Ren Seeks Help
Also known as: Ren Needs Help
- Studio
- Spümcø
- Animation studio
- Carbunkle Cartoons Entertainment, Big Star Enterprise
Synopsis
After hurting Stimpy's feelings, Ren goes to see a psychologist, Mr. Horse. Ren recalls his past where since he was born, he loved torturing and/or killing other creatures, especially a frog that Ren refuses to kill but the frog wants to die. Then Mr. Horse swears (literally) that Ren is crazy so a battle ensues where Ren goes insane, kills Mr. Horse, and is taken to the dog pound. The frog comes back and kills himself.
Characters
Ren, Stimpy, Mrs. Höek, Frog, Mr. Höek, Dr. Mr. Horse
Credits
Directing
- Director
- John Kricfalusi
Producing
- Producer
- Jessica Beirne
- Executive Producers
- Kevin Kolde, Eric Gardner
Writing
- Writer
- John Kricfalusi, Richard Pursel
Voices
- Voice
- John Kricfalusi (Ren, Dr. Mr. Horse), Eric Bauza (Stimpy), Cheryl Chase (Mrs. Höek [uncredited]), Tom Hay (Frog [uncredited]), Michael C. Kricfalusi (Mr. Höek [uncredited])
Animation
- Animator
- Nathan Affolter, Colin Giles, Kelly Armstrong, Rob Jones, Darren Brereton, Kiyoshi Kohatsu, Bert Dennison, Peter MacAdams, Marvin Estropia, Kari Rust, Cory Evans, Greg Stainton, Michael Geiger
- Animation Assistants
- John Beveridge, Chad Van De Keere
Crew
- Created by
- John Kricfalusi
- Animation Director
- Bob Jaques
- Crew
- SPUMCO, SPUMCO USA, SPUMCO CANADA, SPUMCO, THE NEW TNN
- Creator/Director
- John Kricfalusi
- Writers
- John Kricfalusi, Vincent Waller, Richard Pursel, Michael Kerr
- Executive Producers
- Kevin Kolde, Eric Gardner
- Director
- Vincent Waller, Young-ho Shin
- Production Coordinator
- Amid Amidi, Jennifer Tam, Glenn J. Brown
- Production Accountant
- Diane Kolde, Mike Sloane, Keith Clark
- Storyboard Artists
- Vincent Waller, Jim Smith, Eddie Fitzgerald, Jeff Amey, Matthew Roach, Nick Cross, Tavis Silbernagel, Michael Kerr, Steve Stefanelli, Helder Mendonca
- Layout Supervisor
- Fred Osmond, Helder Mendonca
- Layout Artists
- Gabe Swarr, Robert Ryan Corey, Ray Morelli, William Branca, Katie Rice, Gene McGuckin, Luke Cormican, Warren Leonhardt, Tim Pallett, Helder Mendonca, Jose Pou
- Music/Leica Editors
- Stephen Worth, Paul Trauth
- Track Reading
- Henry Porch
- Studio Assistant
- Michelle Labaqui, Julie-Ann Engelberts
- Producer
- Jessica Beirne, Tae Soo Kim
- Production Manager
- Adrian Langley, Athena Cho, Young-Il Jung
- Assistant Directors
- Derek Bond, Kevin Currie
- Creative Follow Through
- Eric Bauza, Jordan Boswell
- Assistant to John Kricfalusi
- Alison Acton
- Music/Leica Editor
- Michael Kerr, Jeff Snider, Graham Lunam
- Art Director
- Nick Cross
- Art Coordinator
- Julia Ediger
- Layout Clean-Up/Assistant
- Marcel Laurin
- BG Key Painters
- Kristy Gordon, Mary Lubanski, Alain Massicotte
- Prop Designer
- Aleksander Prohaska
- Colour Stylist
- Christine Wallace
- Model Clean Up
- Gerry Duchemin
- Studio Manager
- Annie Gosling
- Production Assistants
- Craig Gosling, Ciaran O'Connor, Tom Hay, Matt Trudel, Roseanne Kwan, Helen Chang
- Systems Administrator
- Blair Chiasson
- Checker
- Ron Caddigan
- Production Accounting
- Keith Clark, Dulcie Clark
- Business and Legal Affairs
- Mike Andrews, Bill Seiter
- Producers
- Kelly Armstrong, Bob Jaques
