Cow and Chicken (1997)

Season 1

Follows the surreal adventures of a cow, named Cow, and her chicken brother, named Chicken. They are often antagonized by "The Red Guy", who poses as various characters to scam them.

Released Sept. 16, 1997 Episode 6 min 7+

Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids

Keywords: tmdb.high-school, tmdb.personification, imdb.male-protagonist, imdb.slapstick-comedy, imdb.male-and-female-protagonists, imdb.duo, imdb.red + 33 more, imdb.surreal-comedy, imdb.devil, imdb.female-protagonist, imdb.suburb, imdb.parents, imdb.surrealism, imdb.elementary-school, imdb.superhero-fantasy, tmdb.talking-animal, imdb.urban-adventure, imdb.farce-comedy, imdb.quirky-comedy, imdb.kids-family, imdb.hand-drawn-animation, awards.emmy-award-nominated, imdb.animal-in-series-title, imdb.cow, imdb.chicken, imdb.animal-in-title, imdb.three-word-title, imdb.animal-name-in-title, imdb.anthropomorphic-chicken, imdb.anthropomorphic-cow, imdb.talking-chicken, imdb.talking-cow, imdb.character-name-in-title, imdb.cartoon-chicken, imdb.talking-animal, imdb.cartoon-cow, imdb.anthropomorphic-animal, imdb.for-grown-ups-animation, imdb.buddy-comedy, imdb.four-fingers-on-the-hands

Production Companies: Hanna-Barbera Productions, Cartoon Network Studios, David Feiss Productions

Network: Cartoon Network

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb

6.5

/22852/

Trakt

/539/

TMDb

/487/

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David Feiss
Director

Candi Milo
Mom (voice)

Charlie Adler
Cow / Chicken / The Red Guy / I.R. Baboon (voice)

Dee Bradley Baker
Dad (voice), Prisoner (voice)

Tom Kenny

Dan Castellaneta
Earl (voice)

Michael Dorn
I.M. Weasel (voice)

Howard Morris
Flem (voice)

Susanne Blakeslee

S1E1 - Field Trip to Folsom Prison

On a field trip to the penitentiary, Chicken switches places with a hardened criminal named Red.

Sept. 16, 1997, midnight

S1E2 - The Girl's Bathroom

Chicken, Flem and Earl are fascinated by the girls' bathroom.

Sept. 16, 1997, midnight

S1E4 - Supermodel Cow

At the mall, Cow gets noticed by a fashion photographer from Vague Magazine. Her bovine looks become the latest fad.

July 22, 1997, midnight

S1E5 - Part-Time Job

Cow wants to earn money to buy the new Crabs the Warthog Doll. So she gets a part-time job at the milk farm, where her milk is superb. Chicken decides to get a part-time job too, and is refered to the Chicken farm as a ""temporary employee"".

July 22, 1997, midnight

S1E7 - Alive!

Cow and her babysitter accidentally get stuck up on the roof.

July 29, 1997, midnight

S1E8 - Who is Super Cow?

Red Guy is trying to know the secret identity of Supercow.

July 29, 1997, midnight

S1E10 - Confused

Mom and Dad send Cow and Chicken to military school to teach them discipline, but are appalled when they return as iron-minded machines.

Aug. 5, 1997, midnight

S1E11 - The Molting Fairy

Chicken starts molting, and is convinced that he'll get a dollar for every feather by the molting fairy. Chicken adds it up to $700, and decides to start an I.O.U. system at the carnival.

Aug. 5, 1997, midnight

S1E13 - The Ugliest Weenie - Part One

Cow writes a play called The Ugliest Weenie, -- a sad tale about an ugly, deformed weenie in a pack of otherwise beautiful weenies (hotdogs).

Aug. 12, 1997, midnight

S1E16 - Crash Dive!

Chicken builds a submarine out of odd pieces of wood he finds lying around.

Aug. 19, 1997, midnight

S1E17 - Happy Meat

Chicken is sick of the cafeteria's food, which is nothing but a steady diet of ketchup. Since Chicken is against it, he has been banned from eating anything from the cafeteria. After a halusination of seeing his great grandpa and grandma, Cow and Chicken decide to open up their own little meat cafe, which turns out to be quite popular.

