Month: November 2012

The Ren & Stimpy Show – Episode 7 (Ren’s Toothache/Rubber Nipple Salesman)

Highs:
toothpaste scum collection
The Tooth Beaver
cute pile of tooth
disgusted flies
The Nerve-Ending Fairy!
$400 of lint
new logs
Stimpy’s divine light
the wonders of Stimpy’s nipples
circus-midget defense
ultra-paranoid horse
one mistake
two more mistakes?
big nipple
rubber walrus protectors
rubber nipple check
nipple advancement
1001 nipple uses
knee nipples
Stooges’ bull ending

Lows:
just a few intermittent lulls

Grade: A

The Ren & Stimpy Show – Episode 6 (Black Hole/Stimpy’s Invention)

Highs:
one last alternative
random weird stuff
repugnant and delicious
alternate universe left socks
High-Fashion Log for girls!
Dream-date Log
Ren’s slight outburst
electric beaver
electric duck
Stimpy’s fifth latest invention
happiness resistance
SO…HAPPY…
“Happy Happy Joy Joy”

Lows:
underwear
slow implosion
The Log song…I mean, enough already.
Stimpy’s first latest invention
part 2 ending

Grade: B

The Ren & Stimpy Show – Episode 5 (Marooned/Untamed World)

Highs:
flaccid rocket
cool noises
convenient moon
My Little Brother doll
A DUCK!
elusive horny-billed chihuahua
giant soft-shelled stimpy
little stimpys
scavenger attack
keen sense of radar
slow-motion magic
the art of camouflage
terrible, fearsome crocostimpy
haunting mating call
the … yak
nature-show-host attraction

Lows:
part 1 recycling…again…already
part 1 ending (and some of the middle)
part 2 ending

Grade: B

The Ren & Stimpy Show – Episode 4 (Fire Dogs/The Littlest Giant)

Highs:
circus midgets
big baby
big horse
Mr. Horse’s carefully considered reaction
big walrus w/little hat
big elephant
the eternal ladder
burning up on re-entry
soothing litter
Log…for girls!
really close moon
repulsive titanicism
lots of anything

Lows:
Dr. Stupid
part 1 intro
part 1 ending (notice a pattern here?)
part 2 intro…recycling already?
most of part 2, actually.

Grade: B-

The Ren & Stimpy Show – Episode 3 (Space Madness/The Boy Who Cried Rat)

Highs:
anti-gravity bubblegum
spine-tingling toast
Ren snapping
convenient statue
Ren’s ice cream bar
covetething
THE HISTORY ERASER BUTTON!
voiceover announcer
in-the-scene announcer
announcer’s buttcheeks
hard-working filth
electric woodchuck
nibbling on Ren
Yak-Shaving Day
shaving scum

Lows:
part 1 intro
Roger
towel-snapping
toothbrush melee
part 2 intro
part 2 sketch ending

Grade: B+

The Ren & Stimpy Show – Episode 2 (Robin Hoek/Nurse Stimpy)

Highs:
Powdered Toast Man!
huge pectoral muscles
lower-Stimpy buttoning
melon/chicken/moose
cheerleaders/criminally insane
poor-turned-rich fleeing peasant
evil cow
evil sheriff of Dodge City
fair hair
generous portion of giblet gravy
random sheep
nose-pouch of holding
spleen-cleansing
Ren’s defensive fur
random Mr. Horse

Lows:
too many costume changes
Rarin to go/lickity split
monks?
part 1 ending
the oath
part 2 beginning
part 2 ending

Grade: B

The Ren & Stimpy Show – Episode 1 (Stimpy’s Big Day/The Big Shot)

Highs:
Log
Stimpy’s brain
Muddy Mudskipper
mudskipping
segmented eyes!
The many benefits of Gritty Kitty
hand-eating
Stimpy’s poem/shriek of joy
Stimpy-grooming
fresh redundancy
a priiiiiiiiiiiize!
Mr. Horse!
Mr. Horse’s catchphrase
magnificent hunk of cat
cute masochism

Lows:
contest-winning scene
Ren’s pining (not for the fjords)
Stimpy’s omnipresence/breakdown

Grade: A

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

The credits announce the introduction of Edward Furlong.  ‘American History X’, seven years later, announces the farewell of Edward Furlong, for legitimate movie purposes.

From the very beginning, you can tell that this sequel has something the original was completely lacking in: humor.  That is, INTENTIONAL humor.

Special FX are excellent, the complete role-reversal for Arnold is at the same time amusing and compelling, it’s not nearly as cheezy, and it’s aged a lot better.

But it’s still just a fairly fun-to-watch sci-fi-ish action flick, and it’s certainly not as good as the best of the genre, such as Cameron’s ‘Aliens’, which also featured (a different) “The Company”.

Grade: B-

Deep Purple

Machine Head (1972)

Forget everything else, including anything calling itself “Greatest” or “Best”.  This is their best, and it contains their only sizeable hit worth owning (“Hush” is a novelty).  It also contains a few other good songs.  “A few” being enough, given that there are only seven songs on the album.
(“Maybe I’m A Leo”, “Space Truckin'”)

Grade: B+