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| “ | Ernie: You...saved me? Why? Peter: Because I hate you! Every day, I wake up not knowing if you're gonna come out of nowhere and punch me in the face, I flinch every time a door opens, I look over my shoulder every time I bend down to tie my shoes, and I flip my porch light on every night before I go to bed just to see if you're standing there! Do you have any idea how exciting that is? So I didn't save your life because I like you. I saved it because...because I hate you. Ernie: [Smiling] I hate you too, Peter Griffin. Peter: Also, if you die, I'll be solely responsible for all the destruction we've caused over the years, so this decision is both emotional and financial. |
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| ~ Ernie after Peter cured him of the bird flu to preserve their rivalry. |
Ernie the Giant Chicken is a major antagonist in the Family Guy franchise. He is the arch-rival of Peter Griffin.
Every time Peter sees Ernie, Peter completely stops what he is doing and engages in a lengthy fight scene with Ernie that takes them through the entire town of Quahog, often causing chaos and destruction throughout the segment. Peter always seems to have killed Ernie, but then he is revealed to be an immortal who never succumbs to any gruesome fatality, successfully surviving multiple times, which foreshadows their next inevitable confrontation between them.
He is voiced by Danny Smith.
Biography[]
Origin[]
It was suggested that Ernie was accidentally created in a lab by Dr. Hartman who relayed the tale of him once trying to clone a chicken but ended up creating a "hostile man sized chicken" that ended up escaping the lab. When the story was relayed, Peter said they would have to discuss it later. At some point, Ernie married another giant chicken named Nicole. It was mentioned by Stewie Griffin that the two have at least one child who attends his preschool class.
In the series[]
Their rivalry started when Ernie (possibly unintentionally) gave Peter an expired coupon, leading Peter to assault Ernie and start a massive battle, causing chaos, destruction and deaths in the crossfire. Despite Ernie seemingly dying from falling off of a building and Peter landing on top of him, in the aftermath of the conflict, he is later revealed to be alive.
Their second fight starts when Ernie ambushes Peter when the latter is trying to defend Quagmire. Ernie ends up getting chopped up by an airplane propeller, but he survives again.
After the third battle, they actually stopped fighting and Ernie took Peter to dinner with his wife, Nicole. They then started their feud again when Peter wouldn't let Ernie pay and insisted that he pay and also because Peter spoke badly to Nicole. The fight ends with Peter bashing Ernie's head with a frying pot.
One time when Peter traveled back in time to the 80's he accidentally punched a young Ernie in the face at a dance angering him but another guy stopped Ernie saying "whoa calm down you're probably never going to see him again".
In "Big Man On Hippocampus", Ernie was gardening and greeted an amnesiac Peter who was walking by. After he was ignored, he confronted him and hit Peter (when he insulted his yard) with an object giving his memory back but then hit him with another one blanking his memory again but Peter's memory was restored because Ernie had an odd number of objects to hit him with.
In the second Star Wars parody episode Ernie is Boba Fett while Peter is Han Solo. He returns in the third, and falls into the Sarlacc's mouth offscreen rather than having an epic battle with Han/Peter as they do in the series.
In the episode "New Kidney in Town", Dr. Hartman tells the Griffins about his failed cloning attempt, which resulted in a violent and destructive man-sized chicken that ended up escaping the lab. That prompts Peter to tell Dr. Hartman that they need to have a talk. In "Trading Places", Chris taunts Meg for being a chicken for not wanting to go on Peter's dirtbike and even going so far as clucking like one. This makes Ernie perk up his ears and call the clucking fake.
In the episode "Internal Affairs", Peter has another run-in with Ernie leading to another epic fight, this time because Peter accidentally backs into Ernie's car. During their struggles, they land on Stewie's time pad and fight their way across time itself, eventually ending up in a genetic research lab and in space. Crashing back to Earth on an oil rig, they continue to fight. Their struggle destroys the oil rig and Ernie is hanged, pierced and then roasted by the rocket engines. But as Peter struggles to shore, Ernie shows he survived.
In "Yug Ylimaf", Stewie and Brian witness Peter and Ernie fighting in reverse, which started when Peter hit Ernie with his car door while Ernie was riding a bicycle.
Ernie also appears in two Family Guy games, Back to the Multiverse as a boss/minor antagonist, who appearing in a parallel universe and in Quest for Stuff as the main antagonist, his purpose is to cancel the series "Family Guy" takes to defeat Peter.
