"An Abe Divided" is the sixth episode of the third season of The Ren & Stimpy Show, and aired on December 18, 1993.
Characters[]
- Ren Höek
- Stimpy
- Sergeant Big Butt
- Ren's Limo Babes
- Pigeons
- Mrs. Buttloaves
- Old Man
- Children
- Squirrel
- Fat Homeless Man
- Abraham Lincoln (seen as a ghost)
Summary[]
Ren and Stimpy are assigned to guard the Lincoln Memorial. However, Ren breaks open the statue's head after hearing about a rumored treasure inside, only to find caramel corn. Now they must repair the head before Sergeant Big Butt finds out.
Plot[]
The episode begins in Washington DC, where Ren and Stimpy find a rotten maggot-covered steak in the trash can. Ren, in amazement, discovers an ad stating "Security Men to guard President. $BIG MONEY$".
The duo rush to the the Lincoln Memorial and ask Sergeant Big Butt, the supervisor, for a job for guarding the large memorial statue of the former president, Abraham Lincoln himself. However, Sergeant Big Butt threatens the two that they will get towels if they disgrace their country. Stimpy says that he likes towels, but it turned out the Sergeant was talking about slapping them with towels, as she demonstrates.
The two are finally assigned to guard the Lincoln statue. Sergeant Big Butt demonstrates how to clean the statue by grabbing Ren and using him as a wash cloth to briefly wash the statue. Suddenly, Sergeant Big Butt looks up to the statue's left shoulder to see three trouble-making pigeons that have pooped on the statue. Quickly, she grabs Stimpy and throws him to shoo the birds away. Then, she hands over the duo the buckets of water and brushes as she forces them to get to work. She tells them, "Don't screw up," and leaves.
Ren angrily begins washing the president. Stimpy, however, believes the Lincoln statue is Santa Claus. He hops up onto the statue's lap and lists it the things he want for Christmas. But Ren throws a brush towards Stimpy's head to snap him out of it and explains him that it is a memorial. This causes Stimpy, as usual, to cry, thinking Santa is dead which makes Ren feels annoyed and frustrated over his friend's stupidity.
The next morning, as the duo welcome tourists to the Lincoln Memorial, Ren overhears an elderly man whisper to his grandson that there is treasure inside Lincoln's head. Dreaming that he would become rich, Ren forces the tourists out of the memorial.
Then, Ren schemes to find the way on how he can get inside the statue's head. He jumps up the nostril trying to get inside, and gets stuck in the process. Hearing Ren yell for Stimpy for help, the cat notices a coin slot machine on the left side of the statue's chair, which reads "See the president pick his nose" for five cents. Luckily, Stimpy pulls out a single nickel from his pocket and drops it into a slot, hoping that he can get Ren out in no time. The statue's left arm moves jerkily and uses one finger to pick Ren (as a booger) out of its nose. It sticks him under its chair where he discovers the collection of skeletons of dead security guards, who were wiped there as boogers as well.
Later, Ren and Stimpy use a two-man saw to cut the statue's head off. During the process, Stimpy tells Ren that the president's head is full of "beautiful, glorious, golden caramel corn", but Ren disbelieves him, and the two continue sawing. Finally, Ren tells Stimpy to grab the head and warns him not drop it. But then, Stimpy lets the president's head fall and shatter as he grabs Ren's head instead by mistake.
Angered, Ren slaps Stimpy away and jumps down to the pieces of the president's head to look for a treasure, until, of course, he discovers that the head really is filled with caramel corn, just like Stimpy stated before.
As Stimpy gobbles up the corns, Ren laughs in embarrassment, but then stops and gawks at the headless president statue. Fearing that they will get in a lot trouble, Ren forces Stimpy to glue the head back together.
Stimpy tries twice to repair the head, first making Santa Claus and then Fidel Castro. Upon smashed the head the second time, the pieces of the statue's head turn to dust.
Ren spies a hot dog cart and hands Stimpy a rope of hot dogs. Stimpy creates a Lincoln-looking head that Ren finds "beautiful." Unfortunately, the pigeons return and devour the head entirely.
The two try everything else to replace the head, from a penny, to a trophy of the elk, to a Moai head, to the head of the Statue of Liberty. Finally, they select to a huge dumpster, on which Ren uses a chalk to draw Lincoln's face. "Needs hair," says Stimpy, so Ren lights the trash in the dumpster on fire.
The two stand back to admire their work and congratulate each other when suddenly, a fat homeless man arises from under the dumpster, lifting it high. He jumps down in front of them and thanks them for the dumpster's decorations, and walks off carrying the dumpster.
Their hopes are lost, Ren sobs, and prays to the spirit of "old honest Abe" for help. The ghost of Abraham Lincoln appears, but angry over Ren and Stimpy destroying his memorial's head, refuses to help them and kicks them in their butts.
The next day, an angry Sergeant Big Butt asks Ren and Stimpy what they have to say for themselves. Ren blames Stimpy. Sergeant Big Butt grabs the duo in one giant fist and takes them away.
Later, Sergeant Big Butt allows all the tourists inside the memorial to the Lincoln statue, with Ren and Stimpy on top as the statute's head's replacement.
Trivia[]
- The pigeons that eat the hot dogs and try to steal nuts from a squirrel resemble the Goodfeathers Gang from Animaniacs but rougher.
