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Ren's Pecs

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"Ren's Pecs"
The Ren & Stimpy Show episode
Episode no.Season 3
Episode 5
Directed byRon Hughart
Story byRichard Pursel
John Kricfalusi (uncredited)
Production codeRS-304
Original air dateDecember 18, 1993 (1993-12-18)
Guest appearance
Gary Owens as Charles Globe
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Ren's Pecs is the fifth episode of the third season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 18 December 1993.

Plot

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Ren and Stimpy are on a beach somewhere in California where Ren is humiliated by a bully whom the "beach babes" prefer.[1] Ren wishes that he was not so scrawny, and at which point Charles Globe (a parody of Charles Atlas) emerges from the waves.[1] Charles Globe tells Ren that he should get a Pec-Toe-Plastic surgery to give him the pectoral muscles he desires.[1] Stimpy volunteers his fat from his buttocks to assist with the operation.[1] After a painful operation, Ren is endowed with the pectoral muscles of his dreams.[1] Ren returns to the beach where he beats up the bully and wins the love of the "beach babes".[2] Ren becomes a Hollywood star and credits his success to Charles Globe.[2] Ren lives in luxury in a penthouse in Los Angeles while Stimpy works as his maid.[2] Ren has forgotten whom Stimpy even was.[2]

Cast

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  • Ren-voice of Billy West
  • Charles Globe-voice of Gary Owens
  • Stimpy-voice of Billy West
  • Bully-voice of Bob Camp
  • Beach babe-voice of Cheryl Chase
  • Doctor-voice of Billy West
  • Doctor's Assistant-voice of Cheryl Chase

Production

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The episode was written for the second season of The Ren & Stimpy Show by Richard Pursel and John Kricfalusi of the Spümcø studio.[2] After Kricfalusi was fired on 21 September 1992, the episode was assigned to the new Games Animation studio who held it over to the third season.[2] The original version called for the episode to be half an hour long and was to feature Ren's fall from being a Hollywood star and to return to Stimpy at the end.[2] The Games Animation studio cut the story short by leaving Ren as a Hollywood star.[2]

Reception

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The American journalist Thad Komorowski gave Ren's Pecs two and a half stars out of five.[1]

Books and articles

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  • Dobbs, G. Michael (2015). Escape – How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s. Orlando: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1593931100.
  • Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1629331836.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Komorowski 2017, p. 384.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Komorowski 2017, p. 385.

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