Sesame Street - Which Comes First(The Chicken Or The Egg)?

[KoolKid5830]

I Came First Lol

[percyth11]

Chickens evolved from dinosaurs and dinosaurs already had eggs, hence the egg came first.

[stevedogan]

A better question is did the chicken cross the road AFTER it was hatched, or did the egg roll across the road first because it couldn't wait to get out of its shell? (Well, at least we comics ask that question!)

[Charla1606]

Still luv it!

[AdvancedSniperr]

which came first katie price's tits or plastic surgery??

[1Thompsonmusic]

When you see one egg or 'tother HAAHAHAAA

[microbusss]

the way they sing egg sounds like "ay-gg" lol

[ProfessorIgor]

in this video, if you were there, I can tell you what will come first.. is the amazing stink of a chicken farm... they are wicked smelly !! like gag and barf stinky !

[shydmples]

I think that the aig came first

[AFGSANFORD2]

This video is fine but the song is just silly & stupid; I do not like it.

[hini12002]

does it matter as long as i have my poched egg in the morn and my chicken for sunday dinner that all that matters

[clipsryan]

The chicken had to lay the egg but the chicken didn't just pop into existence. Through evolution, we have this "intelligently designed" flightless bird. The first creature to lay an egg, came first but it didn't just pop into existence by some god. If they were the case, birth wouldn't be necessary.

[Muppephile]

I love how he pronounces it , "eygg"

[UKReferendum]

Eye m sure dogmatic science could give you the only scientific correct answer 2 this question ? And even the exact time and place millions of years ago on this very spot with out question ??? Offering all civilization a firm foundation to continue TO BUILD the ILLUSIONARY STATE OF MIND ??? thru' accurate super computer analysis by the shear amazing intel of the Tax Collective Mind ... Science has all the answers 4 ILLUSIONS ... of any Size surely ???

[grimsingmuf]

in the beginning i created the egg unfertilized, then i decided to fertilize it all egg laying creatures evolve from me

[hundredandfour]

The egg.

[wolfhybrid900]

@hundredandfour No the chicken because when the world began God made all the animals so they weren't born or hatched. (You can just ignore me if you're not Christian.)

[hundredandfour]

@wolfhybrid900 There is no God.

[Smartboy8877]

@hundredandfour

What brings you to that conclusion?

[hundredandfour]

@Smartboy8877 I'm an atheist.

[Smartboy8877]

@wolfhybrid900

You need not be a Christian to subscribe to what your wrote. The theory that you offered is from the Old Testimet. I apologize if I spelled it wrong! In any event, that was written long before Christianity existed. A Jew would have no problem agreeing with you! Possibly a Muslem too.

[WetPooooopie]

Neither because all birds and chickens and other forms of birds like ea birds penguins evolve from dinosaurs so the dinosaurs came first

[DullTorpor]

I remember this but it's still kind of surprising to see footage of a factory farm.

[jfpinell]

The ROAD had to come before the chicken or the egg. The question is....which crossed the road first. Was it the chicken or did the egg roll across the road first because it was too anxious to wait to get out of its shell?

(Wocka! Wocka!)

[TheCoolProfessor]

Without a chicken there can be no eggs.

[jenzeppelin]

I eat eggs for breakfast and chicken for dinner, and, so, with me, the egg comes first! ;)

[TheEliteNerd]

Evolution is complete bull. People thought the celiocanth went extinct millions and millions of years ago, but then they found one somewhere. If you give something millions and millions of years to evolve, it wouldn`t be recognized as (in that case) a celiocanth anymore. My guess, on how old the earth is...... about Seven thousand years. 20 thousand at the most.

[TheEliteNerd]

The chicken came first, eggs can`t cum

[peruface]

There is no answer. Since the question is a paradox

[Muppephile]

I love how americans say egg. "Eyyg", how cute.

[CK3890]

@Muppephile I love how Australians are smug enough to think their dialect is 'correct'.

[AnoziraNoscut]

I came to this video because it has been burning in my mind for so long. I see I am not alone. We are all in desperate need of help. By the way, the Dinosaur came first.

[dub273]

Question finally answered!

