Cow and Chicken: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Cow and Chicken Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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Can Cow Come Out and Play?
Aug 15, 1998 · 6 min
The Red Guy is depressed because no one will play with him. After seeing Cow has Crabs the Warthog, he wants to play with her because he has Crabs's doll house. When he askes to pl
Horn Envy
Aug 15, 1998 · 6 min
Cow has a crush on Crag, the smartest kid in school, but is ignored by him. Her friends try to convince her that her horns are too small, so she tries every way to make them bigger
Time Weasel
Aug 15, 1998 · 7 min
Weasel creates a time machine that I.R. uses to go back in time, but Weasel discovers that I.R. is destined to solve all kind of problems at certain periods.
Goin' My Way?
Aug 22, 1998 · 6 min
While driving in the snow, Mom and Dad find The Red Guy who says he's heading ""home""; so Mom and Dad take him home with him, and immediately think of him has their new favorite s
The Babysitter
Aug 22, 1998 · 6 min
Mom and Dad go out of town, leaving Cow as the babysitter, because she's the biggest, and not the oldest. Pretty soon, Chicken is at the mercy of his sister's babysitting technique
The Hole
Aug 22, 1998 · 7 min
Weasel comes to investigate the world's largest hole, same hole I.R. tries to fill with cement.
Cow Fly
Aug 29, 1998 · 6 min
Cow is depressed because she has no friends: until she finds a fly in her room and befriends it. Pretty soon she and the fly are inseperable: until Chicken, Mom and Dad call in the
Where Am I?
Aug 29, 1998 · 6 min
Cow stays outside too late, and pretty soon finds herself lost in the woods, and tries to survive. She pretty soon comes to the conclusion that it's eat, or be eaten, so she puts o
I Stand Corrected
Aug 22, 1998 · 7 min
Weasel and I.R. are sent to a correctional institute were everyone is forced to wear stupid corrective devices.
Sergeant Weenie Arms
Sep 5, 1998 · 6 min
After Earl gets the new Sergeant Weenie Arms action figure, he, Flem and Chicken go to Dead Skull Cave to meet the soldier himself, and become full-fledge weenie marines. After the
Sow & Chicken
Sep 5, 1998 · 6 min
Cow and Chicken get an unexpected visit from Cow's twin cousin, Sow (a pig with 8 teets). After Sow's first day at school, she causes chaos, and puts the blame on Cow. It's up to C
I Am Bush Pilot
Sep 5, 1998 · 7 min
Weasel is the captain of his own comercial plane, and must take a bunch of people up a river with I.R. as his co-pilot.
Me an' My Dog
Sep 12, 1998 · 6 min
Cow brings home an ""invisible"" dog, whom she dubs, Kevin. Pretty soon, she and Kevin are inseperable, but causes trouble with school and friends. After she enters Kevin in a dog
Cow's Dream Catcher
Sep 12, 1998 · 6 min
Cow tags along with Chicken, Flem, and Earl on their camping trip in the tree fort. Cow says that if Chicken, Flem, or Earl touch her dream catcher that they'll die. Chicken accide
Dessert Island
Sep 12, 1998 · 7 min
Weasel and I.R. end up stranded on an island made entirely of confectionaries.
Grandma at the Mall
Sep 19, 1998 · 6 min
Grandma pays at visit to Cow and Chicken's house to take them to the mall with her. Her purpose for being at the mall: to look for a new grandpa, because she lost the old one. Chic
Chicken in the Bathroom
Sep 19, 1998 · 6 min
Chicken refuses to take bath, so he just sits there in the empty tub, while Cow, Mom, and Dad try to make him take a bath so they can use the toilet.
Unsinkable I.R.
Sep 19, 1998 · 7 min
I.R. is captain of his own ship, until it bumps an iceberg and it starts sinking.
