"A Yard Too Far" is the second episode of the third season of The Ren & Stimpy Show, and aired on November 20, 1993.
Characters[]
Summary[]
Ren and Stimpy attempt to steal some hog jowls.
Plot[]
Ren and Stimpy are starving when they discover an enchanting stench leading them to a plate of hog jowls, Ren's favorite dish, sitting on a windowsill. However, Ren is reluctant to cross the house's fence because he is convinced that there is a vicious dog guarding the yard. Stimpy peers over the fence to check and informs him that there is no dog. Unfortunately, upon rushing over the fence, Ren discovers that while Stimpy was right about there being no dog, there is a baboon, which proceeds to viciously maul Ren.
Later on, the duo is given an opening, with the baboon having gone to sleep. Therefore, Ren rips off and sends Stimpy's skin under the fence to steal the jowls. While Stimpy's skin sneaks past most of the house, it is unfortunately caught by Mr. Pipe right before getting to the windowsill. Mistaken for a hog jowl, it is thrown to the baboon. Now skinless, Stimpy has no choice but to watch in horror as his skin gets devoured. Ren and Stimpy then disguise themselves as Mr. Pipe's wife. The baboon starts to growl, but the disguised Ren is able to calm it. Just as Ren and Stimpy reach the windowsill, Mr. Pipe unexpectedly declares that it's his wife's turn to get mauled by the baboon, resulting in yet another failed plan.
Finally, Ren uses a puppet of a female baboon to distract the baboon in the yard, a trick he learned from a "Sylvester the Chicken" cartoon. Within moments, the baboon is instantly drawn to the puppet. Meanwhile, Stimpy sneaks past the fence off-screen. Everything Ren does only makes it more smitten, and as per baboon tradition, Ren is even gifted a box of live maggots. It gets to the point where Stimpy's stealth is thrown off by an unexpected marriage between the baboon and the puppet. In the end, Stimpy successfully brings Ren his hog jowls at the cost of Ren having his other hand constantly used by the baboon; Ren doesn't seem to mind too much, though, and the duo happily gnaws on the jowls.
Trivia[]
- This episode was one of the episodes written at Spümcø, but was finished at Games Animation, as the company was fired from the show before it could be produced.
- The episode was originally written by John K. at Spümcø, before he was fired and it was switched to Games Animations. However, despite him writing the episode, he was left uncredited.
- In one attempt, Ren used and ordered Stimpy's skin to gets them the hog jowls, but mistaken as one of the hog jowls by Mr. Pipe before getting mauled and buried by the Baboon. But in the next scene, Stimpy has his skin again for the next attempt, disguising as Mrs. Pipe.
- Ren claims he saw the puppet gag in a Sylvester the Chicken cartoon, an obvious parody of Sylvester the Cat, and furthermore, his usage of a finger puppet to attract Tweety Bird in the 1949 Looney Tunes short, Bad Ol' Putty Tat.
- The Yogi Bear cartoon Pie Pirates served as inspiration for this episode's story.
- Unlike Pie Pirates, where Yogi and Boo Boo were trying to steal a huckleberry pie and dealt with a dog, Ren and Stimpy were trying to steal a plate of hog jowls while dealing with a baboon. Also unlike in Pie Pirates, Yogi and Boo Boo failed at the end of getting the huckleberry pie and Yogi made a soup out of the bone and inner tube they used on their last attempt, much to Boo Boo's disgust, while Ren and Stimpy succeed and happily eating some hog jowls at the end.
- For some reason, both Mr. And Mrs. Pipe legally owned a pet baboon. In real life, nobody is allowed to owns any non-domestic animal like a baboon, especially in the city.
- This is the first Season 3 episode released on VHS.
- A high quality version of "Greek Dance" is avaliable on YouTube, you can view it here.
Goofs[]
- Ren's five o'clock shadow disappears when they are whisked away by the scent of the hog jowls.
Production Music[]
- Greek Dance – Roy Henley (title card)
- Dusty Road Blues – Paul Lenart, Duke Levine, Richard Rosenblatt (Ren and Stimpy walking the streets, hungry)
- The Nutcracker: Dance of the Reed Flutes – Peter Tchaikovsky (Ren and Stimpy smell something)
- Donizetti: Overture from “Don Pasquale” – Lee Ashley [OGM] (Stimpy looking through the fence hole)
- Gay Activity – Clive Richardson (“Food for me! Food for me!”)
- Pizzicato Playtime – Sam Fonteyn (Stimpy looks to see if there’s a dog)
- Stealth by Night – Jack Coles (Ren runs into the yard and gets mauled)
- Dusty Road Blues – Paul Lenart, Duke Levine, Richard Rosenblatt (next scene begins)
- Dramatic Cue (h) – Ronald Hanmer (“Good, the baboon’s asleep!”)
- Pizzacato from Sylvia – Leo Delibes (Ren and Stimpy share a laugh)
- Uppers and Downers (1) – Kenny Graham (Ren tears Stimpy’s skin off)
- Uppers and Downers (2) – Kenny Graham (Stimpy’s bare body)
- Stealth by Night – Jack Coles (Stimpy’s skin crawling through the yard)
- Poet and Peasant Overture – Franz Suppe (baboon runs towards Mr. Pipe)
- Poppin’ Around – Bruce Campbell (Ren and Stimpy putting on an outfit)
- Verdi – Aria from “Rigoletto” (Caro Nome) – Neil Amsterdam [OGM] (the whole “dressed as the wife” scene)
- Peer Gynt – Anitra’s Dance – Edvard Grieg (“This old gag never fails!”)
- Fully Fashioned – George French (Ren’s puppet woos the baboon)
- Lush Life – William Loose (chocolate/grubs eating scene)
- Rossini: Overture from “William Tell” – Lee Ashley [OGM] (baboon and puppet are running to get married)
- Entry of the Bride – Leslie Pearson, Richard Wagner (Stimpy marries the baboon and puppet)
- Wedding Procession – Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Leslie Pearson (Stimpy throwing rice)
- Dusty Road Blues – Paul Lenart, Duke Levine, Richard Rosenblatt (honeymoon)
- Uppers and Downers (2) – Kenny Graham (drum roll)
- Sweet and Simple – Steve Race (Ren and Stimpy enjoying the hog jowls)