Prehistoric Stimpy
"Prehistoric Stimpy" | |||
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The Ren & Stimpy Show episode | |||
Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 6 | ||
Directed by | Bob Camp | ||
Story by | Bob Camp Ron Hauge | ||
Production code | RS-322 | ||
Original air date | November 5, 1994 (1994-11-05) | ||
Guest appearance | |||
Jack Carter as Wilbur Cobb | |||
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Prehistoric Stimpy is the sixth episode of the fourth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 5 November 1994.
Plot
Ren and Stimpy visit the Museum of Natural History where Wilbur Cobb is the guide who gives a confused, rambling and mostly inaccurate account of prehistoric life.[1] Cobb states that life on earth began as single-celled amoebas and the story goes back in time hundreds of millions of years into the distant past where amoebas lived in the sea.[1] One amoeba that resembles Stimpy annoys an amoeba that resembles Ren, causing the Ren amoeba to slap the Stimpy amoeba, which then divides into new amoebas.[1] In the present, Cobb then moves forward in time to the age of the Stimpyfish, which crawled out of the ocean onto land, only to fall into a tar pit while another Stimpyfish crawls out of the ocean to avoid the tar pit and instead is run over by a bus.[1] Ren dismisses this story until Cobb shows him a prehistoric bus.[1] Cobb then moves forward in time to speak of the Stimpysaurus, the "stupidest creature of all time", a dinosaur that resembles Stimpy which he is shown to be of very low intelligence as it slapped around by a dinosaur that resembles Ren.[1] In the present, Stimpy asks Cobb how the dinosaurs went extinct and receives baffling bizarre answers in response such as the dinosaurs went extinct because they watched too much television.[1] Cobb is arrested as he is revealed not to be a museum guide and as he is carried away shouts "I killed the dinosaurs!".[1] Ren and Stimpy prove their low intelligence by walking into a tar pit that is part of an exhibit and both drown.[1]
Cast
- Ren-voice of Billy West
- Wilbur Cobb-voice of Jack Carter
- Stimpy-voice of Billy West
Production
The episode was illustrated by the Mr. Big Cartoons studio of Sydney.[1] The cartoon was largely created by the showrunner, Bob Camp, who felt sorry for the financially distressed actor Jack Carter, and Prehistoric Stimpy was intended to be a showcase of Carter's vocal talents that would also give him some needed money.[2] The scene where Stimpy rips off pieces of Cobb's face was censored by the network.[3]
Reception
The American critic Thad Komorowski wrote that the episode was one of the stronger episodes that featured the recurring Wilbur Cobb character.[2]
Books and articles
- 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Komorowski 2017, p. 402.
- ^ a b Komorowski 2017, p. 249.
- ^ Komorowski 2017, p. 402-403.
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