The Ren and Stimpy Show: Difference between revisions

* [[And I Must Scream]]: The happy helmet 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.

* [[Angry Guard Dog]]: Double subverted; Stimpy announces that a home the two plan to steal food from is not guarded... by a dog. When Ren hears this and attempts the theft, Stimpy then makes an announcement:

* [[Animation Bump]]: The episodes done by Carbunkle Cartoons.

** And no, [[Puyo Puyo|it's not Carbuncle]].

* [[Aren't You Forgetting Someone?]]: At the end of "Ren's Pecs", Ren forgets to give Stimpy credit for his newfound fame and success.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In "Cheese Rush Days" after Ren double crosses Stimpy:

** Another example is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6KjNmN2BA 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.

* [[Art Evolution]]: The first season was done by a handful of studios, some of which didn't quite "get" Ren and Stimpy's art style. Things improved dramatically in season 2 when then-newcomer [[Rough Draft Studios]] 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 Mr. Big in Australia and Toon-Us-In in Korea ([[Wang Film Productions]] did a couple of episodes as well). The art style got noticeably flatter and more UPA-influenced around this time. With ''Adult Party Cartoon'', Spumco returned and the episodes became more detailed than ever.

* [[Art Shift]]: Stimpy's amateurish cartoon: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmAE6e6yVc I Like Pink]".

* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: 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.

* [[Ass Shove]]: Happens twice in the episode "Altruists". The first is Ren accidentally shoving his finger into Stimpy's ass [[Domestic Abuse|while they were performing]] [[Percussive Therapy|their routine beatings]], and the second happens when Ren intentionally pushed a tile inbetween Stimpy's buttcheeks.

** Another occurs in "Son of Stimpy/Stimpy's First Fart," in which Stimpy does this to Santa.

* [[The Atoner]]: Ren, in "Bell Hops", after hearing Mr. Noggin's sob story:

* [[Author Avatar]]: John K has admitted Mr. Horse to be heavily based on himself.

** 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.

* [[Big Red Button]]: "[[Tempting Fate|The Jolly, CANDY-LIKE button.]]"

* [[Big Sleep]]: Discussed in "Big House Blues":

'''Ren:''' ''[gets close to Stimpy's ear]'' ...'''He's DEAD!!! ''HE'S DEAD, YOU IDIOT!!'' Do you know what "dead" means? That's what ''we'll'' be if we don't get out of here!''' }}

* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: Parodied to the extreme in "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball", which had Ren and Stimpy living in a birdhouse, yet there's plenty of room inside.

* [[Burping Contest]]: Done by two lummoxes in "Lair of the Lummox", with the best belcher winning a female lummox.

* [[But Now I Must Go]]: 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:

* [[Call Back]]: The shocked bystanders watching Ren through the window, featured in both "Nurse Stimpy" and later, "Stimpy's Fan Club".

** Remember when Ren would pray for huge pectoral muscles in season 1? Guess what he got in season 3's "Ren's Pecs"?

* [[Collector of the Strange]]: Ren's collection of used celebrity underwear in one episode, and, in another, his collection of rare, incurable diseases. Not to mention Stimpy's dried booger collection.

** You mean his "magic nose goblins"?

** Ren also had a collection of celebrity wigs in "The Last Temptation of Ren".

** And autographed glass coffee tables in "Ren Needs Help".

* [[The Final Frontier]]: The Adventures of Commander Höek and Cadet Stimpy, "'''''IN THE YEAR 400 BILLION!'''''"

* [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]: The ending to "Sven Hoek":

* [[Flanderization]]: Games Animation episodes tend to boil down Ren and Stimpy's personalities to "[[Jerkass]]" and "[[Too Dumb to Live|idiot]]" respectively. Ren's psychotic tantrums are also Flanderized a great deal, to the point where he does one in almost every other G.A. episode.

* [[Flashback Cut]]: 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.

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Seen in "Who's Stupid Now?" when the boss insults Ren.

* [[I Will Show You X]]: In a ''Ren and Stimpy'' episode dealing with the Stimpy facing his own mortality and going throuh various emotional phases. To illustate "Anger", there's a short bit where Ren is at the dinner table, ready to eat.

'''Stimpy''': [[Mood Whiplash|TOOAST??!]] ''HEEEERE'S'' YOUR '''TOOOOAST'''!!!! *slams toast into Ren's face and rubs it violently* }}

* [[I Will Tear Your Arms Off]]: In "Sven Hoek", this is one of the threats Ren gives Stimpy and Sven for messing up the house.

* [[Jerkass]]: Ren.

* [[Kill'Em All]]: "Ren's Brain" ends with the Earth being blown up, due to a chain reaction of everyone watching [[The Ren and Stimpy Show]] exploding.

