Why did the chicken cross the road?

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Is it a pun suggesting the chicken wants to cross over to the other side? Or just anti-humor.

Inspired by convo in the puns you missed thread.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
No wtf it's just anti-humor	17
I'm a viking	5
Yea it's a pun	0

― Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 February 2026 18:47 (two months ago)

all of the above

― Reggaeton Sax (NickB), Friday, 13 February 2026 18:57 (two months ago)

d mixolydian

― brimstead, Friday, 13 February 2026 19:08 (two months ago)

Calling it a pun is absolute YouTuber/TV Tropes/Cinema Sins/Redditor brain. Absolute retcon job. Don't entertain this shit for a second

― EsBeeKid (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 February 2026 19:10 (two months ago)

'cross' obviously means 'make the road angry', i.e. the road is unhappy the chicken has mocked it by reaching the other side (heaven)

― imago, Friday, 13 February 2026 19:14 (two months ago)

but the chicken has angered it in order to summon a road vehicle to achieve this, obv. it is mocking the road from the hereafter

― imago, Friday, 13 February 2026 19:15 (two months ago)

even if it had the spirit meaning that’s not a pun, it’s a double entendre

― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 13 February 2026 19:26 (two months ago)

sorry but the original joke makes the answer clear:

Q: Why was the chicken crucified at the crossroads?
A: It consumed the flesh of a cloven-hoofed animal during Shrovetide

― obvious old hat (rob), Friday, 13 February 2026 19:26 (two months ago)

The fun thing about We Just Learned What The Chicken Joke Is Actually About And Mind Blown is that the made up version is much worse than the true one that everyone gets instantly

― jus au rascal (wins), Friday, 13 February 2026 20:25 (two months ago)

Also yeah not a pun that’s not what a pun is

― jus au rascal (wins), Friday, 13 February 2026 20:25 (two months ago)

Chickens aren't noted for having suicidal tendencies, fatally undermining the entire premise of the Double Entendre Hypothesis.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 13 February 2026 20:31 (two months ago)

All I wanted was a food pellet
Just one food pellet

― Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 February 2026 20:40 (two months ago)

ascribing anthropomorphic motives to poultry is a bourgeois act of pseudo-intellectual decadence, and it is a disgrace to make any sort of joke while Trump is in the White House.

― in the realm of the essence of Tong (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 13 February 2026 23:20 (two months ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 28 February 2026 00:01 (one month ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 1 March 2026 00:01 (one month ago)

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