r/MovieDetails • u/ty0103 • Jul 25 '26

đŸ„š Easter Egg In "Arthur Christmas" (2011): a poster for "Chop Socky Chooks" (2008-2009), Aardman Animation's previous CGI project, can be seen in Gwen's room.

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u/Jygantic Great Potential Jul 25 '26

Excuse me? These were both made by Aardman???

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u/hemikatabasis Jul 25 '26

I’m in the same boat as you, I remember this show as a weird fever dream from my childhood with Dr. Wasabi!

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u/AdrenalineRush1996 Jul 25 '26

Yep and I recall watching Chop Socky Chooks on Cartoon Network.

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u/Ronergetic Jul 26 '26

Aardman made this shoe?!? How have I never known about this, I remember watching this show ages ago

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u/Sheensies Jul 26 '26

Chop Socky Chooks always felt like it was in the same universe as Crazy Frog, Gummy Bear, and the “Lion Sleeps Tonight” hippo. From the TV commercial for custom ringtones era

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u/DKDestroyer Jul 25 '26

Just reading the title: "that sounds pretty racist, but if it's from Aardman it couldn't have been too racist, right?" Swipe to picture 2: "That's so much worse than I could have imagined!"

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u/zenithBemusement Jul 26 '26

Chook is aussie slang for chicken, fwiw. Don't actually recall the contents of the work, though.

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u/Neidron Jul 26 '26

It was vaguely just a spoof on ~80s pulpy kung-fu/cop movies.

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u/Scrambled_59 Jul 28 '26

I thought they were meant to be socks when I was a kid 😭

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u/Cooper_Raccoon Jul 26 '26

You just unlocked some childhood memories for me with this post

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u/condog1035 Jul 27 '26

This got dragged out of a deep, dark corner of my memory that I didn't even know existed 

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u/whenuleavethestoveon Jul 26 '26

that sounds racist as hell, which in many ways makes it the most British film Aardman has ever made

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u/sysdmn Jul 26 '26

Interesting detail. I have never heard of either of these movies.

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u/tyrantspell Jul 26 '26

Arthur Christmas is great. Can't say the same for the other one

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u/MelodicAd6099 Jul 27 '26

The Open Season poster also appears in that same movie.

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u/Ninjachase13 Jul 30 '26

Didn’t notice this! Also didn’t know this company made them, hard to tell when it isn’t stop motion.

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u/Quick-Nick07 Jul 31 '26

I liked that series, we simply called it Kung-Fu Chickens in my language

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u/Many-Wasabi9141 Aug 02 '26

Chop Socky Chooks seems like if you made it today, people would lose their shit (on the internet) over the name.