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  • I have a super sauce addiction

  • Scootaloo brought me here

  • was this on cartoon network

  • @Silverarika yes

    

  • I am here because of Scootaloo

  • THAT was awesome.. complete with lyrics!

  • My band used to play this. It makes a great punk rock song.

  • Empresas coludidas, acá está SUPER POLLO.

  • Super Chicken was my personal favorite segment from George of the Jungle.

    I always like it when Super Chicken says to Fred "You know the job was dangerous when you took it."

  • OMG., I'd forgotten about this superhero! LOL. I was 6 years old again for a minute!

  • Hooray! Thanks for this! Just one thing: Each time he does more than one "puk" in a row he does 4x, not 3x like in the lyrics printed above.

  • I love it!  One of my favorite theme songs. Used to watch this cartoons when I was a kid. I had to post it this morning.

  • Its kinda strange that ponies brought me here XD

  • "Any Landing You can walk away from is a good one Fred..."

  • My hubby and I met the guy who wrote this @ the Orange County Fair many years ago. Pretty sure we have his autograph somewhere.

  • Fred, if you're afraid, you'll just have to overlook it, cuz you knew the job was dangerous when you took it! CLASSIC!!!

  • What amkes it really funny is that it's even sung in a patranizing manner.

  • YEAH MY NAME

  • Never has alcoholism been so funny.

  • I put this for my ringtone!!!

  • my mom always sung this song and told me about this show. so I FINALLY looked it up now that I'm old and heared the real deal!

  • Great! Super Chicken was our teacher when I started high school in 1969, on account of his resemblence to the cartoon character. Thanks for this- I haven't seen the cartoon Chicken or heard the theme tune (although I could never forget it!) since then.

  • Talk about good memories. Sir I thank you.

  • Another work of art by jay ward...rock on!

  • OMG this is to funny !

  • Nothing like seeing an episode of superchicken with your friends after school then the six o'clock news showing all the fresh kills from Vietnam.

    Who said times have changed?

  • They ought to make a new SuperChicken cartoon for the theaters to show in prelude to the Superhero movies (Marvel, DC, whatever). It would be awesome and a tribute to the good ol' days. Hey! Where's MY SuperSauce? BeGAWWWK!

  • Them were the days....innocent fun amid the Second American Revolution. Saw it happening,didn't think it would lead to this. Cluck.

  • "can't you see them with your super vision?"

    "if i had any supervision fred, you think they'd let me run around dressed up like this?"

  • I sang this song to prove to a cop that I was not drunk. Honestly. I dont think I could have if I were sober!!! I would have gotten away with it if I hadnt said " I had to drive home officer...I was to drunk to walk!!!!"

  • This video cuts off Super Chicken's big squawk at the very end of the song. Was always the funniest part! Bummer!

  • what. the. heck.

  • lol, good old days

  • ..., Douglas Fairbanks?, Rudolph Valentino?, Boris Karloff?

  • Sunday mornings..hosted by the man Tom Hatton!!

  • @MrBastilleDay Tom Hatton who could turn any squiggle into a Popeye character.

  • @scorps666 Amen..he was true old school talent.

  • El super pollo loco.

  • Part of George of the Jungle cartoon show,along with Tom Slick,really funny humor,just slightly over most little kids heads Jay Ward also did Rocky and Bullwinkle,and Hoppity Hooper.

  • This was one cool show when I was a kid! I can still hear Super Chicken getting ready for another big adventure and spouting off: "To the Super Coupe Fred!"

  • @TheEldoradoKid Wait... his car was the Super Coupe... as in a chicken coupe. OK, I finally get that joke like 15 years later. *facepalm*

  • Saudades meu! quanto tempo...rs, é bom ser criança.

  • :29) I may have tried that when I was in trouble as a kid. If I recall, it didn't work.lol

  • Mr. Game & Watch was a 1960s cartoon character?

    Well, this proves he is not really created in the 1980s.

  • BAWK-ACK!!!

  • bro8664, "Super Chicken" was produced by Jay Ward Productions("Rocky and Bullwinkle, "Dudley Do-Right"). It was a segment of "George of the Jungle", the original from 1967.

  • bawwwwkbawkkk bawwwwkkkkk

  • Ipostcartoons....Do you know who the producers/actors/makers of these shows were...I had a feeling it's not the usual Hanna/Barbera/warner/disney...­...they made some funny stuff but didn't seem to be around for long?

  • @bro8664 - Jay Ward (Rocky and Bullwinkle) created Super Chicken, which was part of the "George of the Jungle" show.

  • hêhe_Î_fEEl_sô_lõñElY_tÔDÃY

  • @ 8 seconds would be a great t- shirt.

  • hoe are the actors how apears in the intro???

