The show also included a cartoon called I Am Weasel as a supporting segment this segment was spun off as an independent series late in the show's run.
Reruns continued to be shown on Cartoon Network until April 10, 2006. The Cow and Chicken series premiered on July 15, 1997, and ran for 52 episodes through 1999.
Although most cartoons in the series had never gone beyond one short, Hanna-Barbera had decided to turn Cow and Chicken into a full series (possibly since the Emmy Award nomination of the original short), following many letters from fans asking for more Cow and Chicken cartoons.
Cow and Chicken premiered on the "What a Cartoon!" series in 1995. Feiss submitted three ideas for the series to Larry Huber, the series' executive producer. Later, Feiss was called to submit any ideas he had for the series "What a Cartoon!", a series composed of various cartoon shorts from various creators and writers.
Feiss was a cartoonist who had worked with Hanna-Barbera and related projects since 1978. The idea of Cow and Chicken first existed as a story that David Feiss had made for his daughter. Poster to the Cow and Chicken pilot No Smoking: The Original Pilot They also have an uncle Longhorn Steer, who appears in "Professor Longhorn Steer." The episode, "Happy Meat" also showed the ghosts of a pair of Cow and Chicken's ancestors, a male farmer married to a female chicken. This is all that is ever offered in explanation, though there is one hint in the episode "The Day I'm Born" that Cow is adopted, and Chicken's parentage has been told about in the episode, "Which Came First?", when Mom sits on an egg and says, "Oh, boy, this brings back memories!"Ĭow and Chicken's extended family consists of various other types of animals, including Cousin Boneless, who is a boneless chicken (unable to walk or get up from the floor) Snail Boy, a snail Cousin Black Sheep, a sheep and Sow, an evil pig. David Feiss approached this problem in the series's opening title sequence: Mama had a chicken/Mama had a cow/Dad was proud/He didn't care how.
The creators were faced with the question of whether and how to explain this scenario.
In the episode "Which Came First," when Mom sits on the TV and laughs, her body appears to have an upper half. In the same episode, Mom's shadow appears with the upper half of her body cut off. In the episode "Cow and Chicken Reclining," when Cow is digging in the closet and pulls out what would be their upper halves, she refers to them as her science project. In the pilot episode, " No Smoking", their bodies have no upper halves. Reruns are played on Boomerang, which are rated TV-Y7.Ĭow and Chicken are brother and sister, who have human parents whose faces are never seen in an episode. Baboon, who were part of the series recurring segment, I Am Weasel, were another counterpart into their own series. Late into the series run, the characters I.M. The Cow and Chicken series first broadcast on Cartoon Network from 1997 to the year 1999, with reruns airing prominently on the network until April 2006. Like Dexter's Laboratory and some other Cartoon Network series from the 1990s, the original pilot appeared as an episode of the series What a Cartoon!, the brain child of Fred Seibert, then president of Hanna-Barbera. The series was nominated for an Emmy Award in 19. They are often antagonized by "The Red Guy", who poses as various characters to scam or hurt them. The series shows the surreal adventures of a cow, named Cow, and her chicken brother, named Chicken. Cow and Chicken is an American animated series, created by David Feiss.