The WORST episodes of Cow and Chicken

Every episode of Cow and Chicken ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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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Lawnmower Chicken
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4.21
63 votes

#1 - Lawnmower Chicken

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/9/1997

Lawnmower Chicken: Chicken needs to earn money to buy socks, so he gets a job mowing The Red Guy's lawn, which has grass taller than him. He also has to mow the back yard, which contains the Swiss Alps! After Chicken finishes, The Red Guy cheats him, so Super Cow fixes it up.

Cow's Magic Blanket
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4.60
10 votes

#2 - Cow's Magic Blanket

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/27/1999

Everyone makes fun of Cow because she still has her old security blanket. She then tosses it out the school bus window, but is depressed for the rest of the day. Chicken tries the cheer her up by playing the bad guy in a game of Super Cow. Cow confesses that her blanket was also Super Cow's magic cape, and that Super Cow was never coming back. Red Guy then sees the perfect opportunity to torture Flem and Earl. Chicken decides it's ""Wonder Wattle"" to the rescue.

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School Bully
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5.18
77 votes

#3 - 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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Goin' My Way?
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5.25
12 votes

#4 - Goin' My Way?

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/22/1998

While driving in the snow, Mom and Dad find The Red Guy who says he's heading "home"; so Mom and Dad take him home with him, and immediately think of him has their new favorite son. Cow and Chicken work together to try to prove The Red Guy's a fraud.

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Cow's Dream Catcher
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5.33
12 votes

#5 - Cow's Dream Catcher

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/12/1998

Cow tags along with Chicken, Flem, and Earl on their camping trip in the tree fort. Cow says that if Chicken, Flem, or Earl touch her dream catcher that they'll die. Chicken accidentally breaks her dream catcher, and soon, he, Flem and Earl are at the mercy of Cow's worst nightmare: The Milkman.

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Send in the Clowns
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5.36
11 votes

#6 - Send in the Clowns

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/29/1999

Dad isn't friendly terms with the new neighbors, who happen to be clowns. Cow falls in love with the clown son, who in return falls in love with Cow. They play hooky to spend the day together. Dad finds out, and Cow in grounded, while he kicks the clown son out, and chews clown dad out.

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Confused
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5.44
81 votes

#7 - 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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Tongue Sandwich
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5.52
42 votes

#8 - Tongue Sandwich

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/1998

Cow's tongue rips out of her mouth and runs away. He then causes havock all over town, by hi-jacking someone of their motor-scooter, rolling around in someone's gravy, and licking the candy store dry. Soon, Tongue finds himself on the lam, and runs back to Cow. Everything is back to normal, until Chicken's wattle decides to run away to.

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Which Came First
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5.55
40 votes

#9 - Which Came First

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/17/1998

The Red Guy sneaks a crow egg under Chicken's covers while he sleeps. The next morning, Cow and Chicken find the egg, and Chicken comes to the conclusion that he is actually a girl. So, it's egg sitting for Cow and Chicken, until the egg hatches and a baby crow comes out. Now Chicken comes to the conclusion that he isn't even a chicken.

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Snail Boy
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5.58
12 votes

#10 - Snail Boy

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/5/1999

Cow and Chicken visit their cousin, Snail Boy for Sunday Dinner. Later that night, Mom's Sis announces that Snail Boy has been transformed to Cow and Chicken's school. During his first day of school, Chicken becomes the laughing-stock when every finds out that Chicken is the cousin of a snail. Snail Boy then becomes the target of the eyes of the bullying track team.

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Chicken In The Bathroom
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5.64
14 votes

#11 - Chicken In The Bathroom

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/19/1998

Chicken refuses to take bath, so he just sits there in the empty tub, while Cow, Mom, and Dad try to make him take a bath so they can use the toilet.

