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    Cow 

Cow

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Click here to see Supercow. 
Voiced by: Charlie Adler (English), Teiyū Ichiryūsai (Japanese), Javier Rivero (Latin American Spanish), Gloria Roig (European Spanish), David Kruger (French)

The protagonist by default. Chicken's younger sister. She is enthusiastic and means well but is also kind of dumb.


  • Verbal Tic: She often moos or makes an odd "ooh" noise while talking.
  • Youngest Child Wins: Zigzagged. She can be quite idiotic and has her own moments as The Chew Toy, but usually comes out better than her brother.

    Chicken 

Chicken

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"Mom! Dad! Cow's acting stupid and I can't watch TV!"
Voiced by: Charlie Adler (English), Takumi Yamazaki (Japanese), Yamil Atala (Latin American Spanish), César Martínez (European Spanish), Emmanuel Jacomy (French)

Cow's older brother and the second half of our duo. He is grumpy and kind of a jerk.


  • Aloof Big Brother: Chicken does not always want to play with Cow.
  • Animal Gender-Bender: He's a male hen. There's something not right there.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: When he starts wearing dresses in "Which Came First", Flem and Earl immediately start acting sweet on him and go on a date with him. ...Simultaneously.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Everyone's immediate reaction to whenever Chicken hugs Cow, and gets squashed in return.
  • Badass Normal: Sometimes is able to win in the end even without superpowers.
  • Berserk Button: He flies into a rage when Mom asks him to take out the garbage while he's watching TV.
  • Big Brother Bully: Chicken can be an absolute jerk to his sister at times.
  • Big Brother Instinct: He tries to pretend he really doesn't care about his sister at all, however when she appears to be in mortal danger, Chicken always comes through.
  • Big Brother Mentor: On occasion when he is looking out for Cow, he'll try to educate her, only usually to come unstuck himself upon realizing how limited his knowledge of the world is.
  • Boisterous Weakling: Chicken is constantly trying to take on the Red Guy himself... and is constantly getting his tail feathers handed to him when he tries.
  • Brother–Sister Team: When Chicken puts his ego and pride aside.
  • Butt-Monkey: Most of the time. He's also The Chew Toy due to his constant slapstick attraction.
  • The Chew Toy: He suffers the most physical misfortunes of the duo, not that he never brings most of it on himself, anyways.
  • Cocky Rooster: He's an overbearing know it all but has nothing to back it up, so he tends to bite off more than he can chew.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Not as pronounced as Cow, but Chicken can be skillful at times. He donned the Supercow costume in at least two episodes after Cow was put out of action.
  • The Cynic: He always thinks negatively of Cow's actions.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Mainly at Cow's expense.
  • Dub Name Change: Chico in the French dub.
  • Egg-Laying Male:
    • Played with in a sequence where Super-Cow is blasting Red Guy with milk. Equally annoyed by the villain's antics, Chicken decides to join in by pelting him with feathers ripped from Chicken's own body. Of course he eventually runs out of feathers, to which Red Guy mocks Chicken for being unable to produce anything like milk with which to keep up the barrage. Cue two eggs smashing right into Red Guy's face followed by a cut to a very satisfied looking Chicken.
