Original air date: 10/20/1996 (on MTV; produced in 1995)
Sammy and Me: Stimpy obsesses over Sammy Mantis, a famous singer who bites people's heads off.
The Last Temptation: After Ren has a near-death experience from choking on his oatmeal, he becomes a changed man, and gives Stimpy all the money he stole from his piggy bank over the years, making him rich.
"Sammy and Me" contains examples of:
- Affectionate Parody:
- Sammy Mantis is a parody on Sammy Davis Jr.
- Joey Beetle is a parody on Joey Bishop.
- Dean Mayfly is a parody on Dean Martin.
- Peter Locust is a parody on Peter Lawford.
- Liberoache is a parody on Liberace.
- One of the guests on Sammy's party resembles and sounds like Jerry Lewis.
- Artistic License – Biology: In real life, only female mantises bite their partners' heads off before mating. In the show, Sammy, a male mantis, can bite anyone's head off regardless of their species.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Liberoache has several Stock Femur Bone s in his head.
- Fanboy: Stimpy spends the entirety of the episode obsessing over Sammy, to the point of stealing his trash and exoskeletons.
- Off with His Head!: Sammy decapitates Liberoache and Stimpy by sucking their brains out and then eating their heads.
- Shadow Discretion Shot: Sammy eating Liberoache's head is shown is silhouette, despite showing him eating his brains in full detail several frames prior.
- Verbal Tic: Sammy uses words "man" and "babe" quite frequently.
"The Last Temptation" contains examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: After Ren dies, he arrives on a bus in front of the mansion owned by "The Big Guy", and thinks that Wilbur Cobb is him. However, it later turns out that The Big Guy is Mr. Pipe, and Wilbur is just his gardener.
- Easy Come, Easy Go: After giving Stimpy all the money he stole from his piggy bank for the last 20 years, he becomes rich and buys various stuff, which Wilbur confiscates for not being fairly bought.
- My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: When Ren chokes on his oatmeal, he has memories of him and Stimpy as embryos and them fighting in a war.
