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Ren Höek "YOU EEDIOT!" Gender: Male Type: Psychopathic Chihuahua Age: 10 (53 in dog years) Species: Dog Portrayed by: John Kricfalusi & Billy West Status: Alive Media of Origin: The Ren and Stimpy Show

Ren Höek is a scrawny "asthma-hound" Chihuahua with a floppy body, donkey-like ears, neon-pink eyes with dark red pupils, red (or sometimes light brown) eyelids, and a fairly long, rat-like, pink tail who often calls Stimpy an idiot ("eediot", to quote the character) and slaps him around, quite literally. Ren is vain, spiteful, hyperactive, abusive, and he has a short fuse (especially with Stimpy). His lifelong ambitious personality is to have huge pectoral muscles. Ren's name is the real name of Kricfalusi's building manager. He was born on Tuesday the 17th, which makes him especially unlucky.

Why He Rocks

1. Although he's very mean, violent, short-tempered, dyspeptic, antipathic, and abusive to his friend Stimpy, Ren has shown to be nice, sympathetic, and considerate to him. Sometimes, he even has a good and sometimes comedic reason to be annoyed with him, cause Stimpy can be a total "eediot" sometimes.
2. With that said, Ren can also be smart and intelligent enough to be the voice of reason in order to prevent Stimpy from being persuaded into doing unnecessary stuff like wasting so much money into a Salve in order to set a balance for him with what he likes to buy since he already spent 12,000 payments for the super-vacuum in the episode "To Salve and to Salve Not".
3. His lines are hilarious like "YOU EEDIOT!", "You sick little monkey!", "You fat bloated eediot!", and even his famous laugh.
4. His over-the-top Hungarian/Mexican (?) accent, which contributes to his "eediot" line, has become a meme in the cartoon community.
5. He is amazingly voiced by John Kricfalusi (originally) and Billy West (in later seasons like in the Games Animations era).
6. Speaking of humor, lots of moments with his comedic sociopathy, snarks, insanity, and violence can range from comical to hilarious.
7. Given that he is a Chihuahua (a fairly intelligent breed) it works off quite well since Ren is not only intelligent but definitely very cunning and sophisticated [in spite of his insanity]. Compared to many cartoon dogs, he was quite unique.
8. His psychopathic personality is better here than that horrid Adult Party Cartoon version of him because he wasn't a Complete Monster in the original era.
9. His expressions are quite funny.
10. Although he and Stimpy got flanderized in Adult Party Cartoon, they both massively redeemed themselves thanks to Nickelodeon All Star Brawl.

Bad Qualities

1. His character design is confusing (along with the titular Stimpy and some other side characters). It's hard to tell what he is at all. He's supposed to be a Chihuahua, but he looks more like a skinned rabbit with a distorted face or a very slim, hairless cat (ironically enough), a rat, or a weasel.
2. Even in bad episodes of Ren & Stimpy (like in Seasons 3-half to 5), he can be incredibly unlikable with being very self-absorbed & unpleasant. He can even be a Butt-Monkey for the unfair reasons in Season 4 with episodes like:
   • Superstitious Stimpy, when Ren in his pleasant presence kept trying to prove to Stimpy that superstitions weren't real since he doesn't believe in them, as a such he was an utter fall-guy and gets put through so much pain by being beat up throughout the whole episode (even when Stimpy tries helping him with getting rid of his bad luck in 7 minutes into the episode, but it backfires horribly in the end.)
   • He was also a punching bag in Season 4. Ren can even be both problems from the original seasons and the worst of the series combined in Seasons 4 to 5 like in the infamous Aloha Hoek where he dies at the end of that episode.
   • And in the It's A Dog's Life episode, both Ren and Stimpy were put through a lot of pain, but Ren gets it worse than Stimpy (To a which were both in contrast to what his much more & well-known flanderized version and just his flanderized version when irritatingly self-absorbed in the original series actually warranted the Butt-Monkey status or heck, even a Chew-Toy status compared to his much more likable counterpart).
3. With this in mind, in his non-Flanderization seasons of 1 to 3, Ren can be incredibly disturbing at times and can also sometimes be a Butt-Monkey for the wrong reasons like in "Dog Show" for example, where he was always treated poorly along with Stimpy and were both forced to be into that dog show by the utterly irresponsible George Liquor.
4. Speaking of which, he became out of character, and his personality was butchered in the Adult Party Cartoon version.

Trivia

• In 2002, Ren and Stimpy were both ranked #31 in TV Guide's Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters list (which also included Angelica Pickles at #7 and SpongeBob SquarePants at #9). SpongeBob was notably the most recently-created character to be featured on the list at the time of its publication.

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Rendog (styled as ReNDoG) is a South African YouTuber and Twitch streamer living in England and an active member of the Hermitcraft Server. He has been active on YouTube since January, 2006 although his oldest public videos date from January of 2011. Before joining Hermitcraft he was a member of the Kingdomcraft server. He was invited to join by PythonGB, beginning his adventures on Hermitcraft at the start of Season 4, 25 February 2016.