    • "Which Came First" has Red Guy tricking Chicken into thinking he's laid an egg. After waking up with the egg in his bed, Chicken comes to the conclusion that he'd been a girl the whole time.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: He traps everyone outside their bathroom during Potty Emergency just so he wouldn't need to take a bath. Then, Cow's udder explodes from holding it in too long and he gets trapped in the milk flood that was his fault.
  • Hypocritical Heartwarming: Often claims he's the only one allowed to bully his younger sister.
  • I Don't Know Mortal Kombat: Averted. Chicken never seems to accept when he's no expert, and the opposition clearly has him outmatched and outgunned.
  • Identity Impersonator: Impersonates Supercow to protect his sister's Secret Identity in one episode.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be greedy and cynical, but he does have a good heart underneath.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: He'll always get punished for his selfish acts.
  • Little Big Brother: He's 11, but his 7-year-old sister is taller and stronger than he is.
  • Made of Iron: A lot has happened to him... the majority of things that caused him pain have lasted for more than a few seconds. Although there are times when he's reached his limit and his little fragile frame shows.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Sometimes uses Cow's naivete to his advantage. These usually end up backfiring onto him.
  • Only Sane Man: Is the most (and pretty much only) normal character on the show.
  • Protectorate: Cow always faithfully responds to his cries for help.
  • Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: Rude Hero to Cow's Nice Sidekick. Cow is often tagging along with him and he's much ruder than her.
  • Sanity Slippage: Happens at least twice. In Stay Awake when he unknowingly consumes a whole bowl of Coffee Flakes, he goes insane trying to fall asleep. And in Chickens Don't Fly, where he freaks out when he finds out the plane hasn't taken off yet after some mental torture from The Red Guy.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Savvy Guy to Cow's Energetic Girl. Chicken is normally pessimistic, sarcastic, and serves as the Only Sane Man of the family (and the entire show to be exact), while his "little" sister, Cow, is normally excitable, playful, and is quite prone to being super emotional most of the time.
  • Sibling Rivalry: Chicken hates how his younger sister is stronger, savvier, taller and far bigger than him. He cannot beat her physically or mentally no matter what he does.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He is frequently shown to be cantankerous and ill-mannered, but he sometimes proves to be a nice person deep down.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: Lives with parents who have serious mental problems and a sister who is abnormal in her own way (though easily has much more common sense and sanity than the former). Everyone else outside his home is either a complete stooge or just an outright abnormal human being.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The Tiny Guy to Cow's Huge Girl.
  • Toothy Bird: Has quite the set of chompers on him.
  • Wacky Parent, Serious Child: The Serious Child to his Wacky Parents (though even "wacky" is a bit of an understatement).
  • Weak, but Skilled: When Chicken is able to get some hits in on the Red Guy it usually comes from him being pragmatic enough to exploit what's around him to get the upper hand rather than beating the snot out of the devil like Supercow can.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He has a fear of flying.

