Cow Review

**Cow Review** is the first and primary show hosted on the Josh's Cow Reviews YouTube channel and TikTok account. The series is hosted by Josh and airs a new episode approximately once a month.

## Format

During the early days of the show's airing, a typical episode of the show would run for around 15-20 seconds and consisted of concise assessment of one featured cow, which is the sole visual on screen. At the end of each episode the cow is assigned a rating out of 10. Episodes 3 onwards begin with a familiar greeting of "Hello and welcome back to Josh's Cow Reviews" from Josh.

Starting in episode 7 and ending after episode 9, the show underwent a format change which introduced a 42 second opening sequence consisting of a 3D computer-generated cow on a green background performing martial arts to the Dave Ruffy & Mark Wallis Remix of Carl Douglas' *Kung Fu Fighting*, while white text reading 'Josh's Cow Reviews' floats on and off screen with various transitional effects. This addition raised the average runtime of episodes to around 1 minute and 15-25 seconds, which was also aided by more complex commentary and visuals introduced at the same time. Josh continues to welcome viewers at the start of each episode, but the greeting is now accompanied by an expanded graphic of the YouTube channel banner, an addition that remains even after the opening sequence was axed due to complaints. This intro segment may also include other messages Josh wants to convey to his audience, examples being apologies for failing to meet expectations of dedicated fans and the assertion that the show is "the most trusted cow review show on the internet", a claim that has yet to be contested.

## Accusations

A common rumour that circulates online claims that Cow Review (although presented by Josh) is primarily or even entirely written by a ghost writer. The origin of the rumour is unknown and no further details are provided about the identity of a possible ghost writer, only that they supposedly provide the commentary and possibly even supply the cows featured in the reviews.

## Controversy

Following episode 6, Cow Review went on unannounced hiatus from September 20th to October 15th 2020. Fans were upset by the lack of content during this time, which convinced Josh to include an apology at the beginning of episode 7 when the show finally returned, assuring his audience that he had continued to review cows in all of his spare time. Since this break, the show has yet to resume its original daily upload schedule, which has normalised the longer gaps between episodes.

## Trivia

* Despite fan speculation that the description for every Cow Review YouTube upload ("I review cows so you don't have to") is a reference to the Nostalgia Critic, Josh has denied having any knowledge of Doug Walker or Channel Awesome.
* The Cow Review YouTube channel received diminishing popularity every episode since it's debut until its hiatus between episode 6 and 7, which generated more interest in new episodes when the show returned.
* TikTok uploads of Cow Review near unanimously receive higher viewer numbers than their YouTube counterparts, with the only exception being episode 5 focussing on Skull Cow, which performed abnormally poorly for a TikTok upload and YouTube upload alike.