[ProWings79]

omg. the melody of this song was stuck in my memory banks and have come back into full fruition

[GIGGLS09]

The egg IS the chicken...so techincally Both!!!!

[jwinningham]

Scientist prove it was the chicken.

British scientists claim to have finally come up with the definitive answer: The chicken.

The scientists found that a protein found only in a chicken's ovaries is necessary for the formation of the egg.... The egg can therefore only exist if it has been created inside a chicken.

The protein speeds up the development of the hard shell, which is essential in protecting the delicate yolk and fluids while the chick grows inside the egg.

[kenziekinz09]

Not to interrupt the debate, but I just wanted to say that I used to watch this on repeat when I was like 4.

That is all. :)

[1423greenmario]

THE CHICKEN CAME FIRST. ITS IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS

[microbusss]

hehe they way they sing "egg" is really odd

[shydmples]

@microbusss aig...lol

[highschoolnevaends]

egg came first....

what gave birth to that egg was something vaguely like a chicken....

[baldymofo]

there is no proof of evoloution

[kijbob]

pregnant chicken.

[coyote374]

If the rooster came first, How did the rooster appear without the egg?

[bionicle168]

@coyote374 well, they said animals evolved... that's the scientific way of explaining that the chicken appeared first. If u look at the Christian point of view, then the chicken came first because God created animals.

[patches53]

@bionicle168 .

Well said. The chicken applies to both the Scientific & Religious points of view.

Simples.

[bionicle168]

@patches53 thanks, It actually took me a while to think of that tho

[patches53]

@bionicle168 Yeah it taxed my brain trying to work it out. So much that I had to go and have a lie down.

[bionicle168]

@patches53 Now there's no conflict =]

[ate100lbgorilla]

The rooster came first.

[pete409]

Strings came first.

[IIIIdepechemodeIIII]

abiogenesis morphology came first. everything else followed suit.

[vidpro23]

from Sing Hoot and Howl

[muffinman2021]

You know what came first??

My seed.

[sirdavethewave71]

No, the chicken came first since, well, lets put it this way. The chicken had to get laid before the egg could be...yuk, yuk, yuk! (or should I say yolk, yolk, yolk)?!?

[mafarmerga]

Easy, EGGS came first!

Since chickens are descended from egg laying therapod dinosaurs this is sort of a no-brainer!

[phantaskippy]

If it was a no-brainer the answer would be a puddle of drool.

[IIIIdepechemodeIIII]

this is a rhetorical 'riddle' is why its a nobrainer to some. but to a theist, 'god' created it all. putrid and amusing at the same time.

[Jlco76]

I bet P.E.T.A doesn't appreciate this one!

[quizmaster85]

Oh, which come first,

The chicken or the aig?

[beyblader10171]

two eggs fell from the sky, then thats how it al started

[floresarts]

Still remember and love this one after 35 years. Joe Raposo is a musical genius.

[CanadaFamilyMan]

All you people, this is a Sesame Street video, not a political filibuster, or a theological debate! Hahaha on all of you!

[hoopersghost]

@CanadaFamilyMan: RIGHT ON! Sesame Street has always been neutral towards religion; even when the subject comes up, the writers say "some people believe A and others believe B." If Joe Raposo had meant this to be a "creation vs. evolution" song, the lyrics would've mentioned God or science somewhere. But they don't--because it's a song about real chickens, real eggs, and childhood curiosity about where food comes from.

[CanadaFamilyMan]

@hoopersghost Thanks, I agree; this was a song for the kids, not a song for adults to get into a debate. I'm glad you liked my comment. Some people didn't, but oh well!

[ClantonBrothers]

@CanadaFamilyMan It was a song to call into question the existence of God, something which Satan has been doing since he was in the Garden of Eden. Sesame Street has always been a communist tool that is used with subtle cleverness. Way worse now than when I was a kid watching it. I would never expose my children to their commie garbage.

[CanadaFamilyMan]

@ClantonBrothers Just for the record, I'm a Christian

[ISNorden]

@CanadaFamilyMan: Please, people...Sesame Street is not a tool of Satan OR of communism. It's meant to teach many subjects to children from many possible backgrounds; so the producers and writers do their best to avoid favoring ANY religion or political system over another. (Heck, the Serbian version doesn't even teach *letters* because the country's dispute over two alphabets used for one language has becone a hot-button issue!)

