The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen
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"The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" is a 30-minute episode of the animated Nickelodeon animated television show, "Ren and Stimpy".
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[edit] The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen
| “The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen” | |
|---|---|
| The Ren and Stimpy Show episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 12 |
| Written by | John K., Jim Gomez, Bob Camp, and Vincent Waller |
| Directed by | John K. and Chris Reccardi |
| Original airdate | May 23, 1993 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "Stimpy's Fan Club" | "To Salve and Salve Not/A Yard Too Far" |
[edit] Plot
The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen story begins “thousands of years ago, 1856”. The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen's famous motto is: “We always get our … butts kicked!” Ren and Stimpy have volunteered for this elite force. The diminutive commander, played by Jasper from “Big House Blues”, explains that this move means certain death, and they are doing it because they are selfless and will go down in history. At this point, Stimpy begs the commander to let them go out in the wilderness and give their lives for this great country. “Me and Ren, our lives are cheap. Oh, please! Here, take this five bucks, just let us serve!” The commander sends the boys out, while the rest of the Yaksmen have “the shame of remaining here with the women”. “Those poor men,” says Stimpy, “isn't it a pity, Ren?”
Ren and Stimpy set off atop a pair of Yaks, facing hardship after hardship. The episode shows a montage of them on their journey, being pelted with hail, becoming sick, being struck with arrows, and encountering Canada's most fearsome predator, The Kodiak Marmoset, the world's largest (smallest) primate.
Ren and Stimpy then press through the “hot stinking depths of the Canadian Jungle”. Stimpy tries to drink the last of the water, and Ren grabs the bottle for himself. The joke's on Ren, though, as an entire swarm of bees fly out of the bottle and straight down his throat. Needless to say, Ren starts screaming and spits the bees out of his mouth, and a few sting his tongue on the way out.
Ren then breaks down, and tells Stimpy they have run out of food and water. He says they must turn back. Stimpy scolds him, and reminds him of “The Royal Anthem of the Kilted Yaksmen”. Stimpy then begins to sing the song.
After the song, it shows Ren, Stimpy, and the two Yaks crawling through sand dunes, exhausted. Stimpy is singing the song in a weary, fatigued voice. One of the Yaks goes crazy and starts yelling, “Stop! I can't stand it any more! Singing, SINGING! Why won't he STOP!?!”, and doesn’t stop screaming until Ren slaps some sense into him.
The group starts thinking about how they can find food. It shows them thinking, for days, until finally Ren breaks the silence with “Of course, what an eediot I have been. The answer is right in front of us!”. They begin to eat Canada's greatest natural resource, dirt. They go searching, and finally, find a “dirt vein”. They start a fire, and have dirt feast of “fried dirt cakes” and “dirt on a cob”.
They then claim the land where they found dirt for the country, and are shown many years later (in skeletal form, still with their hats on) still standing on the land they claimed (and still saluting), with a large and busy overpass overhead.
[edit] Additional Opening Credits
- Storyboard: Chris Reccardi
- Backround Color Design: Bill Wray
- Animation Direction: Bob Jaques
[edit] Notes, Goofs, and Trivia
- This episode was completed by Games Animation after Kricfalusi was fired, and is the last on Nickelodeon to feature him as the voice of Ren. The Games crew was unsatisfied with some of the animation by Bob Jaques and his company, Carbunkle Cartoons, and insisted they do retakes without compensation. Jaques felt the demand was unprofessional and was so furious, he refused to produce any more episodes of the show.
- On the CD soundtrack version of the song, some parts of the song were re-recorded (with the same lyrics), and the fart noise is a more generic one. During the group singing part of the song on the You Eediot! soundtrack, "hell" can clearly be heard over the fart, making the censor virtually pointless.
- During the sing-along part of the song, the DVD captions didn't get the 2nd fart.
- Right before the commercial break, as everyone was cheering, someone threw a gut.
- Even though the episode is supposedly set in 1856, it has a similar feel to expeditions sent out to search for oil. Canada has rich oil reserves in Northern Alberta in the Oil Sands.
[edit] Quotes
[edit] Song
Kilted Yaksmen Anthem
(to the tune of “My Country, 'Tis of Thee” / “God Save The Queen”)
Sung by members of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, according to the credits
- Our country reeks of trees
- Our Yaks are really large
- And they smell like rotting beef carcasses
- And we have to clean up after them
- And our saddle sores are the best
- We proudly wear women's clothing
- As searing sand blows up our skirts
- And the buzzards, they soar overhead
- And poisonous snakes will devour us whole
- Our bones will bleach in the sun
- And we will probably go to (loud farting noise)
- And that is our great reward
- For being the-uh Ro-oy-al Canadian Kilted Yaksmen!
The song repeats with all the animals singing along, with the lyrics down below and Ren's head bouncing along as the song goes on, much like a Children's sing-along. The word 'hell' is replaced by a farting noise and crudely crossed out in the lyrics with a skinny red line, but you can clearly see them mouthing the word and see that it indeed does say "hell" in the lyrics.
[edit] Powdered Toast 2
[edit] Plot
A brother and sister eat powdered toast for breakfast to get the energy of Powdered Toast Man. But, vitamin F doesn't make kids any smarter.
[edit] Notes, Goofs, and Trivia
- When the narrator talks about Powdered Toast Man, stock footage from his own episode is used.
[edit] Quotes
- Narrator: Feel that surge of energy rush through your kitchen! How does Powdered Toast Man do it? Where does he get the energy?
(the camera shows a can of powdered toast)
Why, from powdered toast! Of course! The only toast that comes in a can!
[edit] Sugar Sod Pops
[edit] Plot
A mom smells fresh grass, not by Dad cutting the grass, but by he and his son eating Sugar Sod Pops: the breakfast thet tastes like a fresh-mowed lawn! Dad encourages Mom to eat it, and when she did, she said it tasted like that just-raked freshness! Sugar Sod Pops! Now with a praying mantis.
[edit] Notes, Goofs, and Trivia
- The animation for this bumper is not from Carbunkle Cartoons, but from Rough Draft Korea.
- On the box of Sugar Sod Pops, the wormy guy's head keeps changing darkness.
[edit] Quotes
- Mom (muffled): Why, it's got that...
(normal voice) ...just-raked freshness!
[edit] Song
Sugar Sod Pops Ditty
If you like grass, if you like dirt, eat Sugar Sod Pops! It can't hurt!
