Funny / Sheep in the Big City

• The narrator loudly objects to the Downer Ending of "Going Off the Sheep End" ("That was the worst, most depressing ending I've ever seen!"). So much so, that he orders the writers to do it over and give Sheep a ridiculously happy ending where he loses his "freakishly huge" muscle-man body, Swanky takes him back, Lady Richington gets over her hatred of sheep, and Sheep wins "the big race".
  • The teaser, where Lady Richington finds that someone ate the maraschino cherry she was going to use in her recipe and ends up flying into a comical rage over it.
• Hank the anchorman's reaction in "Mistaken Identi-Sheep" when he tells his assistant to roll the tape, only for a tape to roll across the desk.
  Hank: Now, please put the tape...IN THE MACHINE!! And press play.
  • Early in the episode, Hank brings out an "expert" named I.C. Hootoo to review the security footage of the Strange Sheeplike Creature that robbed the supermarket. He claims it's 45 feet tall, has huge fangs or might be a football.
  Hank: ...how long have you been an expert?
  I.C.: How long you got?
  • Greedy McGreedGreed shows up and beats up Sheep with a bag of money twice in this episode because he thinks Sheep is the one who robbed his bank and his supermarket.
  Greedy: YOU MOST PROBABLY ROBBED MY BANK/STORE, YOU BAD, BAD SHEEPLIKE CREATURE!!
  • The Narrator realizing that Sheep is a sheeplike creature and thus a suspect.
  Narrator: What do you have to say for yourself?!
  Sheep: Baah...
  Narrator: That's ALWAYS your excuse!!
• The mayoral election episode, where the anchorman and his female co-host are hilariously biased in favor of General Specific.
  • Sheep's press conference, which is held in a damp, badly lit basement and is only attended by a single reporter (who only showed up because Farmer John lied about there being free cookies).
  • This exchange:
  Reporter: Sheep, a question!
  Farmer John: The candiate won't be answering any questions.
  Reporter: Is Sheep afraid of the issues?
  Farmer John: No, he's a sheep, and he can't speak very well.
  • Sheep spends his entire press conference trying to avoid the drip from a leaky pipe, which seems to move with him.
  • General Specific asks Lady Richington to stop doing her Evil Laugh because it's creeping him out.
  • General Specifics ridiculous campaign ad portraying him as a hard-working blue collar family man, none of which are the least bit true. He even gets his wife's name wrong in the ad.
  • The winner of the election? The Ham Sandwich. Turns out the voters were swayed by his promise of free mayonnaise for everyone (including the narrator).
• The skit where minor character Buddy is running a campaign to be re-elected as the City Dog Catcher, and points out that his opponent is a literal ham sandwich. The Ham Sandwich then claims that he is not a ham sandwich, Not That There's Anything Wrong with That. He then claims that he's actually made of bologna, but is eaten by one of Buddy's dogs before he can say anything else.
  • Buddy appears in another ridiculous skit called "A Moment With Buddy".
  Buddy: What is friendship? Well, my dictionary defines "friendship" as "the joining of two complimentary turbines in a steam-powered combustible engine" *beat* I have a very bad dictionary, and for that, I apologize...
• Most of the Oxymoron skits:
  • The Oxymoron Super Happy Fun Park that claims you choose your own experience. Which actually means it's just a muddy field full of garbage, where you're supposed to imagine yourself having fun. The best part is how the family they're filming are all into it, except the son who points out how ridiculous it is.
  • Oxymoron Batteries, which are pretty powerful but have the drawback of draining the life out of you and turning you into a zombie.
    Victor: Oxymoron Batteriers, the batteries that last as long as you do!
  • The Oxymoron Food Preservation Robot, which stores your food in a vacuum container and ensures freshness. Problem is, it takes your food BEFORE you have a chance to eat it, and is equipped with a powerful laser weapon to destroy "food spoilers", i.e any angry customers trying to take their food back.
