Cattle/Popular culture

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As one of the longest-domesticated animals, cows have played a significant role within Western popular culture. Sometimes carrying the power of life-directing myth, and sometimes merely depicted so as to evoke a hearty belly laugh, they have been portrayed in art, nursery rhymes, language idioms, advertisements, and cartoons and comics since the early 1800s.

Cows in the myth of the American West

Nursery rhymes

The cow jumped over the moon

Language idioms

Cash cow
How now brown cow?
Holy cow
Have a cow

Film

Barnyard
Cow and Chicken

Comics

The Far Side
London's Times
The Man-Eating-Cow (Tick Comics)

Advertisements

BMW
Borden - Elsie the Cow
Chik-fil-a - The "Eat More Chikin" cows

Music

The Dead Milkmen (band)

Other

Cow tipping
Furniture
Postage stamps
I Never Saw a Purple Cow