The Ren & Stimpy Show

The Ren and Stimpy Show
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Also known as Ren and Stimpy
Genre Toilet humor / Black humor/Satire/Cartoon
Format Animated series
Created by John Kricfalusi
Written by Bob Camp
Jim Gomez
John Kricfalusi
Ron Hauge
Vince Calandra
Vincent Waller
Bill Wray
Richard Pursel
Chris Reccardi
Jim Smith
Elinor Blake
Peter Avanzino
Michael Kim
Will McRobb
Steve Mellor
Lynne Naylor
Billy West
Directed by Bob Camp
John Kricfalusi
Ron Hughart
Chris Reccardi
Ken Bruce
Bill Wray
Michael Kim
Steve Loter
Vincent Waller
Craig Bartlett
Jim Smith
Jim Gomez
Kirk Field
Arthur Filloy
Tom McGrath
Peter Avanzino
Howard E. Baker
Tom Owens
Starring John Kricfalusi (1991–1993)
Billy West
Cheryl Chase
Harris Peet
Gary Owens
Bob Camp
Jack Carter (1993–1995)
Alan Young (1994–1995)
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 52 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Vanessa Coffey
Producer(s) John Kricfalusi
Christine Danzo
Bob Camp
Jim Smith
Jim Ballantine
Running time 22 minutes approx. (11 minutes per episode)
Production company(s) Spümcø (1991-1992)
Games Animation (1993-1995)
Broadcast
Original channel Nickelodeon
First shown in August 11, 1991
Original run August 11, 1991 – November 14, 1996
Status Cancelled
Chronology
Followed by Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"

The Ren and Stimpy Show is an American animated television series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi.[1] The series concerns the adventures of the titular characters: Ren Höek, a psychotic "asthma-hound" chihuahua, and Stimpson J. Cat, a dimwitted Manx cat.[2] They wander around having nonsensical adventures in a surreal style reminiscent of the Golden Age of American animation, especially the 1940s cartoons by Bob Clampett and Tex Avery.[3][4]

The Ren and Stimpy Show premiered on Nickelodeon on Sunday, August 11, 1991, and was the third of the three original Nicktoons (Doug and Rugrats having debuted earlier the same day). The show aired new episodes on the channel from 1991 to 1996. The Ren and Stimpy Show had a reputation for indecent humor. The controversy was mainly a result of imagery and violence as well as language and sex references.[3] Episode names included “Stimpy’s First Fart.”[5] In 1992, MTV Networks dismissed Kricfalusi and production moved from Kricfalusi's Spümcø studios to Games Animation,[6] where it stayed until its cancellation for Nickelodeon in 1996. Reruns are broadcast currently by Nickelodeon Canada, Australia and Nicktoons. Three episodes of the show were banned by the Nickelodeon censors: "Man's Best Friend" (later appears in Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" cartoon); "Sammy and Me" (banned for the part where Stimpy gouges his eye out to insert a fake eye); and "The Last Temptation of Ren" (banned because it was to air with "Sammy and Me"). These episodes aired on MTV in later years. The show now airs a marathon on Nicktoons on weeknights, along with Rocko's Modern Life and CatDog.

Contents

Characters

Ren Höek is an Asthma hound Chihuahua. Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman of Animation World Magazine described Ren as "scrawny," "dyspeptic",[7] and "violently psychotic."[8]

Kricfalusi originally voiced Ren, using what he described as "a bad imitation of Peter Lorre" 53. When Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi, Billy West, already the voice of Stimpy, took the role using a combination of Burl Ives, Kirk Douglas, and a slight "south of the border accent"[9] for the rest of the Nickelodeon run. Kricfalusi returned to the voice for the Nickelodeon series and Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" on Spike TV.

Stimpson "Stimpy" J. Cat is a three year old,[10] fat, untailed, red and white Manx cat with a blue nose, purple eyelids, human-style buttocks, and flat feet. Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman of Animation World Magazine described Stimpy as "obese", and "brain-damaged."[7] West voiced Stimpy for the Spümcø and Games Animation episodes, basing the voice on an "amped-up" Larry Fine.[9] Eric Bauza portrayed the character in Adult Party Cartoon.

The show features a host of supporting characters; some are recurring characters while others make single episode appearances. Ren and Stimpy are the only characters to appear in every episode except the episode "Fued for sale", sometimes as various different pseudonyms, such as "Robin Höek" (a play on Robin Hood[11]). Some of the supporting characters factor directly into the storyline (such as George Liquor) while others make brief cameos. Other characters, such as Mr. Horse, are exclusively cameo-based, appearing in many episodes in bits that have little bearing on the plot as a running gag.

