While Ren is annoyed by this, Stimpy brings the hot jowls to him to eat together as lunch, as the baboon is too occupied to notice while Mr.

Pipe is negligent as ever; the duo enjoy their hot jowls while Ren expresses his gratitude, ending the episode.

[1] Kricfalusi had planned to direct the episode as an exercise in educating his employees at the Spümcø studio about story structure.

[2] When Spümcø lost the contract for The Ren & Stimpy Show and Kricfalusi was fired on September 21, 1992, "A Yard Too Far" was reassigned by the network to the Games Animation studio.

[5] American journalist Thad Komorowski gave "A Yard Too Far" four stars out of five; he noted that Camp's directorial work showed self-restraint that allowed the episode to be funny without being overly gross.