  • The Action Pop'em Transformerizerator Squad Guy, an advanced, highly sophisticated action figure that has a ton of features. Problem is, it's so well designed, it doesn't need anyone to play with it, and just ditches its owner. "It's cooler than you!"
  • Shrimpola Cola, a Gargle Blaster soda made with 12-week old sun dried shrimp, which burns the brain of anyone who drinks it. Its obnoxious rapping mascot Shrimpy doesn't help either.
    • Word
  • Oxymoron Extra Mint Gum. While there's nothing wrong with the gum itself, it's advertised by Victor breaking into Mrs. Smythe-Robertson-Johnson-Weathermocker's house and ruining their expensive rug with mud and volcanic ash like he's setting up an ad for a cleaning agent or a vacuum cleaner, then goes off on a tangent about gum instead.
  • The two airline ads. The first one, Wee Care Air, revolved around the company pampering its customers to the point of self-destruction (the pilot stopped flying the plane to give a passenger a foot massage). The second one, Air Oxymoron, dispensed with the courtesy, and began with "At Air Oxymoron, we don't care about you at ALL!" and featured services like all the stewards and stewardesses having all the decency mechanically drained out of their souls.
  • Victor's reaction to Mrs. Smythe-Robertson-Johnson-Weathermocker wanting something to kill cockroaches in the ad for roach suites
    • "You.....sick.....woman"
• The season 1 finale, just for how utterly bizarre it is, even compared to the rest of the show. It ends up turning into a Day in the Limelight for The Narrator who's drawn into the plot when he starts complaining about the overuse of the All Just a Dream Reset Button in the episode and is capped off with The Reveal that Sheep was the Big Bad of the series all along, can actually talk, and is planning to put the Narrator into his Narrator-powered Laser. None of this insanity is brought up at all when season 2 starts.
  • Private Public's dramatic confession during the climax. He's actually... French!!
  • Sheep and Swanky elope together during Lady Richington's nightmare, much to her distress. When she tries calling General Specific for help, it turns out Sheep invited them to the wedding so they won't help either. The look on Richington's face is priceless. Not to mention her dialogue when she arrives too late to stop the wedding.
    Richington: Please, at least let that sheep be Episcopalian!
  • Not to mention the priest's wedding speech.
    Priest: Friends, family, farm animals, we're gathered here today to annoy Lady Richington...
  • There's also Swanky's smug expression as she walks off with Sheep.
  • Lady Richington's first attempt at calling for help reaches someone the viewer (and the narrator) wasn't expecting.
  Buffoon: *standing in a tub of water in a room filled with phones* Haalloooo..?
  Ben Plotz: A buffon?!
  Richington: Whoops, wrong number...
  • The "Texan Texas Tex: The Most Texan Guy In ALL Of Vermont" interlude, a cowboy hero story which is interrupted by the narrator when it becomes too nonsensical
  • "Sandra, the Super-Model", a skit about a superpowered model.
• Episode 2, which revolves around Sheep being held captive by Little Lisa Rental who forces him to be her pet dog.
  • General Specific and his men are taking the day off to play softball in the park, only to spot Sheep woozily stumbling around after having been thrown across half the park by one of the Buffoons.
  Specific: Look, men!
  Soldiers: *look off in random directions, including the ground, and one guy studying his belly button*
  Specific: NO, I meant for you to look in this specific direction!
  Soldiers: *overlapping dialogue* Ohhh, I'm sorry sir!
  Specific: Lets try this again... LOOK, men!
  Soldiers: *the soldiers snap to attention...except one who briefly looks the wrong way before turning around*
  • "Meanwhile, Little Lisa Rental is playing Dolly. How cute!"
  Lisa: HEADBUTT! Ow! HEADBUTT! Ow!
  • Lisa and Sheep are easily able to fool General Specific into thinking Sheep is a dog, much to the Angry Scientists fury as he just cannot for the life of him convince Specific that Sheep isnt a dog. When the Scientist rants too loud, General Specific has him tied up and gagged.
