The Ren & Stimpy Show
The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball
TV Flash files “The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball” as hour 28 of 93 in the TV Flash guide — The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991–1996) on Nickelodeon, season 2, episode 16, aired 1993-03-04, 25 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E16: listed hour 28 of 93 in the The Ren & Stimpy Show guide, hour 16 of 19 in season 2. It aired 1993-03-04 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “The Great Outdoors” (S02E15). Next is “Stimpy's Fan Club” (S02E17).
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball sit in the The Ren & Stimpy Show guide?
S02E16 is listed hour 28 of 93 — hour 16 of 19 in season 2, season 2 episode 16.
When did The Ren & Stimpy Show S02E16 air?
The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball aired 1993-03-04 and is listed at 25 minutes.
Is this one of the original Nicktoons?
Yes — with Rugrats and Doug, it launched the brand in 1991, then spent the run colliding with what a kids' network would air.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Gross-out as high art: close-ups of gums, gravy, and nervous breakdowns in a kids’ timeslot. John Kricfalusi’s deranged expressionism colliding with Nickelodeon’s brand until the network flinched. The Nicktoon that taught a generation of cartoonists that ugly could be beautiful, that pacing could hurt, and that a Chihuahua’s scream was a legitimate punchline.
Nickelodeon, 1991–1996: a psychotic Chihuahua and a dimwitted cat endure disgusting, painterly misadventures — close-ups of gums, gravy, and nervous breakdowns in a kids' timeslot. John Kricfalusi created one of the original three Nicktoons (with *Rugrats* and *Doug*) and married beautiful animation to chaos and bodily fluids. Kricfalusi voiced early Ren; Billy West voiced Stimpy and later Ren. Harris Peet in the various file. Gross-out as high art collided with Nickelodeon's brand until the network flinched.…
Filed against
- John Kricfalusi as Ren Höek (early)
John Kricfalusi’s early Ren Höek made The Ren & Stimpy Show gross-out as high art — close-ups of gums, gravy, and nervous breakdowns in a kids’ timeslot. Deranged expressionism colliding with Nickelodeon’s brand until the network…
- Billy West as Stimpy / Ren (later)
Billy West’s Stimpy — and later Ren — made The Ren & Stimpy Show a gums-and-gravy religion — 1990s catalog gross-out as high art, then Futurama asking the same throat for a thousand-year sad joke. TV Flash files him as the voice that can…
- Harris Peet as Various
Harris Peet did various voices on The Ren & Stimpy Show — gross-out as high art, gums and gravy in a kids' timeslot, John Kricfalusi's deranged expressionism colliding with Nickelodeon until the network flinched. Ugly as beautiful. TV…