[thanksforthemessdick]

@ISNorden I never thaught about any of that........until youtube came along.I'm with you.Kermit the frog rules and where would we be today without Guy Smiley or the amazing Mumford...ala peanutbutter sandwiches...hahaha..weeee

[joemacgames1]

god created the chicken and then the chicken had the egg.

lol jk

my personal theory is the "chickens" laid egg's, which were probably soft membranes and then over time evolved so it had a hard shell for protection.

[Metalchurch1993]

neither came first it was evoloution.

thats the only thing that makes sense

[faelismaegnus]

Chickens and chicken eggs are the same thing. They both came "first". This song rocks!

[nairda55555]

scientificaly the egg came first.

religously the chicken came first.

scientificaly the chicken evolved from the t-rex right? and dinasours were laying eggs a long time before they devolved into their bird like form. so scientificaly in evolution the egg came first.

religously when god made all the animals including man he made them in their adult for so they could take care of their young, thus acording to the bible the chicken came first.

both are excelent theories.

[9164523]

which come first? the T-rex or the egg

[luigi2k9q]

@nairda55555 •The chicken... it had to be. Creatures in the sea evolved and they didn't evolve into eggs now, did they?

[nairda55555]

@luigi2k9q Umm, actualy, in evolution theories, yes they did.all creautres when they are born are coated with protection ( in humans it is the placenta), as time move on certain species protection would continue harden into eggs, (albeit they would be soft, like frogs eggs). as time went on the protection soon hardened over generations to increase their protection and turn into eggs.

[CheeseHole333]

@nairda55555 Religiously, the egg came first too. If you think about it, dinosaurs laid eggs, and the "chicken or egg first?" theory does not say "which came first? the chicken or the chicken egg?" Therefore, proving that the egg came way before the chicken.

[nairda55555]

@CheeseHole333 Do you mean that religously, dinosaur eggs came before the chicken? Thats a possibility however god would have probably put the dinosaur before the dino egg most likely.

[ProWings79]

@nairda55555 Now British scientists claim to have finally come up with the definitive answer: The chicken.

The scientific and philosophical mystery was purportedly unraveled by researchers at Sheffield and Warwick universities, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.

[ProWings79]

@nairda55555 The scientists found that a protein found only in a chicken's ovaries is necessary for the formation of the egg, according to the paper Wednesday. The egg can therefore only exist if it has been created inside a chicken.

The protein speeds up the development of the hard shell, which is essential in protecting the delicate yolk and fluids while the chick grows inside the egg, the report said.

[nairda55555]

@ProWings79 i think they are right in that a protein the chicken is responsibly for the formation of the hard calcium coating that surrounds the embryo and eventualy the newborn chick, however they're statement that "an egg can only be created if it develops inside a chicken" is very inccorect. Many other birds and some animals have similar proteins that allow their young to be born with the protection of an egg, and obviously so did their dinousaur anscestors (assuming evolution is the case).

[ProWings79]

@nairda55555 "It had long been suspected that the egg came first but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first," said Dr. Colin Freeman, from Sheffield University's Department of Engineering Materials, according to the Mail.

"The protein had been identified before and it was linked to egg formation, but by examining it closely we have been able to see how it controls the process," he said.

[CK3890]

@nairda55555 What are you talking about? Science doesn't explain how that original chicken egg would have gotten there without a chicken laying it. It's called a paradox.

[nairda55555]

@CK3890 yes science does, theres no such things "an original chicken". the tyrannusaurus over time, like all the egg laying dinasaurs, devolved into its birdlike form due to the changing climate. over millions of years it size shrunk due to the decreasing oxygen, and it evolved feathers due to the cooling climate . That is assuming the dinasaurs existed and evolution took place, and not something else such as the chicken appearing due to a diety, or divine bieng.

[CK3890]

@nairda55555 That doesn't explain anymore than religion does. It's just a wild guess. Both sides are pretty irrational.

[nairda55555]

@CK3890 i concur.

[phyk]

@nairda55555 i think it depends on the point where u start to define the chicken as such.

