History TearJerker / TheRenAndStimpyShow

[[caption-width-right:350:Even the most comical trio have their moments of despondence.]]

* It's very brief, but the face Stimpy makes after his first attempt to make the happy helmet fails is quite sad to look at: img.photobucket.com/albums/v98/speedyboris/renandstimpy/stimpysinvention-16-300x226_zpscd7473c6.jpg~original

* Ren and Stimpy's tearful exchange at the beginning of "Ren Seeks Help," from "Adult Party Cartoon" complete with Stimpy sobbing and screaming hysterically, and a hopelessly remorseful Ren. Ren forlornly walking away just sold it.
-->'''Stimpy:''' "You MONSTER! How could you say those HORRIBLE things... to ME?!"
-->'''Ren:''' "I'm sorry, Stimpy! I don't know why I do these things to you... I'm just a PIG! PLEASE forGIVE me!"
-->'''Stimpy:''' "Don't you touch me! You BEAST! ''Forgive me!'' Words, empty words! That's all they are! No... not this time! You've gone too far this time, Ren!" (wails)
-->'''Ren:''' "I KNOW I'm insane, Stimpy! I know I can't control my violent urges... But this time, I'll do something about it! I'll seek help... I'll do it for you!"
-->'''Stimpy:''' "Don't do it for me... Dooon't do it for me... Do it for yourSELF!"

** Earlier in the episode, Ren is reduced to a sobbing mess when Stimpy receives a ''ton'' of fan letters and Ren doesn't even get a single one. "Everyone loves the stupid one... no one loves the jerk... but I need love, too! I just want to be loved, like you!" Ren is so distraught that he turns around, buries his face into his hands, and cries, and Stimpy tries to console him. It's one of those moments when Ren is a completely sympathetic character.

* In "Haunted House", the scene where after failing so many times to scare the titular duo, the ghost gives up and thinks of himself as a a failure near the ending.

-->'''Ren:''' ''*sobbing*''' Goodbye baby.
* That episode "Aloha Höek" where Ren & Stimpy get stuck on a desert island. They quarrel and Ren drives Stimpy from their shelter (a whale carcass) into the jungle where he befriends the natives. Ren however is convinced they are cannibals that ate Stimpy and secludes himself, sobbing in remorse. A family of crabs enslave Ren but he uses their pet fly to escape but it falls to the sea and he drowns. The fly carried Ren's body to a horrified Stimpy, [[DiedInYourArmsTonight who cradles it in his arms]].
-->'''Stimpy''': "HE... was... my... FRIEND!"

--->''When you''
---> ''Were''
---> ''Just''

--->''When you. Were. Just.''

** Earlier in the episode, Ren is reduced to a sobbing mess when Stimpy receives a ''ton'' of fan letters and Ren doesn't even get a single one. "Everyone loves the stupid one... no one loves the jerk... but I need love, too! I just want to be loved, like you!" Ren is so distraught that he buries his face into his hands and cries, and Stimpy tries to console him. It's one of those moments when Ren is a completely sympathetic character.

-->'''Stimpy''': "I WANT REN!!! WWWAAAAAAUUGGH!!!"

* While it won't make you cry, it's still by far an upsettingly anticlimactic ending. "The Last Temptation" was the last episode of this show, and it ends with both Ren and Stimpy crying their eyes out. It's almost like they ''knew'' their show was over [[AndIMustScream and there was nothing they could do about it]].

* While it won't make you cry, it's still by far an upsettingly anticlimactic ending. "The Last Temptation" was the last episode of this show, and it ends with both Ren and Stimpy crying their eyes out. ''Wow''.

* While it won't make you cry, it's still a bit of an upsetting anticlimactic ending. "The Last Temptation" was the last episode of this show, and it ends with both Ren and Stimpy crying their eyes out. ''Wow''.

* "The Last Temptation" was the last episode of this show. And it ends with both Ren and Stimpy crying their eyes out. ''Wow''.

