Flock Up In The Sky

Flock, Up in the Sky is the third episode of the second season of Sheep in the Big City, and the sixteenth episode overall. 
The episode premiered on Cartoon Network on December 16, 2001.https://cnas.fandom.com/wiki/December_16,_2001
==Summary==
X-Agent returns and swears to protect Sheep from General Specific and his army.
==Plot==
===Chapter 1 – “HOOF I Got a Surprise For EWE!”===
The Big City is a place all about sharing and full of neighborly neighbors and friendly friends where everyone helps each other out, including Sheep who gives directions to lost tourists or help the less fortuned by letting them borrowing money (before they giving it back). Just then, a woman asks Sheep to open a can of novelty-brand peanuts. Sheep tries to open the can, but finds it difficult to do so. He eventually opens the can but, unfortunately, a net comes out and entraps him. Not only that, but the woman who asked for help turns out to be General Specific in disguise. He remarks to the trapped sheep about how he fell for his trap and tells Private Public to bring him back to their base. General Specific also remarks about how he never thought he could capture Sheep so early in an episode. 
As Private Public is about to grab Sheep, something or someone catches his attention. He then tells General Specific that they might have “company,” General Specific misunderstands what he said and tells him that he didn't invite anyone over. Private Public corrects him by saying “I mean...” before pointing up to someone on a building, which is revealed to be X-Agent, a sheep who is faster than a regular sheep, more powerful than a regular sheep, able to leap a regular sheep is a single bound, because he has the power of an ox. He is also Sheep's friend who previously appeared in “Fleeced to Meet You.” General Specific is unamused by X-Agent and thinks that he cannot stop him from catching Sheep, so he sends in his soldiers to get him. They began to fight with X-Agent before retreating due to how powerful he is. General Specific is surprised by X-Agent's powers and sends Private Public to fight him since he is a more “worthy adversary.” Private Public then tries to intimidate X-Agent before trying to fight him, and fails to do. General Specific then thinks about fighting X-Agent himself, before running away in fear.
Once the Secret Military Organization were out of his way, X-Agent takes the net off of Sheep and frees him. Sheep says his thanks to X-Agent, before he leaves. Sheep is about to cross the road, when X-Agent suddenly comes back, checks both sides, before carrying him across the road and putting him on the other side.
At the Secret Military Base, General Specific rants to everyone on how they were so easily beaten by X-Agent, especially considering they call themselves “soldiers.” One of them corrects him as that they call themselves Harold. Victor then comes in and is about to introduce Oxymoron's new product, Just For Men Named Harold, before General Specific tells him to get out. General Specific continues to rant about how he works himself “to the bone,” day and night to capture Sheep, and how he doesn't get any thanks (despite Private Public saying otherwise), not even a cake for his birthday. He then tells everyone that it is his birthday and everyone has forgotten about it. Everyone remains quiet for a while, before saying happy birthday to General Specific and going quiet again. General Specific remarks how it doesn't matter because of X-Agent constantly protecting Sheep, and how it is his worst birthday ever. Just then, The Angry Scientist comes in to celebrate General Specific's birthday and gives him a special wand that gives who ever holds it superpowers. General Specific is so thankful The Angry Scientist made something just for him that he could kiss him, while also calling him mad. The Angry Scientist, as usual, then goes angry about being called “mad.” General Specific tries moving around the wand, before complaining to the scientist that it is not working since nothing happened. The Angry Scientist then mentions that the wand needs to be switched on via a control. General Specific then feels like he's gaining superpowers and proclaims that he'll be able to defeat X-Agent and capture Sheep for his sheep-powered ray-gun. He also proclaims that he just needs a “really cool” costume for it. All of a sudden, the wand switches off and General Specific falls to ground. The Angry Scientist reveals that he turned it off by accident, and quickly switches back on.
===Chapter 2 – “FLOCK, Up In The Sky!”===
Later, General Specific has finally got a costume and just needs a new name. The Angry Scientist suggests “Angry Scientist Invention Man”, Private Public suggests ”Super Boss”, and Private Thoughts (a random soldier) refuses to come up with a name because he prefers to keep his thoughts private (the same applies when General Specific asks him about his costume). General Specific then suggests idea of having everyone write down their favorite names on a piece of paper and put it into a shoe box, with one name getting the most votes wins.
At a grocery store, X-Agent is constantly “saving” Sheep from picking an inferior-brand of cheese-flavored snacks, shoppers who are passing by, and even automatic doors. Sheep gets really annoyed by this and thinks X-Agent is getting to carried away.
