The BEST episodes of Cow and Chicken season 1
Every episode of Cow and Chicken season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cow and Chicken season 1!
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.
#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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#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.
#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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.
#6 - 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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#7 - Part-Time Job
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/22/1997
Cow wants to earn money to buy the new Crabs the Warthog Doll. So she gets a part-time job at the milk farm, where her milk is superb. Chicken decides to get a part-time job too, and is refered to the Chicken farm as a ""temporary employee"". I Am Weasel: ""I.R. On Sun""
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#8 - The King and Queen of Cheese
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 12/16/1997
Cow goes to Arkansas to meet The Red Guy, who is trying to become the King and Queen of Cheese. The problem is that his method of making cheese is sucking the cheese out of things such as buckets, water towers, weasels, haystacks, silos, grandmas, horses, dogs, lizards, hyenas, ducks, and now Cow. Chicken rescues Cow and the other animals, who then turn the cheese suckers to The Red Guy.
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#9 - The Girl's Bathroom
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1997
Chicken, Flem, and Earl decide to sneak into the girl's bathroom during the middle of the night. With Chicken suited up, he goes behind the pink door to discover a cigar machine, a hair washer, and an enclosed toilet, where you can get a complete image makeover. I Am Weasel: ""This Bridge, Not Weasel Bridge""
#10 - Who is Super Cow?
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/29/1997
The Red Guy is sick of being foiled by Super Cow, so he opens up a laundrimat for super heroes, in hope to find out who she really is. It doesn't work, so he goes to Cow and Chicken's house, and kidnaps Cow. Chicken then goes to the rescue as Super Cow for her.
#11 - The Ugliest Weenie Epilogue
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/31/1997
The Red Guy rolls onto the scene and welcomes the viewers back to the show. He then recaps the events of the first part and announces the start of part 3 of The Ugliest Weenie. An audience member then questions the lack of a part 2 and asks if the preceding I Am Weasel cartoon was part 2. Red Guy states it was part 2 of the show and they're now on part 3 of the show, AKA part 2 of the Ugliest Weenie. The audience member asks why the Red Guy is here anyway and Red Guy asks security to remove him.
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#12 - Happy Meat
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/19/1997
Chicken is sick of the cafeteria's food, which is nothing but a steady diet of ketchup. Since Chicken is against it, he has been banned from eating anything from the cafeteria. After a halusination of seeing his great grandpa and grandma, Cow and Chicken decide to open up their own little meat cafe, which turns out to be quite popular.
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#14 - Ballerina Cow
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/9/1997
Cow's dream is to be a great ballerina, but her weight makes her a big klutz, and everytime she dances, she destroys the house. She is the target of the eyes of recently de-wrecking ball home wrecker, Irving J. Slacksoff (The Red Guy). He makes Cow his new home wrecking act, and her ballerina skills cause her to destroy an entire building.
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#15 - The Ugliest Weenie
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1997
Cow writes a poetic play about a weenie, who is an outcast because he's not delicious looking as the other weenies. Chicken, Flem, and Earl think it's a crazy idea, but Mr. Fleur, the school's drama teacher decides to produce the play. Cow and Chicken's class get ready for the play, Flem has been cast as the Ugliest Weenie, a role was original given to Chicken. When Chicken sees that Flem get to play off the leading lady, Wee Wee, Chicken decides he wants Flem out of the way, so he can resume the part. But everytime he tries to get rid of Flem, he ends up hurting Mr. Fleur, until he's wheelchair-bound. The night of the play begins, and the cast and crew learn that Flem has been struck with chicken-pocks, so
#16 - Alive!
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/29/1997
Cousin, Boneless Chicken has been assigned to babysit Cow. She takes him outside to play catch, in which she throws him, and then catches him. At one moment, she tosses him too high, and he's stuck on the roof. After she goes after him, she accidentally knocks down the laddar, and is now stuck on the roof too.
#17 - Headhunting in Oregon
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/16/1997
Mom and Dad take Cow and Chicken on a vacation in Oregon to find ""head hunters"". The Red Guy is their tour guide, and takes them into the woods, where they find a tribe of headhunters. While Cow, Mom, and Dad are watching Ice Walkers, the tribe have their eyes fixed on Chicken's head.
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#18 - Cow's Instincts...Don't It?
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/9/1997
Cow learns that she has a herding instinct, and soon starts to fit in with other crowds such as flocks of ducks, schools of fish, and the military. She soon learns that she is supposed to herd with other cows, so she does, but soon dislikes it when all the other cows do nothing but stand and eat grass.
#19 - Orthodontic Police
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/2/1997
Orthodontic Police: The Red Guy is an orthodontic police officer, whose duty is to correct those with bad teeth. He puts them into painful and rediculous-looking retainers that cover their whole bodies. He ultimately puts them on everybody, even those without teeth. When everyone learns that the braces are permanent, Super Cow comes to everyone's rescue.
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#21 - Chicken's First Kiss
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 12/2/1997
While playing a game of doll tag, Chicken is kissed by Winney. Everyone then tells Chicken that he has cooties, and that his beak will shrivel, his tongue will swell to 16 times, his butt will fall off, and his eyeballs will fall off. Chicken then has an anxiety attack, and imagines all the things others said. He then wakes up to find his parents tell him that he has to kiss Winney back, and marry her.
#22 - Space Cow
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/23/1997
Space Cow: Cow and Chicken write essays on the jobs they'd like to have when they grow up. Cow wants to go into space, while Chicken wants to go into marketing. The winning essay's writer will get to have a day's worth of experience of their career choice. Cow wins, and she gets to help two astronaut fix the stuble microscope, while Chicken is runner-up, however instead of being actually marketing, he's a bagboy. The spaceship runs out of fuel, so Chicken goes into space to save Cow. The Legend of Sailcat: 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. I Am Weasel: ""Happy Baboon Holidays""
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#23 - Crash Dive
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/19/1997
Crash Dive: Chicken build himself a wooden submarine, to use in the water. It's a pretty good submarine too, it comes with a parascope and everything. Cow launches it into the water for him, and he floats off, until he is sent down a waterfall. Super Cow goes to Chicken's rescue. Happy Meat: Chicken is sick of the cafeteria's food, which is nothing but a steady diet of ketchup. Since Chicken is against it, he has been banned from eating anything from the cafeteria. After a halusination of seeing his great grandpa and grandma, Cow and Chicken decide to open up their own little meat cafe, which turns out to be quite popular. I Am Weasel: ""Power of Odor""
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#24 - Confused
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/5/1997
After Cow and Chicken get one measly little crumb on the floor, Mom and Dad send them to military school, where they become emotionless, hard-boiled soldiers. Mom and Dad then send them to sensitivy school, where they become girlies.
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#25 - School Bully
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/26/1997
Chicken and Flem are the victim of Butch, the school bully. But Butch soon finds himself the victim of the new school bully, Jimmy, along with Chicken and Flem. Cow persuades Chicken and Flem to help Butch, and they soon find out that they were really wimps inside inflatable buff suits.
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