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 This is a cartoon that really captures the American Dream. A nice house. A picket fence. Mom and Dad. A 460-pound Cow and a Chicken with attitude.
Cow loves her big brother, Chicken, and has a hard time understanding why he tries to avoid her at school. Sure, he cares about his sister, but he needs to look cool in front of the guys – and that’s tough to do when you’re being smothered by udders.
Chicken’s bravado of ten gets him in trouble. Fortunately for him, Cow is blessed with a strong-willed alter ego, a Spanish-speaking Supercow that saves the day in times of despair.
It’s a slice of life (a pretty weird slice) about your average brother and sister relationship. You’ll laugh. Any you might be able to say it all makes sense to me – even the part about hearty dinners of pork butts and taters flung by catapult.
COW & CHICKEN is a half-hour series that follows the outrageous antics of a surreal pair of siblings whose relationship is comically underscored by their identity—big brother “Chicken” and little sister “Cow.”
Although they were born to presumably human parents, the two literally named youngsters exhibit very species-specific abilities and personalities. Chicken, an eleven-year-old male chicken, tries to rule the roost both at home with his sister Cow and at school among his friends, Flem and Earl. Chicken’s pugnacious attitude frequently gets him into trouble, and that’s when Cow, a genial and robust seven-year-old heifer, daintily steps in to bail him out—as “Supercow,” her Spanish speaking fantasy alterego. Like most elementary-aged siblings, the two farm animals share a sincere affection for each other, despite their constant verbal banter and many misadventures in an all-human world.
Thirty-eight year-old veteran animator David Feiss, creator of COW & CHICKEN, jokes that he has constructed a cartoon which “captures the ‘American Dream’—a nice house with a white picket fence, a loving father, a doting mother and two kids who just happen to be a 460 lb. cow and a chicken with an attitude.”
CHICKEN
Despite the obvious species incongruity, Chicken behaves like a typically rambunctious 11-year-old human boy. Constantly testing limits with the full fury of surging adolescence, Chicken endeavours to prove himself as a tough, street-smart ruffian. Anxious to avoid being called, well, "chicken," he'll take any dare his friends offer. His cavalier attitude, along with the physical disadvantages of belonging to the poultry family, often get him into big trouble. When he is left with no other options, he is frequently forced to swallow his pride and look to his tag-along kid sister, Cow, for assistance.
COW
At seven-years-old, Cow has already achieved physical bovine maturity, as evidenced by her well-pronounced udders; however, she maintains the emotional innocence of a little girl. Cow idolises her big brother Chicken and loves to accompany him on his ill-fated adventures. Although she can be prissy and tends to whine, Cow is also selfless when it comes to her family, giving of herself, literally, to repeatedly fill the milk carton when it gets low. She also possesses a courageous spirit that occasionally reveals itself in the form of Supercow—a fearless Spanish speaking cow who uses her tremendous weight and protruding teats to rescue her brother from whatever predicament he's got himself into.
I.M. WEASEL
I.M. Weasel is just the opposite of everything you think a weasel would be. He's dignified, generous, patriotic, and brilliant—with a deep, manly voice to top it all off. I.M. Weasel has just the right combination of rumbling machismo and modest heroism to be a winner, no matter what he does. From acting as the world's greatest engineer, to performing expert surgery, to pinch-hitting for the Detroit Tigers, there is nothing this weasel can't do.
Why? His answer is self-evident: "I Am Weasel!" Armed with only his intelligence, and an indefatigable nobility, I.M. Weasel has just enough skill to succeed, just enough luck to always come out on top, and just enough charm that you love to see him in action.
I. R. BABOON
Regardless of how hard I.R. Baboon tries, he can never beat I.M. Weasel. Insanely jealous, I.R. Baboon constantly strives to out-perform his benevolent nemesis, but he is always done in by his own stupidity. I.R. Baboon's bumbling attempts to gain respectability are as impeded as his infantile speech pattern, and his frustration is further compounded when his hapless pursuit of praise and glory only serves to augment the heroic status enjoyed by I.M. Weasel. Through it all, I.R. Baboon still possesses that endearing quality inherent in every loveable loser.
1. Cow & Chicken are an exuberant bovine and a cranky rooster!
2. The inspiration for Cow & Chicken came when creator David Feiss made up a bedtime story for his daughter about a funny girl cow and big brother chicken who live in the suburbs with human parents.
3. Cow is big-boned and big hearted, with a scrupulous ethical code and childlike capacity for wonder. She’s also 7 years old, 400 lbs and 6 foot tall!
4. Chicken is a scrawny little thing with a rule-the-roost mentality and an inflated sense of self-importance.
He’s 11 years old, 4 pounds and 11 inches tall!
5. Cow’s alter-ego ‘SuperCow’ forever bailing Chicken out, can only speak Spanish
6. Cow & Chicken’s parents only have legs, no bodies!
7. Cow & Chicken eat repulsive plates of meatloaf slurped through straws and rounded off with ice cream con-carne.
8. Cow & Chicken are equally at home flying NASA spacecraft as mopping up at the local ‘Shop & Get Out’ supermarket!
9. Cow wants to dress Chicken up in dolls clothes all the time.
10. Chicken is a ‘Rebel Without A Clue’ who enjoys using big adult words such as ‘ambivalent’ and ‘inimitable’ without knowing what they mean.
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