6.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Sheep in the Big City (2000)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.8
Overview
Sheep in the Big City is an American animated television series which ran on Cartoon Network for two seasons, from November 17, 2000, to April 7, 2002. The series' pilot first premiered as part of Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoon Summer" on August 18, 2000. Created by Mo Willems, the bulk of the show follows a runaway sheep, Sheep, in its new life in "the Big City". It also features several unrelated sketches and shorts, similar to The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. With an emphasis on more "sophisticated" humor, using multiple forms of rhetoric from the characters to the plots, it was more popular with older audiences. It was also unusual in featuring many comic references to film-making 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.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Overview
Sheep in the Big City is an American animated television series which ran on Cartoon Network for two seasons, from November 17, 2000, to April 7, 2002. The series' pilot first premiered as part of Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoon Summer" on August 18, 2000. Created by Mo Willems, the bulk of the show follows a runaway sheep, Sheep, in its new life in "the Big City". It also features several unrelated sketches and shorts, similar to The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. With an emphasis on more "sophisticated" humor, using multiple forms of rhetoric from the characters to the plots, it was more popular with older audiences. It was also unusual in featuring many comic references to film-making 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.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's central premise revolves around absurdist humor and slapstick comedy, depicting a sheep's comedic attempts to evade capture by an incompetent organization. It consciously focuses on apolitical themes, offering no explicit promotion or critique of specific political ideologies.
The animated series features a diverse cast of anthropomorphic animals and stylized human characters, without explicit racial or gender recasting of traditional roles. The narrative focuses on slapstick comedy and does not engage with critiques of traditional identities or explicitly center DEI themes.
Secondary
'Sheep in the Big City' is an animated television series primarily focused on slapstick comedy and a sheep's attempts to evade capture. The show does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes, resulting in no portrayal to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Sheep in the Big City is an original animated series. All characters were created for this specific production, meaning there is no prior source material or historical baseline for their gender to be swapped from.
Sheep in the Big City is an original animated series. Its characters are either animals or original human designs without prior established racial identities from other source material, making a race swap impossible by definition.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.9
6.6
Critic Ratings
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