Ren & Stimpy: A Scooter for Yaksmas Review

Beyond good, beyond evil, beyond your wildest

imagination. Bless you, sir. Happy Yaxmas, and

may all your cobs be lumpy ones. All right, folks,

it's day seven here on the 25 days of Tooncast

Beyond Christmas, first annual 25 days Tooncast

Beyond Christmas. I am, of course, Steve, Joe,

and Mike. Returning from the year without a Santa

Claus, and Santa Claus is coming to town, is

Steve Megatron. Hello. Hello. Hopefully your

holiday season is going well. You got a new job

at this point and everything else. And yeah,

so today, ladies and gentlemen, it's happened.

I never thought it would happen, but it's happened.

And I just cannot believe it. And as I've already

told this story, and as I will tell this story

through the rest of these 25 days about... back

in 2011 or 2012 and I went online and went on

Wikipedia and found every United States based

cartoon series that had a Christmas episode,

a Christmas special, whatever the hell it was

and I came up with 50 podcasts between this year

and next year and one of them was a show that

I have stated from the GCRN's inception in two

thousand nine that i would never cover on to

cast classic to cast beyond that is written stepy

and i don't know uh... yeah well that was because

two thousand ten two thousand eleven somewhere

around there i actually tried to watch the show

because i didn't like i didn't grow up with rand

stepy i didn't know i knew of rand stepy i knew

of the characters i knew billy west plays rand

and all that but i did not know like what the

show really was or anything like that or why

people, you know, loved it so much. And I tried

watching episodes or a few cartoons on YouTube

and quite literally, folks, I'm not kidding here

when I say this, I'm not exaggerating. I'm not

blowing this out of proportion. At that time,

I was 30, 30 or 30, we didn't see the 2010 or

2011, so I was 30 or 31 years old. I nearly puked

after about Minute and a half of watching one

of those things Because this show is by far the

one of the most disgusting cartoons. I have ever

seen in my entire life I'm glad I never had any

affinity to see this when it was airing this

is just and John Kay for all his infinite wisdom

craps on tiny tune adventures for being Looney

Tunes copycats, which they're not Little bit

but not direct copycats Just I don't know. Anyway,

we're here. Scooter for Yaxmas. It's the holiday

episode for Ren and Stimpy This one was from

season 5. I don't know if they had other Christmas

episodes someone said something about the son

of Stimpy or something or other I Don't know

if that's true or not. I honestly don't really

give a crap. This is probably the only episode

in 2016 or 2017 that I will be a real Scrooge

about this cartoon because this cartoon just

Number one. I just didn't get it number two.

It's bad Had you seen this before I mean, I know

that you wanted to be on this because you at

some point I guess enjoyed or liked a part of

Ren and Stimpy or whatever else but when I was

a kid, uh -huh. I used to watch it with My my

late cousin and my uncle and we used to play

Sega Genesis rented stimpy games Okay, which

was actually halfway decent like the game was

better than the show But my uncle could do a

spot -on rent impression you idiot Like when

they had the space madness episode yeah So yeah,

he could do it spot -on You know stuff like that.

I can't do that voice. I don't really care too,

but But I mean I I used to enjoy the show a lot

and then You know like buttered toast man, and

you know all the various characters that show

up Yaxmas wasn't particularly one of my favorite

episodes but I appreciated the show for what

it was. I more so liked some of the the randomnesses

of like you know Buttered Toast Man or Don't

Pee on the Electric Fence or you know aspects

of the show but not necessarily the entire show.

Right. Yeah, it's kind of like if you watch Dexter.

Some people like Dexter and Dee Dee and some

people don't. Some people prefer Major Glory

and the Justice Friends or some people prefer

Dial M from Monkey or something. It's part of

that Cartoon Network generation of where they

would have various... main shows that would have

side characters or, you know what I mean, same

thing. So for me, I have never seen the interest

or never seen the love that is the fandom of

Ren and Snimpy. That's fine. They can like it

all they want. I don't. And watching this, I

just found myself... Just dumbfounded. I'm beyond

the point. I'm 36 almost 37 years old I'm beyond

the point of throwing up from a cartoon for the

most part at this point now five or six years

ago not really but Now I mean I I did try to

go into this with an open mind. I really did.

