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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:333:''Happy happy, joy joy!'']] |
| 6 | ->'''Ren:''' At last I have control of TV Tropes! Are you receiving me? Welcome to our secret headquarters.\ |
| 7 | '''Stimpy''': Thousands of miles below the Earth's crust.\ |
| 8 | '''Ren:''' Shut up, you fool! How do we know we can trust - them?\ |
| 9 | '''Stimpy:''' We can make them take the oath!\ |
| 10 | '''Ren:''' Perfect, the oath! Put your hand on the screen, and repeat after me...\ |
| 11 | ''"I do hereby promise only to read ''The Ren and Stimpy Show'' page, to make under-leg noises during the good parts, to wear unwashed lederhosen, every single day, of the rest of my life!"''\ |
| 12 | '''Ren''': That's it! You're in our secret club. Alright, Stimpy, they're okay, [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere show 'em the stuff]]. |
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| 14 | Who in their right minds would give a mainstream animated series to Creator/JohnKricfalusi, the erratic and enigmatic Canadian animator known for causing chaos throughout [[The80s the '80s]] with his attempts in putting out a [[GrossoutShow grotesque, almost obscene art style]] which played up every body hair, pimple, bulging vein, oozing sore, lump of unsightly fat, and pock-marked butt cheek, whilst proudly flaunting around showing off the most disgusting and disturbing parts of internal anatomy? |
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| 16 | Well, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} did, and the result was ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', which detailed the adventures of an [[InvertedTrope inverted version]] of the [[CatDogDichotomy cat and dog duo]], consisting of a [[CloudCuckoolandersMinder smart]], yet [[TheMentallyDisturbed mentally unbalanced]] and [[SociopathicHero psychopathic]] chihuahua named Ren Höek (voiced by Kricfalusi in the first two seasons, with Creator/BillyWest taking his place for the remaining episodes) and his feline sidekick, a [[ThePollyanna cheery]] but BuffoonishTomCat named Stimpson J. Cat (West), who often makes Ren [[EnragedByIdiocy angry with his eediocy]]. |
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| 18 | [[RefugeInAudacity The show was over-the-top in every way imaginable.]] In its visuals, even traditional AnimationTropes were taken up a notch; characters frequently [[{{Hammerspace}} Temporarily Atomise]] things the size of a nuclear submarine, and NonFatalExplosions generally take out at least one state. Even its dialogue was pulled up to eleven -- Ren didn't so much talk as scream threats and insults in other people's faces. And that's not even counting its macabre tone -- in ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', even a standard {{sitcom}} plot such as "Ren is jealous that Stimpy has a fan club" could become a psychodrama laden with operatic angst and rage. And just when you thought you've seen everything, it gives us an almighty Creator/FrankCapra-esque TearJerker tale about a ''sentient fart cloud!'' |
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| 20 | One of the first three Franchise/{{Nicktoons}}, which premiered alongside ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' on August 11, 1991, ''Ren & Stimpy'' broke the mould in many ways. Kricfalusi and his crew were uncompromising in their ambition to diverge from [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation the boring, cheaply-animated and moral-heavy programming they despised working on for years]] by setting out to make cartoons funny again. Plots for episodes were devised using [[{{Storyboard}} storyboards]] rather than written scripts (modelled after how [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age]] cartoons had been made), and the layout stage was prioritised, allowing focus on visual humour and expressive character acting. |
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| 22 | The show was an overnight sensation, and its approach inspired many other successful shows in its wake -- such as ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', and ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' -- [[FollowTheLeader to follow its example]], whilst its... ahem, ''infamous'' imagery pretty much [[TropeMaker invented]] the GrossoutShow genre. |
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| 24 | Aside from its innovations in the industry, the show is just as notorious for its [[TroubledProduction/TheRenAndStimpyShow haphazard production history]]; friction between Nickelodeon execs and Kricfalusi -- mostly over Kricfalusi's attitude and penchant for late work -- eventually led to his removal from the show in 1992, midway through production of the show's second season. Production was then absorbed by Nickelodeon itself via its inhouse studio Games Animations as a number of the original staff (such as major directors Jim Smith and Vincent Waller) left in disgust over Kricfalusi's firing, although several notable crew members (such as Jim Gomez, Chris Reccardi, Mike Kim and co-creator Bob Camp, who was subsequently promoted to showrunner) remained on the series long-term. The show was cancelled in 1995 after 52 half-hour episodes. |
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| 26 | The series lived on through a Creator/{{Marvel}} ComicBook series published from 1992 to 1996, alongside a brief early-2000s reboot (with Kricfalusi and several alumni from the original show, such as Smith, Waller and story artist Richard Pursel, on board) for adult audiences called ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'', which was... well, polarising, to say the least. |
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| 28 | A [[https://deadline.com/2020/08/the-ren-stimpy-show-reboot-greenlighted-comedy-central-reimagening-1203004284/ reboot]] of the show is currently in development at Creator/ComedyCentral, being produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studios with Creator/BillyWest once again voicing the titular characters; this will be the first Nickelodeon show produced for Comedy Central. In light of statutory rape allegations made against Kricfalusi in 2018, it was confirmed that he is not involved in the reboot. |
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| 30 | An unauthorized tell-all by Thad Komorowski, entitled ''[[Literature/SickLittleMonkeys Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story]]'', was published in 2013. A documentary, ''Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren and Stimpy Story'', which features new art and animation by many of the original artists who worked on the show, was released in 2020. |
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| 32 | Ren and Stimpy appear in ''VideoGame/NickelodeonAllStarBrawl'' as a duo of simultaneously controlled playable characters, alongside Powdered Toast Man as a separate fighter. |
| 33 | !!General trope examples: |
| 34 | [[index]] |
| 35 | * [[ShipTease/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ship Tease]] |
| 36 | ---- |
| 37 | !!Tie-in Media with their own trope pages: |
| 38 | * Music/CatHairballs |
| 39 | * ''Literature/SickLittleMonkeys'' |
| 40 | * WesternAnimation/HaveYourselfAStinkyLittleChristmas |
| 41 | [[/index]] |
| 42 | !!Happy Happy, Tropes Tropes: |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 46 | [[folder:Tropes A-H]] |
| 47 | * ThirteenIsUnlucky: Stimpy is extra cautious on Tuesday the 17th[[note]]which is four days after Friday the 13th [[/note]] in "Superstitious Stimpy". |
| 48 | * AccidentalSuicide: [[UncertainDoom Implied]] in "No Pants Today". Victor and his father laugh after they kick Stimpy out of their car, and because of this distraction, they drive off a cliff and their car explodes offscreen. It's left unclear if they survived or not. |
| 49 | * AcidTripDimension: The setting of "Black Hole." |
| 50 | ** Also Stimpy's belly-button in "Jerry the Belly Button Elf." |
| 51 | * AdamWesting: [[WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost Gary Owens]] as Powdered Toast Man. |
| 52 | * AddictionDisplacement: In "My Shiny Friend", Stimpy overcomes his TV addiction. However, he merely replaces that with an addiction to gambling. |
| 53 | * AdoptTheFood: Taken to extremes in one episode, in which Stimpy falls in love with an uncooked chicken and decides to marry it, much to Ren's chagrin. |
| 54 | * AerithAndBob: "Ren" is an actual name in real life, but "Stimpy" isn't. In fact, it's actually a nickname for his real name: "Stimpson." Which is ''also'' not a real name. |
| 55 | ** Stimpson is actually a recognised surname. |
| 56 | * AmbiguouslyGay: WordOfGod is that the titular duo's sexual preference varies depending on what is needed for that story. |
| 57 | * AndIMustScream: In "Bass Masters", [[{{Irony}} a fish reels Ren with a fishing hook and mounts him on a wall]] labeling him "Dumb Bass". |
| 58 | * AngryGuardDog: Double subverted; Stimpy announces that a home the two plan to steal food from is not guarded by one of these upon being told by Ren to [[GenreSavvy check for one]]. Ren then attempts the theft only to get mauled, with Stimpy then reiterating: |
| 59 | -->"There's no dog... but there's a baboon!" |
| 60 | * AngryItemTapping: |
| 61 | ** In "Stimpy's Cartoon Show", after Stimpy has placed several cartoons on a storyboard, director Ren comes in while tapping a belt in his hand, criticizes the images and rips most of them off of the wall, leaving the former in tears. |
| 62 | ** In "Stimpy's Invention", Ren approaches Stimpy while tapping a rolled-up newspaper and asking him what's behind his back. According to WordOfGod, the Nickelodeon censors wanted this part cut out of fear that it would upset viewers whose parents potentially ''did'' beat them with the morning paper. |
| 63 | * AnimationBump: The episodes done by Creator/CarbunkleCartoons. |
| 64 | ** There are moments of this in the episodes animated by Creator/MrBigCartoons as well, but they also have numerous instances of LimitedAnimation. |
| 65 | * AntiHumor: Anthony's father delivers one in "A Visit to Anthony" to "prove" that he was just as funny as Ren and Stimpy: |
| 66 | --> '''Father:''' Why did they bury the fireman behind the hill? (pause) Because he was ''dead''! |
| 67 | * AntiVillain: George Liquor in "Man's Best Friend", largely due to his [[GoodIsNotNice overzealous belief in discipline begetting love]] making him more than willing to go over the line to enforce it, to the point where he [[KickTheDog plays cruel mind games with the characters just to assert his authority]]. This stems from the characters root's as a parody of ultra-conservative, right winger personalities (such as John Kricfalusi's father, according to WordOfGod). |
| 68 | * ArentYouForgettingSomeone: At the end of "Ren's Pecs", Ren forgets to give Stimpy credit for his newfound fame and success. |
| 69 | --> '''Ren''': To the guy who made it all possible: [[BrickJoke Charles Globe!]] |
| 70 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: |
| 71 | ** In "Cheese Rush Days" after Ren double crosses Stimpy: |
| 72 | --->'''Stimpy:''' He took all our loot. He trapped us here to die! But, worst of all...HE TOOK MY COOL MINER'S HAAAAAAATTT! |
| 73 | ** Another example is the ending of "Svën Höek" where, after gruesomely describing how he's going to tear Stimpy and Sven's lips out, then gouge out their eyes, then rip out their arms, Ren simply states he's going to hit them and then they're going to fall. Possibly averted because, by that line, the tension is so high, and Ren so calmly angry, that it comes across as the most disturbingly sadistic act. Must be how Ren says he's going to look down on them and laugh. |
| 74 | ** In "I Love Chicken", Stimpy is going through the groceries and deciding what to use to cook with. He tosses out various items such as soda, eggs, milk, a brain, an intestine and radishes. |
| 75 | * ArtEvolution: The first season was done by a handful of studios, some of which didn't quite "get" the art style. Things improved dramatically in season 2 when then-newcomer Creator/RoughDraftStudios was hired to do animation. Additionally, Carbunkle Cartoons (who did the best work in season 1) was given more to do, showcasing some of the finest visual acting seen on TV in years. When Spumco was fired, Games Animation didn't use Carbunkle at all, instead relying heavily on Rough Draft (who admittedly, still did a fine job), as well as adding Creator/MrBigCartoons in Australia and Creator/ToonUsIn in LA's Chinatown (Creator/WangFilmProductions did a couple episodes as well). The art style got noticeably flatter and more UPA-influenced around this time. |
| 76 | ** Season 2 was also when the show switched to digital coloring for some of its shorts, which looked cleaner and sharper than the hand-inked/painted shorts. |
| 77 | * ArtShift: Stimpy's amateurish cartoon: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmAE6e6yVc I Like Pink]]". |
| 78 | ** As well in its grotesque closeup stills of faces and the like. |
| 79 | ** The episodes that use digital ink and paint. "Hard Times for Haggis" is the one that stands out. |
| 80 | * ArtStyleDissonance: The art style is often described as reminiscent of cartoons from The50s. What happens on-screen on the other hand would have had the show cancelled back in said era. |
| 81 | * AsideGlance: Mr. Horse gives one in "Dog Show" when he is shown a tiny yipping poodle. |
| 82 | --> "...You're ''kidding''." |
| 83 | * AssShove: |
| 84 | ** Occurs in "Son of Stimpy/Stimpy's First Fart," in which Stimpy does this to Santa. |
| 85 | ** "An Abe Divided" has Ren attempting to get inside the giant stone Lincoln through its nose and becomes stuck. Lincoln has a nose-picking feature. Guess where Abe's index finger goes? |
| 86 | * AsTheGoodBookSays: Subverted at the beginning of "Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman": PTM is in a church and begins to recite Psalm 23, only it's the intro to calling a number in Bingo. |
| 87 | --> '''PTM''': The Lord is my shepherd, but thou shalt want... B-11! |
| 88 | * TheAtoner: Ren, in "Bell Hops", after hearing Mr. Noggin's sob story: |
| 89 | --> '''Ren''': (with tears in his eyes) You're right! I will mend my evil ways!... (normal) ...Starting tomorrow! |
| 90 | * AuthorAvatar: John K has admitted Mr. Horse to be heavily based on himself. |
| 91 | ** This is further solidified by "My Shiny Friend", which features Mr. Horse repeatedly saying "What are ya?" Apparently, "What are ya?" was a catchphrase of John K.'s. The "What are ya?" phrase is also heard in "The Scotsman in Space" and "Reverend Jack Cheese", although not spoken by Mr. Horse in those instances. |
| 92 | %%* AxCrazy: Ren and George Liquor. |
| 93 | * BaffledByOwnBiology: In "Son of Stimpy", Stimpy farts for what is apparently the first time and asks Ren why his butt made a sound and smelled weird. Ren is unimpressed and brushes him off, assuming he should know how this works by now. Stimpy then names it Stinky and goes out to search for it. True to the surreal nature of the show, however, Stinky turns out to be alive. |
| 94 | * BatmanGambit: Ren pulls one off in "Space Madness" after he goes insane. [[spoiler:He tells Stimpy to guard the "History Eraser Button", which will cause a CessationOfExistence when pressed. Ren knows Stimpy won't be able to resist pushing it, and when he does, it causes TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] |
