"Stimpy's Storybook Land: The Littlest Giant" is an episode of The Ren & Stimpy Show that aired on September 15, 1991.
Characters[]
- Ren Höek
- Stimpy as The Littlest Giant
- Giant look-alike Curly Howard
- Giant look-alike Larry Fine
- Cow
- Pig
- Chicken
Summary[]
Ren dreams of Stimpy's tale of an unusual giant, and his small friend.
Plot[]
A despondent Giant Stimpy crying over his brothers
The episode starts off with Ren and Stimpy praying on their bed. Stimpy asks for God to bless people, especially Ren who is "not strong". Ren wishes for hard cash, a fridge with a padlock, and large pectoral muscles (which led to being the inspiration for the episode Ren's Pecs). Just as Ren is about to go to sleep, Stimpy asks Ren to read a bedtime story. Basically, it's more or less the same opening as Robin Hoek as it's a part of the episode series "Stimpy's Storybook Land".
This time, the story is called "The Littlest Giant". In Ren's dream, the giant is Stimpy, who is bullied by bigger, mean cat giants for being shorter than the rest, and is the victim of Three Stooges-style abuse. Giant Stimpy has had enough with the abuse that he's put up with, but his brothers in Huegevania are the only giant cats he's ever known. As he sits on a rock in the middle of the forest, a despondent giant Stimpy decides to run away, and so he writes a goodbye letter that reads, "My dearest friends, the bigger mean giants... I am running away, forever. Your punching bag: The Littlest Giant". After a good two minutes of understandable but incessant sobbing, the giant leaves his country by walking through the ocean and his wandering takes him to the town of Thumbsville, a small town in the middle of a huge drought, where the farmer Wee Ren lives. Ren laments that his water-starved cow cannot produce milk, his pig fries in the sun, and his chickens "only lay silt".
One day, just by coincidence, Ren wakes up to find Giant Stimpy, in tears, right by his well; the tears he produces fill up the well and rejuvenate his crops, allowing the cow to drink from it and produce milk again. A grateful Ren thanks Stimpy for this convenient contrivance and declares that he will do anything for him; an equally grateful Stimpy gets him to do a number of gross and bizarre tasks like shaving his tongue.
As Stimpy concludes the story with a happily ever after, Ren wakes up to find Stimpy having become Giant Stimpy from the story, with his gigantic nose laying on the bed. The episode ends as it fades to black and Ren slaps Stimpy's nose in frustration and Stimpy yells in pain.
Production[]
Art[]
Music[]
- Promenade – Tony Lowry (title card)
- Symphony #9 “New World” – Largo – Antonin Dvorak, Fiachra Trench (Ren and Stimpy praying)
- Pizzicato 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 tries to read the story)
- Radetzky March – Helmuth Brandenburg (the story begins)
- L’Esprit De Paris – John Leach (Stimpy walks away from the bullies)
- Clair De Lune – Helmuth Brandenburg, Claude Debussy (Stimpy sitting alone, crying)
- The Nutcracker: Arabian Dance – Peter Tchaikovsky (Ren appears)
- Scenes from Childhood – Dreaming – Robert Schumann, Fiachra Trench (Ren awakes to Stimpy’s crying)
- Clair De Lune – Helmuth Brandenburg, Claude Debussy (Stimpy’s tears filling the well)
- Ridin’ High and Handsome – Glen Sutton, Norris Wilson (cow drinks)
- Romantic Legend – Eric Swan (“Friend? I’m your friend?”)
- Folli the Foal – Andrew Fenner (“Would you… scratch my back?”)
- Pizzicato from Sylvia – Leo Delibes (night)
Trivia/Goofs[]
- Ren and Stimpy's lines "Goodnight, Stimpy." and "Goodnight, Ren" were added after the animation, so their mouths don't move when they speak.
- The lines could be a tribute to the children's story Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise-Brown and Clement Hurd.
- John K. considers this episode to be among his least favorites as he disliked the episode's pacing and jokes, which led him to nickname the episode "The Littlest Jokes".
- The episode's beginning is exactly the same as another Stimpy Storybook Episode, "Robin Hoek". This is also the last of the Storybook cartoons in the show.
- When Stimpy eats his letter, he says "Chew", but his mouth doesn't match up.