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* FamousForBeingFirst: Stimpy says that the titular reverend was the first man to "put his meat on the Moon".
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'''Original air date:''' 12/9/1995
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* BittersweetEnding: Ren and Stimpy perform puppet shows that children enjoy, but Reverend Jack keeps throwing stones at them.

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* BittersweetEnding: Ren and Stimpy perform puppet shows that children enjoy, but Reverend Jack keeps throwing heckles and throws stones at them.them as they perform. This is in fact a nod to the show, which continued without Kricfalusi, but gained him as their biggest critic.
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* SanitySlippage: Reverend Jack Cheese.

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* SanitySlippage: Reverend Jack Cheese.Cheese completely loses it as the episode goes on, becoming a gibbering maniac by the end.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Jack Cheese is shown playing a [[VisualPun literal one-]][[StealthPun string guitar]] at one point.[[note]] the phrase "One String Guitar" is a somewhat obscure phrase for [[ADateWithRosiePalms jacking off]][[/note]]

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* BittersweetEnding: Ren and Stimpy perform puppet shows that children enjoy, but Reverend Jack keeps throwing stones at them.


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* OhTheHumanity: The Highway Meat Patrol Officer's reaction to what's going on in the back of the truck.
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* BigWhat: Cow does this when Reverend Jack starts bad-mouthing his species (followed by his "Moo" VerbalTic, of course).
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** Stimpy breaks the gas pipes as he lights the furnace, which makes it look like he's going to lose his eighth life by getting burned up. He instead gets crushed by what appears to be a meteorite, which turns out to be horse manure.

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** Stimpy breaks the gas pipes as he lights the furnace, which makes it look like he's going to lose his eighth life by getting burned up. He instead gets crushed by what appears to be a meteorite, which turns out to be a frozen chunk of horse manure.manure dropped from an airplane.

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'''Terminal Stimpy''': When Stimpy learns that he only has one life left, he goes through the five stages of accepting death.

'''Reverend Jack''': Ren and Stimpy work for Reverend Jack Cheese preaching the joys of meat to the children of the world, but soon the Reverend goes insane and begins to think only about the meat. The Games artists' version of what happened when John K. was fired from the show.

!!"Terminal Stimpy" contains examples of:
* BaitAndSwitch:
** Stimpy's sixth death involved going outside "with wet hair during the Blizzard of '69". Rather than freezing to death as it implies, he just got hit by a bus.
** Stimpy breaks the gas pipes as he lights the furnace, which makes it look like he's going to lose his eighth life by getting burned up. He instead gets crushed by what appears to be a meteorite, which turns out to be horse manure.
* BrickJoke: Stimpy broke the gas pipes earlier in the episode. At the end, Ren and Stimpy light a candle in the gas-filled house and get blown up.
* CatsHaveNineLives: And Stimpy's are almost used up.
* CementShoes: Stimpy lost his fourth life by wearing rainwear made of cement and sinking to the bottom of the sea, in order to "take care of Ren's gambling debts for him".
* CutawayGag: A series of them ensues as Stimpy recounts his previous deaths.
* EleventyZillion: Stimpy's answer to how many lives he has lost after getting hit by a bus (again)?
-->'''Stimpy''': Sixty-twelve! ''(holds up 3 fingers)''\\
'''Ren''': That's ''seven'', you fathead.
* FiveStagesOfGrief: Stimpy goes through this when he's down to only one life. One thing noticeable is that "Anger" is the first stage as opposed to "Denial" which here is instead the second.
* HairTriggerTemper: Stimpy, as part of the "Anger" grief stage, lashes at Ren for asking for toast, then [[MoodWhiplash politely asks his terrified friend what coffee he'd like]].
-->'''Stimpy:''' TOOOOOOAAAST?! [[IWillShowYouX HEEEERREE'S YOUR TOOASST]]!!! ''*smacks the toast in Ren's face*''
* InterspeciesRomance: Muddy Mudskipper shows Stimpy a picture of his "wife", a gorilla.
* NotHelpingYourCase: When Stimpy freaks out at Ren eating a sandwich from the garbage.
-->'''Ren''': This sandwich is fresh. I just made it last week.\\
''(cue GrossUpCloseUp of the clearly-rotten sandwich)''
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ren is clearly intimated when Stimpy lashes out at him for asking for toast, as part of the grief stage "Anger".
* SwallowedWhole: Stimpy's fifth death; he got eaten by a boa during their trip to the Amazon.
* TerrifiedOfGerms: Stimpy becomes this when he's down to his last life.
* VisualPun: For the third grief stage, "Bargaining", it shows Ren and Stimpy literally bargaining on furniture.

!!"Reverend Jack" contains examples of:
* {{Bowdlerization}}: The original airing had a scene where the reverend performs a ceremony by putting sandwiches on Ren and Stimpy's heads while reciting faux-Catholic chants. On Nicktoons and the DVD, it's replaced by a shot of the meat truck and the dialogue was shortened.
* CallBack: When the police officer pulls the meat truck over, he points out the circus midgets stuck to the grill.
* CaptainErsatz: Personality wise, Jack Cheese is a parody of Creator/JohnKricfalusi, with his appearance being a bizarre caricature of ComicBook/TheRiddler, right down to having him played by Frank Gorshin, who played the Riddler [[Series/Batman1966 back in the 1960s]].
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Jack Cheese is shown playing a [[VisualPun literal one-]][[StealthPun string guitar]] at one point.[[note]] the phrase "One String Guitar" is a somewhat obscure phrase for [[ADateWithRosiePalms jacking off]][[/note]]
* ItMakesSenseInContext: Meta example. The creators even admitted the episode is a giant in-joke that only really makes sense if you know about John Kricfalusi's involvement with the show.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: See CallBack. It seems the circus midgets' escape in their previous episode didn't go so well.
* KnuckleTattoos: The reverend has them grafted on his hands, with one saying "PITY" and the other "SELF PITY".
* ParodyReligion: “We are gathered here today to pay homage to MEAT!”
* ReCut: The original airing had a scene where the reverend anoints Ren and Stimpy with meat during their "Eucharist", but was cut out in later airings/home video for being too blasphemous.
* SanitySlippage: Reverend Jack Cheese.
* SelfDeprecation:
** As part of the behind-the-scenes satire, Ren says that due to Jack's crazy behavior, they haven't put on a single puppet show in months, a nod to the show's constant delays of new episodes in the first two seasons.
** The puppet show Ren and Stimpy put on without Jack attracts the kids and is still enjoyable, but it's noticeably not as strange or entertaining.
* SpecialGuest: Frank Gorshin (famous for playing the Riddler in [[Series/Batman1966 the 1960's Batman show]]) as Reverend Jack.
* TakeThat: The entire episode was written as a giant pisstake at series creator Creator/JohnKricfalusi, using Reverend Jack Cheese as a lawyer-friendly parody of him to satirize his personality and the awful treatment he gave the cast and crew behind the scenes. The fact that he's portrayed as a Riddler ersatz (a character who is known for being arrogant, obsessive and crazy) is a dig at him as well.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: When the reverend calls the cow a "bloodthirsty, two-horned devil".
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