Ernie has a cameo in "Trump Guy", where he is seen visiting the Smithsonian Museum with his son, not noticing the brutal fight between Peter and Donald Trump behind them because of the headphones.
In "Follow the Money", it's revealed that Ernie is friends with Peter's wife Lois. In that same episode, Lois and Nicole get into a similar fight at a coffee shop, with Ernie trying to convince them to stop. Instead of having excessive violence and causing massive destruction and deaths, they just slap and tackle/wrestle each other, breaking a tip jar and dislocating the character RJ's right arm in the process. Peter is revealed not to like the friendship and told Lois not to associate with him again.
For the "Viewer Mail 2" Segment "Chap of the Manor", which shows a British version of the series, Ernie is replaced by a giant English Pheasant, who accidentally hits Peter's Counterpart Neville with his chair. The two get into a similar fight except for a few differences: It's a 3 second long slap fight with their arms and they exchange pleasantries when it's over.
In "Fecal Matters", it is revealed that Ernie is suffering from "bird flu", a disease that is leading to his death. He refused the vaccine because it was loaded with mercury and antifreeze. Peter, who was working as a hospital nurse at the time after a flu outbreak, refuses to give Ernie medical attention due to their rivalry. However, he is convinced by Dr. Hartman to do so. Ernie also reveals that his wife, Nicole, left him for a chicken bigger than him, and mentions that it would be best to him to die. Peter shows no concern, saying that he finally won their conflict. He leaves the hospital, almost letting Ernie die.
At home, Peter foolishly decides to celebrate his final victory with champagne, but his family criticizes him for his obsession with the feud. Lois convinces Peter that he needs the Giant Chicken as a rival, and that if he lets him die, a part of him will die as well. Remembering his previous fights with Ernie, Peter decides to save the Chicken from death by giving him a violent CPR. Ernie eventually wakes up, and Peter admits that he saved him because he hates him, as well as not wanting to be solely responsible financially for the damage the two of them have caused during their fights. At night, Peter turns on the outside light before going to sleep, seeing a cured Ernie through the window. With this, Peter confirms that "all is right on the world" before turning off the lights.
In "PeTerminator", Ernie confuses the Peter Terminator for the real one and was about to fight him, only to have his head blown up by a shotgun. Even then however, he was shown to have survived.
Personality[]
Ernie is very hostile, ruthless, and bitter, but only when it comes to Peter Griffin. He and Peter always attack each other on sight ever since Peter started their conflict. This is all without worrying about the massive damage, destruction, and even death that he and Peter cause to Quahog in their bouts, even going so far as to trying to kill each other.
When he and Peter briefly ended their rivalry, Ernie showed an effervescent and sympathetic side, and even apologized at Peter for hurting him before inviting him to dine with him and his wife, Nicole, to be forgiven. In spite of his argumentative and obnoxious attitude to Peter, Ernie also showed much love to Nicole, because he did not like Peter being disrespectful and ill-behaved to her, as both were fighting to figure out who to pay before they start fighting again.
As Peter is the only Griffin family member he despises for their differences, Ernie respects all of the rest of Peter's family even more, as they have nothing to do with his conflict between him and Peter. Unfortunately, his wife, Nicole, and even Peter's wife, Lois, whom Ernie befriended, ended up following the unstoppable mistakes he and Peter had done, as he tried to stop both housewives from repeating this, although the housewives' chicken fight turns out to be completely contrasted from Peter and Ernie's original extreme and brutal chicken fights, as all that they do is relentlessly slap each other.
All in all, Ernie served as Peter's archenemy with the latter's father-in-law Carter Pewterschmidt serving as his arch-nemesis.
Appearance[]
Ernie is a huge chicken who is about the size of a human person. His skin and feathers are yellow, his beak short and orange, and he has a red crest on his head. He can talk, but very rarely does so.
Powers and Abilities[]
Ernie is immortal and never dies/succumbs to any gruesome death, as he has been stabbed, hanged, chopped up to bits, drowned and even "roasted" to death, but he is always immortal and never dies any gruesome death. All of his injuries are also healed, even if he has healed beyond natural healing limits, including limb regeneration. Despite his lack of training, the adrenaline rush he gets from even seeing Peter Griffin from miles away, just gives him an immunity to pain and highly developed combat skills, which rival Peter Griffin's combat skills.
Trivia[]
- Although he constantly loses in his fights against Peter, in Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse, during the co-op battle between him and Peter, he can optionally succeed in defeating Peter and walk off as the winner. This marks the only time in the series where he has won against Peter (even if it's optional).