| 95 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the end of "The Scotsman in Space", a genie grants Ren a wish; Ren wishes for babes and a lot of money. Stimpy begs for a wish too, and Ren relents. Stimpy wishes that people be free of want (Ren's money disappears) and that everyone should be treated equally, regardless of race or creed (Ren's babes turn into men from different countries). He also wishes to be where it's always warm, at which point Ren and Stimpy are hurled towards the sun. |
| 96 | * BeeAfraid: |
| 97 | ** In "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen", Ren takes his and Stimpy's canteen from the latter and tries to drink all of the water out of it... but there is no water, and instead it's full of bees who begin attacking his tongue. |
| 98 | ** In "Lumberjerks", a hornet stings Ren [[EyeScream in the eye.]] |
| 99 | * BerserkButton: Don't even think about overcooking The Scotsman's eggs, feeding Jerry the Bellybutton Elf lint loaf, or showing the Fire Chief any circus midgets. [[HairTriggerTemper Ren himself is a walking Berserk Button]]. |
| 100 | * {{BGM}}: There have literally been THOUSANDS of unique stock music cues used in this show. |
| 101 | * BiblicalMotifs: The ending of "Wiener Barons" parodies the story of Noah's Ark. |
| 102 | ** One episode begins with their house being a manger-esque on a starry night and a camel's head in frame, complete with a motif from "We Three Kings", even though it wasn't a ChristmasEpisode. |
| 103 | * BigEater: Stimpy. |
| 104 | * BiggerOnTheInside: Parodied to the extreme in "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball", which has Ren and Stimpy living in a birdhouse, yet there's plenty of room inside. |
| 105 | ** In that same episode, Stimpy himself. Ren's nephew Bubba is able to walk inside Stimpy's interior like a damp cavern in spite of being several times larger than him. |
| 106 | * BigNo: In "Sven Hoek" Ren lets one fly after he sees that Sven and Stimpy ruined his collection of rare, incurable diseases. |
| 107 | ** Haggis shouts this in "Hard Times for Haggis" after he sees his supposedly faithful sidekick dog viciously destroy a doll likeness of him. |
| 108 | * BigRedButton: "[[TemptingFate THE JOLLY, CANDY-LIKE BUTTON!]]" |
| 109 | * BigSleep: Discussed in "Big House Blues": |
| 110 | -->'''Ren:''' Hey, Jasper. Where's Phil?\ |
| 111 | '''Jasper:''' I told you, they put him to sleep.\ |
| 112 | '''Ren:''' So wake him up.\ |
| 113 | '''Jasper:''' You don't wake up from the ''big'' sleep.\ |
| 114 | '''Ren:''' The big sleep... The big sleep? The big sleep! '''The big sleep!!''' ''(curls up whimpering)''\ |
| 115 | '''Stimpy:''' What's the big sleep, Ren?\ |
| 116 | '''Ren:''' ''[gets close to Stimpy's ear]'' ...'''He's DEAD!!! ''DEAD, YOU EEDIOT!!'' You know what "dead" is?! Just like ''we'll'' be if we don't get out of here!''' |
| 117 | * BittersweetEnding: The series has very few clear-cut happy endings, but it just as often ends with this as it does downer endings. Examples include; |
| 118 | ** "The Big Shot" ends with Ren and Stimpy reuniting; only for Ren to snap when he finds out Stimpy gave away his 47 million dollars. |
| 119 | ** "Nurse Stimpy" ends with Ren getting cured of his illness, but at the price of Stimpy going nuts and getting ill himself, prompting Ren to "return the favor" for all that Stimpy did to help him. |
| 120 | ** "Fire Dogs" ends with Ren and Stimpy being treated as heroes and awarded for what they did; too bad their [[DogsLoveFireHydrants fire hydrant]] helmets prompt the nearby dogs (and the lady they rescued) to form a line for a bathroom break... |
| 121 | ** "Stimpy's Invention" ends with Ren freeing himself from the Happy Helmet and just about to lash out at Stimpy--only to discover that being angry is what makes him happy in the first place! Even Stimpy is surprised at this outcome. |
| 122 | ** "Ren's Toothache" has Ren getting a new giant tooth to replace his lost ones, although it's a donation from Stimpy. |
| 123 | ** In "Mad Dog Hoek", Ren and Stimpy win, but Stimpy, who is [[BecomingTheMask way too into the sport now]], breaks character by going off on a truly insane, Ultimate Warrior-esque rant; even ''Ren'' is [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness taken back at this]]! |
| 124 | ** "Fake Dad" has Kowalski getting hauled back to jail, but he has bonded with Ren and Stimpy by this point. |
| 125 | ** The ending to "Magical Golden Singing Cheeses". To elaborate: Ren and Stimpy had been starving for the entire episode, and when Stimpy finally retrieved some cheese that fit Ren's tastes, the cheeses transformed into milk curd princesses, whom they were both forced to marry. So while they lived "happily ever after", the duo never did solve their food problem and died from starvation shortly after. |
| 126 | ** "City Hicks" ended with Ren and Stimpy being saved by Dusty Claus from dying on the streets of starvation...except now they have to toil in his dust mines for the rest of their lives. Neither seem to mind, though, so maybe this is a HappyEnding instead. |
| 127 | ** "A Yard Too Far". The baboon has taken Ren's hand puppet as his unwilling bride, but the boys finally get to eat their hog jowls. |
| 128 | ** "In The Army"; Ren and Stimpy graduate boot camp and are inducted into the army, only to get sent right to the front lines of war! Not that they are discouraged by it. |
| 129 | ** "Rubber Nipple Salesmen" ends with Ren and Stimpy succeeding in making a sale; only for Mr. Pipe to abruptly throw them out of the house, where they fall on two bulls and ride off into the distance. |
| 130 | ** "Stimpy's Fan Club" ends with Ren finally getting a fan letter [[spoiler: from Stimpy himself, which prompts Ren to realise how much of a jerk he was to be jealous of Stimpy.]] |
| 131 | ** "The Scotsman In Space" ends with the duo helplessly drifting into the sun and being incinerated on-screen; but before that, Stimpy ''did'' get his wish for equality for all mankind and freedom from want to be granted. |
| 132 | * BlackBeadEyes: Generally averted, though Stimpy was given these in one scene of "Breakfast Tips" as an [[OffModel animation error]]. |
| 133 | * BlackComedy: The show lapses into this whenever Ren undergoes a [[FreakOut mental breakdown]]. Which is ''extremely often''. |
| 134 | * BlandNameProduct: One of the perks of life as a hermit for Ren it that he can finally listen to his "[[Music/ArethaFranklin Urethra Franklin]]" albums. |
| 135 | ** In "Ol' Blue Nose", the Louie Lungbubble Show is taped at NBS (a mix between NBC and CBS). |
| 136 | * BodyHorror: Examples run the gamut from Ren plucking exposed nerve endings out of his mouth in "Ren's Toothache" to Stimpy removing a giant cyclops' toenail with a crowbar in "Magical Golden Singing Cheeses", to Ren removing a mole with a pair of pliers in "Dinner Party". |
| 137 | * BolivianArmyEnding: A good few episodes, but the "Commander Höek and Cadet Stimpy" episodes in particular make a RunningGag of the two facing certain death at the end of every episode. |
| 138 | * BookEnds: "Stimpy's Big Day" starts with Stimpy rotting his brain away watching TV. In storyboards for the unfinished ''Adult Party Cartoon'' episode "Life Sucks", it ends with Stimpy, crushed by Ren's pessimistic outlook, plopping down in front of the TV in denial, watching ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow''. |
| 139 | * BootCampEpisode: "In the Army". |
| 140 | * BottleEpisode: "Rubber Nipple Salesman", [[WordOfGod according to John K]]. While it didn't have Ren and Stimpy locked in a room together (as do most examples), it did have them either in their truck or at the door of someone's house. This was done as a cost-saving measure, as actually animating them driving off or down the street would have put the show overbudget. |
| 141 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: Things censored in reruns range from somewhat understandable, such as extreme threats of violence and burning the Constitution (which may mean nothing to ex-pats and international viewers, but means ''everything'' if you're American) to mundane, like removing George Liquor's vestigial tail in "Dog Show" because it looked like a penis. |
| 142 | * BrainTheft: "Ren's Brain" has Stimpy remove Ren's brain to be the centerpiece of his weird brain collection, leaving his body as an idiot. Ren's brain ends up leaving and acting as if nothing happened, only to come home and be pissed off at Stimpy hanging with his body. |
| 143 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In "Prehistoric Stimpy", Wilbur Cobb describes the beginning of Earth as a hot world, and a wet world, and finally a hot, wet world. |
| 144 | * BreakTheHaughty: Happens to Ren in "Stimpy's Fan Club". |
| 145 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: The Oath segments. |
| 146 | ** Ren also does this in "Dinner Party". |
| 147 | * BurpingContest: Done by two lummoxes in "Lair of the Lummox", with the best belcher winning a female lummox. |
| 148 | * ButNowIMustGo: An adult Stimpy at the end of "I Was a Teenage Stimpy", after Ren is overjoyed to finally have an adult there to take care of him: |
| 149 | --> '''Stimpy''': Sorry, pops, the world needs me! Thanks for the grub, old man! I'll call you when I need money! (flies off) I'll write, if I learn how! |
| 150 | * BuffoonishTomcat: Stimpy J. Cat. |
| 151 | * ButtMonkey: Ren is probably one of the most horrifying examples of 90's animation. He suffers some of the worst luck, injuries, and mental breakdowns you'll ever see a cartoon character absorb. "Double Header" is probably the peak of this, where he tries in vain to break it off with Stimpy after years of misery, only to get hit by a bus and spend the rest of his pathetic life as a freak surgically attached to Stimpy, gets fired from his job and has to work at a circus being gawked at by rednecks and idiots, grudgingly comes to accept his lot in life only to be crushed by a meteor, go back into surgery, and now spend the rest of his life as nothing more than a face and a couple of legs cursed to be suffocated every night as Stimpy goes to sleep (on his back) and every day dangling over Stimpy's Gasshole. And just to really punctuate it, Stimpy somehow gets the rest of his body back after the surgery. |
| 152 | ** Stimpy can be this as well from time to time. In fact the music video for "Music/CatHairballs" is practically one long HumiliationConga for Stimpy. |
| 153 | * CallARabbitASmeerp: Stimpy has a collection of boogers under his table, but for some reason, censors would not allow them to be called such, so the name "Magic Nose Goblins" was improvised for them. |
| 154 | * CallBack: |
| 155 | ** The shocked bystanders watching Ren through the window, featured in both "Nurse Stimpy" and later, "Stimpy's Fan Club". |
| 156 | ** Remember when Ren would pray for huge pectoral muscles in season 1? Guess what he got in season 3's "Ren's Pecs"? |
| 157 | *** And earlier, in "Son of Stimpy", he prayed for Stimpy's safety, and even told God he'd give up asking for bigger pecs if it got Stimpy home safe. |
| 158 | ** Ren's dentures, first worn in "Ren's Toothache", make a return appearance in "Jiminy Lummox", when Stimpy uses them to scale a fish. |
| 159 | ** "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf" is loaded with cameos from secondary and minor characters at Ren's impromptu party. |
| 160 | ** Jasper and Phil, two minor characters from "Big House Blues", reappear as competing show dogs in "Dog Show". |
| 161 | * CanadianWestern: Parodied this in the episode "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen". |
| 162 | * CanineConfusion: Ren is often seen eating human food despite being a chihuahua ([[FunnyAnimal though he is anthropomorphic]]), and in "Pixie King", he [[WhaleEgg lays lots of eggs]]. The latter is at least justified since it's in a fictional book that Ren is reading. Also, he is a dog with a [[CartoonyTail rat-like tail]]. |
| 163 | * CantYouReadTheSign: "Exact change ONLY!" at the end of "Black Hole", thereby causing Ren and Stimpy to be kicked off the bus back to Earth. |
| 164 | * CardCarryingVillain: Victor the "professional bully" shows off his Bully Union membership card. |
| 165 | * CartoonCheese |
| 166 | * CatapultNightmare: Stimpy jolts up and screams "MUDDY!!!" after waking up from his nightmare that Muddy Mudskipper ate him in "My Shiny Friend". |
| 167 | ** Ren pulls off a particularly spectacular one in "Robin Hoek" after dreaming that he married Maid Moron (Stimpy). |
| 168 | * CatDogDichotomy: The show [[InvertedTrope reverses]] the CatsAreMean and DogsAreDumb tropes, Ren the dog is an {{Jerkass}}, and Stimpy [[BuffoonishTomCat the cat]] is the [[KindheartedSimpleton simpleton]]. |
| 169 | * CatsHaveNineLives: The premise of "Terminal Stimpy". |
| 170 | * CensorDecoy: One very devious way John K. got past the censors was showing storyboards with fake corrections to drawings on sticky notes pasted over potentially offensive drawings[[note]]Since traditional storyboards usually have two panels per page, with a section underneath for writing in dialogue or other directions, artists tend to find it more practical to do a new drawing on a sticky note over a part of the drawing that needs corrections rather than redraw the entire thing on a new page (sometimes, they'd do this anyway, but photocopy the new panel or cut-out correction over the old one). This obviously fell out of fashion once digital storyboarding made making abundant connections much easier.[[/note]] to trick them into approving the offensive board, with the assumption that they wouldn't be paying close enough attention to remember exactly what they'd been shown once the episode aired and he could "prove" that they'd okayed it if they complained. Many staff noted that, after a while, Kricfalusi was more concerned with what he could get away with than actually writing an interesting story. |
| 171 | * ChainsawGood: The ghost in "Haunted House" tries to scare the duo as a chainsaw-wielding masked killer. |
| 172 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "No, sir, I don't like it"; "YOU EEDIOT!"; "Happy happy, joy joy!" and others. The funny thing is that those weren't even ''intended'' as catchphrases. |
| 173 | * CharacterDevelopment: In the earliest episodes, Ren was already abrasive and short tempered but was slowly built up into the psychotic tendencies he's most infamous for, and also portraying him more as a pragmatic, jaded guy, who could still have sympathetic qualities. Stimpy also went through this; in "Big House Blues", he was very one dimensionally defined as an idiot and barely had any lines, and by later episodes became the ditzy optimist we know him as. Surprisingly, the Games episodes even continued developing the characters; Ren became far less psychotic and far more of a selfish, abusive jerkass towards Stimpy. Stimpy, on the other hand, became far more patronising towards Ren, and was increasingly implied to be a StepfordSmiler who could snap [[BewareTheNiceOnes if pushed to his limits]]. |
| 174 | * ChekhovsGunman: George Liquor stars in "Man's Best Friend" and "Dog Show", and made cameo appearances in a few others. Years later, he gets his own webshow, complete with a supporting cast. It has recently been {{Uncanceled}}. |
| 175 | * ChristmasEpisode: "Son of Stimpy" and "A Scooter For Yaksmas". |
| 176 | * CirclingVultures: Invoked in the "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen Anthem": |
| 177 | -->"And the buzzards they soar overhead,\ |
| 178 | And poisonous snakes will devour us whole,\ |
