Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa

Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
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Genre	Western
Created by	Ryan Brown
Voices of	Pat Fraley Jim Cummings Jeff Bennett Joe Piscopo Michael Greer Charity James Kay Lenz Troy Davidson Danny Mann Michael Horse
Theme music composer	Billy Dean and Verlon Thompson
Country of origin	USA
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	23 minutes
Production company(s)	King World Productions Greengrass Productions (Season 1) Ruby-Spears Productions (Season 2) Flextech Television Mini Mountain Productions
Distributor	CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 12, 1992 – December 4, 1993

Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa is an American animated television series created by comic book artist Ryan Brown, known for his work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Airing as part of ABC's Saturday morning lineup, it was produced by Greengrass Productions, Gunther-Wahl Productions, Ruby-Spears Enterprises and finally Mini Mountain Productions in association with King World Productions and Flextech Television and animated by Gunther-Wahl Productions for its first season, and Ruby-Spears Productions for its second season.

First broadcast on September 12, 1992, the show ran for two seasons of thirteen episodes each. It also aired on YTV from 1992 to 1999 in Canada. The series was featured in reruns on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2001.

Like many cartoons during its time, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa dealt with a mutation of some kind. In this case, an irradiated comet struck the late 19th century Western plains creating a miles high mesa shrouded in clouds. Everything trapped on top of the mesa was "cow-metized" by the light from the "cow-met" and "evolved" into a "bovipomorphic" state. Inspired by old tales of the Wild West, this new bovine community developed to the point where they emulated that era's way of life, including the requisite ruffians and corrupt sheriffs. However, their knowledge of Wild West living was limited, and as such, many things about their culture had to be improvised to 'fill in the blanks'. The concepts of steampunk and Weird West were utilized throughout its run.