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TopicThe 100 Dumbest Events In Children's Television History
masterplum
07/03/23 7:26:51 PM
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RySenkari posted...
#66: Buffalo Gals

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They came out, all right.

Cow And Chicken was one of the original Cartoon Cartoons, and was known for its absurdist humor and its love of sexual innuendo (with more butt shots than pretty much any cartoon ever aired up to that date), but Season 2's "Buffalo Gals" was not only completely over the top, but was positively loaded with offensive stereotypes of lesbians, complete with a group of motorcycle riding women who literally break into people's houses to chew on their carpet. I'm not making this up, they REALLY went there... not only that, but one of the Buffalo Gals was actually flirting with Cow... depicted as a seven-year-old child on the show. In the episode, the Buffalo Gals break into Cow and Chicken's house, and Cow is enamored with them, eventually following them to their hidden campground. Eventually, Chicken has to show up and fight them off to rescue Cow once she becomes disillusioned with them (which, being a seven minute cartoon, happens very quickly, with about 30 seconds of that seven minutes just taken up by a performance of the classic "Buffalo Gals" song). I'm not sure what the writers were thinking that kids would get out of this episode, but needless to say, this one courted controversy from its first (and ultimately only) airing. It was a different time, to be sure, but even back in 1998 this was never going to fly, and you can't even defend this one on comedic grounds: the episode wasn't even funny. Cow And Chicken was always surreal and controversial, and sometimes it was at its best when it was at its most bizarre, but this was just offensive, and it blows my mind that somebody signed off on this.

I hated cow and chicken as a kid.

But the moral of this story is dont piss off everyone at once. Cant imagine anyone was ok with their kids watching that

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