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it's a completely throwaway line but "she's really good at animal crossing" is so funny because like. what does that even mean? is she nuts at predicting the turnip market? super skilled at catching bugs and fish? just rich as all hell? even as someone who DOES routinely hyperfixate on animal crossing and effectively minmax the game to be super efficient while also doing the best decorating I can, I can't imagine describing someone as "good" at that game
I spent so much of my childhood convinced that ALL twins were identical regardless of sex because in kindergarten there was a set of fraternal twins (boy and girl) in my class and their features were very similar (same hair/eye color etc) and they told everyone they were identical. It wasn't until like middle school biology and learning about reproduction that I realized they were wrong.
There was actually a set of twins that were born in Australia in 2014, a boy and girl, who were technically like semi-identical and came from the same egg. It’s a really interesting story you should totally check it out!! Science is so amazing sometimes
i had someone SWEAR up and down that they knew identical twins who were boy/girl and i had to break the hard news to them that... siblings tend to look alike even when they're not identical twins. when twins come up in conversation it's like everyone's science knowledge goes out the window sometimes, lol.
@@notyaunzzzI mean, me and my sister look identical if you put pictures of us at the same age next to each other, the only caveat being that I am 19 and she is 11
The library book was just a voided book that they got rid of! Libraries get rid of books all the time to make room, and they typically get rid of books that they have too many copies of, or no one has checked it out in years...... Its void because a librarian marked the barcode out with a sharpie. So you weren't complicient in a crime haha! Just got a cheap used library book that no one wanted :)
The kid that said the water fountains were laced with “A. D. H. D….Med. I. Ca. Tion” was literally the funniest thing in the world to me and I would watch a show about just him 😂
39:10 i actually really like that it didnt result in a religious conversion and instead he just applied the advice he got in a way that made sense for his own life
I agree. Genuinely some of the most mature religious conversations i've seen on screen. I have read so many Christian books and movies where either atheists are treated as dumb and/or evil. And then so many where the author is just fuming about how dumb atheism is and that Christianity is so obviously the one true way.
20 min into the video: yeah so chicken girls is a pretty chill drama it's mostly dancing and boy drama 1 hr 20 min into the video: and here's the extended family tree and everyone's connections to the mob. also there are vampires.
I-…im still in the first ten minutes and i had watched like two (?) or so seasons of this when i was 12 and then grew tired of it because it wasn’t that good. This out of context is hilarious
"why are these women so little" is genuinely the funniest thing i've seen in a show recently, so good on chicken girls for making me laugh so hard i woke up my cat from another room 32:59
the extremely mild/lowkey actor playing the most half-hearted theatre kid representation is the funniest thing in the world to me. i want him to get his own brat tv series.
i am breaking my silence and leaving my first ever youtube comment because the silas/vincent switcheroo is literally word for word don draper's backstory from mad men. like not one singular detail was changed and i'm SCREAMING
i'm only 5 minutes in but this video being how i learn that david blum is the one who coined the phrase "brat pack" shook me to my core considering i know david's wife... who is terri minsky... the creator of lizzie mcguire... who also created the disney channel show andi mack... andi mack was produced by michelle manning, who also produced the breakfast club and sixteen candles... and some of the andi mack cast members that i know also appeared in brat tv shows and were close friends with the actors on that channel... what in the overlapping lore
At first I was like "oh wow what a crazy series of coincidences" but I've just remembered how absolutely jam-packed the entire industry is with nepo babies
I had aged out of BratTV's intended age demographic by the time Chicken Girls became popular, but this entire video reminded me of AwesomenessTV. They are like a legitimate production company now? They literally produced the Netflix Jenny Han adaptations. I wonder what happened to a lot of those channels in the mid-2010s which primarily used influencer casting.
I would like to personally apologize to all the Radio Rebels for haphazardly mentioning Chicken Girls to Ashley in the twitch chat 😭 it was a great crime against humanity….
@@mark-breen I guess at times like this it is important remember that we are all In this together, we are a girl gang like birds of a feather (I will pay for my crimes)
i dont think your book was stolen from the library! libraries regularly cull their collection and sometimes those books end up being sold (and resold) with the stickers still on :)
Obsessed with the fact that the whole Vincent Patterson dog tag replaced identity and starting a successful company thing from the Chicken Girls book is literally the exacted lifted backstory of Don Draper in Mad Men 💀
I never did the flour baby thing at school but another science class in my year had biscuit babies. The main challenge was not eating your baby before the project was over.
Wait bc we did this we got given gingerbread cookies and just had to keep them alive for a week… the problem is I have this awful feel in mine is still in my bedroom at home.. this project was done in 2015
Ok, at this point you NEED to do a video on Dance Academy. It is an Australian teen show about a dance school. It has ups and downs, and totally worth the weekend binge😅❤❤❤
I do have to say regarding the standards for 13 year old competitive dance, dance moms is much closer to reality than you would think talent wise. My sister is 18 now but has competitively danced since she was like 9 or 10 and it’s kinda insane how good those kids are lol
That says a lot more about the Nancy Drew plots than it says about the ghost writers tbh. And actually now that you mention it though. There's been enough blatant ripoffs of plots from other media that I wouldn't even be surprised if this was the exact actual plot of a real actual Nancy Drew book
Oh god this gives me flashbacks to primary school when there was a group of 'cool girls' (we were like 11) who knew everything about this show, the dance they do, the characters, the actors. They were always talking about which child influencer was dating which and I had no idea what was going on. Weird to finally see THIS is what they were talking about.
