"Out West" is the fifth episode of the second season.
Characters[]
- Ren Höek as Three-Fingered Hoek
- Stimpy as Stupid the Kid
- Ewalt Nitwit
- Abner Dimwit
- Mr. Horse
- Mrs. Dimwit
- Eddie Höek (Mentioned)
Summary[]
Abner and Ewalt need someone to hang, so they hire Ren and Stimpy to steal Mr. Horse.
Trivia[]
- This is the first aired episode of the series to be animated using digital ink and paint. ("Man's Best Friend" would've been the first if it hadn't been banned.) The first in production order to be animated using this technique is "Man's Best Friend".
- This episode features a lyrical song: "The Lord Loves A Hangin".
- The Jeopardy jingle plays twice in this episode.
- This is the only episode made by Carbunkle Cartoons that was directed by Bob Camp.
Production Music[]
- Travel Near East #2 – Dan Kirsten [OGM] (title card)
- The Gunfighter – Franco Micalizzi, Roberto Pregadio (opening narration)
- My Horse and I – Norman Warren (Abner and Ewalt introduced)
- Country & Western #2 – Henrik Nielsen [OGM] (“You’re smart enough to be bored?”)
- Country & Western #1 – Henrik Nielsen [OGM] (“Nah, we hung her yesterday.”)
- Country Music #3 – Dan Kirsten [OGM] (“I got it! Let’s hire us some villains to hang!”)
- Evening Campfire – Dan Kirsten [OGM] (more narration)
- Turkey in the Straw – Erik Markman [OGM] (Ren and Stimpy riding chickens)
- Western Saloon – Dan Kirsten [OGM] (“Hey Stimpy, let’s go down to that little one-horse town…”)
- Green Bluegrass – Glen Sutton, Lloyd Green (villins wantid)
- In Jeopardy – Charlie Brissette [original composition] (Jeopardy-style music)
- Harmonica and Guitar Blues – Robert Ascot [Capitol Hi-Q] (“That’s the ugliest horse ever I did see!”)
- She’ll Be Commin’ ‘Round the Mountain – Saul Broudy, Zan Mc Leod, Stephen Wade (“That’s my wife!”)
- Two Old Timers – Allan Gunn (in the barn)
- Country Music #1 – Dan Kirsten [OGM] (Ren and Stimpy try to steal Mr. Horse)
- Mountain Dew (b) – Graham Preskett (Mr. Horse shakes his head)
- Camptown Races – Edwina Travis-Chin (“Well sir, I don’t like it!”)
- In Jeopardy – Charlie Brissette [original composition] (Jeopardy-style music)
- Congregation – Graham Preskett (at the gallows)
- Dirty Work at the Crossroads – Sam Fonteyn (Ren and Stimpy hanged)
- Congregation – Graham Preskett (“Aw, who we gonna hang now?”)
- The Lord Loves a Hangin’ – John Kricfalusi, Jim Smith, Bob Camp [original composition] (ending song)
Censorship[]
- On reruns and the DVDs, Ewalt's last line in the Hanging song; "Ya'll bring the kids now ya hear!" is cut. However, the bit was reinstated on the TNN/Spike TV rerun. It can be viewed here.
- A brief shot of Abner and Ewalt throwing nooses around their necks that plays while before and during the song (Plays when they say "So get yourself a lasso and decorate your neck" and the footage is substituted with reused footage of Stimpy stomping his foot at the beginning of the song.) is trimmed in most versions of the episode. This edit, like the other one, is also corrected on the TNN/Spike TV version.
- In the UK, the British Board of Film Classification forced Paramount to remove the song "The Lord Loves a Hangin'" from the episode as part of the Series 1 DVD box set in order for it to get a PG certificate because "the subject of hanging is presented [in the song] as comedic, fun and risk free".
The censored shot of Abner and Ewalt with nooses around their necks.