History Recap / RenandStimpyAPC1x02RenSeeksHelp

** Mr. Horse has always been TheStoic and a DeadpanSnarker, and keeps that attitude for most of the episode, even when Ren is describing the horrific acts of his childhood. It isn't until when [[TheUnreveal Ren whispers to Mr. Horse about what he did to Stimpy]] that causes Mr. Horse to flip out and start beating the crap out of Ren.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When Ren first enters Mr. Horse's office, Mr. Horse tells him that he can sit down and talk if he wants to. At first, it sounds like the kind of language psychiatrists use to let their patients know that they're there to help themselves, not do what others are telling them to do. As it turns out, he's saying this because he genuinely doesn't know why Ren is there.
** Mr. Horse points out that Ren should be "locked away from normal, decent people". Not long enough and--true to Mr. Horse's words--two asylum workers come in to take Ren away.

After wandering past a dreary cityscape, Ren eventually comes across the office of Dr. Mr. Horse, who agrees to listen to his problems. And that's when Ren goes into detail about his [[BackstoryHorror disturbing childhood]], where he describes the unspeakable pain he experienced being spanked at birth, [[DisproportionateRetribution which he took out]] [[ColdBloodedTorture on innocent animals]]. His most notable victim was a frog, who was violated, blown up, ground up by a tricycle wheel, and electrocuted. By a car battery. Upon learning that the frog [[DrivenToSuicide wanted to be put out of his misery]], Ren [[CruelMercy decided to force him to continue living instead]].

* AteHisGun: The frog tries kill himself by doing this, but only manages to leave himself in even worse agony than before.

* DownerEnding: ''Holy mother of god.'' After Mr. Horse finds out what Ren did to Stimpy, he beats him up. Ren completely loses it and retaliates by pistol-whipping him to death before being carted off by two asylum workers (one of whom he mutilates), presumably to be locked up in a mental institution. The frog shows up and tries to kill himself with Mr. Horse's gun, only to be impaled on a bang flag (which ''still'' doesn't kill him) and be left in worse agony than ever. And to top it all off, Stimpy's still back at home, likely still bawling over what Ren did to him, whilst simultaneously waiting for his best friend to come back, not knowing that he's being hauled away.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even a sociopath like Ren found what he said to Stimpy utterly deplorable.

* KnightOfCerebus: Ren. OH GOD! REN!

-->'''Ren:''' What kind of a psychologist are you!?
-->'''Mr. Horse:''' PSYCHOLOGIST!? Are you nuts!? I'M A ''HORSE''!!!

'''Ren''': I don't understand! I came to you for help! I bared my soul to you! I told you all my darkest secrets! And now you tell me I'm crazy? ''WHAT KIND OF A PSYCHOLOGIST ARE YOU!?''\\
'''Mr. Horse:''' PSYCHOLOGIST?! Are you nuts?! I'm a HORSE, YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH!!!

-->'''Ren:''' (''after Mr. Horse calls him crazy'') I don't understand! I came to you for help! I bared my soul to you! I told you all my darkest secrets! And now you tell me I'm crazy? What kind of psychologist are you!?\\
'''Mr. Horse:''' Psychologist!? Are you nuts!? ''I'M A HORSE, YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH!''

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Mr. Horse is beaten to death by Ren.

'''Originally aired:''' July 3, 2003

* Written in 1991. First aired on Creator/SpikeTV July 3, 2003.

After wandering past a dreary cityscape, Ren eventually comes across the office of Dr. Mr. Horse, who agrees to listen to his problems. And that's when Ren goes into detail about his [[BackstoryHorror disturbing childhood]], where he describes the unspeakable pain he experienced being spanked at birth, [[DisproportionateRetribution which he took out]] [[ColdBloodedTorture on innocent animals]]. His most notable victim was a frog, who was violated, blown up, ground up by a tricycle wheel, and electrocuted. [[UpToEleven By a car battery]]. Upon learning that the frog [[DrivenToSuicide wanted to be put out of his misery]], Ren [[CruelMercy decided to force him to continue living instead]].

