Blazing Entrails

"Blazing Entrails"
The Ren & Stimpy Show episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 4
Directed by	Bob Camp
Story by	Bob Camp
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 that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 15 October 1994.

Plot

Ren becomes concerned when Stimpy acts even more moronically than usual. ^[1] Ren takes Stimpy to see Dr. Brainchild, but first must find obtain the permission of his mother. ^[1] Dr. Brainchild is an immature boy with an enormous brain. ^[1] After examining Stimpy, Dr. Brainchild says that Stimpy will die of his terminal stupidity unless Ren enters him to find out what is wrong. ^[1] Dr. Brainchild inflates Stimpy and Ren enters his body via his rectum. ^[1] Ren goes to Stimpy's stomach where he marries an antibody. ^[1] After spending a year raising his family, Ren remembers his mission. ^[1] Ren goes to Stimpy's brain where he discovers that Stimpy's "ignorant gland" is destroying his brain. ^[1] After fighting the rouge gland, Ren receives a message from Dr. Brainchild telling him that he must leave Stimpy's brain or be trapped there forever. ^[1] Ren does not make out in time. ^[2]

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 Games Animation studio had hired the Big Cartoons studio to work as a subcontractor for the fourth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show to take advantage of the lower value of the Australian dollar against the U.S. dollar. ^[3] Arthur Filloy had been sent to Australia to supervise the work of the Mr. Big Cartoons studio for Blazing Entrails. ^[3] Filloy had left The Ren & Stimpy Show after completing Blazing Entrails as he felt that the rate of being paid $6 for every foot of animation to be too low. ^[3] Filloy was unaware that the Mr. Big studio had informed Games Animation that he was still working on the show. ^[3] Filloy recalled: "It got a phone call from a rather irate Jim Ballantine, asking me what the fuck I was doing. Ballantine told me that I was supposed to be directing Ren & Stimpy over at Mr. Big. I was just as confused as he was, and I informed him that I had only timed one cartoon and gave it up. He asked if [Mr. Big had approached me since then], I said nope and boy did he get sore. Ballatine said he'd be in Sydney within three days. A day or so later, I get a phone call from Jim and he was furious, he wanted to talk over at my house and there he told me how he kicked [Mr. Big's] ass. He got me off their contract and hired me directly at Games. We struck a deal that I would get paid a good salary from Games, but I was to direct all the cartoons at Mr. Big". ^[3]

Reception

The American critic Thad Komorowski gave Blazing Entrails three stars out of five. ^[1]

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. 400.
2. Komorowski 2017, p. 401.
3. Komorowski 2017, p. 253.

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