Sheep in the Big City was created by Mo Willems for Cartoon Network. The show centers on a runaway sheep, Sheep, in his new life in "the Big City". It also features several unrelated sketches and shorts, similar to The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show and The Fugitive. With an emphasis on more "sophisticated" (in particular, literal) 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.
The pilot episode of the series was aired on August 18, 2000. The popularity of the pilot convinced the network to order a half-hour series, which ran for two seasons from 2000 to 2002, with 13 episodes in each season.
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