Feiss submitted three ideas to executive producer Larry Huber, one of which was Cow and Chicken. Years later, Feiss was called to submit ideas for What a Cartoon!, a series of various animated shorts from numerous creators and writers, created by Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert. Feiss was an animator who had worked with Hanna-Barbera and related projects since 1978. Many of the slapstick antics involve the main characters getting physically abused.ĭavid Feiss first created Cow and Chicken as a story for his daughter. The humor and storylines depicted are often based on traditional childhood worries, anxieties, or phobias such as cooties or venturing into the girls' restroom, but enhanced comically.
For example, Cow and Chicken always order "pork butts and taters" in the cafeteria, the Red Guy always shows his butt, and characters often pepper their speech with malapropisms and sarcasm.
The series draws on eccentric, surreal, grotesque, and repulsive humor. Cow has her favorite dolls, Crabs the Warthog, Piles the Beaver, and Manure the Bear, who is a polar bear.
Supporting characters include Chicken and Cow's delirious human parents Dad and Mom ( Dee Bradley Baker and Candi Milo, respectively), only seen from the waist down and implied to have no torsos, heads, or arms Chicken's best friends Flem ( Howard Morris) and Earl ( Dan Castellaneta) and their cousin, Boneless Chicken (Adler). The two are often caught in escapades with their flamboyant enemy, the Red Guy (Adler), a comical version of the Devil himself who disguises himself under various personas to attempt to either scam them or take them to Hell. The series focuses on the misadventures of two unlikely yet somehow biological siblings: the sweet-natured, dim, ecstatic, anthropomorphic 7-year-old Cow Steer and her cynical 11-year-old older brother Chicken Steer (both voiced by Charlie Adler).
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