Wiener Barons

"Wiener Barons"
The Ren & Stimpy Show episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 21
Directed by	Bob Camp
Written by	Ron Hauge Jim Gomez Bob Camp
Production code	RS-415
Original air date	February 11, 1995 (1995-02-11)
Guest appearance
Jack Carter as Border Guard
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"Wiener Barons" is the twenty-first episode of the fourth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show . It originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on February 11, 1995.

Plot

Ren and Stimpy are homeless and wandering somewhere in Arizona. Stimpy refuses every job offers Ren finds on a newspaper, which he reacts angrily and makes him choose; they decide to go to Canada for work in their valuable "wiener" industry, but not before they idiotically go west. They arrive at the border to Alberta by illegally hitching train rides and occasionally walking long distances, but are kicked out by a border guard. They devise plans to enter Canada.

Their first plan is to literally get around the border's river, which is full of baked beans; as pig fat floats on those beans, they kill a pig offscreen and ride it through the beans, only for it to sink midway; Ren almost dies by choking on baked beans, but is saved by Stimpy who apparently can swim in the beans. Their second plan is to impersonate "wiener inspectors" from the United Nations, which surprisingly succeeds despite their dismal attempt to disguise themselves. Ren fantasizes about getting rich in the country as they walk through the wiener-infested rural environment of Canada.

The duo open a farm, exploiting the environment's abundant source of "wieners", with Stimpy doing all the hard work. They eventually expand to mining and oil rigs, gaining them massive wealth. After an unknown period of time, they had opened their own theme park, an entire city and a whole luxurious building all to themselves. They enjoy the good life until a new synthetic sausage gains popularity, killing all enthusiasm for "wieners" and rendering the duo homeless and poor again, albeit submerged in their unused and useless pile of "wieners". One day, Ren has a vision about it raining baked beans for forty days and night, so they build a giant boat out of the unused "wieners" off-screen in the same manner as Noah's Ark. The duo sail away as Canada is flooded with the beans, ending the episode.

Cast

• Ren – Voice of Billy West
• Stimpy – Voice of Billy West
• Border Guard – Voice of Jack Carter

Production

Peter Avanzino did the episode's storyboards. This episode is the only episode where Jack Carter appears as a guest star but does not portray Wilbur Cobb. It was animated at Mr. Big Cartoons in Australia. ^[1]

Reception

American journalist Thad Komorowski gave the episode 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.

Reference

1. Komorowski 2017, p. 402.