Question about the bird lawyer

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Does it have any implication with "To Kill a Mockingbird?" It hit me in "Brannigan Begin Again"; the bird was Atticus, Zapp was like Mayella, and Leela was like Tom. I have such a twisted mind.   

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He's not a bird, he's a hyper-chicken.  Also, I haven't read To Kill A Mockingbird or seen the movie in 7 years, so I can't make any comparison.

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Chicken... oh yeah, I remember that from "A Tale of Two Santas."

Anyways, thanks!

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He's basically just Foghorn Leghorn, if Foghorn Leghorn was a lawyer.

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Well I always thought that the lawyer (heard that his name was Hyperchicken from somewhere?) was to do with 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. I mean in the book, you have the lawyer Atticus Finch who lives in the 'Deep South' part of America and in the show you have a lawyer who is a bird (looks like a finch maybe? I don't really know much about birds) and talks in a southern american accent. He is funny though "I thought you was corn."

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Yeah, in "Brannigan Begin Again", everything from the audience to the jury to the bird lawyer to the defendent, etc. was somewhat parallel to TKM. They probably didn't intend it that way; it's just ironic :-P

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Maybe...But i haven't read the book or seen the movie so dont pay any attention to me

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I think Groening has got a fixation with southern lawyers, and I think Atticus Finch is the stereotype he draws from.  The chicken starts one of his lines, "Now I may just be a simple hyperchicken..." it's playing to that backwoods-lawyer-taking-on-the-man vibe.  Anyone remember the Simpsons episode where Homer hooks his thumbs behind his suspenders and says, "Now, I'm not a fancy big city lawyer..." and everyone gasps?

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Or maybe the bird lawyer is a cross between Col. Saunders and Foghorn Leghorn perhaps?

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Probably Foghorn Leghorn. I just brought up TKM because of my English-infested mind. My English class is great.

This is off-topic, but anyways... we just finished reading "Jurassic Park," and it was right before break. So I brought in my "Jurassic Bark" tape and we watched that and Family Guy. Good stuff.

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According to the DVD commentaries, the Hyperchicken is a Froghorn Leghorn ripoff. He used to resemble Froghorn Leghorn even more, but they got sued for it, so they made him green.
Although I can see how a To Kill A Mockingbird parody can tie into that particular scene.