"Road Apples" is the tenth episode of the third season of The Ren & Stimpy Show, which aired on March 12, 1994.
Characters[]
- Ren Höek
- Stimpy
- Mr. Pipe
- Mrs. Pipe
- Wilbur Cobb
- Muddy Mudskipper (as a keychain)
- Mr. Horse (seen on RV's television at the driver's area)
Summary[]
While stuck in the desert, the duo finally come aboard Mr. and Mrs. Pipe's RV, with a butcher shop, skunk milk, and encounter Wilbur Cobb.
Plot[]
Ren and Stimpy have been slowly crawling in the desert for months, getting sunburns. After Ren faints, Stimpy tries to carry him. Stimpy trying to take another step dragging Ren, until Stimpy screams maniacally that they're done for. Stimpy faints, but his tongue feels the road, pokes on his head and points to the road. Stimpy asks Ren what he sees, Ren was imagining the island with woman cow, falsely saying he is seeing forest. Stimpy says that they reached the road, Ren happily screams they're saved. An RV is coming duos' way, Ren asked what is RV, Stimpy explains that RV's are homes away from home, the good life on wheels. Nearby Vulture eats Ren's body, Ren tells that he will survive, and Vulture spits the chum at Ren and flys away. Ren's plan to stop RV and get into it is Stimpy pretended to hit by a RV with tire track paint, look squished, but RV run over Ren instead. The Pipe family surprised that duo is still alive and bring it in, RV drives off.
At the RV, Mr. Pipe gives Stimpy a blood-sucking sand snails for his sunburn. Mr. Pipe offered using shower, Ren tells that shower doesn't have knobs, Mr. Pipe turn hot water outside shower and join Ren, Ren is scalded by the hot water, while Mr. Pipe enjoying it. Mr. Pipe shows a duo a complete kitchenette and breakfast nook, a country style bath haded topiary garden, and on primrose butcher shop headed by Wilbur Cobb, a daily counter, a complete beauty potter Nail Salon, and Archery raid. Mrs. Pipe offers carnivore diet to the duo, but Mr. Pipe insists that they cannot eat solid food, instead offered drinking frosty glass of skunk milk. Stimpy drinks the skunk milk and has a skunk milk mustache, he likes it. Stimpy offered Ren drinking too, Ren don't want to drink it, but Stimpy tells that these kind people are brought them into a RV. Ren drinks the skunk milk, and he smiles with a yellow hairy teeth. Mr. Pipe says it's time for pets to go outside, and he kicks Ren and Stimpy from a moving RV, duo hang behind it.
Mr, Pipe while drinking skunk milk tells a story of the phantom stock his victims and tears them limb from limb, but not till these boredom to death with endless showbiz talk. Duo finished it of hot skunk milk, and then hit the ol' hay. Stimpy is scared of the story of phantom, but Ren said these stories for fools. Mr. Pipes reveals a roommate for a duo in bed, Wilbur Cobb. In the bed Wilbur Cobb talks hours with the duo. Ren looks at Mrs. Pipe, Skunk and a Moose, Ren asked if everyone sleeping, who's driving in the RV, and RV dives underwater, Ren whimpers. Mr. Pipe kicks Ren and Stimpy out for "wetting the bed"; Wilbur reveals himself to have done so, also being kicked out.
Production[]
Art[]
Music[]
- Nit Pickin’ (a) – Mitch Dalton (title card)
- Fear 1 – Louis Clark (Ren and Stimpy crawling through the desert)
- Heavy Affliction – Cedric Palmer (Stimpy drags Ren)
- Drama Link (b) – Hubert Clifford (Stimpy drops Ren)
- Drama Link (l) – Hubert Clifford (“That’s it! I can’t take another step!”)
- The Seven Veils – Steve Race (Stimpy’s tongue feels the road)
- Voodoo Victim – Gilbert Vinter (oasis)
- Catfish Row (Link) – Benny Carter (Ren’s vision of the oasis)
- In Jeopardy – Charlie Brissette [original composition] (Stimpy says he sees a road)
- Variete 2 – Hans Conzelmann, Delle Haensch (“We’re saved!”)
- Beat Culture – Robert Ascot [OGM] (Stimpy describes an RV)
- Domestic Fun (b) – Ernest Tomlinson (vulture eating Ren)
- Gramercy Swing – Jean-Pierre Fabien, Martin Taylor (Stimpy pretends he’s roadkill)
- Crepe Suzette – Cyril Watters (Mr. Pipe introduced)
- Workaday World – Jack Beaver (view of RV hitting all the mailboxes on the road)
- Casual Acquaintance – Paul Deveruex (Mr. Pipe gives a tour of the RV)
- Waltz Combo – Hans Conzelmann, Delle Haensch (Ren and Stimpy at the dinner table)
- Brickbats (1-8) – Laurie Johnson (skunk milk)
- Drama Link (c) – Hubert Clifford (skunk milk placed in front of Stimpy)
- Le Jazz Hot – Jean-Pierre Fabien, Martin Taylor (Stimpy enjoys the skunk milk)
- Pizzacato from Sylvia – Leo Delibes (Stimpy makes Ren feel guilty for not drinking the skunk milk)
- Dramatic Impact 5 – Ivor Slaney (Ren drinks the skunk milk)
- St. Mortiz Sleigh Bells – Woolf Phillips (going outside for a walk)
- Stealth by Night – Jack Coles (Mr. Pipe tells story about phantom)
- Dramatic Impact 4 – Ivor Slaney (Wilbur Cobb introduced)
- Peter and the Wolf Overture: Cat Theme and Grandfather Theme – Sergei Prokofiev (Wilbur Cobb rambling as usual)
- Cradle Song – Johannes Brahms, Fiachra Trench (everyone’s asleep except Ren)
- Inferno – Fredric Bayco (RV falls to the bottom of the lake)
- Aquamarine – Simon Benson (“I think the animals need to go out and do their business.”)
- St. Mortiz Sleigh Bells – Woolf Phillips (“I already wet the bed! Hahahaha!”)
Trivia[]
- The title is a reference to the album of the same name.
- Showrunner Bob Camp had insisted on adding Wilbur Cobb to the script of this episode, which other Games Animation artists felt to be shoehorning him in, and took the story on an "inexplicable tangent".
- When this episode made it to DVD, three scenes where cut. One involving Ren being eaten by a vulture then spat out. The second scene that was cut was Ren and Mr. Pipe's silhouettes screaming in the shower. The third scene that was cut is where Ren and Stimpy were told the story of the phantom, while having to share a room with Wilbur Cobb. However, this was still featured on the Nickelodeon Road Trip VHS from Sony Wonder.
- Current airings of this episode in the United States removed the silhouettes of Mr. Pipe and Ren screaming in the shower. It's still intact in international airings however.
- This is a only episode Howard E. Baker storyboarded and directed, previously being overseas animation director for season 1.
- Stimpy appears to know all about an RV except for what it stands for: Recreational Vehicle.
Watch Episode[]
The Ren and Stimpy Show S3 E13 - Road Apples