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Crash Dive
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5.65
79 votes

#12 - 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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Black Sheep of the Family
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5.71
14 votes

#13 - Black Sheep of the Family

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/1999

Cow and Chicken get a visit from their cousin, Black Sheep (who really is in both terms). While Mom and Dad run away, Cow and Chicken try to make Black Sheep feel at home, but when he compliments Flem and Earl in scientific terms, they assume that Black Sheep is a dangerous criminal. Cow tries to help Black Sheep, who everyone changes their minds about, after he saves a woman's life from a heart attack.

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Intelligent Life?
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5.80
10 votes

#14 - Intelligent Life?

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/17/1998

Cow doesn't wish to come in, but rather stay out all night to stare at the moon. So she builds a make-shift rocket ship out of cardboard boxes, a trashcan, and traffic cone. It ACTUALLY works, and finds herself on the planet Mud, where she brings space alien (Red Guy) back to earth where he says the solution to all problems is: puppets.

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Space Cow
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5.83
95 votes

#15 - 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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Red Butler
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5.83
6 votes

#16 - Red Butler

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/11/1999

Red Guys shows up at Cow and Chicken's house, posing as Hives the Butler. For the rest of the day, he tries to make Cow and Chicken's life easier, by answers questions for them, peeing for them, feeding them, blinking for them, and giving them story time. When Red Guy discovers that their not wealthy, he decides to take his scam to Flem and Earl.

Duck, Duck, Chicken
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5.86
7 votes

#17 - Duck, Duck, Chicken

Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/25/1999

Now Red Guy's Dr. Hiney, and says that Chicken is a deformed duck. With that, he takes Chicken to the hospital for a wattle-ex-tamy. After hours pass, Red Guy's surgery literally turns Chicken into a duck. Mom and Dad sue Red Guy, and lose. Now the Cow and Chicken show may be renamed "Cow and Duck".

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Factory Follies
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5.89
9 votes

#18 - Factory Follies

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/10/1998

Red Guy is CEO of a giant factory. He holds a birthday party for himself in the confrence room later that night, but none of the employees show up. But it doesn't matter, he has enough fun by himself.

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Professor Longhorn Steer
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5.91
11 votes

#19 - Professor Longhorn Steer

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/3/1999

Mom and Dad are disgusted that Cow and Chicken believe the world is round, so they hire Dad's brother, Longhorn Steer (who really is a steer) to tudor Cow and Chicken. Longhorn fails, but Cow and Chicken learn that he doesn't want to teach...we wants to be a normal steer, get married, have kids, hold a job, and stampede.

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Buffalo Gals
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5.98
41 votes

#20 - Buffalo Gals

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/20/1998

A group of female bikers break into Cow and Chicken's house, and start gnawing on their carpet. One of the bikers has a crush on Cow, and invites her to join the Buffalo Gals. It's up to Chicken to save his sister.

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I Scream Man
star
6.00
12 votes

#21 - I Scream Man

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/28/1999

It's almost arbor day, and Mom and Dad are feeding their pet piggy pennies so they can crack him open on arbor day. Meanwhile, Cow and Chicken are craving ice cream, and try to chase down the ice cream man (Red Guy).

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Cloud Nine
star
6.00
12 votes

#22 - Cloud Nine

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/29/1999

Cow and Chicken wait outside the hardware store while Dad shops. Chicken is dying to ride the fighter jet plane ride. When Cow finally lends Chicken a quarter, The Red Guy takes the ride away. Chicken then stows-away on his truck, to ride the plane, but has to plug it up. Once at the gas station, he buys 20 extension cords, but the owner unplugs them. In the end, Chicken discovers that Dad actually collects those kind of rides.

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Supermodel Cow
star
6.03
98 votes

#23 - Supermodel Cow

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/22/1997

Cow wishes to be a famous supermodel, and gets her 15 minutes of fame, when The Red Guy discovers her. She soon appears in magazines and buildboards, but soon becomes yesterday's news.

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The Cow and Chicken Blues
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6.05
37 votes

#24 - The Cow and Chicken Blues

Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/24/1999

When Cow and Chicken get depressed, their parents suggest them to go to a mysterious swamp, and find a blind blues singer to fight their depression.

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Chicken's First Kiss
star
6.06
97 votes

#25 - 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.

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