| "Egg Yolkeo" | |||
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| The Ren & Stimpy Show episode | |||
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 13 | ||
| Directed by | Bob Camp | ||
| Story by | Bill Wray Jim Gomez | ||
| Production code | RS-407 | ||
| Original air date | December 3, 1994 (1994-12-03) | ||
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Egg Yolkeo is the 13th episode of the fourth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 3 December 1994.
In a parody of Pinocchio, Ren pounds eggs and wishes one of them would become his son.[1] His wish is granted by the Blue Chicken Fairy.[2] Ren's son, Eggyölkeo is a moron who bonds with Stimpy.[2] Eggyölkeo is kidnapped and Ren is deeply sad.[2] Colonel Strombolio turns Eggyölkeo into an Elvis-like singer in Las Vegas.[2] Ren and Stimpy go to Las Vegas to save him, but Stimpy eats Eggyölkeo by accident with his last words being "I love you Daddy!" [2]
The production of the episode is "notorious for its descent into utter chaos".[3] Stephen DeStefano stated: "It was going to be my Ren & Stimpy masterpiece. And once it was finished, I realized it didn't really work as a cartoon or as a storyboard".[3] The story was intended to be half a hour long, but the network insisted on cutting its running time to 11 minutes, which threw the production into chaos and led to a story that makes little sense.[4] The episode was illustrated by the Wang Animation studio in Taiwan whose work was not up to the standards of other sub-contractors on The Ren & Stimpy Show such as the Carbunkle studio of Vancouver or the Rough Draft Korea studio of Seoul, with a notable decline in quality.[5]
The American critic Thad Komorowski rated the episode one star out of five.[6] Komorowksi wrote that Egg Yolkeo was an unfunny and confusing story that was very difficult to watch and enjoy.[5]
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