    The Red Guy 

The Red Guy

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"Hello, it's me..."
Voiced by: Charlie Adler (English), Katsumi Suzuki (Japanese), Ricardo Hill (Latin American Spanish), David Sánchez Guinot (European Spanish), Michel Mella (French)

A mischievous demon from Hell who is obsessed with annoying and torturing Cow and Chicken through various means, and usually does so through various disguises. For tropes relating to him on I Am Weasel, see here.


  • Abusive Parents: As seen in the Professor Longhorn Steer episode, Red's mother feeds him gruel and keeps challenging him to fight her like a man much to Red's displeasure.
  • Affably Evil: Despite being a devil, he's rather a mischievous and jerkish troublemaker instead of evil, but he can also be polite, friendly and even helpful.
  • Anti-Villain: In later episodes.
  • Badass Teacher: In The Karate Chic, he was a karate teacher.
  • Bad Boss: In Factory Follies where he treats his workers like mules.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: He may be a silly buttwalking nudist, but he can also be quite dangerous when angered and has nearly killed Cow and Chicken more than once.
  • Big Red Devil: He certainly looks the part.
  • Breakout Character: He was the only character to be a regular on both Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: A given, seeing as he's the devil. His Establishing Character Moment has him babbling about how much he loves evilness and hates goodness. It's downplayed in most episodes, though.
  • Character Catchphrase: "Hello, it's me, (insert name of disguise persona here)."
  • Characterization Marches On: In the pilot, he is outright acknowledged to be the Devil. In the actual series, this was de-emphasized and he was referred to only as "the red guy", and his role ultimately evolved into a devilish-looking generic villain who isn't really implied to be Satan and generally lacks most of the non-superficial qualities of the Satanic Archetype. In his role In the Cartoon Network IDW comics, however, this change gets largely reversed as he attempts to trick Chicken into selling his soul.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Quite possibly the most insane character in the cast, and that's saying something. Just check out his Establishing Character Moment:
    The Red Guy: "HELLOOO! It's me, the Devil! Heh. I stand for all that is bad! Hahahahahaha! Also, I'm naked. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I LOOOOVE evilness! I HATE GOODNESS! Right, Cerberus? (to the audience) Cerberus is my assistant. He's got THREE heads!"
  • Creepy Crossdresser: When he's playing the role of the bad guy with a female persona.
  • The Devil Is a Loser: He's not very smart. Plus, he's a devil.
  • Drag Queen: He takes on several different feminine identities such among his itinerary of alter egos, including Mrs. Beaver.
  • Dub Name Change: In the Brazilian dub, he is known as Bum de Fora, a bowdlerization of the expression "Bunda de Fora" (Naked Butt), which is meaningful considering a running gag related to him.
  • Evil Is Hammy: Not only is he the most antagonistic character on the show, but he's the hammiest.
  • Evil Is Petty: He's supposed to be the Devil, but seems to have nothing better to do with his time than mess with Cow and Chicken.
  • Fat and Proud: Or rather, he's proud of his big fat ass.
  • Flaming Devil: Oh, he's very camp.
  • For the Evulz: Why he does pretty much anything can be chalked up to this. If his intro in the pilot episode as a Card-Carrying Villain didn't get the point across, he starts off the episode "Time Machine" announcing he's going screw things up for no real reason.
    The Red Guy: I just decided that things are going a bit too smoothly, AND I'M GONNA MESS IT UP!!!!
  • Freudian Excuse: Parodied and implied.
    The Red Guy: It all started when I was about... nine. I was just a boy, I didn't know...pants were required at school. WHO WOULDA GUESSED?!
    • In one of the shorts, he mentions a traumatic experience when his dad took him house hunting. As in, hunting houses for food.
      The Red Guy: I COULD NEVER LOOK AT A PORCH THE SAME WAY AGAIN!
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: His moral standing is constantly switched up episode to episode. He's usually an asshole who harasses Cow and Chicken without being totally evil, but sometimes he might be an authority figure who's not actively trying to screw with them, sometimes he's a flat out villain trying to murder them, and sometimes he's actually their friend.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: In Factory Follies he appears to have a change of heart, even thinking he should treat his workers better, only to continue being as abusive as before.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He has his moments. The biggest example is Magic Chicken where he feels pity and sympathy towards Cow when she loses her udder, as he decides to do the right thing by giving it back to her.