I was actually a brataley fan during this Brat era and during the whole ‘cheating’ scandal and Jules had actually confirmed that she had dated Hayden and he did cheat on her (this is like grained in my brain because of how much attention was on it)
My younger sister was obsessed with all of these shows back when they first came out. This video unearthed so many memories I hadn’t thought about it years.
There was a german book and movie series called "The wild chicks" in the early 2000s. Five girls who grew up together, living through typical girlhood problems. It was a huge success. Maybe that is, where the inspiration for name comes from?
Was gonna say this. I've bought several books off Amazon that were sold by libraries themselves and came with all their library stamps and stickers. If you check the seller while looking at "used" it'll usually say something like "friends of the [name] public library".
Did anyone else’s school have electronic realistic babies instead of flour babies…? They were horrifying and recorded things like if you fed it, if you were rough with it, etc 😂
It was originally called Brat then later changed to Brat tv. I watched Brat since the beginning because of Jules. My favorite underrated show was “A girl named JO” it was really good and deserved so much spotlight
I've never heard of her until Group Chat and then Side Hustle which, as a late 20something expecting the bare minimum of modern Nick shows, was actually one of the best Nick shows in a long time! But because they care about their cashcows more than anything else, like most basic cable networks struggling to compete with streaming anyway, it got cancelled without a resolution of the plot. And I'm still not over it. Meanwhile, Brat TV has the bigger advantage as an independent studio making their own series without the threat of cancellation. And yet, they do the bare minimum of earning it.
This video is actually VERY relevant to me. I vividly remember sneak watching the Chicken Girls in the middle of the night on my ipod touch in middle school.
Very surprised that she didn’t talk about the s10 chicken girl’s connection to both Attaway general’s newest season and the show Juniors😭 that whole thing is CRAZY
@@sita9071 the last episode of s4 was likeeeee 6 months ago I think? WILD season btw highly recommend both that and s1 of juniors. It’s like watching things happen from two different POVs
@@shminerva ah ok. I’m not in the target demographic for these shows at all. I tried to get into them, but it felt too weird. Glad that they are accessible for the kids today though.
probably because nobody actually likes season 10. it feels like its own show that was rewritten to be chicken girls for some reason (maybe due to a staff or actor revolt that caused them to not film the original chicken girls season 10)
Once my nephews found out I watched UA-cam but not Mr Beast. They were horrified. I told them I didn't know what was in the zeitgeist of tweens on UA-cam (which they did not understand nor care to understand as they were still traumatized that I didn't know Mr Beast). All of Ashley's content makes me realize I missed the internet. I never know anything. I mean I knew Disney channel stars were on Danimals commercials but that's all folks. Might as well be Tig Notaro.
it's so weird seeing this whole universe be perceived by other people. i grew up watching bratayley, which is the family channel jules and hayley leblanc's mom used to have. i was around the same age their older brother was at the time, and my family wasn't very well off at the time, so i lived vicariously through them. when i saw the girls were staring in their shows, of course i was gonna watch them. add to that the cast of dance moms that's also in the shows and i was hooked. now i'm in my early 20s and ridiculously invested in this kids show universe because i just happened to get roped in it when i was a kid and now i can't stop. it's such a guilty pleasure that i just can't talk to anyone about, because how do i explain how i even found out about it?? as a side note, because the brat channel appeared around the same time jules and hayley started acting and they were the leads in a bunch of shows there, i genuinely thought that the channel was partialy owned by their parents, hence the name brat. like, from bratayley, their youtube channel. this is what i get for being a kid and taking things at face value lmao, i had no idea why it was called brat. it makes so much sense now.
Why did I think this was a farm-based child middle school drama 😂 like some small town farm girls with dreams of being dance stars but still needing to balance their chores with the animals lol
No one actually talks about how good of an actress Hayley is! I was always amazed I mean maybe that’s because everyone else was no good but she has always just looked really comfortable and her voice never changes, which is what a lot of the other actors do, they change their voice to try act better
Have I heard of the Chicken Girls? No. Am I going to watch a 2 hour video about it? Hell yes. Love your new hair too, thanks for giving me a delight of a video to watch after work 🥰
I will give The Chicken Girls/Brat TV this much: They put more effort in their period scenes on a shoestring budget than some big-budget productions I've seen. Still community theater-esque, but trust me, I've seen lazier. I went to high school from 2003-2007. We didn't do egg-, flour-, or sugar-babies for Healthful Living (similar to Home Ec). However, for extra credit, some students were given crying baby dolls. They were equipped with devices which counted whenever the dolls were "neglected" (i.e. left "crying" for too long without intervention). Other teachers were pissed because students had to leave classrooms to take care of their "babies."
my school did the baby thing but instead of flour sacks it was those hyper realistic baby dolls. it was an optional class so not everyone took it, but we all knew when the project started because people would forget their babies all over the school so you go to the bathroom and BAM hyper realistic crying baby doll was forgotten in the stall. people would also put the dolls in their backpacks with their heads sticking out which was… uncanny
Weird fact that I just learned about Ashley Furniture. Superior Fresh, the company with the largest aquaponics farm in the world, only exists due to money from Ashley Furniture. It's owned by the wife of the billionaire inheritor/CEO of Ashley Furniture.
