List of The Ren & Stimpy Show episodes
This is a list of episodes of the animated series The Ren & Stimpy Show. The show premiered on Nickelodeon on August 11, 1991 directly following the premieres of Doug and Rugrats, and it ran for five seasons until December 16, 1995, with the finale "A Scooter for Yaksmas". The series initially did not have a consistent grouping of segments into episodes; episodes and interstitial segments aired out of production order, some episodes and interstitials were produced for one season and aired in another, and two episodes, "Man's Best Friend" and "Sammy and Me / The Last Temptation", did not air in the series' original run at all. "Man's Best Friend" aired on the Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon for Spike TV in 2003 alongside the uncut show's pilot, "Big House Blues". "Sammy and Me / The Last Temptation" aired on October 20, 1996, on MTV.
The first list is ordered according to the original television air date, and a second list provides the episode order according to the DVD releases, which groups the cartoons into 52 episodes.[1] The list does not include episodes from the spin-off Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon".
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
Theatrical pilot | December 21, 1990 | ||||
1 | 6 | August 11, 1991 | February 23, 1992 | ||
2 | 12 | August 15, 1992 | May 23, 1993 | ||
3 | 10 | November 20, 1993 | July 30, 1994 | ||
4 | 14 | October 1, 1994 | April 1, 1995 | ||
5 | 10 | June 3, 1995 | October 20, 1996 |
The episodes were interspersed with short segments that sometimes aired before or after the main cartoons, which are named below.
Episodes
Theatrical pilot (1990)
Title | Directed by | Story by | Original release date | |
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"Big House Blues" | John Kricfalusi | John K., Bob Camp, & Jim Smith | August 10, 1990 | |
Ren and Stimpy get caught by the dogcatcher and are sent to the pound, where they meet Jasper and briefly Phil until he has to take "The Big Sleep". Ren initially doesn't understand, but after Jasper explains this to Ren, their lives seem to be on a thin thread until a sweet girl adopts them both. |
Season 1 (1991–92)
The season's episodes were interspersed with short segments: three "Ask Dr. Stupid" segments, three different "Log" commercials, "My Little Brother Doll", a "Powdered Toast Man" commercial, "Secret Oath", "Stimpy's Breakfast Tips", four different "What'll We Do 'Till Then?" segments, and "Yak Shaving Day".
No. overall [a] | No. in season [a] | Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original air date | |
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1 | 1a | "Stimpy's Big Day" | John K. | John K. & Vincent Waller | Jim Smith, John K. & Vincent Waller | August 11, 1991 | |
After winning a Gritty Kitty poem contest, Stimpy goes to Hollywood, leaving Ren left out. | |||||||
2 | 1b | "The Big Shot!" | John K. | John K. & Vincent Waller | Jim Smith, John K. & Vincent Waller | August 11, 1991 | |
Stimpy enjoys living his new life in Hollywood, and becomes a big star, but after a while, they both start to miss each other and eventually Stimpy gives up all of the money and fame to see Ren again. Voices of the women in bikinis were Lisa Lemaster, Meredith Jackson, Tracey Carlson, and Mary Smith. | |||||||
3 | 2a | "Robin Höek" | John K. | John K. & Bob Camp | Jim Smith & Vincent Waller (uncredited) | August 25, 1991 | |
As Stimpy reads a mixed-up version of Robin Hood, Ren dreams he is Robin and Stimpy as all of the other roles. | |||||||
4 | 2b | "Nurse Stimpy" | Raymond Spum | John K. & Bob Camp | Chris Reccardi | August 25, 1991 | |
When Ren gets sick, Stimpy decides to take care of Ren himself, but the treatment proves worse than the disease. By the end, Ren feels better and Stimpy gets sick, prompting a vengeful "Nurse Ren" into action. | |||||||
5 | 3a | "Space Madness" | John K. | John K. & Jim Gomez | Jim Smith & Chris Reccardi | September 8, 1991 | |
Commander Höek (Ren) and Cadet Stimpy are on a mission to explore the cosmos. Commander Höek begins to display symptoms of "space madness". Stimpy attempts to calm his sickened Officer while still maintaining his loyalty to his command, but it doesn't last long. Close to the end of the episode, Höek asks Stimpy to guard the History Eraser button and never to touch it – otherwise, it will remove him from existence –, and, thanks to the narrator, Stimpy eventually does just that. | |||||||
6 | 3b | "The Boy Who Cried Rat!" | John K. | Vincent Waller & John K. | Vincent Waller | September 8, 1991 | |
