Sheep in the Big City (2000)

Directed by

Tom Warburton

Genre

alternative comedy

Country

United States

Length

2 seasons, 27 episodes

Rated

TV-Y7

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A sheep runs away to a big city and tries to stay hidden from a secret military group that wants to capture him. The show includes many short comedy sketches and makes jokes about how TV shows and movies are made.

quirkyabsurdistfast-pacedmetacomedicwhimsicaldeadpanplayful

What happens

Sheep in the Big City is an American animated television series created by Mo Willems for Cartoon Network. The 9th of the network's Cartoon Cartoons, the series' pilot first premiered as part of Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoon Summer" on August 18, 2000, before its official debut on November 17, 2000. It aired until April 7, 2002, with repeats airing until 2003. Willems previously created The Off-Beats for Nickelodeon's KaBlam! before working on this animated show. The series follows a runaway sheep named Sheep in his new life in "the Big City", where he tries to avoid a secret military organization. It also features several unrelated sketches and shorts, similar to those from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends. With an emphasis on sophisticated (in particular, literal) humor, using different forms of rhetoric from characters to plots, it included comic references to filmmaking 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. The animation services for the series were handled by the South Korean animation studio Rough Draft Korea. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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