  • 07:00 who there are a famous actors?

  • @whelljack . Hi. Not sure about the first actor (could be an 'in joke'), but the second and third are Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino (both heroic silent film stars). The last is Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster. :)

  • @deepeemark I think #1 is John Barrymore? (that's Drew's granddad, kids!)

  • @Vincek88 . Good thinking! Certainly resembles him! Well done!

  • Bok aaaawk!

  • Roger Ramjet popped pills to get his super strength

  • Some super sauce would hit the spot right now.

  • Behold! Darkwing Duck of the 60's!

  • I "still" sing this song. You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. I say it once a day.

  • Yes. This is the only cartoon ever made about having beer muscles.

  • omg, the worlds' first Rap tune!

  • Stupid Pet Tricks, someone needs to train a chicken to sing his part in the theme. LOL

  • LOL I love this theme. thanks for the words too. That was so cute. He saved him from a spanking.!!! How silly we're we to have these heros? Puk-A

    if anyone ever calls you chicken, remember to say "yes I am. I'm a super chicken!" LOL

  • Funniest cartoon theme ever.

  • No spanking that kid! The emotionals scars of corporal punishment are just too great, Ma'am. :10 :) (well, I'm serious, but also, :) )

  • Seinfeld liked this song.

  • The montage of movie stars seen at :08 and :23 include John Barrymore, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Rudolph Valentino and Boris Karloff as "Frankenstein" [Jay Ward produced a syndicated 1963-'64 series that satirized their silent movies, "FRACTURED FLICKERS"].

  • This theme (along with the "Tom Slick" and "George of the Jungle" themes) was written by Stan Worth & Sheldon Allman; they also wrote the "LET'S MAKE A DEAL" theme for Monty Hall, and cues for other series he produced {"SPLIT SECOND", "MASQUERADE PARTY", etc.}.

  • @fromthesidelines Thanks for posting this! I wondered. :)

  • He will drink his super sauce

    and throw the bad guys for a loss

    worthy of Lorenz Hart

  • The takeaway lesson here is you can get superpowers if you drink that stuff in Dad's liquor closet.

  • And whenever you feel like complaining, just remember:

    "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it!"

    Oh, and when making super sauce.. ease up on the starch, okay? XD

  • Chicka chicka chicka chicka chicka chiken!!!

  • My brothers & sister used to make super sauce for me when I was about 6 or 7. They used pepper & worchestershire sauce & flour & ketchup & mustard & allspice etc. etc. etc. & I would always drink it.

  • cluck,cluck,cluck,cluck!!!!!

  • "He will drink his super sauce and,

    Throw the bad guys for a loss"

    worthy of Lorenz Hart

  • the only superhero who gets drunk to gain super powers lol

  • @ToyGuruMan what about Drinky Crow?!

  • @AllisonluvsGoodMusic hmm good point

  • @ToyGuruMan He's the only one who's so up-front about it, anyway. lol

  • @ToyGuruMan The only one who ADMITS to it.  ;)

  • @ToyGuruMan He wasn't the only one...

  • @ToyGuruMan well, Popeye has his weed, Underdog has his pills, so why can't Super Chicken have his drink?

  • @ToyGuruMan "No bay leaf Fred?" (buck-AWK!!!)

  • @ToyGuruMan ummmmm.... excuse me....

    but he's not the only one... ;-) LOL

  • @ToyGuruMan

    Ah no... there used to be a cartoon show in Italy named Alan Ford. One of the villains in that show was a guy who got his superpowers by guzzling liquor.

  • @ToyGuruMan Also Jackie Chan.

  • LMFAO

  • I'm from Venezuela and there it is also part of our childhood....(of course, 25 years ago :-s)....one of the best cartoons ever!!!

    Thanx for the flash back!! :-)

  • Wow, I remember this now that I've seen it. Thank you youtube for holding those lost memories that I don't have room for anymore. "Buck-buck BACAW!"

  • I can actually sing this song at faster than the original speed ... okay, nothing to brag about I know ...

  • OMG Mr. Game & Watch at 0:01 - 0:03

  • @Oldbob.....I'll say today's toons aren't as great but you can't say today's toons don't have satire, Violence or social commentary with the likes of The Simpsons, Boondocks, South Park or family guy airing. It just seems these shows lack the spontaneity the old ones did. BTW you guys remember a show where this group of guys dressed as birds? One guy was a cuckoo, I forget the others but it wasnt G-Force, it was an American toon. It had a awesome opening intro song! Help me!

  • I love this. Oh Lord, I love this (and George & Tom)

  • bock bock bock!

  • Makes me laugh every time I hear it!

  • BAKAAA!!!!