  • Joke of the Butt: The show milks a lot of humor out of the fact that he has a gigantic rear end which he frequently hops around on. And if the alias he uses for the episode's disguise isn't a reference to his lack of pants, it's a pun on bums.
  • Large Ham: Good luck naming one episode where he didn't scream at the top of his lungs.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: He almost always gets his comeuppance at the end of each episode.
  • Laughably Evil: A lot of humor in the series is derived from his hilarious and eccentric antics.
  • No Indoor Voice: How many sentences can you count where he hasn't yelled at least once?
  • Naked People Are Funny: A Running Gag in that he is naked and constantly emphasizes his big red butt. Even when disguised in a costume, he is usually still pantless.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: He once got thrown into lava... and started enjoying it seconds after screaming in agony.
  • Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous: In spades. Considering he's a jack-of-all-trades, he can pull any kind of role of either gender... and not only that, whenever he plays a female, he clearly has a bust.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: He has lots and lots of blatantly poor disguises, to the point that the opening theme shows dozens of Red Guys, each dressed in a different costume.
  • Psychopathic Man Child: His demeanor most of the time is this.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: When he isn't being outright villainous or being a total jerkass, he is sometimes in roles where he is a guy simply doing his job. For example, in the episode "Cow Fly", he is a pest exterminator who was called by Cow and Chicken's parents to eliminate Cow's pet fly (a detail that he didn't seem to be aware of).
  • Punny Name: Most of his aliases have some allusion to his bare butt, such as "Mrs. Barederriere".
  • Satanic Archetype: Aside from literally being Satan in the pilot episode, series-wise, the Red Guy is a manipulative entity who actively tries to cause mischief wherever he went.
  • Silly Walk: While he's capable of walking normally, he'll often be seen bouncing about on his buttocks to get around, or not bothering with bipedal movement at all and simply rolling in or out of frame on his side.
  • Suddenly Shouting: He often shouts abruptly while talking to others.
  • Super-Strength: Shown several times, such as in "Whose Supercow?", when he tries to lure Supercow out by pretending to be crushed by a piece of kryptonite several times his size. When it doesn't work, he just picks the thing up and throws it away.
    • Also shown in "Boneless Kite", the episode where he dresses up as a pilot and gets into a tug-a-war with a small tribe...using Boneless Chicken. If Cow and Chicken didn't help the tribe, he might've won, considering how much they struggled against him.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: By Season 4 (the last season), he's far more likely to be on good terms with Cow and Chicken and generally means them no real harm.
  • The Sociopath: Many of his behaviors in the series denote him as this from his lack of empathy over his brutal pranks and bullying to his various psychotic outbursts.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Many of his failures are his own fault.
    • Just look at "Comet!", where he mistakes a golf ball on a string for a comet, even though the side facing his telescope clearly had Dad's ball written on it! However, so did everyone except for Chicken...
  • Verbal Tic: Whenever he says the number nine in any form he pronounces it as "ni-yun."
  • Villain Decay: While Heel–Face Revolving Door is at play a lot (see above), he generally is less overtly violent and malevolent in later episodes than he was in Season 1.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Near the end of "I Scream Man", he gives off one of the funniest breakdowns in the history of breakdowns due being heckled by the main characters (and a random pig) over ice cream.
    Red: AAAAAHHHH!!!!! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!! I don't have any ice cream! None, whatso...EVER! (Hangs near the side of the cop, then switches to a calm, quiet voice) I don't even like ice cream, (switches back to Large Ham mode) OR KIDS! It says 'Eye Screem' on my truck, not 'Ice Cream'! Get it? 'cause I SCREAM!!! Look at me. (spins around) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!! (dizzy) Ooh, ha ha. Screaming is my HOBBYYYYYY!!!!!!.
    Policeman: (hits Red with a weenie) It's the padded cell for you, scream man!
  • Would Hurt a Child: Attempted to have Cow and Chicken killed on many occasions, and has harmed Chicken the most out of the two.

