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The Best Episodes of Cow and Chicken

Every episode of Cow and Chicken ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Cow and Chicken!

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.

Genres:AnimationComedyKids

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The best episode of "Cow and Chicken" is "The Ballad of Cow and Chicken", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was directed by David Feiss and written by David Feiss, Michael Ryan. "The Ballad of Cow and Chicken" aired on 7/24/1999 and is rated 2.7 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Field Trip to Folsom Prison".

  • The Ballad of Cow and Chicken
    10.0/10 1 votes

    #1 - The Ballad of Cow and Chicken

    Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 1999-07-24

    The Cow and Chicken`s teacher sings a ballad about Red Guy and Cow and Chicken.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: David Feiss, Michael Ryan

  • Field Trip to Folsom Prison
    7.3/10 105 votes

    #2 - Field Trip to Folsom Prison

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1997-09-16

    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.

    Director: Robert Alvarez, David Feiss

    Writer: David Feiss

  • Alive!
    7.3/10 80 votes

    #3 - Alive!

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1997-07-29

    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.

    Director: David Feiss, John McIntyre

    Writer: David Feiss, Bill Burnett

  • Supermodel Cow
    7.2/10 91 votes

    #4 - Supermodel Cow

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1997-07-22

    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.

    Director: Robert Alvarez, David Feiss

    Writer: David Feiss, Bill Burnett

  • Invisible Cow
    6.9/10 68 votes

    #5 - Invisible Cow

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1999-05-06

    Red Guy pops by Cow and Chicken's house selling ""invisible sauce"". Cow unwittingly buys it, and claims she's invisible, so she runs around town performing feats of ""invisibiltiness"". Red Guy sees this, and has Cow steal ""withdrawl slips"" from the bank with her ""invisibleness"". Cow steal fill-out forms instead of cash. Cow then tries to help lousy golfers, but she realizes she never was really invisible at all.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: David Feiss, Michael Ryan

  • Confused
    6.8/10 74 votes

    #6 - Confused

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1997-08-05

    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.

    Director: Robert Alvarez, David Feiss

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane, David Feiss, Bill Burnett

  • Happy Meat
    6.7/10 78 votes

    #7 - Happy Meat

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1997-08-19

    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.

    Director: Robert Alvarez, David Feiss

    Writer: Bill Burnett, Victor Ortado

  • The Full Mounty
    6.7/10 42 votes

    #8 - The Full Mounty

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1999-05-04

    It's ""Bring Your Kids to Work Day"", so Dad does just that. Dad's job is guarding the government's money. When he has to appear at a sudden confernce, he leaves Cow and Chicken in his office. Red Guy, who is now a Canadian Mounty Police, finds them, and begins to stalk them, until they surrender.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: David Feiss, Michael Ryan

  • The Girl's Bathroom
    6.6/10 92 votes

    #9 - The Girl's Bathroom

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1997-09-16

    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""

    Director: Robert Alvarez, David Feiss

    Writer: David Feiss

  • Fluffy the Anaconda
    6.6/10 60 votes

    #10 - Fluffy the Anaconda

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1998-01-13

    Mom and Dad decide to let Cow have a pet. She choose an anaconda, after it eats Chicken, and she hears his voice from inside the snake, and assumes the snake can sound just like Chicken. Cow names the anaconda, Fluffy, and Fluffy soon grows attached to Chicken, as its full-coarse dinner.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Bill Burnett

  • Sumo Cow
    6.6/10 79 votes

    #11 - Sumo Cow

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1998-02-03

    Cow, Chicken, Flem, and Earl try out for the school's sumo wrestling team. For being big and fat, Cow is the new team member. Soon, everyone fears her, and she feels degected, but it benefits Chicken, because now no one will beat him up.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Steve Marmel

  • Grandma at the Mall
    6.6/10 56 votes

    #12 - Grandma at the Mall

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1998-09-19

    Grandma pays at visit to Cow and Chicken's house to take them to the mall with her. Her purpose for being at the mall: to look for a new grandpa, because she lost the old one. Chicken gives her the slip while he, Flem and Earl hang out at the concession stands.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: David Feiss, Michael Ryan

  • The Molting Fairy
    6.5/10 73 votes

    #13 - The Molting Fairy

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1997-08-05

    Chicken starts molting, and is convinced that he'll get a dollar for every feather by the molting fairy. Chicken adds it up to $700, and decides to start an I.O.U. system at the carnival.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Bill Burnett, Victor Ortado

  • The Ugliest Weenie - Epilogue
    6.5/10 71 votes

    #14 - The Ugliest Weenie - Epilogue

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1997-08-12

    Picking up where the last episode left off, the night the play begins, the cast and crew learn that Flem has been struck with chicken-pocks, so Chicken gets the role, while Cow is the new leading lady, since Wee Wee caught the pocks too. The play goes on, and all the weenies cast out the Ugliest Weenie, but soon learn that ugly is good, because it means that he won't get bar-b-qued, and eaten.

