Chicken Ranch

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Take him to the chicken ranch and get him started right.

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What's the, what's the chicken ranch?

That's a str- it's a, a, a, a, a, a prostitution house.

Oh, is that the one-

Yeah

... is that the one in the-

That

was the Chicken Ranch.

Whoever won the

Texas A&M game got to go to the Chicken Ranch.

I'm really

curious when we come back, if you guys don't mind, I'd love to know y'all's thoughts on the game.

And also something that's tied into my family history, which is The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

down at the chick chick chicken ranch where a lonely girl could have a chance and a homely boy could find romance at the chick chick chicken ranch the sheriff and miss mona for years had been red hot lovers and real good friends but trouble snowballed like an When Melvin Thorpe, a reporter of sorts, a self-righteous crusading fanatic, got on TV like you wouldn't believe and pointed a finger right at it.

Exposing Miss Mona, accusing the sheriff, then it rose to a roar from a whimper.

It got all out of hand.

The

Chick

Chick Chick Chick Chicken Ranch has been recouped into song and dance.

And I know you wouldn't want to miss the chance to come to the Chicken Ranch.

You know, I found out that was based on a true story, actually.

The chicken ranch.

I didn't know

that.

can remove magic.

So, if you don't know, The Best Little Whore House in Texas, 1982, tells the story of Miss Mona Strangely and her lover Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd as they fight to protect a famous long-standing local brothel known as the Chicken Ranch from a pious TV crusader.

Yeah, yeah.

A lot of...

fun, but is it endearing?

Well, they made the male characters quite two-dimensional of men only want sex.

About time, right? So much so that, you know, the hypocrisy of all of the people in power are for the chicken ranch until it affects them.

Yeah.

Okay, so let's real quickly run through the plot.

So The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a musical comedy about the Chicken Ranch, a brothel on the outskirts of Gilbert, Texas, that regardless of legality has become well-known and respected fixture in the area, especially after Miss Mona takes over because she keeps the house clean and donates to charity.

Sidebar, they call it the chicken ranch.

I love the reason behind it.

In times of hardship, men were allowed to pay for services with chickens.

Okay.

Okay.

So one day, consumer advocate, TV personality, and hilariously ridiculous moral crusader, Melvin P. Thorpe, played by Dom DeLuise, does an expose about the chicken ranch.

Even more lighthearted than 9 to 5, and that's The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Although, if you were watching it on television, it'd be the best chicken ranch in Texas, I

think.

Technically.

But yeah, ultimately the chicken coop,

the chicken farm.

Chicken ranch.

Yeah, chicken ranch, chicken farm.

But let's jump into the first one, which is The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Came out July 23rd, 1982, when a conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down a beloved brothel, the Chicken Ranch.

Proprietess Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go down without a fight.

It opened number one.

Not much of a relationship between them in this picture, just a lot of vulgar hee-haw jokes.

Did Siskel say foul language when talking about the

chicken coop? Wait, chicken farm? Chicken ranch.

Foul language.