Sheep in The Big City: Difference between revisions

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''Sheep in the Big City'' (2000-2002) is an original animated series from [[Cartoon Network]] [[Follow the Leader|in the mold of]] [[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]. The titular Sheep fled to the titular [[The City|Big City]] in order to escape the sinister Secret Military Organization, who were seeking him to use in their [[It Runs On Nonsensoleum|sheep-powered]] ray gun. The various episodes revolved around Sheep adjusting to life in the Big City while trying to win over his love interest, Swanky the Poodle, and dodging such foes as General Specific (leader of the secret Military Organization still trying to track Sheep down) and Lady Richington (Swanky's ill-tempered, sheep-hating owner with a stainless steel wig). It was notable for humorous fake advertisements and variety sections before and after real commercial breaks, often being strange non-sequiturs and general weirdness.

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* [[All Just a Dream]]: One entire episode focuses on several bizarre plots that turn out to be dreams that the characters are having. This infuriates the Narrator… {{spoiler|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}}.

* [[Animated Actors]]: The whole final episode happens behind the scenes, though the actors' names and ''real'' personalities are exactly the same.

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* [[Genre Savvy]]: The Narrator, at times, flying into a rage during an episode that was merely a series of dreams, and again when sheep gets amnesia.

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Often to [[Incredibly Lame Pun|the narrator's dismay]].

* [[His Name Really Is Barkeep]]: Far Mer John.

* [[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"]]: Far Mer John.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: All chapter titles contain some sheep-related pun, except for the one ironically named "Some Pun on the word Sheep".

* [[Incompetence Inc]]: The Oxymoron Corporation, whose products are featured in the episodes themselves, and advertised between segments. Among their products and services are "Shrimpola Cola", a cola with 12 week old sun dried shrimp inside that causes severe brain burns, "Oxymoron Airlines", which take their poor customer service, horrible conditions and overbooking as something to be proud of, and the "Super Cool Fresh Rocket Ball", which is, in fact, a metal cube, that somehow requires 97 batteries to work.

* [[Incompetence, Inc.]]: The Oxymoron Corporation, whose products are featured in the episodes themselves, and advertised between segments. Among their products and services are "Shrimpola Cola", a cola with 12 week old sun dried shrimp inside that causes severe brain burns, "Oxymoron Airlines", which take their poor customer service, horrible conditions and overbooking as something to be proud of, and the "Super Cool Fresh Rocket Ball", which is, in fact, a metal cube, that somehow requires 97 batteries to work.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: "'''Angry!''' I am an '''angry''' scientist!"

* [[Interactive Narrator]]

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** Sheep can speak entire sentences in a single bleat.

** Same with the X-agent, which makes his reports to the general somewhat problematic.

* [[Viewers ~~Are~~ Morons]]: They parodied the network's request that all on-screen text be read out loud by creating a character whose sole purpose was to show up out of nowhere, read on screen text, and then mention how much he enjoys doing so before leaving. He even takes over as narrator for the [[No Dialogue Episode|Silent Movie]] episode.

* [[Viewers are Morons]]: They parodied the network's request that all on-screen text be read out loud by creating a character whose sole purpose was to show up out of nowhere, read on screen text, and then mention how much he enjoys doing so before leaving. He even takes over as narrator for the [[No Dialogue Episode|Silent Movie]] episode.

* [[Visual Pun]]: Far, far too many to list.

* [[We Care]]: "Bio-Technical Corporate Concern Limited Company. We have no idea ''what'' we sell."

* [[Who Writes This Crap]]:

* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]:

** The Narrator has both wondered "Who writes this stuff?" and apologized for the writer not feeling well and doing a worse job than usual.

** Whenever the writer is actually shown, he's a buffoon at a typewriter.