When Ren and Stimpy are caught stealing out of garbage cans, they are chased out on the streets, and begin to starve. The pair then hatches a plan to get money and food: disguise Ren as a mouse and put him in the Pipes' home, and turn Stimpy into a neighborhood mouse catcher. | |||||||
7 | 4b (season 2) | "Big House Blues" | John Kricfalusi | John K., Bob Camp, & Jim Smith | John Kricfalusi (uncredited) | September 15, 1991 | |
A televised version of the theatrical pilot. | |||||||
8 | 4b | "The Littlest Giant" | John K. | John K. & Bob Camp | Bob Camp & Vincent Waller | September 15, 1991 | |
In another one of Stimpy's bedtime stories, Ren dreams he is Wee Ren, who befriends the littlest giant (Stimpy) in the story, "The Littlest Giant". | |||||||
9 | 4a | "Fire Dogs" | John K. | John K. | Jim Smith & Chris Reccardi | September 29, 1991 | |
Disguised as dalmatians to get food, shelter and money, Ren and Stimpy get jobs as fire dogs. Although they do not closely resemble dalmatians, a can of spotted "dalmatian paint" allows them to pass as the spotted animals. | |||||||
10 | 5a | "Marooned" | John K. | John K. | Chris Reccardi | October 6, 1991 | |
After Commander Höek (Ren) and Cadet Stimpy land on a strange planet, some peculiar (and painful) things happen to them. | |||||||
11 | 5b | "Untamed World" | John K. | Jim Smith & John K. | Jim Smith | November 10, 1991 | |
Alternatively titled "A Cartoon". Ren and Stimpy host a nature show, Untamed World, and go to the Galápagos Islands to find weird creatures that look like themselves, which adds to the strangeness. | |||||||
12 | 6a | "Black Hole" | John K. (uncredited) | Bob Camp & Will McRobb | Bob Camp | February 23, 1992 | |
Commander Höek (Ren) and Cadet Stimpy pass through a black hole to find a mountain of missing left socks. | |||||||
13 | 6b | "Stimpy's Invention" | John K. | John K. & Bob Camp | Bob Camp (uncredited)[2] | February 23, 1992 | |
After Ren tries some of Stimpy's inventions that work poorly, Stimpy invents a "Happy Helmet" to make Ren feel happier, at which Ren is forcefully happy. |
Season 2 (1992–93)
This season's episodes were interspersed with the short segments "Ace Reporter, Ren Hoek: Mr Horse Returns", "Gritty Kitty Litter", two "Log" segments, "Powdered Toast Man: Vitamin F", "Secret Club: Susan Fout", "Sugar Sod Pops", a new "What'll We Do 'Till Then? Blow Yourself Up" segment, "World Crisis with Mr. Horse", and short segments from previous seasons.
No. overall [a] | No. in season [a] | Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original air date | |
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14 | 4a | "In the Army" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp | Bob Camp | August 15, 1992 | |
Ren and Stimpy register in the army, unaware of all of the obstacles to overcome with a big, bossy sarge, though they end up passing and entering a war. | |||||||
15 | 6b | "Powdered Toast Man" | John K. | Richard Pursel & John K. | Jim Smith & Bill Wray | August 15, 1992 | |
Powdered Toast Man saves a kitten from crashing into a truck, rescues the Pope (voiced by Frank Zappa) from Muddy Mudskipper, serves Ren and Stimpy breakfast, and helps the president with an embarrassing bathroom situation. | |||||||
16 | 1a | "Ren's Toothache" | John K. | Bob Camp & John K. | Chris Reccardi | August 22, 1992 | |
After Ren doesn't brush his teeth and all of his teeth fall out, Stimpy tells Ren to leave his nerve endings under his pillow, and a fairy will give him $100. During the night, the nerve ending fairy comes, but is all out of $100 bills, and gives him a ball of lint. Fortunately, the next day, Stimpy gives Ren one of his oversized teeth for a birthday present. | |||||||
17 | 7b | "Out West" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp & John K. | Bob Camp | August 29, 1992 | |
Abner and Ewalt need someone to hang, so they hire Ren and Stimpy to steal Mr. Horse. | |||||||
18 | 1b | "Rubber Nipple Salesmen" | Vincent Waller & John K. | Vincent Waller & John K. | Vincent Waller | August 29, 1992 | |
Ren and Stimpy try to sell rubber nipples to the Fire Chief, Mr. Horse and the Pipes. | |||||||
19 | 2 | "Svën Höek" | John K. | Bob Camp & John K. | Jim Smith & Bill Wray | November 7, 1992 | |
When Ren hears that his cousin Svën is coming over, he remembers him being smart, but when Svën arrives, he acts more like Stimpy, which puts Ren at the highest anger level after they accidentally destroy his prized possessions. | |||||||
20 | 3a | "Haunted House" | Ron Hughart | John Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, Jim Smith & Richard Pursel | Jim Smith, Richard Pursel & Bob Camp | November 21, 1992 | |