[jfpinell]

@nairda55555 Actually in Feb. 2010 British scientists have discovered that a protein found only in a female chicken's ovaries are necessary for the formation of an egg. According to scientists, the egg can only exist if it was created inside a chicken. This protein is fundamental in the development of the shell.

(Found in Dr. Mercola's [on-line] newsletter Aug. 21, 2010 Titled: "Don't avoid this daily healthy food because it's been mislabeled as "dirty".)

[binturong1000]

@nairda55555 But if the chicken came first, that means there would have to an egg then that chicken laid and if there is chicken, there would have to be an egg.

[Smartboy8877]

@nairda55555

I agree that both theories offer a lot of interesting food for thought!

[carnifex714]

@nairda55555 thats were your wrong the chicken came first the only way egg can developed is from a protein found in female chicken ovaries

[nairda55555]

@carnifex714

But what of the dinosaurs and all the other birds that are not chickens? Do not they lay eggs as well? How could a blue jay egg come from the ovary of a chicken?

[carnifex714]

@nairda55555 thats true

[antonio36123]

@nairda55555 then what cme firs? the t-rex or the egg? LOL

[antonio36123]

@1Thompsonmusic same way really fat people come out of their mom.... :P lol

[saintsfanatic999]

@nairda55555 technically u cant answer that question because the chicken comes from an egg which came from the chicke

[stevedogan]

@nairda55555 Actually not long ago they proved that either way the chicken had to have come first.

[SillyPuttyIsLove]

I think it's the chicken..I don't know how an egg could be true. An egg would die with out a mom chicken raising it. They just can't hatch without a mother. But then...How did this chiken come? An egg would make sense because it's made of cells..a chicken can't just CAPOOF show up.

This is like..an impossible question that nobody really can answer.

[djtrixen]

@SillyPuttyIsLove um it's like... uh totally like... lol

[ClantonBrothers]

@SillyPuttyIsLove I can answer it real easy. When God speaks, atoms obey. He made birds on the fifth day.

[ssibi100]

@SillyPuttyIsLove  yes dude

[froster63]

In my opinion God made 2 of every animal on this earth.... So seals/whales/sharks and so on didn't come out of eggs... so why would god do any diffrent for land animals?

[cardsmaster12]

god ? who is god ?

[SpFg22]

Scientists say the egg came first because it became a chicken while in the egg. but when the egg hatches, how would this chicken continue the species without a rooster. i dont think u can really answer this question

[GothicEeore]

i reckon it was the egg, scientifically it makes more sense, i mean is not like a chicken is just gonna come out of no where, the egg is a cell, it could grow

[qiput]

thanks for uploading this! it was just stuck in my head -- and i probably haven't seen this for 15 years!!

[pattypopping]

This is a cute video, but it does not say what eventually happens to chickens. No, that is not so pretty. Farm kids learn that early, But, that is a fact of life. Think of that next time you're at KFC, etc.

[Gravidtron]

Wow, the ending sequence with the stop-motion eggs is VERY Gumby-looking, right down to the typeface on the eggs. Art Clokey getting some extra work on Sesame Street, perhaps?

Also, if God made the chicken (meaning it came first), does that mean that chickens invented eggs? Are eggs the one thing not created by God?

[TheRealVerbz]

The Egg came first obviously.

Dinosaurs were laying eggs long before the animal we know as a chicken evolved to its current form.

[rhys21kipling]

ahahaha i can tell youre the sort of person that only just worked it out and seached this onyoutube just to post that comment. ahaah

[cjman313212]

your not religous huh

cause who layed the dinosaur down and who layed the egg god did cause he created all animals on earth and thats the religous version

[TheRealVerbz]

I'm Not religious. I'm no fool. Religion is bowing to a god outside of yourself. Spirituality is realizing the God within. Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. Most religions are based on the misinterpretations of the Egyptians. That's no Sun God. its a piece of shit. no...really. the scarab is also known as the dung beetle. it rolls up shit. religions call it the sun god. I'm spiritual.... it's dung.

[TheRealVerbz]

You seek to trick me with your word play?

god is the One who created the Universe from sound.

Our old language is music through mantras.

