"I Love Chicken" is the tenth episode of the fourth season.
Characters[]
Summary[]
Stimpy falls in love with a raw chicken that Ren wanted to eat.
Plot[]
The episode begins with Ren coming home from work one night with groceries. Stimpy waits on him, bringing Ren his slippers and tobacco pipe. After Ren confirms that Stimpy did the housework, he tells Stimpy to make them dinner. After going through some of the groceries, Stimpy sees a chicken - who he dubs Chicken - and decides to cook it into a rotisserie chicken. However, after beginning to get it ready, he realizes that Chicken is sentient, as it grabs his hand. Stimpy and Chicken have a love at first sight meeting and fall deeply in love. Ren, tired of waiting, goes into the kitchen, seeing Stimpy and Chicken kissing, and calls them 'skulkers in the dark'. Ren is outraged and demands his dinner. Stimpy berates Ren, as Stimpy loves Chicken. Stimpy says that he and Chicken have become engaged, to Ren's shock. Stimpy and Chicken leave to go to Las Vegas and get married. After a two week honeymoon, they return home to find Ren still waiting on dinner. Stimpy still refuses to cook it because he's tired from the drive, which angers Ren. That night, Chicken sleeps in the same bed as Ren and Stimpy. After Stimpy falls asleep, Ren kidnaps Chicken and replaces it with a football. In the kitchen, he tries to cook it, but Stimpy comes in, thinking that Ren is trying to make a snack for himself. Putting two and two together, Stimpy realizes that Ren is trying to cook Chicken and he rescues it. Stimpy still refuses to let Ren to eat Chicken and brings it back to bed, Ren vowing to eat it. The next day, Ren gets jealous of Chicken, as Stimpy lavishes attention on it, giving it Ren's slippers and fez. After Stimpy goes to get Ren's pipe, Ren kidnaps Chicken again and replaces it with a pineapple. When Stimpy gives it the pipe, he realizes what has happened. He goes into the kitchen to find Ren turning Chicken into sausages with a meat grinder. Although Chicken still lives, it has been reduced to sausages. Stimpy berates him for this, lightly slapping Ren's cheeks and saying that he and Chicken 'don't abide coveters.'
The next day, Ren gets jealous when Stimpy compliments Chicken and begins to cry. He tells Stimpy that he is upset that Stimpy isn't paying attention to him and he misses him. Stimpy says that they'll always be best friends. Stimpy suggests that they should go out and Ren suggests a picnic, to which Stimpy agrees.
Stimpy begins to prepare Chicken.
At the picnic site, Ren pretends he forgot the ketchup and drive home to look like he was going get it. After a night of waiting, Stimpy gets a ride home. He comes home to see Ren eating some sausages and realizes that Ren has finally successfully eaten Chicken and the picnic was nothing but a ruse to get Stimpy out of the way from Ren's true intention. Stimpy sobs on the bed for six months out of grief. Ren tries to console him, saying that Chicken gave him bad gas. However, when he doesn't come around, a furious Ren yells at him because he is tired of his 'bereaved chicken widow crap' and forces Stimpy to cook them dinner. While going through the groceries, Stimpy sees a goat head and falls in love with it at first sight. Stimpy comes out of the kitchen, announcing to Ren that he's engaged again, much to Ren's shock and horror, covering about his whole head with his fez because this is one of those "here we go again" moments.
Trivia/Goofs[]
- The title card is a parody of I Love Lucy.
- The title card also resembles the I Love Stimpy parody title card from "The Big Shot".
- An episode of SpongeBob SquarePants titled "To Love a Patty" is similar to this episode, because it represents both characters falling in love with food and treating them as loved ones, which end up being eaten in the episode's conclusion.
- In the first scene, Ren is seen entering the house after returning from the store and says "Stimpy, I'm home!", this could well be a reference to "Lucy, I'm home!".
- This is one of the few episodes to feature only one voice actor, Billy West.
- This is one of the few episodes in which Stimpy hits Ren.
- The cover of the For the Love of Stimpy VHS is based off this episode.
- When this episode, along with its sister episode "Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman", streamed on Paramount+, both the intro and end credits are shortened.
Music[]
- Lambs in Clover - Jack Strachey (title card and opening)
- Rock Chimes (a) - Gary Kettel (plays over the last note of "Lambs in Clover")
- Busy Shoppers - Len Stevens (Stimpy skips off-screen)
- Shuffle-Fox - Gerhard Trede (Stimpy going through the groceries)
- Toytown Soldiers - Richard Myhill ("...chicken!")
