That’s the Wisconsin version! 
Doctor #11: Chickens! On a spaceship!
It was a walker
Capt. Kirk: To get. Tooooooooooooo… theotherside.
Heinlein: Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it was there! As long as there is a road to cross, there will be a chicken, doing his darndest to cross it. Because that’s what chickens are like. They’re ornery, stubborn SOBs who won’t take “No” for an answer.
To get away from Doctor Spectra!
In honor of this being a ten year old thread, you see.
I wish we had a like button for some of these replies, old and new. Some are funny, some are witty, some are downright weird. Keep it up!
The road crossed first. - Chicken Wars geeks
To demonstrate that its species was ripe for Uplift. - Practically any character in David Brin’s Uplift books.
You try to cross over there a duck, and you’ll find out why a chicken. It’s a wide road, that’s why a chicken. - Groucho, The Cocoanuts (Yeah, I know it’s not SF, but I wasn’t gonna let that stop me in this instance.)
Firesign Theatre: The chicken didn’t cross the road. It was no fun, it fell right over.
It went to meet the cock-teaser at RoosterRama
1970s era SNL:
Dead chickens! Dead chickens. Dead chickens aren’t much fun.
Is it possible that chickens have some innate sense of what lies on the other side, perhaps imparted by extraterrestrial beings, as Ancient Astronaut theorists believe? :dubious:
It was In Search Of …
More ST Voyager:
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[li]He wanted to test his mobile emitter.[/li][li]To avoid violating the Temporal Prime Directive.[/li][li]He was afraid of being assimilated by the Borg.[/li][li]To show Starfleet he was a sentient being worthy of the same rights humans have.[/li][li]It was part of his Holodeck routine.[/li][li]To get away from My People.[/li][/ul]
**A small selection from a much larger list:
Fox Mulder**: No government agency has jurisdiction over the chicken. The chicken is out there, Scully, and we will find it.
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Dana Scully**: There is a logical, scientific explanation for the chicken crossing the road. We need more evidence.
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CSM**: <blows puff of smoke> There was no chicken.
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Alex Krycek**: Because he can’t decide WHAT side he’s really on.
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Byers**: It was trying to escape the most heinous and evil force of the twentieth century.
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Langly**: It was on its way to the grassy knoll, dude.
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Frohike**: <snapping a photo> I don’t know, but she’s hot.
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Queequeg**: Woof! (translation: to avoid being eaten by Big Blue.)
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Clyde Bruckman**: Why did the chicken cross the road? Why do any of us do anything? Why did he choose that exact moment to cross the road, thus leaving a slight indentation in the surface… that, fifty years later, causes a man driving a blue sports car to hit it, and spin off the road, spiraling to his death…
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Mr. Nutt**: Just because you have a chicken, you automatically assume that it will cross the road? In an attempt to continue an age-old joke that never had any humor in the first place, you’ll only managed to further trample on the subject… and draw it out in all its mediocrity. When in fact - do you really know if the chicken had better things to do than simply cross the road? That perhaps it may have gone off to study, to gain a better life? But no, you just took the simple framework of common knowledge, and assumed that the chicken would cross the road, thus, increasing an already clichéd stereotype.
The Conundrum: <burp>
Like every other creature in the galaxy:
To pay his respects to the Federation’s greatest Science Officer ever.
[Or at least to the guy who played that role.]
–G!
See post #9.
The chicken didn’t cross the road; the road moved underneath the chicken.
Discworld:
Because it saw the High Energy Magic Building start to glow. Very sensible of it, too.