* BlackComedyBurst: The show was no stranger to BlackComedy, as seen with Ren's [[FreakOut mental breakdowns]]. This episode takes his instability and sadism to [[UpToEleven horrific extremes]].

* ArtShift: After Ren expresses anger at being as if he loves Stimpy, Mr. Horse looks to the viewer and his face is drawn to resemble the head of a real horse.

-->'''Mr. Horse:''' PSYCHOLOGIST!? Are you nuts!? I'M A ''HORSE'', YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH!

* BludgeonedToDeath: Ren bludgeons Dr. Mr. Horse to death with his own pistol he intended to shoot Ren with.

-->'''Mr. Horse:''' PSYCHOLOGIST!? Are you nuts!? I'M A ''HORSE!''

'''Mr. Horse:''' PSYCHOLOGIST?! Are you nuts?! I'm a HORSE!!!

'''Mr. Horse:''' Psychologist!? Are you nuts!? ''I'M A HORSE!''

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. After a violent brawl with Mr. Horse, Ren starts to be 0% himself and 100% more vicious. No surprise; he ''is'' a dog.

* AxCrazy: Ren, obviously.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The episode [[UpToEleven goes into painstaking detail]] to describe the [[AndIMustScream many horrific ways]] Ren tortured animals [[EnfantTerrible as a child]] to justify its portrayal of Ren as a cruel, abusive sociopath.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ren after he said something apparently bad to Stimpy.
* NightmareFace: Ren makes a scary one when the asylum workers confront him after he beats Mr. Horse.
* NoDialogueEpisode: Occurs after Mr. Horse beats up Ren.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Ren delivers a nasty one to Mr. Horse in the climax.
* NoNameGiven: The frog, despite being an important character in the episode.

* {{Sadist}}: Taken UpToEleven with Ren here.

* ThatsAllFolks: Parodied at the very end. [[MoodWhiplash After the dark and morbid ending]], a parody of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' signoff appears with Ren, Stimpy, Mr. Horse, the frog, and the injured asylum worker (still with his hand bitten off) smiling at the audience from inside the circles.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness For once]], Stimpy feels this about the way Ren treats him.

* WhamLine:

* YouBastard: The frog says this to Ren when he's begging for him to finish him off.
** Stimpy also does this earlier.
* YouMonster: Stimpy shouts this at Ren after he said something horrible to him.

%%* Bludgeoned To Death: Ren bludgeons Dr. Mr. Horse to death with his own pistol he intended to shoot Ren with.

* ButtMonkey: The frog, of course.
* CerebusSyndrome: What's so funny about this episode? '''''Absolutely nothing.'''''

* CruelMercy: Ren refusing to kill the frog.

* BludgeonedToDeath: Ren bludgeons Dr. Mr. Horse to death with his own pistol he intended to shoot Ren with.

'''Mr. Horse:''' "PSYCHOLOGIST?! Are you nuts?! I'm a HORSE!!!"[[/note]]

'''Ren''': I don't understand! I came to you for help! I bared my soul to you! I told you all my darkest secrets! And now you tell me I'm crazy? ''WHAT KIND OF A PSYCHOLOGIST ARE YOU!?''

** In both versions of the show, Stimpy is extremely forgiving toward Ren and often blissfully oblivious to the fact that Ren's treatment of him is abusive. Here, whatever Ren did to him was apparently so horrible, that Stimpy ''flat out calls him a monster''.

* TheDogBitesBack: Or rather, the ''cat'' bites back. Stimpy gets so upset over what Ren said to him, it's ''his'' turn to [[IllKillYou]] threaten to kill him.

-->'''Mr. Horse''': You need to be locked, away from decent, NORMAL people! What kind of a lunatic are you? You just walk up to strangers on the street and tell them "Hey, Mister, you want to hear some sick stories of my sick, twisted youth"!?\\
'''Ren''': I don't understand! I came to you for help! I bared my soul to you! I told you all my darkest secrets! And now you tell me I'm crazy? What kind of psychologist are you!?