They're probably hiding a cow
Midtown Cowboys is a sitcom where two aspiring ranchers try to hide the cow in their apartment from their landlord, Mr. Featherly. In Situation: Comedy, The Director recruits Sam and Max for the main roles. Mr. Featherly is played by Philo Pennyworth, who later changes his legal name to Mister Featherly to make the royalties easier to deal with.
Midtown Cowboys thrives on cheap laughs and seems to be largely a vehicle for product placement ads. Its popularity and excessive reruns lead it to be repeatedly referenced throughout Sam & Max Season One and Two. Two episodes are shot in-game, the first in Situation: Comedy and the second in Night of the Raving Dead. The trailer for What's new, Beelzebub? seems to be videotaped over the trailer for the Midtown Cowboys movie.
Pennyworth revealed in Bright Side of the Moon that the show was cancelled immediately after Situation: Comedy following Sam and Max's scandal with the Alien Love Triangle Times. However, it became a surprise hit in Germany and made a comeback, to the point where WARP's other programs were cancelled, and the studio became devoted to Midtown Cowboys and its spinoffs.
Spin-offs for Midtown Cowboys include "Downtown Cowgirls," "That's So Bessie," "Midtown Cowboys: Special Heifer's Unit," and "Midtown Shepherds."
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| French | Nature, Chasse et Métrosexuels | Nature, Hunt and Metrosexuals |
Trivia[]
- The entirety of the Chef Bessie episode can be heard on Prince Lawrence's apartment television in the first episode of The Wolf Among Us[1].
- Sam and Max don't get any royalties because they signed the rights to use their images away when they filmed the Chef Bessie episode.
- Sam and Max weren't invited to star in the movie as the studio decided to "go in another direction".
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