Chicken Minute (1990 Canadian Puppet Series)

Chicken Minute ("Cocotte Minute" in the alternativeFrench) was a puppet TV series made in Canada in 1990.

It was set in the Canadian bayou, with many scenes showing swamps and mucky forests.

The puppet characters are anthropomorphic animals (almost always shown waist up, of course). The main one is simple-minded crocodile Anatole, who likes fishing and hanging with his friends: fox Minute who plays electric guitar and who is in a relationship with hen Cocotte who cooks delicious popcorn (Minute became vegetarian for her).

The narrator is Ulysse de la Fontaine, a chick still living in his egg and who is extremely smart despite his age. The main villain is Draduli, a swamp monster who lives among mud and likes to play nasty tricks on the other characters, but can be friendly with them too at times.

Only a few episodes are known to have been released on VHS, in the English dub. Of these, only two have been uploaded on YouTube ("Coup de Ville" and "The singing contest").

Lately, one of the original staff that worked on the show, Jean Gagnon (art director, background and puppet designer) uploaded several episodes on YouTube in the French dub, Some of these have their audio off-sync, so be warned.

Many more episodes are still missing, though.