Nearly every 4-10 y.o. I’ve known in my lifetime had “fart,” “poop,” “butt,” and “booger” as their top most said words of the day. The remainder was yammering about their favorite TV shows and books/toys. And bugs. And rocks.
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!"
None of those overlapped with Ren and Stimpy. All of those were for the parents of the kids watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, the sole exception being the Satanic Panic from the 80s (which involved the duplicate article you posted about D&D).
Ren and Stimpy was allowed because the people who would cry foul were too cheap for basic cable and didn't know it existed.
lol, this was on when I was growing up and I, along with a great many of my peers, were rolling with undiagnosed ADHD, autism, depression, etc, because the teachers and adults around us didn't know shit about mental health, and didn't help any of us.
Have we reached the point now for my generation that younger people assume those times were better, where people were magically wiser etc, and where older people have rose tinted glasses and start telling the youth how much more mentally healthy everyone was, etc?
People were people then just like they are now. People had mental health problems then just like they do now. It wasn't heaven on Earth, it was just a few decades ago, that's all.
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.
Oh, my beloved ice cream bar...
...how I love to lick your creamy center!
And your oh-so-nutty chocolate covering!
You're not like the others. You like the same things I do. Wax paper... boiled football leather... DOG BREATH!
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
"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!
I didn’t see a time slot in the Wikipedia article. I was just going off of memory. My memory is telling me that it was late afternoon when nicktoons started and proper evening when ren n stimpy came on.
The younger generations simply aren't going to understand the concept that there were specific times when your shows came on, and if you didn't stop everything and turn it on immediately you might miss the first ten minutes.
Oh, and if you missed an episode? Tough, it might be a year or more before the next rerun...
Yeah, it was all ages stuff most of the day Saturday (I think for a time Nick Jr was a midday block on Nickelodeon), then Nicktoons, then SNICK which was for tweens and teens starting at like 7:30 or 8PM, after little ones usually go to bed during the school year.
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.
There must be episodes I have forgotten because I don't remember that Sammy Mantis episode. Huh, guess I gotta rewatch the series for other messed up things I forgot about.
={🎼 I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend..cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in... and if you do not want to see me again I will understand....
The Flintstones was originally run at prime time for adults and their families. This wasn't broken by South Park. Even the Simpsons did it before South Park did it
That was never on Saturday morning cartoons. The Denise if the Saturday morning occurred by the beginning of the 90s. Ren and Stimpy was after and on Nickelodeon. Saturday morning cartoons was on the big 3.
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lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 59 pts · 100d
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbours dog?
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 100d
It fits on your back, it's great for a snack
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 100d
Its log log log!
Its loooog, its loooog, its big its heavy its wood!
homes@piefed.world · 24 pts · 100d
It’s looog, it’s looog!
It’s better than bad, it’s good!
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 100d
Things like this are why I like Lemmy people.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 4 pts · 99d
Log, from Blammo!
[ending jingle]
zilouge@feddit.nu · 26 pts · 100d
LOG!
*from Blammo(tm)!
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 100d
Have you seen the price jump for LOG! lately? And people complain about gas prices...
lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 100d
I used to watch this on MuchMusic, it was so disturbing and funny
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 99d
my car
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 100d
Because kids love gross-out humor? Lmao
Nearly every 4-10 y.o. I’ve known in my lifetime had “fart,” “poop,” “butt,” and “booger” as their top most said words of the day. The remainder was yammering about their favorite TV shows and books/toys. And bugs. And rocks.
randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 45 pts · 100d
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!"
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 100d
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
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 100d
I was lucky enough to buy some animation cells from him when he came to our local con.
username_1@programming.dev · 41 pts · 100d
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 100d
Except that's absolutely not true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controversies
https://wiseoldowl.net/12-tv-censorship-rules-from-1950s-that-seem-ridiculous-now/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
Anyone that thinks that society has gone soft and media can't really be free doesn't remember what it was actually like before.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 100d
None of those overlapped with Ren and Stimpy. All of those were for the parents of the kids watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, the sole exception being the Satanic Panic from the 80s (which involved the duplicate article you posted about D&D).
Ren and Stimpy was allowed because the people who would cry foul were too cheap for basic cable and didn't know it existed.
obinice@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
lol, this was on when I was growing up and I, along with a great many of my peers, were rolling with undiagnosed ADHD, autism, depression, etc, because the teachers and adults around us didn't know shit about mental health, and didn't help any of us.
Have we reached the point now for my generation that younger people assume those times were better, where people were magically wiser etc, and where older people have rose tinted glasses and start telling the youth how much more mentally healthy everyone was, etc?
People were people then just like they are now. People had mental health problems then just like they do now. It wasn't heaven on Earth, it was just a few decades ago, that's all.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 100d
The 90’s were a special time that we didn’t fully appreciate until they were gone.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 100d
I loved the 90s, hit em at the right age
spirinolas@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 100d
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.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 100d
I didn't know about Kricfalusi. Damn.
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kricfalusi
See "sexual abuse allegations".
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
Yeah he's pretty horrible. I try to pretend he was switched with a bad clone...but that doesn't do much
Tingle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
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.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 100d
SPACE ……… MADNESS!