  Narrator: When we last left Sheep, he was in the clutches of Little Lisa Rental-
  Angry Scientist: Instead of the more logical clutches of General Specific, the man who cannot be telling the differences BETWEEN A SHEEP AND A DOG!!
  Narrator: Hey, aren't you supposed to be tied and gagged back at the Base?
  Angry Scientist: Oh, right. Sorry.
  • Even worse, by the time the first break is over, General Specific has forgotten that he gave the order at all.
  Specific: You know, that scientist would be a lot more help if he wasnt bound and gagged like that.
  • "The Kingdom Of Wildnessnes-Ness"
  Explorer: *holding a small lizard* This beautiful little creature, is known as the Hungarian Pot-Bellied Pig. Even though it's... obviously something else...
• The original pilot has some good moments.
  • General Specific tries to use a disguise to sneak onto the farm and steal Sheep. The plan fails not because of his disguise being obvious, but because he's disguised as a wolf and the sheep run in terror at the sight of him.
  • The soldiers disguised as trees spy on Farmer John lamenting Sheep's disappearance and spread the word back to base. The message starts as "Sheep is gone", but becomes mangled into something else by the time General Specific gets the message.
  General Specific: I don't care about Meryl Streep's sarong!
  • Lady Richington screaming "HELP", then pausing briefly before screaming "SHEEP" when she first meets Sheep.
  • General Specific beating up Private Public in retaliation to mistaking him for Sheep. What sells it is the "Missing Scene" card that blocks out the violence.
  • The narrator has an epic meltdown over Sheep having an apartment, claiming that that detail is even more unbelievable than Sheep being able to get a job and being hunted by the military so they can use him to power a ray gun. It results in the narrator being temporarily replaced by some guy who talks with a dull monotone.
  • "I think we've got something, sir." "Yes, Private. We have a special something. Let's not lose sight of that."
• Quay Quickly, Teen Racer!
  Tracy Track: Oh Quay, if you win this race, Paw can keep the racetrack instead of Greedy McGreedGreed!
  Greedy: *while literally twirling his moustache* I am so greedy!
  Quay: I'll do my best to win the race without hurting anybody's feelings!
  • Also, the "big race" takes less than two seconds.
  Tracy: That was quick.
  Quay: Budget cuts.
  • After Quay wins, we get this exchange:
  Tracy: Hooray! Now my Paw can keep the track! *holds up a stuffed animal paw* Get it? It's a paw? It's a REAL paw-
  Quay: I get it!
• In "Can't Live Without Ewe", one scene has a "Two Weeks Later" time card appear while the Angry Scientist gives such laughably simple tactics in catching Sheep like grabbing hold of him with a net. It eventually turns out that the time card was actually repeatedly interrupting the Angry Scientist before he had a chance to explain the full details of his plan.
  • General Specific giving the sub-comittee (held on an actual submarine!) a review on the lack of success catching Sheep. One of his plans involved hiring "The Man With a Thousand Vases".
  Man: *carefully balancing a thousand vases over his head* Eh? Ehh? Look!
  Specific: I dont know what I was thinking hiring him.
  • Not to mention him opening the floor for "old business" and "new business". Old Business is an incredibly ancient officer, while New Business is a baby with an officers hat.
• "Flock, Up in the Sky"
  • When trying to get the others to pick a good name for him after he gains super powers, General Specific finds that the winning vote is Big Dumb Idiot Guy. Says a lot about what his subordinates think of him. He ends up going with the somewhat unimaginative "General-Specific Man" complete with a theme song.
  • One of X Agent's powers is shooting wool strands from his wrists like Spiderman shoots webs. He uses it both to web-swing (or wool-swing as it were) and to wrap his enemies in itchy cocoons.
  • Completely Powerful Guy denying that the X Agent's orders to go to Toledo are just a convenient excuse to have him leave the show.
  • At the end of the episode, Completely Powerful Guy offers to become Sheep's new bodyguard, but rambles about days where he might not be around to help Sheep as he flies off and obliviously causes Sheep to get injured.
