Stimpy's Cartoon Show

"Stimpy's Cartoon Show" is the 38th episode of The Ren & Stimpy Show.
==Summary==
Stimpy is in the basement surrounded by paper and drawing furiously. An annoyed Ren asks Stimpy what he's doing, and he replies that he has decided to make a cartoon like his idol, Wilbur Cobb. Ren reprimands Stimpy for this, saying that cartoons are stupid and are nothing more than "puppets", but Stimpy still wants to finish his cartoon. Angry, Ren leaves Stimpy to continue, but it is soon revealed that his frustration is actually from jealousy of his friend's talents. Seeing that Stimpy has a "Golden Pencil Award" in animation is finally enough to drive Ren to tears. When Stimpy comforts his buddy, he offers to let him help draw, but Ren sadly says he does not know how. After revealing he also cannot write (unable to type), direct, or even "make coffee", Ren becomes increasingly more depressed and miserable. Finally, Stimpy suggests he could produce, since all he'd have to do is tell Stimpy what to do (which Ren enjoys) and take all the credit. Ren goes from sadness to power hunger in seconds. Dancing devilishly to Stimpy's bewilderment, Ren agrees, shaking on it.
Early the next morning, Stimpy "clocks in" to his work and begins painting animation cels and "bleeding" the paint through the sheets. Meanwhile, Ren takes over his duty as producer, adjusting the schedule, unfairly giving Stimpy mere days to complete the cartoon while dedicating nearly the entire month to his own vacation time. Stimpy begins storyboarding on his own, figuring out scenes and jokes in his cartoon. He begins ordering the sequences on a wall after drawing the out, nailing them to the "studio" wall with a staple gun. Ren calls him from his work to adorn his "producer's office" with his new title. As Ren subjects Stimpy to horrible work conditions, such as eating a sandwich with only a five-minute lunch break in a rat-infested "breakroom", Ren spoils himself with gourmet meals prepared by a chef, berating Stimpy ruthlessly for any "shortcomings" or "mistakes" (which are insignificant). Ren becomes so mean and heartless, he begins donning a "producer" uniform (complete with a golden "hat" with an axe on it to exercise his new authority and carrying a riding crop for which to intimidate Stimpy). One day, Ren comes to judge Stimpy's progress storyboarding, and while the feline silently begs for mercy, Ren dismisses virtually all of his work, and throws away Stimpy's entire storyboard after berating him to the point of tears. With all his work destroyed, a reluctant Stimpy approaches his "boss" for more materials and supplies. Ren now guards the supply closet and is only barely doling out what he deems Stimpy worthy of or necessary. Stimpy presents Ren with his final pencil now reduced to nothing, but Ren taunts him with a new one, forcing Stimpy to cough up money out of his own pockets to purchase a new one from him. Stimpy later runs out of paper, and a cheap Ren outright refuses to give him anymore, making him resort to painstakingly chop his own "paper" off of a log with a butter knife. Struggling until he bites his tongue off, Stimpy judges the quality of the gelatinous, transparent "wood paper" as acceptable before using it to draw on.
Ren is having telephone conversations with presumably "important" people as Stimpy is forced to do labor by carrying heavy loads of paper and camera supplies while Ren cusses him out for "not working hard enough". In the editing room, Stimpy, growing more exhausted and debilitated, films the animation cels with a camera that Ren has branded with their "company" logo, arrogantly calling it "Hoekvision". Stimpy creates the film reels, while Ren finally decides to "help" (lounging in a hammock and "editing" Stimpy's film by chopping each scene out with scissors). Stimpy works all night, turning the crank on the editing machine. Haggard, overworked and underpaid, and nearly giving up from the sheer abuse Ren is putting him through, Stimpy, in total hopelessness, seems to nearly do just that, until he sees the photo of Wilbur Cobb, lit up from the dull light of the editing machine, hanging on the wall. Reinvigorated by seeing his idol's picture, Stimpy trudges on valiantly through the night, despite all his shortcomings from a cruel Ren, proving himself better than his tyrannical, authoritarian, lazy "boss".
The next day, Ren is lounging near a pool when Stimpy approaches him, announcing that he has finished the cartoon and asking if he'd like to see it. All Ren can say is that Stimpy should "get out more". Handing over the reel, Stimpy says it came out very "chunky". As a cold Ren "judges" Stimpy's cartoon, he looks at the flim (which is revealed to be Stimpy's hand holding every cel in place as he filmed it) and comments it "all looks the same", to Stimpy's horror; however, after a brief climax, Ren deems it "a film", giving Stimpy his approval if he'll just leave him alone to "work", to Stimpy's joy. Stimpy, instantly reenergized, goes to contact Wilbur Cobb, but Ren doubts Cobb would even care about Stimpy or his cartoon.
