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Sheep in the Big City
Overview
Sheep in the Big City is an American animated television series which ran on Cartoon Network for two seasons, from November 17, 2000, to April 7, 2002. The series' pilot first premiered as part of Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoon Summer" on August 18, 2000. Created by Mo Willems, the bulk of the show follows a runaway sheep, Sheep, in its new life in "the Big City". It also features several unrelated sketches and shorts, similar to The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. With an emphasis on more "sophisticated" humor, using multiple forms of rhetoric from the characters to the plots, it was more popular with older audiences. It was also unusual in featuring many comic references to film-making and television broadcasting. At the time, the premiere of Sheep in the Big City was the highest-rated premiere for a Cartoon Network original series.
Key Crew
Producer: Kris Greengrove
Top Cast
Kevin Seal
Sheep / General Specific / Ranting Swede (voice)
Ken Schatz
Ben Plotz / Victor / Jay / Great Scott (voice)
Stephanie D'Abruzzo
Lady Virginia Richington / Lisa Rental / The Plot Device (voice)
Mo Willems
The Angry Scientist / Announcer (voice)
Joey Mazzarino
General Lee Outrageous
Ruth Buzzi
Jerry Nelson
General Public
Fran Brill
Little Girl
Seasons
Season 1 (2000)
No overview available.
14 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: In the Baa-ginning
2000-11-04Sheep decides to leave Farmer Brown in pursuit of a happy life in the Big City. Little does he know that from now on he will be chased by a secret military organization.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: Be Still My Bleating Heart
2000-11-17Sheep falls in love with a poodle called Swanky, and coincidentally, Swanky's owner hates sheeps.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 3: To Bleat or Not to Bleat
2000-11-24A girl called Lisa Rental saves Sheep from General Specific so that she can keep him as a pet.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 4: Belle of the Baaah
2000-12-01Sheep gets more than he bargained for when he accidentally swallows a diamond and receives much of the town's adoration and attention.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 5: Going Off the Sheep End
2000-12-08While Sheep tries to grab Swanky's attention by making unnecessary changes to himself, the Angry Scientist comes up with less-than-foolproof and idiotic plans to capture Sheep.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 6: Home for the Baa-lidays
2000-12-29Sheep returns to the farm for the holidays.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 7: Can't Live Without Ewe
2001-01-12While Sheep goes into a fake sheep convention set up by the military wearing a mustache, Farmer John misses him, and hires The German Sheperd to bring Sheep home.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 8: 15 Muttons of Fame (aka They'll Flock to See Ewe)
2001-01-26When an agent for a dishwashing commercial discovers Sheep, Sheep decides to become a model to avoid General Specific. However, he might have to give up his friends.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 9: The Agony of De-Bleat
2001-03-02When General Specific actually captures Sheep, he fires all of the people that work at the Secret Military Base. However, the crew decide to free Sheep to get their jobs back.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 10: Baa-ck In Time
2001-03-23Sheep escapes through time to find a better life.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 11: Fleeced to Meet You
2001-06-10General Specific hires X-Agent to befriend Sheep and entrap him so they can use him for the sheep powered ray gun. X-Agent successfully entraps Sheep but later changes his mind because he realizes that friendship with Sheep mattered more.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 12: A Star Is Shorn
2001-06-24Sheep gets a job in a hip club as a waiter but soon General Specific finds him and almost knocks over the plates sheep was carrying. Sheep catches the plates and starts spinning them hypnotizing General Specific and while this happens Farmer John appears and convinces Sheep to go pro with his plate spinning act.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 13: Mistaken Identi-sheep
2001-07-08A sheep-like creature robs the town, while Sheep is blamed.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 14: To Sheep, Perchance to Dream
2001-07-29This episode is all about the nightmares of people in the Big City.
Runtime: N/A min
Season 2 (2001)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Wish You Were Shear
2001-12-02Sheep gets adopted by Lisa Rental.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: Baah-dern Times
2001-12-09With the entire cast of "Sheep in the Big City" sick with the flu, the narrator (who's also sick but still has to work) decides that for this episode of "Sheep in the Big City" that the audience shall instead, watch an old black-&-white silent movie featuring the ancestor's of Sheep and General Specific.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 3: Flock, Up in the Sky
2001-12-16X agent returns and swears to protect Sheep from General Specific.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 4: My, How Ewe Have Changed
2001-12-23Sheep is invited back to Farmer John's farm for a reunion. He finds that a lot of things have changed since he first left. As sheep meets up with his old friends General Specific is next door having a party and then decides to cut it short and capture sheep.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 5: Party of the Shear
2002-02-10To escape the clutches of the secret military organization Sheep goes into a dance club which general specific is not cool enough for. He is befriended by General Lee Outragious but when he wants to leave he is stopped by the over energetic friend and relizes this is why he watches movies every night.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 6: The Wool of the People
2002-02-17General Specific can't capture Sheep because of the new law put up by the mayor of the Big City. Luckily for him the current mayor's term has ended and he decided to run for mayor with the help of the Lady Richington. Seeing there that Sheep's in trouble if Gen. Specific wins, Farmer John persuades Sheep to also run for mayor. In the end neither of them wins and the new mayor proclaims amnesty for Sheep for the day.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 7: Daddy Shearest
2002-02-24After failing again to capture Sheep, Private Public gets a visit from his dad, General Public.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 8: The Wool Is Not Enough
2002-03-03Tired of the Angry Scientist's failures, General Specific hires Doctor Oh No No No to help him capture Sheep. However, the Doctor has own his agenda.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 9: Beauty and the Bleats
2002-03-10Sheep is turned into a half human half sheep by a Genie.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 10: An Officer and a Gentlelamb
2002-03-17Sheep can't hold a steady job because the Top Secret Military Organization is always pursuing him. At the top Secret Military Base, Gen. Specific fires all of his staff (except for Private Public and the Angry Scientist) and decides to hire new ones. Sheep without a job applies for it. Gen. Specific doesn't know that it was Sheep, hires him. The Angry Scientist discovers the new recruit is really Sheep and proceeds to tell Gen. Specific. Gen. Specific tells Sheep that he should capture Sheep to prove he isn't really Sheep. Sheep fooled them by bringing a Gorilla in a sheep costume.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 11: Oh, the Ewemanity
2002-03-24General Specific can't capture Sheep because he is too small for his net, so he blows him up using an enlarging ray.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 12: Here Goes Mutton
2002-03-31Farmer John becomes a football player, while Sheep gets amnesia from a hit on the head.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 13: Baa-hind the Scenes
2002-04-07This occurs when the cast is done filming an episode and now Sheep and his manager have a lunch meeting with the head of the network. General Specific doesn't like that, so he decides to ruin the meeting so Sheep won't get another show. In the end because of him (and the Angry Scientists new invention), Sheep is turned pink with big eyes and is now perfect for another show!
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