Back in the nineties there was no escaping Cartoon Network as it was the one channel that us kids just had to watch. With there being alot of really memorable shows that are still talked about to this very day and while yes we do get a few shows that aren't as well known today the overall majority of there shows were really well known shows this was the not the case with the episodes that i'm going to be talking about today and so then join me a I review the episodes that introduced the world to a talking Cow and Chicken with the episodes in question being called imply just "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" and "The Girl's Bathroom" enjoy.
The plots of these episodes are when on a field trip to a local prison Chicken gets mistaken for one of the prisoners and it's up to Cow to save him and in "The Girl's Bathroom" Chicken ventures where no boy has dared to venture before him the girls bathroom. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in thee very episodes was in all honesty really good as both plots are indeed some really simple and really easy to follow along with plots with both of the plots also being wonderfully child like and silly whilst also adding in some more mature elements as well and while yes the plots of thee two episodes might seem silly and dated by today's standard that doesn't stop them from being a bunch of fun filled plots that serve as a a great way to introduce this show with as they give you a good idea of the type of plots that his show really did do quite alot of the time with both of these plots also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these episodes is voice acting legend Charlie Adler as Cow , Chicken and The Red Guy and Dee Bradley Baker as Dad and Prisoner 2. Also starring in these episodes is Candi Milo as The Teacher and Mom , The Simpsons star and voice acting legend Dan Castellaneta as Earl , Howard Morris as Flem , Dick Gautier as Rhode Island Red , Glenn Shadix as Prisoner 1 , The Gate Guard and Poopy The Clown.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With the actors that you expect a really good performance will delivering on the acting side of things but that's also the problem as they give you the kind of performance that you expect from each of these actors and really nothing new and as such there's really nothing all that surprising about these actors performances it's just the same old type of performance that we've seen done better in ither and better shows with the acting that's in these episodes really not being helped by the fact that the scripts for these two episodes aren't really all that good as none of the give the actors alot to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant meant to be in the first pace which s something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting that's really in these first two episodes.
Doing the animation for these episodes is Rough Draft Korea , SEK Animation Studio and Shanghai Morning Sun Animation.Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good with the animation in both of these episodes really being alot better then what it really had any right to be but at the same time this shows animation style is just weird and ugly to look at alot of the time with the characters eyes barely connecting to there heads in alot of shots which might have been a stylistic choice but it's also one that makes the characters very unappealing to look at as well and while yes granted the characters do have some really fluid movements and that zany animation does help with alot of the episodes more out there jokes it doesn't stop the whole thing from looking really ugly to look at with the show as whole looking like something that would actually scare kids and not something that they would actually want to sit down and hopefully even enjoy.
These two episodes alone and the show as a whole leave with alot of burning question none of which get answered. Like for example how does a female human give birth to both a Cow and a Chicken and why is the dad just OK with it with another being how does The Red Guy keep on getting jobs especially when it's painfully obvious to anyone with eyes and a brain cell who the character is modelled after these are just some of the questions that these to episodes alone leave with and to the episodes and the shows credit it doesn't explain any of them as to that would take away alot of the fun of the show as this is show is meant to be nothing more then junk food for the brain your not meant to question your just meant to sit down and enjoy it and that's really it and that is something that really does work well for this show as not alot of shows need to be smart shows as sometimes just being a dumb kids shows that meant for little kids is more then enough and while yes it would have been interesting to see either this show or these episodes address those questions head on to do so would go against the very nature of the show that being a show that's meant to be zany and goofy and not one that we the audience are meant to question at all.
While this episode does get alot of things it does some things right like the first segment "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" does do a good of setting up the shows formular and the relationship between the titular characters. With Chicken being more of cynical person who will do anything not to hang out with his sister despite he fact that deep down he really does care about and Cow being a very happy go lucky type of character who's just always happy to whatever anybody else wants to which does create an interesting dynamic between the two characters and while these first two segments don't really go into that much detail about there relationship and heck outside of two scenes in "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" the characters barely spend any time together when they do get together or a scene we really do get a good feel of what these characters and how the show is going to moving forward with them as the lead and while yes it would have been interesting to see hints of there relationship it's not really needed as they have the rest of the show to do that and as a result of that is the fact that it really doesn't need to do any of that in these first two segments.
Speaking of The Red Guy his inclusion in "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" really doesn't make any kind of sense. As his character wouldn't be the warden of this prison. If anything he'd be one of the prisoners as his original role in the show was to act as someone who would tempt either Cow or Chicken into these dangerous situations or into situations that they know is wrong hence why he looks the way that he looks where as here Chicken is already in prison not completely because of something that he did but due to how bad the guards are and as a result of that is the fat that it really does make no sense for his character to appear in the episode other then establish him as a character and that's really it and that's not really something that makes all that much sense once you not only take the rest of the show into account but also take in the shows pilot from What A Cartoon where alot of the time he is to serve as a cautionary tale and not somebody that you'll bump into on a school trip to prison even tho you personally have done absolutely nothing wrong infact technically the only crime Chicken does commit isn't committed by Chicken himself is committed by Cow who breaks her brother out of prison without him even knowing it.
Now then these segments has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly six minuets and thirty three seconds and six minuets and thirty four seconds respectively. With segment one having the better running time as it really doesn't have alot there interms of plot to cover anything longer then that and as a result of that is the fact that alot of the episode is all about advancing the plot forward where as with episode despite it having a strikingly similar running time to the first segment actually feels alot longer then that with "The Girl's Bathroom" having alot of scenes that could be seen ss being filler and as a result of that is the fact alot of the segment really does feel like padding as that one segment really doesn't have all that much there interms of plot to really warrant that amount of running time and as a result of that is the fact that "The Girl's Bathroom" really could have done with being a minuet or two shorter and while yes the first segment does also contain alot of filler like we don't really need to see Red just doing things in Chickens school as all that does is make the rest of the shows characters look really dumb those scenes do also serve a purpose of showing Cow come to realisation that Red isn't her brother thus also advancing the plot of the segment where as the same thing cannot be said for the second segment but I really will admit that both of these segments really do have some really good pacing to them tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very segments and well then in all honesty I im all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very segments was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the problem as alot of the comedy that's in these segments isn't all that good with alot of being random humor that adds nothing to the actual plot of the segment mixed in with the very occasional bit of slapstick and adult humor and while the adult jokes do work they also make you wonder how they managed to get that joke past all of the censors as in the "The Girl's Bathroom" segment when Chicken says that they can even buy cigar in here it's pretty obvious what he's actually talking about and while the kids watching the segment won't get it you just know that the adult who's watching it with them will get it and yet that's one of only two jokes that are actually funny in both of these segments with the other one being a nice slapstick joke near the start of "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" with that joke just being a really funny joke no matter what show tries to tell it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this was a really solid pair of segments to start of this truly iconic show off on and it is also a really good example of just how weird and wacky that this show could be when it's at best as well and while this show will never be remembered as fondly as the other Cartoon Network shows at the time it will always be remembered by those who grew up watching it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these very segments in this very review and as such that really does mean that "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from and "The Girls Bathroom" really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me with both of these segments combined earning a grand total combined score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got ll pf the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Cow And Chicken fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very segments episodes that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very segments and are really of course on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and really as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.
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