1:26:28 omg I remember back when Mani first came out, when they were going through babysitters there was a scene where one of the babysitters was all like “And that’s why I would be a great fit for your daughter 😊” then she hits her vape right in front of them, but it’s now been removed
im so glad someone made a deepdive video on this omg.. brat was somewhat popular when i was in middle school (mostly 2017) and one of my friends at the time was obsessed with chicken girls and made me and other friends watch it 😭 i knew it was horrible back then so it's wild to see someone talking about the insanity of it now.
i think you're fine with the library book! libraries have to get rid of material all the time and often will donate them to used books services, and usually the sharpie through the barcode means it's not in the system anymore
I work at a library and that is almost definitely a weeded book! When a book doesnt circulate it gets discarded and we put a line through the barcode in sharpie. It would usually damage the book to try to remove the stickers. So you're all good!!
The “Rhyme and the Runaway Twin” was most likely “ethically sourced” because sometimes when a library has too many of one book or if the book is not the most relevant or popular, libraries will have book sales giving away their books. I have a couple of books I acquired this way with the sticker still on the spine and back. The book you received most likely was acquired legally so there’s no need for you to have a guilty conscience over it lol
Fun fact many of the adult actors at least in the earlier shows/seasons are just the parents of the kid actors. The parents were definitely just hanging out on set already to watch the kids and got asked to read a couple lines. Im sure that has something to do with the short screen times and basically nonexistent adult characters.
has anyone ever actually attended a school where a group of kids that have long since graduated are still discussed by current students? Or was I just the sad and quiet enby and didn’t notice clique politics? Either way this video was a hell of a trip, go chicken girl go🎉
It happened in my high school if those kids did something notable (to children). Like we remembered the name of the kid who got drunk at lunch and crashed his friends car into a tree in the front lawn of my school and then it caught on fire lol
No, my highschool didn't have that. No one cared that much + we didn't really hang out with people from grades above ours so the stories that circled around were mostly about what people from our year did the previous friday lol
i went to a very old and small private school in the downtown of my city and because it was so small and the alumni network is v active, groups of students kept their “icon” label for like decades after they had left the school
I've never seen or even heard of any of the Brat media before this video but now I'm 100% convinced that the Millwood of this show is the very same Millwood where the next-gen PLL girlies live. I Marlene Cinematic Universe
To be fair, the library book may have been sold by the library if it wasn't checked out frequently enough. The crossed out bar code is something some libraries do when they do their sales. The libraries in my area tend to have biannual sales of books, sometimes it's like fill a bag for $10.
"I'm too busy watching watching 3 hour deepdives on TV Shows I've never watched" I feel so called out lmao I love Billiam's super long videos going over the story and BTS of Lost and I've never even seen the show
I’d also like to point out by the point of the chicken girls movie Jules and Hayden had broken up already which just made it so awkward for those poor kids!
Fun Fact: There's a german childrens/teen book series called "the wild chickens", about a group of girls calling themselves "Wild chickens" (which could probably be translated to chicken girls as well...) because one of them actually owns chickens...it's a coming of age/middle school story, that was verry popular for kids growing up around 2000-2010, the books are by Cornelia Funke (who also worked on the book for Guillermo del Torros pans labyrinth) and also got adpted into three movies (I believe...) the point I'm going for is that my german ass was waiting for the connection to my childhood the whole time...
I used to watch all the brat shows when I was younger. This video is bringing back that nostalgia and I didn't realise how cringe the shows truly were.
Our school had baby dolls with computers in them that made them cry and fuss and also recorded how long they cried/if you dropped them. You had to take them home for the whole weekend.
To ease your conscious, a lot of libraries sell book that have not been checked out for an extended amount of time. Most likely someone purchase the book from the library for $1 and didn’t steal it. 😂 Hope that helps you feel a little better!
As a librarian (from the UK so it might be different) I am here to tell you we sell our unpopular or older books quite regularly, so you don't need to apologise!
Commenting before watching the full video: for me personally chicken girls season 1-6 are my favorite I haven't watched it since season 7 came out. And all the old brat shows are so much better than the ones they have now🤷♀️🤷♀️
i was the exact target audience for chicken girls when the first season came out (about 9 or 10) and i have vivid memories of all the girls in our class choregraphing a huge group dance routine to birds of a feather. i was apart of it until me and my friends decided it was way cooler to hide in the bushes and dance to nightcore and Alan walker instead
I am very new to your channel, & as a 32 year old millennial just getting back to 'myself' after some hardship/bad choices in my life..... girl, I want to say hats off. & as another woman who tried her hand at filmography/theatre/music video 'production' throughout high-school, you are seriously hilarious. Love your personality & presentation ❤🎉😊 The note about the open walkways in their mysteriously unclear home state /town of Attaway was especially meaningful as I spent HS in Tucson, AZ. With moderate climate, precisely..... Palm trees. Where tf is this school. Notes...how in this universe is the school anywhere near the American dust bowl, I'm in CO now & found that part hilarious. Anyway appreciated your commentary, your very valid point about the take on why we were calling this production 'Brat tv' at all, with the history at the start.....etcetera. Amazing! Was an avid Degrassi fan myself, as a tiny tween of the early 2000's. Had never heard of the Chicken Girls, loved this recap 🥰❤️💜
Omg gurl I’ve been going through it and for some reason my brain decided your videos are my current coping mechanism. I’ve binged almost all of your videos and I thank you for this 2 hour treasure ❤
Re: the book, I work in a library, and usually when you see a library book that has a blacked out barcode like that, the library has weeded it from the collection and likely given it away/sold it. This can happen because the book is damaged, out of date, or more usually, hasn't hit a minimum number of circulations within the last five years. it varies from library to library, but where I work there's usually a massive cull of book once a year that haven't been checked out more than five times in the last five years. it's likely whoever sold the book to you picked it up from a library book sale or free book box, so by the power vested in me by the library, I resolve you of any guilt in this crime lol
Libraries often discard books that don't get read very often to make space. It's possible the library donated it in some fashion and it ended up back on the used book market.