• "Daddy Shearest"
  • The teaser, where a turtle-costumed kids' show host asks the audience if they can find the doggie and ends up screaming his head off in anger when he doesn't get an answer.
  • The brief parody of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner with Sheep as the Road Runner and Private Public as Wile E. Coyote. Sheep even says "meep meep" and blows a raspberry at Private Public!
  • Several scenes show General Specific as a bit of a Manchild, like playing with two Completely Powerful Guy action figures, filling in a coloring book, and comforting himself with a teddy bear named Blinky.
  • The commercial for a medical dramedy starring Genghis Khan, where he insists that a woman with a broken arm has a head cold and diagnoses some random guy sitting around reading as being murdered after he uses his stethoscope on him.
  • After General Public humiliates his son Private Public and shows embarrassing baby pictures to General Specific, we cut to Sheep being miserable about his lack of a father figure.
  Ben Plotz: Poor Sheep! If only he had a father figure to embarrass him in public.
• "Oh the Ewe-manity"
  • General Specific remarks that the firefighters are real heroes, but don't wear capes or fly around. He then takes off his shirt to reveal a costume with a cape and runs around like an idiot, causing the Angry Scientist to facepalm.
  • The Angry Scientist responds to General Specific's insistence on calling him "mad scientist" by having the audience read from a card reading "ANGURY".
  • General Specific making himself taller when he tries to shrink the enlarged Sheep by pointing the growth ray backwards.
• "Here Goes Mutton"
  • The educational film about the Big City Fuzzy Little Bunnies appears to have a hair stuck to the film, but at the end of the movie it turns out to be a strand of hair from a baby who was apparently sitting near the camera when the film was being made.
  • Ben Plotz's angry tirade about the episode's Amnesia Plot. mainly to due to Ken Schatz's over the top delivery.
  Ben Plotz: Let me flip ahead a few pages here... let's see... When Farmer John hit Sheep on the head he got amnesia? (Beat) AMNESIA?! Honestly! How many people do you know, or have friends who know, or have even heard of anyone getting amnesia? ZERO! ZIP! NADA! NONE! NIL! NOOOOOOO...BOODYYY!!! (panting) ugh... Well, stayed tuned to see what'll happen to Sheep in Chapter 2: "Who Lamb I?" that is, if you don't suddenly come down with AMNESIA!
  • The Fuzzy Little Bunnies are so bad at football that they've somehow managed to lose 14 out of their last 13 games! They somehow lost one game twice, which shouldn't even be possible.
  • During one of the episode's intermissions, Ben Plotz announces a big musical number with dancing monkeys. Irv the Accountant shows up to explain that they had to cancel the musical number for budget reasons before improvising his own song called "Calculate with Accountant Irv", where he gives the audience complicated math equations and the audience gives most of the answers flawlessly without skipping a beat.
  • Sheep's montage of trying to figure out what he is after he regains amnesia, where he stands in place at an art gallery like a statue, intimidates a leopard at the zoo, and joins a group of pirates on a treasure hunt.
  • The Bunnies manager recruits Farmer John after seeing him tackle General Specific's soldiers on the street while protecting Sheep. They make it to the big game... and John gets completely trounced just like the other players. For one thing, he doesn't know how to play football. Second, he can only move and tackle like that when one of his animals is in danger. And three, even ignoring the first two, the other team are all about twice his size and three times his weight. John only manages to play good at the end of the game, and that's because Sheep wandered onto the field thinking he was a football.
  • While playing for the Big City Fuzzy Little Bunnies, Farmer John tries to be cordial to a member of the Tri-state Evil Killer Death Team, only to be scared when he devours his helmet.
  • An editorial from a plate of beans, where a plate of beans demand that people stop using idioms referring to beans, like "spill the beans". Unsurprisingly, they take offense when Ben Plotz responds that they are "full of beans".
