Otis' Mom is an episode from Back at the Barnyard from Season 1.
Synopsis[]
The episode opens up with Bessy looking at some sort of photo. Otis comes by and Bessy sadly greets him. Otis is intrigued by this because she didn't call him a moron and he asks her why. Bessy says it's because she's depressed over losing her son: long before she came to the barnyard (and probably met Daisy), Bessy and her son (still a few months old) were at a petting zoo at the county fair. Bessy's son went off to play with a bunch of balloons and floated away, and Bessy ultimately never saw him again.
Feeling genuinely sorry for her, Otis reveals that he had gone through a similar situation when he was a calf: Otis had gotten separated from his mom at a county fair and one of the few things he has to remember her by is an old cowbell. When Otis shows said cowbell to Bessy, she gasps at the sight of it and claims that it's the same one her son had -- this leads to Bessy concluding that Otis is her long-lost son, which leads to Otis screaming like a baby upon hearing this.
Otis and Bessy annouce this to the other animals and the others are shocked and confused by this (Including Pig who yells that everything he knows is a lie. Followed by him saying "By the way, When's lunch?"). Otis says that he feels the same way, but he actually feels happy for Bessy because she'll be nice to them from now on, since she now has her son back (or so she thinks).
However, this is far from what Otis has expected. Bessy feeds him oatmeal made with her milk, which Otis hates and starts bathing him. The next day, while playing golf with the Jersey Cows, Bessy calls him in the middle of his putt, embarrasses him and the Jersey Cows start laughing at him. Finally, Otis decides to prank Nora by tricking her into thinking into she's in space, but Bessy ruins everything and forces him to apologize to Nora.
Fed up with Bessy treating him like a baby, Otis snaps at Bessy and tells her she's ruining his life. Bessy thinks that Otis needs a good male role model in his life, so she decides to marry Pip (when the others won't). She and Pip break the news to Otis and he screams again at the very thought of Pip being his father until he falls on his knees.
A few hours later, the barnyard is gathered up for Pip and Bessy's wedding. Otis denies this but sees that this is real and actually happening. Otis uses his cowbell to soothe him and calm his nerves. Noticing the newspaper that the cowbell was wrapped in, Otis starts reading it and sees something very interesting in it and runs off to tell the rest of the barnyard.
Just before Pip and Bessy can get married, Otis reveals what he saw in the newspaper: it's dated for the day that Otis was separated from his mother, which happened at least a year after Bessy had been separated from her own son. This, of course, means that there's no way that Bessy and Otis could be mother and son -- while Otis figures that this revelation will upset Bessy, she proves to be with fine with it and calls off her wedding to Pip, who's furious that his plan to marry Bessy failed.
Otis and Bessy later meet up on a hill -- they talk about what happened and decide that, while they're ultimately glad that they're not actually related to each other, the idea of them being mother and son wasn't quite that bad. Up in the sky, Bessy's actual son is still floating on balloons and calling for help, ending the episode.
Voice cast[]
- Chris Hardwick as Otis
- Jeffrey Garcia as Pip
- Cam Clarke as Freddy
- Rob Paulsen as Peck / Everett
- Tino Insana as Pig
- Leigh-Allyn Baker as Abby / Etta
- Wanda Sykes as Bessy
- Maria Bamford as Nora Beady
- Dom Irrera as Duke
- Lloyd Sherr as Everett
- Fred Tatasciore as the Farmer
- S. Scott Bullock as Eddy
- Maurice LaMarche as Igg
- John DiMaggio as Bud
- Phil Morris as Bessy's Kid
Trivia[]
- Episode revelations:
- Otis is younger than Bessy -- also, he got separated from his biological mother as a calf, sometime before Ben found him. The cowbell (which was wrapped in a newspaper dated the day of when Otis was separated from his mom) is one of the few things he has to remember her by.
- Bessy is revealed to have a son -- it also turns out that her son's still alive and floating up in the sky (still holding on to the balloons).
- This episode is dedicated to Lee Paulsen, Rob Paulsen's mother who had died during production of the episode.
- This is considered to be the most emotional of all the Back at the Barnyard episodes.
- In the episode, Otis eats oatmeal made with Bessy's milk and spits it out in disgust. This shows that he only likes the taste of his own milk.
- Otis obviously couldn't have been Bessy's son because Bessy's son did not have splotches on his eyes and Otis does. Bessie's son's eyes were surrounded by white skin, while Otis eyes are surrounded by black skin. Otis wasn't Bessie's son.
- This is the first time that Bessy disguised herself when she and Otis went to Mrs. Beady’s house to apologize to her for Otis’ prank.
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