What rolls down stairs,
alone or in pairs,
rolls over your neighbour’s dog?
What’s great for a snack,
and fits on your back?
It’s log, log, log!
It’s log, log,
it’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood.
It’s log, log,
it’s better than bad, it’s good!
I love it when Ren fights the power of the Happy Helmet, especially the corners of his mouth ratcheting up.
That was my favorite line in the entire series!
This is my favorite episode, too!
“I’m gonna hit ya…and you’re gonna fallllll. And I’m gonna look down…and IIII’m gonna laaaaugh.”
Anytime Ren went crazy (which seemed to be all the time), I wanted to die laughing. The episode where he’s jealous of Stimpy’s popularity and builds himself a Stimpy robot to hide inside while he slowly loses his mind? Love that one!
This thread is making my thirsty for a glass of Dog Water…
Yes - Dog Water! Bottled in the Swiss Alps and using only the finest, pure-bred dog saliva…
I regularly use many of Ren’s lines from that breakdown: “The idol of milllions – he’s a FOOL!” “how easily I could … end the farce,” “And with these hands I hold the fate of millions,” etc.
It’s too bad so many people are unfamiliar with that scene. It is indeed disturbing, but in a brilliant, brilliant way. It’s about the greatest 3 minutes of animation I’ve ever seen.
ETA: It’s also too bad people don’t understand why, when they’re experiencing a bad day, I tell them to just “Lie back and think pleasant thoughts: chicken pot pie. Chocolate-covered raisins. Glazed ham.”
Oh my god how I loved this show. I let my kids watch it last year for the first time and they loved it too, but thought I was a little weird. But yay for Ren and Stimpy!! I think the Space Madness episode is my favorite, running neck and neck with Happy Happy Joy Joy song.
On a related note, I remember an interview type show that featured several cartoon voice actors and one was the peerless Billy West.
He explained how he does both of the characters’ voices and how taxing it is to come up with the nuances to getting Ren’s vocal projections just right.
Cut to a shot of West in front of a mic doing a primal scream–red-faced, eyes bulging going at it, full-tilt.
Back to the interview with West and he goes, “I’ll get what I think is a perfect take and my producer will say to me, ‘You’re…98% there,’ and then we run it back again with *more *feeling.”
The guy is one of the immortals.
I’ve always, always, preferred John Kricfalusi’s version of Ren’s voice. Actually, I’ve always been pissed off at Nickelodeon for forcing Kricfalusi out of his own creation.
Ren’s laugh at the end of this clipalways makes me smile. For a while I had it set as the sound of maximizing a window on my computer.
Damn you all! shakes fist
I watched these clips right before I had to go to work! Now I’m all red faced with tears in my eyes and I can’t stop giggling like Anderson Cooper making a poop joke! I’m gonna get drug-tested for sure… I’ll just say the Dope made me laugh.
As much of a genius as Kricfalusi was, he was nearly impossible to work with and was the sort of writer/director convinced that he didn’t need any editing and that his ideas were absolutely flawless; like most writer/directors, he was wrong.
The show wasn’t as good after he left, but look at the 2002 version, the Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon, on which Kricfalusi was given almost total artistic freedom. It’s absolutely unwatchable crap.
Great shows are usually a collaborative effort; while Nickelodeon needed Kricfalusi, Kricfalusi equally needed them.
Stinky Wizzleteets.
This excerpt from Fire House Dogs is another classic. A fat lady’s ass turning into a heat shield made me spit up whatever I was eating or drinking at the time.
Narrator: How can he possibly resist the maddening urge to eradicate history at the mere push of a single button? The beautiful, shiny button? The jolly, candy-like button? Will he hold out, folks? Can he hold out?
Stimpy: NO I CAN’T!
:smack: after reading the other posts HOW could I forget Sven Hoek?!?!?! Ok, Space Madness, Sven Hoek, and Stimpy’s Invention are tied for first place.
That walrus scene in Rubber Nipples cracked me up!
I may have to break out the DVDs…there are so many good bits in that show (the original set of shows)!
“Rubber Nipple Salesmen” was today’s feature. The Small One and I laughed until we cried.
What’s great is they obviously had too many jokes to fit in to write a real ending, so it just ends with Mr. Pipes saying “Here’s five bucks. I’ll take the whole mess of them. Now get out!” and kicking them out the door, where for no reason at all they land on the backs of two bulls and ride off into the sunset.
Also on today was the Western episode with the wonderful “Hangin’ Song.”
R&S had some awesome classic moments, but it really has not aged well. I remember seeing a couple of episodes on TV recently and all the slow & gross out scenes just seemed pointless.
Ripping Friends was even worse. I think Kricfalusi lived long enough to see his talent escape him.
I may just have to get the DVD’s. We watched this with our son when he was around 9 and found it hilarious in an adult humor way moreso than in a kiddie cartoon way.
Other than the snippets already mentioned, the only one that comes to mind was when Ren adopted a prisoner, Kowalski. All he wanted to eat was meat. A meat sandwich on toasted meat.
Since Hub is such a carnivore, the line, “What do you want for breakfast, Kowalski?” answered with “Meat” is a common sound in this house.
“Both of them?” Now with video!
I always had a fondness for when they went mining for nose nuggets.
Stimpy: “Oh, no! He’s been split into his evil half…”
Ren#1: “Mwhahahahaha!”
Stimpy: “…and his indifferent half!”
Ren #2: “Meh.”