Magical Golden Singing Cheeses is the eighth episode of the fourth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 11 November 1994.
Plot
In this parody of fairy tales, Stimpleton and Renwaldo are staving to death in the Kingdom of Fie. Ren gives Stimpy a chigger to exchange for food, which Stimpy trades to the Village Idiot for two magical singing blocks of cheese.[1] The Village Idiot then demands that Stimpy proved his worth in a "battle of witlessness".[1] Stimpy wins the cheeses via his stupidity, but Ren tells Stimpy to bury them as the cheese is not ripe.[1] Stimpy wakes up an ogre and gives him the cheese.[1] Ren and Stimpy try to steal the cheese, but are caught by the ogre.[1] Stimpy trades his kidneys for the cheese.[1] When Ren and Stimpy try to eat the cheese, the two cheese blocks turn into princesses with churning milk curds for faces, whom Ren and Stimpy are forced to marry to "live unhappily ever after".[1]
The episode was based on various jokes by John Kricfalusi and Jim Gomez in the 1980s about a mock fairy tale.[2] The episode directed by Michael Kim of Games Animation whom was described as being clearly "disinterested" in the story, which affected its quality despite the "solid drafsmanship".[2] ,
Reception
The American critic Thad Komorwski gave "Magical Singing Golden Cheeses" two stars out of five.[3] The episode was heavily criticized for the amount of violence and suffering inflicted on the characters.[4]
Books and articles
Dobbs, G. Michael (2015). Escape – How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s. Orlando: BearManor Media. ISBN978-1593931100.
Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN978-1629331836.
