Ren's Pecs

Ren's Pecs is the fifth episode of the third season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 18 December 1993.

Plot
Ren and Stimpy are on a beach somewhere in California where Ren is humiliated by a bully whom the "beach babes" prefer. Ren wishes that he was not so scrawny, and at which point Charles Globe (a parody of Charles Atlas) emerges from the waves. Charles Globe tells Ren that he should get a Pec-Toe-Plastic surgery to give him the pectoral muscles he desires. Stimpy volunteers his fat from his buttocks to assist with the operation. After a painful operation, Ren is endowed with the pectoral muscles of his dreams. Ren returns to the beach where he beats up the bully and wins the love of the "beach babes". Ren becomes a Hollywood star and credits his success to Charles Globe. Ren lives in luxury in a penthouse in Los Angeles while Stimpy works as his maid. Ren has forgotten whom Stimpy even was.

Cast

 * Ren-voice of Billy West
 * Charles Globe-voice of Gary Owens
 * Stimpy-voice of Billy West
 * Bully-voice of Bob Camp
 * Beach babe-voice of Cheryl Chase
 * Doctor-voice of Billy West
 * Doctor's Assistant-voice of Cheryl Chase

Production
The episode was written for the second season of The Ren & Stimpy Show by Richard Pursel and John Kricfalusi of the Spümcø studio. After Kricfalusi was fired on 21 September 1992, the episode was assigned to the new Games Animation studio who held it over to the third season. The original version called for the episode to be half an hour long and was to feature Ren's fall from being a Hollywood star and to return to Stimpy at the end. The Games Animation studio cut the story short by leaving Ren as a Hollywood star.

Reception
The American journalist Thad Komorowski gave Ren's Pecs two and a half stars out of five.