* "The Last Temptation" was the last episode of this show. And it ends with both Ren and Stimpy dying in an explosion. It's a bit sad to see the duo die in the end. (On the bright side though, they could have came back to life after that due to the show's frequent discontinuity. There were several episodes the duo died in, such ways like imploding in on themselves, getting stuffed, and even having their house explode from an electric fence. The next episode they're back to normal).

* "Fake Dad:" GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY! GOODBYE DADDY!

* "Hermit Ren"; with Ren gone, Stimpy makes himself his own Ren out of meat. When he's done sculpting the piece, he smiles brokenly as tears fall from his eyes. The scene shows just how much Stimpy misses his pal.

-->'''Stimpy:''' "You MONSTER! How could you say those HORRIBLE THINGS?!"
-->'''Ren:''' "I KNOW I'm insane, Stimpy! I don't know why I can't control my violent urges... But this time, I'll do something about it! I'll seek help... For you!"

** Stimpy finally cracking and realizing he missed Ren. "I WANT REN!!! WWWAAAAAAUUGGH!!!"

-->'''Ren:''' Looooove-it says love-Your pal...[[BreakTheHaughty S-Stimpy]]. ''(Turns to Stimpy, who, in spite of the beating, is trying his best to smile for his best friend. Ren quivers as he realizes what an ass he made of himself.)'' Oh Stimpy...[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I'm so ashamed...]]

For a comedy show that's packed to the brim with gross-out humor and ComedicSociopathy, ''Ren and Stimpy'' actually has moments that will make you cry.

* "Son of Stimpy": As sick as it is, you have to give props to John K. (no matter how much you love or hate the man) for making the audience feel for basically what is a sentient fart and Stimpy treating it like a child he birthed. On the other hand, YMMV on whether this episode is truly a "tear jerker" or not. After all, he only made this episode, and made it the way he did, in order to prove a point.[[note]]Namely, his point about "fake pathos", and how easy he feels it is to make a tear jerker (whether it's a whole movie or just one or two scenes) around something that he feels has little to no real substance (he cites Disney/{{Bambi}}'s mother getting shot as an example).[[/note]]

-->'''Stimpy:''' [[FanOfTheUnderdog I meant every word]]. ''(Hugs a sobbing Ren)'' There, there, Ren. THERE, THERE.

* That episode where Ren & Stimpy get stuck on a desert island. They quarrel and Ren drives Stimpy from their shelter (a whale carcass) into the jungle where he befriends the natives. Ren however is convinced they are cannibals that ate Stimpy and secludes himself, sobbing in remorse. A family of crabs enslave Ren but he uses their pet fly to escape but it falls to the sea and he drowns. The fly carried Ren's body to a horrified Stimpy, [[DiedInYourArmsTonight who cradles it in his arms]].

-->'''Ren:''' Looooove-it says love-Your pal...[[BreakTheHaughty S-Stimpy]]. ''(Turns to Stimpy, who, in spite of the beating, is trying his best to smile for his best friend. Ren quivers as he realizes what an ass he made of himself.)'' Oh Stimpy...I'm so ashamed...

* Stimpy running away in tears after being harassed by bullies ("the big mean giants", as he calls them) for his short stature in comparison to their mammoth height in "The Littlest Giant". [[MoodWhiplash It wasn't very uplifting back then]], [[HarsherInHindsight and it's only gotten more depressing over time]] now that bullying victims are likely to do the same (or [[DrivenToSuicide worse]])[[note]]Poor Stimpy can't even mail the letter he wrote to his "dearest friends", only being to [[CrazyConsumption eat the letter]] instead.[[/note]] And having "Clair De Lune" as the background music only cements the emotional impact.

* Not an in-show example, but when John K. posted the news of Michael Pataki's death, he posted with it a picture of a tearful Ren and Stimpy with the words "Goodbye, Our Kind and Beloved Master", with Ren still holding the oar from "Man's Best Friend".

** Eventually, however, the whole is shot to heck when after their second accident and second operation, Stimpy is given some [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal "barbecued Boston baked beans"]] to have for lunch...with Ren's head sewn right above Stimpy's...posterior (and that's all there is to say about that).