| 179 | Our bones will bleach in the sun!" |
| 180 | * CollectorOfTheStrange: |
| 181 | ** Ren has a collection of used celebrity underwear in "Jiminy Lummox". Not to mention a collection of opera records, rare incurable diseases, and dinosaur droppings in "Sven Hoek". Ren also has a collection of autographed glass coffee tables in "Ren Needs Help" and a collection of celebrity wigs in "The Last Temptation". |
| 182 | ** Stimpy has a collection of "magic nose goblins", which are boogers. |
| 183 | --->"I picked them myself." |
| 184 | ** Sven has a balled-up collection of used Band-Aids and a jar filled with his spit, as shown in "Sven Hoek". Made even funnier by the fact that he's ''Ren's cousin''. |
| 185 | * ComicallyCrossEyed: Stimpy often takes on a goofy, cross-eyed expression, complete with FishEyes and/or a ManiacTongue. |
| 186 | * ComicallyOversizedButt: The size of Stimpy's butt is a frequent source of humor on the show. From things like Stimpy bouncing and jigging on it while dancing to [[Recap/RenAndStimpy1x06BlackHoleStimpysInvention "Happy Happy Joy Joy"]], to it getting [[PainToTheAss painfully smashed]] by a punny "Grade A" stamp in both an [[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x09TheGreatOutdoorsTheCatThatLaidTheGoldenHairball episode]] and a [[Music/CatHairballs music video]], to swelling up and deflating in [[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x07SonOfStimpy another]]. In "Ren's Pecs", he donates his buttcheeks to Ren to give him huge pectoral implants. It also tends to get a lot of close-ups and is sometimes drawn somewhat feminine-looking. |
| 187 | * ComicBookAdaptation: From 1992 to 1996, Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} put out ''Ren & Stimpy'' comic books. |
| 188 | * ConcussionsGetYouHigh: One episode features Stimpy excusing himself because "It's time for my appointment". He walks over to a door in the wall, inserts a quarter and the door lifts to reveal a horse. The horse kicks him in the head, sending him flying. His reaction to this is almost orgasmic. |
| 189 | * ContinuityNod: Many of the more memorable songs from early in the show are heard in snippets later on in the series. |
| 190 | ** "Did you say "Log'?" |
| 191 | ** "Dinner Party" features numerous characters from across the show's run all attending Ren and Stimpy's dinner party. This includes Muddy Mudskipper, Powdered Toast Man, Haggis [=McHaggis=], the Fire Chief, and even recent characters like Sammy Mantis. |
| 192 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In "An Abe Divided", the punishment for disgracing the country by not being good security guards for the Lincoln Memorial is towel whippings. |
| 193 | * CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: POWDERED TOAST MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! |
| 194 | * CouchGag: There was a short-lived curtain call segment used at the end of the show before the ending credits. It lasted only for season 1 (except for two episodes) and one episode of season 2 ("Sven Hoek"). It involved Ren saying goodbye to the audience, with a worried Stimpy crying and asking what will they do until next time. Ren suggests two different wacky things he could do, but Stimpy doesn't like them. Ren then suggests a third idea, which Stimpy likes and ends up doing. |
| 195 | ** Interestingly, three of these variants were used on the 1996 VHS of "Nothing But Shorts" at the beginning and end of the video, as well in the middle serving as an intermission segment. All three versions have the dialogue entirely re-dubbed and serve as hosting segments to the video. (In the intermission segment, Ren even lampshades that they can "take it easy by recycling old jokes until the tape runs out", despite Stimpy protesting that it'll make them hacks.) |
| 196 | * CradleOfLoneliness: Ren gets very lonely when Stimpy goes off to be the Gritty Kitty mascot. At one point he is seen cradling a bag of kitty litter with Stomp's face on it. |
| 197 | * CrapsaccharineWorld: Ren and Stimpy's world looks as pleasant as a 60's TV cartoon, but when it's not being incredibly bizarre, it's not what you'd call a nice place to live either. |
| 198 | * CrazyCulturalComparison: The entire premise of "Travelogue" is Ren and Stimpy partaking in the many odd cultural customs of Acroneglia, such as the back shaving ceremony, eating monkey brain soup, and dipping themselves upside down in hot boiling water. |
| 199 | ** Ren and Stimpy themselves have their own unorthodox holidays, like Yak Shaving Day. |
| 200 | * CryingARiver: "The Littlest Giant" involves Ren telling Stimpy a bedtime story about a giant (portrayed by Stimpy) who's ostracised by other giants and a farmer (portrayed by Ren) whose well has run dry. The giant cries over how he's been treated and then it turns out his tears have filled the farmer's well. |
| 201 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Make no mistake, this show was this to just about every animated TV show of its' day. The reboot for adults managed to take it a thousand steps further. |
| 202 | * DeadpanSnarker: Ren is occasionally, when he's actually calm. |
| 203 | * DeathByIrony: If only Stimpy had realized he had pocket change when he and Stimpy were on the bus in "Black Hole", and not after the bus had left and they were about to implode. |
| 204 | * DeathIsCheap: And how. In quite a few episodes, Ren and Stimpy are offed in different ways, ranging from being blown up and going to Hell in "Sven Hoek" to floating towards the sun in "The Scotsman in Space", only to come back in the next episode. And then there are other times where though death doesn't occur, they are ravaged to the point of being hardly better alive, such as Ren's lobotomy in "Ren Needs Help" or their mangled bodies being sewn together in "Double Header". One way of explaining away the repeated deaths and dismemberments is that each episode may not be what really happens, but only a comedy sketch with Ren and Stimpy acting out their death. This may be evidenced by the fact that after "Sven Hoek", there is an epilogue where Ren and Stimpy appear on a stage to bid the audience farewell, though there again, Ren bursts Stimpy with a pin when he blows himself up like a balloon. |
| 205 | * DeconstructiveParody: "Son of Stimpy" was deliberately made by John K. as a stealth deconstruction of pathos scenes in movies, using a deliberately ludicrous and stupid plotline that's PlayedForDrama, just to show how easy it is to make people cry at a scene if you use the right staging and music tricks. He discusses this at length [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/04/funny-pathos-vs-cheap-trick-pathos.html in this post]] on his blog, ''Blog/JohnKStuff'' |
| 206 | -->'''John K.''': ''"I purposely made a cartoon that used some filmic tricks to make people cry just to show that it's not hard to do it. And I didn't have to [[WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} shoot anyone's Mom either]]. I made people cry over the fact that [[MundaneMadeAwesome Stimpy couldn't fart for a second time.]] I went out of my way to make the story have the most preposterous plot events in it-everything to undermine the seriousness of Stimpy's depression. Besides the mood tricks, I relied heavily on Stimpy and Ren's acting-the drawings of their expressions and their interactions. A lot of films will ignore this part of the pathos recipe. They rely on the filmic tricks and contrived story points."'' |
| 207 | * DeerInTheHeadlights: Ren and Stimpy, right before getting hit by a bus in "Double Header". |
| 208 | * DependingOnTheArtist: The entire look of the show could vary from cartoon to cartoon, largely based on who directed/storyboarded it. |
| 209 | * DerangedAnimation: If Creator/BobClampett was the original king of DerangedAnimation, his protégé John K. [[TropeCodifier carried on the torch for him with this show,]] and took this trope to levels of SerialEscalation. |
| 210 | * DesertedIsland: "Aloha Hoek". |
| 211 | * DestructiveSaviour: Powdered Toast Man, full stop. For example, he shoots down and crashes a commercial airplane into a truck in order to stop it from running over a kitten crossing the street. |
| 212 | * DetachableLowerHalf: One of the mutations in "Black Hole". |
| 213 | * DigitalDestruction: The Season 1 & 2 DVD set had some issues with DVNR line thinning and art erasing, but nothing particularly bad. |
| 214 | * DirtyOldMan: Old Man Hunger. |
| 215 | * DismissiveKick: In "[[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x07SonOfStimpy Son of Stimpy]]", after the third attempt of trying to fart again results in Stimpy's butt cheeks bursting and [[PainToTheAss deflating]] like a pair of balloons, Ren lightly kicks the limp, dangling remains before scolding Stimpy for wasting his time. |
| 216 | * DisneyAcidSequence: "Climb Inside My World" from "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf". |
| 217 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 218 | ** Don't make the cut for the dog show. Mr. Horse ''feeds you'' to a giant bulldog. |
| 219 | ** Also, if you give Jerry the Bellybutton Elf [[DoesNotLikeSpam lintloaf]], he will ''murder'' you. |
| 220 | --->'''Jerry:''' [[BerserkButton LINTLOAF!?!]] '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I... HATE... LINTLOAF!!!]]''''' |
| 221 | * DistressCall: Powdered Toast Man gets these, naturally. |
| 222 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: |
| 223 | ** The ''Husk'' magazines in "I Was a Teenage Stimpy" (literally, pictures of corn stalks) are the show's equivalent of porn, apparently. |
| 224 | ** And Stimpy playing with his bellybutton in "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf" is almost definitely symbolism for masturbation. |
| 225 | ** "For I have a dream that one day, everyone... everywhere... will know the wonders of my nipples!" |
| 226 | ** Ren and Stimpy live together, sleep in the same bed, and sometimes conform to stereotypical husband and wife roles (i.e., Stimpy cooking dinner while Ren lounges with a [[ItMakesSenseInContext sand martini]] in "Aloha Hoek"; Stimpy baking while Ren chops wood in "Ren's Retirement"). The pair's weekend at the cabin in "Snow Flakes" has the feel of a romantic getaway. Ren behaves in a domineering manner and frequently subjects Stimpy to physical and emotional abuse. Ren and Stimpy's relationship looks remarkably like an abusive marriage. |
| 227 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: "Ren's Bitter Half" near the end Ren's evil side decides to replicate himself so that the world will be full of Evil Rens, the first clone turns out to be female and they fall in love, near the end after they get married they playfully get into a fight, you will notice that none of his punches are able to strike her and she is able to beat him up all she wants. |
| 228 | * DownerEnding: Numerous examples (nearly all are PlayedForLaughs): |
| 229 | ** "The Boy Who Cried Rat" ends with Ren throwing in the towel on his scam, only to find out Stimpy ate the five dollars Mr. and Mrs. Pipe paid them -- they promptly force them to do the dishes and a substantial amount of other housework to work off the debt. |
| 230 | ** "Black Hole" ends with Ren and Stimpy imploding in on themselves. |
| 231 | ** "Space Madness" ends this way with it showing Ren is still suffering from Space Madness (but hiding it and reinforcing his own delusions). And then the History Eraser Button segment comes, and Stimpy gives in to his urges and erases himself and his friends from existence. |
| 232 | ** "Sven Hoek" ends with Ren inadvertently blowing up the house. As a result, the explosion causes a deep hole in the ground where Ren, Stimpy and Sven are blown straight into [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]]. |
| 233 | ** As per the old lady's will, Ren and Stimpy are killed and stuffed at the end of "It's a Dog's Life", so that they may join her in the "eternal salvation of the hereafter". |
| 234 | ** “Egg Yolkeo” ends with the titular character getting eaten by Stimpy. |
| 235 | ** "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf" has Ren and Stimpy get devoured alive off-screen by the titular elf's SuperpoweredEvilSide Adonis (Lord of Chaos). Although Adonis himself also meets his end when Muddy's obese wife eats Stimpy's bellybutton. |
| 236 | ** And of course, there's "Marooned", where Ren and Stimpy, having been swallowed by a giant space monster, are awaiting certain doom by other creatures the monster just swallowed. Even the prime directive says the two don't have a chance of survival. |
| 237 | ** And ''then'' there's "The Last Temptation", which is a downer ending to the entire series. |
| 238 | ** "I Was a Teenage Stimpy": |
| 239 | --> '''Ren:''' They grow so fast, then ''leave'' ya! You just hope you raise them right. ''(waves goodbye to a now-adult Stimpy, who flies into the sun. Literally.)'' |
| 240 | * DrivenToSuicide: The Ghost in "Haunted House". Subverted in that trying it makes him alive again. |
| 241 | ** Haggis contemplates jumping off a bridge in "Hard Times for Haggis" after Ren and Stimpy's popularity ruins him. |
| 242 | ** Ren is about to throw himself into a sewer tied to a brick in "Dog Tags" when he's unable to get into the dog club. |
| 243 | * DroolDeluge: In "A Yard Too Far", Ren's salivary glands sprout faucets upon him seeing a plate of hog jowls on a windowsill. |
| 244 | * DrowningMySorrows: Stimpy goes to a bar in "Terminal Stimpy" when he realizes he only has one of his nine lives left. |
| 245 | * DrugsCausingSlowMotion: In [[Recap/RenAndStimpy1x05MaroonedUntamedWorld "Untamed World"]], Stimpy accidentally [[ShotInTheAss shoots Ren in his rear end]] with a TranquilizerDart. Ren starts speaking in slow-motion and the music slows down as well until Ren finally collapses. |
| 246 | * DudeNotFunny: Deliberately invoked (along with other tropes) in the "Son of Stimpy" episode in order to prove a point, as detailed under DeconstructiveParody. |
| 247 | * DumbIsGood: Stimpy is the nicest character on the show, and also really dim. |
| 248 | * DumbMuscle: Kowalski. |
| 249 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Sammy Mantis appeared in "Dinner Party", a few episodes before his official debut in "Sammy and Me". |
| 250 | * EasilyDistractedReferee: Parodied in "Mad Dog Hoek" when Ren's head is in a pair of pliers; the ref checks to make sure the hold is kosher, and the second he turns away, Ren's head is twisted in the pliers. |
| 251 | * EekAMouse: "The Boy Who Cried Rat". |
| 252 | * EmotionBomb: The Happy Helmet. |
| 253 | * EpisodeTitleCard: Most were just a still image set to some music, but "Sven Hoek" was live action footage of a lederhosen-wearing, accordion-playing man. John K. abhors the latter, confirmed by his DVDCommentary. |
| 254 | * TheEponymousShow |
| 255 | * EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Eat My Cookies". |
| 256 | * EverythingExplodesEnding: |
| 257 | ** "Ren's Brain" is such a MindScrew that the audience is seen [[YourHeadASplode with their heads exploding]], and eventually the Earth itself explodes. |
| 258 | ** "Sven Hoek" ends with Ren, Stimpy and Sven being blown straight to Hell after Ren pees on a game called "Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence". Granted, Ren didn't know this. |
| 259 | ** Reversed on "Black Hole", which ends with Ren and Stimpy ''imploding''. |
| 260 | * ExhaustedEyeBags: Ren gets some truly epic ones in the "Space Madness" episode. |
| 261 | * {{Expy}}: Sgt. Big Butt from "An Abe Divided" is more or less the same as the Sarge from "In the Army", except with a slightly different voice and sporting a wig and breasts. |
