To Sheep, Perchance to Dream
Original air date: 7/29/2001 (produced in 2000)
In the thirteenth episode and first season finale of Sheep in the Big City, an episode about the nightmares of the main characters.
"To Sheep, Perchance to Dream" contains examples of:
- All Just a Dream: The episode focuses on several bizarre plots (such as General Specific turning into a sheep as well as Sheep and Swanky getting married) that turn out to be dreams that the characters are having. This infuriates the narrator... though it turns out that the entire episode is all just a dream of his. When he wakes up, however, he finds himself in the exact position he was in at the end of the dream.
- Dream Within a Dream: Lady Richington has a nightmare where Swanky marries Sheep. When she wakes up, she discovers to her horror that Swanky is now wearing a wedding ring on her paw. It then turns out that Lady Richington finding the wedding ring on her poodle's paw was also a dream.
- Evil All Along: Parodied when it's revealed that Sheep was the real villain all along and planned to use the narrator in a narrator-powered ray gun. Like all of the other bizarre revelations given at the end, this is completely ignored in the second season.
- Fangs Are Evil: When Sheep is revealed to be evil, he has visible fangs while speaking.
- Gainax Ending: And then some. Sheep is revealed to be Evil All Along and able to talk, Private Public turns out to be French, and the narrator is left futilely hoping that his situation is just a dream. None of this is ever brought up in the second season.
- Karmic Transformation: General Specific, who's spent thirteen episodes trying to capture Sheep and use him in the sheep-powered ray gun, is turned into a sheep, though it turns out to be a dream like most of the events that happen in the episode.
- Right-Hand Cat: Parodied when Sheep is revealed to be evil, he turns around on a chair while stroking a baby's stomach.
- The Stinger: After the credits, the narrator wakes up bemoaning his nightmare, but it turns out That Was Not a Dream and he's still in the narrator-powered ray gun.
- Suddenly Ethnicity: Parodied by Private Public randomly revealing that he's French at the end.
- Suddenly Speaking: When Sheep turns out to be evil, he is suddenly able to speak instead of just bleating.
