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1* TheDanza: A variant. Rather than being named after his voice actor, the narrator's name Ben Plotz happens to rhyme with the name of his voice actor Ken Schatz.
2* DescendedCreator: Series creator Mo Willems voices the Angry Scientist.
3* ExecutiveMeddling: Cartoon Network outright demanded that all of the jokes that required reading be accompanied by an off-screen voice reading it. Willems and co. only compromised by adding the little man who shows up during those gags, randomly saying that he likes reading and disappears.
4* FridayNightDeathSlot: The show was a victim of this throughout its run. The first nine episodes aired at 9:30 PM on the "Cartoon Cartoon Friday's" block. The last four episodes of the first season were delayed several months to Sunday evenings for no given reason. The show was initially cancelled after its first season because of poor viewership. However, it was at the last minute [[UnCancelled renewed for a second season]], which began airing with the same Sunday evening slot, before shifting to Sundays at 9 PM. Inevitably, the ratings became even worse, and after the second season, the show was gone.
5* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Along with the first season was taken off iTunes (for reasons unknown to man), the show only received one DVD release in the United Kingdom (containing the first 3 episodes). Alongside this, the pilot episode was also officially released on home media, as a bonus on ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' VHS "Dream Scheme" and the ''PPG'' DVD "Powerpuff Bluff". This ill treatment is surprising as when the show first aired, it had the highest ever rated premiere for a Cartoon Network series. The entire series (all 26 episodes AND the pilot) are available on Dailymotion and other (illegal) online video sites in their entirety, although these rips are rather low quality and PAL Pitched as they are from Boomerang Australia.
6** In 2022, the series became available for streaming on Creator/HBOMax Latin America (though a few episodes are missing). Both the English and Spanish dubs of the episodes can be found on there, and they are the original NTSC masters that haven't been seen since the show was taken off the air. These HBO Max LA Rips have since been made available for American viewers through Google Drive ports, both the original English versions and the Spanish dubs.
7* TheOtherDarrin: Lady Richington was voiced by Ruth Buzzi in the pilot episode, with Stephanie D'Abruzzo voicing her for the actual series proper.
8* ProductionPosse: Mo Willems worked on ''Series/SesameStreet'' before making this show, and six actors who worked on ''Sesame Street'' did voices on ''Big City'': Ken Schatz, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Joey Mazzarino, Fran Brill, Jerry Nelson and Ruth Buzzi.
9* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show had an incredibly rough run on Cartoon Network.
10** The first seven episodes premiered with decent ratings between November 2000 and January 2001, though episodes 8 and 9 were held back into March. However, the last four episodes of the season never managed to air until June and July, on Sunday evenings. The series was initially cancelled after the first season ended on July 29, before being UnCancelled shortly afterwards thanks to popular demand; a second season was ordered in September of 2001, and started airing on December 2. The first four episodes aired that month with the same time slot as late season 1. However, the show went on yet another hiatus in January 2002, and the last nine episodes were burned out over the following months with a time slot of Sunday night at 9 PM, [[FridayNightDeathSlot when the target audience would not usually be watching TV]]. The series ended on April 7, 2002 with little fanfare, and quickly fell into obscurity.
11** According to an old Toonzone thread, a third season was planned to begin airing in 2003 and was briefly in pre-production, but was cancelled after ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' was greenlit, which debuted on December 6, 2002, months after Sheep ended. Reruns of Sheep soon became sparse, basically slipping silently off the air and CN's website. For a couple of years after, the only way to see Sheep was on Boomerang in foreign countries, but that too didn't last for long. Only the first season was also briefly available on iTunes at one point in 2006, but was soon pulled for whatever reason. It wasn't until 2012, a decade after the series ended, that Cartoon Network acknowledged its existence again as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, though the show slipped back into obscurity soon thereafter. The show was also acknowledged in 2016, when Cartoon Network uploaded the theme song to its Website/YouTube channel, along with multiple other shows, and again when Sheep appeared as a statue in the ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' episode "Crossover Nexus".
12*** The series is available for streaming on Creator/HBOMax in Latin America.
13* SecondSeasonDownfall: Sheep was never particularly successful to begin with, its absurdist humor not understood by most of the viewers, and being aired particularly late on [[Main/FridayNightDeathSlot Friday nights]] meaning it had a pretty shaky first season. Cartoon Network, rather than bumping Sheep to an earlier time slot for a better chance of success, INSTEAD banished the show to the even WORSE timeslot of Sunday evenings, when nobody was really watching TV. Just when it seemed like Sheep was getting axed and thus becoming a Main/OneSeasonWonder, outcry from the most diehard of fans meant a last-minute announcement of a second season... which was aired in the SAME Sunday evening slot, resulting in similarly dismal ratings, before eventually being moved to even LATER on Sundays, just before Creator/AdultSwim came on (when the target demographic would usually be going to sleep), thus killing any chance Sheep had of getting another season.
14* UnCanceled: As mentioned under Screwed By the Network, the series was initially cancelled after the first season ended in the summer of 2001, but popular demand led to a second season being ordered in the fall.
15* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
16** The sheep-powered raygun was originally supposed to be used to take over Wisconsin, but Mo Willems decided it was funnier if there was no explicit purpose to imply "General Specific and Private Public aren't too bright."
17** According to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120418005932/https://mowillemsdoodles.blogspot.com/2012/01/sheep-in-big-citys-almost-last-hurrah.html this post]] on Mo Willems' blog, Cartoon Network approached him to create a TV special to wrap up the series, which would've involved Sheep being captured by a rival of General Specific named Admiral Qualities. He wasn't able to do it because he was busy working on the first season of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
18*** As stated above, a third season was briefly in the works, scheduled to air in 2003. Unfortunately, with Kids Next Door in production, Mo Willems and Tom Warburton were too busy to continue Sheep.

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