Conception

In a 1993 interview, Bill Wray stated that he believed Kricfalusi created the Ren and Stimpy characters around 15 years prior, for Kricfalusi's personal amusement during his years in Sheridan College in Canada.[12] According to commentary in the DVD box set of the show's first two seasons, Kricfalusi was inspired by a 1946 photograph called "New York City, 1946" of a chihuahua in a sweater by Elliott Erwitt on a postcard to create Ren. Kricfalusi combined the two cats in Bob Clampett's "A Gruesome Twosome" (1945) short to create Stimpy with the Jimmy Durante cat's coloring and nose and the stupid one's girth and personality. Wray said that he had initially "forgotten about" the characters. When Nickelodeon requested new series, Kricfalusi assembled a presentation called "Our Gang", similar to a children's show with a live action host presenting various cartoons. Each cartoon parodied a genre, and Ren and Stimpy parodied the "cat and dog" genre. Vanessa Coffey, the producer of the show, said that she did not like the general idea but that she liked Ren and Stimpy.[12]

Spümcø (1991–1992)

In 1989, Kricfalusi pitched and sold The Ren and Stimpy Show to Nickelodeon. Kricfalusi's own animation house, Spümcø, finished the pilot in October 1990 and the first episode of the show properly aired on August 11, 1991, premiering alongside Doug and Rugrats.[13] Spümcø continued to produce the show for the next two years while encountering issues with Nickelodeon standards and practices. Over the years a number of episodes were censored.[14]

According to West, at one point Nickelodeon considered him for the voice of Ren. Spümcø says that Nickelodeon did not consider him for the part.[15]

Kricfalusi described Nickelodeon in the earliest period as being "simple" as there was one executive; Kricfalusi said that he got along with her. Kricfalusi said that another executive, who came at a later period, tried to can some of the Ren and Stimpy episodes produced. According to Kricfalusi the episodes stayed intact since Kricfalusi did a "trade" with the executive he liked; he would have some "really crazy" episodes in exchange for some "heart-warming" episodes.[16]

Wray stated that on some occasions Kricfalusi completed an episode in eight months, and on some occasions he completed an episode in "two or three" months. Wray described Kricfalusi's ideal production period per episode as four half-hour cartoons per year and added that the arrangement would not "jibe with our production schedule."[17]

In his blog, Kricfalusi described The Ren and Stimpy Show as the "safest project I ever worked on" while defining "safe" as "spend a third of what they spend now per picture, hire proven creative talent, and let them entertain" in that instance. Kricfalusi said that The Ren and Stimpy Show cost around six million United States dollars to produce and generated "a billion bucks or more" in revenue.[18]

Firing of John Kricfalusi

Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi in 1992. Without Kricfalusi, Nickelodeon moved production from Spümcø to Games Animation.[19] Kricfalusi said that the main sticking points for the Nickelodeon executives seemed to be the level of violence in the show, and Kricfalusi points specifically to the episode "Man's Best Friend", which features Ren beating the character George Liquor with an oar, for his firing.[20] Nickelodeon banned the episode from airing; the episode did not air in North America until Adult Party Cartoon began in 2003.[20]

Wray described the main issues regarding Kricfalusi's friction with Nickelodeon as stemming from episodes not being produced in a "timely" manner. Wray stated that Kricfalusi attributed the delays to Nickelodeon not approving "things fast enough" and the Nickelodeon staff members "changing their minds." Wray describes Kricfalusi's statements as containing "some truth."[17] According to Wray, Nickelodeon would not have "minded" if the shows exceeded their budgets; therefore Wray did not see going over budget as the issue. Wray said that Kricfalusi believed that the product's quality holds more importance than meeting deadlines, and that he perceived Nickelodeon as "slowing him down."[21] According to Wray, Kricfalusi believed that "every step after the storyboards weakens the process" and that he "fought for the integrity of the storyboards" and lengthened production time because he wished to salvage the quality of the series.[22] Wray stated that the children forming the audience of Ren and Stimpy tolerated episodes when "things get gross" but that the audience did not want "a frightening, dramatic show." Wray cited a "father figure verbally abusing animals" in "Man's Best Friend." Wray disagreed with the sentiment formed after the firing that portrayed Kricfalusi as a protagonist and Nickelodeon as an antagonist, citing the fact that Kricfalusi sold the rights to Ren and Stimpy to Nickelodeon. Wray attributes the sentiment to people liking the show "wanting to look at everything in black and white." Wray believes that "everyone has not been perfect" regarding the Ren and Stimpy scenario.[23]

