the chicken cross the road? -BILLY NO! -Brilliant question, let's find out why-

call me insane but I will do it. manually. - why did the chicken cross the road? - cmon dude this joke is older than your mom - seriously, why did the chicken cross the road? - brilliant question. let's find out why: historically, the chicken crossed the road to get to the other side. has anybody ever laughed at that joke? why's it become so famous? and, for that matter, who cares? why would you wanna investigate why things are funny? as E. B. White said: "analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: few people are interested and the frog dies". but I wanna dive into the guts of this chicken joke, because today it is so famous it's practically shorthand for comedy, and people frequently consider it either the worst joke of all time or the oldest joke... but neither of those is true. but first things first, the chicken joke isn't technically even a joke, it's an anti-joke. it's a joke about jokes. you see, we expect a joke to surprise us, to flip things around or use wordplay, but "to get to the other side" is just obvious, it's... mundane, which by itself can be pretty funny. to make this more clear let's take a look at anti-joke chicken: "what's blue and smells like red paint? blue paint". you see? you expect a typical jokey punchline, but instead what you get is... hilariously serious. anti-joke cat is another good one: "knock knock." "who's there?" "lettuce." "that's impossible."; "your momma is so fat, we are all extremely concerned for her health.". anti-jokes can also be used for psychological experiments - right at home. you may have heard of this one already, the "no soap, radio" joke. here's how it works: get a couple of your friends together and tell them to all laugh when you're done telling the joke, no matter what, then, go find a target who's not in on it and tell them some version of a joke like this: "two polar bears were sitting in a bathtub. the first one says: - pass the soap. the second one says: - no soap, radio. at this point you and your friends should start laughing uproariously, meaning the target has one of two choices - either be afraid of looking dumb and laugh along anyway or say they're confused, at which point you should tell them "what? you don't get it?" and keep laughing. you wait until the target gives into peer pressure and succumbs to mob mentality and joins, despite the fact that "no soap, radio" is actually nonsense. as for being the oldest joke in the book, "why did the chicken cross the road?" is far from it. it's only about 160 some odd years old. it first appeared in print in The Knickerbocker as a conundrum that really isn't one - an anti-joke. if you wanna look for the oldest joke ever to appear in print, we're going to have to go back 4,000 years to read some ancient sumarian proverbs. the joke is essentially a cautionary tale to never expect anything to be perfect. it goes like this: "something which has never occurred since time immemorial: a young woman did not fart in her husband's embrace". so... yeah, the earliest known joke is a joke about a woman farting in a guy's lap. so cool... all I'm sure of is that our proverbial chicken did not have agyrophobia. that's the fear of crossing streets. but maybe the chicken should have. I mean, crossing the road could be quite dangerous for a little bird, which leads us to a quite darker interpretation of the joke. maybe this chicken knew of the danger of crossing the road. maybe he knew what could happen. maybe he was sad or lonely or knew what his fate was, and so he decided to take control and end it himself and cross the road... to get to the other side. if you wanna continue being morbid, check out deathclock.com. answer a few questions and the site will generate a countdown of the number of seconds you likely have left to live. you can just sit there and watch them tick away. but let's get back to the joke. perhaps a better question than "why did the chicken cross the road?" is "why wouldn't chickens be crossing the road?". I mean, to be sure, the Earth is a big place and less than 1% of it is even paved, but there are quite a few chickens on Earth. to put this in perspective, there are about 500 million cats and, as far as we go, there are 7 billion humans. but chickens? there are 24 billion chickens. we're outnumbered more than 3 to 1. but if we cooked up every single chicken alive on Earth right now, we could fill enough KFC 16 piece buckets to form a stack of them going to the moon and back... three times. unbelievable, right? I mean, they all fit so nicely here on Earth's surface, walking around with their characteristically lean meat, which, because fat contributes so much more flavor to a piece of meat than the muscle does, may explain why chicken is such a great generic meat flavor and why so many other exotic meats we try later tend to taste like chicken. but let's get back to the question in this video's title. why did the chicken cross the road? well, to get to the other side, sure, but there are many different motivations a chicken could have for going to the other side. maybe it was looking for food, maybe it was being chased by a predator. what matters, though, is that we can never know because there is no chicken. it's purely hypothetical, as opposed to the equally famous "Mary Had a Little Lamb", in which the lamb, and Mary, were real people. Mary Sawyer was an actual student at The Redstone School in Massachusetts and one day her brother encouraged her to bring her lamb to school. her fellow students were amused, as was visiting student John Roulstone who wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb". we have actual documentation of those real people and events, but this chicken never even really existed. so, asking why the chicken crossed the road is just like asking "why did the original writer decide that it should be a chicken crossing a road?" which means that the chicken crossed the road because some comedian in the 19th century decided that you would probably think about it too much, making the mundane "to get to the other side" answer quite surprising. to explain this, let's take a look at a computational neural explanation of humor. in order to effectively manage resources, our brains stay a few steps ahead of what we're hearing, estimating what kind of outcomes are possible. but when we discover that we're actually being told a joke, and none of our paths were the correct version of what was being told, all of that neural network energy needs to dissipate and according to some theorists, that energy moves into motor cortex, causing convulsions - laughter. unfortunately, our poor chicken friend doesn't illicit that response from us anymore because we've all heard the joke. we know what to expect when the joke begins. but we should be proud of our chicken friend and the unknown author who thought him up, because even though the joke is so famous it's no longer funny, even at a neurological level, it still stands as a testament to just how complicated and clever our comedy can be. keep laughing. and as always, thanks for watching. - 🗿

