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Imagining Chick-fil-A's Actual Shows

from The DNC Chick & Sunken Superyachts | The Tim Dillon Show #406 · #406

10 min

Tim invents absurd hypothetical Chick-fil-A programming including a trans-detection detective show, a fat-people Love Island parody, and riffs on other fast food chains launching their own streamers, plus a bit about what moms really do on Sundays.

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  • Chick-fil-A's new shows will be like a docuseries following devotees of the chain, similar to reality TV families.
  • Tim warns that when you do reality programming, someone on one of these shows will eventually commit a serious crime, forcing the company to issue a press conference.
  • They should just sell sandwiches instead of opening themselves up to countless problems by launching a streaming service.
  • The fact that Chick-fil-A has to specify their entertainment won't necessarily be about the product shows how absurd this venture is.
  • They want you to eat their food while watching their content to keep you from thinking whether you should get that ninth sandwich.
  • Chick-fil-A doesn't know what they're doing—they make chicken nuggets, not entertainment—but they don't care and will spend huge budgets on content anyway.
  • This is where America loses Tim—the grotesque idea that buying chicken isn't enough, they need you to consume entertainment too.
  • Corporations roam the land like T-Rexes taking bites out of any part of culture they want; they all dream of being Disney.
  • Scripted Chick-fil-A programming represents pure insanity—people will soon say they watch their shows on the chicken sandwich app instead of Netflix.
  • This problem will spread; Taco Bell and other chains will all start making shows once they see Chick-fil-A doing it.
  • America doesn't need more family-friendly entertainment—it needs more families actually doing things together instead of sitting on couches watching corporate garbage.
  • Chick-fil-A's closed-on-Sunday brand imagines families cooking together, but the reality is mothers locking themselves in rooms with cigarettes and blankets, ordering pizza for the house.
  • Companies don't need to be everywhere—can't anyone be left alone in this country without being assaulted by advertising from a chicken sandwich corporation producing entertainment?
  • Tim's favorite show is the one the chicken sandwich produces—because that's literally what this has become, a poultry product directing entertainment options.
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