    Mom and Dad 

Mom and Dad

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Mom: "It's times like these that make me proud to be a woman!" Dad: "Me, too!"
Voiced by: Candi Milo and Dee Bradley Baker (English), Aya Yamakawa and Masayuki Nakata (Japanese), Liza Willert and Genaro Vásquez (Latin American Spanish), Dany Laurent and Philippe Dumond (French)

Cow and Chicken's parents. Only their legs are ever shown. A riff on 1950's American household stereotypes, they are totally psychotic and are prone to overreacting at the slightest provocation.


  • Berserk Button:
    • One of the only times where Dad is shown laying down the law is in "Dream Date Chicken," after Chicken snaps out of nowhere and his violent screaming causes Mom to break down in tears. The man might be an idiot but he will not tolerate one of his kids treating their mother like that.
    • Clowns are another example. In "Send in the Clowns", Dad strictly forbids Cow from seeing the son of a family of clowns, and grounds her when she disobeys.
  • Bumbling Dad: Dad is somewhat funny.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Consider the time that they woke their kids up at 3 a.m. to tell them how they met, or how they tried to make their kids scared of the dark.
  • Cute, but Cacophonic: At least for Mom's voice, she laughs to the point of screaming.
  • The Faceless: They are only ever seen from the legs down. Parodied to its logical extreme in the pilot episode when it is revealed that Mom and Dad are literally just two pairs of legs with no upper bodies. A common sight gag in the show is any time Mom and Dad have their shadows cast, they stop directly at the waist. Furthermore, whenever they do something that requires hands, they always use their feet.
  • Happily Married: However kooky and stupid they may act as parents, as a couple the two are madly in love and completely devoted to one another. In fact, they never argue or show the slightest disinterest in each other.
  • The Hyena: Both of them tend to erupt in over-the-top laughter at even the most minute of things. It even leads to Cow, of all people, questioning their sanity at the end of "Comet!".
  • Manchild: They both act very immature and wacky.
  • Papa Wolf: Dad stands up for his kids when he catches the Office Mountie threatening them in "The Full Mounty".
  • Parents as People: Mom and Dad might be a couple of bizarre dimwits, but it's obvious that they love Cow and Chicken. The opening song even acknowledges that Dad doesn't care how Mom gave birth to them.
    Chicken: Mama had a chicken!
    Cow: Mama had a cow!
    Cow and Chicken: Dad was proud, he didn't care how!
  • Skewed Priorities: A common gag with these two is that they go ballistic over minor things (e.g., Cow and Chicken accidentally dropping crumbs on the floor) but take actual crises (e.g., Cow going missing for years) in stride.
  • Standard '50s Father: Though what kind of standard '50s father makes passing references to possibly being a female-to-male transgender? Or being less of a man than his wife?
  • Unnamed Parent: They're never referred to as anything other than "Mom" and "Dad".
  • Wacky Parent, Serious Child: The Wacky Parents to Chicken's and, to some extent, Cow's Serious Child.

    Flem and Earl 

Flem and Earl

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Flem is voiced by: Howard Morris (English, primarily, using a Southern version of his Wade Duck voice), Maurice LaMarche (English, "Lost at Sea" only), Katsumi Suzuki (Japanese), Mario Filio (Latin American Spanish), Aleix Estadella (European Spanish), Cyril Monge (French)
Earl is voiced by: Dan Castellaneta (English, using a less drunk version of his Barney Gumble voice), Takayuki Okada (Japanese), Genaro Vásquez (Latin American Spanish), Yann Le Madic (French)

Cow and Chicken's best friends.


  • Ambiguously Bi: In addition to always being together all the time, the two had an Imagine Spot in "Lost at Sea" where they were homecoming queen and king, respectively. On the other hand, they're both madly in love with Cow, and in the same episode share another Imagine Spot where they both marry Cow, as well as have kids, grow old and die together.
  • Fat and Skinny: Flem and Earl, respectively.
  • Gender-Blender Name: In "Dirty Laundry", The Red Guy (as Jeraldo Rearviewa) doctored their birth certificates so their middle names (actually last, since viewers never find out what their last names are) are Beatrice and Jennifer (Earl "Beatrice" and Flem "Jennifer") so they can get arrested for being boys with girl middle names.
  • Interspecies Romance: The two have a crush on Cow.
  • Only One Name: Flem even lampshades it in "Dirty Laundry". ("I don't even have a last name! I'm just Flem!")
  • Those Two Guys: They are always seen together.

    Teacher 

Teacher

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"Shut your pie-holes, ya room full of hairless lackeys!"
Voiced by: Candi Milo (English), Yuko Sato (Japanese)

  • Beehive Hairdo: Has a curly red beehive that's a twist between Marge Simpson and Joan Holloway Harris.
  • Fiery Redhead: Red-haired and very bad tempered.
  • Gonky Femme: She is very hideous and loud, yet dresses very feminine and acts boy-crazy.
  • No Indoor Voice: To say she's loud would be an understatement.
  • No Name Given: Her name was never revealed. However, in "The Ballad of Cow and Chicken", a marquee that reads "Teacher sings The Ballad of Cow and Chicken" implies that "Teacher" is her actual name.
  • Sadist Teacher: She insults her students and constantly tells them to shut their pie-holes.
  • Transplant: Like The Red Guy, she makes her way to I Am Weasel in its later episodes. She even gets A Day in the Limelight in the episode "I.M.N. Love".

