Private Public

Private Public
Gender	Male
Species	Human
Age	N/A
Relationships	• General Specific (Boss and Friend) • Sheep (Enemy) • X-Agent (Former Friend and Enemy) • General Public (Father) • Private Party (Presumed Cousin)
Actor	James Edmund Godwin
Status	Alive

Private Public is one of the major antagonists of Sheep in the Big City, and is General Specific's right-hand man.

Appearance

Unlike his boss, General Specific, Private Public is tall and slim. He wears a green army helmet and a light green uniform held up by a bronze belt and accented by a simplified rendition of the United States insignia for Privates. His eyes are dotted and his sharp nose dominates his profile.

Relationships

General Specific

General Specific is Private Public's boss and best friend. Despite General Specific's countless jabs at his status and sporadic outbursts of bitterness toward him, the two seem to have an almost unbreakable bond. In their key duet “I'll Give it a Chance”, the two sing a ragtime tribute to their friendship, in all its ups and downs. He serves as the brains to General Specific’s lack of brawn.

Plot Device

Private Public and the Plot Device have a sound relationship. They don't interact much, but when they do they tend to be on similar wavelengths. In “Party of the Shear”, two can be seen dancing together in a tango of ignorant bliss.

General Public

Private Public and his father, General Public, have a somewhat strained relationship. General Public disapproves of his son's military rank and believes him to be too soft on his duties. He has little respect for his Private Public's privacy and overshares intimate details regarding his childhood. Before his tearful departure in “Daddy Shearest”, he tells his son that "If you capture the sheep, I'll love ya'."

Trivia

• Both he and Farmer John are voiced by James Edmund Godwin
• In “Daddy Shearest”, is revealed that Private Public wet himself until he was 17-years-old, had abnormal spots on his buttocks as a baby, can’t grow a proper mustache, and that his father, General Public, was a general in the Peloponnesian War.
• In “An Officer and a Gentlelamb”, Private Public professes "I've served the Secret Military Organization for years with loyalty and dedication, and I'm still a Private!" How many years Private Public has worked for the Secret Military Organization is unknown. In the same episode, Private Public deems himself "the world champion at running through tires,” with a physical accolade to match.

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