Original air date: 11/19/1994
I Love Chicken
Stimpy falls in love with a raw chicken that Ren wanted to eat.
Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman
Powdered Toastman retires after failing to help Little Johnny. Waffle Woman uses this opportunity to seek her revenge on Powdered Toast, and an epic battle ensues.
I Love Chicken contains examples of:
- Anthropomorphic Food: The titular chicken.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: 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.
- Ax-Crazy: "We grindy, grindy, grindy...."
- Call-Back: This isn't the first time we see the "I Love Lucy" title parodied.
- Companion Cube: The chicken to Stimpy, as a romantic variant.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Ren when he starts missing being friends with Stimpy, and Stimpy after realizing Ren ate his chickennote .
- Here We Go Again!: Stimpy falling in love with a goat head at the end.
- Interspecies Romance: Stimpy and the titular chicken.
- Malaproper:Stimpy: Aren't you just the cat's B.O.!
- Parrot Exposition:Stimpy: And I consented to give my hand in... marriage [to the chicken].Ren: MARRIAGE?!
- Say My Name: Stimpy screams "CHICKEN!!!" at least twice in the episode when something bad happens to her.
- Shout-Out: The title is a reference to I Love Lucy.
- Through a Face Full of Fur: Ren turns red with anger when Stimpy won't let him have the chicken for dinner (due to the latter having fallen for it).
- Title Drop:Stimpy: I love Chicken, and Chicken loves me.
- Thanksgiving Episode: Could be seen as this.
- Visual Pun:Stimpy: "Let me spell it out for you, mister." [the word "mister" gets spelled over Ren's head]
- Wing Ding Eyes: Stimpy's pupils become hearts when he starts falling in love with the titular chicken.
Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman contains examples of:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Waffle Woman.
- Also, in the newspaper story that covers Powdered Toast Man failing to help Little Johnny, we see a title that reads "Blubbering Boy Betrayed By Breaded Boob!".
- Bittersweet Ending: The episode ends with Powdered Toast Man defeating Waffle Woman and saving Little Johnny... after the Earth has been reduced to nothing but large chunks floating in space.
- Call-Back: In one scene, a washed-up Powdered Toast Man was watching "I Like Pink".
- The End of the World as We Know It: The result of Powdered Toast Man and Waffle Woman's fight.
- Heroic BSoD: Powdered Toast Man after failing to fulfill Little Johnny's wish of seeing the president before his naptime. He eventually snaps out of it when Waffle Woman threatens to take away Little Johnny's will of watching TV.
- Like an Old Married Couple: Powdered Toast Man and Waffle Woman argue like this during their battle.
- Ocular Gushers: Little Johnny cries like this.
- 10-Minute Retirement: Powdered Toast Man goes through this after failing to help Little Johnny, until Waffle Woman threatens to take away Little Johnny's "TV time".
- Unusual Euphemism: "Holy cataclysm!"
- Worst News Judgment Ever: 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."
