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The Best Episodes of Cow and Chicken Season 1

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 1 - Field Trip to Folsom Prison
    7.2/10(142 votes)

    #1 - Field Trip to Folsom Prison

    S1:E1

    On a field trip to the penitentiary, Chicken switches places with a hardened criminal named Red.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robert Alvarez
    Writer:David Feiss

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  2. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 2 - The Girl's Bathroom
    7.0/10(112 votes)

    #2 - The Girl's Bathroom

    S1:E2

    Chicken, Flem and Earl are fascinated by the girls' bathroom.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robert Alvarez
    Writer:David Feiss

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  3. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 3 - This Bridge, Not Weasel Bridge
    7.5/10(110 votes)

    #3 - This Bridge, Not Weasel Bridge

    S1:E3

    I.M. Weasel must complete the trans Atlantic Bridge.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robin Steele
    Writer:David Feiss

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  4. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 4 - Supermodel Cow
    6.7/10(92 votes)

    #4 - Supermodel Cow

    S1:E4

    At the mall, Cow gets noticed by a fashion photographer from Vague Magazine. Her bovine looks become the latest fad.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robert Alvarez
    Writers:Bill Burnett, David Feiss

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  5. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 5 - Part-Time Job
    7.6/10(102 votes)

    #5 - Part-Time Job

    S1:E5

    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"".

    Directors:David Feiss, Robert Alvarez
    Writers:Bill Burnett, David Feiss

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  6. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 6 - I.R. on Sun
    6.5/10(85 votes)

    #6 - I.R. on Sun

    S1:E6

    I.R. is jealous of I.M. Weasel being the first on Mars, Jupiter and Uranus. But then NASA tells I.R. that he can become the first on the sun, and I.R. readily accepts the job. This creates quite the challenge for I.M...

    Directors:David Feiss, Robin Steele
    Writer:Richard Pursel

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  7. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 7 - Alive!
    7.0/10(85 votes)

    #7 - Alive!

    S1:E7

    Cow and her babysitter accidentally get stuck up on the roof.

    Directors:David Feiss, John McIntyre
    Writers:Bill Burnett, David Feiss

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  8. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 8 - Who is Super Cow?
    6.8/10(85 votes)

    #8 - Who is Super Cow?

    S1:E8

    Red Guy is trying to know the secret identity of Supercow.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robert Alvarez
    Writers:Victor Ortado, Larry Huber, Monte Young

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  9. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 9 - Deep Sea Tour
    6.7/10(78 votes)

    #9 - Deep Sea Tour

    S1:E9

    Bathysphere operator I.R. Baboon takes children on a deep sea tour.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robin Steele
    Writer:Richard Pursel

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  10. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 10 - Confused
    6.8/10(83 votes)

    #10 - Confused

    S1:E10

    Mom and Dad send Cow and Chicken to military school to teach them discipline, but are appalled when they return as iron-minded machines.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robert Alvarez
    Writers:Seth MacFarlane, Bill Burnett, David Feiss

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  11. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 11 - The Molting Fairy
    6.5/10(73 votes)

    #11 - The Molting Fairy

    S1:E11

    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
    Writers:Bill Burnett, Victor Ortado

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  12. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 12 - I.R. Gentlemans
    7.1/10(89 votes)

    #12 - I.R. Gentlemans

    S1:E12

    It's discovered that I.R. is the king of the kingdom of Yurp, so Weasel must turn him into a gentleman.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robin Steele
    Writer:Richard Pursel

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  13. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 13 - The Ugliest Weenie - Part One
    6.4/10(78 votes)

    #13 - The Ugliest Weenie - Part One

    S1:E13

    Cow writes a play called The Ugliest Weenie, -- a sad tale about an ugly, deformed weenie in a pack of otherwise beautiful weenies (hotdogs).

    Directors:David Feiss, Monte Young
    Writer:Bill Burnett

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  14. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 14 - I Are Big Star
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - I Are Big Star

    S1:E14

    I.R. will do anything to get Weasel's role on his last movie.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robin Steele
    Writer:Richard Pursel

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  15. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 15 - The Ugliest Weenie - Epilogue
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - The Ugliest Weenie - Epilogue

    S1:E15

    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.

    Directors:David Feiss, Monte Young
    Writer:Bill Burnett

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  16. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 16 - Crash Dive!
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Crash Dive!

    S1:E16

    Chicken builds a submarine out of odd pieces of wood he finds lying around.

    Director:David Feiss
    Writer:Vincent Davis

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  17. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 17 - Happy Meat
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Happy Meat

    S1:E17

    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.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robert Alvarez
    Writers:Bill Burnett, Victor Ortado

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  18. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 18 - Power of Odor
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Power of Odor

    S1:E18

    I.R. starts his own pig farm, covering the whole town with an awful stench.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robin Steele
    Writer:Richard Pursel

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  19. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 19 - School Bully
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - School Bully

    S1:E19

    When a new bully comes to town, Chicken and his friends become nostalgic for their old school bully.

    Director:David Feiss
    Writers:Bill Burnett, David Feiss, Greg Emison

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  20. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 20 - Time Machine
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Time Machine

    S1:E20

    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.

    Director:David Feiss
    Writer:David Feiss

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  21. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 21 - Ping Pong at Sea
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Ping Pong at Sea

    S1:E21

    Weasel is going to face a human in a ping-pong duel. A jealous I.R. tells the human that he's won a trip, so I.R. can duel Weasel himself.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robin Steele
    Writer:Richard Pursel

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  22. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 22 - Orthodontic Police
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Orthodontic Police

    S1:E22

    Dad is pulled over by a cop, who discovers Cow and Chicken have crooked teeth and slaps braces on them.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robert Alvarez
    Writers:Bill Burnett, David Feiss, Victor Ortado

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  23. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 23 - The Cow with Four Eyes!
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - The Cow with Four Eyes!

    S1:E23

    Chicken misreads the eye chart and gets a thick pair of glasses.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robert Alvarez
    Writers:Bill Burnett, David Feiss

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  24. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 24 - Disease Fiesta
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Disease Fiesta

    S1:E24

    I.M. Weasel is searching for the cure of Athlete's Face.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robin Steele
    Writer:Richard Pursel

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  25. Cow and Chicken Season 1 Episode 25 - Cow's Instincts... Don't It?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Cow's Instincts... Don't It?

    S1:E25

    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.

    Directors:David Feiss, Robert Alvarez
    Writers:Seth MacFarlane, Bill Burnett

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Field Trip to Folsom Prison" is the best rated episode of "Cow and Chicken" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 142 votes. Directed by David Feiss, Robert Alvarez and written by David Feiss, it aired on 9/16/1997. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Girl's Bathroom".