The BEST episodes of Cow and Chicken

Every episode of Cow and Chicken ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cow and Chicken!

The series 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.

Last Updated: 2/1/2024Network: Cartoon NetworkStatus: Ended
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The Legend of SailCat
star
8.45
38 votes

#1 - The Legend of SailCat

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/23/1997

Flem's Dad takes Chicken, Flem, and Earl on a camping trip in the woods. Cow shows up with Chicken's forgotten hairbrush, only to be kicked out by him, Flem and Earl. Flem's Dad then sings a ballad to the kids about a flattened cat, who can act like a frisbee, and cut things down like trees and trucks. Later that night, the kids find their cans of Sugar Frosted Weenies cut open by Sailcat.

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Squirt The Daisies
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8.23
39 votes

#2 - Squirt The Daisies

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/2/1997

Cow and Chicken play at the arcade. The Red Guy persuades Chicken to play his new video game. Chicken is placed in a special chair, and fitted with special goggles, and he finds himself, virtually in the video games. He then finds himself the victim of a bunch of killer daises.

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The Bad News Plastic Surgeons
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8.18
11 votes

#3 - The Bad News Plastic Surgeons

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/24/1998

Teacher is disappointed when the school's plastic surgery team has no championships, so she calls in The Red Guy, to be the new plastic surgery coach. Chicken and Cow immediately join the team, and are taken to the finals, where they must compete against real doctors, who are still in grade school.

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Journey to the Center of Cow
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8.00
13 votes

#4 - Journey to the Center of Cow

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/1998

Chicken turns 11, and is allowed to operate the food catapault. So he feeds Cow with pork butts, but when his sleeve gets caught in the catapault, he ends up getting swallowed by Cow. With that, Mom and Dad take her to The Red Guy, who tries to get Chicken out of Cow's cavernous abdimen.

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Cow Loves Piles
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7.82
39 votes

#5 - Cow Loves Piles

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/9/1997

Cow buys the new Piles the Beaver Doll, and takes him to the carnival with her. When he's catapaulted into the air, she then goes on a wild goose chase all over the carnival just to catch him.

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Time Machine
star
7.76
46 votes

#6 - Time Machine

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/26/1997

Cow and Chicken go to the arcade, and play the time machine. They find themselves back in a deserted time, where The Red Guy introduces them to the primortial soup. But when Cow accidentally drops her quarter into it, everyone in the present time has quarters for heads. Cow and Chicken must go back into time again to stop her.

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Free Inside
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7.69
39 votes

#7 - Free Inside

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/3/1998

Chicken finds a credit card as his ""free inside prize"". Dad tells him that with the credit card, he can buy all the neat stuff he wants. So Cow and Chicken run down to the weenie emporium, where he learns he can only buy products with the value of 25 cents or less. With that, he buys a stick of weenie bubblegum for 20 cents, then The Red Guy shows up to collect his 5 cent interest.

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101 Uses for Cow & Chicken
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7.58
12 votes

#8 - 101 Uses for Cow & Chicken

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/17/1998

Chicken starts to mess with a pricing gun in the super market, and then starts getting carried away. Soon, Cow and Chicken inevidibly have price tags stuck on them. Red Guy assumes they're for sale, and buys them...but doesn't know exactly how to put them to use.

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Lost At Sea
star
7.56
9 votes

#9 - Lost At Sea

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/24/1998

Flem and Earl find themselves lost in the middle of an ocean near the equator. They fear their lives are short, and begin reminescing about their fun lives: home coming, water boys, mentally challenged, eating cheese in Yurp, running with the bulls in Pimplelotta, singing drinking songs in Germany, and having love for Cow. I am Weasel: ""I.R. Do""

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Meet Lance Sackless
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7.54
13 votes

#10 - Meet Lance Sackless

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/17/1998

Cow and Chicken decide to get on Canada's Funniest Home Vidiots; so they glue each other to their heads, and send the tape in. They then meet the host of the show, The Red Guy (who portrays Lance Sackless). After Cow and Chicken win the grandprize, The Red Guy trashes them with insults about how stupid they look, so Super Cow takes out The Red Guy.

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Child Star
star
7.45
11 votes

#11 - Child Star

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/31/1998

Amateur director Ivan Panced (The Red Guy) hold auditions for the role of ""Pretty Little Girl"" in his new movie with the same name. Cow wins the role by being the only girl who can't puddle dance. Cow's performance is charming, and well as tear-jerking: the horror is yet to come as the cameraman discovers he forgot to put the film in the camera.

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Piano Lessons
star
7.25
8 votes

#12 - Piano Lessons

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/18/1999

Red Guy shows up at Cow and Chicken's house again, this time claiming to be a piano teacher. So now Cow and Chicken are his students, and tries to make them child-prodigy piano players, so he can be rich. Cow and Chicken's concert fails.