Meanwhile, the voting of General Specific had completed and he reveals the name that got the most votes: “Big Fat Idiot Guy” In the end, General Specific decides to go with his favorite name: “General Specific Man”. He is about to go out and try and capture Sheep, as well as stop X-Agent when he needs to. The Angry Scientist tells the general that he'll watch the control and warns him that if it gets damaged he'll lost his superpowers, for no reason. General Specific flies off and crashes into the roof of his base.
Back at the Big City, X-Agent is still giving Sheep “help” by pushing people, who even go near him, away. Sheep gets sick of it and finally has enough. He stops X-Agent by grabbing his wool cape and gets his attention, before explaining to him that he needs to be left alone. X-Agent tells Sheep that he is naïve, The Big City is full of dangers, and it's “a small price for safety” if he is smothering and overbearing. Sheep calls X-Agent something, something that the narrator cannot translate due to its nature. X-Agent decided not to protect Sheep with “a mouth like that.” Sheep regrets calling X-Agent that and is upset that things didn't work out as he wanted. All of a sudden, General Specific (or General Specific Man) surprises Sheep and grabs him into the sky.
===Chapter 3 – “MUTTON Can Stop Me Now!”===
Sheep bleats for help when he is carried back by General Specific to his base. At a grocery store, X-Agent is feeling down in the dumps and hears Sheep's bleats for help, but brushes it off at first because of what happened earlier.
Back at the base, General Specific crashes lands into the roof and then on the floor with Sheep. Private Public praises General Specific for capturing Sheep. General Specific tells Sheep that he cannot escape because his superpowers and shows them off by snapping a big metal beam in half (as in destroying it) that holds part of the base together which ends up collapsing, and melting a piece of melatonin with his eye beams. Sheep somehow escapes when General Specific was showing off, but gets captured once again.
General Specific is about to put Sheep into his sheep-powered ray-gun, when Private Public tells him to look. At first, General Specific could only see a traditional coffee maker and water dispenser, before Private Public tells him to his left. He then sees a safe, before Private Public also tells him to to look up “a little.” General Specific sees X-Agent, who had decided to rescue Sheep from him.
Both General Specific and X-Agent taunt each other by showing off moves and teaching a lesson about The Spice Trade, before they began to fight each other for Sheep. After X-Agent used his power punch, General Specific tries to proclaim about using the symbols on his costume as blades but gets interrupted by the sheep, and decides to use them without introduction. General Specific misses though and X-Agent teases him for it. Out of rage, General Specific uses his eye beams to hit X-Agent and succeeds. Then X-Agent uses his power to form itchy wool onto General Specific, but he breaks through them and ends up beating up X-Agent to the point he gets weak and will be defeated with one punch.
As General Specific boasts about X-Agent being defeated with one last punch, his wand turns off and he loses his powers. It is revealed that Sheep had turned it off via controls, The Angry Scientist tries to call him out before Sheep hits him with it, damaging it. Upon realising that his powers are gone, General Specific tries offers X-Agent a “heart-felt” apology, before X-Agent uses his powers yet again to form some itchy wool onto not just General Specific, but also everyone in the base, including Private Public and The Angry Scientist.
Sheep and X-Agent learnt on how to have a more-balanced relationship with each other and share a bleat with each other, when Completely Powerful Guy comes in with the intention of saving Sheep himself, before realising that he was too late and is upset about it. He then reads out a telegram for X-Agent which reads: “X-Agent, you're needed in Toledo. Urgent! This is not just a convenient way of getting you out of this show. Signed, the writer.”
X-Agent and Sheep fid each other farewell and even share a hug, before X-Agent sets off for Toledo. Completely Powerful Guy takes Sheep with and flies with him back to the Big City, he promises to the sheep that he'll “always” be there to protect him from General Specific except on a lot of days.
==Production Notes==
*This episode was finished on October 3, 2001.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130484/locations/
==Trivia==
*This is the last appearance of X-Agent due to him being needed in Toledo that was "not just a convenient way of getting you out of this show."
**It's unknown what happened to X-Agent after that.
*This episode is a follow-up to Fleeced to Meet You (2000).
===Full Episode===
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TqLtxlWJM6QynZ1b8lNxtcYhE8uRl-p6/view?usp=drive_link
==References==
Category:Season_2
Category:Episodes
Category:2001