The hieroglyphics written on the walls are not what your so called experts say they are. Their explanations are nonsense.

But who looks for themselves?

You have priests interpret your texts and you have people with no rhythm interpret the hieroglyphics for you.

if you know music you will know how to read hieroglyphics.

The Pyramids are millions of years old.

[cjman313212]

so you see a chicken is an animal whats an animal any living thing with blood and animals were made so god could start a world so literraly god is everythings dad so whats an eggs dad god so what made the egg an animal so if the animal was made from god everybodys related to him and if you think about it we are all related by the time adam and eve came to earth brother

[5Branden5]

dude the chicken came first cuz god made the chicken

[tau74]

hahaha! i luv this!!!!!

[80zdude4]

Chicken at 0:13-0:19, "Geez, your hands are cold!"

[ladybaillio]

without thinking I'll start singing this to my 2 yr old daugther when we're shopping for eggs.

[xgarr123]

omg that some funny!!!! I love it

[TrueCourse]

Oh yeah...reminds me of a funny one. The chicken and the egg were laying in bed after doing it. The egg was smoking a cigarette. So the chicken turned to the egg and said "so now we know who came first!" - hope that answers that timeless question :P

[kobraf150]

Yet again, I screwed up the lyrics of an SS song as a kid. My version: "A witch-come-bird shaken' on the eggs."  wtf mate.

[MaskguyEvan]

lol!!!

[TrueCourse]

Don't worry. You were just thinking "outside the box." LOL... you had a creative mind then. Be proud! LMAO... witch-come-bird :)

[hamsterama]

Wowie, amazingly, when I was a kid, I also understood the lyrics as "a witch-come-bird shaking on the eggs"! When you're little, I guess, you're not old enough to properly process things as complicated as song lyrics.

[Cathalain]

Ohh, nooo... another one that's been stuck in my head since I was 4 years old... ack!

Sesame Street was the preschoolers' acid, I SWEAR to God. lol. :D

[hsamk]

egg

[Tigerboy83]

Does anyone else think it is strange for the eggs to go through that machinery on the assembly line and not get broken? Obviously someone thought this through.

[lizzykat2]

This used to be my favorite song

[raqueza]

ok whoever said the chicken is dumb its the egg without the egg we dont get the chicken and imagine the egg as a dinosaur egg the dinosaurs are birds ancestors so the dinosaur egg came first there hoped that helped you

[sodr2]

so how does the baby chicken support itself when it grows up?

[sodr2]

If God created Adam and Eve as grown human beings, then He would do the same thing for the animals by creating the chicken first. A baby wouldnt of come first, the adult would. same thing goes for nature

[RebelForce8]

forget god..and stop and think about evolution

[Jac2Mac]

The song may be wacky, but these chickens are being abused on a factory farm, right?

[bennyraven]

My mother always groaned when they played this song, as she was trying to teach me not to say "aigg." This song completely undermined her.

[MrBertstown]

Well, she should see the show "Cooking with Paula"?

[karentherase]

This was the very first event in my life that made me ponder the mysteries of the universe! Oh Joe, you were truly channelling direct from the divine and I love you for it. The world is a much better place for you having been in it.

[djdavemick]

In the dictionary, "chicken" comes first.

[MrX867]

lol

[mizbeautiful94]

ahhhh! i love this video!!

[raposofan]

Gotta agree with wattamack4 on this one. Joe is plain insane on this one. (That droll, innocent humming that sets you up for the gag... too much)  And it's great!

[demahsami]

It's very very simple. Since I can't imagine the first ever chicken just appearing out of thin air, dropping out of the sky or even coming from a live birth, it must have come from an egg. So the egg must have been laid by something that wasn't a chicken. (Let's call it a chickenoid for lack of a better word.) After the egg was laid, its DNA was somehow altered to create the first ever chicken. The point is...THE EGG CAME FIRST!

[demahsami]

Sorry, did I just ruin one of history's greatest philosophical riddles? Well then, you probably won't want to hear my take on the "tree falling down in the forest" one...

[srf1969]

I loved this video. Probably the chicken comes first because they lay eggs. I use to love this video when I was little watching Sesame Street.