'''Ren''': You EEDIOTS!!! }}

* [[Law of Disproportionate Response]]

* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Wilbur Cobb in "Prehistoric Stimpy".

** In "Wiener Barons", the narrator flat out insults Ren and Stimpy when they don't do what he's describing.

** 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.

** 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.

* [[Luxury Prison Suite]]: 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.

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: 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:

And we will probably go to ''[[Sound Effect Bleep|*fart*]]'',<br />

And that is our great reward<br />

For being the royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen. }}

* [[Malaproper]]: Stimpy often falls into this, such as in "I Love Chicken":

* [[Man of a Thousand Voices]]: Once Games Animation took over, Billy West did the vast majority of voices on the show, including many female characters.

* [[The Man They Couldn't Hang]]: "The scrawny one don't weigh enough, and the fat one ain't got no neck!"

* [[Nurse with Good Intentions]]: "Nurse Stimpy".

* [[Off-Model]]: One of the most prominent aspects of the show in its first two seasons was John's strict rule that the animators were forbidden from ever drawing the same expression or pose, or drawing any character the exact same way twice. Note that this isn't the typical definition of Off Model (i.e. in that it's bad drawing) so much as it was John's way to breaking his animators out of bad habits and to keep them from falling into formula acting and drawing--although many sloppy drawings did get into the show, which John considers among the many mistakes Ren and Stimpy made.

** Not to mention there were many studios behind the animation process, including [[Rough Draft Studios]] (in their first project) and [[Carbunkle Cartoons]]<ref> Mr. Big Cartoons in Australia, [[Wang Film Productions]] in Taiwan and effects company [[Metrolight Studios]] also had hands in the production</ref>

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: A few of the music tracks feature this.

* [[Parody Name]]: In "The Last Temptation of Ren", Ren throws out all his worldly possessions, including celebrity toupees of [[William Shatner|William Shallert]] and Bazoo the Clone.

* [[Performance Anxiety]]: Ren experienced this in "Dog Tags" when he was forced to clean himself in public to prove that he was a dog. After weakly licking his leg:

* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Ren's parents in "Ren Seeks Help".

* [[Pilot]]: "Big House Blues", one of the most gorgeously-animated made-for-TV cartoons of all time.

* [[Polka Dot Paint]]: 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.

* [[Porn Stash]]: 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.

* [[Potty Emergency]]: 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.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: In the Adult Party Cartoon episode, "Ren Seeks Help," [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Ren seeks psychological help]] after abusing Stimpy in some ([[Noodle Incident|unexplained]]) manner that is regarded as being horrible, [[Even Evil Has Standards|even by Ren himself]]. He goes to Mr. Horse and proceeds to tell him about his youth, and the various displays of genuine psychopathy he exhibited then. He finally works up the nerve to tell Mr. Horse what it was he did to Stimpy, and then asks, "What do you think is wrong with me?" After some consideration, Mr. Horse says "So you wanna know what's wrong with you? You ''really'' wanna know?" He then ''punches Ren in the face'' and screams '''"YOU'RE FUCKING CRAZY!!!''' '''''THAT'S''''' '''WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!!"'''

* [[Small Reference Pools]]: 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 "Ballad in F-Minor Op. 52", or Josef Suk's "Asrael" symphony, or Claude Debussy's "Canope", or Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini"?

* [[Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!]]: In "Superstitious Stimpy", Ren, fed up with Stimpy praying to a beef carcass he's supposed to be cooking, smites "juju" (which Stimpy believes in).

'''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) }}

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Seen in "Fire Dogs 2".

** In "Atruists" from the same, later series, Stimpy turns red with embarrassment frontally when he notices where Ren is (looking back at Stimpy face up, having gotten stuck inside a toilet drain), after Stimpy foolishly and mistakenly thought the voice he kept hearing was some spirit's rather than Ren's, who kept calling for him.

* [[Title Drop]]: Lampshaded in "Marooned": Ren remarks that he and Stimpy are marooned.

* [[Title Montage]]: Every clip from the opening comes from "Big House Blues", which is rather unusual. Usually in a montage opening, clips are taken from multiple episodes.

* [[Toilet Humor]]

* [[Word of Gay]]: In a January 28, 1997 interview with the San Francisco Examiner, creator John Kricfalusi effectively outed the pair as a homosexual couple.

* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: The Canadian Kilted Yaksmen Anthem.

Our yaks are really large... }}

** Also, the even more deranged [[Justified Trope|psychedelic rock spoof]] "Crawl Into My World."

** Catchy, yes. Sane, no.

* [[Working on the Chain Gang]]: 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.

* [[World of Ham]]: Do I even need to give an example?

* [[Worst News Judgment Ever]]: "Ren Hoek takes bubbly sponge bath"?!