| 262 | ** The Bloody Head Fairy in "Haunted House" is intentionally modeled after [[WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} Doug Funnie]]. |
| 263 | * ExtraLongEpisode: The uncut version of "Marooned/Untamed World" is 26 minutes, 2-4 minutes longer than the usual episode length. |
| 264 | * ExtremeCloseUp: "[[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x07SonOfStimpy Son of Stimpy]]" has a couple in the first few minutes, and it's not the gross out kind. The episode opens with several up-close shots of Stimpy's butt, rendered in great detail right before Stinky's rather dramatic "birth". Moments later, when Stimpy tries to re-create the event, we see more close-ups of Stimpy's butt cheeks as they flex, strain, [[InflatingBodyGag swell up]], and [[PainToTheAss deflate]] like balloons. |
| 265 | * EyePop: Very frequently. Besides the eyes, Ren's heart has popped out of his throat when shocked in one instance. |
| 266 | * TheFaceless: Mr. and Mrs. Pipe, who are only seen from the neck down. |
| 267 | * FamilyFriendlyFirearms: In one episode, Ren and Stimpy attempt to rob a bank with a Scud missile instead of a gun. Particularly glaring since Ren and Stimpy [[ItMakesSenseinContext are hoping to get arrested for "armed robbery"]]. |
| 268 | * FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The show is full of it. |
| 269 | * FanDisservice: Old Man Hunger definitely qualifies. |
| 270 | * {{Fanservice}}: While this was ''much'' more pronounced in Adult Party Cartoon, occasional examples also appeared in the original run, such as Mrs. Pipes and the woman in the hairball dress. |
| 271 | * FanserviceExtra: The woman in the hairball dress from "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball". Justified, since she's supposed to be a fashion model. |
| 272 | * FanOfTheUnderdog: Despite the [[WithFriendsLikeThese constant abuse he inflicts upon him]], Stimpy is undyingly loyal and sympathetic to Ren. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Revealed rather bluntly]] to the latter in "Stimpy's Fan Club". |
| 273 | * FantasticVoyagePlot: "Blazing Entrails", when Ren traveled inside Stimpy to find out why he was acting abnormally stupid. |
| 274 | * FatAndSkinny |
| 275 | * FatBestFriend: Stimpy. |
| 276 | * FightingFromTheInside: While Ren is wearing the happy helmet, there are many instances of him seemingly resisting the forced happyness pushed into his brain. This culminates with him exerting enough control to find and use a hammer to bash the helmet on his head until it breaks and he's free. |
| 277 | * FireAndBrimstoneHell: The ending to "Sven Hoek": |
| 278 | --> '''Satan:''' So, you whizzed on the electric fence, didn't ya? |
| 279 | * FirehouseDalmatian: In the episode "Fire Dogs", as well as the video game based on it, the titular Chihuahua and cat paint themselves like Dalmatians in order to get jobs at the fire station. |
| 280 | * FlashbackCut: ''Ren & Stimpy'' never had an entire episode devoted to showing old clips, but the beginning of "Double Header" featured a brief flurry of clips from earlier episodes of Stimpy acting stupid. |
| 281 | * FluffyCloudHeaven: Seen in "The Last Temptation" and "Terminal Stimpy". |
| 282 | * [[FollowTheBouncingBall Follow the Bouncing Yak]]: The second half of the Royal Anthem of the Canadian Kilted Yaksmen. |
| 283 | * FoodPills: Revealed by Stimpy in "Space Madness", which causes Ren to go berserk. |
| 284 | ** A variant occurs in "House of Next Tuesday"; instead of being used for food, a pill enlarges into a bed. |
| 285 | * AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: Stimpy once won 47 million dollars and instant celebrity as part of a television contest. When Stimpy finds that his newfound fame and fortune are [[CelebrityisOverrated meaningless]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship without his best friend Ren]] he "gives away" all his money and returns home. Ren is [[YouFool less than joyous]] about this. |
| 286 | * FoulMedicine: In "Nurse Stimpy", Stimpy feeds a giant spoonful of medicine to Ren, who complains about the "icky-tasting stuff". When asked what kind of medicine it is, Stimpy looks at the label and sees it's "All Purpose Icky-Tasting Medicine". |
| 287 | * FreakOut: Happens so many times (usually by Ren) that it's not worth listing them all. |
| 288 | ** Stimpy occasionally gets one as well, such as his rant that he can't walk another step in "Road Apples". |
| 289 | * FreePrizeAtTheBottom: In one early episode, Stimpy pours all of the cereal in a box into a big bowl so he can get at the free Muddy Mudskipper cereal bowl caddy at the bottom. |
| 290 | * TheFunInFuneral: "Ren's Retirement", since Wilbur Cobb is giving the eulogy and initially mistakes it for a marriage ceremony. |
| 291 | * FunnyForeigner: Sven, Ren's cousin. He's pretty much Stimpy's clone, much to Ren's dismay. |
| 292 | * FurIsClothing: Ren And Stimpy have revealed their fur to be nothing but a suit in a few different episodes, by unzipping to take a bath or go skinny dipping. |
| 293 | * GagNose: Stimpy. |
| 294 | * GainaxEnding: Seen in several episodes. |
| 295 | * GassyGastronomy: At the very end of "Double Header", Ren and Stimpy get stitched together. A doctor hands Stimpy [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal barbecued baked Boston beans]], and Ren [[OhCrap cringes in horror]], knowing what'll happen next. The episode ends before we get to see the outcome. |
| 296 | * GenreSavvy / WrongGenreSavvy: Zig-zagged by Ren: whenever he identifies a pattern, it promptly shifts out from under him. An example from "A Yard Too Far": When he's about to steal some hog jowls from the front yard, he states that in other cartoons, there's usually an AngryGuardDog prepared to maul the everloving crap out of whoever enters the porch. Stimpy mentions that there is none present. He does not, however, mention the guard baboon. |
| 297 | * GenreThrowback: The show is one to MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation in terms of its expressive animation, particularly the works of Creator/BobClampett and Creator/TexAvery, along with the stylized, limited look of UPA and early 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoons. |
| 298 | * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: |
| 299 | ** Ren says this to Stimpy, who begs to talk at the next house in their rubber nipple-selling job. |
| 300 | ** Ren also does it to a yak in "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen", who's suffering a psychotic breakdown in the middle of the desert. |
| 301 | ** In "Double Header", Ren goes crazy near the end, and Stimpy slaps him, saying, "Pull yourself together, boy!" |
| 302 | ** In "My Shiny Friend", Ren slaps Stimpy (who is mourning the loss of his TV) and tells him to "SNAP OUT OF IT!" |
| 303 | * GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: The happy helmet from "Stimpy's Invention" will make you happy ''twenty-four hours a day, '''against your will'''''. With you being ''perfectly aware'' the whole time that you shouldn't be so damn happy. |
| 304 | * GoodIsNotNice: George Liquor. He is not remotely evil and firmly believes in rules and discipline (hence his mantra "It's discipline that begets love!"), but he pursues it in such an aggressive, overzealous manner (going as far as to play mindgames with Ren and Stimpy in "Man's Best Friend"), that it makes him a force to be reckoned with when roused to anger. |
| 305 | * GoMadFromTheIsolation: Frequent with Ren: |
| 306 | ** In "Hermit Ren," he gets so sick of Stimpy he leaves to join a hermit guild. They provide him with a cave and a boulder to lock him in forever. Completely alone. It doesn't take long for him to lose his mind. [[spoiler:He gets kicked out for creating imaginary friends]]. |
| 307 | ** His RecycledInSpace counterpart goes insane in "Space Madness" when, confined to a spaceship on a long mission, he is deprived of all contact besides Cadet Stimpy. Interestingly Stimpy does absolutely nothing to instigate this as the only bit of mischief he causes in this episode occurs after Ren is long gone. |
| 308 | ** Ren goes more than a little nuts at the end of "Farm Hands" when he thinks he and Stimpy are the last survivors after a devastating tornado. However, it turns out the farm's cow also survive (and took a dump on them). |
| 309 | ** Ren and Stimpy both slowly lose their sanity in "Big Flakes" while they're trapped in the cabin. |
| 310 | * GratuitousPanning: On the ''Crock O Christmas'' album, the conversations between Ren and Stimpy have Stimpy panned to the right and Ren panned to the left. |
| 311 | * GrinOfRage: |
| 312 | ** Mixed with SlasherSmile and DissonantSerenity in "Sven Hoek". After [[RageBreakingPoint completely snapping]] from Stimpy and Sven's antics, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness instead of shouting at them as usual]], Ren creepily smiles, and calmly starts describing just how angry he is, and [[ToThePain what he's going to do to them.]] Stimpy and Sven are rightfully terrified. |
| 313 | ** In another episode, "Stimpy's Invention", Stimpy creates a Happy Helmet [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul that forces Ren to be happy]]. After he frees himself of it and has Stimpy in a stranglehold, Ren announces that he's never been so angry in his entire life. And then suddenly he smiles, because "I feel great! I love being angry!" The episode ends on a close-up of his face in a half-mad, half-delighted grimace. |
| 314 | * GrossUpCloseUp: ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' may have started it, but this show [[TropeCodifier popularized it]], with more detailed gross-outs. |
| 315 | * GrossoutShow: This show [[TropeMaker started it all]]. |
| 316 | * GuiltInducedNightmare: In "A Scooter for Yaksmas", Stimpy accidentally shatters the display window in a store and is accused of stealing a scooter. He ends up riding away on the scooter so that the police won't catch up to him. He has a nightmare that he's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech told off by several people]] ([[EtTuBrute including Ren]]) for what he's done and later sentenced to [[LongerThanLifeSentence infinity in prison]]. |
| 317 | * HairballHumor: |
| 318 | ** In "Big House Blues", Stimpy coughs up hairballs all over Ren. At first he's angry, but then a little girl wants to adopt him because she thinks he's a poodle. |
| 319 | ** In "The Cat Who Cried Rat", Stimpy coughs up what looks to be a hairball but is actually Ren, who was in Stimpy's mouth after pretending to be a mouse. |
| 320 | ** In "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball", cats' hairballs become more valuable than gold. Ren sets up a production line so that Stimpy can cough up hairballs continuously, but eventually, he becomes unable to cough up any more hairballs due to being both tired and bald. |
| 321 | ** There is a song called "Music/CatHairballs" where Ren sets up a conveyor belt for Stimpy to "hwarf" up hairballs onto while the former stamps them for approval and they sing about the things they'll make the hairballs out of. Halfway through, Stimpy is gasping for breath and has bald spots. At the end, he's completely licked clean and passes out on the conveyor belt. Ren says, "That's disgusting!" and [[PainToTheAss stamps Stimpy's butt.]] |
| 322 | * HairTriggerAvalanche: Demonstrated in "Big Flakes", though playing against expectations, Ren isn't the one who sets off the avalanche which would bury their cabin. He shouts for Stimpy to shut up already, yet it's Stimpy's "AMEN!!!!!" which is the trigger which causes the avalanche. |
| 323 | * HairTriggerTemper: Ren in the episodes post-Kricfalusi, when his anger and screaming traits were played up more, whereas in the earlier episodes he only broke down under the most manic and frustrating of circumstances. |
| 324 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Subverted by Stimpy in "No Pants Today". He suddenly realizes that he wears no clothes and feels ashamed about it. |
| 325 | * HandsInPockets: Ren doesn't have a tail because John didn't like animating it. |
| 326 | ** It is actually removed in "Dog Show" by George Liquor using a rubber band and is never seen again. |
| 327 | *** But then it reappears when Mr. Horse passes Ren during the pre-judging (he even wags it in excitement). That's right. NegativeContinuity is so strong in Ren and Stimpy that the character's physical attributes aren't even consistent between scenes in the same cartoon. |
| 328 | * HangingAround: In [[TheWestern "Out West"]], Abner and Ewalt hire outlaws Ren and Stimpy to steal a horse just so they can charge them with theft and have an old-fashioned hanging. When they get to the gallows, [[spoiler: it turns out [[TheManTheyCouldntHang they ''can't'' be hung]]: Ren is so light that he just blows in the wind, while Stimpy has no neck.]] |
| 329 | * HappyEnding: There are a handful of times where an episode ends with a clear Happy Ending, even if's often offbeat or with one of the characters in a mild, but not particularly awful, disposition; |
| 330 | ** "Big House Blues" has both Ren and Stimpy getting happily adopted by a family, and Stimpy gets his first material possession--a litterbox (which Ren has the misfortune of getting stuck in). |
| 331 | ** "Robin Hoek" has an in-universe happy ending with Robin Hoek saving Maid Moron; of course, outside the story the episode has a strange "Was it really a dream?" ending. |
| 332 | ** "The Littlest Giant" ends happily with the Giant saving Wee Ren's farm and earning his friendship and residence, albeit the giant has Ren perform rather peculiar tasks for him such as being his personal backscratcher and put up with things like the giants sneezing. |
| 333 | ** "Son of Stimpy" ends with Stimpy reuniting with Ren and Stinky, the latter now having a rotting fish for a wife. They move inside Ren's nose. |
| 334 | ** "Dog Tags" has Stimpy invite Ren to a lodge club for cats, where the two (with Ren dressed as a cat) sing "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" with a group of other cats. After all the abuse and denied access to his dog lodge, Ren having a good time is very nice to see. |
| 335 | ** Well, "Double Header" is certainly one for Stimpy, since he gets to eat his "favorite" food, [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal "barbecued Boston baked beans"]]. Ren, on the other hand...[[spoiler:now has to deal with the..."result" of eating baked beans...]] |
| 336 | * HardWorkMontage: "Stimpy's Cartoon Show". Stimpy makes a cartoon all by himself, but when he promotes Ren to producer, Ren cuts his budget. So Stimpy is forced to literally chop down trees to make the paper he needs to draw on. Stimpy also does every task involved afterwards, including photographing each frame, one by one. By the end, he's appropriately exhausted. |
| 337 | ** There's also the episode [[Recap/RenAndStimpy2X09TheGreatOutdoorsTheCatThatLaidTheGoldenHairball ''The Cat That Laid The Golden Hairball'']] where Stimpy is being forced to "hwarf" up hairballs for Ren. Once things get started Stimpy quickly starts losing hair as it gets licked off and hwarfed into hairballs, gradually leaving Stimpy with less and less places to lick. Hwarfing itself also starts to become exhausting and eventually Stimpy passes out and gets accidentally [[PainToTheAss stamped on the butt.]] |
| 338 | * HeadDesk: In "Space Madness" Ren bangs his head on the table after seeing the FoodPills Stimpy presents. |