Bob Camp stated in a USA Today article that Kricfalusi was not "really suited for TV because of the rigors of scheduling. He'll be much happier doing a feature film or some kind of special." The article stated, "Camp says no one is at fault."[24] John Staton, writer of a 1992 article for The Daily Tarheel of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi for missing deadlines.[25]

West also said that Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi for exceeding deadlines. According to West, when Kricfalusi asked West to leave Nickelodeon and join his team, West refused.[15]

Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, a storyboard writer for Rocko's Modern Life, believes that Kricfalusi "got what he asked for." Describing the Ren and Stimpy creator as a "gifted animator with a great deal of genius" and that "his business skills are sadly lacking," Marsh reasons that Kricfalusi ought to have catered to Nickelodeon's demands and treated the network with respect since he chose the network as a client. Marsh says that Kricfalusi ought to have used a theater release for a short animated film, a direct-to-video release system, or "some pay-cable medium." Marsh describes his opinion as placing him "in the minority" after debating the issue with other animators.[26]

Games Animation (1993–1996)

Bob Camp wrote and directed the episodes for Games Animation when Nickelodeon took over the show.[6] Since Kricfalusi previously voiced Ren, West took the role.

Wray said that the producers of the Games episodes did not attempt to "reflect John's vision. We can't — because we are not John." Wray answered "pretty much" to an interview question asking if the third season will "sort of wrap up John's ideas for the show." Wray added that the producers asked themselves "What can we do to make funny REN & STIMPY cartoons?" instead of "What would John have done?" In 1993, Wray said that the Games Animation episodes would "have the flavor of REN & STIMPY" since Camp had served as a writer for the show. Wray added that Nickelodeon wanted a "lighter, but funny type of show" instead of "truly frightening" episodes.[21]

The Games episodes introduced several characters, including Victor and his father and Mr. Cow.[27]

Kricfalusi described the Games Animation team as having "spent way more money" to produce the series and having "killed" The Ren and Stimpy Show.[18]

Nickelodeon canceled the show in 1996, ending its run with a Christmas episode ("A Scooter For Yaksmas").

Ted Drozdowski of The Boston Phoenix stated in a 1998 article that "the bloom faded on Ren & Stimpy."[28]

Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon 2003–2004

In 2003, Kricfalusi relaunched the series as Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon". The new version was aired during a late night programming block on Spike TV and was rated TV-MA. The series, as the title implied, explored more adult themes, including a more explicitly homosexual relationship between the main characters[29] and an episode filled with female nudity.[30]

The show began with the "banned" Nickelodeon episode "Man's Best Friend" before debuting new episodes. Kricfalusi produced three of the ordered nine episodes on time.[31] After three episodes, the entire animation block was removed from Spike TV's programming schedule.

Also notable, the original show's episodes aired alongside "Adult Party Cartoon", with more scenes cut due to extensive commercial breaks.

Also, Stimpy was voiced by Eric Bauza in "Adult Party Cartoon" because West refused to reprise his role, saying that the show was "not funny" and that it would ruin his reputation.[32]

Development

Directing/Production style

Kricfalusi said that he refined the "Director-Unit system" for The Ren and Stimpy Show.[33]

Bill Wray said that he and Kricfalusi met to "sit around and discuss how really good cartoons died in 1961." Kricfalusi and Wray attributed the decline to the rise of parent groups asking for cartoons to take "educational" approaches. He added that the creators of Ren and Stimpy did not want to create an "educational" series and that the stance bothered Nickelodeon.[34]

Wray added that the creators did not try to "be contemporary" regarding jokes. When Charles S. Novinskie, an interviewer for David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview, asked Wray if the show would not have "Waco, Texas, jokes or anything like that," referring to the Waco Siege, Wray answered that the show would rarely reference current events. Wray described a scenario involving a ration card reference in an "old Warner Bros. cartoon" as "confusing" to a 1990s audience.[22]

Kricfalusi said that when he "got to do everything [his] way on Ren and Stimpy" the group "eventually" created storyboards with larger panels in order to allow for introduction of continuity and new ideas, alteration of the sequences of the stories, and to "sculpt the stories into shape" via input from "other good story artists" and feedback from pitch meetings.[35]

Kricfalusi said that he created commercials for nonexistent products because the Federal Communications Commission would not allow for him to place real commercials in the series.[36] The FCC has no jurisdiction over cable channels such as Nickelodeon; he may have meant the channel's internal Standards & Practices department.

