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"Ren Needs Help!" is the 23rd episode of Season 4.

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Summary

Ren is shown in a state of insanity as musing over his several important possessions, including his favorite chair, Danny, and his collection of glass coffee tables, Danny, Raymond, and Desi. Soon, Stimpy returns home, while Ren sits in a bathtub, crazily putting lipstick on. Ren tells Stimpy that he's fine. Stimpy decides to play golf in the house, getting his golf ball in Ren's chair. He uses his cleats to non-intentionally destroy the furniture and uses the golfball to accidentally destroy the coffee tables. Ren comes out of his bath and sees his possessions are destroyed, but decides to act calm instead of injure Stimpy. He says that he has to go end it all, muttering to himself. Stimpy becomes concerned, as Ren shuts him down, as he believes that Stimpy has had it coming. Ren tries to happily kill himself by putting himself into the trash compactor. Stimpy becomes concerned and calls the Shady Brain Farm. Soon, they arrive, and take away Ren, after accidentally taking his chair.

At the facility, Ren is content, as he can live among his own kind, which include the Yak from "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksman", the Fire Chief, Muddy Mudskipper, and several others. He is ordered to go to group therapy, where the therapist is Dr. Sloth. Ren finds group therapy boring and falls asleep. Mr. Fire Chief is in therapy because he believes that everything is fake, including food and the president. Next is Muddy, who has a problem with Yak, who has a problem with the word 'cheese' which causes him to scrape his behind with a cheese grater and get taken away, returning in a straitjacket. Finally, Ren's turn begins and he confesses that he has a roommate (Stimpy) that makes him mad and he smacks him when he does. The others are shocked and afraid, including the therapist and the patient. Ren is upset at them for this. Later, Ren goes to bed and writes to Stimpy to come and visit.

A month later, Ren goes to lunch where Muddy is serving everybody creamed corn. Ren asks for steak and fries, filet mignon, and a pickle, but he gets the same. Later, Stimpy visits Ren with a baby, that Ren joyously holds, but the child turns out to resemble the guard. A month later, Ren gets the same meal and laughs it off. He begins to freak out, as he hates creamed corn, and says that there is one thing he hates more. Fire Chief thinks that it's cheese, which causes Ren to freak out. He tells the others that they aren't crazy, they're freaks and stupid. Each of them aren't mad but suffering from their own problems or illnesses. Ren tells them to start their embolisms, as they happily escape. Ren laughs, but for this, he is taken away and put into a straitjacket, to be taken to the Brain Room and lobotomized.

Later, a lobotomized Ren is put into a suit, tie, and wig on the moon, as the president, to give a speech, meaning that the Fire Chief was right.

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Ren gets taken away to be lobotomized after convincing the other patients to escape.

Production Music

  • Hollywood Epic – Jack Beaver
  • Tourmaline – Therese Brenet and Fateful Hour B – Henryk Kuzniak
  • Junior Miss – Len Stevens
  • Main Street – Alec Gould
  • Declamatory Chords – Alan Braden
  • Easing Tension – Paul Orm
  • Unsolved Mysteries – Graham Preskett
  • Air Raid – Gerhard Trede
  • Trouble Spot – Van Phillips
  • Drums and Timpanis – Hans Conzelmann, Delle Haensch
  • Charleston – Hans Conzelmann, Delle Haensch
  • Trouble Spot – Van Phillips
  • Miss World (b) – Tony Kinsey
  • Harp Gliss 2 – Otto Sieben
  • Cold Sweat – John Scott
  • Point of Departure I – Gregor F. Narholz
  • Dramatic Cue (d) – Ronald Hanmer
  • Declamatory Chords – Alan Braden
  • Dramatic Cue (g) – Ronald Hanmer
  • Smouldering Fury (a) – Trevor Duncan
  • Dangerous A – Mladen Franko
  • Static Link (f) – Gregor F. Narholz
  • Sphere Crystals – Gregor F. Narholz
  • Harp Gliss 2 – Otto Sieben
  • Blood and Sand – Ronald Hanmer
  • Springtime for Lovers – Len Stevens
  • Harp Gliss 2 – Otto Sieben
  • Blood and Sand – Ronald Hanmer
  • Dramatic Cue (g) – Ronald Hanmer
  • Unsolved Mysteries – Graham Preskett
  • Hi-Hat – Derek Holt, Gary Moberley
  • Flute Link (d) – Richard Myhill
  • Unsolved Mysteries – Graham Preskett
  • Charge – Richard Myhill
  • William Tell Overture – Gioachino Rossini
  • Static Link (f) – Gregor F. Narholz
  • Hail to the Chief – Graham De Wilde

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Trivia/Goofs

  • If you listen closely, you can hear "Look at you!" in the background before Ren actually says it.
  • The Yak from "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" appears once again, as a mental patient who grates his behind with a cheese grater whenever he hears the word "cheese." It is implied that the yak is given shock therapy.
  • The crossword puzzle Dr. Sloth is working on whilst pretending to take notes has the words "Dumb", "Idiot", and "Commie" on it.
  • When Ren first sees Dr. Sloth hanging from the overhead branch, it is empty. But in the next scene there are some berries hanging from the branch.
  • When Stimpy finds Ren in the bathtub putting on lipstick, Ren's teeth are clean. But in the next scene, but the camera zooms in one his mouth, suddenly there's lipstick stains on his teeth.
  • This is one of the few episodes where Ren's madness is taken to an extreme level, as he was shown at the beginning of the episode to be crazily muttering to himself about his possessions and later sat in a bathroom putting on lipstick, then ends up attempting to kill himself with the trash compactor.
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