The Ren & Stimpy Show
To Salve and Salve Not!
TV Flash files “To Salve and Salve Not!” as the first listed hour of season 3 — The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991–1996) on Nickelodeon, season 3, episode 1, aired 1993-11-20, 25 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 32 of 93 in the The Ren & Stimpy Show guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 1993-11-20 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen” (S02E19). Next is “A Yard Too Far” (S03E02).
Viewer FAQ
Where does To Salve and Salve Not! sit in the The Ren & Stimpy Show guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 32 of 93 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did The Ren & Stimpy Show S03E01 air?
To Salve and Salve Not! aired 1993-11-20 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…