Animation style

In Kricfalusi's words, "weird, blotchy" backgrounds on occasions replace the standard backgrounds. Kricfalusi said that this originates from "Baby Bottleneck", a Bob Clampett cartoon that lacks backgrounds. Kricfalusi said that, in The Ren and Stimpy Show, he altered backgrounds to evoke certain moods.[37]

KJ Dell'Antonia, a reviewer for Common Sense Media, described the "evolution" of the show as portrayed by the animation, which she describes as changing "from intentionally rough to much more polished and plushie-toy ready."[38] Several members of the Ren & Stimpy crew would later work on Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Editing

According to Kricfalusi, since he controlled the editing, he "patched up" the first group of episodes with sound effects and "music bandaids." He describes the alterations as causing the films to "play better, even though much of the animation and timing weren't working on their own."[39]

Voice actors

Kricfalusi and West provided the majority of character voices in the series' first two seasons. After Kricfalusi was fired, West took over the voices of both main characters, as well as those of several supporting characters. Other voice actors in the show's main cast included Harris Peet, Gary Owens, Jack Carter, Alan Young, and Cheryl Chase. Many high-profile actors performed cameos on the show, including Phil Hartman, Rosie O'Donnell, Randy Quaid, Dom DeLuise, Gilbert Gottfried, Frank Gorshin, and musician Frank Zappa.

Music

The Ren and Stimpy Show and Ren and Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" featured a wide variety of music, ranging from folk to pop to jazz. The opening and closing themes were performed by a group of Spümcø employees under the name "Die Screamin' Lederhosen"[40] as a comic reconstruction of German band Die toten Hosen. "Ren and Stimpy" have also released three albums: Crock O' Christmas, You Eediot!, and Radio Daze.

The character’s rousing “get happy” anthem titled "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy," was written by Charlie Brissette, John Kricfalusi, and Christopher Reccardi. A cover of this song, performed by Wax, is included on the 1995 tribute album Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, produced by Ralph Sall for MCA Records. The line "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy" was first used in episode 3 during the series; the song was first played during episode 6.

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy is sung by a character named Stinky Wizzleteats who is a parody of Burl Ives. Several references to famous songs and movie quotes are sprinkled through the song giving it its surreal air including:

Writers

Directors

Home releases

VHS

Throughout the 1990s, Sony Wonder distributed various collections of The Ren & Stimpy Show on VHS video tape in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia.[44] Unconfirmed rumors state that some of the tapes were censored Nickelodeon versions, while others were uncut Spümcø versions. All videos are now out of print.

Eventually, the rights for Nickelodeon's programming on home video were transferred from Sony to Paramount Home Video. Paramount only released one video of The Ren and Stimpy Show, "Have Yourself a Stinky Little Christmas", which was actually a rerelease of one of Sony's videos that had been released several years earlier. 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.

Several tapes, mainly containing episodes produced by Games Animation, were released in the United Kingdom in the PAL format — which is not playable on conventional US VCRs. Several tapes were also released in Australia (featuring most episodes produced by Spumco and only some by Games animation) because of how popular the show was. Although the videos in Australia were rated G, there was one that was rated PG for violence. Bill Wray painted the covers for the UK-only cassettes, each of which was rated PG by the British Board of Film Classification. The earlier, Spümcø-based tapes typically received U (all ages) ratings from the BBFC, despite being more controversial with Nickelodeon's censors.

LaserDisc

The Ren and Stimpy Show was also released on LaserDisc in the U.S. by Sony Wonder. There was only one release, "Ren and Stimpy: The Essential Collection", featuring the same program content in higher quality.

DVD

Several episodes of The Ren and Stimpy Show were released by Time–Life as The "Best of" set in September 2003.[45] This set is now out of print.[46]

On October 12, 2004, Paramount Home Entertainment released the first two complete seasons in a three-disc box set. Although the cover art and press materials claimed the episodes were "uncut", a handful of episodes were, in fact, edited due to the use of Spike TV masters.[47] One of the episodes from the second season, "Svën Höek", did have footage reinserted from a work in progress VHS tape, but with an editing machine time code visible on-screen. The scene was later restored by fans.[48]

A set for Seasons Three and a Half-ish, containing all of season three and the first half of season four (up to "It's A Dog's Life/Egg Yolkeo")[49] followed on June 28, 2005,[50] with Season Five and Some More of Four, completing the Nickelodeon series, on July 20.[51]

On July 17, 2006, a two-disc set dubbed The Lost Episodes was released.[52] The Lost Episodes set featured both the aired and unaired episodes from Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon, as well as clips from unfinished cartoons.[53]

UMD

On September 25, 2005, a compilation entitled The Ren and Stimpy Show: Volume 1 was released in the U.S. on UMD, the proprietary media for the Sony PlayStation Portable.

