Cosmic Cow - Bovine comic strip character on the sitcom TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT/ABC/SYN/1980-86. Cosmic Cow sprang from the creative mind of Henry Rush (Ted Knight), a talented, grey-haired San Francisco artist/illustrator reduced to drawing a weekly children's comic strip for Random Comics, a division of Wainwright Publications owned by Arthur Wainwright (Hamilton Camp). Working at home, Henry found he could be more creative if he wore a hand puppet of Cosmic Cow while he drew. So, putting a pen in the cow's mouth Henry cranked out the weekly strip, occasionally asking his puppet advice on whether the plot line was proceeding properly. Cosmic Cow, who was depicted as a space age hero righting the wrongs of the universe, had bright orange colored horns and wore a silver space suit.