The Ren & Stimpy Show (TV Series) I Love Chicken/Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman (1994) User Reviews

"Quit your waffling, Waffle-Woman!"

[Foreverisacastironmess123 · 9/10 · 27 February 2019]

The first story of this episode sees Stimpy falling in love with the headless chicken that he was supposed cook for Ren's dinner, Ren eventually manages to eat it anyway and then Stimpy falls head over heels with a gross goat's head that Stimpy wanted making into a stew, as Ren and Stimpy adventures go it's one of the milder ones.. Not one of my favourites, it's a cute idea but it gets a little dull in the execution. I don't like when they're overly portrayed as a domestic couple, that side of the characters was a lot funnier when it was only hinted at. It made me laugh when Ren steals the chicken and replaced it with a pineapple, and right at the beginning when Stimpy and the chicken first meet and romance blossoms! Now the second story I really love because it's just pure crazy fun! Ren and Stimpy don't even appear in it but it still feels very much like it's set in the same demented world. It sees Powdered Toast Man, the superpowered buffoon with two slices of toast for a head, who, following an abysmal and disastrous failure to give an annoying sick child a visit by the president, whom he abducted from the White House at the worst possible moment ever, is immediately deemed by the public an utter failure as a superhero and goes on a downward spiral and retreats to his breadbox space station base in shame...only for an old bitter rival to take advantage of his moment of weakness by transforming herself using a device that looks a lot like a giant skillet, into a superpowered villainess with a waffle for a head! She then challenges Powdered Toast Man to a battle by using poor little Johnny as bait! This is one of the more action oriented segments the show ever did and the action is funny and kind of a blast to watch as it's a pretty cool battle, with them destroying most of the planet! I love their loopy powers, like shooting toast crumbs, butter, and marmalade at each other, only it's cosmically-powered marmalade so it obliterates entire city blocks! Powdered Toast Man is a terribly hopeless superhero who wrecks everything around him like an idiot, but he's still lovable because he is heroic and he always means well at least! Great episode for its thrilling and hilarious second part and one of my favourite rolls of the series! What the heck is powdered toast anyway? X

Incredibly raunchy, disgusting and disturbing - brilliant!

[MovieAddict2016 · 9/10 · 18 August 2006]

"Ren & Stimpy" was really never a children's show at all - the creator of the series, John K., had always leaned towards more adult animation. I have a feeling whoever signed the contract to put the show on a kids' network later regretted the decision, and it's a large part of why the original series was canceled after only a few years, despite a massive fanbase. It was too dark and too filthy for children, and a lot of parents started reacting and complaining to Nickelodeon, which stopped airing the reruns altogether.

In 2003, Spike TV picked up the show after a long absence and began creating "Adult Swim"-style episodes that were intended for mature audiences only. I have yet to see these adult episodes, but I have to say I thought the early episodes of the show - such as this - were probably more clever anyway, because they were subtle in humor - there are numerous sexual references in just this episode alone. Powdered Toast Man scrapes magical cinnamon powder off of his bread, resulting in a very blatant masturbation image. The President gets "something" caught in his pants zipper at a urinal and Powdered Toast Man has to help him. Powdered Toast Man tells a man he has rescued to "tenaciously grab" his buttocks for support. And so on and so forth.

I'm not sure how much of this made it to the final episode - I have a DVD collection and this is allegedly one of the "uncut" episodes from Season One, which means when it was first aired they must have severely edited some of the more raunchy material, but I do happen to recall seeing this on Nickelodeon years ago and I believe much of it was kept intact.

The show is visually more disgusting than anything "South Park" has ever done, which I find really quite humorous given the fact that "Ren & Stimpy" was initially perceived as a children's show. Now the DVD box set has a warning to parents: "This show is intended for mature audiences. It contains adult language and situations."

Kind of "Foul"...

[Guardia · 5/10 · 5 December 2007]

Ren and Stimpy are portrayed as domesticated husband and wife figures here, in fact the title card(s) of this episode are a direct reference to the "I Love Lucy" show, complete with the swelling Hollywood-strings on the soundtrack.

Ren, the bread-winner, has brought home the groceries. Stimpy's duty is to cook for him, (nothing inspires his tastes apart from a plucked chicken). In fact, this episode approaches the ludicrous, and then moves right past it into ridiculous and quite unfunny. Stimpy's love affair with a piece of pre-prepared poultry is funny on paper, but hardly funny in this poor installment.

Things pick up (slightly), in the second-half as we follow PTM's adventures for the second time. He faces off against Waffle Woman, (a quasi-Wonder Woman character). The best laughs for me were the inventive and quite useless(!) weapons that that the two fire at each other. Other than that, this episode really isn't up to the original PTM - I think that is because PTM really works better dealing with regular humans, rather than the comic-book style versus match that appear in this episode.