The Worst Episodes of Sheep in the Big City
Every episode of Sheep in the Big City ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Sheep in the Big City!
Sheep in the Big City is an American animated television series which ran on Cartoon Network for two seasons, from November 17, 2000, to April 7, 2002. The series' pilot first premiered as part of Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoon Summer" on August 18, 2000. Created by Mo Willems, the bulk of the show follows a runaway sheep, Sheep, in its new life in "the Big City". It also features several unrelated sketches and shorts, similar to The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. With an emphasis on more "sophisticated" humor, using multiple forms of rhetoric from the characters to the plots, it was more popular with older audiences. It was also unusual in featuring many comic references to film-making and television broadcasting. At the time, the premiere of Sheep in the Big City was the highest-rated premiere for a Cartoon Network original series.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Sheep in the Big City" is "Wish You Were Shear", rated 5.5/10 from 12 user votes. It was directed by Karen Villarreal and written by Joey Mazzarino, Mo Willems. "Wish You Were Shear" aired on 12/2/2001 and is rated 0.2 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Wool of the People".
5.5/10 12 votes#1 - Wish You Were Shear
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 12/2/2001
Sheep gets adopted by Lisa Rental.
Director: Karen Villarreal
Writer: Joey Mazzarino, Mo Willems
5.7/10 10 votes#2 - The Wool of the People
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/17/2002
General Specific can't capture Sheep because of the new law put up by the mayor of the Big City. Luckily for him the current mayor's term has ended and he decided to run for mayor with the help of the Lady Richington. Seeing there that Sheep's in trouble if Gen. Specific wins, Farmer John persuades Sheep to also run for mayor. In the end neither of them wins and the new mayor proclaims amnesty for Sheep for the day.
Director: Tom Warburton
Writer: Mo Willems
5.8/10 9 votes#3 - My, How Ewe Have Changed
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/23/2001
Sheep is invited back to Farmer John's farm for a reunion. He finds that a lot of things have changed since he first left. As sheep meets up with his old friends General Specific is next door having a party and then decides to cut it short and capture sheep.
Director: Karen Villarreal
Writer: Mo Willems
6.0/10 12 votes#4 - Baah-dern Times
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 12/9/2001
With the entire cast of "Sheep in the Big City" sick with the flu, the narrator (who's also sick but still has to work) decides that for this episode of "Sheep in the Big City" that the audience shall instead, watch an old black-&-white silent movie featuring the ancestor's of Sheep and General Specific.
Director: Sue Perrotto
Writer: Mo Willems
6.2/10 11 votes#5 - Flock, Up in the Sky
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 12/16/2001
X agent returns and swears to protect Sheep from General Specific.
Director: Tom Warburton
Writer: Mo Willems
6.2/10 10 votes#6 - Daddy Shearest
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/24/2002
After failing again to capture Sheep, Private Public gets a visit from his dad, General Public.
Director: Karen Villarreal
Writer: Mo Willems
6.3/10 10 votes#7 - The Wool Is Not Enough
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/3/2002
Tired of the Angry Scientist's failures, General Specific hires Doctor Oh No No No to help him capture Sheep. However, the Doctor has own his agenda.
Director: Sue Perrotto
Writer: David Wain, Mo Willems
6.4/10 10 votes#8 - Oh, the Ewemanity
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/24/2002
General Specific can't capture Sheep because he is too small for his net, so he blows him up using an enlarging ray.
Director: Sue Perrotto
Writer: Joey Mazzarino, Mo Willems
6.5/10 12 votes#9 - Beauty and the Bleats
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/10/2002
Sheep is turned into a half human half sheep by a Genie.
Director: Tom Warburton
Writer: Mo Willems
6.5/10 11 votes#10 - Baa-hind the Scenes
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/7/2002
This occurs when the cast is done filming an episode and now Sheep and his manager have a lunch meeting with the head of the network. General Specific doesn't like that, so he decides to ruin the meeting so Sheep won't get another show. In the end because of him (and the Angry Scientists new invention), Sheep is turned pink with big eyes and is now perfect for another show!