- Directors
- Bob Jaques, Kelly Armstrong
- Overseas Supervisor
- Chris Ross
- Timing
- Bob Jaques, Chris Ross, Kelly Armstrong, Greg Stainton, Jamie Mason
- Animators
- Nathan Affolter, Colin Giles, Kelly Armstrong, Rob Jones, Darren Brereton, Kiyoshi Kohatsu, Bert Dennison, Peter MacAdams, Marvin Estropia, Kari Rust, Cory Evans, Greg Stainton, Michael Geiger, Byung-Chan Lee, Young-Mee Jung, Kyung-Suk Lee, Ok-Bae Kim, Jong-Peel Won, Seok-ki Nam, Young-Jin Myung
- Assistants
- John Beveridge, Chad Van De Keere
- Clean-Up
- Victoria Goldner
- Checkers
- John S. Vincent, Rosanne Kwan
- Pencil Tests
- Andrew Scott, Rosanne Kwan
- In-Between Checking
- Sun-Hee Kang
- In-Betweeners
- Jung-suk Ku, Mun-Sun Kim, Myung-Hee Lee, Wha-Jung Lee, Sung-Hee Jung, Youn-Hee Uym, Ae-Lan Cha, Na-Young Lee, Eun-Young Kim
- BG Checking
- Hye-Young Jeoun
- BG Painters
- Hyuk-Hee Kwon, You-Ah Kim, Oh-Bok Park, Hee-Kyung Kim
- Digital Checking
- Kyung-Su Kang
- Scan Checking
- Seung-Hwan Hong
- Scanning
- Gee-Dong Her, Sung-Uk Kim, Jae-Hyuk Choi, Byoung-Hak Ahn, Paul Neumann
- Executive in Charge of Production
- Dulcie Clark
- Director, Studio Operations
- David J.C. Fortier
- Director of CGI for PIP
- Kip Hardy
- Executive Assistant
- Dana M. Rose
- Production Assistant
- Anne D. Nadon
- Production Support
- John Kambites, Allison Laberge
- Head Painter
- Ian Clark
- Ink & Paint
- Shawn Camerucci, Clayton Jacobs, Alex Cruikshank, Allan Penny, Sheryl Eldridge, Chris Roberge, Marc Fortin, Sonja Schmidt, Matt Hawrelluk, Nancy White
- Head Compositor
- Justin Aresta
- Compositing
- Mark Douthwright, Beth Malloch, Marc Fortin, Woody Oord, Roman Gesmundo, Joe Tomlinson
- Quality Control
- Jef Harris
- Key Accountant Director
- Tia Sommer
- Music Director
- Edwina Travis Chin
- Closed Captioning and Dubbing
- Precision Transfer Technologies
- Sound of One Hand Studio (Audio Recording/Post Production)
- John Dooher, Claude Marquis, Michel Legault
- Executives in Charge of Production for The New TNN
- Albie Hecht, Kevin Kay
Companies and other credits
- CARBUNKLE CARTOONS ENTERTAINMENT INC
- BIG STAR ENTERPRISE INC
- LEAPING RASTER INC (VIDEO POST)
- Video Editing: Shawn Phillips
- PIP ANIMATION SERVICES (DIGITAL ANIMATION SERVICES)
- Music Provided by: Associated Production Music LLC
- © 2003 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved
Production notes
Originally titled "Ren Needs Help," but that title was the same as an earlier Games episode.
This cartoon was originally storyboarded during Nickelodeon years.
This cartoon was originally storyboarded during Nickelodeon years.
Reviews
Ren Seeks Help
A significant improvement on this second ren and stimpy episode of 2003. It's quite disturbingly sadistic, disgusting, and plain old freaky. I like it. Ren goes to a psychiatrist to find out why he's so cruel. We learn of his dark childhood, in which he tortures and mutilates his pet frog for his own pleasure. The only complaint I have is that John K. seems to spend a bit too much effort trying to shock the viewer, and too little effort in actually making it funny. While this one is funny in a sick sort of way, it lacks in the wackiness department. Still, there may be hope for this new series yet.