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@@RafaelMunizYT I am speechless 😶

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You spelled the name wrong.

@@kamy8254 Michael

@@kamy8254 ikr? He should've spelled it like ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (or מי כאל, depends on your taste.)

More enjoyable than actually hearing the joke.

I expected a penis joke though

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And this video talks about a suicidal chicken so....

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COOL GUY GAMING ...

Nice 1

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ba dum tss

A:Knock,knock. B:Who's there? A:Lettuce in. A:Never!

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i should steal this.

that’s great

@@bryanrandom6382 Because his content is still great and 9000 times better than DONG.

*M I C H E A L*

John Dodd what you said is how vsauce was created

@@drdefecation Not exactly, vsauce is the channel for big ideas like universe theories and cool shit. Dong is for smaller stuff so he can regularly post videos.

to help you remember how to spell the name michael remember that it's the name of an archangel and so should end with el

Typical vsauce

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T I C C

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Tic?

they were making love right before the video he was just coincidentally there

Ahahah I love this one

Me too

elijahpickens Well that thas pretty much it.

Søren Straarup bruh

Søren Straarup Even in death may you be triumphant

Relatable

What’s a friend? I don’t know this word.

Get your pets

Nice joke

*sad noises*

His mispronouncing of the name doesn't help either...

@@FourByteBurgerbro had to have done that on purpose 😭

UNDERRATED COMMENT.

Love it

Lol xD

thats bill nye mong

yeah i'm probably gonna get wooshed so fuck u

Jake Chudnow - Moonmen.

Vsauce - Chicken here.

my answer: to meet Vsauce at Vidcon

Sassy The Sasquatch That's Quizzacious

Bill Nile the science guy!

I don’t think I get it

Wait

NOW I GOT IT LMAOO

I’m wheezing rn

i don’t know why i find this so funny

Best Of ScIence 👌 :)

Everywhere I go I see KB he's everywhere there's no hiding from KB

oH didilly dang

As there can be parallel lines on a plane (2D space) or parallel planes in a 3D space, there can also be parallel 3D spaces in a 4D space. So, if you take it literally, a parallel universe probably means another 3D space, parallel to our in the fourth dimension.