  • when i hear this i must think about tomo Milicevic and Jared Leto XD

  • Holy shit this was nearing Lost Memory status.  Thank You from the bottom of my

    Cold strange heart ???!!?

  • this was a GOOD cartoon!

  • When you find youself in danger,

    When you're threatened by a stranger,

    When it looks like you will take a lickin', (puk, puk, puk)

    There is someone waiting,

    Who will hurry up and rescue you,

    Just Call for Super Chicken! (puk, ack!)

    Fred, if you're afraid you'll have to overlook it,

    Besides you knew the job was dangerous when you took it (puk, ack!)

  • HENRY CABOT HENHOUSE THE THIRD !!!!

  • I always sing this!!! Hahahah! And, I always tell people I live by Superchicken logic : Well Fred, you knew the job was danerous when you took it! YAY!

  • And to think that today's generation of kids watch cartoons with no satire, no violence, no imaginative script. The characters care about each other's feelings, and they ask the audience questions, wait five seconds, and then say "I think so too!"

    Sad.

  • @oldbob1951 jay ward respected his audience

  • @brabon1 He absolutely did! Jay's shows had layers of satire and jokes so that kids could enjoy on their level, and adults can also enjoy the satire on their level. And those who watch the shows when they become adults can catch a lot of the jokes that went over their heads when they were kids.

  • I don't understand how the 14 people who gave this a thumbs down know how to work a computer!

  • SCHMNURGIES!!!!!!!!

  • I have always loved his statement to Fred, "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it!"

    Henry Cabot Henhouse III (secret identity)

  • Kids shows nowadays are mostly on the Disney channel, full of shows starring teenagers but written for 2nd graders. Either that, or they're like Barney, Teletubbies and the Wiggles - for toddlers and pre-schoolers. Today's children are indeed drab . . . and spoiled.

  • There was an episode of Super Chicken where Fred and he ,for some reason, had to go to the "Isle of Lucy". That had me laughing for days. What ever happened to cartoons with a sense of humor? And, how drab the children of today are without it.

  • @pepperquentin Remember, most comedy-cartoons of that day were loaded with satire and parodies of other shows and characters.

    Today's show have no real characters, so there is nothing to parody and writing is little more than sarcasm, which is mockery itself. Mocking mockery is like adding flavor to your water by adding ice. It does little to nothing.

  • Oops! Someone just told me that that wasn't an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" he sang that song in - it was an NBC promo that aired during an episode of "The Office" and was meant as a plug for "The Bee Movie". My mistake.

  • And of course there was the episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with Jerry Seinfeld guesting where he just busts out with this song during a business meeting (and gets all the words right, I might add).

  • @elc1960 yes he got all the words right but i just watched it on yt and he didnt go buck buck buck buck

  • I bout nearly peed myself when i played this clip. I haven`t heard this song from this show in years. It`s hysterical

  • Super Sauce? Looks like a glass of wine

  • The fact that they would include an image of Frankenstein's Monster during the bit about "no one else to turn to" always amuses me...

  • ROFLOL brings back old memories!

  • MP3 for download please

  • My mom hated this cartoon and banned me from watching it. :(

  • memories; had this on my desktop at a previous job; memories

  • I'm gonna call Super Chicken!

  • lol

  • I remember all these goofy cartoons, man I'm getting old! LMAO!

  • When I was in the Navy at the Navel Technical Training Command near Memphis TN in 1967 Super Chicken was our mascot. The whole barracks would get up to watch Super Chicken and George of the Jungle on Saturday morning and then everyone would go back to their bunks. The TV room was packed to Standing Room Only. Donnie Brooks (Mission Bell) wrote the theme songs for both shows. I saw him perform them at an oldies show near Santa Rosa California in the 1980's.

  • @dgtedavis Wow man, what a great memory!

    Sounds like you guys never forgot that were kids at heart all the while you were Naval officers. What a great nod to childhood! It's even cooler knowing that you guys were all Officers, Gentlemen, AND Super Chicken fans! :-)

  • The theme song for the pilot of this show is so much different.

  • OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Actually, I think the lyric goes: "CAAWWW for Super Chicken". You know, for a pun. Jay Ward was real big on puns - the worse they were, the better. Can't knock this though. When I was a kid I never missed this cartoon. George and Tom Slick were great too. This cartoon was on the Cartoon Network back in the '80s for a while but they replaced it with more stupid Scooby-Doo reruns. In the '90s Cartoon Network was like the "Scooby-Doo Channel" for a while there.

  • I needed a laugh today....enjoy!

  • Gotta name the chicks. Little, Henry, Leghorn, um....

  • More insanity from the geniuses who gave us Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairy Tails and all manner of other mayhem!

  • This is funny!

