History Sandbox / BlackAndWhiteCowsBrownBulls

[[caption-width-right:350:Is it just me or are two of the cows black-and-brown?]]

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* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'': Subverted. You begin the game with a black-and-white cow, but you can adopt cattle in a variety of colors.

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Cows are depicted as black-and-white while bulls are depicted as black.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Bulls are always depicted as brown, and cows are almost always depicted as black-and-white with the one exception being [[AnimalGenderBender Mr. Cow]] in the episode "McStroke", although it's likely that he was actually meant to be a steer since he has no udder.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Bulls are always depicted as brown or black while cows are almost always depicted as being bicolor, the one exception being in "That's the Spirit" where [[AnimalGenderBender Doofenshmirtz turns into an anthropomorphic brown cow]].

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Bulls are always depicted as brown or black while cows are almost always depicted as being bicolor, the one exception being in "That's the Spirit" where [[AnimalGenderBender Doofenshmirtz turns into a brown cow]].

This may be doubled with AnimalGenderBender if cows are depicted as a separate species from bulls, although this doesn't happen very often since most kids understand that bulls and cows are the same species despite the BizzareSexualDimorphism between them shown in children's cartoons. Subtrope of TypicalCartoonAnimalColors.

This may be doubled with AnimalGenderBender if cows are depicted as a separate species from bulls, although this doesn't happen very often since most kids understand that bulls and cows are the same species despite the BizzareSexualDimorphism between them shown in cartoons. Subtrope of TypicalCartoonAnimalColors.

This may be doubled with AnimalGenderBender if cows are depicted as a separate species from bulls, which happens quite often due to BizzareSexualDimorphism (bulls having a more muscular build than cows, when in real life they don't). Subtrope of TypicalCartoonAnimalColors.

* The MobilePhoneGame ''VideoGame/BrainTestTrickyPuzzles'' has some questions featuring a black-and-white cow or a brown bull. One question even features both of them and involves dragging the cow to the bull so they can recreate, resulting in a group of calves that are all either black-and-white are brown.

This may be doubled with AnimalGenderBender if cows are depicted as a separate species from bulls, which happens quite often due to BizzareSexualDimorphism (bulls having a more muscular build than cows, when in real life they don't).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': Cows are black-and-white and bulls are brown.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark: In earlier seasons, the cows were either black-and-white, brown-and-white, or even black-and-brown. In "Fun with Veal" all the calves have udders and are referred to as baby cows, and are all bicolor as well.

This may be doubled with AnimalGenderBender if cows are depicted as a separate species from bulls.

* In one ''ComicStrip/FarSide'' comic, a farmer is getting ready to milk a black-and-white cow. The bull's thought bubble says "Touch my wife's tits one more time and I'll kill you!"

Many cartoons, however, depict all cows as being black-and-white and all bulls as being brown.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': The episode "A Rover Runs Through It" features bulls, and they're all brown. Subverted in the episode "Raise the Steaks" features both a cow and a bull. The cow is black-and-white and the bull is brown. At the end of the episode, they have a baby cow that's brown-and-white.

You wouldn't know it from cartoons, but in cattle, color has nothing to do with gender. There are brown cows and black-and-white bulls. In fact, cattle are not even limited to these colors -- cattle can be brown-and-white, black, white, or even gray.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': The episode "A Rover Runs Through It" features bulls, and they're all brown. Subverted in the episode "Raise the Steaks" features both a cow and a bull. The cow is black-and-white and the bull is brown. But at the end of the episode, they have a calf that's brown-and-white.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Downplayed. Every cow is either black-and-white or brown-and-white, while every bull that shows up is either black or brown.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': Downplayed. Cows are black-and-white and bulls are black.