A Hard Day's Luck is the ninth episode of the fourth season of The Ren & Stimpy Show that originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on 11 November 1994.
| "A Hard Day's Luck" | |
|---|---|
| The Ren & Stimpy Show episode | |
 | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 9 |
| Directed by | Chris Reccardi |
| Story by | Chris Reccardi Lynne Naylor Vince Calandra |
| Original air date | November 11, 1994 |
| Guest appearance | |
| Alan Young as Haggis MacHaggis | |
Plot
editHaggis MacHaggis lives in his Scottish Gothic castle in the Highlands of Scotland with his moronic Swedish servant Myron.[1] Haggis is ashamed to be bald and wants hair again.[1] Haggis discovers a leprechaun who promises to give Haggis hair on his head again, but only if Haggis passes three tests of self-control, generosity, and courage.[1] Haggis successively fails all three tests due to his anger, greed and cowardice.[1] The leprechaun gives Haggis a malformed head of hair anyhow, and Haggis happily runs off into the sunset where he explodes.[1]
Cast
edit- Haggis MacHaggis-voice of Alan Young
- Leprechaun-voice of Billy West
- Myron-voice of Billy West
Production
editThe episode was a pilot episode for a spin-off series starring Haggis and Ren and Stimpy did not appear in the story as way to test the appeal to audiences of a story that only featured Haggis.[2] Chris Reccardi who created the character of Haggis directed the episode.[2] The American critic Thad Komorowski wrote that Reccardi was talented at stylized designs, but not at comedy.[2] The episode was illustrated by the Rough Draft Korea studio in Seoul.[1] The scene where Haggis tosses aside a clam rather give him a quarter out of greed was censored by the network.[1]
Reception
editKomorowski rated the episode three stars out of five, writing that the story was "amusing".[3]
Books and articles
edit- 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.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g Komorowski 2017, p. 405.
- ^ a b c Komorowski 2017, p. 293.
- ^ Komorowski 2017, p. 293 & 404.