I Love Chicken

10th episode of the 4th season of The Ren & Stimpy Show

"I Love Chicken"

The Ren & Stimpy Show episode

Episode no.

Season 4
Episode 10

Directed by

Ron Hughart

Story by

Bob Camp
Jim Gomez

Original air date

November 19, 1994 (1994-11-19)

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I Love Chicken is the tenth episode of the fourth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 19 November 1994.

Plot

Stimpy falls in love with a chicken from the grocery store which alternates between being a dead bird vs. an anthropomorphic chicken.^[1] Stimpy is engaged to the chicken while Ren keeps trying to eat it.^[1] Stimpy marries the chicken while Ren continues his attempts to eat the chicken.^[1] Ren is jealous over the way that Stimpy gives all his love to his wife.^[1] Ren is finally able to eat the chicken, which breaks Stimpy's heart.^[1]

Cast

Ren-voice of Billy West
Stimpy-voice of Bill west

Production

The story was written by the showrunner, Bob Camp together with Jim Gomez, and differed from the usual "gag reels" stories of the Games Animation studio..^[2] Camp and Gomez chose to focus on characters rather than gags in I Love Chicken with the main themes being Ren's selfishness and self-pity vs. Stimpy's devotion and low intelligence..^[2]

Reception

The American critic Thad Komorowski rated the episode three stars out of five and described I Love Chicken as one of the best stories of season four.^[3]

Books and articles

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Komorowski 2017, p. 406.
^ ^a ^b Komorowski 2017, p. 263.
^ Komorowski 2017, p. 263 & 406.

The Ren & Stimpy Show

Television series

The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991-1996)
Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" (2003)
Ren & Stimpy (2024-)

Characters

Ren and Stimpy
George Liquor

Episodes

Pilot episode	"Big House Blues"
Season 1	"Stimpy's Big Day" "The Big Shot!" "Robin Höek" "Nurse Stimpy" "Space Madness" "Fire Dogs" "The Boy Who Cried Rat!" "The Littlest Giant" "Marooned" "Untamed World" "Black Hole" "Stimpy's Invention"
Season 2	"In the Army" "Powdered Toast Man" "Ren's Toothache" "Man's Best Friend" "Out West" "Rubber Nipple Salesmen" "Sven Höek" "Haunted House" "Mad Dog Höek" "Big Baby Scam" "Dog Show" "Son of Stimpy" "Monkey See, Monkey Don't" "Fake Dad" "The Great Outdoors" "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball" "Stimpy's Fan Club" "A Visit to Anthony" "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen"
Season 3	"To Salve and Salve Not!" "A Yard Too Far" "Circus Midgets" "No Pants Today" "Ren's Pecs" "An Abe Divided" "Stimpy's Cartoon Show" "Jimminy Lummox" "Bass Masters" "Road Apples" "Ren's Retirement" "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf" "Hard Times for Haggis" "Eat My Cookies" "Ren's Bitter Half" "Lair of the Lummox"
Season 4	"Hermit Ren" "House of Next Tuesday" "A Friend In Your Face!" "Blazing Entrails" "Lumber Jerks" "Prehistoric Stimpy" "Farm Hands" "Magical Golden Singing Cheeses" "A Hard Day's Luck" "I Love Chicken" "Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman" "It's A Dog's Life" "Egg Yolkeo"

Albums

You Eediot!
Crock O' Christmas
Radio Daze

Video games

Time Warp (1994)

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