i clicked not knowing how you could make a 2 hr vid on the chicken girls interesting, and yet i could easily watch hours more. Ashley you are a visionary. thank u.
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It feels like such a flex that a wine company is sponsoring a video about chicken girls 💀 They know who’s here lol
Five minutes in and not a single chicken? Starting to think "Chicken girls" is false advertising
You have to wait until the season one FINALE for a single chicken
@@ashleynortonI’m sorry but what the bleep is a chicken girl?
I gotta say a middle school musical called “Rodeo and Juliet” is the most realistic part of this show
Our Okay Was Called " let George Do it!! A bicentennial Celebration. I sang in the Choir. You take a g and an e and an o...so fun
ours was "shakespear rocks" so yeah, prettyy accurate
it's a completely throwaway line but "she's really good at animal crossing" is so funny because like. what does that even mean? is she nuts at predicting the turnip market? super skilled at catching bugs and fish? just rich as all hell? even as someone who DOES routinely hyperfixate on animal crossing and effectively minmax the game to be super efficient while also doing the best decorating I can, I can't imagine describing someone as "good" at that game
"I'm right at the good part of Wicked, she's defying gravity" is a HILARIOUS line
Can’t decide if it makes it more or less funny that he delivers it like a zombie. I’m leaning more
He’s just the chillest theatre bro to ever live
I’m a fraternal twin. You don’t know how many times I’ve had to explain to people that boy/girl twins cannot be identical.
I spent so much of my childhood convinced that ALL twins were identical regardless of sex because in kindergarten there was a set of fraternal twins (boy and girl) in my class and their features were very similar (same hair/eye color etc) and they told everyone they were identical. It wasn't until like middle school biology and learning about reproduction that I realized they were wrong.
There was actually a set of twins that were born in Australia in 2014, a boy and girl, who were technically like semi-identical and came from the same egg. It’s a really interesting story you should totally check it out!! Science is so amazing sometimes
I've seen some pretty close calls with some boy girl twins
i had someone SWEAR up and down that they knew identical twins who were boy/girl and i had to break the hard news to them that... siblings tend to look alike even when they're not identical twins. when twins come up in conversation it's like everyone's science knowledge goes out the window sometimes, lol.
@@notyaunzzzI mean, me and my sister look identical if you put pictures of us at the same age next to each other, the only caveat being that I am 19 and she is 11
The library book was just a voided book that they got rid of! Libraries get rid of books all the time to make room, and they typically get rid of books that they have too many copies of, or no one has checked it out in years...... Its void because a librarian marked the barcode out with a sharpie. So you weren't complicient in a crime haha! Just got a cheap used library book that no one wanted :)
I’ve been freed 😇
This is comment I came looking for! No crimes done
Kind of sweet though that her first instinct was to donate money to the library. Ashley is a good egg.
I went to the comments to make sure that somebody else had already left this comment haha.
Oh word I was looking for this! I saw the sharpie and was like oh it was just gotten rid of
The kid that said the water fountains were laced with “A. D. H. D….Med. I. Ca. Tion” was literally the funniest thing in the world to me and I would watch a show about just him 😂
Followed immediately by eui mawn cherrie🥖🇫🇷
@@Soapyeiew99 XD the “wee mawn shuree” sent me into orbit
39:10 i actually really like that it didnt result in a religious conversion and instead he just applied the advice he got in a way that made sense for his own life
Oh yes absolutely. My goof aside it was actually a nuanced storyline
I agree. Genuinely some of the most mature religious conversations i've seen on screen. I have read so many Christian books and movies where either atheists are treated as dumb and/or evil. And then so many where the author is just fuming about how dumb atheism is and that Christianity is so obviously the one true way.
20 min into the video: yeah so chicken girls is a pretty chill drama it's mostly dancing and boy drama
1 hr 20 min into the video: and here's the extended family tree and everyone's connections to the mob. also there are vampires.
I-…im still in the first ten minutes and i had watched like two (?) or so seasons of this when i was 12 and then grew tired of it because it wasn’t that good. This out of context is hilarious
"I'm an intellectual. I'm too busy watching 3 hour deep dives on shows I've never watched."
