"Robin Höek" was the third episode of Season 1 of The Ren & Stimpy Show. It's the first stand alone cartoon of Season 1.
Characters[]
Robin Höek episode[]
- Ren Höek
- Stimpy
- Sheriff of Dodge City (George Liquor prototype)
- Man-Eating Monks
- Cheerleaders
- The Criminally Insane
Powdered Toast Commercial segment[]
- Ren Höek
- Stimpy
- Powdered Toast Man (debut, prototype design)
Summary[]
Ren and Stimpy star in their own version of Robin Hood.
Plot[]
Ren and Stimpy are praying before getting ready for bed. Stimpy asks for his family to be watched over while Ren asks for a million dollars, a fridge with a padlock, and huge pectoral muscles. After their prayers they go to bed. In the middle of the night Stimpy wakes up Ren, to which he isn't happy about, and asks him to read him a bedtime story. Irritated, Ren tells him to read it himself. Stimpy then goes to get a storybook from his litterbox, and procedes to read the story of Robin Hoek. Robin Hoek (Ren) is the leader of his Merry Man (as Stimpy calls it) which includes Friar Chuck, Little Brain, Ransack the Elder, Elkhorn the Downtrodden, and Maid Moron, the most beloved of Robin's merry men, who dwelt in a castle far across Logwood Forest. However, Maid Moron is held captive in the castle by the Sheriff of Dodge City (George Liquor). With the exception of the Sheriff and Robin, Stimpy portrays the Merry Man. After going through different trials to claim his bride, he is found by the evil sheriff. A fight ensues and he defeats the sheriff by "Thrusting a generous helping of giblet gravy onto he". After the sheriff's defeat he and Maid Moron were married, but Robin was unwilling to kiss the bride, then we switch back to the bedroom, where Ren is twisting and turning, and he screams himself awake. At first he is relieved that it was only a dream, but once he sees Stimpy dressed as Maid Moron, he faints and falls out of the bed.
Trivia/Goofs[]
- Robin Hoek was the first of two Stimpy's Storybook Land cartoons.
- This episode has a fan made game on Addicting Games at this link.
- This is the first episode to feature George Liquor, although he ends up having a different appearance from the series and is referred to as the "Evil Sheriff of Dodge City" along with having a different voice.
- This is the first episode animated by Bon-Art.
- Robin Hoek's clothes look similar to Link's from The Legend of Zelda.
- When Ren says good night, his mouth doesn’t move.
- After Ren escapes from the Monks without anything but his pants and shoes, all of his apparel reappears when wooing Maid Moron.
- Goof: Ren's mouth doesn't move when he says "Good night, Stimpy."
- This episode was ranked #77 in "The 100 Greatest Nicktoon Episodes" countdown, while the Powdered Toast Man segment that preceded it was ranked #27, making this episode (and its partner episode, "Nurse Stimpy") the highest-ranked Ren & Stimpy episode to make it into the countdown.
Production Music[]
- Four Seasons, Spring – Fiachra Trench, Antonio Vivaldi (title card)
- Symphony #9 “New World” – Largo – Antonin Dvorak, Fiachra Trench (Ren and Stimpy praying)
- Pizzacato from Sylvia – Leo Delibes (“Will you button me, Ren?”)
- Cradle Song – Johannes Brahms, Fiachra Trench (“Will you read me a bedtime story?”)
- Pizzicato Playtime – Sam Fonteyn (Stimpy trying to read the story)
- Waltz of the Flowers 1 – Ron Ronsted, Peter Tchaikovsky (Ren falling asleep as Stimpy reads)
- Happy Holiday – Anthony Spurgin (Stimpy describing Robin Hoek)
- Concerto Grosso A Minor, 1st Mvt. – Fiachra Trench, Antonio Vivaldi (Friar Chuck)
- Tritsch Tratsch Polka – Helmuth Brandenburg, Johann Strauss I (Stimpy running to the castle)
- Catfish Row – Benny Carter (“I forgot the last merry man!”)
- Tritsch Tratsch Polka – Helmuth Brandenburg, Johann Strauss I (Stimpy running back)
- Orch. Suite #2, Badinerie – Johann Bach, Fiachra Trench (“Robin and his band of men were robbers.”)
- Folli the Foal – Andrew Fenner (“They’d rob from the rich…”)
- To Death or Glory – Laurie Johnson (Ren trying to cross the moat)
- Inferno – Fredric Bayco (Ren getting mauled by the monks)
- To Death or Glory – Laurie Johnson (Ren getting out of the water)
- Romantic Legend – Eric Swan (Ren outside the tower)
- Romeo & Juliet Overture; Symphony #6 “Pathetique” 1st Mvt. – Peter Tchaikovsky, Fiachra Trench (Ren climbing Stimpy’s nose hair)
- Poet and Peasant Overture – Franz Suppe (the duel)
- Comic Ending (h) – Dick Walter (“The maiden be thine!”)
- Song of the Volga Boatmen B – Igor Tuhmanov (Ren and Stimpy about to get married)
- Dramatic Impact 2 – Ivor Slaney (Ren screaming as he wakes up)
- Catfish Row – Benny Carter (Stimpy with lipstick on)