A dull ghost tries to scare Ren and Stimpy when they enter a haunted house, but the ghost's plans to scare Ren and Stimpy seem to fail. | |||||||
21 | 3b | "Mad Dog Höek" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp | Bob Camp | November 21, 1992 | |
Ren, as Mad Dog Höek, and Stimpy, as Killer Cadogen, wrestle the Lout Brothers, Lump and Loaf, thinking that they're just pretending to wrestle. | |||||||
22 | 5a | "Big Baby Scam" | Vincent Waller | Vincent Waller | Vincent Waller | December 12, 1992 | |
Ren and Stimpy trade places with two babies to get the easy life, but they encounter many shenanigans. | |||||||
23 | 5b | "Dog Show" | Chris Reccardi & John K. | Richard Pursel | Chris Reccardi | December 12, 1992 | |
George Liquor has finished training and tries to make his dogs, Ren and Stimpy, win the all-breed dog show. | |||||||
24 | 12 | "Son of Stimpy" | John K. | John K., Vincent Waller & Richard Pursel | Peter Avanzino | January 14, 1993 | |
When Stimpy farts, he believes that he has given birth. He tells Ren about the incident, but Ren won't believe him. Soon, Stimpy relentlessly tries to find his fart, which he names "Stinky". Originally titled "Stimpy's First Fart" | |||||||
25 | 6a | "Monkey See, Monkey Don't!" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp & Vincent Waller | Bob Camp | February 13, 1993 | |
Ren and Stimpy, seeing how the animals at the zoo get free handouts from visitors, disguise themselves as primates and apply for positions in the monkey house. As the other monkey, "Filthy", gets good food, Stimpy ends up getting old nutshells and pre-chewed gum, while Ren only gets a rock. Then they decide to get a transfer as a bird and a hippo. | |||||||
26 | 7a | "Fake Dad" | John K. & Jim Smith | John K. & Bob Camp | Jim Smith | February 27, 1993 | |
Ren and Stimpy adopt an overgrown, seven-year-old convict named Kowalski. Stimpy is kind and understanding towards the needy "youngster", but Ren has a bit more trouble adjusting to parenthood. | |||||||
27 | 9a | "The Great Outdoors" | Vincent Waller & Ken Bruce | Vincent Waller & John K. | Peter Avanzino | March 27, 1993 | |
Ren and Stimpy go camping, but Ren begins to hate it when he suffers a streak of bad luck. | |||||||
28 | 9b | "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball" | Ron Hughart | Vincent Waller & Bob Camp | Vincent Waller | April 3, 1993 | |
Ren finds out that the value of hairballs is higher than gold and forces Stimpy to produce hairballs on a production line, but eventually, he has trouble producing anymore. Ren and Bubba try to help him, such as licking Ren's fur and Bubba's hairy back, but nothing works, and a brief trip into Stimpy's body reveals that his hairball gland turned into dust. When the worker working for them tells them that their business is over, they realize that the episode is over, and they all start dancing in celebration. | |||||||
29 | 8 | "Stimpy's Fan Club" | Peter Avanzino | Elinor Blake & John K. | Peter Avanzino | April 24, 1993 | |
When Stimpy becomes the adoration of many fans, Ren becomes jealous. To cheer him up, Stimpy makes him president of the Stimpy fan-club, leading to Ren getting even more jealous and thinking about killing Stimpy. Then Ren is sent a fan letter, of which he gloats about to Stimpy, but then becomes quickly disappointed when he learns the letter was from Stimpy himself. | |||||||
30 | 10 | "A Visit to Anthony" | John K. & Jim Smith | John K. & Richard Pursel | Jim Smith | May 8, 1993 | |
Anthony, a young fan of Ren and Stimpy, invites them to come to his house. They do, but they are confronted by Anthony's dad, apparently a cartoon hater, and the neighborhood bully Victor, but the father starts to like Ren and Stimpy as Stimpy wharfs hairballs onto Ren. Anthony is voiced by Anthony Raspanti, a young fan who sent in one of the first letters to the show. | |||||||
31 | 11 | "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" | John K. & Chris Reccardi | John Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, Jim Gomez & Vincent Waller | Chris Reccardi | May 23, 1993 | |
Ren and Stimpy join the elite force of Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen, whose famous motto is: "We always get our... butts kicked!", the duo search around the country to make settings in what is now Canada. |
"Man's Best Friend"
Produced during the show's second season in 1992, the episode never aired on Nickelodeon due to violent content. The episode originally aired on the Spike network as part of the 2003 Ren & Stimpy revival series, Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon". "Man's Best Friend" is included in the first & second season DVD set.