... Come right for my juggler, why don't you?
i read this comment 6 hours ago and i cant stop thinking about it.. im imagining ashley attacking your personal circus performer
I hope they recover soon 💛
@@anniee5487 I'm glad my typo produced the funniest image possible
Praying for your juggler to get his balls back 🫶🏻
My juggler art ree
"why are these women so little" is genuinely the funniest thing i've seen in a show recently, so good on chicken girls for making me laugh so hard i woke up my cat from another room
32:59
same, it completely went over my head when i watched it on my own, but it actually got an audible laugh out of me. good job brat.
the extremely mild/lowkey actor playing the most half-hearted theatre kid representation is the funniest thing in the world to me. i want him to get his own brat tv series.
speaking as a former 13 year old competitive dancer, the experience is honestly much closer to dance moms
i am breaking my silence and leaving my first ever youtube comment because the silas/vincent switcheroo is literally word for word don draper's backstory from mad men. like not one singular detail was changed and i'm SCREAMING
funnily enough something similar happened on ncis hawaii
Basically Principal Skinner's backstory too lol
lmao I'm so glad someone else noticed
i'm only 5 minutes in but this video being how i learn that david blum is the one who coined the phrase "brat pack" shook me to my core considering i know david's wife... who is terri minsky... the creator of lizzie mcguire... who also created the disney channel show andi mack... andi mack was produced by michelle manning, who also produced the breakfast club and sixteen candles... and some of the andi mack cast members that i know also appeared in brat tv shows and were close friends with the actors on that channel... what in the overlapping lore
this comment adds a great layer of extra depth
At first I was like "oh wow what a crazy series of coincidences" but I've just remembered how absolutely jam-packed the entire industry is with nepo babies
god, Ellie singing to her friend unprompted while she's having an identity crisis became one of my fave scenes of all time
I had aged out of BratTV's intended age demographic by the time Chicken Girls became popular, but this entire video reminded me of AwesomenessTV. They are like a legitimate production company now? They literally produced the Netflix Jenny Han adaptations. I wonder what happened to a lot of those channels in the mid-2010s which primarily used influencer casting.
So glad you said this bc every time I watch a movie from them I think of UA-cam and I convince myself is not the same company 😂
Fell asleep at chicken girls season one and woke up at “evil uncle JUMPS out of the ferris wheel”
What’s going on???
I would like to personally apologize to all the Radio Rebels for haphazardly mentioning Chicken Girls to Ashley in the twitch chat 😭 it was a great crime against humanity….
bluestar do you see what you’ve done? These are your chicken( girl)s coming home to roost
all hail bluestarr -yeehawspinach
@@mark-breen I guess at times like this it is important remember that we are all
In this together, we are a girl gang like birds of a feather (I will pay for my crimes)
awe hi bluestarr!!
Haphandedly?
i dont think your book was stolen from the library! libraries regularly cull their collection and sometimes those books end up being sold (and resold) with the stickers still on :)
I had this thought as well, although usually when that happens there'll be a stamp or sticker somewhere on there that says "withdrawn" or similar
the line through the barcode is always a good sign
Came here to say this !!! My family buys a lot from thrift books and they have a lot of books like this
imagine changing your name for sneaky professional reasons and the name you choose is Robin Robins
I always thought it was called brat bc of brataley😭 bc Jules (Annie) and Hailey and their crew were the main actors at the time for the channel lol
I THOUGHT SO TOO LMAO
no bc it was a thing before the leblanc’s came
ME TOO LMAO
@@realestsiennayeah we know now, but we only knew of brattv bc bratayley was promoting it so we just made the connection in our younger heads
Obsessed with the fact that the whole Vincent Patterson dog tag replaced identity and starting a successful company thing from the Chicken Girls book is literally the exacted lifted backstory of Don Draper in Mad Men 💀
Lmao, I knew I had heard this somewhere before 😂
An Ashley Norton film directed, acted, written, edited, and catered by Ashley Norton
Don’t forget produced!
@@erikdaniels0nyes definitely I would love to see that movie happen
I never did the flour baby thing at school but another science class in my year had biscuit babies. The main challenge was not eating your baby before the project was over.
Life imitates art (specifically Saturn devouring his son)
Cronus would've failed big time.
ours was raw eggs lol
Wait bc we did this we got given gingerbread cookies and just had to keep them alive for a week… the problem is I have this awful feel in mine is still in my bedroom at home.. this project was done in 2015
Ok, at this point you NEED to do a video on Dance Academy. It is an Australian teen show about a dance school. It has ups and downs, and totally worth the weekend binge😅❤❤❤
Yesss I’ve been wanting this ever since she did h2o
god i would love that, i think it's unironically an amazing coming of age show that starts off a bit goofy but has a lot of depth in the end
God i dont wanna think about sammy again
@@MrMoustoucheI don’t think I’ll ever recover from Sammy
YES tysm i feel like im the only one whos watched this show
Your ad placements are top tier. Specifically enjoyed when it cut to an ad after hearing “water fountains are laced with adhd medication”
I do have to say regarding the standards for 13 year old competitive dance, dance moms is much closer to reality than you would think talent wise. My sister is 18 now but has competitively danced since she was like 9 or 10 and it’s kinda insane how good those kids are lol
I’m so excited to finally be able to make this comment- I’ve never once heard of the Chicken Girls but I’m absolutely here for the deep dive
Shout out to the fellow little stinkers in the crowd
This video was the exact amount of time it took me to make the dough, roll out, cut out and bake two batches of sugar cookies. Thank you.
