Emotional Support Chicken
A 13-inch soft vinyl rubber chicken wearing a removable nylon vest that labels it an emotional support animal. Squeeze the body and it squawks. Archie McPhee sells it as a joke about support animals, not as a licensed therapy aid, and the packaging says so.
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The vest is the product. Without it this is a rubber chicken, and rubber chickens have been a punchline since before most of the people buying this were born. With the vest on, the object pretends to have a job, a clearance, and a right to be in the room. That is a better joke than a squeaker, and it is why the same chicken keeps landing on white-elephant lists years after it launched. It is thirteen inches of vinyl, so it reads from across a living room, which is the distance at which a gift exchange is actually decided. The sound is the ordinary rubber-chicken squawk, not an electronic recording, and the vest comes off if someone wants the plain bird. There is no claim here that it helps with anything. The label is the bit.
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