I'm like, okay I know it's running stimpy. I

know it's probably gonna have that zoom in eyeball

bug out animation because that's the animation

that John K used and that's fine that's his style

you know I can't fault the man for that but at

the end of this I just like cocked my head to

the left and I'm like what the frig did I just

watch because I would rather eat a ton of figgy

pudding or bad fruitcake than ever watch this

again. I just told my fiance Jen that I would

rather watch every single horror film that was

ever made before I ever watched Ren and Stimpy

ever again. And as everyone knows, I'm not a

horror fan at all. You know, I grew up watching

horror movies. My mom had me watch them all the

time as a kid. Now I'm just not, it's just not

my thing, so. This okay, so the plot here folks

just to kind of break it down for you break it

down Please MC hammer take your hammer pants

and go somewhere else Basically Stimpy is getting

paid in fudge pop sticks for For his job I don't

even know what the hell his job is, but whatever.

I like when he gets mad and he's talking about

the fudge. Yeah. What the fudge? And basically,

he goes home and he starts decorating the house

for Yaxman. Or Yaxmas. The Wikipedia article

I'm looking at, the Ren and Stimpy Wikipedia

article, it says Yaxman. Which for some odd...

I don't know. I don't know what the... I would

think if someone's a Yaxman, they would be throwing

up everywhere, but basically they - Ren - not

Ren, Stimpy is the character that believes in

stinky, whizzle teats, and Ren basically tells

him no, that doesn't exist, and blah blah blah,

and Stimpy is all happy, you know, it's your

standard, one part of the duo believes, the other

part of the duo doesn't. And Stimpy gets Ren

this giant queen because Ren basically sent him

an oath that said buy me a queen or die. So there's

that. And Ren only gives Stimpy a box of fudge

pop sticks. And then he just loses his gourd.

Yeah, he just loses his gourd. He's like, what

the fudge? Yep. which i i remember several times

using that as a kid but that was before this

this is like this is like eighty six eighty seven

because you know as a kid in my household whether

it was it's mostly the mom son of my family some

of them did curse not all the time but a lot

i would hear damn and shit and every now and

then the occasional f -bomb by the time i was

twelve i i heard my mom used to use this all

the time and um to gas beyond and to cast brand

here and you sure will always be explicit so

you just so you're warned folks my mom always

used to use this when she was really mad at me

jesus h fucking christ so uh... but yeah what

the fudge so she uh so so so so stimpy gets fudge

sticks and he gets really really mad because

he told ren that he wanted this giant red rider

bb gun scooter thing it's not really a giant

red rider bb gun folks that's a bad Christmas

story joke and uh after the fact stimpy goes

to um Back to the store where the thing is and

he just kind of slams his head into the window

or his fists into the window The window breaks.

He didn't do it on purpose. He did it by accident

the window breaks and the scooter magically falls

out of the store into his arms and He loves it

and whatever else and some lady sees him and

then the cops see him So then he's being chased

and then he has to go to the West Pole Motel

Which is funny I thought he actually went to

Like oh, you know, California was its own island

or something like seriously and actually hit

the guy. Yeah and he's like I Killed him and

then he gets up. He's like hey And then he's

riding on it. Yeah So yeah, it was it was pretty

humorous Seeing how that uh Played out and then

he's like you You were the one that stole the

bike and he's like I'm gonna tell And then you

know he runs off and then Stimpy's just worried

and Then there's the destruction of the bike

Yeah, then there's the destruction of the bike,

and that's when they end up going to the West

Pole Motel, and he finds that Stinky... Wizzleteeth

had the present from Wren, and he's like, and

then he left the broken one there, framing them

for thief. Which was awesome. And the episode

just kind of ends with Ren and Stimpy on the

new one that was Stimpy's present from Ren. And

then Ren somehow has this like crazy statue of

gold. No, it's the giant queen that Stimpy got

him. Remember? He said, get me a giant fucking

queen or whatever it was. Yeah, that's right.

He said, buy me a queen or die. So, Stimpy bought

him this giant, gold -encrusted, jewel -encrusted

queen, and that's on the back of their scooter.

So they're not going exactly as fast as it probably

could, because the broken -down scooter has stinky

Whizzleteats and his little reindeer dude there

basically zooming past them, and then the episode

ends. Taking the grossness out of it and just

looking at the message of the overall and not

really there really isn't a message here folks

But just looking at the whole thing as like an

alternate You know Santa Claus and my parents

didn't get me my present kind of thing and as

I said earlier I made it I made a Christmas story

joke where you know Stimpy didn't get the present

he thought he was gonna get kind of the same

thing as Ralphie from from a Christmas story

he wasn't sure he was getting the Red Ryder BB

gun or not and You know, it's just one of those

things where this episode's alright, but again,

I just can't watch this animation. Yeah, it's

one of those things that it's kind of like when

I was a kid. You know, a lot of those shows,

you know, like Beetlejuice and this and stuff

like that. I just can't sit through it anymore.

