Cow and Chicken (1997)

Adventure · Animation · Comedy

Follows the surreal adventures of a cow, named Cow, and her chicken brother, named Chicken. They are often antagonized by "The Red Guy", who poses as various characters to scam them.

IMDb rating: 6.5 (23,464 votes)
Episode average: 6.8 ↑ +0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 4
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 4 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1997)

6.92 avg 13 episodes 7.2 → 6.4 22 min avg

Bad finale

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Field Trip to Folsom Prison/The Girl's Bathroom	7.2	142
2	Supermodel Cow/Part Time Job	7.0	112
3	Alive!/Who Is Supercow?	7.5	110
4	Confused/The Molting Fairy	6.7	92
5	The Ugliest Weenie	7.6	102
6	Crash Dive!/Happy Meat	6.5	85
7	School Bully/Time Machine	7.0	85
8	Orthodontic Police/Cow with Four Eyes	6.8	85
9	Cow Instincts, Don't It?/Ballerina Cow	6.7	78
10	Chicken's First Kiss/Squirt the Daisies	6.9	84
11	Lawnmower Chicken/Cow Loves Piles	6.5	73
12	Space Cow/The Legend of Sailcat	7.1	89
13	Headhunting in Oregon/The King & Queen of Cheese	6.4	78

Season 2 (1998)

6.68 avg 13 episodes 7.1 → 6.7 22 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Fluffy the Anaconda/The Laughing Puddle	7.1	73
2	Pirate Lessons/Halloween with Dead Ghost, Coast to Coast	6.4	73
3	Tongue Sandwich/Dream Date Chicken	7.0	76
4	Sumo Cow/Comet!	6.6	67
5	Dirty Laundry/Grizzly Beaver Safari	6.6	69
6	Boneless Kite/Which Came First?	6.9	72
7	Buffalo Gals/Cow and Chicken Reclining	6.8	92
8	Free Inside/Journey to the Center of Cow	6.7	71
9	The Karate Chick/Yard Sale	6.5	72
10	Meet Lance Sackless/Who's Afraid of the Dark?	6.4	69
11	The Bad News Plastic Surgeons/The Exchange Student	6.5	70
12	Child Star/Perpetual Energy	6.6	69
13	Bad Chicken/Stay Awake	6.7	71

Season 3 (1998)

6.58 avg 13 episodes 6.7 → 6.9 22 min avg

Rebound

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Can Cow Come Out and Play?/Horn Envy	6.7	67
2	Goin' My Way?/The Babysitter	6.4	69
3	Cow Fly/Where Am I?	6.9	71
4	Sergeant Weenie Arms/Sow and Chicken	5.8	75
5	Me an' My Dog/Cow's Dream Catcher	6.5	72
6	Grandma at the Mall/Chicken in the Bathroom	6.7	64
7	Chickens Don't Fly/P.E.	6.7	72
8	Playin' Hookie/Chicken Lips	6.3	65
9	The Day I Was Born/Factory Follies	6.4	65
10	101 Uses for Cow and Chicken/Intelligent Life?	6.5	71
11	Be Careful What You Wish For/Lost at Sea	7.0	66
12	Night of the Ed!/Cow's Pie	6.8	70
13	Professor Longhorn Steer/A Couple of Skating Fools	6.9	66

Season 4 (1998)

6.83 avg 13 episodes 6.9 → 7.3 22 min avg

Rebound

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Chachi the Chewing Gum Seal/Black Sheep of the Family	6.9	72
2	The Big Move/Cow's Magic Blanket	6.4	53
3	Cow's Toys/I Scream, Man	7.3	54
4	Cloud Nine/Send in the Clowns	6.8	63
5	Major Wedgie/The Loneliest Cow	6.7	65
6	Invisible Cow/Monster in the Closet	6.8	69
7	The Full Mounty/Mall Cop	7.2	53
8	Snail Boy/The Penalty Wheel	6.3	69
9	Chicken's Fairy Tale/Magic Chicken	7.1	49
10	Cow's Horse/Red Butler	6.8	51
11	Cow's a Beauty/Piano Lessons	6.8	63
12	Duck, Duck Chicken!/The Great Pantzini	6.4	63
13	The Cow and Chicken Blues/The Ballad of Cow and Chicken	7.3	79