Prehistoric Stimpy

Prehistoric Stimpy is the sixth episode of the fourth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 5 November 1994.

Plot
Ren and Stimpy visit the Museum of Natural History where Wilbur Cobb is the guide who gives a confused, rambling and mostly inaccurate account of prehistoric life. Cobb states that life on earth began as single-celled amoebas and the story goes back in time hundreds of millions of years into the distant past where amoebas lived in the sea. One amoeba that resembles Stimpy annoys an amoeba that resembles Ren, causing the Ren amoeba to slap the Stimpy amoeba, which then divides into new amoebas. In the present, Cobb then moves forward in time to the age of the Stimpyfish, which crawled out of the ocean onto land, only to fall into a tar pit while another Stimpyfish crawls out of the ocean to avoid the tar pit and instead is run over by a bus. Ren dismisses this story until Cobb shows him a prehistoric bus. Cobb then moves forward in time to speak of the Stimpysaurus, the "stupidest creature of all time", a dinosaur that resembles Stimpy which he is shown to be of very low intelligence as it slapped around by a dinosaur that resembles Ren. In the present, Stimpy asks Cobb how the dinosaurs went extinct and receives baffling bizarre answers in response such as the dinosaurs went extinct because they watched too much television. Cobb is arrested as he is revealed not to be a museum guide and as he is carried away shouts "I killed the dinosaurs!". Ren and Stimpy prove their low intelligence by walking into a tar pit that is part of an exhibit and both drown.

Cast

 * Ren-voice of Billy West
 * Wilbur Cobb-voice of Jack Carter
 * Stimpy-voice of Billy West

Production
The episode was illustrated by the Mr. Big Cartoons studio of Sydney. The cartoon was largely created by the showrunner, Bob Camp, who felt sorry for the financially distressed actor Jack Carter, and Prehistoric Stimpy was intended to be a showcase of Carter's vocal talents that would also give him some needed money. The scene where Stimpy rips off pieces of Cobb's face was censored by the network.

Reception
The American critic Thad Komorowski wrote that the episode was one of the stronger episodes that featured the recurring Wilbur Cobb character.