I have heard many lukewarm attitudes towards Cow & Chicken, and it is primarily because of its short episodes due to being cut short by I. M. Weasel.
But personally I think Cow and Chicken was the better show, perhaps because I didn't get the I.M, Weasel show. Anyway, look at Cow & Chicken, it's freakin' bizarre! The titular characters are somehow siblings, who have humans as their parents, who turn out to be only a talking pair of legs! That is beyond strange!
More oddities are about to come, because they encounter more disturbing characters and expiriences throughout the series. Oh, did I mention that the cow is also a spanish speaking superhero and the chicken has a cousin without any bones in his entire body, yeah, that's what we're dealing with.
The pilot episode of the series seriously creeped me out! The Devil, aka The Red Guy, was originally a sadistic madman (satan) set to torture our main characters. I am not sure if I would have liked to see more of that Red Guy and that kind of content was, luckily I guess, toned down in the final series.
In conclusion, If Cow & Chicken was given its original dark and explicit content it would have made one heck of an unpleasant show and what we got was still twisted and disturbing, but in a funny way. If it had got its completely own show without sharing screen-time with another show, it could easily have been up there with Ren & Stimpy in terms of being twisted and entertaining.
But personally I think Cow and Chicken was the better show, perhaps because I didn't get the I.M, Weasel show. Anyway, look at Cow & Chicken, it's freakin' bizarre! The titular characters are somehow siblings, who have humans as their parents, who turn out to be only a talking pair of legs! That is beyond strange!
More oddities are about to come, because they encounter more disturbing characters and expiriences throughout the series. Oh, did I mention that the cow is also a spanish speaking superhero and the chicken has a cousin without any bones in his entire body, yeah, that's what we're dealing with.
The pilot episode of the series seriously creeped me out! The Devil, aka The Red Guy, was originally a sadistic madman (satan) set to torture our main characters. I am not sure if I would have liked to see more of that Red Guy and that kind of content was, luckily I guess, toned down in the final series.
In conclusion, If Cow & Chicken was given its original dark and explicit content it would have made one heck of an unpleasant show and what we got was still twisted and disturbing, but in a funny way. If it had got its completely own show without sharing screen-time with another show, it could easily have been up there with Ren & Stimpy in terms of being twisted and entertaining.