Honestly the plot of the chicken girls book sounds like it could be a nancy drew novel so kudos to those ghost writers
That says a lot more about the Nancy Drew plots than it says about the ghost writers tbh. And actually now that you mention it though. There's been enough blatant ripoffs of plots from other media that I wouldn't even be surprised if this was the exact actual plot of a real actual Nancy Drew book
Oh god this gives me flashbacks to primary school when there was a group of 'cool girls' (we were like 11) who knew everything about this show, the dance they do, the characters, the actors. They were always talking about which child influencer was dating which and I had no idea what was going on. Weird to finally see THIS is what they were talking about.
I was actually a brataley fan during this Brat era and during the whole ‘cheating’ scandal and Jules had actually confirmed that she had dated Hayden and he did cheat on her (this is like grained in my brain because of how much attention was on it)
yes omg and the bowling vlog with all the tension
@@s0phia71ugh it was SOOOO chaotic 😭
This is adorable lol. We care about such dumb stuff when we're younger
i’m sorry ‘they’re just not my little kendall’ is in fact one of the best lines that you’ve ever stated x
My younger sister was obsessed with all of these shows back when they first came out. This video unearthed so many memories I hadn’t thought about it years.
same except i was the one watching it lmao
honestly, the lore is legendary. i love how deep it goes without getting absolutely riverdale.
this series seems like a fever dream, and i love it. also, warn me before you jump-scare me with Andrew Lloyd Webber
CW: ALW
"Formerly blue haired freak" 😭
it was like every musically star magically became an actor. And I was here for it 😭
There was a german book and movie series called "The wild chicks" in the early 2000s. Five girls who grew up together, living through typical girlhood problems. It was a huge success. Maybe that is, where the inspiration for name comes from?
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Trixie canonically exists in the brat tv universe AND in American horror story, therefore one can assume that they take place in the same universe
It's more likely that Trixie is able to travel between universes as she pleases
Alternatively, every universe has a Trixie Mattel
If it makes you feel better sometimes libraries sell off books that don't get checked out a lot to raise extra money so it could be that 😅
Was gonna say this. I've bought several books off Amazon that were sold by libraries themselves and came with all their library stamps and stickers. If you check the seller while looking at "used" it'll usually say something like "friends of the [name] public library".
1:28:34 I cannot get over “begone hot topic sale selection” now that is cinema
Did anyone else’s school have electronic realistic babies instead of flour babies…? They were horrifying and recorded things like if you fed it, if you were rough with it, etc 😂
My middle school had the flour babies and my high school did the electronic ones.
My highschool did when my big sister went there about 12 years ago
What class were you guys taking for this? I cannot for the life of me remember any class doing this
@@intergalactic-oboist Home Economics
@@intergalactic-oboist For middle school I think it was Home-Ec, for high school we had a Parenting class. Both were elective courses.
It was originally called Brat then later changed to Brat tv. I watched Brat since the beginning because of Jules. My favorite underrated show was “A girl named JO” it was really good and deserved so much spotlight
does anyone else remember that one mini series with kristen hancher? cause that’s how i found it 😭
@@realestsiennaMani? Yeah they started S9 for that
@@9rincesa no not mani
I've never heard of her until Group Chat and then Side Hustle which, as a late 20something expecting the bare minimum of modern Nick shows, was actually one of the best Nick shows in a long time! But because they care about their cashcows more than anything else, like most basic cable networks struggling to compete with streaming anyway, it got cancelled without a resolution of the plot. And I'm still not over it.
Meanwhile, Brat TV has the bigger advantage as an independent studio making their own series without the threat of cancellation. And yet, they do the bare minimum of earning it.
This video is actually VERY relevant to me. I vividly remember sneak watching the Chicken Girls in the middle of the night on my ipod touch in middle school.
Very surprised that she didn’t talk about the s10 chicken girl’s connection to both Attaway general’s newest season and the show Juniors😭 that whole thing is CRAZY
Wait, Attaway General is still going?!
@@sita9071 the last episode of s4 was likeeeee 6 months ago I think? WILD season btw highly recommend both that and s1 of juniors. It’s like watching things happen from two different POVs
@@shminerva ah ok. I’m not in the target demographic for these shows at all. I tried to get into them, but it felt too weird. Glad that they are accessible for the kids today though.
probably because nobody actually likes season 10. it feels like its own show that was rewritten to be chicken girls for some reason (maybe due to a staff or actor revolt that caused them to not film the original chicken girls season 10)
THERES 10 SEASONS?
The chicken girls is the musical of all musicals. It's every type of musical at once and yet at the same time, not one at all.
Andrew Lloyd Webber wishes he could break genres like this
Once my nephews found out I watched UA-cam but not Mr Beast. They were horrified. I told them I didn't know what was in the zeitgeist of tweens on UA-cam (which they did not understand nor care to understand as they were still traumatized that I didn't know Mr Beast).