Mario telling this to wegie

Finally found you...

Waldo I heard it worded differently....

I FOUND your joke. 😩 I hate my life.

Waldo the chicken found you before i did

Waldo LOL

doctoraizay The fat joke is a good one XD

doctoraizay Nice kartana

I thought "to get to the other side"meant to die and go to heaven in the chicken.

Me too

doctoraizay *YOUR MOMMA SO FAT*, we are concerned for her health

and in 1.5 mins, we are talking about how nerons need to dicapate after laughter

+JakesGotGames Yea . . . wat

Lmao I love how Vsauce talks about one thing and then gets completely off topic.

spoilers man

FK ME DEN I SPOILED THE ENTIRE VIDERO! OH GOD WHY AM I ALIVE!?! MOTHER, WHY MUST YOU MAKE SUCH A BIG MISTAKE?!? *cries*

Savage

I have been laughing for the past 10 minutes because of this

creepy

omfg. this made my day.

Woah, edgy

Omg...

ITS FCKING RAAAAW

YOU GOD DAMN CABBAGE!

"What are you?" "An idiot sandwich!"

EETS FAHKIN ROAW

ohhh trueeee!!!

To defeat a priest

Is that a JoJo reference!?

Matias Langon its a joke from the big bang theory

To alter dimensions going back in time destroying his own self therefor he was never there to kill himself causing a tear in loop of time altering loops and causing the dawn of reality to tear.

He said that in the video

I have chickens and it made me sad :-

I cant sleep now

Bok bok bok?

I thought of that before i saw this video. And now i understand why my friend have said 'i already heard that one.' WHERE DID YOU LEARN IT? TELL ME

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Drewfus ur a joke

RiqqiBHOP Nice meme

There's a difference; jokes aren't always funny

Cheif Boom Memes aren't always funny.

pepe memes in 2017

He never did that

I read this as it was being played

I read "children" instead of "chicken"

@@MC41Games Yeah

why did the chicken cross the road? well, the chicken was bullied in school. he got called horrible names and got harrassed in the hallways. everyone hated him. even the teachers. the only person that loved him was his dad. his mom was a xanax addicted alcoholic that left when he was five. his dad loved him. one day, the chicken got a call that his dad had been turned into KFC chicken. "oh no" the chicken thought. through days of grief, the chicken realized no one loved him. he had nothing to live for. he was suicidal. so, one day, he crossed the road. "this is it", he thought. he crossed the road.

@@MC41Games i love to cook children

Nah, you are wrong. That video was less mindfucking than others.

Classic, right?

What is your name

@@Sunny-lq4qo Name is whatever I want

Haha yeah

And, now at 4min in, I’m not the only one interpreting it that way

Its not someone its Bill Nye

@@tripleunder Bill Nye is someone.

Really?

and how much does the road weigh?

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Underrated comment

He used it in mind field lmao

LOL XD

Hahahhahaha

Dude that punchline is really creative. Like I’m dying laughing

Finna clip this

Or is it?

@@davidwestin6345 *vsauce music intensifies*

This comment and the replies of this comment are just toooooo much funny!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@MyPrasad12345 Thank-you.

@@ravenaussie3760 spidey sense detects sarcasm here.

Sees a black SUV outside. Then hear a knock at your door. Death Clock: 2....

Betty V. You have it good, it says I won’t make it to 40

Very underrated comment

The Federal Bureau of Investigation cause its not funny

@@tifawockhardt it is

Bill Nye is a Con Dont idolize him.

Bill nye is no good person

Nickz2500 why?

@@Nz-tm3gs Where's your evidence.You get an F

@@joebulischeck7120 You too. A big fat F

Become president, and then make it so You have my vote

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But the chicken didn't exist and therefore it has no motive

HereChickens what if in a parallel universe chickens made an anti joke, " Why did the human cross the road?"

same

21st century humor at its finest

Yeah, I don’t know why I laughed at that

Yep

dumb stuff is the funniest

What is a road ?? And what is crossing ?? But first what is meaning of 'why' ??

