Eat My Cookies is the 14th episode from the third season of The Ren & Stimpy Show. It originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on June 4, 1994.

"Eat My Cookies"
The Ren & Stimpy Show episode
Episode no.Season 3
Episode 14
Directed byRon Hauge
Story byRichard Pursel
Ron Hauge
Production codeRS-317
Original air dateJune 4, 1994 (1994-06-04)
Guest appearance
Rosie O'Donnell as girl scout master
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Plot

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Ren and Stimpy despite being male tried to attend the Bareette Baret Girls' Camp. The girl scouts demanded that Ren and Stimpy pass several tests being allowed to join. Ren and Stimpy have to sell all of the girl scout cookies, which they instead eat. Ren and Stimpy put cacti in the cookie boxes and sell all of the boxes in this manner. Ren loses the cookie money in a card game. The girl scout leader demands that Stimpy and Ren capture a monstrous creature known as a Snipe. Ren does not believe in Snipes, so Stimpy captures a Snipe alone. The Snipe mauls Ren. Stimpy is given the Snipe Hunting Badge while Ren feels depressed and left out.

Cast

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Production

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The Games Animation studio, which took over The Ren & Stimpy Show in 1992 divided their stories into "quicker" cartoons meant to meet the quota imposed by the Nickelodeon network and the more "artistic" cartoons that were given more money and time.[1] Jim Gomez of the Games Animation stated: "The guys that sort of compromised and did stuff quicker than the other guys were kind of carrying the studio They were meeting the requirements, allowing the other guys to produce the shows at their pace. I'm not blaming anybody, but that's the reality. It might had suffered a bit, which was bad, but it was what it was".[1] Eat My Cookies was a "quicker" cartoon assigned to Ron Hughart who was known as "the reliable director" by the network executives.[1] Hughart was a director known for his lack of ego and willingness to take on stories that the other personnel did not want to do.[1] Eat My Cookies was regarded within Games Animation as a "quicker" cartoon of low quality which the other directors did not want to take.[1]

Reception

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The American critic Thad Komorowski condemned Eat My Cookies as a story devoid of any humor that was just done to meet the quota.[1] Komorowski blamed the poor quality of Eat My Cookies on Hughart who "lacked the comic sensibility and directorial individuality that Ren & Stimpy cartoons demanded".[1]

Books

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  • Dobbs, G. Michael (2015). Escape – How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s. Orlando: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1593931100.
  • Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1629331836.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Komorowski 2017, p. 251.