The Hyper-Chicken Lawyer (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is a large blue/green chicken with southern mannerisms and a pince-nez perched on his beak. He is an alien originally from what he describes as a "backwoods asteroid." The show never reveals the Hyper-Chicken Lawyer's name (or the non-existence thereof); in " Brannigan Begin Again ", it is revealed that the Hyper-Chicken Lawyer's species is "hyper-chicken". In the commentary of " A Tale of Two Santas ", David X. Cohen explains that the script simply used the designation "hyper-chicken" to refer to the character. He is a lawyer who has appeared both as a defense attorney and as a prosecutor. He is a terrible lawyer but despite his incompetence he sometimes manages to win his cases, and if he doesn't he usually tells his clients to plead insanity.