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Magic Chicken
star
7.14
7 votes

#13 - Magic Chicken

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/6/1999

Chicken hosts his own magic show, and his assitant is Cow. He amazes Flem and Earl, by makings a porkbutt float, Flem's under appear outside his pants, switching Earl's braces to Flem, bird fly from under Earl's hat, and Cow's udder dsiappear. But when he is unable to make her udder reappear, he has no choice but to place reward posters. Meanwhile, Red Guy is enjoying his newfound milk producing body part. I am Weasel: ""I Am Whale Captain""

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Field Trip to Folsom Prison
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7.13
202 votes

#14 - Field Trip to Folsom Prison

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1997

Cow and Chicken's class takes a field trip to Folsom Prison. There, Chicken changes place with a prisoner, and causes riots by pantsing guards, and demands Pork Butts and Taters for lunch, while the prisoner, Rhode Island Red, pretends to be Chicken. Cow sees through this, and under Super Cow, returns Red, and rescues Chicken.

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The Cow with Four Eyes
star
7.13
39 votes

#15 - The Cow with Four Eyes

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/2/1997

Cow has a new pair of glasses, and suddenly becomes the smartest person in school. Chicken decides that two can play at that game and gets glasses himself, but since he already has perfect vision, the glasses make everything look blurry. He soon becomes the new smartest kid in class. Because of his new intellect, he is placed in charge of tearing down the new ""dungeon"", which was really a new indoor swimming pool.

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The Loneliest Cow
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7.13
8 votes

#16 - The Loneliest Cow

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/30/1999

Cow is very lonely, that is until she befriends an orange she finds in her front yard.

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Cow's A Beauty
star
7.13
8 votes

#17 - Cow's A Beauty

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/18/1999

Red Guy shows up at Cow and Chicken's house, claiming to be a beauty pagent scout. He then dolls up Cow, and enters her into the next beauty pagent. While Cow literally makes a mochrie up on stage, she wins anyway with her inner beauty. Cow then discovers that it was all a scam so Red Guy could wear the tiarara, and hold the roses, at least just once.

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Perpetual Energy
star
7.11
9 votes

#18 - Perpetual Energy

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/31/1998

Cow and Chicken mess with a Junior Chemistry Set, and created perpetual energy, a beam of energy that keeps on going forever. The Red Guy kidnaps Cow and Chicken to recreate the energy, so he can win a trip to up North without having to sell Military Scout Cookies. I Am Weasel: ""My Friend, the Smart Banana''

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Stay Awake
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7.10
10 votes

#19 - Stay Awake

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/7/1998

Chicken rushes through breakfast, and accidentally eats a box full of coffee flakes. He then goes crazy and has trouble getting to sleep. On his third night of no sleep, Chicken then runs up the Empire State Building. Super Cow shoots him with warm milk, and Chicken finally falls asleep.

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The Karate Chick
star
7.09
11 votes

#20 - The Karate Chick

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/1998

After Chicken's beak is bruised by Dick, his school bully, Mom and Dad send him to karate lessons. Chicken takes up butt-fu from The Red Guy, but when Chicken still is unable to beat up Dick, Chicken decides to force a refund (with help from an invisible Super Cow).

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The Exchange Stüdent
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7.08
12 votes

#21 - The Exchange Stüdent

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/24/1998

The neighboring county of Montzerellaville is in the middle of a Holy Cheese War. One of their own, Slappy McCracken, is part of the exchange student program. He and Cow fall head over heals for each other. Cow then decides to stop the cheese war by proving that cheese isn't used for weapons, it's used for food.

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The Day I was Born
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7.08
12 votes

#22 - The Day I was Born

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/10/1998

Cow wonders about the day she was born. Chicken tells her she was adopted, Mom tells her that the stork delivered her, Dad said they found her in a cabbage, Teacher says she hatched from an egg, and Red Guy says he delivered her.

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Bad Chicken
star
7.08
12 votes

#23 - Bad Chicken

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/7/1998

Cow and Chicken are sent to the copy room to make copies of the pop quiz. They then get carried away by making copies of their butts, and themselves: causing the copier to blow up. Cow and Chicken run down to the local officer supply store, while The Red Guy brings a copy of Chicken to life. The Chicken copy then causes chaos all over school, while Cow and the real Chicken try to destroy it.

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Cow and Chicken Reclining
star
7.05
38 votes

#24 - Cow and Chicken Reclining

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/20/1998

Dad is sick of his high-tech reecliner always malfunctioning, so he decides to dump it. Before he does, Cow and Chicken decide to see what it's like to sit in ""The Chair"". They, and they get stuck, and are taken away to museums, and in stolen vans, and finally back at home, where Dad waits for his ""new chair"".

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The Laughing Puddle
star
7.05
40 votes

#25 - The Laughing Puddle

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1998

Chicken, Flem, and Earl play a game of kickball. Cow's udders kick the ball into the bushes, where Chicken, Flem and Earl discover a laughing puddle. After Flem and Chicken run back out, they forget the ball, and go back to discover that Earl is in the puddle. Chicken sends Flem after him, and he is stuck too. Chicken then gets Mom and Dad, who jump into the puddle, and Chicken drops Cow in there to save everyone. Chicken is then the only one left, until he discovers the puddle is a doorway to Boneless Chicken's nightclub.

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