| 339 | * HeartBeatsOutOfChest: A variant in "To Salve and Salve Not": Ren's beating heart exits his ''mouth''. |
| 340 | * HereWeGoAgain: |
| 341 | ** Stimpy falling in love with a goat head at the end of "I Love Chicken". |
| 342 | ** Stimpy has finally curbed his TV-watching habits at the end of "My Shiny Friend", but he's now into gambling instead. |
| 343 | * HeroicRROD: At the beginning of "Son of Stimpy," Stimpy tries to fart for Ren in order to prove that Stinky is real. After the first two attempts fail, Stimpy puts everything into the third try, which results in Stimpy's butt cheeks over exerting themselves, swelling up, then [[PainToTheAss going limp and deflating complete with sound effect and Stimpy gasping in defeat.]] |
| 344 | * HeroWorshipper: Stimpy's idol is Muddy Mudskipper. |
| 345 | * HintDropping: Stimpy drops a ton of hints to Ren that he wants a scooter for Yaksmas. Ren doesn't get the hint.[[note]]Ironic, considering that it's usually Stimpy who doesn't "get the hint"...[[/note]] |
| 346 | ** By the end of the episode it's revealed that Ren did get Stimpy the scooter after all, it just didn't get delivered. |
| 347 | * HollywoodHealing: And how, given how much Ren and Stimpy are maimed in the show. |
| 348 | * HonestJohnsDealership: Creator/BillyWest in animated form, who first appeared in "Space Madness" as a narrator and "Dog Show" as a judge, appeared as this in a number of Games episodes. |
| 349 | * HowWeGotHere: "Who's Stupid Now?" is partially a flashback story, as it begins with fat Ren and spends half the episode leading up to how he got that way. |
| 350 | * HypocriticalHumor: Stimpy, on Haggis [=McHaggis=]: "He don't speak English none too good." |
| 351 | [[/folder]] |
| 352 | |
| 353 | [[folder:Tropes I-Q]] |
| 354 | * IAmNotWeasel: Ren is occasionally mistaken for a mosquito or rat. This could possibly be a {{lampshade|Hanging}}, based on how he's drawn. |
| 355 | * [[{{ILLKILLYOU}} I KEEL YOU!]] |
| 356 | * IdiotSavant: In the space-themed episodes, Stimpy is surprisingly adept at science, such as when he describes what imploding is to Ren in "Black Hole". |
| 357 | * InAnotherMansShoes: The premise of "Who's Stupid Now?" involves Ren becoming the fat one and Stimpy becoming the skinny one, in order to keep their TV show. Ren gains empathy by knowing what it's like to be the ridiculed one in the duo. |
| 358 | * InflatingBodyGag: In "Nurse Stimpy," Ren tries to get his blood pressure taken, but his head inflates instead of the pressure cuff. |
| 359 | ** A {{downplayed|Trope}} version also happens in "Son of Stimpy" when Stimpy tries to prove Stinky is real by trying to fart a second time. With each attempt Stimpy's butt gets just a little bit bigger and rounder. By the third attempt it has swelled up to its limit then suddenly [[PainToTheAss bursts and deflates like a balloon,]] [[HeroicRROD while Stimpy gasps in exhausted defeat.]] |
| 360 | ** In the Sven Hoek Ending Segment, Ren suggests Stimpy to blow himself up like a balloon. Stimpy blows on his thumbs and lumps pop out from his body before expanding like a balloon. Ren then pops him. |
| 361 | ** In Blazing Entrails, Dr. Brainchild pumps up Stimpy untill he's big enough for Ren to go inside him. |
| 362 | ** In Hair of a Cat, Ren got stung by a fly and swells up like a balloon. |
| 363 | --> '''Ren''': I think I'd like to go home now. |
| 364 | * InformedSpecies: Ren's design is such an extreme caricature of a chihuahua that he's barely recognizable as one, especially with his later redesigns. This is even acknowledged in "Stimpy's Fan Club", where a fan letter asks if Ren is a mosquito. Stimpy likewise barely has any resemblance to a cat. |
| 365 | * InsomniaEpisode: "Insomniac Ren". |
| 366 | * InstrumentalThemeTune |
| 367 | * InterspeciesRomance: Ren lusts after human women. In "I Love Chicken", Stimpy falls in love with a chicken. |
| 368 | ** Mr. Horse also had a girlfriend who was a sheep. |
| 369 | * InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Stimpy enjoys knitting. Stimpy also usually plays the more stereotypically "feminine" rolls when the joke or episode calls for it. And in episodes like "[[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x07SonOfStimpy Son of Stimpy]]" where it gets a lot of focus, Stimpy's butt is often drawn more full and feminine-looking. |
| 370 | * IrisOut: ''Music/CatHairballs'' ends by irising out on [[spoiler: Stimpy's butt]], which had been marked with a stamp so that it had "Grade A" written on it, with the [[spoiler: left cheek]] sporting the "Grade" while the [[spoiler: right cheek]] sported the "A". |
| 371 | * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Seen in "Who's Stupid Now?" when the boss insults Ren. |
| 372 | * IWillShowYouX: In a ''Ren and Stimpy'' episode dealing with the Stimpy facing his own mortality and going through various emotional phases. To illustate "Anger", there's a short bit where Ren is at the dinner table, ready to eat. |
| 373 | -->'''Stimpy''': (''cheerily'') Here's your breakfast, Ren!\ |
| 374 | '''Ren''': Hey uh... Stimpy? You forgot my toast.\ |
| 375 | '''Stimpy''': [[MoodWhiplash TOOAST??!]] HEEEERE'S YOUR TOOOOAST!!!! (''slams toast into Ren's face and rubs it violently'') |
| 376 | * IWillTearYourArmsOff: In "Sven Hoek", this is one of the threats Ren gives Stimpy and Sven for messing up the house. |
| 377 | * JarOfTheBizarre: Ren collects, among other bizarre things, jars of rare incurable diseases. |
| 378 | * JeopardyThinkingMusic: A SuspiciouslySimilarSong version is heard in "Out West" when Abner and Ewalt have blank expressions for a long time. |
| 379 | * {{Jerkass}}: Ren. He insults and beats up his own friend, is incredibly greedy, and has a HairTriggerTemper. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as he has a HiddenHeartOfGold. |
| 380 | * EverybodyDiesEnding: "Ren's Brain" ends with the Earth being blown up, due to a chain reaction of everyone watching ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' exploding. |
| 381 | --> '''Narrator''': And thus ended the Republican party. |
| 382 | --> '''Ren''': You EEDIOTS!!! |
| 383 | * LargeHam: A lot of characters. Most notably Ren. |
| 384 | ** POWDEEEEEEERED TOOOOOAAAAAST MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 385 | ** The '''JOL'''LY, '''CANDY'''-LIKE BUTTON!!! |
| 386 | * LaterInstallmentWeirdness: After the second season, Creator/JohnKricfalusi was fired for not meeting episode deadlines and ([[WordOfGod according to Kricfalusi himself]]) going overboard with the show's violent content via the infamous oar-beating scene in "Man's Best Friend". Nickelodeon created its own animation studio (Games Animation), and Bob Camp took over as showrunner. The art style and designs were altered slightly and some voices changed (largely due to Billy West replacing Kricfalusi for certain characters), i.e. Ren sounding more breathy and less hammy. Ren went from a JerkWithAHeartOfGold to a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk, and Stimpy went from merely TheDitz to TooDumbToLive. The Games staff even made an episode parodying the creation of the show and the change in staff ("Reverend Jack"). The tones of the episodes also changed; this was both at the request of Nick (who told Bob Camp, "no more psycho-dramas") and Camp himself, who didn't feel it was healthy to endlessly ask, "What would John K. do?" and instead just wanted to make funny cartoons. |
| 387 | * LawOfDisproportionateResponse |
| 388 | * LawyerFriendlyCameo: [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble]] are among the guests at Ren's party in "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf," but we only hear their voices as they leave. |
| 389 | --> '''Fred''': Come on, Barney, let's blow this pop stand! |
| 390 | --> '''Barney''': Heh-heh-heh... right behind ya! |
| 391 | ** Also, [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] can briefly be heard saying "I hate having two heads!" while Stimpy is watching TV in "Jimminy Lummox." |
| 392 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "Haunted House" begins with Stimpy commenting on how the mansion is a great place for him and Ren to "kill twelve minutes." The total length of a ''Ren and Stimpy'' episode runs for ''exactly'' twelve minutes. |
| 393 | * LeastRhymableWord: In the "Billy the Beef Tallow Boy" bumper: |
| 394 | --> "Hey hey Billy, can you deep fry the Buick? / Well, all right, but he'll probably pu-ick!" |
| 395 | * LegoBodyParts: "Prehistoric Stimpy" has Ren and Stimpy saw off their heads and place it on each others bodies '''''(offscreen)''''' out of boredom. |
| 396 | * {{Leitmotif}}: |
| 397 | ** A Powdered Toast Man short is almost always accompanied by the heroic-sounding "Reach For the Stars" by Richard Harvey. |
| 398 | ** Hey It's That Guy! (including an expy in the form of a salesman fish in "Bass Masters") is always accompanied by "It's That Man Again" by Michael North. |
| 399 | ** When Mr. and Mrs. Pipe appear, Cyrill Watters's "Crepe Suzette" will usually play. Sometimes another one of Watters's stock music cues, "Willy Nilly," is heard instead. (Both cues are very similar in style.) |
| 400 | ** Wilbur Cobb is always accompanied by two pieces from ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'': The Cat and Grandfather themes. |
| 401 | ** "Kumbaya" is a recurring theme throughout "Hermit Ren". |
| 402 | * LethallyStupid: Guess who? And no, it's not the psychopathic dog... |
| 403 | * LemonyNarrator: |
| 404 | ** Wilbur Cobb in "Prehistoric Stimpy". |
| 405 | ** In "Wiener Barons", the narrator flat out insults Ren and Stimpy when they don't do what he's describing. |
| 406 | ---> '''Narrator''': And so, our heroes head north. (''Ren and Stimpy, represented by a dot on the map, are moving west'') AND SO, our heroes head ''NORTH'', STUPID! (''the dots begin to travel north'') |
| 407 | ** In "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen", the narrator somehow seems to think the year 1856 is "thousands of years ago". In the same episode, the narrator says the world will never forget the main characters, whose names he can't remember. |
| 408 | ** In "Son of Stimpy", the narrator (who is only heard at the very beginning of the cartoon) contradicts himself by saying the true story he's about to show is all made up. |
| 409 | * LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: Occurs in "Untamed World" when Ren is shot by a tranquilizer dart and runs slower and slower. |
| 410 | * LimitedAnimation: The very first few episodes, most notably "Stimpy's Big Day" and "The Big Shot". Averted with many season 2 episodes, notably "Son of Stimpy" and "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" (both by Carbunkle Cartoons). |
| 411 | * LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Humans and talking animals co-exist and outside of (maybe) acknowledging the difference in species, nobody thinks anything of it. |
| 412 | * LogoJoke: The Ren and Stimpy logos are played with in "Space Madness" and "Black Hole"; in the former, Stimpy pressing the History Eraser button caused R&S to be removed from the logo, while in "Black Hole", their faces are inverted due to the duo having imploded a few seconds earlier. |
| 413 | * LoonyFan: Stimpy is this to Sammy in "Sammy and Me". |
| 414 | * LoudGulp: Stimpy, before eating monkey brain soup in "Travelogue". |
| 415 | * LuxuryPrisonSuite: The plot to "Pen Pals": Ren and Stimpy ''want'' to be arrested and thrown in jail, because a TV commercial paints it as a luxury residence. Their plan backfires, though, when a colossal inmate is put in with them, eating up all the free space in the cell. |
| 416 | * LyricalDissonance: The fireworks-inducingly regal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen's anthem jumps from the quasi-coherent first stanza to the following (second) stanza without any shift in mood: |
| 417 | -->And the buzzards, they soar overhead, |
| 418 | -->And poisonous snakes will devour us whole; |
| 419 | -->Our bones will bleach in the sun. |
| 420 | -->And we will probably go to ''[[SoundEffectBleep *fart*]]'', |
| 421 | -->And that is our great reward |
| 422 | -->For being the royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen. |
| 423 | * {{Malaproper}}: Stimpy often falls into this, such as in "I Love Chicken": |
| 424 | --> '''Stimpy''': Aren't ''you'' just the cat's B.O.! |
| 425 | ** Wilbur Cobb also certainly counts. |
| 426 | ---> '''Cobb''': Rain? In Octember? |
| 427 | * ManOfAThousandVoices: Once Games Animation took over, Billy West did the vast majority of voices on the show, including many female characters. |
| 428 | * ManOnFire: In "The Great Outdoors", Ren tries to start a campfire with gasoline and a match. The gasoline of course explodes, setting Ren on fire. |
| 429 | * TheManTheyCouldntHang: "The scrawny one don't weigh enough, and the fat one [[{{Cephalothorax}} ain't got no neck]]!" |
| 430 | * MarionetteMotion: In "Stimpy's Invention". |
| 431 | * MidairBobbing: Seen in "Haunted House" with the ghost, among other episodes. |
| 432 | * MistakenForSanta: In "An Abe Divided", Ren and Stimpy are guards at the Lincoln Memorial. Stimpy mistakes the statue for Santa Claus and gets on its lap to tell it what he wants for Christmas. |
| 433 | * MoodWhiplash: So much your neck will hurt. |
| 434 | ** "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball"'s ending: Ren, Stimpy, and Bubba are all fighting back tears when it's announced that if Stimpy doesn't have his hairball gland, it's over. Suddenly, Ren and Stimpy gleefully state that it's over, and start dancing while happy jazz music plays. Biggest mood whiplash ever. |
| 435 | ** The opening titles of "Man's Best Friend" are relatively cheerful-looking and accompanied by a happy-sounding Music/RaymondScott piece ...and then VERY abruptly cut to an loud dramatic sting and a ominous-looking "Starring George Liquor" card. |
| 436 | ** "A Visit To Anthony" careens madly from childlike play to frightening grimness to outrageous laughter. |
| 437 | ** "Dog Show" is a fairly tame episode, until we learn that dogs who fail to pass pre-judging are eaten alive. This is not exactly PlayedForLaughs. |
| 438 | * MoralityChain: Stimpy is this to Ren, to an extent (but ''only'' to an extent). While more often than not Ren acts like an abusive jerk towards Stimpy, it seems like Stimpy's the only person he's ever been remotely nice to. Stimpy's also been able to calm Ren down somewhat (repeat: ''somewhat'') when he's having one of his mental breakdowns, instill some sense of right and wrong in him, and get him to loosen up once in a while. It's implied that if Stimpy were to ever disappear Ren would go completely and irreversibly AxCrazy, and be overcome by his loneliness. |
| 439 | ** Except in episodes like "Double Header", when he'd rather put Stimpy on a bus to Ursa Minor than spend another minute with him. |
| 440 | * MsFanservice: Women like this pop up from time to time. One example is Mrs. Pipe, in a "50's house wife" kind of way. |
| 441 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: The title characters and Old Man Hunger. |
| 442 | * NameAndName |
| 443 | * NatureIsNotNice: The SpoofAesop of "Lumber Jerks". After being shown - and injured by - the wildlife in a tree he intends to cut down, Ren comes to this conclusion - and that he's even meaner than nature is. |
| 444 | --> '''Ren:''' I've learned that nature can be cruel... BUT I CAN BE ''CRUELER!'' [[LaughingMad AHAHAHAHAHA!]] |