All of Ashley's content makes me realize I missed the internet. I never know anything. I mean I knew Disney channel stars were on Danimals commercials but that's all folks. Might as well be Tig Notaro.
reject youth. embrace being a wizened crone
it's so weird seeing this whole universe be perceived by other people. i grew up watching bratayley, which is the family channel jules and hayley leblanc's mom used to have. i was around the same age their older brother was at the time, and my family wasn't very well off at the time, so i lived vicariously through them. when i saw the girls were staring in their shows, of course i was gonna watch them. add to that the cast of dance moms that's also in the shows and i was hooked. now i'm in my early 20s and ridiculously invested in this kids show universe because i just happened to get roped in it when i was a kid and now i can't stop. it's such a guilty pleasure that i just can't talk to anyone about, because how do i explain how i even found out about it??
as a side note, because the brat channel appeared around the same time jules and hayley started acting and they were the leads in a bunch of shows there, i genuinely thought that the channel was partialy owned by their parents, hence the name brat. like, from bratayley, their youtube channel. this is what i get for being a kid and taking things at face value lmao, i had no idea why it was called brat. it makes so much sense now.
9:43 just want to point out it has actually had four dance moms members - Kalani was also on brat in Dirt
Why did I think this was a farm-based child middle school drama 😂 like some small town farm girls with dreams of being dance stars but still needing to balance their chores with the animals lol
No one actually talks about how good of an actress Hayley is! I was always amazed I mean maybe that’s because everyone else was no good but she has always just looked really comfortable and her voice never changes, which is what a lot of the other actors do, they change their voice to try act better
Have I heard of the Chicken Girls? No. Am I going to watch a 2 hour video about it? Hell yes. Love your new hair too, thanks for giving me a delight of a video to watch after work 🥰
I’m excited to finally learn what all that discussion in the Twitch chat has been about
Thank you for putting up with the weeks of me spiraling
no same i am so ready -yeehawspinach :)
same :)))
I will give The Chicken Girls/Brat TV this much: They put more effort in their period scenes on a shoestring budget than some big-budget productions I've seen. Still community theater-esque, but trust me, I've seen lazier.
I went to high school from 2003-2007. We didn't do egg-, flour-, or sugar-babies for Healthful Living (similar to Home Ec). However, for extra credit, some students were given crying baby dolls. They were equipped with devices which counted whenever the dolls were "neglected" (i.e. left "crying" for too long without intervention). Other teachers were pissed because students had to leave classrooms to take care of their "babies."
my school did the baby thing but instead of flour sacks it was those hyper realistic baby dolls. it was an optional class so not everyone took it, but we all knew when the project started because people would forget their babies all over the school so you go to the bathroom and BAM hyper realistic crying baby doll was forgotten in the stall. people would also put the dolls in their backpacks with their heads sticking out which was… uncanny
I think its neat that Ashley takes a break from manufacturing door hardware to give us hour long videos. We´re not worthy
Weird fact that I just learned about Ashley Furniture. Superior Fresh, the company with the largest aquaponics farm in the world, only exists due to money from Ashley Furniture. It's owned by the wife of the billionaire inheritor/CEO of Ashley Furniture.
1:26:28 omg I remember back when Mani first came out, when they were going through babysitters there was a scene where one of the babysitters was all like “And that’s why I would be a great fit for your daughter 😊” then she hits her vape right in front of them, but it’s now been removed
Chicken girls got to 10 seasons?!
I just checked and apparently they are still making episodes and about to start season 11
i was a 12(ish) year old who was obsessed with these shows. but total eclipse was my favorite lol
im so glad someone made a deepdive video on this omg.. brat was somewhat popular when i was in middle school (mostly 2017) and one of my friends at the time was obsessed with chicken girls and made me and other friends watch it 😭 i knew it was horrible back then so it's wild to see someone talking about the insanity of it now.
i think you're fine with the library book! libraries have to get rid of material all the time and often will donate them to used books services, and usually the sharpie through the barcode means it's not in the system anymore
I work at a library and that is almost definitely a weeded book! When a book doesnt circulate it gets discarded and we put a line through the barcode in sharpie. It would usually damage the book to try to remove the stickers. So you're all good!!
The “Rhyme and the Runaway Twin” was most likely “ethically sourced” because sometimes when a library has too many of one book or if the book is not the most relevant or popular, libraries will have book sales giving away their books. I have a couple of books I acquired this way with the sticker still on the spine and back. The book you received most likely was acquired legally so there’s no need for you to have a guilty conscience over it lol
oh, the boundaries this show could have broken if it had a different name
Fun fact many of the adult actors at least in the earlier shows/seasons are just the parents of the kid actors. The parents were definitely just hanging out on set already to watch the kids and got asked to read a couple lines. Im sure that has something to do with the short screen times and basically nonexistent adult characters.
has anyone ever actually attended a school where a group of kids that have long since graduated are still discussed by current students? Or was I just the sad and quiet enby and didn’t notice clique politics? Either way this video was a hell of a trip, go chicken girl go🎉
It happened in my high school if those kids did something notable (to children). Like we remembered the name of the kid who got drunk at lunch and crashed his friends car into a tree in the front lawn of my school and then it caught on fire lol
yes?? lmfaoo 😭
yes but in my case it was specifically theatre kids and those are just a whole different breed and should not be looked to as standard examples
No, my highschool didn't have that. No one cared that much + we didn't really hang out with people from grades above ours so the stories that circled around were mostly about what people from our year did the previous friday lol
i went to a very old and small private school in the downtown of my city and because it was so small and the alumni network is v active, groups of students kept their “icon” label for like decades after they had left the school
I've never seen or even heard of any of the Brat media before this video but now I'm 100% convinced that the Millwood of this show is the very same Millwood where the next-gen PLL girlies live. I Marlene Cinematic Universe
To be fair, the library book may have been sold by the library if it wasn't checked out frequently enough. The crossed out bar code is something some libraries do when they do their sales. The libraries in my area tend to have biannual sales of books, sometimes it's like fill a bag for $10.
