Magical Golden Singing Cheeses/Hard Day's Luck
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"Magical Golden Singing Cheeses" and "A Hard Day's Luck" are 15-minute episodes of the animated television show, Ren & Stimpy.
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[edit] Magical Golden Singing Cheeses
| “Magical Golden Singing Cheeses” | |
|---|---|
| The Ren and Stimpy Show episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 5a |
| Written by | Bob Camp and Jim Gomez (original version by Jim Gomez and John K. |
| Directed by | Michael Kim |
| Original airdate | November 11, 1994 |
| Episode chronology | |
| ← Previous | Next → |
| "Prehistoric Stimpy/Farm Hands" | "I Love Chicken/Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman" |
[edit] Plot
In this wonderfully bizarre episode set in Medieval europe, Renwaldo and Stimpleton (lowly illegitimate sons of the dirtsmith), are starving to death on the floor of their cottage. Renwaldo asks Stimpleton to trade the family chigger for some food.
Stimpleton comes across the Man Eating Village Idiot, owner of the Magical Golden Singing Cheeses. The Village Idiot agrees to the trade, but threatens that unless Stimpleton can prove his stupidity in a "battle of witlessness" he will eat Stimpleton.
The battle of witlessness is pure genius! You will be treated with the Village Idiot scraping the flesh off his forearm with a cheese grater, and then dousing it in lemon juice, stimpy licking a frozen lamp post and tearing his tongue off, and the village idiot driving away from a gas station while his car is still filling up, among other things.
Stimpleton wins the contest, leaving the Man Eating Village Idiot dead from his own stupidity. Stimpy quickly brings the cheeses home to Renwaldo. Renwaldo rejects the cheeses as they are not yet 'ripe' enough, and instructs stimpy to go bury the cheeses beneith the stable. While digging Stimpleton disturbs an Ogre who is hibernating underground. The Ogre demands the cheeses as compensation for the inconvenience, then wears them on his feet, believing that they are shoes. Stimpy returns to Renwaldo, where they continue to starve to death until Ren feels that enough time has elapsed and the cheeses have aged sufficiently. Stimpleton returns to the Ogre's cavern to recover the cheeses. The Ogre trades the cheeses for Stimpy's spleen, and Stimpy makes back with the cheeses in hand. After the duo's first bite into the cheeses, the cheeses magically transform into milk curd princesses, who they then marry "live happily ever after, and starve to death."
[edit] Additional Opening Credits
- Storyboard: Craig Kellman, Tom McGrath and Michael Kim
- Backround Color Design: Scott Wills
[edit] Notes, Goofs, and Trivia
- This was one of John K.'s earliest pitches to Nickelodeon executives, who repeatedly turned it down until this modified version was made by Games, long after Kricfalusi's dismissal.
- This episode appears on the DVD 'Seasons Three & A Half-Ish' with segments from the 'Battle of Witlessness' scene missing (Stimpy licks a frozen pole, countered by the Village Idiot driving away with a gas pump in his car.
- On the DVD, the opening credits go fast.
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[edit] A Hard Day's Luck
| “A Hard Day's Luck” | |
|---|---|
| The Ren and Stimpy Show episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 5b |
| Written by | Vince Calandra, Chris Reccardi, and Lynne Naylor |
| Directed by | Chris Reccardi |
| Original airdate | November 11, 1994 |
| Episode chronology | |
| ← Previous | Next → |
| "Prehistoric Stimpy/Farm Hands" | "I Love Chicken/Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman" |
[edit] Plot
Haggis MacHaggis lives in splendour as a recluse castle dweller in the highlands, with a vast personal fortune and manservant Marvin. It is all for naught, though, as all he truly desires is a lush head of hair instead of his depressing bald pate. After a failed attempt at transferring his houseboy's back hair onto his own head, he finds a bizarre item in his cereal. Upon adding spit, the toy transforms into a magical, wish-granting leprechaun, who promises to grant Haggis's wish if his life is spared.
The proviso is that Haggis must pass a test, but give up his servant should he fail. The leprechaun puts Haggis through numerous torments in a bid to test the Scotsman's temper (putting a hair in his eye, jamming one between his teeth, pouring an entire jar of bugs in his ear, etc.), and eventually succeeds. Having failed one test, Haggis makes a second bid to win his wish by partaking of a generosity test. This he also fails, after his roots compel him to turn down a mollusc who needs money to survive. Ironically, Haggis has several locks and chains guarding (presumably) a single one-half-cent piece; on top of that, by failing to give the mollusk the one-half-cent piece, he loses everything he owns, a much pricier loss.
The leprechaun now owns all of Haggis's property and goods, but allows the desperate indigent one final chance to win his hair, by passing a test of bravery. Haggis is sent down a darkened well, and once there the leprechaun and an unsuspecting Marvin collaborate to make the experience all the more unbearable by providing an array of disturbing sound-effects (rolling dice to simulate snakes, and drinking large amounts of cola, causing Marvin to belch in a way that sounds like monsters to Haggis). Once he realises he is not alone in the well, Haggis loses his courage and forfeits the test. At the thought of losing his gambled shillelagh he bursts into tears, and the perturbed leprechaun concedes to grant him his wish regardless. Ecstatic over his new hair, such as it is, Haggis bounds off giddily into the sunset to meet his joyful doom.
[edit] Additional Opening Credits
- Storyboard: Lynne Naylor and Chris Reccardi
- Backround Color Design: Scott Wills
[edit] Notes, Goofs, and Trivia
- Ren and Stimpy do not appear in this episode. The other episodes where they are absent are 'Powdered Toast Man Vs. Waffle Woman' (season four) and 'Feud For Sale' (season five).
- The moat that surrounds Haggis's castle is infested with Crocostimpys, harkening back to the first season episode 'Untamed World'.
- The Scottish Haggis refers to his beloved club as a shillelagh, which is actually an Irish invention (named after the town) - although that could be why the leprechaun would want it.
- In this episode we learn that Haggis's mannservant is named Marvin.
- The cereal Haggis eats is called 'Lucky Chodes' (previously referred to in the short "Billy the Beef-Tallow Boy"), which along with the accompanying leprechaun parodies the popular General Mills breakfast cereal 'Lucky Charms'.
- The close-up shot of the leprechaun's lucky bean is reminiscent of Stimpy's last morsel of litter from the season one episode "Fire Dogs".
- When Haggis lights the match in the well, several skeletons are revealed, and all are wielding shillelaghs (implying that Haggis is not the first Scotsman to challenge the leprechaun).
- This episode appears on the DVD 'Seasons Three & A Half-Ish' with the 'Test of Generosity' scene missing.