| 445 | * NaturalizedName: Subverted. In "City Hicks", Stimpy changes an immigrant's name from the simple "Chad Jones" to the more complex "Bgayho Bagdasarian". Needless to say, Chad is not pleased. |
| 446 | * NatureDocumentary: Parodied in "A Cartoon (Untamed World)", "Lair of the Lummox", and the unnamed short that followed "Hermit Ren" about senior citizens. |
| 447 | * NegativeContinuity: Many episodes end with Ren and Stimpy dead or irreversibly maimed, but return alive and well in the next episode. |
| 448 | ** Additionally, each episode featured Ren and Stimpy living in a brand new home or being homeless. This kept things from getting too monotonous. |
| 449 | * NeverSayDie: Averted; the series frequently used the words "die" and "dead". One episode, "Terminal Stimpy", is even centered around the idea of death. |
| 450 | ** This also includes the pilot when Stimpy asks about "the big sleep": |
| 451 | --->"He's...DEAD!! DEAD, YOU EEDIOT!! YOU KNOW WHAT DEAD IS?!! JUST LIKE WE'LL BE IF WE DON'T GET OUT OF HERE!!!" |
| 452 | * {{Newsreel}}: A Soviet version about advances in space travel appears at the beginning of "Space Dogged". |
| 453 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: |
| 454 | ** Ren's voice is basically Creator/PeterLorre 's with a vague Mexican accent overlaid. Stimpy's is a slight variation on Larry Fine from Film/TheThreeStooges. |
| 455 | *** WordOfGod states that Ren is essentially the bastard love child of Lorre and Creator/KirkDouglas. |
| 456 | ** Stinky Wizzleteats (the singer of "Happy Happy, Joy Joy") is a parody of Burl Ives. |
| 457 | ** The islander's voice in "Aloha Hoek" is based on Marlon Brando. |
| 458 | * NoEnding: "Big Flakes" just abruptly stops. Do Ren and Stimpy ever make it out of the snowed-in cabin? Who knows. |
| 459 | * NoodleImplements: Just try and guess what the various "tools" in Stimpy's laboratory are for. Some of them make the sounds of real-life power tools, but how exactly a ''beaver'' can function as a drill is anyone's guess. |
| 460 | * NoseNuggets: Stimpy has a booger collection that appears in multiple episodes, which he refers to as his "magic nose goblins"[[note]]"I picked them myself!"[[/note]]. |
| 461 | * NothingButSkinAndBones: In an episode, the duo are starving and Ren opens his skin to show there's literally no fat, just bone. Then [[FatIdiot Stimpy]] opens his skin to show he's nothing but skin and fat. |
| 462 | * NothingIsScarier: The end of "Space Madness". |
| 463 | ** Not to mention "Double Header". |
| 464 | * NurseWithGoodIntentions: "Nurse Stimpy". |
| 465 | * NutritionalNightmare: Many of the fake commercials in the show have this. Sugar Frosted Milk ([[FridgeBrilliance if you think about it]]) is literally just melted ice cream. [[SarcasmMode Isn't that a healthy breakfast.]] |
| 466 | * OminousLatinChanting: A few of the music tracks feature this. |
| 467 | * OneShotCharacter: The DrillSergeantNasty from "In the Army", Dr. Brainchild from "Blazing Entrails", the leprechaun from "A Hard Day's Luck", Mr. Noggin from "Bell Hops", the islander and crab family from "Aloha Hoek", Jerry the Bellybutton Elf, Jiminy Lummox, the head parasites from "A Friend in Your Face", and Bubba from "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball", among many others. |
| 468 | * OpenShirtTaunt: In the episode "Stimpy's Fan Club", Ren is so distraught at disappointing Stimpy that he tears open his fur and hands Stimpy a dagger for him to stab him in the chest. |
| 469 | * OverlyLongGag: Happens frequently on ''Adult Party Cartoon''. |
| 470 | * PainToTheAss: Happens on occasion. One notable example is when in "[[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x07SonOfStimpy Son of Stimpy]]" Stimpy tries to fart a second time. During the third and final attempt Stimpy's butt cheeks strain, swell up, then bust and deflate like a pair of balloons, complete with [[WackySoundEffect wacky sound effects]]. |
| 471 | ** There's also the episode "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball" and the music video for Music/CatHairballs, which have the same basic premise. In them, Stimpy is licking and hwarfing up hairballs onto a conveyor belt for Ren, who is stamping them. Eventually Stimpy is left gasping, over worked, and completely licked clean. Unable to do anymore Stimpy passes out on the conveyor belt, is rolled over to Ren and gets violently stamped on the butt. The music video makes this worse by 1. Ending with Stimpy unconscious and face down, 2. Adding a tortured ''hluarf'' sound effect as the stamp makes impact, and 3. Focusing in on the aftermath (a big "Grade A" branded into Stimpy's ass.) |
| 472 | * PapaWolf: '''Anthony's father'''. |
| 473 | * PaperThinDisguise: |
| 474 | ** Ren and Stimpy in "Wiener Barons"; they're dressed as wiener inspectors to bypass the gate guard, but it's obviously them underneath the disguise. Additionally, the guard kicked them out before (and heard their voice, which they didn't distort when in costume), so it's hard to believe he fell for such a thing. |
| 475 | ** Ren's mouse act in "The Boy Who Cried Rat." He pretty much just dresses up like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse. |
| 476 | ** The attempt to pass for dalmatians in "Fire Dogs." |
| 477 | ** The monkey suits in "Monkey See Monkey Don't." |
| 478 | * ParentalBonus: |
| 479 | ** The newsreel montage in "Ren's Bitter Half" is actually a parody of the 1943 film "Victory Through Air Power". |
| 480 | ** No wonder Music/FrankZappa voicing the Pope was such a big deal. |
| 481 | * ParodyCommercial: Log, Gritty Kitty Litter, Powdered Toast, Sugar-Frosted Milk, Dog Water, etc. |
| 482 | * ParodyEpisode: "Egg Yolkeo", which parodies [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Disney's version of Pinocchio]] specifically. |
| 483 | * ParodyName: In "The Last Temptation", Ren throws out all his worldly possessions, including celebrity toupees of [[Creator/WilliamShatner William Shallert]] and [[Series/TheBozoShow Bazoo the Clone]]. |
| 484 | * ThePearlyGates: At the end of "Terminal Stimpy", Ren and Stimpy ascend to Heaven and are greeted by the Announcer Salesman at the gates. |
| 485 | * PerformanceAnxiety: Ren experiences this in "Dog Tags" when he is forced to clean himself in public to prove that he is a dog. After weakly licking his leg: |
| 486 | --> '''Ren''': I can't go through with it! I'm not a dog! I'm a mosquito... |
| 487 | * {{Pilot}}: "Big House Blues", one of the most gorgeously-animated made-for-TV cartoons of all time. |
| 488 | * PlayingCatchWithTheOldMan: Parodied in "I Was a Teenage Stimpy", when Ren watches an old home movie of himself playing football with a baby Stimpy. |
| 489 | * PlotAllergy: Ren's allergic to Stimpy's shedded fur in "Hair of the Cat", though it takes him the whole episode to realize it. The solution? Have Stimpy live in a sealed jar. |
| 490 | * PolkaDotPaint: To get jobs in the fire department, Ren and Stimpy use 'dalmatian paint' - one quick swipe each with a brush and they're white with black spots - Stimpy's tongue included. |
| 491 | * PopGoesTheHuman: A downplayed example in Son of Stimpy. After trying three times to re-create Stinky, Stimpy's [[PainToTheAss butt cheeks]] swell up and burst on the third try, going all limp and deflated like a pair of balloons. |
| 492 | * PoliceBrutality: In "Pen Pals", Ren and Stimpy try to get into prison by robbing a bank. When they surrender themselves to the police, the cops simply blast them with a tank. |
| 493 | * PornStash: In "I Was a Teenage Stimpy", Ren hides numerous Husk magazines in his dresser. He realizes that it was Stimpy who stole the magazines when a single hair of his stuck to a piece of scotch tape. |
| 494 | --> '''Ren''': Someone has breached my security system... |
| 495 | * PottyEmergency: Ren, at the start of "Pixie King". Unfortunately for him, Stimpy is occupying the bathroom and won't be able to, erm, do his business, until Ren reads him a story. |
| 496 | * ProWrestlingEpisode: "Mad Dog Hoek". |
| 497 | * PseudoSanta: The Great Shaven Yak. He comes on "Yak Shaving Day" to deliver presents (shaving scum, mostly) to people who hang dirty diapers from the walls, fill their uncle's boots with coleslaw, and leave a pot of shaving cream next to the bathroom sink. |
| 498 | * PsychoStrings: Appropriately enough, during a {{Film/Psycho}} parody in "Haunted House". The track is called "Scared Stiff" by John Fox. |
| 499 | [[/folder]] |
| 500 | |
| 501 | [[folder:Tropes R-Z]] |
| 502 | * RapidFireNailBiting: In an episode, Stimpy begins biting his nails excitingly when watching a commercial for a contest involving Muddy Mud Skipper. He keeps putting his hands further into his mouth until he's chewing on his arms. |
| 503 | * RecycledInSpace: SPAAAAACE MADNEEESSSSSSSS... |
| 504 | * TheRemake: "A Yard Too Far" is essentially a remake of the ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' short "Pie-Pirates". In fact, John K. had the crew watch and analyze "Pie-Pirates" before working on "Yard", as he wanted them to see a cartoon with basic but firmly-drawn character motivations and conflicts. |
| 505 | * RestrainingBolt: The Happy Helmet. |
| 506 | * RetGone: What happens when you press the History Eraser Button.[[note]]...whatever that is.[[/note]] |
| 507 | * {{Retraux}}: The '50-'60s art style. |
| 508 | * RidingIntoTheSunset: "I Was A Teenage Stimpy'' ends with Stimpy literally flying into the sun (and sizzling up as a result). |
| 509 | * RuleOfThree: In "Farm Hands" when Ren's going nuts: |
| 510 | --> '''Ren''': Do you hear me? ALONE! ALONE! ALOOOOONE!!! |
| 511 | * ScareChord: The show owed most of its horrific atmosphere to this trope. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK2mE3Tf9Z8 This saw theme]] is a good example. Practically every episode has some of this, particularly whenever Ren went AxCrazy, which was often. |
| 512 | * SchmuckBait: |
| 513 | ** The History Eraser Button from "Space Madness." |
| 514 | ** In "Man's Best Friend", George Liquor tells the duo about discipline and explains at length why they they shouldn't sit on the couch. Then he tells them to go ahead and jump on the couch. Ren refuses to follow through, but Stimpy does. A few moments of false security later, Stimpy is subjected to George's discipline. |
| 515 | ** The board game Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence from "Sven Hoek." In something of a subversion, it's Ren, not Stimpy or Ren's Stimpy-like cousin Sven, who ends up urinating on the fence, [[TooDumbToLive despite the obvious, cartoony electrical charges]] emanating from it. When the resulting electrocution sends them all straight to Hell, the Devil immediately knows why they're there: "So, you whizzed on the electric fence, didn't ya?" |
| 516 | *** Can't accuse Ren of stupidity here - all he wanted to achieve was do something as horrible to Stimpy and Sven as they did to his beloved possessions. He probably didn't think much about it, considering he was really angry. |
| 517 | ** There's also the lever from "Double Header"[[note]]"RED LIGHT!!!" "BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!"[[/note]]. |
| 518 | * {{Scotireland}}: "A Hard Day's Luck" mixes up Scottish and Irish clichés. |
| 519 | * ScoutOut: In "Eat My Cookies", the Girl Scouts are re-named the Barrette Beret Girls. |
| 520 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: One of the show's main running gags, to such an extent that an episode without at least one good high-pitched scream feels incomplete. |
| 521 | ** Stimpy can do a ''very'' good one in the German dub. |
| 522 | * SecretTestOfCharacter: Reversed in "Lumberjerks": Ren and Stimpy are supposed to chop down every tree in the forest, as ordered by their boss Pierre. But a disgruntled tree lobster grabs Ren and shows him what happens when he does so (such as birds losing their home). The crab fully expects Ren to have a change of heart, but all it does is make Ren want to chop down more trees. Just as the crab looks like it's about to kill Ren, the crab takes its mask off, revealing Pierre underneath, who said he passed the test. |
| 523 | * SeriousBusiness: Dog shows in this universe. Dogs that don't pass pre-judging don't just miss the finals, but are literally fed to bigger, larger dogs. |
| 524 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The original proposed ending to "Space Madness", nixed by Nickelodeon editors[[note]]Or nixed by John K. [[OrSoIHeard depending on who's telling the story]].[[/note]], would have featured Ren and Stimpy going back in time and undoing the damage caused by Stimpy pushing the History-Eraser Button. |
| 525 | * {{Sexophone}}: Such a musical motif is heard in "Pixie King" when Stimpy poses in his pixie outfit. |
| 526 | * SciFiFlyby: Parodied in the first "Commander Hoek and Cadet Stimpy" episode, "Space Madness". The opening credits play over a beautiful shot of outer space. Then the spaceship appears... and it's a cheap wind-up toy. |
| 527 | * ShaveAndAHairCut: This happens a few times in the song "Happy Happy Joy Joy", albeit without the "two bits" part. |
| 528 | * ShoutOut: |
| 529 | ** The first episode has Stimpy making several to the catchphrases of several beloved Hanna-Barbera TV cartoons, as well as WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes. |
| 530 | ** In the first three "Commander Hoek" segments, the TV signal title card (which has a native american on it) is a nod to the series ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963''. |
| 531 | ** In "The Scotsman In Space", Stimpy makes the scotsman haggis, which is made "From the Shamus Culhane recipe", a nod to the renowned Disney animator Creator/ShamusCulhane. |
| 532 | ** In "Ren's Pecs", Ren goes to have pectoral enlargement surgery. In the background you can hear over the hospital's loudspeaker, "[[Film/TheThreeStooges Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard...]]" |
| 533 | ** The scene of one of the yaks going insane in the middle of the desert in "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" is a pretty direct lift of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NIuGkSikOU a similar scene]] in the Creator/BobClampett WesternAnimation/PorkyPig cartoon WesternAnimation/PorkyInEgypt, except with a yak instead of a camel. [[WordOfGod John K. even confirmed it.]] |
| 534 | ** "Happy Happy Joy Joy" is a salute to Creator/BurlIves as it contains lines from his various songs and film roles quoted therein. |
| 535 | *** Burl Ives himself was reportedly asked to sing the song, but his schedule prevented him from collaborating. When John K. played the song for him later, he was disappointed that he'd missed his chance to be Stinky Whizzleteats. |
| 536 | ** Early in "Monkey See, Monkey Don't", Ren tells Stimpy that he's "seen every Franchise/{{Tarzan}} movie ever made." |
| 537 | ** "Marooned" has Ren directly reference the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] from ''Franchise/StarTrek'', and the alien creature they encounter later on (whose fake appearance is that of something they desire) is a homage to the creature from the first Star Trek episode "The Man Trap". |
| 538 | ** The beginning of "Sammy and Me" is an obvious homage to ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery'', with Stimpy eagerly waiting at the mailbox for a special package to arrive, and then running at a lightning pace down the road to a secret spot to open it. |
| 539 | ** In "Superstitious Stimpy", one of the phrases Stimpy chants while praying to the beef carcass is Creator/UbIwerks. |