Ren is proven wrong, however, as he and Stimpy have dressed in their finest clothes to go visit Cobb in his dimly lit office at his desk, having agreed to meet the duo. Wilbur Cobb seems to be in the middle of a important phone conversation, as Stimpy announces their arrival; however, Cobb is no longer the man he once was and Stimpy admired. As he turns in his office chair he is revealed to be ancient, long since demented with a glazed look and his "telephone call" is nothing more than him talking to himself into a conch shell as a crab crawls into his ear. He asks the two "girlies" "what they can do for [him]"), as Stimpy beside an bored, unimpressed Ren, awestruck and respectfully asks if the crazy old cartoonist will watch his cartoon. Wilbur then begins talking nonsense about the walls hearing them through their teeth, and since they are "Italian" they must "stick together". Ren and Stimpy grow increasingly uncomfortable around Wilbur, who is either suffering from leprosy or simply begun to rot from being so ancient; he is possibly even dead and now a zombie as his nose and eyes have become detached from his body and fused to his glasses. After being asked again, he thinks Stimpy is talking about one of his movies. When Stimpy thinks he was going to call it crap after Mr. Cobb began stuttering, Wilbur actually instead goes on a rant about Walter Lantz, chuckling to himself. As his arms fall off his sweaty armpits as he arises from his seat and he hobbles around with his cane, Cobb tells Ren and Stimpy that his claim to fame and genius in film came from saying "Everything stinks. Then you're never wrong", as it is revealed he wears a women's thong for underwear. By now even a low IQ Stimpy is growing even more confused and worried to a at first indifferent and annoyed, now long since uncomfortable and massively confused, Ren, who caught on to Cobb's insanity and deteriorated physical health, too. Seating himself on a sofa in his office, Mr. Cobb goes on about experience and smarts, not being overshadowed by "starry eyed amateurs" before going into a violent coughing fit and spitting his dentures into Ren's mouth as he changed the subject to how he fought in World War I and was "up to his elbows in "Nazzys'" as Ren gagged on and eventually swallowed his dentures in agony. Letting Ren and Stimpy sit in his lap, his ear falls off into Stimpy's lap (he glued it on with bubblegum and tape) as he gags Ren yet again with his breath and rotten teeth. Stimpy tries to reattach his ear, but pretended it was a hat to not insult him out of fear. Putting the cat and Chihuahua down his pants, he continued ranting and babbling insanely until he seemed to think he was giving a speech on peace, complete with a heavenly light shining on him to a chorus singing Hallelujah. By now Ren and Stimpy are both frightened and creeped out by Wilbur to the point of crying, asking if they could just watch Stimpy's cartoon. Cobb said he didn't know, but said they could watch Stimpy's cartoon in the meantime, having someone start Stimpy's cartoon on a projector, now acting inconvienced and annoyed and just wanting to get it over with. 
Stimpy's cartoon, titled I Like Pink, starts, revealing Ren had plastered his name all over the credits ("A Ren Hoek Cartoon", "Flimed In "Hoekvision") even though Stimpy did all the work alone. The cartoon stars Explody the Pup, who nervously denies a kiss from his "best girl", Poopy. The two ride in an airplane to her delight leading up to Act II. Now living in an igloo, which the inside of is underwater complete with fish, Explody drinks a martini as Poopy offers him another kiss, to which he uses the excuse that "he has to throw up" and Poopy tells him that she doesn't mind waiting; although 23 years pass. Now living peacefully in Montana in a jungle with dinosaurs, Explody asks Poopy, who is serving drinks, if she wants to pick his nose in the living room of their now regular home, and she goes to retrieve her purse. Meanwhile, a man in a uniform and hat with only one leg and no foot bounces down the road, claming to come after the two of them. After Explody spots him looking through their peephole, Poopy identifes him in panic as "Peg Pelvis Pete" (parodying Disney's Peg Leg Pete) come to "kill" them as Explody panics, too. However, Explody "defeats" Pete by hitting his own self over the head with a hammer, though Pete, spying on the couple through their window, swears his return. As Explody and Poopy's "victory" is heard around the world, Poopy asks Explody one last time for her to give him a kiss, to which he finally agrees, but when she does kiss him, he lives up to his name and explodes. It was shown Stimpy's cartoon was drawn at a kindergarten level and had several animation mistakes (for instance, background fish swimming through Explody's eyes), Peg Pelvis Pete's animation and dialogue to constantly be recycled, along with Stimpy messing up the voice acting, such as Poopy calling Explody Ren in Stimpy's natural voice.
Despite the poor quality of Stimpy's cartoon, Wilbur Cobb says he liked it and tells Stimpy to keep up the good work, because "Someday, you'll be where I am!" The camera then zooms out to reveal that Cobb's "office" was actually a jail cell (his "desk" was blocking the view of the cot and toilet) and he was on death row, waiting to be executed in the electric chair. Wilbur has Ren and Stimpy join him in the electric chair as he prepares to pull the lever to turn it on himself with a smile. Wilbur then says "Lights, Camera, Action!" as he activates the electric current with the electrodes and helmet attached to his head. Cobb then laughs hysterically as a horrified and dumbfounded Ren and Stimpy sit in his lap, as the screen flashes as Cobb laughs until the three die from the shock (as Cobb hacks and groans one last time).
==Home video releases==
;DVD
* The Ren & Stimpy Show: Season Three and a Half-ish