Original air date: 5/23/1993 (produced in 1992)
Ren and Stimpy are Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen, thousands of years ago, in 1856; after demands from Stimpy, the two are sent out into the tundras, jungles, forests and deserts of Canada to colonize it.
Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen contains examples of...
- Artistic License – Biology: The yaks in this cartoon have the digitigrade hoof formation and gait of camels and llamas (whose entire toes, not just hooves, make contact with the ground as they move). In real life, yaks and most other hoofed mammals (e. g. horses, pigs, and deer) are unguligrade (the design of their hooves makes the hooves only part of their bodies that touch the ground as they move).
- Big "SHUT UP!": Ren's yak screams this when Stimpy keeps singing the anthem. He can still hear it even after Stimpy stopped, which causes him to go crazy.
- Body Horror: One of the bees that sting Ren's tongue gets its stinger stuck and ripped off (which means it is going to die afterwards).
- Bowdlerise: A line from the RCKY anthem, "And we will probably go to hell", was a subject of censorship, specifically the word "hell", which was censored by a fart.
- Call-Back: Ren's paranoid delusions about having marmosets set loose upon him and Stimpy in "In The Army" turn out to not be quite so delusional.
- Captain Obvious: Stimpy regarding the Kodiak marmoset.Stimpy: Oh my God! He's killing us!
- The Chew Toy: Once again Ren receives the brunt of the episode's Amusing Injuries.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: The other Yaksmen are left behind with the women. Ren, of course, is jealous.
- The Comically Serious: The bear during the anthem.
- Continuity Cameo: The Crocostimpys from "Untamed World" appear during the RCKY Anthem.
- Crowd Song: Several different creatures sing along with the RCKY Anthem, voiced by the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles.
- Dowsing Device: One is used to find a vein of Canada's greatest resource: dirt. It consists of a shovel with some fruit placed on top.
- Eat Dirt, Cheap: When they run out of food, our heroes decide to dig for Canada's greatest natural resource...dirt.
- Follow the Bouncing Ball: At one point in the RCKY Anthem, with Ren's head as the ball.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Ren does this to his yak, who was going crazy because of Stimpy's singing. Afterwards, the yak says, “Thanks, I needed that.”
- Heroic BSoD: Ren has a short one in the desert.
- Killer Rabbit: The Kodiak marmoset, the world's largest...smallest...primate (in real life, the smallest primate is Madame Berthe's mouse lemur of Madagascar, and the largest primate is the eastern lowland gorilla of eastern central Africa).
- Maniac Monkeys: The Kodiak marmoset which attacks and beats up the duo, despite its small size.
- Moose and Maple Syrup: Saying that this episode's portrayal of the Great White North is inaccurate is putting it mildly. Of course, John K. is Canadian himself, so he gets a free pass.
- Nightmare Face: The yak makes one with a drooling smile.
- Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: Nothing is more mysterious than a tiny mammal beating the snot out of Ren and Stimpy.
- Scary Stinging Swarm: In the jungle, Ren snatches from Stimpy the canteen...which turns out to be filled with bees that sting his tongue.
- Sound-Effect Bleep: A loud fart noise covers up the "hell" in the RCKY Anthem in the Nickelodeon version (though not the MTV one). It's rather explicitly written and crossed out in the Follow the Bouncing Ball portion of the segment.
- Toilet Humour: At the end of the RCKY Anthem, an intestine is one of the things being thrown in the air. If you look carefully, you can see a stool fall off one end.
- Visual Pun: A humpback whale, known for their vocalizing songs, is shown literally singing the RCKY anthem.
