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| "Sammy and Me" | |||
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| The Ren & Stimpy Show episode | |||
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 8a | ||
| Directed by | Bill Wray | ||
| Written by | Jim Gomez Bill Wray | ||
| Original air date | October 20, 1996 (1996-10-20) (MTV) | ||
| Guest appearance | |||
| Tommy Davidson as Sammy Mantis | |||
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"Sammy and Me" is an episode of the fifth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show. It originally aired on MTV on October 20, 1996, as the penultimate episode from the fifth season to premiere; it is the second episode to premiere on the network after "Son of Stimpy" and the second to be banned by Nickelodeon after "Man's Best Friend".
Plot
Cast
- Ren – Voice of Billy West
- Stimpy – Voice of Billy West
- Liberoachie – Voice of Billy West
- Sammy Mantis – Voice of Tommy Davidson
Production
"Sammy and Me" was produced as part of the series' fourth season and was intended to air during a Nickelodeon-"commissioned" fifth season. Stephen DeStefano produced the storyboards alongside director Bill Wray. Actor Tommy Davidson was hired to voice Sammy Mantis because of his convincing impression of Sammy Davis Jr., of which Sammy Mantis is a caricature of.
It was planned to air alongside "Big Flakes" on November 18, 1995. but the episode's graphic violence, most notably the scene where Stimpy gouges his eye out to replace it with a glass eye, caused it to be banned from initially airing on the network. Wray regretted adding it and requested the scenes be removed for it to air, but executive producer Vanessa Coffey refused to preserve the episode's integrity, despite being the one barring it from airing.
The episode eventually aired on MTV on October 20, 1996 alongside "The Last Temptation", an episode directed by showrunner Bob Camp that was banned for its religious overtones and on which Wray also worked on backgrounds.
Reception
American journalist Thad Komorowski gave the episode three and a half out of five stars, noting the celebrity cameos to be heavy handed but considered the episode to be humorous.
Books and articles
- Dobbs, G. Michael (2015). Escape – How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s. Orlando: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1593931100.
- Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1629331836.
Reference
- ^ Komorowski 2017, p. 415.
- Komorowski 2017, p. 282.
