A Friend In Your Face!

"A Friend In Your Face!"
The Ren & Stimpy Show episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 3
Directed by	Bob Camp
Story by	Bob Camp
Production code	RS-324
Original air date	October 8, 1994 (1994-10-08)
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A Friend in Your Face! is the third episode of the fourth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 8 October 1994.

Plot

Ren is confused by Stimpy's claim that he has a friend in his face, a parasite named Choo-Choo Nong-Nong Head. ^[1] Nooney Bratweiler, Choco-Choco's cousin comes to stay with her. ^[1] She persuades to him to move onto Ren's face. ^[1] Ren is notably annoyed by serving as an unwilling host, and tries hard to get rid of the parasite to no avail. ^[1] The Fire Chief puts out a fire started on Ren's face by the parasite ^[1] . Ren's face is worn down that it must "torn down" or turned into a condominium tower. ^[1]

Cast

• Ren-voice of Billy West
• Choo-Choo Nong-Nong Head-voice of Judy Bohannon
• Stimpy-voice of Billy West
• The Fire Chief-voice of Harris Peet
• Nooney Bratweiler-voice of Stephen DeStefano

Production

The cartoon was drawn at the Games Animation studio in Los Angeles and illustrated at the Rough Draft Korea studio in Seoul. ^[1]

Reception

The American critic Thad Komorowski gave the episode one star out of five, writing "thought beautifully illustrated, the cartoon is just not funny". ^[2]

Books and articles

• Dobbs, G. Michael (2015). Escape – How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s. Orlando: BearManor Media. ISBN   1593931107.
• Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN   978-1629331836.

References

1. Komorowski 2017, p. 399.
2. Komorowski 2017, p. 399-400.

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