Censorship

As the show grew in popularity, parent groups complained that Stimpy was subject to repeated violence from Ren. The show often contained scenes where Ren would break down into fits of psychosis and gleefully plot to kill Stimpy. For example, in "Stimpy's Fan Club", Ren tries to break Stimpy's neck. Nickelodeon did order a sequence in the episode "Svën Höek" trimmed, as Ren got ever more gruesome in his descriptions of the punishment he wanted to mete out to Stimpy and Svën. A line in which Ren expressed a desire to gouge their eyes out was cut. Other sources for complaint were the scatological humor,[54] language used, and the show's use of innuendo which was featured more in the Games animation episodes than the Spumco episodes.[55]

Ren and Stimpy in other media

Video games

Ren & Stimpy-themed games have been produced for Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Sega Master System, SNES, NES, Game Boy, the PC, PlayStation, and Game Boy Advance. Most of the games were produced by THQ.

Additionally, Ren & Stimpy were included in several Nickelodeon-themed activity and crafts software for computers.

Ren & Stimpy were also created in full 3D for Microsoft's Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker.

Comic books

Marvel Comics optioned the rights to produce comic books based on Nickelodeon properties in 1992. The initial plan was to have an anthology comic featuring several Nicktoons properties. Marvel produced 44 issues of the ongoing series, along with several specials. 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 20 pages longer than the comic itself. Issue #6 of the series starred Spider-Man, battling Powdered Toast Man.

The editors named the "Letters to the Editor" section "Ask Dr. Stupid.", and at least one letter in every column would be a direct question for Dr. Stupid to answer.[56]

Reception

Terry Thoren, then the CEO and president of Klasky Csupo, said that Kricfalusi "tapped into an audience that was a lot hipper than anybody thought. He went where no man wanted to go before – the caca, booger humor. It will be interesting to see what the next cycle will be like."[57] Michael Barrier, an animation historian, said that while the creators of the Games episodes used bathroom humor jokes that were similar to those used by Kricfalusi, "it was obvious that" the Games staff did not "find the material particularly funny; they were merely doing what was expected."[58]

In January 2009, IGN named The Ren and Stimpy Show as the 12th best in the Top 100 Best Animated TV Shows.

Similar series

Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman of Animation World Magazine described 2 Stupid Dogs and The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show as "clones" of The Ren and Stimpy Show.[7] Fans have also compared the characters Zim and Gir of Invader Zim and cow and chicken to the title characters of The Ren and Stimpy Show, and even the characters Billy and Mandy of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, most notably Mandy's psychotic personality and Billy's dumb behavior, as he is dumb and has a large nose which he often picks. Mandy sometimes slaps Billy in the fashion of Ren slapping Stimpy.

Parodies

Distribution

Episodes

TV channels

(it was aired uncut)

Merchandising

Wray described the initial lack of merchandise as "the unique and radical thing" about The Ren and Stimpy Show. Wray said that no toy company pre-planned any merchandise for The Ren and Stimpy Show. In 1993, Wray said that the merchandise will follow the show. Wray described Nickelodeon in the 1990s as not wanting to use "over-exploitive" merchandising and that the network "always tried to be hip by not overdoing it."[27][34]

