# Anyone watch Chicken People on CMT last night?

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**Created:** [November 24, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-chicken-people-on-cmt-last-night/772885 "2016-11-24T14:39:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-chicken-people-on-cmt-last-night/772885/1 "2016-11-24T14:39:04Z")

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> Chicken People is a funny and uplifting look at the world of show chickens and the people who love them. Starting at the largest national poultry competition, likened to the Westminster Dog Show for chickens, Chicken People follows three top competitors over the course of a year as they grapple with life’s challenges while vying to win the next year’s crown. Both humorous and heartfelt, Chicken People is an unforgettable celebration of the human spirit.

Some of those people are scary!

You have an engineer who is trying to breed a “perfect” chicken, a professional singer that was such a childish diva I wanted to punch him in the face and an ex-alcoholic with five kids whose life is consumed by caring/showing her chickens (10+ hours spent bathing them, driving hours to get to shows, etc).

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-chicken-people-on-cmt-last-night/772885/2 "2016-11-25T03:13:31Z")

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I rented and watched it a couple of weeks ago. It was interesting to see all the different breeds of chicken. Some were quite gorgeous, especially the silver laced wyandotte. It made me want to go to a county fair and look at all the show chickens.

But the people were kind of out there. I was reminded of dog show people, and how strange and obsessed and OCD they become. For this reason, I didn’t watch it all the way to the end - they were starting to get to me.