John Kricfalusi cites the violent imagery—Ren beating up George Liquor with an oar—as the primary reason for getting his production company and himself fired from The Ren & Stimpy Show.[3]
Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original air date | |
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"Man's Best Friend" | John K. | Vincent Waller & John K. | Chris Reccardi | June 23, 2003 (Spike TV) | |
Ren and Stimpy learn the true meaning of obedience when George Liquor takes them home with him and swears to make them "champions" but that does not happen. |
Season 3 (1993–94)
This season's episodes were interspersed with the short segments "Cheesefist", "Chicken in a Drawer", "Dog Water", "Flod", "You Are What You Eat", and short segments from previous seasons.
No. overall [a] | No. in season [a] | Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original air date | |
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32 | 1a | "To Salve and Salve Not!" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp & Vincent Waller | Jim Gomez | November 20, 1993 | |
"There's That Man Again!" tries to sell Stimpy a new can of salve, but Ren will do anything to keep his friend from wasting his money. | |||||||
33 | 2a | "A Yard Too Far" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp | Bob Camp & Joe Sibilski | November 20, 1993 | |
To get a delicious plate of Mr. and Mrs. Pipe's "hog jowls", Ren and Stimpy must make it past an angry baboon. Purposefully based on the Yogi Bear cartoon "Pie Pirates". | |||||||
34 | 2b | "Circus Midgets" | Bob Camp & Jim Gomez | Peter Avanzino, Ron Hauge & Bob Camp | Stephen DeStefano | November 26, 1993 | |
Ren and Stimpy learn why you should never hitchhike: you may run into psychotic circus midgets. | |||||||
35 | 1b | "No Pants Today" | Bill Wray & Bob Camp | Richard Pursel | Bill Wray | November 26, 1993 | |
When Stimpy is sent outside without any pants, he encounters Mr. and Mrs. Pipe, Victor the Bully and a pack of clothed wild animals. | |||||||
36 | 3a | "Ren's Pecs" | Ron Hughart | Richard Pursel | Peter Avanzino | December 18, 1993 | |
After Ren gets picked on by a fat guy with pecs, his dream of pectoral muscles comes true when Stimpy surgically gives his butt fat to Ren's chest after Charles Globe mentions how he got his pecs. | |||||||
37 | 3b | "An Abe Divided" | Jim Gomez | Jim Gomez & Ron Hauge | Stephen DeStefano | December 18, 1993 | |
Ren and Stimpy are assigned to guard the Lincoln Memorial, then Ren breaks open the statue's head after hearing about a rumored treasure inside, only to find caramel corn (like Stimpy said). Now they must repair the head before Sergeant Big Butt finds out. | |||||||
38 | 4 | "Stimpy's Cartoon Show" | Baughb Camp | Elinor Blake & John Kricfalusi | Mike Kimm & Kris Reccardy | January 8, 1994 | |
Talentless Ren becomes the obnoxious producer of hardworking Stimpy's cartoon, and takes it too far. Guest voice of Jack Carter as Wilbur Cobb. | |||||||
39 | 5a | "Jimminy Lummox" | Ron Hughart | Bob Camp, Jim Gomez & Ron Hauge | Peter Avanzino | February 19, 1994 | |
After Ren does cruel things to the habitat (prank calls, infecting the tap water, yelling at baby birds, trying to prank Stimpy, and almost killing a fly by trying to rip one of its wings off), Stimpy then lends his conscience to Ren to set him right, but it seems to upset him more. Stan Freberg voices Jimminy Lummox. | |||||||
40 | 5b | "Bass Masters" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp & Jim Gomez | Peter Avanzino | February 19, 1994 | |
Ren hosts a television series where he teaches viewers to catch fish while on the hunt for "the foul-mouthed bass", but Stimpy and escaped convict Wilbur Cobb are catching all of the fish, when Ren himself doesn't get a single bite. | |||||||
41 | 7b | "Road Apples" | Howard E. Baker | Ron Hauge | Howard E. Baker & Stephen DeStefano; Garret Ho (additional storyboard) | March 12, 1994 | |
While stuck in the desert, the duo finally come aboard Mr. and Mrs. Pipe's RV, with a butcher shop, skunk milk, and their fourth encounter with Wilbur Cobb. | |||||||
42 | 6 | "Ren's Retirement" | Bob Camp | Jim Gomez, Ron Hauge & Bill Wray | Bill Wray & Bob Camp | April 2, 1994 | |
Strong, energetic, Ren's tenth birthday comes around. However, when Stimpy reminds him he's 70 in dog years, Ren becomes a crazy old coot. Haggis MacHaggis makes his first appearance in a cameo role. | |||||||