- This is the last episode to air in 1993.
- When the Lincoln memorial picks its nose, it appears to have went up Ren’s butthole.
- The skeletons underneath on the bottom part of the Lincoln Memorial were previous employees, who tried to get the hidden treasure inside of the head, but failed and died in vain.
- Stimpy did mistake the Lincoln Memorial statue for Santa Claus while he and Ren were cleaning it. Later on the episode, while fixing the head of the memorial after they accidentally destroyed it while looking for the treasure, Stimpy's first attempt at reconstructing the broken head resembled Santa Claus and Ren says, "That's the wrong President."
- Wilbur Cobb mentions "rubber nipples" at the very end of the episode, an obvious call back to last season's "Rubber Nipple Salesmen".
- Even though this is the prototype version of Wilbur Cobb, he makes two cameo appearances (his first true appearance would be in "Stimpy's Cartoon Show").
- Some fans have speculated that Big Butt was a trans woman, but Bob Camp dismissed this. According to him, Big Butt was always a woman.
- This is the second, and last episode, that Jim Gomez directs for the show.
- A photograph of a steak may have been used when Ren and Stimpy found the steak in a trash can.
Production Music[]
- John Brown's Body (b) - Brian Gulland, Richard Harvey (title card)
- Pomp and Ceremony - Frank Damico (White House exterior)
- Valse Moderne - George Fenton, John Leach (Ren and Stimpy eating food out of the trash)
- Setting the Trap - Dick Walter ("Hey, look!")
- Valse Moderne - George Fenton, John Leach (Ren and Stimpy jump out of the trash)
- Mini-March - Laurie Johnson (Sgt. Big Butt revealed)
- Music for Percussion (8 to 13) - Laurie Johnson ("Do you know what we give you if you disgrace our country?")
- Frontal Attack C - Sammy Burdson ("Present... TOWELS!")
- Short Roll [#4.5] - Eric Allen ("Ten-hut! About face!")
- Music for Percussion (1 to 7) - Laurie Johnson (towel whippings)
- March to Battle - Laurie Johnson ("All right, ladies, this is the president.")
- Domestic (C-164) - William Loose [Capitol Records] (scrubbing the president with Ren)
- Be Cool (b) - Benny Carter (hoodlum pigeons)
- Links and Interjections (I - 1 - 12) - Alan Braden ("Hey! Take that!")
- Absolute Zero - Laurie Johnson (Stimpy wide-eyed)
- Jingle Bells (d) - Simon Benson (Stimpy on Abe Lincoln with a Christmas list)
- Funeral March - Frederic Chopin, Fiachra Trench ("A memorial? I didn't know Santy Claus was DEAD!")
- Dramatic Impact 2 - Ivor Slaney (Ren slaps Stimpy)
- Rossini: Morning from "William Tell" - Lee Ashley [OGM] (morning)
- Investiture - Bruce Campbell ("Yep, he was a great man.")
- Mists of Illusion - Gilbert Vinter (Ren overhears that there's a treasure in Abe's head)
- Swing of the Hills - Stan Livingston [OGM] (Ren daydreaming of riding a limo out of Abe's head)
- The Hurry Up - Kenny Graham (Ren pushes all the tourists out)
- Tautwalk - Laurie Johnson (Ren wondering how to get inside Abe's head)
- Rossini: Overture from "The Barber of Seville" - Lee Ashley [OGM] (Ren's stuck in Abe's nose)
- Holiday Playtime - Cedric King-Palmer (sawing Abe's head off)
- Playbill - Wilfred Burns (Stimpy describing what's in the president's head)
- Skyscraper City - Ronald Hanmer (more sawing)
- Workaday World - Jack Beaver ("Oh boy oh boy, I'm gonna be rich!")
- Short Fanfare - Edward White; Timpani Roll - Sammy Burdson (caramel corn revealed)
- Stealth by Night - Jack Coles ("Caramel corn. In the president's head.")
- Dramatic Impact 2 - Ivor Slaney (Ren screams at the sight of no head on the statue)
- Main Street - Alec Gould (Ren pacing)
- Jingle Bells (d) - Simon Benson (Stimpy creates the head as Santa's)
- City Desk - Ronald Hanmer (Stimpy's second attempt)
- Light Movement - George Hormel [Capitol Records] (new head)
- The Kill - Brian Beamish, Garry Hardman ("Okay squirrel, hand over your nuts...")
- William Tell Overture (a) - Gioacchino Rossini, Fiachra Trench (birds eat sausage Lincoln head)
- Shopping Spree - Laurie Johnson (multiple replacement heads tried)
- Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries - Lee Ashley [OGM] (someone lifts up the dumpster head)
- The March of the Ants - Sidney Crooke (homeless person revealed)
- Secret Hopes A - Mladen Franko (Ren begging the spirit of Old Honest Abe)
- Saw Theme - William Trytel (Headless Lincoln kicks Ren and Stimpy)
- Rossini: Morning from "William Tell" - Lee Ashley [OGM] (morning again)
- Stealth by Night - Jack Coles ("Do you have anything to say, before I KILL you?!")
- Battle Hymn of Republic (a) - Graham De Wilde ("A chicken in every garage, mom's apple pie, and rubber nipples for everyone!")