Sheep in the Big City

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Format

Animated Series

Genre

Comedy, Variety

Creator

Mo Willems

Production Company(s)

Curious Pictures

Distributor(s)

Warner Bros. Television Distribution

Runtime

22 minutes (approx.)

Production

No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
26 (and 1 pilot)

Longevity

Premiere
November 17, 2000
Finale
April 7, 2002

Status
Ended

Sheep in the Big City was an American animated television series that ran on Cartoon Network from 2000-2002. The series’ pilot first premiered as part of Cartoon Network’s “Cartoon Cartoon Summer” on August 18, 2000. The show was greenlit and started airing on November 17, 2000 and ended on April 7, 2002, lasting a total of 2 seasons, 26 episodes. The show was created by Mo Willems, who later worked on Codename: Kids Next Door. Reruns aired from 2002-2003. Sheep in the Big City is the 9th Cartoon Cartoon.

Plot

Sheep goes to the city to get away from General Specific, and his minion Private Public to avoid being tested on weaponry, and military related subjects at the Secret Military Organization.

Characters

• Sheep- The protagonist of the series. Despite his anthropomorphism, he cannot speak English. He only bleats.
• Farmer John- Sheep’s owner until Sheep left the farm. His real name is “Fahr Mer John”. His first name is Fahr because “his parents wanted him to go far in life”.
• General Specific- The series’ main antagonist, performing ridiculous attempts at kidnapping sheep. He works in a very clearly indicated secret headquarters. His name is an oxymoron.
• Private Public- One of Gen. Specific’s minions. His name is also an oxymoron.
• The Angry Scientist- a mad scientist whom Gen. Specific hired. He gets upset when he’s called a “mad scientist”, preferring the name “angry scientist”. He has a mock-German accent, a classic allusion to Einstein.
• Oxymoron- An ox who acts as the mascot for the fictional sponsor of the show.
• Narrator

Episodes

Season:

episodes:

premiere:

finale:

Pilot episode

August 18th, 2000

1

13

November 17th, 2000

July 29th, 2001

2

13

December 2nd, 2001

April 7th, 2002

Pilot episode (2000)

Name:

Directed by:

Written By:

original airdate:

In the Baa-gining

August 18th, 2000

Season 1 (2000-2001)

Number in

Series:

Number in

Season:

name:

original airdate:

1

1

Be Still My Bleating Heart!

11/17/00

2

2

Too Bleat or Not to Bleat!

11/24/00

3

3

Belle of the Baah!

12/1/00

4

4

Going off the Sheep End

12/8/00

5

5

Home for the Baa-lidays

12/29/00

6

6

Can’t Live Without Ewe

1/12/01

7

7

15 Muttons of Fame!

1/26/01

8

8

The Agony of De-Bleat

3/2/01

9

9

Baa-ck in Time

3/23/01

10

10

Fleeced to Meet you!

6/10/01

11

11

A Star is Shom!

6/24/01

12

12

Mistaken Identi-Sheep

7/8/01

13

13

To Sheep, Perchance the Dream!

7/29/01

Season 2 (2001-2002)

Number in

Series:

Number in

Season:

name:

original airdate:

14

1

Wish You Were Shear

12/2/01

15

2

Baah-Dern Times

12/9/01

16

3

Flock, Up in the Sky

12/16/01

17

4

My, How Ewe Have Changed

12/23/01

18

5

The Wool of the People

2/10/02

19

6

Party of the Shear

2/17/02

20

7

Daddy Shearest

2/24/02

21

8

The Wool is Not Enough

3/3/02

22

9

The Beauty and the Bleats

3/10/02

23

10

An Officer and a Gentle-lamb

3/17/02

24

11

Oh, the Ewemanity

3/24/02

25

12

Here Goes Mutton

3/31/02

26

13

Baa-hind the Scenes

4/7/02

Appearances in other media

In other shows

Sheep made a cameo in the OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus, where he appeared as one of the Cartoon Network heroes that were summoned and defeated by Strike.

Video games

Sheep and Swanky both appeared in the 2003 video game, Cartoon Network Speedway.

Availability

The first season was available on iTunes. However, it was taken off of iTunes for unknown reasons. In the UK, 3 episodes (excluding the pilot) have been released on a DVD. The pilot is on the Powerpuff Girls “Powerpuff Bluff” DVD and also on the Powerpuff Girls “Dream Scheme” VHS tape (although there was a mistake on the back cover of the tape saying it has a bonus cartoon of Courage the Cowardly Dog).

In 2022, the series became available for streaming on HBO Max in Latin America (though a few episodes are missing). Both the English and Spanish dubs of the episodes can be found on there, and they are the original NTSC masters that haven’t been seen since the show was taken off the air.
These HBO Max LA Rips have since been made available for American viewers through Google Drive ports, both the original English versions and the Spanish dubs.

Trivia

• Sheep in the Big City was the third original Cartoon Network program to be added to the Cartoon Cartoon Fridays block line up, the first two being “Mike, Lu & Og” and “Courage the Cowardly Dog”.
• Sheep in the Big City was the first Cartoon Network Series to premiere in the 2000’s.
• The show appears to have taken heavy influence from classic cartoons such as Rocky & Bullwinkle, Peabody & Sherman, and Secret Squirrel.
• in 2016, the show’s opening sequence was uploaded to Cartoon Network’s official YouTube channel.
• The creator also makes the Don’t Let the Pidgon books.
• Curious Pictures later made Team Umizoomi for Nick Jr, and Codename: Kids Next Door.

Gallery

UK DVD release

animation maquettes

series’ first season’s former availability on iTunes

Sheep’s cameo in the OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus

HBO Max cover