The Ren & Stimpy Show. The Ren & Stimpy Show is an American animated series created by John Kricfalusi for Nickelodeon. The series follows the adventures of title characters Ren, an emotionally unstable chihuahua, and Stimpy, a good- natured, dimwitted cat. It premiered on August 1. Nicktoons, along with Rugrats and Doug. Throughout its run, the show was controversial for its off- color humor, sexual innuendo, dark humor, adult jokes, and violence.

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This controversy contributed to the production staff's altercations with Nickelodeon's Standards and Practices department. The show ended on December 1. Ren & Stimpy received mixed to very positive reviews during its original run.

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It would go on receive widespread critical acclaim after its run, and has since developed a cult following. The series is often cited as paving the way for animated shows like Beavis and Butt- Head and South Park.

A spin- off for adult audiences, Ren & Stimpy . While the show was sometimes set in the present day, the show's crew tended to avoid . Some appear only in one episode, while others recur and occasionally appear in different roles (like Powdered Toast Man). They may either be part of the storyline, or make cameo appearances with little bearing on the plot. Some, such as Mr. Horse, are exclusively cameo- based, spontaneously appearing as a running gag.

Stimpy's design was inspired by a Tweety Bird cartoon called A Gruesome Twosome where the cats in the animation had big noses. Ren and Stimpy were pets of one of the children in Your Gang, serving as a parody of the . The network's Vice President of Animation Production Vanessa Coffey was dissatisfied with the other projects but did like Ren and Stimpy, singling them out for their own series. When another executive was added, he wanted to alter or discard some of the Ren & Stimpy episodes, but Kricfalusi says the episodes stayed intact since he did a . The New Table 19 (2017) Movie on this page.

He estimated Sp. Nickelodeon later asked the new studio to make it lighter and less frightening. They're both storyboard- driven shows, which means they give us an outline from a premise after the premise has been approved. We take the outline and expand on it, writing the dialogue and gags. That was very familiar. The opening and closing themes are performed by a group of Sp.

In addition to music written specifically for the show, a number of episodes used existing works by composers such as jazz musician Raymond Scott, Claude Debussy, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander Borodin, Anton. The album's front cover is a parody of The Beatles' 1. Abbey Road. Stimpy's rousing anthem titled . A cover of this song, performed by Wax, is included on the 1. Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, produced by Ralph Sall for MCA Records. It is sung by a character introduced as .

The episode . The same episode had a segment featuring the burning of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights which was removed, while in another episode the last name of the character George Liquor was removed. Several episodes had violent, gruesome, or suggestive scenes shortened or removed, including a sequence involving a severed head, a close- up of Ren's face being grated by a man's stubble, and a scene where Ren receives multiple punches to the stomach from an angry baby. One episode, . The show's spin- off, Ren & Stimpy .

Beginning with season three (1. Nickelodeon's Games Animation. The episode . Another episode, . He went where no man wanted to go before – the caca, booger humor.

The new version was aired during a late night programming block on Spike TV and was rated TV- MA. The series, as the title implies, explores more adult themes, including an explicitly homosexual relationship between the main characters. The show began with the . Fans and critics alike were unsettled by the show from the first episode.

After three episodes, Spike TV's entire animation block was removed from its programming schedule. They later said that they were .

Paramount only released one video of The Ren & Stimpy Show, . Like all of the other Paramount cassettes of Nickelodeon shows, they were recorded in the EP/SLP format. Tapes released by Sony were recorded in SP format.

Most of the videos were G- classified due to some scenes that were cut but other certain videos were classified PG. The Ren & Stimpy Show was also released on Laser. Disc in the United States by Sony Wonder. There was only one release, . Although the cover art and press materials claimed the episodes were . Three other episodes (.

A set for Seasons Three and a Half- ish, containing all of season three and the first half of season four up to . After people claimed that two episodes on the second disc were not completely uncensored, Turbine Classics offered to send everybody with proof of purchase an uncensored disc. Since the set is the first to include all scenes ever broadcast worldwide, it is considered the first truly uncensored DVD release of the series. Most of the games were produced by THQ. Software. Ren and Stimpy were also created in full 3.

D for Microsoft's Nickelodeon 3. D Movie Maker. Comic books. The initial plan was to have an anthology comic featuring several Nicktoons properties.

Marvel produced 4. Marvel Absurd imprint. Most of these were written by comic scribe Dan Slott. One Ren & Stimpy special #3, Masters of Time and Space, was set up as a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' and with a time travel plot, took Slott six months to plot out in his spare time. It was designed so that it was possible to choose a path that would eventually be 2. Issue #6 of the series starred Spider- Man battling Powdered Toast Man. The editors named the .

Stupid to answer. POWDERED TOAST MANMay 1. KID STIMPYJune 1. THE MALTESE STIMPY! July 1. 99. 39. NATIVE SONAugust 1. BUBBLE BATH? September 1. October 1. 99. 31.

I SCREAM CLONES! November 1. HOKEY HALLOWEEN HORROR! December 1. 99. 31. WANTED BRAIN DEAD OR ALIVEJanuary 1. February 1. 99. 41. RETURN TO SENDERMarch 1. April 1. 99. 41. 8WAR IS HECKMay 1.

June 1. 99. 42. 0HERE'S MUDDY! July 1. 99. 42. 1I'M THE CATAugust 1. BADTIME STORIESSeptember 1. MADCAP RASSLIN' ISSUE! October 1. 99. 42.

BOX TOPS! November 1. December 1. 99. 42. January 1. 99. 52. RAIDERS OF THE LOST YAKFebruary 1.

REN AND STIMPY MATCH WITS WITH AN APE.. GUESS WHO WON? March 1. DEFECTIVE DETECTIVE ISSUE STARRING SHERLOCK HOEKApril 1. REN'S BIRTHDAYMay 1. WEINER BARONSJune 1. CIRCUS SMIRKUSJuly 1. August 1. 99. 53.

I'M FEELTHY RICH! September 1. 99. 53. October 1. 99. 53. CRABBY CABBIESNovember 1. ALIENS ABDUCTDecember 1. TOILET TROUBLEJanuary 1.

IMPERSONAL HYGIENE! February 1. 99. 64. March 1. 99. 64. 1April 1. May 1. 99. 64. 3June 1. LAST ISSUE (as seen on TV)July 1.

Nick–Fox film deal. Ren & Stimpy was mentioned as a possible property for development, along with Rugrats and Doug; however, the show's . Nickelodeon would later start its own film studio after parent company Viacom purchased Paramount Pictures.

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