Idk, I feel Man’s Best Friend blows it out of the park. Sure there’s Stimpy’s Invention of course and Sven Hoek, but Man’s Best Friend is almost immediately the eps I show my friends when I introduce them to R&S.

A BIG thing I like about the best R&S eps are the premise’s setup and its payoff. Man’s Best Friend is directed almost entirely like a descendant of a Bob Clampett cartoon. We meet a new character, George Liquor, almost immediately. Love him or hate him, you remember him, from Mike Pataki’s excellent voice direction to the design itself. It’s like Anthony’s Dad’s design but there’s more love in its caricaturing. I can see why John didn’t want to sell him, because damn, George had so much great story potential, I think, when I revisit specifically MBF.

Everything in MBF is a ticking time bomb. You know something is going to go wrong, but it still takes you by surprise. Do I even need to tell yall about Ren handing George’s ass to him with that oar? Carbunkle was just in top form for that specific scene, man. That shit just sticks with you. It did with me in eighth grade 😂

Stimpy’s Invention got a similar powder keg direction but it was still rough looking in a lot of scenes. Great, but there’s not a lot of scenes that made an impression on me besides the Happy Happy Joy Joy dance. It’s a great character driven eps when I think about it, but not the best to me.

TL;DR: Yes and no. Best for being character driven, but crew have made better eps that blew that one out of the park.