From “Bow Chicka Wow Wow” to “Brown Chicken, Brown Cow”

Bow chicka wow wow is the joking riff that signals a sexual double entendre, and a cleaner echo is brown chicken, brown cow. The phrase mimics the same rhythm and shows up in Trace Adkins’s country song Brown Chicken, Brown Cow, with a video full of barnyard puppets getting busy. The joke works because the farm-animal words sound like the familiar riff without saying it outright. This is part of a complete episode.

Transcript of “From “Bow Chicka Wow Wow” to “Brown Chicken, Brown Cow””

Do you remember when we did the call about

How could I forget? People were singing that to me all week, so it’s this baseline rhythm that is

Has become associated with cheesy porn. Right? So if someone says something that has a that could

Have a sexual connotation, you kind of joke and you make that noise and it leads them

To believe.

You know, it’s just a way of saying, oh, did you mean that sexy?

You know, right?

Bow chicka wow wow.

Bow chicka wow wow.

Right?

Well, we got a few emails from people, including Sky Boyd, Yusuf Windham, and Wendy Sang, who

Told us that the kid-friendly version of this is brown chicken, brown cow.

So say it.

Brown chicken, brown cow.

And it turns out there’s a country song by Trace Adkins.

No.

It’s a funny video with puppets getting busy on the farm.

That’s all I’m going to say.

It’s family safe, but you can hunt it up.

It’s on the CMT site.

Trace Adkins, A-D-K-I-N-S.

And it’s called Brown Chicken, Brown Cow.

And it has in it brown chickens and brown cows.

Puppets.

Oh.

Yeah, smoking cigarettes after.

Yes, caught in flagrante smoking cigarettes after the fact.

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