| The Ballad of Cow and Chicken | |
|---|---|
| Season 3, Episode 13b | |
| Air date | August 13, 1999 |
| Storyboard by | David Feiss |
| Written by | David Feiss Michael Ryan |
| Directed by | David Feiss Dave Brain (Animation director) |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous The Cow and Chicken Blues |
Next I Are Good Salesmans |
The Ballad of Cow and Chicken is the episode of Cow and Chicken and is the part of fifty-second episode first overall. And the last and final episode after the show got canceled in 1999.
Plot[]
This episode starts in a theater, where Teacher, Flem, and Earl are on stage, dressed up in a cowboy style attire. Teacher begins to sing a ballad, while the boys play instruments to an disinterested and unamused crowd. At the introduction of the ballad, Cow and Chicken are at the front lawn of their house when a G-Man, Mike Heiney (the Red Guy) approaches them. As Heiney puts his hand in his coat, Cow and Chicken think he is reaching for a gun, and they go on Cow’s trike to get away from him. Heiney chases him on his buttocks. The crowd starts getting bored and begin leaving the theater.
As the ballad continues, Cow and Chicken try and escape on a train, by paddling down the river, and even riding on a lamb. Throughout the chase, Heiney is injured by falling over waterfalls, and getting beaten up by the lamb, and a boxer dog. Eventually, Cow and Chicken hide on a farm, owned by a farmer and his big-boned wife. Chicken goes into the hen house, and sits by the female hens, until an angry rooster chases Chicken around in the woods. Flem interrupts Teacher because he doesn’t like where this is going with Chicken getting chased by a rooster. Teacher gets irritated by him, and yells at him to keep playing. The crowd in the theater continues to leave in annoyance.
Teacher continues the song, and Mike Heiney follows Cow into the horse stables. Suddenly, Heiney notices Cow, but calls her a "funny looking horse." The farmer gets offended and punches Heiney in the face, sending him flying through the air. The farmer’s wife then beats Heiney in the head with a rolling pin. Cow and Chicken run for their lives again. Then they go into the city where Heiney follows them with a bear trap. But Heiney accidentally traps a bear by the foot. The bear attacks Heiney and throws him on the ground. After this, Heiney chases the siblings once more, cornering them in a dead-end alley. Earl interrupts the song, asking what’s going to happen to Cow and Chicken. Teacher gets very annoyed by him, insulting him and saying that they're only performing a song for entertainment. She demands Flem and Earl play their instruments so they can finally finish the song.
Chicken defensively asks Heiney why he is chasing them. Heiney says he was going to give Cow’s Krabs the Warthog doll back to her because she dropped it, but she had it for the entire time. Heiney wonders what he has, and notices that actual crabs are crawling on him. He laughs and rolls around with crabs crawling on him and pinching him. Cow and Chicken exchange glances with each other, weirded out and confused at what they are seeing.
Teacher ends the song as she yells at the mostly empty chairs in the theater. The only audience member left is Mike Heiney and his crabs. He applauds for the song as the crabs pinch him again.