The Chica Show - The Last of Chica

One of my favorite shows is The Chica Show, which premiered on Sprout in 2012. The series was about the titular chicken puppet who helped her parents in a costume shop and became animated after the shop closed. Now, I like the series, but there was one episode that was so sad, lemme tell you about it.

On September 23rd, 2020, two days after my thirteenth birthday, I went to check the mail and found a DVD disc called "The Chica Show series finale." Curious about what it was about, I decided to go to my room and put the DVD into my portable DVD player I got for Christmas in 2017.

The DVD started with the normal version of the theme song and then the space episode played. What? Even though Chica goes to the moon and misses her parents in this episode, I was confused. This was supposed to be the series finale. After the episode, we cut to a new one. The title card read "The Last of Chica."

The episode started with Chica, her parents, and Kelly in the Costume Coop. Just then, Chica started coughing a lot. Kelly noticed and started calling a doctor.

The scene cut to the four main characters in a doctor's office. "Chica has hydrocephalus, a disease where people have water in their heads." A female doctor told Mr. and Mrs. C and Kelly. Once upon a time, I had a friend who died of the same disease at age nine.

"What? You're kidding!" Mrs. C, Chica's mom, told the doctor. "I've known her for years and I haven't heard her head swishing."

"I wish I was." The doctor sighed. Suddenly, Chica needed to use the bathroom and Mr. C, her dad, took her.

Mr. C told Chica to pee hard. What? I couldn't believe they discussed peeing on a preschool show like this. Chica couldn't. She had a funny feeling in her mouth. She coughed, burped, and water came out of her mouth, ala vomiting.

"You know what, Tweety? I'm glad you done that." Mr. C applauded Chica as he flushed the toilet. "By the way, didn't your doctor say you were born with water in your head?"

Back in the doctor's office, the doctor told Mrs. C and Kelly that they needed to take Chica to the hospital. "What?! We can't do this! I'm worried she'd die!" Kelly moaned. I can't believe they would talk about death on a show aimed at little kids.

"I'm sorry, but you need to." the doctor explained.

Once Mr. C and Chica came into the room, Mrs. C told her husband "Come on, Cluckums, pack up the kid, we're going to the hospital."

"Okay." Mr. C sighed. With that, he, his wife, Chica, and Kelly walked out of the doctor's office and into the hospital.

The next scene had Chica in a hospital room with her mom. Just then, she squeaked something to her. "You don't want to die, Chica? I'm sorry, but everybody dies." Mrs. C said, tearing up.

Chica then fell asleep, launching into a dream with her, Kelly, Stitches, and Bunji taking a car ride across Richmond. What? I couldn't believe they would show my birthplace on a show like this. Just then, they saw a young animated boy yelling and jumping. The boy had brown hair and a dark blue shirt with small white stripes. "Come in!" Kelly told the boy as she opened the car door. The boy got inside.

"So, what's wrong?" asked Bunji.

"I'm lost?" the boy said. "I can't find my parents!"

"We'll help you. They're around here somewhere." said Stitches.

"Do you remember where you live?" asked Kelly.

"I live in a very big skyscraper in the middle of the city." said a boy.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know where that is." sighed Stitches.

"Now I'll never get home!" the boy sobbed.

Chica woke up to almost every character from the series - her parents, Kelly, Jett, Bunji, Stitches, the brunette boy she helped,

"Chica, I hate to say this, but you're going to die." Mr. C told her. "...but you're too young to, you're only seven." Seven? I thought Chica was four years old. Either that of the previous events of the show happened three years ago.

"Hey, Chica, remember me? I'm the Mail guy." Jett explained.

Chica nodded and squeaked something to everyone.

"Aww, we love you too, Chica." Kelly replied, touched by her friend's words.

After that, Chica took her final breath and closed her eyes.

The next scene cut to a funeral in a church. Kelly went up and said "Chica was an amazing friend. She was kind, caring, and everyone who met her never talked down to her." After that, she ran away crying.

The episode died with Mr. and Mrs. C walking up to Chica's dead body and handing her some ice cream and a teddy bear.

The credits were on a blank yellow screen and there was no music playing. After that, I took the DVD out and, unlike most people, didn't smash it to pieces or throw it away. I thought this was the perfect way to end such a beautiful series despite it being a little dark.

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