Supercow's powers lie in a green blanket. She is usually viewed (at least by Chicken) as exceedingly infantile & stupid, but she occasionally displays uncanny talents.Ĭow's alter ego is Supercow, a powerful cow with the ability to fly. Her weight is given at several points as 600 pounds. She is six feet tall and weighs 460 pounds. (voiced by Charlie Adler) One of the two main characters, Cow is Chicken's not-so-little 7-year old sister. Also, Will Ferrell voiced in various episodes. David Feiss himself did the voice of a clown in an episode called "The Great Pantzini".
Other actors provided supporting voices, including Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Earl). Baboon (much like how Mel Blanc voiced many characters in the Warner Brothers' Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes series).
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.Ĭow and Chicken was notable in that a single actor, Charlie Adler, voiced four leading roles of Cow, Chicken, the Red Guy, and I. Reruns continued to be shown on Cartoon Network.
The new Cow and Chicken series premiered on July 7, 1997, and ran for 52 episodes through 200.
Although most cartoons in the series had never gone beyond one short, Hanna Barbera had decided to turn Cow and Chicken into full series, following many letters from fans asking for more Cow and Chicken Cartoons. Cow and Chicken premiered on the "What a Cartoon!" series in 1999. Feiss submitted three ideas for the series, one of which was Cow and Chicken. Later, David Feiss was called to submit any ideas he had for the series "What a Cartoon!", a series that was comprised 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 was created by David and Pilar Feiss, they worked together to develop the series and the first storyboard was painted by Pilar in their studio in Orangevale. 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. They also have an uncle Longhorn Steer, who appears in "Professor Longhorn Steer". This is all that is ever offered in explanation, though there is one hint in the episode "The Day I Was Born" that Cow is adopted, while Chicken's paternity is unknown.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' opening title sequence: Mama had a chicken/Mama had a cow/Dad was proud/He didn't care how. Sometimes opening credits are cumbersome vehicles for an origin story.
The creators were faced with the question of whether and how to explain this scenario.
There is one episode when cow is digging in the closet and pulls out what would be their upper halves and refers to them as their science projects. Cow and Chicken are sister and brother, a cow and a chicken, but who have human parents whose faces are never seen in any episode (although there are references where you can see their shadows of their upper halves).