Jennette McCurdy's "Chicken" Commercial for Safe Kids USA

Tool's Cocciolo Plays Chicken with Nickelodeon

Tool Director Harry Cocciolo and Nickelodeon Creative Advertising collaborate to deliver an urban twist on the age-old joke "Why did the chicken cross the road?" for Nickelodeon. This time around it's a joke with a sobering punch-line. As cell phones, mp3 players and text messaging become greater distractions to pedestrians and drivers alike, Nickelodeon has teamed up with Safe Kids USA to launch a new campaign aimed at making kids aware of the dangers of technological distractions.

Chicken opens with a cool hen strutting down a city street as it pumps the latest jam in its headphones. When the bird fails to notice the "Don't Walk" sign flashing at the intersection, it continues to cross into oncoming traffic and meets a "fowl" demise.

The message is clear and humorously executed by Cocciolo. It doesn't matter why the chicken crosses the road, what truly matters is that its paying attention. So when walking in the city, take off your headphones, stop texting while walking and get off your phone. Paying attention saves lives.

The Creds:
Client: Nickelodeon
Spots Title: Chicken
Air Date: August 2009

Agency: Nickelodeon Creative Advertising
VP/Creative Director: Pete Johnson
Design Director: Juan Carlos Gutierrez
Head Writer: Jared Elliotta
Project Manager: Mike Zermenoi
Producer: David DeLuca

Prod Company: Tool of North America
Director: Harry Cocciolo
DP: Mark Plummer
EP(s): Brian Latt, Jennifer Siegel
Line Producer: Lauren Bayer
Production Designer: Joaquin Grey

Editorial: Final Cut
Editor: Akiko Iwakawa
Producer: Brian Semple

Telecine: Technicolor/Complete Post

About Tool:
Bicoastal Tool of North America represents top-tier artists to the advertising industry. Tool's collective of talent includes: directors, photographers, cinematographers, technologists, mobile content creators, and video game creatives. This diverse talent pool affords Tool the ability to serve as a resource for agencies across commercial and digital productions, packaging the best creative teams available to develop compelling advertising with our agency partners.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• tool
• nickelodeon
• safe kids usa
• safe
• kids
• usa
• chicken
• jennette
• mccurdy
• commerical
• jennette mccurdy
• icarly
• nick
• sam puckett

[CtK2010]

that really does give a good message and jennette does a good job getting it across to the tweens, young teens, and young adults too

Good on ya Jennette :)

[Petey1Piranha]

Haha that's amazing. ♥♥♥ And the music reminded me of the "Will Smith nice clean rap" from Family Guy.

[SoRandom98]

It's true. I saw a girl once with headphones in and texting on her phone, and she wasn't looking, just walking (I couldn't stop her since I was in a store reading magazines at the time) and the red hand came on, but she didn't see it, and a car was driving pretty fast, and they hit the brakes and honked, but he was skidding, so a guy had to grab the girl's hoodie and pull her back, and she dropped her phone (Which got run over) but she didn't care by the look of it. point is, this is true. :/

[Heisyify]

hahahahha so funny

[aboutjennette]

hahahah she is awesome!! i love this video!! awwww

[DeliciousCP]

@hmabrantes 2 Gangsta 4 TV on extrememusic. com, just search.

[hmabrantes]

song name, anyone? sound like will but no luck finding it here....

[cirusMEDIA]

NICE!!



[LienLoo]

lucky chicken (: get's to be in a commercial with jennette.. haha.

this commercial just stays funny everytime is see it!

[jhomie252525]

whats the song?

[foodaddictkeith23]

I wish the chicken was my pet. We'd share music.

[KneeVAwesomeness]

omg i've seen that ad like 500000 times yet i only just realised its based on the chiken joke :3