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"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[]

Stimpy Giant Crying

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, meanwhile, wishes for a load of cash, a fridge with a padlock and large pectoral muscles. 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.

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. 

That evening, Ren wakes up to find giant Stimpy asleep by his house, and Stimpy concludes his story as them living "happily ever after". The episode fades to black as Stimpy yells in pain.

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".
  • When Stimpy eats his letter, he says "Chew", but his mouth doesn't match up.

Production Music[]

  • Promenade - Tony Lowry
  • Symphony #9 "New World" - Largo - Fiachra Trench, Antonio Vivaldi
  • Pizzacato from Sylvia - Leo Delibes
  • Cradle Song - Fiachra Trench, Johannes Brahms
  • Pizzicato Playtime - Sam Fonteyn
  • Radetzky March - Helmuth Brandenburg
  • L’Esprit de Paris - John Leach
  • Clair de Lune - Helmuth Brandenburg, Claude Debussy
  • Nutcracker - Arabian Dance - Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Scenes from Childhood - Dreaming - Fiachra Trench, Robert Schumann
  • Clair de Lune - Helmuth Brandenburg, Claude Debussy
  • Ridin’ High and Handsome – Glen Sutton, Norris Wilson
  • Romantic Legend – Eric Swan
  • Folli the Foal – Andrew Fenner
Episode List
Pilot
Big House Blues (Pilot)
Season 1
Stimpy's Big DayThe Big ShotRobin HöekNurse StimpySpace MadnessThe Boy Who Cried RatFire DogsThe Littlest GiantMaroonedUntamed WorldBlack HoleStimpy's Invention
Season 2
Ren's ToothacheRubber Nipple SalesmenSven HoekHaunted HouseMad Dog HoekIn The ArmyMan's Best FriendBig Baby ScamDog ShowMonkey See, Monkey Don'tPowdered Toast ManFake DadOut WestStimpy's Fan ClubThe Great OutdoorsThe Cat That Laid the Golden HairballSon of StimpyA Visit To AnthonyThe Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen
Season 3
To Salve And Salve NotA Yard Too FarCircus MidgetsNo Pants TodayRen's PecsAn Abe DividedStimpy's Cartoon ShowJimminy LummoxBass MastersRen's RetirementJerry the Bellybutton ElfRoad ApplesHard Times for HaggisEat My CookiesRen's Bitter HalfLair Of The Lummox
Season 4
Hermit RenHouse of Next TuesdayA Friend in Your Face!Blazing EntrailsLumber JerksPrehistoric StimpyFarm HandsMagical Golden Singing CheesesA Hard Day's LuckI Love ChickenPowdered Toast Man vs. Waffle WomanIt's a Dog's LifeEgg YölkeoDouble HeaderThe Scotsman in SpacePixie KingAloha HöekInsomniac RenMy Shiny FriendCheese Rush DaysWiener BaronsGaloot WranglersRen Needs Help!Superstitious StimpyTravelogue
Season 5
Ol' Blue NoseStupid Sidekick UnionSpace DoggedFued For SaleHair of the CatCity HicksStimpy's PetRen's BrainBell HopsDog TagsI Was a Teenage StimpyWho's Stupid Now?School MatesDinner PartyBig FlakesPen PalsTerminal StimpyReverend JackA Scooter for YaksmasSammy and MeThe Last Temptation
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