TV SERIES · 1997– · USA
Cow and Chicken
8 archived facts 1 topic 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
While Cartoon Network was producing the second season, David Feiss was asked to keep making "I. M. Weasel" shorts. Feiss did not want to make more, but agreed he would only do so if he could start using the Red Guy in the "I. M. Weasel" shorts. From then on, the Red Guy was a regular character in Weasel.
- #002
The episode "Buffalo Gals" was banned after its first broadcast because of sexual references and lesbian stereotypes. The episode featured a group of biker girls wearing buffalo hats (which is where the title comes from) who enter Cow and Chicken's house and wreck it. Their leader takes a liking to Cow and they kidnap her, meaning Chicken has to go and rescue her.
- #003
The first Cow and Chicken short had cruder animation than the later series and much darker themes. In the first cartoon, Chicken goes to Hell to smoke and is tortured there by the Devil. After this harsh episode, the series' content was toned down, the animation was colored, and the Devil's name was changed to "The Red Guy."
- #004
Supercow, Cow's second personality, speaking only Spanish was the idea of David Feiss's ex-wife, Pilar Menendez.
- #005
Charlie Adler based Cow's voice on Ellen Greene and Chicken's voice on himself at fourteen years old.
- #006
It was a short for What a Cartoon! (1995).
- #007
Although it was produced by Cartoon Network Studios together with David Feiss Productions rather than Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, it ultimately shows the Hanna-Barbera Cartoons logo. The same applies to I Am Weasel (1997), which does not have the Cartoon Network Studios logo.
- #008
Because Chicken did not appear in "Child Star" and "Lost at Sea," Cow is the only character who appears in every episode.
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