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Production
Executive producers
Mo Willems
Steve Oakes
Susan Holden
David Starr
Richard Winkler (for Curious Pictures)
Linda Simensky
Jay Bastian
Khaki Jones (for Cartoon Network)
Producers
Kris Greengrove (season 1)
Bruce Knapp (season 2)
Editor
Dave Courter
Running time
22 minutes
Production company
Curious Pictures
Original release
Network
Cartoon Network
Release
November 17, 2000 (2000-11-17) – April 7, 2002 (2002-04-07)
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Sheep in the Big City is an American animated television series created by Mo Willems for Cartoon Network. The 9th of the network's Cartoon Cartoons, the series' pilot first premiered as part of Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoon Summer" on August 18, 2000, before its official debut on November 17, 2000, where it aired until April 7, 2002, with repeats until 2003.[1]
Willems previously created The Off-Beats for Nickelodeon's KaBlam! before working on this animated show. The series follows a runaway sheep named Sheep in his new life in "the Big City", where he tries to avoid a secret military organization.[2] It also features several unrelated sketches and shorts, similar to those from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends.[3] With an emphasis on sophisticated (in particular, literal) humor, using different forms of rhetoric from characters to plots, it included comic references to filmmaking and television broadcasting.
At the time, the premiere of Sheep in the Big City was the highest-rated premiere for a Cartoon Network original series.[4] The animation services for the series were handled by the Korean animation studio Rough Draft Korea. This was Cartoon Network's first original series produced by the animation studio Curious Pictures, who would later go on to produce Codename: Kids Next Door in 2002.
^"Cartoon Cartoon Summer". Cartoon Network. Archived from the original on August 15, 2000. Retrieved 2012-12-28.
^Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 545. ISBN 978-1538103739.
^Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Company. pp. 732–733. ISBN 978-1476665993.
^Finnigan, David (March 12, 2001). "Eliciting a Sheepish Grin - Cartoon Network's Campaign for Sheep in the City - Brief Article". FindArticles.com. Brandweek. Archived from the original on 2009-08-15. Retrieved 2008-07-02.
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