I think it's just because I'm old. My tastes

for animation are more refined. So I just I can't

do it. Which sucks, because like there's a lot

of stuff I used to enjoy that I just can't stomach

anymore. Either it puts me to sleep or I'm just

like. But I think it's because I'm not exposed

to it anymore, so it just kind of I'm. Turned

off to it, basically. Yeah, the first so in some

trivia here. This is the second Christmas episode

of the season of the show, the first being Son

of Stimpy, and we should probably have watched

that instead of this, but I'm sorry, folks. I'm

doing you guys a favor, even bringing Ren and

Stimpy onto this podcast, because this would

never happen, ever. So, um, maybe? If I feel

better in a year from now next Christmas, maybe

we'll do Son of Stimpy next year, but I do already

have next year kind of planned out, so we'll

have to see what happens there. Billy West is

the voice of both of the characters, right? Ran

and Stimpy? He was later on. To begin with, he

was not. I'm not sure what season was this at?

Season 5. Yeah, he was both. Yeah, he was both.

So yeah, I like Billy West as the characters.

I think that's cool. But other than that, this

is not one, like, that's one of the things I

have been asking and one of the things I will

ask after we talk about any of these cartoon

series or these cartoon episodes. Is this something

you're going to add to your yearly Christmas?

cartoon watching Traditions like, you know, we

all have them, you know, we all have Charlie

Brown We all have Grinch. We all have Rudolph

Frosty all that stuff you know, you've got a

year without a Santa Claus and Santa Claus is

coming to town and and everything else and Some

of these I could watch again though that we're

gonna be doing Others not so much and this kind

of falls into that not so much kind of category

for me Yeah, most of my stuff. I'm not gonna

be able to watch again. Like there's just there's

just too much I don't know I've a lot of our

animation choices have changed over the last

couple years and then a lot of them have changed

for me in the last like I don't know 20 years

yeah of what I won't watch anymore based on just

content alone so well I mean you're still gonna

show the kids like Rudolph and Frosty and I mean

yeah stuff like that yeah yeah a lot of the stuff

we're changing based up on our you know beliefs

and all that stuff. Yeah. And that's fine. That's

gonna do it folks for today. As far as a rating

for this episode, I'll give it a generous 3 out

of 5 and 3 for me is kinda like middle ground.

It's not horrible, but I didn't enjoy it. I just

kinda sat here with this and just kinda like...

Just gave my monitor like a questioning. Look

the whole the whole time. I was watching this

There I think there was maybe one or two times.

I laughed but Overall, it's a very middle ground

kind of thing for me. What about you? Yeah, it

was kind of about the same for me like I used

to like I said there were things I enjoyed about

it back in the day, but You know, it's Very much

kind of a blah situation now So I'd give it about

three and a half out of five just because of

nostalgia purposes. Mm -hmm All right, folks

tomorrow on the 25 days to cast me on Christmas.

We have the 2015 Christmas action block With

I believe Steve is gonna be on there with me

and I know Mike the Birdman Dodd is gonna be

on there with me We're talking about three different

action cartoons Uh, we're gonna talk about Cobra

Claws is coming to town from the G .I. Joe Sunbow

series. The real Ghostbusters Xmas hits the spot.

And we're gonna go back, folks. We're gonna go

back to 2011 or whenever it was we started doing

that one show and we're gonna re -examine Transformers

animated human error parts one and two because

that was the Christmas episode of season two.

So that's what's coming up tomorrow on 25 days

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Catch you tomorrow when we talk about some Cobras,

some Transformers, and some Ghostbusters. We

now return to the real Ghostbusters. Joe, this

is the right way home. Ask me no questions and

I'll tell you no lies, Winston. Terrific. This

is the last time we take a job in upstate New

York. Especially if our client has anything to

say about it after what happened. I still say

it wasn't my fault. I told her to keep the cat

out of my way. I mean, it's not like the fur

won't grow back or anything. Forget it, Ray.

I guess we're all just a little bugged about

having to work on Christmas Eve, right, Peter?

Doesn't bother me. Christmas is just another

day. Now this is weird. I don't remember seeing

this fork in the road on our way up to Yuygon.

No, but given our general direction and the presumed

location of the turnpike, I'd say go... left.

You know, I could be mistaken, but this doesn't

look like a turnpike. Shall we put it to a vote?

Not now, Peter, okay? Come on, girl. Just a little

further, you can do it. Come on! I knew I should've

worn my long undies. What a way to spend Christmas

Eve, eh, Peter? Typical. Come on, let's see if

we can find a phone somewhere. What's with him?

He always gets grumpy about this time of year.

Christmas isn't Peter's favorite season. His

father was always away at Christmas. That affects

you after a while. It's easier to shrug that

off if you pretend you don't care about Christmas.

And you pretend it long enough. Pretty soon,

you believe it.