    Director: David Feiss, Monte Young

    Writer: Bill Burnett

  • Pirate Lessons
    6.5/10 63 votes

    #15 - Pirate Lessons

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1998-01-20

    The Red Guy is now Captain Butz Pirate, and wants to give Cow and Chicken pirate lessons. He takes them aboard his pirate ship in the middle of the duck pond, and teaches them how to say ""argh"", carve peglegs, hold worms for ransom, and sink Flem and Earl's boat. But after that incident, Cow, Chicken, and their flag/man Jolly Roger declare mutiny.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Bill Burnett

  • Dream Date Chicken
    6.5/10 60 votes

    #16 - Dream Date Chicken

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1998-01-27

    Chicken is tired of always having to do chores, so he chews Mom and Dad out, and runs away to be a bachelor with Cousin Boneless Chicken. One at Boneless's Chicken attracts the attention on Boneless's blind-date, Linda. Linda falls head over heals for Chicken, which makes Boneless disgusted.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Richard Pursel

  • Chickens Don't Fly
    6.5/10 55 votes

    #17 - Chickens Don't Fly

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1998-09-26

    Cow and Chicken are taking a trip all by themselves. Their taking an airplane. Once Chicken sees the actual plain, he starts to have anxiety attacks and believes that flying is a dangerous way to travel.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Gary Wilson

  • Chachi, the Chewing Gum Seal
    6.5/10 61 votes

    #18 - Chachi, the Chewing Gum Seal

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1999-04-26

    Chicken tells Cow that she's not artistic, so she in return, sculpts a seal out of a stick of chewing gum, and an entire machine full of bubblegum balls. Cow wishes that her chewing gum seal, whom she names Chachi, was real. Suddenly, a wishing star grants her wish, and Chachi is a real, miserable, ho-hum seal.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Maxwell Atoms

  • Mall Cop
    6.5/10 53 votes

    #19 - Mall Cop

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1999-05-04

    Dad loves shopping for Mom's stuff. He runs off to get a manicure for her, while Cow and Chicken pay for the other items. The censors go off when Cow passes through, so Red Guy, as a mall cop, chases Cow and Chicken all over the store. Cow learns that the censors have been broken for weeks. Red Guy walks through, and is arrest by the REAL mall cops.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Steve Marmel, Nora Johnson

  • Cloud Nine
    6.5/10 41 votes

    #20 - Cloud Nine

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1999-04-29

    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.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Scott Morse

  • The Big Move
    6.5/10 39 votes

    #21 - The Big Move

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 1999-04-27

    Cow and Chicken are devastated when Mom and Dad suddenly announce that their moving. Cow and Chicken start reminising about their favorite memories from the only home they ever lived in, from their first puppy, to their first Christmas. The Red Guy, Flem and Earl are also devastated when Cow and Chicken are moving. Once the truck is loaded, Cow and Chicken discover that they are only moving to an identical house next door. When asked why, Dad replies ""our old house was infested with ants.""

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: David Feiss, Michael Ryan

  • Part-Time Job
    6.4/10 79 votes

    #22 - Part-Time Job

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1997-07-22

    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""

    Director: Robert Alvarez, David Feiss

    Writer: David Feiss, Bill Burnett

  • Tongue Sandwich
    6.4/10 58 votes

    #23 - Tongue Sandwich

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1998-01-27

    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.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Michael Ryan

  • Cow's Toys
    6.4/10 55 votes

    #24 - Cow's Toys

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 1999-04-28

    Sick of their everyday life of being squirted with milk, Cow's favorite toys: Crabs the Warthog Doll, Piles the Beaver Doll, and Manure the Bear decide to run away to find their original owner. After reading Manure's tag that says ""Made In Hong Kong"", they assume their original owner is a maiden named Hong Kong, and set out on a quest to find her.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: Steve Marmel, Michael Ryan

  • Snail Boy
    6.4/10 53 votes

    #25 - Snail Boy

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1999-05-05

    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.

    Director: David Feiss

    Writer: David Feiss, Michael Ryan