    Crabs the Warthog 

Crabs the Warthog

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

  • A Day in the Limelight: Along with Manure the Bear and Piles the Beaver, he is given a starring role in "Cow's Toys", where the three try to find "Maiden Hong Kong" under the belief that she is their original owner.
  • Living Toys: As with Manure the Bear and Piles the Beaver, it is revealed in "Cow's Toys" that he's actually a sentient toy.
  • Never Learned to Read: When he tries to read what's written on Manure's tag, he claims that "reading isn't one of [his] strong points".
  • Perpetual Smiler: His usual default expression is a bright, happy smile on his face. However...
  • Stepford Smiler: He's implied to be faking his cheerful demeanor to cope with his life's difficulties and hardships, as he is clearly not too happy about being played with by Cow, even going into a small rant about it as soon as she leaves. Also, near the end of "Cow's Toys", when it's revealed that the adventure that he, Manure and Piles went on to find "Maiden Hong Kong" led them back to Cow's house, he states that he is "starting to lose [his] ever-present optimism".

    Manure the Bear 

Manure the Bear

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

  • A Day in the Limelight: "Cow's Toys", in which he, Crabs and Piles leave Cow's room to search for their original owner—"Maiden Hong Kong".
  • Living Toys: Along with Piles the Beaver and Crabs the Warthog, he's revealed to be a living toy in "Cow's Toys".
  • Perpetual Frowner: Always seen frowning. Considering he's dealing with a rash all the time, its justified.
    • However, he does flash a brief, mischievous smile when he leaves Piles off at "Maiden Hong Kong's" home at the end of "Cow's Toys".

    Piles the Beaver 

Piles the Beaver

Voiced by: Tom Kenny

  • A Day in the Limelight: "Cow's Toys", where he, Manure the Bear, and Crabs the Warthog leave Cow's room to search for "Maiden Hong Kong", whom they believe to be their original owner.
  • Living Toys: "Cow's Toys" reveals that he, Crabs the Warthog, and Manure the Bear are actually alive in spite of being toys.
  • The Load: Piles constantly wants to contribute to the conversation, but can only say pre-recorded monotone statements about his beaver-ness once his cord is pulled. Manure tires of this immediately.
  • The Speechless: While he can technically speak, he can only say the voice lines he's designed to and only once he has his cord pulled. His gesturing and urgent grunts to Crabs and Manure about pulling his cord imply he wants to say something other than about how his name is Piles the Beaver and he likes to chew wood, but is incapable of doing so.

    Boneless Chicken 

Boneless Chicken

Voiced by: Charlie Adler (English), Hideki Ogihara (Japanese), Genaro Vásquez (Latin American Spanish), Aleix Estadella (European Spanish)

  • Deadpan Snarker: So deadpan it's hard to tell whether or not he's joking.
  • Disabled Snarker: He has no bones and a dry wit.
  • Out of Focus: Was a recurring character in the first 2 seasons, but was absent in Season 3 and made a cameo in Season 4.