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 100d
Oh, my beloved ice cream bar...
...how I love to lick your creamy center!
And your oh-so-nutty chocolate covering!
You're not like the others. You like the same things I do. Wax paper... boiled football leather... DOG BREATH!
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 100d
Yeah, no kids or adults ever like this sort of thing. It definitely isn't mainstream and wildly popular.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 100d
You have obviously not watched the brain rot videos kids watch today. Ren and Stimpy is like reading a dictionary in comparison.
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 100d
It was ok lol. My dad was the one to put me on Ren and Stimpy. It gave me a huge love and appreciation for cartoons and animation in general.
frog@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 100d
The animators of Ren and Stimpy felt like they put a lot of love in that show. Their enjoyment of their job shines through.
Ren and Stimpy is my favorite Nickelodeon show.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 100d
Ren: "You know Stimpy. Your wealth of ignorance astounds me."
Stimpy: "Well they don't call me stupid for nothin' "
TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 100d
Wow. Ren and Stimpy in the wild. My namesake.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 100d
YOU BLOATED SACK OF PROTOPLASM!!!
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 100d
aaannddd you know what else im gonna do?
Im gonna hit ya....
....aaaanddd youre gonna fall down....
Lol. 90s cartoons were something else.
0ops@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 100d
....aaaand I'mmm gonnnnna laauughfff
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 100d
It was on SNICK on Saturday night
4am@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 100d
Eventually it was on in the mornings too, but yeah it started as a SNICK thing
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 100d
I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
Tingle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 100d
I told you i'd shoot, but you never believed me....whyyyy didn't you believe me
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
Whillikers! It's so big.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 8 pts · 100d
It was on cable TV, not everyone had this at the time it aired
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 100d
Also it was part of Snick. Saturday night Nick. It wasn't a morning cartoon
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 99d
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.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d
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
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 100d
Idk I always thought these hyper detailed stills were pretty funny
4am@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 100d
“Gross-ups”!
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 99d
"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!
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 100d
I think it aired at 9pm on Saturdays, though?
Triumph@fedia.io · 9 pts · 100d
Yeah, it wasn't a Saturday morning cartoon. It was on MTV in the evenings.
jacksilver@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 100d
That was the reboot. The original aired on Nickelodeon, but a more "adult" version was made for MTV after the initial got canceled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ren_%26_Stimpy_Show
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 100d
I didn’t see a time slot in the Wikipedia article. I was just going off of memory. My memory is telling me that it was late afternoon when nicktoons started and proper evening when ren n stimpy came on.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 100d
The younger generations simply aren't going to understand the concept that there were specific times when your shows came on, and if you didn't stop everything and turn it on immediately you might miss the first ten minutes.
Oh, and if you missed an episode? Tough, it might be a year or more before the next rerun...
4am@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 100d
Yeah, it was all ages stuff most of the day Saturday (I think for a time Nick Jr was a midday block on Nickelodeon), then Nicktoons, then SNICK which was for tweens and teens starting at like 7:30 or 8PM, after little ones usually go to bed during the school year.
Ren & Stimpy was on at 9PM for sure.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 100d
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.
eldro@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
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.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 99d
There must be episodes I have forgotten because I don't remember that Sammy Mantis episode. Huh, guess I gotta rewatch the series for other messed up things I forgot about.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 100d
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.
CallMeAl@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 100d
Probably because it ran on Sat nights not Sat mornings.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 5 pts · 100d
and this isn't even the most disgusting scene. I grew up watching this and I am ok (no I am not help me)
CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 4 pts · 100d
We are ok because we don't pee on electric fences.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 2 pts · 100d
Ah right, thanks Ren & Stimpy for saving my life!
Deftworks@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 100d
={🎼 I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend..cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in... and if you do not want to see me again I will understand....
Surp@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 100d
I mean it was awesome
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 5 pts · 100d
Ah. The good ol days when "cartoons are for kids". I think South Park finally shattered that illusion.
aaaa@piefed.world · 7 pts · 100d
The Flintstones was originally run at prime time for adults and their families. This wasn't broken by South Park. Even the Simpsons did it before South Park did it
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 4 pts · 100d
You should see the shit they watch now.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 100d
On second thought, don't
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 100d
And what do you want to drink, Kowalski?
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 100d
MEAT!
OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 100d
Don't forget about toast!
kablez@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
What's the problem? That's just me from morning to lunch.... and until evening and bed.
db2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
Have you got any rubber walrus protectors?
obinice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
Yeah, as a little kid I hated seeing this on TV, it felt really creepy and disgusting. I still don't like it :-(
RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 99d
Because they didn't think that and it wasn't.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 100d
Something came out of your butt? And it made and sound? And it smelt funny?
rawsta@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 97d
Try some good old German tales like "struwwelpeter". Was fun growing up ^^
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 100d
A motivator for why people are confused was because of the adult version that came later.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d
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.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
That was never on Saturday morning cartoons. The Denise if the Saturday morning occurred by the beginning of the 90s. Ren and Stimpy was after and on Nickelodeon. Saturday morning cartoons was on the big 3.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 100d
Dit it actually air saturday mornings? Or some weeknight past 8pm?