The Big Shot!

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"The Big Shot!"
The Ren & Stimpy Show episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 2
Directed by John Kricfalusi
Story by John Kricfalusi
Vincent Waller
Production codeRS-01B
Original air dateAugust 11, 1991 (1991-08-11)
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The Big Shot! is the second episode of the first season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 11 August 1991.

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Plot

Continuing the story began in Stimpy's Big Day , Stimpy arrives in Hollywood where he acts along his hero Muddy Mudskipper. He is shocked to discover that Muddy Mudskipper is an abrasive misanthrope who berates everyone. Stimpy shows Mr. Horse the virtues of using Nitty Gritty kitty litter. Ren watches TV to keep his mind off the absence of Stimpy, but sees his face everyone. Ren starts to lose his mind. Stimpy finds uncomfortable in Hollywood and returns to live with Ren in their trailer park. Ren is first happy to see Stimpy back, but is furious when he learns that Stimpy has given all of his $47 million in prize money.

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Production

Originally, the story of the first episode was intended to be one story, but it was decided to split the story into two parts to properly tell the story. [1] Bob Camp stated: "There was so much we wanted to do with the story, we had trouble packing it into one eleven-minute cartoon. It was actually easier to stretch it than to compass it". [1] The couple of John Kricfalusi and Lynne Naylor set the story in the 1950s as a reference to the world of their youth. [1] In what became a recurring feature of The Ren & Stimpy Show, Kricfalusi first introduced the scatological humor that was to play such a central role in the show. [2] Much of the plot revolves kitty litter, and the story of The Big Shot! makes no effort to hide what is the purpose of kitty litter. [2] The work of inking and painting both Stimpy's Big Day and The Big Shot! was done at the Lacewood studio in Ottawa. [2] The Lacewood studio had very poorly paid cartoonists, and the American journalist Thad Komorowski wrote that the animation done by the Lacewood studio was inept. [3] Komorowski wrote in both Stimpy's Big Day and The Big Shot! that: "The drawing is occasionally poor, the animation mostly rigid and the cleanup and ink-and-paint work is absolutely atrocious". [3]

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Komorowski wrote that The Big Shot! was "an entertaining start to the series and awarded the episode three stars. [4]

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