"I'm too busy watching watching 3 hour deepdives on TV Shows I've never watched" I feel so called out lmao I love Billiam's super long videos going over the story and BTS of Lost and I've never even seen the show
I did the flour baby thing in high school but it was not with partners. Glad I’m prepared for parenthood now!
I’d also like to point out by the point of the chicken girls movie Jules and Hayden had broken up already which just made it so awkward for those poor kids!
The breakup happens after they already done filming s1+s2 and the movie
They broke up right before it premiered then had to awkwardly film season3 together
Fun Fact: There's a german childrens/teen book series called "the wild chickens", about a group of girls calling themselves "Wild chickens" (which could probably be translated to chicken girls as well...) because one of them actually owns chickens...it's a coming of age/middle school story, that was verry popular for kids growing up around 2000-2010, the books are by Cornelia Funke (who also worked on the book for Guillermo del Torros pans labyrinth) and also got adpted into three movies (I believe...) the point I'm going for is that my german ass was waiting for the connection to my childhood the whole time...
“Why are these women so little” IM SOBBING
i really thought chicken girls was a fever dream but i’m so glad it wasn’t because honestly it ate
I used to watch all the brat shows when I was younger. This video is bringing back that nostalgia and I didn't realise how cringe the shows truly were.
that brat pack lore was so fun and interesting, thank you ashely!
Our school had baby dolls with computers in them that made them cry and fuss and also recorded how long they cried/if you dropped them. You had to take them home for the whole weekend.
To ease your conscious, a lot of libraries sell book that have not been checked out for an extended amount of time. Most likely someone purchase the book from the library for $1 and didn’t steal it. 😂 Hope that helps you feel a little better!
she's back! :)
hope you're having a lovely summer! thanks for all your hard work!
Thank you! Hope you’re thriving too
I died when you the “they’re not really bad dances, they’re just not my lil Kendall” slipped out😂😭🤣
thanks for introducing me yet again to something ive never heard of and will now haunt me for many months after
Jordan Adika also reviewed several episodes and I was hooked lmao
This video went places I was not expecting 😂 I didn’t know the chicken girls lore went so deep
As a librarian (from the UK so it might be different) I am here to tell you we sell our unpopular or older books quite regularly, so you don't need to apologise!
It actually makes my day when I see you've posted! Instant dopamine hit 🥰
Yes!!!! Seeing a new two hour Ashley Norton is such a gift
Commenting before watching the full video: for me personally chicken girls season 1-6 are my favorite I haven't watched it since season 7 came out. And all the old brat shows are so much better than the ones they have now🤷♀️🤷♀️
Did not realize there was multigenerational lore to brat tv
i was the exact target audience for chicken girls when the first season came out (about 9 or 10) and i have vivid memories of all the girls in our class choregraphing a huge group dance routine to birds of a feather. i was apart of it until me and my friends decided it was way cooler to hide in the bushes and dance to nightcore and Alan walker instead
i'd also like to add that their cover of little do you know is burned into my mind from how much i watched that as a kid
I am very new to your channel, & as a 32 year old millennial just getting back to 'myself' after some hardship/bad choices in my life..... girl, I want to say hats off. & as another woman who tried her hand at filmography/theatre/music video 'production' throughout high-school, you are seriously hilarious. Love your personality & presentation ❤🎉😊
The note about the open walkways in their mysteriously unclear home state /town of Attaway was especially meaningful as I spent HS in Tucson, AZ. With moderate climate, precisely.....
Palm trees. Where tf is this school.
Notes...how in this universe is the school anywhere near the American dust bowl, I'm in CO now & found that part hilarious.
Anyway appreciated your commentary, your very valid point about the take on why we were calling this production 'Brat tv' at all, with the history at the start.....etcetera. Amazing!
Was an avid Degrassi fan myself, as a tiny tween of the early 2000's.
Had never heard of the Chicken Girls, loved this recap 🥰❤️💜
The fact that this went from a lighthearted dance team show to a multigenerational drama is...well, it's not what I expected lmao
The Chicken Girls was literally my childhood! I’m so glad that someone made a video on it.
Omg gurl I’ve been going through it and for some reason my brain decided your videos are my current coping mechanism. I’ve binged almost all of your videos and I thank you for this 2 hour treasure ❤
Re: the book, I work in a library, and usually when you see a library book that has a blacked out barcode like that, the library has weeded it from the collection and likely given it away/sold it. This can happen because the book is damaged, out of date, or more usually, hasn't hit a minimum number of circulations within the last five years. it varies from library to library, but where I work there's usually a massive cull of book once a year that haven't been checked out more than five times in the last five years. it's likely whoever sold the book to you picked it up from a library book sale or free book box, so by the power vested in me by the library, I resolve you of any guilt in this crime lol
The question about flour babies reminded me of another children's sitcom trope that I've never seen in IRL.
Did yall even have hall monitors?
Libraries often discard books that don't get read very often to make space. It's possible the library donated it in some fashion and it ended up back on the used book market.
i clicked not knowing how you could make a 2 hr vid on the chicken girls interesting, and yet i could easily watch hours more.
Ashley you are a visionary. thank u.