Talk:Sheep in the Big City/Archive 1

Archive 1

To-do List

1. create animation series infobox
2. rewrite of some of the plot, characters section to be a li'l more cri/analytical; (cf. Dexter's Laboratoy, Powerpuff Girls)
3. add the following info.
   1. main part of show is sitcom format
   2. plot: sheep's life in the city, romance with swanky and evading capture by general specific
   3. show also has sketches: spoofs of commercials, other tv programs, interstitial shorts, stand-ups and live acts
   4. narrator on-screen, there are sketches abt him, sometimes figures in the main plot
   5. sheep is everyman: raised in a country farm, flees from that life (mostly coz of farmer john?) to the big city, has to come to terms with life in the big city: keep job, find a social life, romance, escape the attentions of a host of unpleasant characters: gen. specific and his secret military organisation, lisa rental, lady richington, farmer john.
   6. parodies of time travel, superheroes, disaster movies, charlie chaplin style movies
   7. comic references to television/movie production process
   8. satires of farmer john's new age, pop psychology, self help mantras, christmas, popular culture (celebrities, marketing), general specific's business management (downsizing, ), elections
   9. addesses a more mature audience: satire, parody, literal gags,
   10. episode list and synopses
4. identify angry scientist's foreign accent
5. add links to mo willems site, sheep episode guide, imdb
6. use willem's quote

   "He's a loner, he's an alien, he's on the outside. The sense of not belonging and trying to figure out your way in the world is something that almost all of my shows have to do with."

   Mo Willem's on how Sheep... is relates to his other work.Kidscreen Magazine, May 2000.
7. use more material at kidscreen.
8. Fix the description of The Buffoons. I've never seen the show, but their description currently says "All three of them are dressed only in shoes and underwear, two of them also wear hats." If all three are dressed only in shoes and underwear, none of them can be wearing hats. I assume that two of them actually do - could it be accurately updated to say "All three are dressed in shoes and underwear. Two of them also wear hats, but no additional clothing is in evidence."? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.124.76.174 (talk) 22:29, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Trailer

I remember that, as a promo for the show's premiere, Cartoon Network ran a trailer for "sheep," humorously protraying it as a serious, live action series. Can anyone track down info on this?

I recall that as well. Not exactly sure where info on it can be found, though.

-- Mik 19:13, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Someone put it on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FehmeJV3kjU -Limel

Oxymoron Commercials

IIRC, each one ended with the trademark jingle, and then the ox would "moo". It would be interesting to expand on that section of the article.

-- Mik 19:15, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Sheep on iTunes now!

Great News: SHEEP IS ON ITUNES!!! Just 20 bucks for the complete first season, or two bucks per episode! May not be back on CN, but the next best thing! I'm so happy

        -Limel

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.163.213.150 (talk) 23:50, 10 December 2006 (UTC).

I don't see it there. What is it listed under? 86.139.237.132 19:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I found url's to it, but iTunes said it was not currently available in the US. (arrgh!) :( Maybe you can use that loophole where you buy cards from another country? - C360

I've heard that it has been taken off iTunes. Don't know why. It was only available in the U.S. iTunes, and then only the first season. A lot of episodes are on YouTube now though. Milstrom 22:40, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi, im Dago, im a big CN fan. I dont know why the episode Sheep in the Big City left. It has only been there for about 1 year and 3 months on CN and it left. I didn't even had a chance to see it on CN. I know about that bshow because my cousin watched it. I wish it can come back, ohhh please god, make it come baaak (Dago wiped in tears sadly). I bet it will come there some day on CN. I have a lot of faith.

Hey there, did you know you could request Sheep in the Big City to be put back on iTunes Store? Please click this link. [[1]] MatthewRC (talk) 17:19, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Funny quotes

The Angry Scientist

• (Finishing his plan to capture Sheep) "And, then, I GRAB him.... with this net!" *The Angry Scientist shows a net that is no bigger than Sheep's nose*

• (Repeated line, mostly because he gets called "The Mad Scientist" and he jumps while saying this line.) I am NOT the Mad Scientist! I am ANGURY! The Angury Scientist!

• I am going thinking of a way to get the Sheepness (The way he refers to Sheep) into our trapnessnessness.

--208.96.115.82 (talk) 21:18, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Term Confusion

Article uses the term "breaking the fourth wall" instead of "Breaking character". A fourth wall only means the audience is being acknowledged. Admitting their is a script has nothing to do with the fourth wall, that is breaking character. The narrator telling the audience to go with it, is correctly both breaking character and breaking the fourth wall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.176.105 (talk) 22:22, 6 February 2013 (UTC)