  • When Sheep ends up being used as a replacement football, General Specific finds something familiar about it, but concludes that the familiarity is because the football reminded him of a football he owned as a child he called "Footie".
  • The ending, where Farmer John, Sheep, General Specific, and Private Public start hitting each other on the head and making one another repeatedly lose and regain their memories. Ben Plotz by this point has had it with the episode showing amnesia to be caused by being hit on the head, so he tries to hit himself on the head to prove memory loss doesn't work that way, only to be proven wrong.
• "Baa-hind the Scenes"
  • The scenes where General Specific makes a remark about the writers and we see that the show's writer is a buffoon who plays with a typewriter while chanting "Writey, writey, writey."
  • Farmer John's constant kvetching about only getting two lines in the last episode, especially since his claim isn't actually true (the previous episode, "Here Goes Mutton", actually gave him a fair number of lines").
  • Rather than setting him off by calling him a mad scientist, General Specific remembers to refer to the Angry Scientist as "angry", but he still pisses him off by calling him a chemist instead of a scientist.
  • After General Specific's meddling with the device meant to transform Sheep into an unmarketable appearance causes Specific, Private Public, and the Angry Scientist to turn into chalky stick figures, General Specific's attempt at getting it right causes the Angry Scientist to become muscular and to speak in a deeper and more dramatic voice.
  • Completely Powerful Guy's video where his sidekick Wonderful Boy chastises him for having a bunch of useless gadgets that he doesn't need because of his many super powers.
  • General Specific's proposal for a show called General Specific's Cavalcade of Me, especially when he gloats that he's his own special guest.
  • The writer coerces General Specific into letting Sheep go by threatening to replace him with a new character. General Specific hesitates before giving in and crying while stating that he's going to go back to bed.
  • General Specific lashing out on Ben Plotz whenever he catches him narrating while he's in earshot.
  • The episode ends with the show's opening, which has General Specific replaced with a buffoon dressed as the general.
• "Agony of De-Bleat" sees the top secret military organization actually capture Sheep. And General Specific intends to fire everyone who works for him because the only reason he employees them is to capture Sheep. This leads to Private Public, the Angry Scientist and the Plot Device releasing Sheep so they can keep their jobs.
  • The sheep powered ray gun isn't ready to fire when Sheep is caught. Why? Because the Angry Scientist never actually expected the top secret military organization to capture Sheep since the premise of the show as built on their attempts failing.
• "Happy Clearance Day"
  • Just the ridiculous concept behind the much-beloved Clearance Day. Invented in the 19th century by a department store owner named Clarance Von Clearance, who happened to be interested in calendars. One day, he was reading through a calendar, when he noticed something...
  Clarence: Great Scott!
  Great Scott: Yeeees?
  Clarence: I've just discovered that there isn't a single holiday this entire week!
  Scott: Great Aunt Petunia!
  Petunia: Yeees?
  • After revealing his discovery, Clarence decided to invent a brand new holiday, one where everyone could get 30-50% off the retail price on the products in his stores ("except Timmy, I hate that brat!"), and Clearance Day became a beloved tradition overnight, to the point that it's taken on the trappings of Christmas, with gifts, decorations, songs, family gatherings, parties, etc. In modern day, it has it's own traditions, such as a Clearance Anvil instead of a christmas tree, which you're supposed to leave your Clearance Gifts underneath in the hopes that they'll survive the night. It also features an unseen Santa parody called "Schlanta Clearance", and a Clearance Day Burglar.
  • Farmer John hosting a Clearance Day dinner at the farm, and invites Sheep home for the holidays. Since he's having dinner with all the animals on his farm, he tries to think of a meal that won't upset any of them, which makes sense in this setting since animals are sapient even if they can't talk, but rather than serving, say, fish or a vegetarian meal, he comes up with something called "water soup". It's exactly what it sounds like.
  • General Specific's plan once he finds out about Sheep's visit home; have him and Private Public disguise themselves as "wandering chefs" and offer to make Farmer John's dinner for free. And it works!

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