- Wo Die Zitronen Bluh'n, Walzer Op. 364 - Johann Strauss I ("What'll we do with you?")
- Show Fanfare 4 - David Lindup (picture of cooked chicken)
- Easy Does It - Ib Glindemann [CPM] (Stimpy preparing the chicken)
- Timpani - Rolls (b) - Gary Kettel; Moving Target - Simon Benson, Eugenio Grandi (chicken comes alive)
- Romeo & Juliet Overture - Peter Tchaikovsky [BR-0004] (Stimpy's in love with the chicken)
- Dramatic Cue (d) - Ronald Hanmer ("My... my chicken! My chicken and my best friend!")
- Mists of Time - David Snell ("Did you think I wouldn't notice?")
- Dramatic Impact 4 - Ivor Slaney ("I want my chicken dinner, and I want it now!")
- Tender Dreams A - Mladen Franko (Stimpy proclaims his love for the chicken)
- Sudden End - Hans Conzelmann, Delle Haensch ("Marriage?!")
- Mister Smooth - John Horler [CPM] ("Fresh corn bread stuffing.")
- Once Upon a Dream - Clive Richardson ("And now, my love, let us off to Vegas and be married this very night.")
- Timpani - Military (a) - Gary Kettel (2 weeks later)
- Wedding March Op.61 - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Stimpy and chicken come back from their honeymoon)
- Nerve Centre - John Scott (Ren's still waiting for his dinner)
- Dramatic Impact 4 - Ivor Slaney (door slammed)
- Scenes from Childhood - Dreaming - Robert Schumann, Fiachra Trench (that night...)
- When Time Runs Out - Richard Harvey (Ren's awake)
- Etude Op. 10, #3 in E Major - Frederic Chopin, Fiachra Trench ("Mmm, something smells good!")
- Romeo and Juliet-Fantasy Overture - Peter Tchaikovsky (Stimpy going back and forth between the bed and the oven)
- Emotion 1 - John Fox, Otto Sieben (Stimpy pulls the chicken out of the oven)
- Last Post Trumpet Call - Barrie Hingley (closeup of burned chicken)
- Drama Link (h) - Hubert Clifford (Stimpy walks away)
- Romeo and Juliet-Fantasy Overture - Peter Tchaikovsky ("Oooh, I'm gonna get that chicken!")
- Lambs in Clover - Jack Strachey (Stimpy puts slippers on chicken)
- Moving Target - Simon Benson, Eugenio Grandi (paper falls down, revealing a pineapple)
- Gay Friends and Bongos - Scott Huml [original composition] (bongo drums before Stimpy races into the kitchen)
- Francesca Da Rimini - Symphonic Fantasia After Dante Op 32 - Peter Tchaikovsky, George Wilson [CPM] (Stimpy goes into kitchen)
- Nightmare - Jack Dorsey ("Grindy, grindy, grindy...")
- Der Große Sturm - Gerhard Trede [AKA Take By Storm] ("You poor baby...")
- Snare Drum - Rolls (e); Timpani Roll (e) - Gary Kettel (Stimpy approaches Ren)
- Elegy - Keith Mansfield ("Well let me spell it out for you, mister.")
- Lovers Dream - Mike Sunderland ("I love chicken, and chicken loves me.")
- Approaching Danger - James Clarke ("But what about my sausage?")
- Orchestral Link 71 - Mike Sunderland (Ren looks at the camera, sad)
- Lambs in Clover - Jack Strachey ("You know, I like your new look.")
- Torn Apart - Mike Sunderland; Orchestral Link 56 - Mike Sunderland (Ren cries)
- Bliss - Alec Gould (Stimpy consoles Ren)
- A Spring in Your Step - Graham Preskett (picnic)
- Action Cut A - Gregor Narholz (Ren eating)
- Danger Zone - Mike Sunderland (Stimpy has a horrified look)
- Sad Espressivo - Otto Sieben (Stimpy cries)
- Orchestral Link 6 - Mike Sunderland (six months later)
- Jiddish - Lutz Elias (Ren apologizes)
- Romeo & Juliet Overture - Peter Tchaikovsky [BR-0004] (Stimpy's in love with a goat head)
- Wedding March Op.61 - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Ren groans in aggravation)
- Orchestral Clash (a) - Gary Kettel (iris out)