The Great Outdoors (The Ren & Stimpy Show)
| "The Great Outdoors" | |
|---|---|
| The Ren & Stimpy Show episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Vincent Waller Ken Bruce |
| Story by | John Kricfalusi Vincent Waller |
| Production code | RS5-13B |
| Original air date | March 27, 1993 |
The Great Outdoors is the 15th episode of the second season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that aired on the Nickelodeon network on 27 March 1993.
Plot[edit]
Ren and Stimpy go camping in the woods. The two go skinny-dipping at night, only to joined by Old Man Hunger and his mother, the Fat Lady. Ren tries to start a campfire, but only burns himself instead. Ren is drained dry by mosquitos. Ren contacts Beaver Fever from drinking dirty water, which causes to grow a beaver tail which he uses to attack Stimpy with.
Cast[edit]
- Ren-voice of Billy West
- Stimpy-voice of Billy West
- Old Man Hunger-voice of Billy West
- Fat Lady-voice of Billy West
Production[edit]
The episode was started by the Spümcø studio in 1992.[1] The production was delayed, and the lay-out stage was done at the Rough Draft Korea studio in Seoul instead of at the Spümcø studio was usual as a cost-saving measure.[1] Vincent Waller was in South Korea supervising the lay-out stage for The Great Outdoors when the Spümcø studio when learned on 21 September 1992 that Spümcø studio had lost the contract for The Ren & Stimpy Show, and that someone else would be finishing The Great Outdoors.[1] Ken Bruce of the Games Animation studio was sent out to replace Waller..[2]
Reception[edit]
The episode was met with a very negative reception in 1993 with many critics condemning Billy West's voice acting as Ren while the general feeling being that John Kricfalusi played Ren much better.[3] The American journalist Thad Komorowski wrote that The Great Outdoors was a weak episode with no real plot, and that the episode "lacked finesse" as the artists at Games Animation were clearly not interested in the story.[4]
Books[edit]
- Dobbs, G. Michael (2015). Escape – How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s. Orlando: BearManor Media. ISBN 1593931107.
- Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1629331836.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Komorowski 2017, p. 191.
- ^ Komorowski 2017, p. 227-228.
- ^ Komorowski 2017, p. 227.
- ^ Komorowski 2017, p. 228.
