A Hard Day's Luck

Haggis MacHaggis lives in his Scottish Gothic castle in the Highlands of Scotland with his moronic Swedish servant Myron.[1] Haggis is ashamed to be bald and wants hair again.[1] Haggis discovers a leprechaun who promises to give Haggis hair on his head again, but only if Haggis passes three tests of self-control, generosity, and courage.[1] Haggis successively fails all three tests due to his anger, greed and cowardice.[1] The leprechaun gives Haggis a malformed head of hair anyhow, and Haggis happily runs off into the sunset where he explodes.[1]

• Haggis MacHaggis-voice of Alan Young
• Leprechaun-voice of Billy West
• Myron-voice of Billy West

The episode was a pilot episode for a spin-off series starring Haggis and Ren and Stimpy did not appear in the story as way to test the appeal to audiences of a story that only featured Haggis.[2] Chris Reccardi who created the character of Haggis directed the episode.[2] The American critic Thad Komorowski wrote that Reccardi was talented at stylized designs, but not at comedy.[2] The episode was illustrated by the Rough Draft Korea studio in Seoul.[1] The scene where Haggis tosses aside a clam rather give him a quarter out of greed was censored by the network.[1]

Komorowski rated the episode three stars out of five, writing that the story was "amusing".[3]

• Dobbs, G. Michael (2015). Escape – How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s. Orlando: BearManor Media. ISBN 1593931107.
• Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1629331836.