43 | 7a | "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf" | Ron Hughart | Steve Mellor | Stephen DeStefano | April 9, 1994 | |
When Stimpy ventures into the inside of his bellybutton, he meets Jerry, the Bellybutton Elf (voiced by Gilbert Gottfried) at which he dislikes "Lint Loaf". Meanwhile, Ren (not too upset that Stimpy is stuck in his bellybutton, since he's still alive) throws a party, inviting his old friends from Seasons 1-2, including his cousin Sven, who only appeared in one past episode. | |||||||
44 | 8 | "Hard Times for Haggis" | Chris Reccardi | Jim Gomez & Chris Reccardi | Chris Reccardi | April 30, 1994 | |
TV star Haggis MacHaggis (voiced by Alan Young) is kicked out of his mansion and thrown out onto the streets after Ren and Stimpy's cartoon show becomes more popular than his. Just as he plans to end it all, Haggis enlists in the help of two thugs-for-hire who help him sabotage Ren and Stimpy's show. The episode's title is also written as "The Scotsman". | |||||||
45 | 9a | "Eat My Cookies" | Ron Hughart | Ron Hauge | Victoria Jenson | June 4, 1994 | |
Ren and Stimpy become Barrette Beret Girl Scouts, and when Ren makes Stimpy eat all of the cookies, they need to find a replacement for them. Also, when Stimpy earns the famed Snipe-Hunting Badge, Ren becomes desperate for one of his own. Rosie O'Donnell voices the head girl scout. | |||||||
46 | 9b | "Ren's Bitter Half" | Michael Kim | Michael Kim, Ron Hauge & Bob Camp | Peter Avanzino | June 4, 1994 | |
Stimpy's new genetic formula (Xg49) physically splits Ren into his two halves of his personality: "Evil Ren" and (surprisingly) "Indifferent Ren". | |||||||
47 | 10 | "Lair of the Lummox" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp & John K. | Jim Smith | July 30, 1994 | |
Ren and Stimpy, once again nature show hosts, examine a certain species: the lummox. |
Season 4 (1994–95)
This season's episodes were interspersed with short segments which included "Field Guide" and short segments from previous seasons.
No. overall [a] | No. in season [a] | Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original air date | |
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48 | 1 | "Hermit Ren" | Chris Reccardi | Jim Gomez, Bob Camp, Chris Reccardi & Bill Wray | Chris Reccardi | October 1, 1994 | |
Fed up with Stimpy's weird behavior and the entire world in general, Ren moves away and becomes a hermit, but starts to go mad from loneliness. Meanwhile, a lonely Stimpy makes a replica of Ren from his earwax. | |||||||
49 | 2a | "House of Next Tuesday" | Ron Hughart | Ron Hauge & Peter Avanzino | Peter Avanzino & Stephen DeStefano | October 8, 1994 | |
Ren and Stimpy move into the "House of Next Tuesday". | |||||||
50 | 2b | "A Friend in Your Face!" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp | Stephen DeStefano | October 8, 1994 | |
Stimpy has a friend in his face (like a tick), then Ren ends up with the friend's friend, which starts to annoy him endlessly. | |||||||
51 | 3a | "Blazing Entrails" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp, Jim Gomez & Bill Wray | Stephen DeStefano & Bob Camp | October 15, 1994 | |
Ren takes Stimpy to Dr. Brainchild when he starts acting dumber than usual, but when Dr. Brainchild transforms Stimpy's body five times larger than his normal size, Ren has to go inside Stimpy to save him from an organ bully that is beating up his brain (but not before getting beaten up himself). Dr. Brainchild and his mother are voiced by Bill Mumy and June Lockhart, respectively. | |||||||
52 | 3b | "Lumber Jerks" | Bob Camp & Bill Wray | Jim Gomez, Ron Hauge, Bob Camp & Bill Wray | Bill Wray & Bob Camp | October 15, 1994 | |
While working on newspaper duty, Ren and Stimpy learn about how lumberjacks make more money and benefits. As a result, the duo become lumberjacks. | |||||||
53 | 4a | "Prehistoric Stimpy" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp & Ron Hauge | Peter Avanzino & Stephen DeStefano | November 5, 1994 | |
We get a peek at Ren and Stimpy as dinosaurs and a fifth appearance of Wilbur Cobb. | |||||||
54 | 4b | "Farm Hands" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp, Jim Gomez & Ron Hauge | Stephen DeStefano | November 5, 1994 | |
Abner and Ewalt hire Ren and Stimpy as farm children. | |||||||
55 | 5a | "Magical Golden Singing Cheeses" | Michael Kim | Jim Gomez & Bob Camp | Craig Kellman, Michael Kim & Tom McGrath | November 12, 1994 | |