Minor Characters

    Cerberus 

Cerberus

Voiced by: Jess Harnell
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"[Mr. Devil], you hate goodness! You only like cute and fluffy things! Oops! Uhhh... no! Evil things! GAHHHHHHHHHH!"
  • Dropped After the Pilot: He was introduced as the Red Guy's assistant in the original "No Smoking" pilot, but outside of a brief cameo in a Cartoon Cartoons promo and two appearances in the comic series, he doesn't make any appearance in the series proper.
  • Hellhound: A rather unique example, as each of his three heads is a different breed—a Dachshund, a Poodle and a Dalmatian.
  • Hypercompetent Sidekick: He reminds the Red Guy that he must follow the rules in order to claim Chicken's soul.
  • Unexplained Recovery: He gets smacked by Red which sends him flying into a nearby pool of lava, which he quickly climbs out of largely fine, outside of his fur being burned off. Being a demon of Hell and running on cartoon logic might have something to do with it.

    Cousin Sow 

Cousin Sow

Voiced by: Pamela Adlon

    Snail Boy 

Snail Boy

Voiced by: Tom Kenny

    The Buffalo Gals 

The Buffalo Gals

Voiced by: Judy Tenuda (Kelly), Diane Delano (Tough Buffalo Gal)

    Professor Longhorn Steer 

Professor Longhorn Steer

Voiced by: Tom Kenny

    Cousin Black Sheep 

Cousin Black Sheep

Voiced by: Tom Kenny
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"Hello! I'm your long-lost Cousin Black Sheep who's come to stay with you!"
  • Black Sheep:
    • Literally, as he's the black sheep of the family.
    • Figuratively, albeit in an unusual way, in that he's a very smart Nice Guy in a family (and setting) where both traits are sorely lacking.
    • Finally, the impression others have of him is that he's a more standard example of this trope, as his constant use of (comparatively) sophisticated vocabulary is being misinterpreted as him constantly insulting everyone, and thus is often left alone.
  • Calling Me a Logarithm: Has quite the advanced vocabulary that, despite his well-intentions, gets used against him by others as an example of how "bad" he is.
    Black Sheep: "You know, Earl, I couldn't help noticing how your dental contraption truly compliments Flem's ocular accouterments."
    Flem: (sobbing) "He's making fun of me! Boo-hoo-hoo!"
    Chicken: "Hey, you can't talk to my friends that way! Come on, guys, we don't have to stand around being insulted by no Black Sheep!"
    (Chicken leaves with his friends as Cow walks up to Black Sheep)
    Cow: "Whoa! Cousin Black Sheep, now you have gone and did it! You'd better say you are sorry!"
    Black Sheep: (chasing after the trio) "Wait! I assure you, you misconstrue!"
    (Chicken gasps as Flem and Earl babble incoherently)
    Chicken: "What kind of foul language is being forced into our tender, innocent ears by Black Sheep?!" (the three run away, leaving Black Sheep alone)
    Black Sheep: (sobbing) "Oh, you misconstrue..."
  • Motor Mouth: In comparison to other characters, Black Sheep tends to speak rather quickly and precisely in an attempt to get his point across or to explain himself.
  • Nice Guy: Despite being the black sheep of his family, he's a kind person.

    Flem's Dad 

Flem's Dad

Voiced by: Michael Stanton

    Grandmama 

Grandmama

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

    Grandpapa 

Grandpapa

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

    Chachi the Chewing Gum Seal 

Chachi the Chewing Gum Seal

Voiced by: Tom Kenny
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  • And I Must Scream: After hurting Cow's feelings, she stick's him under the table, where he is forgotten and left to rot a month later.
  • The Dog Bites Back: When Chicken continues chewing onto him, he starts to beat the living tar out of him.
  • The Eeyore: He's a very pessimistic seal. Not even gaining sentience and coming to life makes him happy.
  • Jerkass: See Ungrateful Bastard below.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: When Cow is understandably heartbroken by Chachi, she puts him under the table and runs away crying; while Chachi tries to apologize for yelling at her. Unfortunately, due to being made of gum, he cannot move and tell Cow he's sorry.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Cow congratulates him since she helped him get back at Chicken. However, instead of thanking her, we get this:
    Chachi: "Don't patronize me, you freak! I'm sick of your yapping! You're a waste of bones and organs!"

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