| 540 | ** It's rather subtle but in the scene from "Powdered Toast Man" [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed wherein our hero saves the Pope,]] note that Muddy Mudskipper is wearing a top hat. [[note]]It's a nod to the cover of ''Trout Mask Replica,'' which Frank Zappa, the Pope's VA, produced.[[/note]] |
| 541 | ** One of the nonsense phrases Stimpy says in "Blazing Entrails" is "Want Some Sea Food Mama", which was the name of a song by the Andrews Sisters. |
| 542 | ** In "Lumber Jerks", a character resembling [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Fearless Leader]] appears from beneath the tree stump that Fifi pulls out of the ground. |
| 543 | ** In "City Hicks", Stimpy changes an immigrant's name to Bgayho [[Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Bagdasarian]]. |
| 544 | * ShowWithinAShow: Muddy Mudskipper and The Scotsman are a couple examples. |
| 545 | * ShrunkenOrgan: Stimpy's bean-sized brain[[note]]Well, at least it's not [[StealthPun "pea"]]-sized...[[/note]] [[WhoEvenNeedsABrain accidentally falls off when he leans down]]. Ren's cousin Sven marvels at how ''big'' it is, and then shows Stimpy his own, pinhead-sized brain. |
| 546 | * SickEpisode: "Nurse Stimpy". |
| 547 | * SilenceOfSadness: |
| 548 | ** In the episode "I Love Chicken", Stimpy gets too depressed to talk to Ren after the latter has eaten his beloved [[CompanionCube chicken wife]] until Ren angrily tells him to stop with his "bereaved chicken widow crap". |
| 549 | ** In "Son of Stimpy", Stimpy goes into a HeroicBSOD when he can't find his son (read: [[ToiletHumour sentient fart]]). When Ren tries to cheer him up, Stimpy doesn't say much else besides "I don't care". |
| 550 | * SillyPrayer: The episode "Robin Hoek" opens with Ren and Stimpy saying their prayers before going to bed. |
| 551 | -->'''Stimpy:''' And please bless Grandma and Grandpa... |
| 552 | -->'''Ren:''' And please give me a million dollars, and a fridge with a padlock, and... Oh yeah, ''huge pectoral muscles''... |
| 553 | * SingingMountie: Brutally spoofed in "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen". Ren and Stimpy are members of the aforementioned outfit and are on a suicide mission somewhere in the Canadian wilderness. They have been ravaged by the elements and the force of nature, and Ren can't take it anymore. Stimpy attempts to animate him by having them sing "the Royal Anthem of the Kilted Yaksmen". On the repeat, their yak mounts and the creatures of the wilderness around them join in. There is a strong dissonance between the rousing tone of the singing and the cynical lyrics, sung to the tune of "My Country 'Tis of Thee": |
| 554 | |
| 555 | ->"Our country reeks of trees! |
| 556 | ->Our yaks are really large. |
| 557 | ->And they smell like rotting beef carcasses. |
| 558 | ->And we have to clean up after them |
| 559 | ->And our saddle sores are the best |
| 560 | ->We proudly wear womens' clothing |
| 561 | ->And searing sand blows up our skirts |
| 562 | ->And the buzzards, they soar overhead |
| 563 | ->And poisonous snakes will devour us whole |
| 564 | ->Our bones will bleach in the sun |
| 565 | ->And we will probably go to "BURP!" [hell] |
| 566 | ->And that is our great reward |
| 567 | ->For being the-uh roy-oy-al Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" |
| 568 | * SkinnyDipping: Ren and Stimpy take off their "skin" to go skinny dipping in "The Great Outdoors". |
| 569 | * TheSleepless: Ren in "Insomniac Ren". |
| 570 | * SleeplessAlarmClock: In the episode "In the Army", Ren has just gotten back to the barracks after a hard day of training and is settling in for a good night's sleep... when he's suddenly jolted awake by the sound of Reveille. He has a psychotic breakdown and hacks his bed to pieces with an axe. |
| 571 | * SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness |
| 572 | * SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: Ren and Stimpy fluctuate on this from episode to episode. Sometimes they’re both full on [[FunnyAnimal Funny Animals]] capable of holding down human jobs and owning their own house, while other times they’re depicted as [[CivilizedAnimal Civilized Animals]] that are adopted by humans and do distinctively animal things like getting sent to a pound or entering in dog shows. However, they are both consistently shown with different [[FurryReminder Furry Reminders]]—for example, Ren frequently whimpers like a puppy when stressed or in pain while Stimpy is constantly shown using a litter box. Ren also occasionally scolds Stimpy for doing “human things” like brushing his teeth. |
| 573 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Played with in both the Spumco and Games eras of the the original show. It's actually vague as to what end it falls towards. On the one hand, you have the cynical Ren, and on the other you have the idealistic Stimpy, although being an "eediot", he likely doesn't know how to be anything else[[note]]It's highly implied that he may not even know what the words "idealistic" or "cynical" even mean...[[/note]]. In any case, there are a number of cynical moments[[note]]yes, even Stimpy's DespairEventHorizon when he can't his..."son".[[/note]], but it also has plenty of lighthearted moments to balance it out. |
| 574 | * SlowMotion: We get a slow-mo scene of the Ren-lizard seen in "Untamed World" eating a fly. |
| 575 | * SmallReferencePools: Averted, as many of the classical music tracks used in the show aren't the famous ones heard everywhere. Who but classical buffs know about Frederic Chopin's Ballade No.4, or Josef Suk's "Asrael" symphony, or Claude Debussy's "Canope", or Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini"? |
| 576 | * SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: Ren is intelligent but selfish, violent-tempered and outright psychotic. Stimpy is dim-witted but good-natured and perpetually cheerful. In many episodes (particularly in later seasons), Stimpy borders as [[ExtremeDoormat a slave]] for Ren and is verbally and physically abused on a regular basis. He rarely takes any of it to heart and thoroughly enjoys [[SycophanticServant doting]] over Ren. |
| 577 | * SmiteMeOMightySmiter: In "Superstitious Stimpy", Ren, fed up with Stimpy praying to a beef carcass he's supposed to be cooking, mocks "juju" (which Stimpy believes in). |
| 578 | --> '''Ren''': I wave my shiny red keister in the face of ''you'', and you "stuperstitions"! |
| 579 | --> '''Stimpy''': No, Ren! It's bad juju to blaspheme! |
| 580 | --> '''Ren''': Juju, huh? Oooh, I'm so scared. The big bad juju's about to get me. '''COME ON, JUJU, I'M CALLING YOU OUT'''! (struck by lightning) |
| 581 | * SnipeHunt: Seen in "Eat My Cookies". Turns out a snipe actually exists, and devours Ren. |
| 582 | * SnowedIn: The premise of "Big Flakes". |
| 583 | * SomethingPerson: Powdered Toast Man. |
| 584 | * SomethingWeForgot: In "Blazing Entrails", Ren hooks up with an amoeba and has kids. At one point he's in front of a fireplace with his kids, who want to know how he and mommy met. He starts to reminisce about how he was on a mission for Stimpy- ''(snaps out of it)'' "STIIIIIMPPPYYY!" ''(runs off to resume the mission)'' |
| 585 | * SoundEffectBleep: The Canadian Kilted Yaksmen's Anthem, which contains the verse "And we will probably go to hell" had the word "hell" masked out, quite fittingly, with a fart... |
| 586 | * SoundtrackDissonance: "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy" eventually devolves into this. |
| 587 | * SpaceMadness: TropeNamer; the trope takes its name from an episode title. |
| 588 | * SpinOff: ''WebAnimation/TheGoddamnGeorgeLiquorProgram'', a webtoon which Nickelodeon had nothing to do with, but still uses a minor character from the series that John K. got the rights back to. ''WebAnimation/WeekendPussyHunt'', by proxy, is also this. |
| 589 | * SpiritualSuccessor: Countless examples, but ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'', ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' which employed ex-''Ren and Stimpy'' staffers. Some still do. |
| 590 | * Standard50sFather: Mr. Pipe. |
| 591 | * StealthPun: |
| 592 | ** In "Prehistoric Stimpy", Wilbur Cobb starts talking about the "Treeassic Period". At first glance, it merely looks like a play on "Triassic", but the main pun comes from why that era got its name: Giant Stimpy dinosaurs who would sit on ''trees'', and their dangling ''asses'' would keep cavemen warm. |
| 593 | ** Ren's Creator/PeterLorre voice is almost certainly one. In Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/TheSecretAgent'', Lorre played a character known as "the Hairless Mexican" even though he was [[IronicNickname neither]]. As a chihuahua, Ren is both. |
| 594 | * {{Sting}}: Numerous musical stings were used in the show. Perhaps the most famous one is "Shock Horror (a)" by Dick Walter: Dun dun DUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNN!!!! |
| 595 | * StockFootage: |
| 596 | ** "Farm Hands" reuses some animation from "Out West"; specifically, the scene where Abner and Ewalt get an idea and laugh goofily. |
| 597 | ** "Marooned" and "The Littlest Giant" also use truncated versions of the openings of "Space Madness" and "Robin Hoek", respectively. |
| 598 | ** Similarly, the "What'll We Do 'Til Then?" bumpers are mostly reused footage after the first instance. |
| 599 | * StorefrontTelevisionDisplay: In "Hard Times for Haggis", Haggis McHaggis sees a crowd of people laughing at a bunch of [=TVs=] in a window, and he thinks they're watching his show. He then learns, to his utter fury, that they're actually watching Ren & Stimpy. |
| 600 | * StraightGay: The duo's sexuality remained ambiguous to fit in with the show's humour, until [[WordOfGay John K. effectively outed the duo as a gay couple in a January 28, 1997 interview with the ''San Francisco Examiner'']]. |
| 601 | * SuddenAnatomy: In "Superstitious Stimpy", Ren suddenly has a large birthmark on his face. Stimpy freaks out when he sees this, because it's a sign that he's cursed. |
| 602 | * SuddenlyShouting: In "Hard Times for Haggis", Ren and Stimpy's agent does this a couple times: |
| 603 | --> '''Salesman''': Uh, excuse me, Mr. Haggis, but wouldn't you be more comfortable, say.... ''OUT IN THE STREEEEEEET''!!! |
| 604 | ** In "The Big Shot": |
| 605 | --->'''Ren''': I'll watch some TV. I'll help me to RELAX! |
| 606 | * {{Superhero}}: Powdered Toast Man. |
| 607 | ** Can also be considered to be a {{Super Zero|es}}. |
| 608 | * SuperSargassoSea: In "Black Hole", Commander Hoek and Cadet Stimpy go through a black hole and end up in a strange dimension, where they find a pile of all of Earth's missing left socks. |
| 609 | * SuperstitionEpisode: "Superstitious Stimpy". |
| 610 | * SuperWindowJump: Stimpy resorts to this in "Bell Hops" when he's protecting Mr. Noggin from Ren's camera. |
| 611 | * SurrealHumor, ocassionally verges on SurrealHorror. |
| 612 | * TakeOurWordForIt: Occasionally done when Ren is savagely beat up off-screen, such as in "Pixie King", though the end results are shown. |
| 613 | * TakeThat: |
| 614 | ** The fifth season episode "Reverend Jack Cheese" has been theorized by some as being a subtle analogy/in-joke about original R&S creator John Kricfalusi and what it was like to work under him. |
| 615 | *** [[WordOfGod Confirmed by]] Bob Camp and John K., who also notes that Jack Cheese is named for an unrelated cartoon character he created in 1979. |
| 616 | ** The Games Animation splash, depicting Stimpy in a milkman's uniform, is a response taking ownership of John K.'s comment that handing the animation over to them would be like handing "an unedited show to the milkman and have him finish it for ya." |
| 617 | ** ''Stimpy's Cartoon Show'' was a massive confession of how much of a BadBoss John K was, as opposed to the more favorable version that would've been made, apparently, had John K not been given the sack. |
| 618 | * TakeThatAudience: In the first episode, Ren berates Stimpy for being "a full-grown cat, still watching cartoons", and tells him that "cartoons will ruin your mind".[[note]]Although, it's more likely a deliberate mocking of the idea, and the parents and MoralGuardians who (even now) still like to think that that really is what watching TV (let alone cartoons) actually does.[[/note]] |
| 619 | * TalkingAnimal: Ren, Stimpy, many of the other regulars. |
| 620 | * TheTeaser: "Who's Stupid Now?" features a brief sequence before the title card where fat Ren disrobes in front of the audience, which is seen in context later in the episode. |
| 621 | * TemptingFate: Part way through the video for Music/CatHairballs, [[WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy Stimpy]] (who is hwarfing up hairballs for Ren to stamp and send down a conveyor belt) reassures "Don't you fret/I won't run out/I've lots more hair to spare." This is not long before the video focuses on Stimpy running out of body parts to lick and starts desperately slurping and hwarfing, which has begun to take a physical tole on Stimpy. By the end, Stimpy is half dead and licked clean. And after a final failed attempt at hwarfing, passes out on the conveyor belt and [[PainToTheAss gets violently stamped on the ass]] with a painful ''hularf'' sound effect, which leaves a butt brand across Stimpy's butt cheeks. |
| 622 | * TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Happens in "Stupid Sidekick Union", when Ren tries to find a replacement for Stimpy. |
| 623 | --> '''Polly:''' I'm Polly the Polyp, and I'm benign!\ |
| 624 | '''Ren:''' Yeah, yeah, great, kid. Next!\ |
| 625 | '''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Barney Rubble]] {{Expy}}:''' Heh heh heh, heh heh heh...\ |
| 626 | '''Ren:''' Been done. Next!\ |
| 627 | '''Hillbilly:''' But I really want to di-rect.\ |
| 628 | '''Ren:''' Next! |
| 629 | * ThickLineAnimation: The show uses it from time to time, depending on its animation studio. The episode "Egg Yolkeo/It's a Dog's Life" for example, along with the pilot episode named "Big House Blues". |
| 630 | * ThisIsReality: In "Stimpy's Big Day", Ren tries to convince Stimpy that cartoons aren't real, "not flesh and blood like we". |
| 631 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Guess. |
| 632 | * ThreeMonthOldNewborn: Averted whenever possible. Any shots of newborn babies show them with translucent red skin, showing off veins and eyeballs for maximum ickiness. |
| 633 | * ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: Out of all the show's characters whose faces (or bodies) would turn a different color, Ren seems to be the one who did that the most, most notably when infuriated. Episodes in the case of this occurring include: |
| 634 | ** "Svën Hoek": Ren, who's on his way out the door to work, gets red-faced as he turns around and is irritated by Stimpy and Sven's antics. |
| 635 | ** "The Great Outdoors": Ren is angered and turns red when he can't find the source of what's causing him to itch while he's trying to get a night's rest and he searches for it on various parts of his body. He then finds a mosquito, which with sadistic and malevolent glee, he swats and kills with his hand. |
| 636 | ** An exception of not turning red while in a rage is "To Salve or Not to Salve", with Ren instead turning some shade of blue and what looks like he's on the brink of decomposing, fighting to repress his rage after Hey! It's That Guy (a perpetually persistent salesman) shows up once more (this time from a toilet tank) to attempt selling the salve to Ren while Ren's almost done using the toilet. |
| 637 | ** "Stimpy's Cartoon Show": Ren becomes red-faced while ticked off at Stimpy's answer to his question. |