Stimpleton tries to save himself and Renwaldo from starvation by looking for food. | |||||||
56 | 5b | "A Hard Day's Luck" | Chris Reccardi | Chris Reccardi, Lynne Naylor & Vince Calandra | Lynne Naylor & Chris Reccardi | November 12, 1994 | |
Haggis McHaggis (again voiced by Alan Young) must pass tests by a leprechaun to get his dream: a full head of hair. | |||||||
57 | 6a | "I Love Chicken" | Ron Hughart | Bob Camp & Jim Gomez | Peter Avanzino | November 19, 1994 | |
Stimpy falls in love with a store-bought chicken and this starts to irritate Ren as all that he sees the chicken as is his dinner. | |||||||
58 | 6b | "Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman" | Chris Reccardi | Vince Calandra, Chris Reccardi & Bob Camp | Lynne Naylor | November 19, 1994 | |
Powdered Toast Man fights his nemesis, Waffle Woman (voiced by Gail Matthius). | |||||||
59 | 7a | "It's a Dog's Life" | Ken Bruce | Jim Gomez & Bob Camp | Tom McGrath | December 3, 1994 | |
Ren and Stimpy are saved from the pound gas chamber when a normal seeming wealthy old lady buys them, but things start to go awry. | |||||||
60 | 7b | "Egg Yolkeo" | Bob Camp | Jim Gomez & Bill Wray | Stephen DeStefano | December 3, 1994 | |
Renwaldo, the Egg Smithëe, makes his own son out of egg yolks and wishes that he were a real boy. | |||||||
61 | 8a | "Double Header" | Michael Kim | Jim Gomez & Bob Camp | Tom McGrath | January 7, 1995 | |
After standing in the middle of the street waiting for the bus to take Stimpy as far away from Ren as possible (To URSA Minor), the duo are peculiarly sewn together due to them being sent to a discount hospital and have to work at a circus to get money. | |||||||
62 | 8b | "The Scotsman in Space" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp, Jim Gomez & Bill Wray | Stephen DeStefano | January 7, 1995 | |
Commander Höek (Ren) and Cadet Stimpy discover a Bizarre Scotsman (Haggis McHaggis, voiced by Alan Young) outside their spaceship and find a wallet attached to his hinder (literally). | |||||||
63 | 9a | "Pixie King" | Ron Hughart | Ron Hauge, Jim Gomez, Bill Wray & Bob Camp | Stephen DeStefano | January 14, 1995 | |
While the duo, as pixies, strive to earn their wings, Ren wants to be "King of the Pixies". Wilbur Cobb (again voiced by Jack Carter) makes an appearance as a pixie. | |||||||
64 | 9b | "Aloha Höek" | Bill Wray | Jim Gomez, Bill Wray & Bob Camp | Bill Wray & Chris Mitchell | January 14, 1995 | |
While Ren would rather be in a stinky whale head on a deserted island, Stimpy is at The Big Kahuna's (voiced by Dom DeLuise) tropical paradise. | |||||||
65 | 10a | "Insomniac Ren" | Steve Loter | Bob Camp, Jim Gomez & Vince Calandra | Tom McGrath | January 21, 1995 | |
Ren has a 6:00 AM tee-off in the morning, but can't get any sleep. Stimpy attempts to help him, including reading him a story from Edgar Allan Poe's collection, but fails. Eventually, the next morning, Ren's golfing friends (and Stimpy) decide to knock him out for five dollars. | |||||||
66 | 10b | "My Shiny Friend" | Bill Wray | Ron Hauge, Jim Gomez, Bill Wray & Bob Camp | Bill Wray & Bob Camp | January 21, 1995 | |
Stimpy starts to have a severe addiction to watching television and Ren, on numerous occasions, tries to stop him (Including destroying the TV with a shovel at one point). | |||||||
67 | 11a | "Cheese Rush Days" | Kirk Field | Vince Calandra | Kirk Field | February 11, 1995 | |
Ren and Stimpy are pioneers in search of high-country blue cheese. Then, Ren traps Stimpy and co. inside a blue-cheese filled mine because of his own tiny nugget. | |||||||
68 | 11b | "Wiener Barons" | Bob Camp | Ron Hauge, Jim Gomez & Bob Camp | Peter Avanzino | February 11, 1995 | |
Ren and Stimpy want to become Wiener Barons of Canada. | |||||||
69 | 12a | "Galoot Wranglers" | Craig Bartlett | Ron Hauge & Jim Gomez | Jim Kammerud | March 4, 1995 | |
Wilbur Cobb tells Ren and Stimpy a Western story about galoots. | |||||||
70 | 12b | "Ren Needs Help!" | Bob Camp | Jim Gomez & Bob Camp | Chris Reccardi | March 4, 1995 | |
Stimpy has to put Ren into an insane asylum after he tries to kill himself by jumping into a garbage disposal (though this is after Stimpy unintentionally destroyed all of his stuff) and he can't handle the asylum. | |||||||
71 | 13a | "Ol' Blue Nose" | Steve Loter | Ron Hauge, Bob Camp & Billy West | Mark O'Hare | March 18, 1995 | |