Aug. 19, 1997, midnight

S1E19 - School Bully

When a new bully comes to town, Chicken and his friends become nostalgic for their old school bully.

Aug. 26, 1997, midnight

S1E20 - Time Machine

Cow and Chicken go to the arcade, and play the time machine. They find themselves back in a deserted time, where The Red Guy introduces them to the primortial soup. But when Cow accidentally drops her quarter into it, everyone in the present time has quarters for heads. Cow and Chicken must go back into time again to stop her.

Aug. 26, 1997, midnight

S1E22 - Orthodontic Police

Dad is pulled over by a cop, who discovers Cow and Chicken have crooked teeth and slaps braces on them.

Sept. 2, 1997, midnight

S1E23 - The Cow with Four Eyes!

Chicken misreads the eye chart and gets a thick pair of glasses.

Sept. 2, 1997, midnight

S1E25 - Cow's Instincts... Don't It?

Cow learns that she has a herding instinct, and soon starts to fit in with other crowds such as flocks of ducks, schools of fish, and the military. She soon learns that she is supposed to herd with other cows, so she does, but soon dislikes it when all the other cows do nothing but stand and eat grass.

Sept. 9, 1997, midnight

S1E26 - Ballerina Cow

Sept. 9, 1997, midnight

S1E28 - Chicken's First Kiss

A game of "Capture the Boys" in the playground leads to unexpected romance for Chicken, ultimately resulting in marriage.

Dec. 2, 1997, midnight

S1E29 - Squirt the Daisies

Cow and Chicken play at the arcade. The Red Guy persuades Chicken to play his new video game. Chicken is placed in a special chair, and fitted with special goggles, and he finds himself, virtually in the video games. He then finds himself the victim of a bunch of killer daises.

Dec. 2, 1997, midnight

S1E31 - Lawnmower Chicken

Chicken thinks he's found a good way to earn extra cash - by mowing old man Devlin's yard.

Dec. 9, 1997, midnight

S1E32 - Cow Loves Piles

Cow buys the new Piles the Beaver Doll, and takes him to the carnival with her. When he's catapaulted into the air, she then goes on a wild goose chase all over the carnival just to catch him.

Dec. 9, 1997, midnight

S1E34 - Space Cow

Cow and Chicken both win a contest that allows them to spend a day in the career of their choice.

Sept. 23, 1997, midnight

S1E35 - The Legend of SailCat

Flem's Dad takes Chicken, Flem, and Earl on a camping trip in the woods. Cow shows up with Chicken's forgotten hairbrush, only to be kicked out by him, Flem and Earl. Flem's Dad then sings a ballad to the kids about a flattened cat, who can act like a frisbee, and cut things down like trees and trucks. Later that night, the kids find their cans of Sugar Frosted Weenies cut open by Sailcat.

Sept. 23, 1997, midnight

S1E37 - Head Hunting in Oregon

Mom and Dad take Cow and Chicken on a vacation to Oregon to see some real headhunters.

Dec. 16, 1997, midnight

S1E38 - The King and Queen of Cheese

Cow goes to Arkansas to meet The Red Guy, who is trying to become the King and Queen of Cheese. The problem is that his method of making cheese is sucking the cheese out of things such as buckets, water towers, weasels, haystacks, silos, grandmas, horses, dogs, lizards, hyenas, ducks, and now Cow. Chicken rescues Cow and the other animals, who then turn the cheese suckers to The Red Guy.

Dec. 16, 1997, midnight

S1E15 - The Ugliest Weenie - Epilogue

Picking up where the last episode left off, the night the play begins, the cast and crew learn that Flem has been struck with chicken-pocks, so Chicken gets the role, while Cow is the new leading lady, since Wee Wee caught the pocks too. The play goes on, and all the weenies cast out the Ugliest Weenie, but soon learn that ugly is good, because it means that he won't get bar-b-qued, and eaten.

Aug. 12, 1997, midnight

S1E3 - This Bridge, Not Weasel Bridge

I.M. Weasel must complete the trans Atlantic Bridge.

Sept. 16, 1997, midnight

S1E6 - I.R. on Sun

I.R. is jealous of I.M. Weasel being the first on Mars, Jupiter and Uranus. But then NASA tells I.R. that he can become the first on the sun, and I.R. readily accepts the job. This creates quite the challenge for I.M...

July 22, 1997, midnight