| 638 | ** "Jiminy Lummox": Ren turns a less intense shade of red when he finds what Stimpy is doing with his dentures after looking for them. |
| 639 | ** "I Love Chicken": Ren is steamed and becomes very red-faced when Stimpy still won't let him have the chicken for dinner (due to Stimpy having fallen for it). |
| 640 | ** In "Hermit Ren", Ren turns a deep shade of red when he notices his razor is missing and angrily asks Stimpy (who uses it as a hammer) where it is. |
| 641 | ** "The House of Next Tuesday": Ren turns red wholly from the heat and burn he receives, after viewing himself on screen as a lobster (which a chef drops in hot water) through a smell-o-vision helmet. As if he were the lobster (whose head Ren sees turn into his minus the long ears) and physically being dropped into the pot, as part of a cooking show. Then Ren himself has actually and physically been turned into a lobster. |
| 642 | ** "Pixie King": Ren turns deep red irately, when he struggles to prevent wetting himself as Stimpy delays his turn from using an outhouse. |
| 643 | ** "Ren Needs Help": Ren madly (both in terms of anger and mania) turns a slight shade of red after Stimpy drives him bonkers one too many times and finds Stimpy broke part of the former's favorite chair while golfing. |
| 644 | ** "Big Flakes": Ren turns intensely red after learning from Stimpy that the latter threw a moose's head (which was their dinner) into a lit fireplace and Ren becomes so ticked that he has Stimpy play charades with him, and after guessing correctly what Ren's about to do in response, he slugs Stimpy on the nose. |
| 645 | ** "In the Army": The duo are told by the sergeant to remove their gas masks. When Stimpy does, he turns green frontally from breathing in the poison gas, which causes him to cry hysterically and since he can't bear it, he flees outside for some clean air (this doesn't faze Ren due to using the cheating tactic of holding his breath). |
| 646 | ** "Dog Show": Mr. Horse's face turns red deeply, boiling over a poodle's imploration of not having to be subjected to getting inside a bulldog's mouth, as punishment for failing to pass the judgment. |
| 647 | ** In the banned episode "Man's Best Friend", which later and finally shows up as an ''Adult Party Cartoon'' episode, while repeatedly telling Stimpy to get on the couch as part of a disciplinary test and Stimpy does what he says, George grabs him and turns a deep red in the face, then a brighter shade of red, complete with eyes bulging and neck stretching with veins popping in response. Just as Stimpy thinks he's really in trouble for his disobedience, it turns out George is actually content ironically and he rewards him with a cigar. George also turns the same shades of color bodily, when he gets out of a padded suit that he wore while Ren flogged him with a boat oar. |
| 648 | ** "A Visit to Anthony": The episode's titular boy turns pale and starts to hyperventilate again getting knocked down by Victor. |
| 649 | ** "Who's Stupid Now": Ren and Stimpy's director becomes steamed and intensely red-faced with incense, snorting heavily and nostrils flaring when Ren (who has been forced to switch roles with Stimpy as the fat, dimwitted sidekick), fails to remember his exact lines. |
| 650 | ** "A Dog's Life": Stimpy turns blue frontally from asphyxiation while trying to eat a rock giving to him for his meal. |
| 651 | ** "The Last Temptation of Ren": Ren becomes blue-faced after choking on a cluster of oatmeal and passing away. |
| 652 | * ThumbtackOnTheChair: Ren does this to Stimpy in "Jiminy Lummox". |
| 653 | * TitleConfusion: The show is called ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', not just ''Ren and Stimpy''. |
| 654 | * TitleDrop: Lampshaded in "Marooned": Ren remarks that he and Stimpy are marooned. |
| 655 | --> '''Stimpy:''' Just like the title of this cartoon! |
| 656 | * TitleMontage: Every clip from the opening comes from "Big House Blues", which is rather unusual. Usually a montage opening uses multiple episodes' worth of clips. |
| 657 | * ToiletHumor: Since it's a show made by Creator/JohnKricfalusi, it's to be expected. |
| 658 | * ToThePain: The end of "Svën Höek", Ren is '''so''' angry he's looped back into calm, and bluntly describes the various tortures he's going to inflict on Stimpy and Svën. It includes tearing out lips, gouging out eyes, ripping out arms from their sockets, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hitting them so they fall and he can laugh]]. |
| 659 | * ToothyBird: The seagull in "Untamed World". |
| 660 | * TheToothHurts: "Ren's Toothache", natch. |
| 661 | * TranquilFury: Ren gets [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness disturbingly calm while angry]] with Stimpy and Sven in "Sven Hoek", as he tells them about the increasingly creepy ways he's going to torture them. |
| 662 | * TranquillizerDart: Subverted in a cartoon parodying nature shows; [[HairTriggerTemper Ren]] is accidentally shot with a tranq dart by [[TheDitz Stimpy]], and it takes a minute for him to go down. In the meantime, [[RuleOfFunny his voice slows down]]. |
| 663 | * TravelMontage: Seen in "Wiener Barons" when Ren and Stimpy head for Canada. |
| 664 | * TravelogueShow: Parodied in "Travelogue". |
| 665 | * TrivialTragedy: The episode "Son of Stimpy" is a parody of shock value pathos, making a melodramatic plot that revolved largely around the fact Stimpy couldn't fart a second time. |
| 666 | * {{Tsundere}}: Ren. |
| 667 | * TwoDecadesBehind: Modern technologies and trends are virtually nonexistent in the series, except for in a few of the fake commercials (such as the video game briefly seen in the first Log commercial). In most cases, telephones are shown to all be wired and with rotary dials, television sets have fairly small screens and rabbit-ear antennas, people listen to music on record players, and many of the cars seen are fashioned off much older models. Though generally this is done for RuleOfFunny. It got [[{{Flanderization}} even more prominent during the later Games episodes]], to the point where telephones are the old black candlestick variety and record players are old hand-cranked gramophones. |
| 668 | * TwoShorts: Though a few episodes also took up the full 22 minutes, such as "Stimpy's First Fart" and "Stimpy's Fan Club". |
| 669 | * UglySlavicWomen: In "A Visit to Anthony", Ren and Stimpy leave their house (apparently located in Hollywood, Yugoslavia, according to the caption) and are kissed goodbye by their very masculine-looking wives, wearing a babushka and visible beard stubble. |
| 670 | * UnconventionalFoodUsage: In "Egg Yolkeo", Ren (as Renwaldo) makes a little person out of eggs, who becomes the titular Egg Yolkeo. |
| 671 | * UngratefulBastard: Ren in "Nurse Stimpy". Stimpy goes through hell to cure Ren of his illness, and when Stimpy becomes ill in the process, Ren's only thought is exacting revenge on Stimpy. |
| 672 | * UndersideRide: On their way to Canada, the two hitch a ride on a train, at first we see two figures in a train cart that would be Ren and Stimpy, but it was actually two random guys shaped like them, and the real two are under the cart with their heads bumping on the tracks. |
| 673 | * UnderwaterFartGag: In "Space Madness", Ren farts in the bath. |
| 674 | * UniversalAdaptorCast: This is especially true for the space-themed shorts: "Space Madness", "Marooned", "Black Hole" and "The Scotsman in Space". |
| 675 | * UnmovingPlaid: The man who helps Ren and Stimpy move into Haggis's former mansion in "Hard Times for Haggis" has a shirt that features this. |
| 676 | * UnusualEuphemism: "''DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP '''TAPPING''' LIKE THAT, YOU '''BLOATED SACK OF PROTOPLASM?!?!'''''" |
| 677 | * UvulaEscapeRoute: In "The Boy Who Cried Rat", Ren is inside Stimpy's mouth. When a woman gives Stimpy some milk so that he can swallow Ren, Ren clings to Stimpy's uvula so he won't be washed down. |
| 678 | * VagueAge: Ren and Stimpy. In fact, one episode plays with this, by revealing that Ren is retirement age in dog years. |
| 679 | * VerySpecialEpisode: |
| 680 | ** "My Shiny Friend"[[note]](Games Animation)[[/note]] is perhaps the closest the show comes to having one. It vaguely addresses addiction, presumably without trying to be too preachy (i.e., as far as the writers are concerned; especially about [[DrugsAreBad one certain subject in particular]]). While the ([[TruthInTelevision not entirely]]) ridiculous premise of Stimpy being "addicted" to TV[[note]]As a result of {{Flanderization}}.[[/note]] may seem like the norm for this show, this episode is nonetheless being completely serious in addressing this problem, while at the same time, still being a comedy.[[note]]Stimpy appears to be praying to be cured...only to pray for "his TV". Later, he appears to be "cured" of his addiction to TV...but is now [[TheGamblingAddict addicted to gambling]] instead.[[/note]] |
| 681 | ** On the other hand, "The Littlest Giant"[[note]]Which was made during the John K. / Spumco era.[[/note]] comes somewhat closer, as it essentially addresses bullying, and what kind of effect(s) it can have on people (let alone poor Stimpy). |
| 682 | ** On the other, other hand, as far as John K. himself is concerned, "Son of Stimpy" may as well be a meta example, as it addresses what he feels are cheap film tricks used to create what he sees as fake "pathos". |
| 683 | ** Another potential candidate is "Ren's Pecs"[[note]]Also made during the Games era.[[/note]], which deals with body issues, and what can happen after getting cosmetic / plastic surgery. Case in point, in a reverse of "Stimpy's Big Day" / "The Big Shot", Ren becomes famous, but not only does he become a total jerk, there is no reunion, and Ren doesn't even recognize Stimpy when he (Stimpy) is working as a waiter. |
| 684 | * VomitDiscretionShot: |
| 685 | ** Ren pukes in "Travelogue" when he sees a hair in his soup, but the vomit itself is never visible. |
| 686 | ** "Magical Golden Singing Cheeses" contains a partial subversion; Ren turns away from the camera to vomit, but you can still see some come out of his mouth. |
| 687 | ** In "Monkey See Monkey Don't", Filthy the monkey loudly vomits into Ren's hand, but off-camera. |
| 688 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: The camera never cuts away when Stimpy spews up hairballs. |
| 689 | * WackySoundEffect: Like many of the cartoons which inspired it, this is often employed. It ranges from classics such as the jalopy horn when Ren strangles Stimpy in "Stimpy's Invention" to more inventive ones like a jet turbine starting up as George Liquor grows angrier in "Man's Best Friend". |
| 690 | * WalkieTalkieGagOver: In the prologue to the episode "Space Madness". |
| 691 | --> '''Ren:''' Come in, Cadet Stimpy. Do you read me?\ |
| 692 | '''Stimpy:''' Cadet Stimpy here. We read you. Roger.\ |
| 693 | ''[a man appears next to them]''\ |
| 694 | '''Man:''' Roger here. |
| 695 | * WeedingOutImperfections: In "The Last Temptation", when Ren temporarily dies and goes to "The Big Guy"'s house, he meets Wilbur Cobb, whom he assumes is the so-called "Big Man". Wilbur shows Ren weeds and a bug that represent his various vices, which are a spiky flower that represents his transgression (which he rips out of the ground), crab grass that represents his evil ways (that he poisons), and his greedy cigar beetle (which he kicks away). |
| 696 | * WelcomeToTheBigCity: Ren and Stimpy in "City Hicks" are immediately beat up by thugs and have their sheep stripped upon entering the city. They also are informed they can't just shovel dirt right off the bat, as it's a union town and they have to start at the bottom first. |
| 697 | * WhiteGloves: Worn by Stimpy. Don't ask why he has fingernails on them. |
| 698 | * WholePlotReference: "A Yard Too Far" is loosely based on the ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' cartoon "Pie Pirates". The crew even studied the short's structure before writing "Yard". |
| 699 | * WildTake: This show helped bring them back into fashion. |
| 700 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: The relationship between the protagonists bounces between this and VitriolicBestBuds. One show description even describes them as "somehow [managing] to stay friends". |
| 701 | * WordSaladLyrics: |
| 702 | ** The Canadian Kilted Yaksmen Anthem. |
| 703 | --->Our country reeks of trees,\ |
| 704 | Our yaks are really large...[[note]]And they smell like rotting beef carcasses!...[[/note]] |
| 705 | ** Also, the even more deranged [[JustifiedTrope psychedelic rock spoof]] "Crawl Into My World". |
| 706 | ** "Happy Happy, Joy Joy". Catchy, yes. Sane, ''absolutely not''. |
| 707 | --->If'n you ain't the grandaddy of all liars! The little critters in nature... They don't know that they're ugly. That's very funny: A fly marrying a bumblebee. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me]]! '''''WHY''''' '''DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME?!''' Happy happy joy joy... |
| 708 | * WorkOffTheDebt: "The Boy Who Cried Rat" ends with Ren and Stimpy doing chores for Mr. and Mrs. Pipe to earn back the five bucks Stimpy ate: |
| 709 | --> '''Mrs. Pipe:''' And after you're done with those dishes, you can vacuum the rug, paint the lawn, mow the hedge, shave the chickens... |
| 710 | * WorkingOnTheChainGang: Ren and Stimpy's job as pixies in "Pixie King" is more or less this, especially since they're whipped by policemen if they slack off for even a second. |
| 711 | --> '''Stimpy:''' Kissin' dew drops here, boss! |
| 712 | * WorldOfHam: It would be easier to list characters in this show who ''didn't'' overreact to everything or speak in screams. |
| 713 | * WorstNewsJudgmentEver: "Ren Hoek takes bubbly sponge bath"?! |
| 714 | ** Also shows up in "Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman": the top headline reads "Powdered Toast Man Lets Down Little Johnny!", while a smaller headline at the bottom of the page reads "World at War - Planet Doomed." |
| 715 | * WorthlessYellowRocks: A variant in "City Hicks": The duo initially run a farm that grows dust that they turn into food. After being devoid of rain for so long, there's a storm in the middle of the night that washes the dust away and makes the field fertile, but they consider the resulting fruits and vegetables growing in it to be worthless. |
| 716 | * WrittenSoundEffect |
| 717 | * YouAreFat: The old "insulting their weight" insult is used in the crude ''Ben and Stumpy'' puppet show performed in "Hard Times for Haggis", with Ren's knock-off doing it in response to Stimpy's knock-off hitting him with a hairball. |
| 718 | -->'''Ben:''' AARGH! You are fat! |
| 719 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The beatnik food items from "Eggyolkeo". |
| 720 | * YouMeanXmas: Yak Shaving Day. |
| 721 | ** "Yaksmas" from the ''Crock o' Christmas'' album and the episode "A Scooter for Yaksmas" is also an example. |
| 722 | * YourFavorite: Ren loves hog jowls, as seen in "A Yard Too Far". |
| 723 | * YouFool: Usually, it's a variant of this insult that Ren hurls at Stimpy-i.e "You EEEDIOT!!!" but he will play/say this straight too on occasion. |
| 724 | * ZanyScheme: "The Boy Who Cried Rat", which involved Ren posing as a mouse and Stimpy pretending to eat Ren so they could get $5 for rodent killing. Also "Big Baby Scam", which has Ren and Stimpy posing as babies so they could be pampered and not have to work for food or shelter. |
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