Stimpy becomes a successful singer. After having enough of getting hit by Ren, Stimpy's nose decides to leave Stimpy and embark on his own singing career, rendering Stimpy unable to sing well. Ren and Stimpy return to their home, and eventually Stimpy's nose returns to him after his career falters. | |||||||
72 | 13b | "Stupid Sidekick Union" | Tom McGrath | Bob Camp & Jim Gomez | Tom McGrath | March 18, 1995 | |
Stimpy demands better working conditions on the show and goes on strike. Ren tries out a few replacements, with dire results. Stimpy sneaks into the show's studio in disguise and gets Ren to sign in his autograph book, which actually contains a new labor contract. Stimpy returns to the show and Ren needs to ask his permission and pay him in order to hit him. | |||||||
73 | 14a | "Superstitious Stimpy" | Bob Camp | Ron Hauge, Jim Gomez & Bob Camp | Peter Avanzino | April 1, 1995 | |
Stimpy becomes superstitious when Tuesday the 17th arrives and Ren denies all of this until it's revealed that he was born on that day, so Stimpy has to help him with his bad luck. | |||||||
74 | 14b | "Travelogue" | Arthur Filloy | Jim Gomez | Arthur Filloy | April 1, 1995 | |
Ren and Stimpy decide to travel to a strange new island called Acromeglia. |
Season 5 (1995–96)
This season's episodes were interspersed with the short segments "Varicose Veins", "Dog Water", and "Kraftwork Corner", and short segments from previous seasons.
No. overall [a] | No. in season [a] | Title | Directed by | Story by | Storyboard by | Original air date | |
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75 | 1a | "Space Dogged" | Steve Loter | Jim Gomez & Bob Camp | Tom McGrath | June 3, 1995 | |
Ren and Stimpy are the first dog and cat sent up to space in the Russian space program. The Russian space program film narrator is voiced by Phil Hartman. | |||||||
76 | 1b | "Feud for Sale" | Ron Hughart | Bob Camp, Jim Gomez, Vince Calandra & Ron Hauge | Chris Reccardi | June 3, 1995 | |
"There's That Man Again!" plays a salesman who outwits Abner Dimwit and Ewalt Nitwit, the morons from out west. | |||||||
77 | 2a | "Hair of the Cat" | Ken Bruce | Ron Hauge | Kirk Field | July 1, 1995 | |
Ren starts to sneeze frequently, suffering from terrible allergies. Stimpy tries to help, but Ren doesn't realize until later that Stimpy's hair is the cause of everything. | |||||||
78 | 2b | "City Hicks" | Ken Bruce | Vince Calandra | Jim Kammerud & Arthur Filloy | July 1, 1995 | |
Ren and Stimpy leave the country when it rains and their dust fields are ruined with "useless" fruits and vegetables, but don't have much luck in the city at first. | |||||||
79 | 3a | "Stimpy's Pet" | Steve Loter | Vince Calandra, Jim Gomez & Bob Camp | Brian Smith, Dan Root & Steve Loter | October 7, 1995 | |
Stimpy takes care of Sid the abandoned Circus Clown (voiced by Phil Hartman). | |||||||
80 | 3b | "Ren's Brain" | Chris Reccardi | John K. & Richard Pursel | Chris Reccardi | October 7, 1995 | |
Stimpy re-enters the world of science as a "freelance brain surgeon". He soon runs out of good brains to conduct experiments on, so (a la "Stimpy's Invention") Stimpy removes Ren's brain and the brain (not realizing that he's out of the body) goes on with his life until he notices Stimpy with a new dog: Him. | |||||||
81 | 4a | "Bellhops" | Ken Bruce | Jim Gomez, Vince Calandra & Ron Hauge | Jim Kammerud | October 28, 1995 | |
Ren and Stimpy get jobs as bellhops and must make sure that no one finds out who is living in the top two floors of the hotel, but their curiosity gets the best of them. Mark Hamill voices Mr. Noggin. | |||||||
82 | 4b | "Dog Tags" | Ken Bruce | Ron Hauge | Jim Kammerud | October 28, 1995 | |
Ren is getting ready for the annual Dog Lodge meeting and Stimpy begs to come along (due to the fact that the lodge is for dogs only since he's a cat) in which Ren agrees to bring him to the Dog Lodge. However, this turns out to be a mistake by letting his feline friend to Dog Lodge and the two dogs refusing Ren to join in the lodge by thinking that he is some type of a different animal such as a mosquito. And so, the two dogs are having Ren to do a traditional dog test to prove to them that he is a canine. | |||||||
83 | 5a | "I Was a Teenage Stimpy" | Tom McGrath | Bob Camp, Vince Calandra & Jim Gomez | Tom McGrath & Stephen DeStefano | November 4, 1995 | |