In addition to Minecraft, Ren has played Terraria, Dishonored, Euro Truck Simulator, Scrap Mechanic, Hearthstone, Starcraft, Metro: Last Light and Cities: Skylines. He is an avid player of Magic: the Gathering.

Shortly after joining Hermitcraft Rendog abandoned his entire life and day job in London, moved on his own out to the country to focus on his videomaking in an endeavor he referred to as the "Real Life Hermit Project." He was one of several Hermits who were invited by Mojang to be interviewed live at Minecon Earth 2018.

Ren has a brother who goes by "Jono". Both are talented musicians who have worked together and separately. Ren often uses his brother's compositions as background and time lapse music.

Ren maintains a free public Minecraft fanserver called Dogcraft. He refers to his fans as "Cyberdogs."

Hermitcraft History

Season 4

Main article: Season 4: Rendog

Rendog settled in the center of the mesa on the southern tip of the Blue Residential district. Over the course of the season he transformed his area into a new biome he named the "Lush Mesa." He also built several gas stations throughout the server to function as quick-stop refills for essential Minecrafting supplies. As one third of the Logfellas with Xisuma and Python, he was involved in the season's main storyline involving wood monopolies, a trial and Mafia-style gangster shenanigans.

With Iskall, Ren competed in the Dangland gaming area against the team of Etho and Doc.

Towards the end of the season Ren created a serverwide minigame called "Hermitron Go!" modeled after Pokemon Go. The game was successful enough to become a Minecraft mod which was included in Iskall's Foolcraft modpack. Ren carried with him a piece of smooth stone that he named "Moses the Pet Rock." Moses was lost and reborn several times.

RenDog's season 4 playlist (100 episodes)

Season 5

Main article: Season 5: Rendog

Ren paired up with Iskall to take over a Mushroom island. Ren's half was transformed into a large-scale replica of a computer motherboard which he called the "Netherboard" in orange and black concrete. He countered Iskall's love of Iskallium with his own "Renium" magma blocks.

Early in the season Ren partnered with Iskall in the Revolution against the nHo, but sharing an island with his buddy led to the two pranking each other back and forth for months.

Late in the season his base was pranked by the Convex, transforming it into a cat playground complete with scratching post and litterbox.

RenDog's season 5 playlist

Season 6

Main article:Season 6: Rendog

Ren shares the fantasy district with FalseSymmetry and TangoTek, revolving his base around Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He also takes part in many server events, such as the civil war and the Area 77 arcs. In addition to all of this, Ren heads an ambitious server-wide project known as the Hermit Railway Network, where a series of minecart tracks are to connect each corner of the server into one transport network.

Rendog's season 6 playlist (103 episodes)

Season 7

Main article:Season 7: Rendog

At the start of the season, Ren settles in a small island next to the shopping district known as Loser Island. When his starter base accidentally blows up, he moves to the mesa biome where he constructs his Star Wars inspired megabase. Ren continues his log business which was carried over from previous seasons. Additionally, he takes place in many of the server's events, including the Mayoral Race and the Turf Wars, and also starts a few of his own, such as the Game of Life and the HWF boxing match.

Rendog's Season 7 playlist (38 episodes not including the finale)

Season 8

Main article:Season 8: Rendog

Ren and Doc are brought to the Hermitcraft Season 8 world by Renbob (an alter ego of Ren's), where they face a new onslaught of challenges brought on by the Hermatrix. The duo is known for their game-breaking accomplishments this season, going above and beyond to complete monumental projects like the server has never seen before.

RenDog's Season 8 playlist (17 episodes not including the finale)

Season 9

Main article:Season 9: Rendog

Other Seasons

• On the Modded servers he participated in Hermitpack, Hermit Skies and all 3 seasons of Foolcraft.
• In UHC 10, Ren teamed up with Xisuma on team "2/3 Logfellas." He was the first to die when shot by a skeleton.
• In Hermit Wars Ren was on the grey team "Viking Dogs" with Doc and AnderZEL. His death to Welsknight was the final death in the game.
• In UHC 11 Scar and Ren formed Red Team ScarDog. Ren died to a world border bug.
• In Hunt the Hermit 1 Ren was shot by Geckor.
• In Hunt the Hermit 2 Ren was killed by Walkers.
• In Hunt the Hermit 3 Ren survived to the final Hermit v Hermit battle and was killed by False.
• In Hermit Quest he was again with Doc and Anderz on Team Viking (green). Iskall killed him in the 10th episode.
• In Hermit Quest Rifts he teamed with Tango and Etho on orange team "Ethangodog", surviving to the final episode when he was killed by Scar.
• In the UHBuild-off he paired with Doc on the black team.
• In Hardcore Hermits 2 he teamed with Iskall and VintageBeef on team "2½ Men." The team came in 3rd.

YouTube Series

Quotes

• "We are gathered here today..."
• "Tell my momma I love her!"
• "Ladies get in line!"
• "That's going straight to my butthole!"
• "Now we are cooking with gas!"

Trivia

• Ren's Minecraft skins
• His birthday is October 11.
• His camera account is renthebob, formerly known as rendogtv.
• Ren was on vacation during the recording of the "Hermitgang" rap, but returned and snuck in his mumble verse just before they wrapped on the project.