People are way to fragile today I feel. When I was a kid, I watched this with my parents. It was perfectly fine then and it should be now.
Because they didn’t think that and it wasn’t.
“They” made the right decision. Without Ren and Stimpy there would not have been a successful SpongeBob SquarePants. Also, a booger collection under an end table? Genius!
Even more striking is when you look into the creation of Ren and Stimpy and how he kept his job and is still enjoying a free life.
I mean it was awesome
Yeah, no kids or adults ever like this sort of thing. It definitely isn’t mainstream and wildly popular.
What’s the problem? That’s just me from morning to lunch… and until evening and bed.
A motivator for why people are confused was because of the adult version that came later.
I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
I told you i’d shoot, but you never believed me…whyyyy didn’t you believe me
Whillikers! It’s so big.
It was on cable TV, not everyone had this at the time it aired
Also it was part of Snick. Saturday night Nick. It wasn’t a morning cartoon
It was part of the original Sunday lineup of Nicktoons! Along with Doug and Rugrats. Ahhh Real Monsters and Rocko’s Modern Life joined them a few years later. They syndicated and moved R&S around quite a bit, probably trying to make their money back on it or find a timeslot it fit into well. It moving to late nights and other channels with the much later Adult Animation Show did confuse the issue for many people, but I assure you it used to come on weekend mornings and was a trip to live through. You’d finish watching the wholesome adventures of a band of babies, and then in under 10 minutes a man made of toast is shoving cats between his buttcheeks.
It really is astounding that John Kricfalusi isn’t in jail and stayed working for so long.
Now that you mention it that does sound right. The only thing of his I’ve ever seen other than original Ren and stimpy is some contribution to a little collection of short stories.
It was about a baby duck that was really tall that shit itself constantly? It was really trying too hard
By far I think the most extreme part that I probable wouldn’t wantnkids watching is either the ghost suicide episode or the one where Ren verbally tells Stimpy and his own cousin how he’s gonna basically kill them.
Otherwise, it was a weird and at times grossout show that I wouldn’t mind letting a kid watch, creator aside.
There are many episodes that I wouldn’t consider save for kids now but back in the days they ran the show some time from morning till noon in Germany. Which I gladly watched as a pre schooler (I’m not ok for some other reasons). But a few weeks ago I watched the Sammy Mantis episode which haunts me until today. I guess it was also banned from German TV because it felt fresh but what a ride watching everyone shivering with anticipation to become the next one being beheaded on stage. Stimpy in the end even wishing his mother could see him… Well… Congratulations, I thought I’ve seen them all.
I met Bob Camp once in Atlantic city. He told me very many strange things about his life as an animator but when I told him that those close-ups haunt me in my dreams he simply laughed and said “Yeah! We call 'em Gross-Ups! It was our favorite thing to make!”
The gross up close up. It’s one of my favorite techniques.
EDIT: In fact I saw great use of it in a new cartoon pilot that I quite enjoyed: Gnome Show
I was lucky enough to buy some animation cells from him when he came to our local con.
Wow. Ren and Stimpy in the wild. My namesake.
YOU BLOATED SACK OF PROTOPLASM!!!
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbours dog?
It fits on your back, it’s great for a snack
Its log log log!
Its loooog, its loooog, its big its heavy its wood!
It’s looog, it’s looog!
It’s better than bad, it’s good!
Things like this are why I like Lemmy people.
LOG!
*from Blammo™!
Have you seen the price jump for LOG! lately? And people complain about gas prices…
I used to watch this on MuchMusic, it was so disturbing and funny
One my greatest dilemmas is how much I love Ren and Stimpy’s first seasons but I absolutely despise John Kricfalusi. I can’t even downplay his hand on the show, the humour comes straight out of his sick mind and I love it.
Maybe we should arrest guys like him and, instead of putting them in jail and letting them rot there doing nothing, force them to make cartoons. There may be some untapped potential there.
Yeah the guy was a real piece of shit, sadly the show felt worse when he left the staff and they continued the seasons. It was for the best though since he should have been in jail, rather someone be help acountable than a dumb tv show have better episodes.
I didn’t know about Kricfalusi. Damn.
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kricfalusi
See “sexual abuse allegations”.
Yeah he’s pretty horrible. I try to pretend he was switched with a bad clone…but that doesn’t do much