What is a what

It crossed the road but... did it?

*What if the chicken IS the road!*

Or is it???

No soap, radio Bottom text (all in Impact font with a random picture)

oh haha, how "random" was that... damn vegetables.

It did because it could

@@krispysback no, it did it because yes

i laugh

I think I’m the only one who gets the reference

@- ItzYeeTurtle - lmao 2

@@omae1495 3 biiiiiiiitch

"Why did the chicken cross teh road? to get to the farm and eat"

@@aeislin5657 6 moron

8 idiot

Whomst how does a chicken be "he" by the way

@@keremaksoy9731 Yeah, the chicken is definitely 'she'. The 'he' is a cock.

Chickens can be hens or roosters hens are girls roosters are males

Wait I'm confused

Hens are girls Roosters are males Cocks are males But chickens aren't girls? They are seperated to two other types you say? Never heard 'bout that

**vsause music starts playing**

Vsauce: but , what *is* being arrested?

Police:🙄🙄🙄

Vsauce: But first, let’s talk about what being arrested MEANS.

Blueberry Gamer| Vsauce: People were first arrested in the early times of civilization

LOL

Who is bill

@@draco1500 The guy at the end is Bill Nye the Science Guy Most grew up with him

Bill Nye is not a scientist. He is an actor. I used to watch the show when I was a kid as well.

@@heleavesthe99 umm yes he is he has a “bs”... and the most ignorant comment goes toooooooooooooooo...

I actually laughed at it

@@smashir2529 tbh, me too

poopie.

😔

Yeah

didn'T expect that xDD

Nik now THAT's a joke...

VSauce the science... bauce...

Gasp

Bill bye: *_why do I hear boss music_*

Level 100 Science boss

More like Bill Nye the Pseudoscience Guy

Probably Einstein

well...you said it

🥲 beautiful

@@rachele3334 I know

a chicken or einstain

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did you just assume the chicken's gender

@@iaintgonna3717 chicken is female and rooster is male xD

Andrew WithNoLife tru tru 😂

I ain’t Gonna omg lmao

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@@ecys i know who you are I KNOW WHAT YOU DID

@@FrankCosbyNo-Relation What did they do?

Death clock ain’t working

@@ghostbullet3731 clock work death ain'ting

Ahahaha

Elephants *

By

@@tajdhillon2030 bi*

imagine still liking vines

...

why?

+Elena Alex buttcrack

Modify IP config settings on nearest evergreen adjacent router so the bidet add-on seat cover was no longer LLC'ed locally

DeanRendar84 I think you got the wrong comment.

THIS IS GOLD! 💰💰💰💰

H A ha! Lol this is gold! lmao! 😂😂😂

**steadily speeding-up clapping**

Hahahhahahah this is *FUNY*

That’s actually funny 😂😂

*oR iS iT ?*

@@aegoni6176 yes it is

@@bishovlogs7586 But what really "is" ?

dIT

Quadra-B but what really is “really”

Did you not watch the video? Vsauce mentions that about half way in

I know

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD ? BECAUSE THE CONDUCTIVE TISSUE SIMULATES ADMIRAL EQUATIONS THROUGHOUT QUANTUM DEBRIS !! LMAO !!! HAHAHA

Wait a sec

HAHA

it was 2012

The first airplane was invented in 1903

Mr. Ping G Fine i’ll change it

Triggered Jäger you didn’t change it.

MrDavo511 i did

69 nois

@@tanjatv5311 i ruined it 😳

It was a joke?

@@captainflowers748 what was the joke

@@f9oeks965 Whatever David said

Lol

hunter brand why did the guy cross the road because somebody toucha his spaget

XD That is damn funny dude.

Or a green car

davison walther oh got that meme is so January

lmaooO