Aloha Höek

Did You Know?

• The episode originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on January 14, 1995.
• American journalist Thad Komorowski gave the episode zero out of five stars, calling it the worst in the entire series.

Plot

After washing ashore on a tropical island, Ren and Stimpy display heightened aggression and rationality, respectively. They immediately construct a literal house with functioning equipment out of sand. The structure erodes overnight as they sleep, prompting an angry Ren to seek a new home. He stumbles upon one inside a whale's carcass.

Meanwhile, Stimpy finds sand laced with dead sea shells and coral, which both consider bountiful. On a hot day, the rotting whale carcass becomes unbearable, but Ren refuses to give up this residence and evicts a rational Stimpy, who finds residence in the jungle. There, Stimpy meets the Big Kahuna, who agrees to take him in. Back at the carcass, Ren roasts a gallstone over a fire.

When the Big Kahuna visits, Ren confuses him with a cannibal and hides in fear that Stimpy had been tortured. Elsewhere, Stimpy relaxes with two Hawaiian women while the Big Kahuna offers him food, including a dead Mr. Horse partway eaten by a shark and a human. Stimpy eats a slug and a hermit crab but refuses a Portuguese man o' war, which the Big Kahuna eats. Twelve years later, the carcass' owner, a crab family, returns and tortures Ren, who agrees to do anything to be freed; he is sentenced to "walk the fly", literally walking a housefly he is chained to who aimlessly walks forward.

Ren goes insane from days of walking but finally realizes flies can indeed fly; he pilots the fly at a cliff. Ren orders the fly to fly to the Sun, which he does not heed, but collapses out of exhaustion; while Ren sinks he recovers his body. He brings it to Stimpy, who believes Ren is dead from drowning. Suddenly, Stimpy's watch alarm rings, leading to them revealing their true identities as Soviet secret agents Conrad and Yuri impersonating the duo. The episode ends with the Big Kahuna waving goodbye while he roasts the crab family at a fire.

Production

The episode was directed by Bill Wray, who was known for his preference of art over writing; this episode suffered from a lack of in-house layout, causing its quality to decline substantially compared to other episodes directed by Wray. Wray storyboarded the episode with Chris Mitchell as his only episode as storyboarder of the entire series, let alone in the Games Animation era of the series. Mitchell was usually a character modeler in the Games era.

Dom DeLuise was cast as a guest star in multiple attempts by showrunner Bob Camp to invigorate attention to the series after series creator John Kricfalusi was fired; the most infamous of those, Jack Carter's Wilbur Cobb appears in the episode as a cameo but was not voiced. The music used in the episode is similar in style to that of SpongeBob SquarePants, a series also produced by Games Animation's successor Nickelodeon Animation Studio, both shows used music library from the KPM Music Library.