Right before Ren is about to enjoy his new "Corn" magazines, he find out that Stimpy is starting his journey into adolescence, complete with all of its trials and tribulations which at first Ren is fine with (since he knows that it's just the journey to adolescence), but starts to get irritated and the last straw is when Stimpy steals his "Corn" magazines. | |||||||
84 | 5b | "Who's Stupid Now?" | Michael Kim | Michael Kim | Michael Kim (uncredited) | November 4, 1995 | |
When the producer told Ren and Stimpy that their show is about to be canceled (thus breaking the fourth wall again), Ren comments that they'll do anything to keep the show ongoing, so the producer makes "a twist in chemistry" by making Stimpy the skinny jerk cat and Ren as the fat idiot dog, but Ren starts to realize that this might not be a good idea. | |||||||
85 | 6a | "School Mates" | Kirk Field | Jim Gomez | Brian Smith | November 11, 1995 | |
An old obedience school friend of Ren's comes over for a surprise visit and is appalled that Ren is living a middle class lifestyle with a house cat. | |||||||
86 | 6b | "Dinner Party" | Steve Loter | Vince Calandra | Rob Koo & Armen Melkonian | November 11, 1995 | |
Dinner etiquette, Ren & Stimpy style. | |||||||
87 | 7b | "Big Flakes" | Ken Bruce | Ron Hauge, Jim Gomez & Bob Camp | Tom McGrath; Kirk Field, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and Dan Povenmire (additional storyboards) | November 18, 1995 | |
Ren and Stimpy are going on vacation in the winter. They arrive at the cabin, but they get snowed in and unfairly remain snowed in during the Spring meltdown. | |||||||
88 | 7a | "Pen Pals" | Tom Owens & Craig Bartlett | Ron Hauge | Michael Kim | November 18, 1995 | |
Ren and Stimpy are watching TV when they see the grand opening of a new jail where the prisoners are treated like kings. Now they attempt to get in jail, only to find out that the commercial was a complete lie. | |||||||
89 | 8a | "Terminal Stimpy" | Arthur Filloy | Jim Gomez, Bob Camp & Vince Calandra | Kirk Field & Bob Camp | December 9, 1995 | |
After going through seven of his lives, Stimpy becomes extremely cautious before enduring the steps towards accepting death. | |||||||
90 | 8b | "Reverend Jack" | Craig Bartlett | Bob Camp & Jim Gomez | Stephen DeStefano | December 9, 1995 | |
Ren and Stimpy work for a "reverend" (voiced by Frank Gorshin) who preaches about cheese and meat, but the duo starts to see that the reverend is a bit weird. | |||||||
91 | 9 | "A Scooter for Yaksmas" | Bob Camp | Bob Camp, Jim Gomez & Vince Calandra | Bob Camp, Tom McGrath & Stephen DeStefano | December 16, 1995 | |
When Stimpy doesn't get the present he wanted, he steals the titular bike and goes on a quest to meet Stinky Whizzleteats. The episode is the last to air in the original Nickelodeon run. | |||||||
92 | 10a | "Sammy and Me" | Bill Wray | Jim Gomez & Bill Wray | Stephen DeStefano & Bill Wray | October 20, 1996 (MTV) | |
Stimpy's Sammy Mantis Jr. fan club kit arrives in the mail and Stimpy is overjoyed. Ren is sick of Stimpy's crazy obsession with Sammy Mantis (voiced by Tommy Davidson), and soon, Stimpy begins stalking the Mantis Man. | |||||||
93 | 10b | "The Last Temptation" | Bob Camp | Jim Gomez, Vince Calandra & Bob Camp | Bob Camp | October 20, 1996 (MTV) | |
After Ren has a near-death experience, he tries to be nicer to Stimpy (with the help of Wilbur Cobb). After he repays Stimpy money he had stolen from his piggy bank over the years (up to $1 million), he ends up rich. |
DVD releases
Episode order
The 2004/2005 DVD releases order the Ren & Stimpy cartoons into the following episodes:[4][5][6]
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Notes
- a The "No. overall" column numbers the cartoons by air date, and the "No. in season" column numbers them by their order on the DVD set.
References
- Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story (revised ed.). BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1-62933-182-9.
- "Stimpy's Invention". October 25, 2009. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
- Goodman, Martin (September 1, 2004). "Dr. Toon interviews John Kricfalusi". Animation World Magazine. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
- Ren & Stimpy Show: Complete Seasons 1 & 2. Nickelodeon. 2005.
- Ren & Stimpy Show: Season 3 and a Halfish. Nickelodeon. 2005.
- Ren & Stimpy Show: Season 5 & Some More of 4. Nickelodeon. 2005.