  • My dad taught me this song when I was a little kid. I knew/know it by heart- used to sing it all the time. This brought back some great childhood memories. He didn't inform me until later that it was an old television show.

  • wow i've never heard of this show in my life but that theme song was awesome xD

  • Hahaha... excellent.

  • what the hell!?

  • love my childhood

  • love it!! cluck cluck cluck cluck!

  • I hadn't heard this song in thirty years and still sang it word for word right before watching this.

    And it'll be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

  • If someone has their hands around his neck are they"chocking the chicken?"

  • Super Chicken beats ANY episode of HANNAH MONTANA by far lol

  • lol, I forgot about this one, thanks Ipost.

  • That lion he rescues is so badass, he should have his own show.

  • This theme song sounds very good so remained the same in Italy when twenty-five years ago I saw this lovely cartoon.

    I have ever seen US cartoons in my life from I was a little children to today because my sons are still watching Sponge-Bob,Scooby Doo,etc.etc.

  • "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it!" I still quote that line from time to time. What a stupid but great cartoon.

  • @sjcliff

    I tell my boss that all the time (but with the "Fred" at the end).

    "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred"

    Somehow it sounds even more ridiculous that way (to me).

  • love the theme song...

  • do you think he ever got CHOKED?

  • @richyrollins

    I'm sure all the chicks wanted to choke him.

  • @KanzlerM agreed

  • 0:02 the little running guy looks like game and watch

  • So basically the super sauce is a martini.

  • Of course it's a martini. Never underestimate the power of 6 parts gin, one part dry vermouth. Oh yes, and an olive or two..... Seriously, great stuff. Nothing like it on today. Also Tom Slick George of the Jungle, Bullwinkle, and of course, Hoppity Hooper. Nothing like it before or since. Thank God I've got the DVD's. Now, if I could only find a box of Quake cereal........  Any idea where I could find that?

  • @TB4000 Of course it's a martini. Never underestimate the power of 6 parts gin, one part dry vermouth. Oh yes, and an olive or two..... Seriously, great stuff. Nothing like it on today. Also Tom Slick George of the Jungle, Bullwinkle, and of course, Hoppity Hooper. Nothing like it before or since. Thank God I've got the DVD's. Now, if I could only find a box of Quake cereal........ Any idea where I could find that?

  • @budgienation Contact Quaker Oats. They still sell Quake and Quisp but they're only available through internet sales and mail order.

  • @TB4000 At one point, he refers to having salt around the rim of the glass, so there seems to be the implication that it could be a margarita. I tend to think that the margarita is more compatible with SC's character. What do you think? ;)

  • @TB4000 lolz

  • @TB4000 No prize for that!

  • Oh the memories this brings back....back when cartoons were actually funny!!

  • If I could give you more thumbs up you'd have them for speaking the plain truth as you have above. Cartoons WERE funny then!

    Super Chicken was a classic!

    I'd rather get back to basics with this

    stuff than watch a certain yellow sponge who suffers from manic illness as he goes around with a pink starfish that yells "OOOO-HOOO!!!!" all the time (even though it's genuinely funny every now and then.)

  • Great song! They don't write great theme songs anymore....

  • I have the sudden urge to call for Super Chicken.

  • This is great! Can someone help me remember a cartoon where the family would go out in their backyard and stand under something and it would shrink them and then they would go on adventures (No I'm not talking about the modern day incredible shrinking family and all of that). I used to watch it in the 70's. Thanks

  • Dr. Shrinker?

  • No...not that. Their family would stand under something in their backyard and they would shrink themselves... then they would be the size of the ants and other things in their yard and go on these certain adventures.

  • I seem to remember something like that. Didn't they stand under something like a tree, and muli-colored rays came out as they shrank??

    I remember Dr. Shrinker:

    Doctor Shrinker

    Doctor Shrinker

    He's a mad man with an evil mind

    Doctor Shrinker

  • @slappy09 could it have been the Bugaloos?

  • oh, a Sid and Marty Croft production...starring Jay Robinson...

  • I used to watch this on WPHL 17 in Philadelphia, thought I live in the Tri-State area and still do...we live high on a hill with no trees around (great reception) and had a rotary antenna that made it sweeter, as we got WPIX 11's Chiller Theatre and WNEW 5's Creature Features.

    One of the simplest, and funniest theme songs ever made, and it shows that in many cases, keeping it simple is the best way to get a laugh. GREAT memories!

  • "thought I live in the Tri-State area and still do."

    Sorry folks, that's "though I lived high on a hill and still do." Sorry for that little misspell, lol.

  • cua cueeek!! jaj simplicity from the past and funny

  • 0:02 run mr gameandwatch! run from d.k

  • Bust out some of that super sauce boss

  • him and under dog get toghther and pop pills and drink supper sauce ha ha