Director: Karen Villarreal
Writer: Mo Willems
6.6/10 10 votes#11 - An Officer and a Gentlelamb
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/17/2002
Sheep can't hold a steady job because the Top Secret Military Organization is always pursuing him. At the top Secret Military Base, Gen. Specific fires all of his staff (except for Private Public and the Angry Scientist) and decides to hire new ones. Sheep without a job applies for it. Gen. Specific doesn't know that it was Sheep, hires him. The Angry Scientist discovers the new recruit is really Sheep and proceeds to tell Gen. Specific. Gen. Specific tells Sheep that he should capture Sheep to prove he isn't really Sheep. Sheep fooled them by bringing a Gorilla in a sheep costume.
Director: Karen Villarreal
Writer: Mo Willems
6.6/10 10 votes#12 - Here Goes Mutton
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/31/2002
Farmer John becomes a football player, while Sheep gets amnesia from a hit on the head.
Director: Tom Warburton
Writer: Joey Mazzarino, Mo Willems
6.7/10 16 votes#13 - To Sheep, Perchance to Dream
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/29/2001
This episode is all about the nightmares of people in the Big City.
Director: Karen Villarreal
Writer: Mo Willems
6.8/10 17 votes#14 - Fleeced to Meet You
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/10/2001
General Specific hires X-Agent to befriend Sheep and entrap him so they can use him for the sheep powered ray gun. X-Agent successfully entraps Sheep but later changes his mind because he realizes that friendship with Sheep mattered more.
Director: Maurice Joyce
Writer: Mo Willems
6.9/10 18 votes#15 - Going Off the Sheep End
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/8/2000
While Sheep tries to grab Swanky's attention by making unnecessary changes to himself, the Angry Scientist comes up with less-than-foolproof and idiotic plans to capture Sheep.
Director: Sue Perrotto
Writer: Joey Mazzarino, Mo Willems
6.9/10 13 votes#16 - Mistaken Identi-sheep
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/8/2001
A sheep-like creature robs the town, while Sheep is blamed.
Director: Sue Perrotto
Writer: Joey Mazzarino, Mo Willems
7.0/10 14 votes#17 - 15 Muttons of Fame (aka They'll Flock to See Ewe)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/26/2001
When an agent for a dishwashing commercial discovers Sheep, Sheep decides to become a model to avoid General Specific. However, he might have to give up his friends.
Director: Maurice Joyce
Writer: Mo Willems
7.1/10 13 votes#18 - A Star Is Shorn
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/24/2001
Sheep gets a job in a hip club as a waiter but soon General Specific finds him and almost knocks over the plates sheep was carrying. Sheep catches the plates and starts spinning them hypnotizing General Specific and while this happens Farmer John appears and convinces Sheep to go pro with his plate spinning act.
Director: Maurice Joyce
Writer: David Wain, Mo Willems
7.2/10 17 votes#19 - Baa-ck In Time
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/23/2001
Sheep escapes through time to find a better life.
Director: Karen Villarreal
Writer: Joey Mazzarino, Mo Willems
7.2/10 13 votes#20 - Party of the Shear
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/10/2002
To escape the clutches of the secret military organization Sheep goes into a dance club which general specific is not cool enough for. He is befriended by General Lee Outragious but when he wants to leave he is stopped by the over energetic friend and relizes this is why he watches movies every night.
Director: Sue Perrotto
Writer: Mo Willems
7.3/10 25 votes#21 - Be Still My Bleating Heart
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/17/2000
Sheep falls in love with a poodle called Swanky, and coincidentally, Swanky's owner hates sheeps.
Director: Karen Villarreal
Writer: Mo Willems
7.3/10 18 votes#22 - Home for the Baa-lidays
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/29/2000
Sheep returns to the farm for the holidays.
Director: Karen Villarreal
Writer: Mo Willems
7.3/10 18 votes#23 - Can't Live Without Ewe
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/12/2001
While Sheep goes into a fake sheep convention set up by the military wearing a mustache, Farmer John misses him, and hires The German Sheperd to bring Sheep home.
Director: Karen Villarreal
Writer: Mo Willems
7.4/10 20 votes#24 - Belle of the Baaah
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/1/2000
Sheep gets more than he bargained for when he accidentally swallows a diamond and receives much of the town's adoration and attention.
Director: Maurice Joyce
Writer: David Wain, Mo Willems
7.6/10 22 votes#25 - To Bleat or Not to Bleat
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/2000
A girl called Lisa Rental saves Sheep from General Specific so that she can keep him as a pet.
Director: Mike de Seve
Writer: Mo Willems