# Why do the male cows on "Back at the Barnyard" have udders? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 6, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194 "2008-04-06T17:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/41 "2008-04-07T14:06:42Z")
[QUOTE=Ruffian] According to the IMDB: > [@](#): > > Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Yes, the male cattle have udders; it’s a joke. And: > [@](#): > > The “male” bovines having udders was explained in the October 2006 issue of Nickelodeon’s official magazine, “Nick Magazine”. In the letters page, one reader asked about the anatomically-incorrect cows(bovine) and whether or not it was intentional or not, and the magazine explained that the movie’s director “thought it would be funny for the male cows(bulls) to have udders”. [Linky.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414853/trivia) So they did it on purpose to be funny. Yeah, it’s hysterical. :rolleyes: I found it distractingly stupid, personally. Good thing it was just on Showtime and I could change the channel to something less annoying, like _Rock of Love_ or something. [/QUOTE] Hello! Hello? Is this thing on? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/42 "2008-04-07T14:10:21Z")
No. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/43 "2008-04-07T15:11:33Z")
So many dead inner children… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/44 "2008-04-07T15:40:56Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] I would think think that the modeling of two suspended spheres would be relatively straightforward. [/QUOTE] Don’t you mean “oblate spheroids”? ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/45 "2008-04-07T15:44:52Z")
This morning when I told my daughter that her first-ever message board comment got some positive response, including “winning the thread” according to Tapioca Dextrin, she was watching Word World on PBS, a program in which the animals–Frog, Pig, Sheep–are made out of letters of the alphabet. . . ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/46 "2008-04-07T16:13:05Z")
Now that that’s settled…why do male cartoon kangaroos have pouches? ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/47 "2008-04-07T16:30:48Z")
[QUOTE=Tristan] That night Farmer Brown was kept awake by the sounds from the barn. Click Clack Moo. Click Clack Moo. Clickity Clack Moo. The following morning, duck (being a neutral party) handed Farmer Brown a note: “Dear Farmer Brown, We are unhappy cows. We demand hormones and surgery to become comfortable in our own hides. Also, sequined dresses. Sincerly, The Cows” [/QUOTE] I love that book: Click Clack Moo (Transgendered Cows That Type) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/48 "2008-04-07T19:14:53Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Did you know that in the olden days, they used to refer to a bulls as a “gentleman cow” or “male cow” because the word “bull” was considered vulgar? [/QUOTE] Future generations will make fun of _our_ prudishness in refusing to put testicles on cartoon animals. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/49 "2008-04-07T19:20:58Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] Oh it’s not THAT difficult. [**Pom Poko**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110008/) features anthropomorphic raccoons with very prominent scrotums. At one point they even use their nut-sacks as cudgels to beat the crap out of some police in riot gear. I’m sure \*\*Barnyard \*\* could have done something similar. [/QUOTE] I think I’d faint if that ever happened. The fact that the American cartoon industry hasn’t made a sexually explicit cartoon since Heavy Metal is one of my major pet peeves. (All of who have udders) :mad: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/50 "2008-04-07T19:42:37Z")
[QUOTE=VernWinterbottom] This morning when I told my daughter that her first-ever message board comment got some positive response, including “winning the thread” according to Tapioca Dextrin, she was watching Word World on PBS, a program in which the animals–Frog, Pig, Sheep–are made out of letters of the alphabet. . . [/QUOTE] And if she’s as smart as she sounds, she wasn’t the least bit impressed that her wise and obvious observation on a message board topic about cartoon cow udders was so well-received. ---
**Author:** ![warmark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/58f4c7/32.png) [@warmark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmark)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/51 "2008-04-07T19:44:18Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] Oh it’s not THAT difficult. [**Pom Poko**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110008/) features anthropomorphic raccoons with very prominent scrotums. At one point they even use their nut-sacks as cudgels to beat the crap out of some police in riot gear. I’m sure \*\*Barnyard \*\* could have done something similar. [/QUOTE] Minor nitpick: They aren’t raccoons, they are tanuki, or “raccoon dogs”, which are primitive canids. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/52 "2008-04-07T23:05:12Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] So many dead inner children… ☹ [/QUOTE] I like to poke my dead inner child with a stick every so often just to make sure it’s still good and dead. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/53 "2008-04-08T03:43:22Z")
Mine’s bloated with decompositional gases. Poking it with a stick is inadvisable. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194/54 "2008-04-08T14:41:25Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] No kids and my S.O. has no room to complain about _my_ talking during movies. I almost had to reenact Sweeney Todd on him the other night. Well, I am glad I said “male cattle”. [/QUOTE] You will be spared from the worst of the plagues. Probably. I find that the eviller I the less trustworthy I am. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-male-cows-on-back-at-the-barnyard-have-udders/444194.md?page=2)