See also

Source

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "The Complete First & Second Seasons DVD information page". http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=6765459. Retrieved 2007-05-19. 
  2. ↑ "TELEVISION; Ren and Stimpy's Triumphant Return". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/16/arts/television-ren-and-stimpy-s-triumphant-return.html?scp=14&sq=filmation&st=cse. Retrieved 2010-08-14. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "John Kricfalusi profile". Notable Names Database. http://www.nndb.com/people/574/000044442/. Retrieved 2007-05-19. 
  4. ↑ "Loonier Toon Tales". Time. April 13, 1992. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975286,00.html. Retrieved 2010-03-03. 
  5. ↑ CD liner notes: Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, 1995 MCA Records
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Seasons Three And A Half-ish review". DVDverdict.com. http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/renstimpyseason3.php. Retrieved 2007-05-19. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Cartoons Aren't Real! Ren and Stimpy In Review," Animation World Magazine. 1.
  8. ↑ "Cartoons Aren't Real! Ren and Stimpy In Review," Animation World Magazine. 2.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 YouTube - interview with billy west on CNBC
  10. ↑ According to Ren in episode 2
  11. ↑ Robin Hoek
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Bill Wray." David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #122. 1993. 1.
  13. ↑ "The Ren & Stimpy Show information page". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101178/. Retrieved 2007-05-19. 
  14. ↑ "Ren 'n' Stimpy FAQ". Archived from the original on 2007-12-31. http://web.archive.org/web/20071231073804/http://www.totse.com/en/media/televisionary_film_vidiots/stimpyfq.html. Retrieved 2007-05-19. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "F.A.Q.," Billy West
  16. ↑ Rogers, Troy (interviewer). "The Animated Adventures of John K.." UGO'. Retrieved on February 16, 2009.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Bill Wray." David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #122. 1993. 5.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Do All Bland Movies Make Profits?," John Kricfalusi's Stuff on Blogspot
  19. ↑ "Season Three and a Half-ish information page". DVDTimes.co.uk. http://homecinema.thedigitalfix.co.uk/content.php?contentid=57648. Retrieved 2007-05-19. 
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Dr. Toon interviews John Kricfalusi". Animation World Magazine. http://www.awn.com/articles/drtoon/when-cartoons-were-cartoony-john-kricfalusi-presents. Retrieved 2007-05-19. 
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  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Bill Wray." David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #122. 1993. 12.
  23. ↑ "Bill Wray." David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #122. 1993. 6.
  24. ↑ "'Ren & Stimpy' go on without their creator," USA Today, September 25, 1992
  25. ↑ John Staton (November 12, 1992). "New 'Ren & Stimpy' director ready to take control". The Daily Tarheel, Omnibus. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy/msg/badaa89c3232fa8b. Retrieved 2009-12-27. 
  26. ↑ "Dan Abrams' interview with Jeff "Swampy" Marsh," The Rocko's Modern Life FAQ
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 "Bill Wray." David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #122. 1993. 11.
  28. ↑ "Eye pleasers," The Boston Phoenix
  29. ↑ "Onward and Upward". Written by: Vincent Waller Directed by: John K.. Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon. TNN. 2003-06-23. No. 2, season 1.
  30. ↑ "Naked Beach Frenzy". Written by: John K. Directed by: John K.. Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon. TNN. never aired. No. 2, season 1.
  31. ↑ "Animation Flash! Industry Newsletter". http://rossblocher.com/celart/articles/20031104.html. Retrieved 2007-05-19. "Reportedly Spike TV has only received three of the nine original episodes it ordered of REN & STIMPY ADULT PARTY CARTOON from creator John Kricfalusi. Kay said he expects the new episodes will come as Kricfalusi spends more time tweaking them than was scheduled." 
  32. ↑ "Billy West Interview." UnderGroundOnline
  33. ↑ "Bio In Progress," John Kricfalusi's Stuff at Blogspot
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 "Bill Wray." David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #122. 1993. 10.
  35. ↑ "Frank and Ollie On Natural Cartoon Story Procedures – part 1," John Kricfalusi's Stuff at Blogspot
  36. ↑ "Future of entertainment," The Hollywood Reporter. September 13, 2005. Retrieved on February 16, 2009.
  37. ↑ "“When Cartoons Were Cartoony:” John Kricfalusi Presents." AWN. 3.
  38. ↑ "TV Review: The Ren & Stimpy Show," Go.com
  39. ↑ "Stories About Today's Mighty Mouse," John Kricfalusi's Stuff at Blogspot
  40. ↑ Ren & Stimpy FAQ – What about the music?
  41. ↑ "Raymond Scott music in Ren and Stimpy". http://raymondscott.com/RandS.html. Retrieved 2007-05-20. 
  42. ↑ "Ren & Stimpy Production Music!". Secret Fun Blog. http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2006/11/ren-stimpy-production-music.html. Retrieved 2007-05-20. 
  43. ↑ "Ren & Stimpy Production Music ... Part Two!!". Secret Fun Blog. http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2008/06/ren-stimpy-production-musicpart-two.html. Retrieved 2009-06-30. 
  44. ↑ "Amazon.com collection of The Ren and Stimpy Show on VHS". http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A172346&page=1. Retrieved 2007-05-22. 
  45. ↑ "The Best of Ren & Stimpy". DVDTalk.com. http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/8654/best-of-ren-stimpy-the/. Retrieved 2007-05-20. 
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