Tag: The Ren & Stimpy Show

  • Why Nickelodeon’s ‘Doug’ Is Still Worth Watching

    Why Nickelodeon’s ‘Doug’ Is Still Worth Watching

    In the early 1990s, Doug was one of the major new cartoons that helped Nickelodeon reinvent itself. The network had only existed for just over a decade, but its focus had been on live-action kids shows like Double Dare or Hey Dude. The other cartoons that premiered on the same day were Rugrats, which was…

  • Billy West’s Stimpy Voice Was Inspired By Larry From The Three Stooges

    Billy West’s Stimpy Voice Was Inspired By Larry From The Three Stooges

    It’s hard to understate just how revolutionary John Kricfalusi’s “The Ren & Stimpy Show” was to the world of animation. Having worked on stultifying commercial products throughout the 1980s, John K., as he is better known, longed for the old, wilder, more creative days of Termite Terrace (the nickname for Warner Bros. Pictures’ animation department…

  • Studios Wrongly Thought Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed Would Need To Be X-Rated

    Studios Wrongly Thought Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed Would Need To Be X-Rated

    Animator Genndy Tartakovsky began his professional career as an assistant animator on the seminal ’90s cartoon “Tiny Toon Adventures,” right when the medium was evolving into a new animal. Thanks to the late-’80s and early ’90s success of creator-based cartoons like “Beavis and Butt-Head” and “The Ren & Stimpy Show” animators like Tartakovsky suddenly found…

  • ‘Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story’: Film Review

    ‘Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story’: Film Review

    For many the 1990s were the Age of Irony, with hipster cultural touchstones like Spy magazine and the TV show “Strangers With Candy” helping make snark the preferred flavor of the day. “The Simpsons” was also a big player in that area, yet arguably no cartoon series before had been quite so postmodern as “The…

  • ‘Ren & Stimpy’ Creator John Kricfalusi Accused of Preying on and Sexually Harassing Teenage Girls

    Animatior John Kricfalusi, best known as the creator of Nickelodeon’s “The Ren & Stimpy Show,” has been accused of sexual misconduct by former aspiring animators Robyn Byrd and Katie Rice. The two women shared their stories about Kricfalusi’s alleged behavior in an interview with BuzzFeed News. Both Byrd and Rice were fans of “Ren &…