Chickens Don't Fly
Sep 26, 1998 · 6 min
Cow and Chicken are taking a trip all by themselves. Their taking an airplane. Once Chicken sees the actual plain, he starts to have anxiety attacks and believes that flying is a d
P.E.
Sep 26, 1998 · 6 min
P.E. Chicken, Flem, and Earl are finally 6th graders, and are ready for their first day at junior high. Once in their gym class they find it difficult to put up with a strict P.E.
I Am Vampire
Sep 26, 1998 · 7 min
Weasel and Baboon are a pair of friendly vampires who drink only canned blood and are just looking for a fun little night on the town in Pantsylvania. But someone should try tellin
Playin' Hookie
Oct 3, 1998 · 6 min
Cow and Chicken have a big test the next day at school but when Chicken forgets to study, he tries to fake all kinds of illnesses to avoid going to school. After holding his thermo
Chicken Lips
Oct 3, 1998 · 6 min
Chicken is upset because he can't whistle, and everybody else can. The Red Guy tries to tutor Chicken, but he finds out that Chicken can't whistle because he has no lips. The Red G
Honey I Are Home
Oct 3, 1998 · 7 min
I.R. is jealous of his neighbor Weasel because he has a better wife, kids job and house than him.
The Day I Was Born
Oct 10, 1998 · 6 min
Cow wonders about the day she was born. Chicken tells her she was adopted, Mom tells her that the stork delivered her, Dad said they found her in a cabbage, Teacher says she hatche
Factory Follies
Oct 10, 1998 · 6 min
Red Guy is CEO of a giant factory. He holds a birthday party for himself in the confrence room later that night, but none of the employees show up. But it doesn't matter, he has en
101 Uses for Cow and Chicken
Oct 17, 1998 · 6 min
Chicken puts prices on himself and Cow at the store and Red purchases them but is unable to determine their usefulness.
Intelligent Life?
Oct 17, 1998 · 6 min
Cow doesn't wish to come in, but rather stay out all night to stare at the moon. So she builds a make-shift rocket ship out of cardboard boxes, a trashcan, and traffic cone. It ACT
A Tree Story
Oct 17, 1998 · 7 min
The trees decide to rebel against humans after I.R. chops one.
Be Careful What You Wish For
Oct 24, 1998 · 6 min
Chicken is fed up with Cow's constant babbling, and wishes for her to shut up. Cow then gives Chicken the silent treatment. Chicken soon regrets when Cow doesn't tell him about an
Lost At Sea
Oct 24, 1998 · 6 min
Flem and Earl find themselves lost in the middle of an ocean near the equator. They fear their lives are short, and begin reminiscing about their fun lives.
I.R. Do
Oct 24, 1998 · 7 min
I.R. is getting married with a hyena, but it happens that she ran away with a German, hairless chihuahua.
Night of the Ed
Nov 1, 1998 · 6 min
Dad decides that the family needs a pet...so he buys a spayed male jackel named Ed. He and Mom go out to celebrate, leaving Cow and Chicken alone with a living terrorist pet. Cow a
Cow's Pie
Nov 1, 1998 · 6 min
Cow bakes her own pie and wants Chicken to try it...but he doesn't want to. Cow then follows Chicken everywhere until she takes drastic measures...hiding all of the food in the hou
Professor Longhorn Steer
May 3, 1999 · 6 min
Mom and Dad are disgusted that Cow and Chicken believe the world is round, so they hire Dad's brother, Longhorn Steer (who really is a steer) to tudor Cow and Chicken. Longhorn fai
A Couple of Skating Fools
May 3, 1999 · 6 min
Chicken's dream is to be a world famous figure skater, so he and Earl enter a figure skating contest. Red Guy is jealous because his partner is Flem, so, he injures Earl, making Ch
He Said, He Said.
May 3, 1999 · 7 min
Weasel tells his story to psiquiatrist Sigmund Fraud about his mishaps with I.R., at the same time I.R. is telling his own mishaps with Weasel in the room next door.