Nurse Stimpy

"**Nurse Stimpy**"
"Nurse Stimpy"
The Ren & Stimpy Show episode
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 4b
Directed by	John Kricfalusi (credited as Raymond Spum)
Story by	John Kricfalusi ; Bob Camp
Production code	RS-02B
Original air date	August 25, 1991
Episode chronology
← Previous; "Robin Hōek"	Next →; "Space Madness"
	List of episodes

Last updated April 03, 2024

"Nurse Stimpy" is the 4th episode of the first season of The Ren & Stimpy Show. It originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States 25 August, 1991.

Plot

Ren becomes deadly ill and Stimpy vows to take care of him. Stimpy dons a nurse's uniform and provides a variety of unpractical treatments that cause Ren much pain. At the end, Ren becomes cured while Stimpy become sick instead. Ren puts on the nurse uniform and says "now ee't my turn!"

Cast

Ren-voice of John Kricfalusi
Stimpy-voice of Billy West

Production

The episode had a troubled production with the script being rewritten five times.^[1] The storyboard work for Nurse Stimpy was done by Chris Reccardi while Bob Camp did the lay-out with the rest of the work being done by the Lacewood studio in Ottawa.^[1] John Kricfalusi who directed Nurse Stimpy disallowed his own work and used a pseudonym for the director's credit.^[2] In a 1993 interview, Kricfalusi said of Nurse Stimpy: "It's really ugly cartoon".^[1]

Reception

Nurse Stimpy is widely regarded as one of the weaker stories of the first season of The Ren & Stimpy Show with the American journalist Thad Komorowski writing that Nurse Stimpy is "merely an exhibition of toilet humor".^[1]

Books

Klickstein, Matthew; Summers, Marc (2013). Slimed! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age. London: Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 9781101614099.
Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1629331836.

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References

1 2 3 4 Komorowski 2017, p. 94.
↑ Komorowski 2017, p. 95.

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[FOOTNOTEKomorowski201794-1] 1 2 3 4 Komorowski 2017, p. 94.

[FOOTNOTEKomorowski201795-2] Komorowski 2017, p. 95.

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