The Big Shot!

The Big Shot!
Season	1
Number	1b
Original air date	August 11, 1991
Directed by	John K.
Production #	RS01b Full Credits
Episode Guide
Previous	Stimpy's Big Day
Next	Robin Höek

The Big Shot the second episode of "The Ren and Stimpy Show" it originally aired on August 11, 1991.

Characters:

• Ren Höek
• Stimpy
• Mr. Horse
• Woman 1
• Woman 2
• Stimpy Pillow
• Muddy Mudskipper

Summary

Stimpy absoloutely loves living in Hollywood (how he got there can be explained by the episode Stimpy's Big Day). He also loves being an extremely famous person (cat). But soon he starts to miss Ren (as much as Ren misses him) and ends up giving up all of his fame and his boat loads of cash to go back and once again see Ren.

Production Music

List of music used below. 

- Big Show Theme – Robert Sharples 

- Valse Moderne – George Fenton, John Leach 

- L’Esprit de Paris – John Leach 

- Stop Gap – Robert Sharples 

- Quiz Organ (a) – Curtis Schwartz 

- Stop Gap – Robert Sharples 

- Tom Fool – Van Phillips 

- Softly She Sleeps – Cedric King-Palmer

- Waltz of the Flowers – Ron Ronsted, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

- Dramatic Impact 2 – Ivor Slaney 

- Hollywood Holiday – Frank Samuels 

- Spring Song – Felix Mendelssohn 

- Saw Theme – William Trytel 

- Waltzing in Dreamland – Alan Moorhouse 

- Workaday World – Jack Beaver 

- Hollywood Romance – Peter Yorke 

- Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture followed by "Pathétique" Symphony No.6 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 

- Domestic Fun (c) – Ernest Tomlinson 

TranscriptTo view the transcript, click here.

Notes

• This episode is always aired side by side with Stimpy's Big Day as it would make no sense to viewers who had never seen it.

Trivia

• The scene where Muddy and Stimpy are seen running in the cartoony style is a homage to Yogi Bear and other various Hanna Barbera cartoons, also Stimpy quotes lines from The Jetsons, Pixie and Dixie, Popeye and even Elmer Fudd from the Looney Tunes shorts. 

• This is one of the few episodes where Ren is shown to really care for Stimpy, for he gets emotional when he's all alone, even close to tears. 

• When Ren answers the door to find that Stimpy had returned is somewhat referenced and redone in Son of Stimpy, with the same movements, same background music and identical timing almost.

• 1st time Ren doesn't appear on the title card
• I Love Stimpy title card is a parody of sitcom I Love Lucy (1951-1957).1st reference made to this TV series.
• Sergeant Stimpy of the Klondike is a reference to the animated shorts of Klondike Kat on the animated television series Underdog (1964-1973), although the title can also be a reference to TV series Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1955-1958)
• When Mr. Horse smells Box B (Gritty Kitty) it still says the box is Box A (normal brand) for a few seconds, then it changes to Box B.