"Marooned" is the 9th episode of Season 1 from The Ren & Stimpy Show that aired on October 6, 1991.
Characters[]
- Ren Höek as Commander Höek
- Stimpy as Cadet Stimpy
- Mr. Horse (voice only)
- Brains Aliens
Ask Dr. Stupid[]
- Stimpy as Dr. Stupid
- Announcer
- Joe Bob Henry Jed (mentioned)
Summary[]
Commander Höek and Cadet Stimpy get stranded on an unknown planet, and their only hope for survival is Stimpy's cadet guide.
Ask Dr. Stupid[]
- From: Joe Bob Henry Jed
- Location: Deer Creek Falls, Cornwall
- Question: How come some camels have one hump, and others got two?
- Answer: This is where gasoline comes from: one hump for regular, and two for premium and unleaded? (This appears to be a defect of Dr. Stupid's duck helmet)
Plot[]
Ren and Stimpy (as Commander Höek and Cadet Stimpy) find their ship rapidly descending on a mysterious planet. After the atmosphere having torn off all layers of their ship, they crash into the planet's ground. After dusting themselves off, they try to contact Space Command, but to no avail. After a brief moment of despair, Stimpy finds his space cadet handbook, loaded with survival tips. The first tip is to scout around the planet's area. While wandering, they observe the planet surreal aspects.
After the scouting (which took supposed weeks) Ren is hungry and inquires on what the book says about food. Stimpy reads that they have to preform certain tests before eating indigenous flora. Stimpy uses a tool to detect if the plants and animals are edible, but is revealed to know nothing of the technology. For his stupidity, he gets his nose pulled by an angry Ren. Ren is then shown to be waiting for Stimpy to prepare his dinner. Stimpy brings the food platter to reveal stinky space cabbage. Before Ren can eat it, The cabbage turns out to be a plant monster, and devours Ren's head. He walks over to Stimpy, and slaps him repeatedly.
Ren and Stimpy set up a tent and rest in their sleeping bags. While dozing, something opens up the flap, letting in the light and waking Stimpy. After observing the source, he calls Ren to look at the moon. Ren angrily storms out of the tent and bumps his head on the moon which is right next to the tent. To keep him from being awakened again, Ren ties Stimpy in a straight jacket.
After sleeping yet again Ren hears someone knocking on the tent flap. Angrily heading to the flap, he opens it, and is love struck at the female Chihuahua outside. Stimpy wakes up to see the stranger, but he sees it as a bag of Gritty Kitty litter. He watches Ren caress the bag in bewilderment. It turns out they are both hallucinating, and the Chihuahua/litter bag is really a hideous tentacle which grabs them both. The Tentacle belongs to a brain alien which sucks them into his head. They fall to the creature's bottom and see many aliens ready to devour them. Ren has an epiphany and asks Stimpy hurriedly what the handbook says to do in this situation. The book says they are doomed to which Ren goes bonkers at hearing this, and slaps his cadet with the book, while the aliens watch them as the episode concludes.
Production[]
Art[]
Music[]
- Turkey Trot – John Longmire (intro)
- Maniac Pursuit – Trevor Duncan (“All systems go!”)
- Bits and Pieces – Ronald Hanmer (Ren and Stimpy screaming as the rocketship goes faster and faster)
- Hail to the Chief – Graham De Wilde (Ren and Stimpy saluting)
- Forewarning (a,b,c) – Syd Dale (title card)
- Inferno – Fredric Bayco (spaceship crashing)
- Heavy Affliction – Cedric Palmer (Ren and Stimpy exit the spaceship)
- Drama – Van Phillips (Ren and Stimpy call Space Command)
- Nutcracker – Dance of Reed Flutes – Peter Tchaikovsky (Space Cadet Handbook)
- Pizzicato Playtime – Sam Fonteyn (“The prime directive!”)
- Suspense Musical Saw – Johnny Hawksworth (planet pan)
- Nutcracker – Dance of Reed Flutes – Peter Tchaikovsky (“What are we gonna do about food?”)
- Limbo – Maurice Jarre (Stimpy performing the tests to see what’s edible)
- Tom Fool – Van Phillips (Ren pulls Stimpy’s head)
- Peer Gynt – Anitra’s Dance – Edvard Grieg (space cabbage)
- Dance of Hours: Theme 1 – Amilcare Ponchielli (Ren slaps Stimpy)
- Scheherazade – Prince Kalender – Nikolai Rimsky Korsakoff (Ren and Stimpy in the tent)
- Softly She Sleeps – Cedric Palmer (“The moon is out!”)
- Peter and the Wolf Overture: Cat Theme – Sergei Prokofiev (Ren hits his head on the moon)
- Song of the Volga Boatmen B – Igor Tuhmanov (Stimpy tied up)
- Suspense Musical Saw – Johnny Hawksworth (Ren and Stimpy asleep)
- Damask – Sid Phillips (female chihuahua)
- Cataclysm – Maurice Jarre (Ren and Stimpy eaten by the aliens)
- Inferno – Fredric Bayco (attack of the bacteria)
Trivia[]
- This is the real first episode to use stock footage from a past episode, "Space Madness".
- Stimpy breaks the fourth wall when he mentions the title of the cartoon.
- Gritty Kitty appears in this episode.
- In the tent, while Stimpy is snoring he exhales like Shemp Howard.