Blazing Entrails

"Blazing Entrails"
The Ren & Stimpy Show episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 4
Directed by	Bob Camp
Written by	Bob Camp Jim Gomez Bill Wray
Production code	RS-307
Original air date	October 15, 1994 (1994-10-15)
Guest appearances
Bill Mumy as Dr. Brainchild June Lockhart as Mrs. Brainchild
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"Blazing Entrails" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show . It originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on October 15, 1994.

Plot

Stimpy wakes up in the morning, seemingly brain-damaged from an offscreen event. He hammers his teeth instead of brushing them and rinses his mouth with dog shampoo. The next day, he cooks "bacon and eggs" for Ren, which is in fact part of his tongue and his eyes. Ren forces him to see a "doctor", Dr. Brainchild, who can "fix his brain". They are greeted by his mother, a one-eyed woman with a swollen head. Dr. Brainchild himself is a green-skinned child with a similarly swollen head.

Dr. Brainchild determines that Stimpy has a lack of brain activity which might mean death (his brain is in his buttocks), so he requests Ren go in to investigate. He lights a match in the darkness, only to be blown up by Stimpy's flammable farts.

Ren rides a train made of intestines to the stomach, during which he is harassed by a corn and a coin swallowed by Stimpy. He enters the stomach alongside numerous antibodies. He falls in love with a female antibody, who accidentally swallows his skeleton when kissing him. They spend a year together; when he attempts to tell his children antibodies a story, he remembers Stimpy and immediately continues his journey. He climbs to the paranasal sinuses when Stimpy's mucus washes him away. He hangs on to a booger, which causes Stimpy to pick him instead of his booger. Stimpy places him in his ear, incidentally the passage to his brain.

Ren finds Stimpy's ignorance gland holding his brain hostage. A chimpanzee delivers Dr. Brainchild's notice of Stimpy deflating, but Ren could not make it out after distracting the ignorance gland. Stimpy returns to normal, watching television happily while Ren comfortably sits inside his brain, ending the episode.

Cast

• Ren – voice of Billy West
• Corncob – voice of Bob Camp
• Stimpy – voice of Billy West
• Dr. Brainchild – voice of Bill Mumy
• Dr. Brainchild's mother – voice of June Lockhart

Production

The episode was storyboarded by Bob Camp and Stephen DeStefano. Arthur Filloy worked on the episode as animation director before he left Mr. Big Cartoons due to low pay; Games Animation was not notified of this termination, immediately swooping in to hire Filloy, paying him according to his demands on the condition that he directs all animation of episodes assigned by Nickelodeon. ^[1]

Reception

The American critic Thad Komorowski gave "Blazing Entrails" four stars out of five. ^[2]

Books and articles

• Dobbs, G. Michael (2015). Escape – How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s. Orlando: BearManor Media. ISBN   978-1593931100.
• Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN   978-1629331836.

References

1. Komorowski 2017, p. 253.
2. Komorowski 2017, p. 400.