Ren and Stimpy: The Lost Episodes

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I expected to laugh when I saw the first episode of the revamped version of Ren and Stimpy. But it wasn't funny, just plain disgusting. Blatant gay sex? C'mon. I thought this programming was geared towards straight males. This show might fare better on Comedy Central. But not amidst shows like Stripperella and Gary the Rat, as well as reruns of Highlander and Baywatch.

After a long, long "animation hiatus", (well not really, John K. animated a couple music videos and created "The Ripping Friends" which went unnoticed, even by fans) came "Ren and Stimpy Adult party Cartoon". The show was billed as a cartoon that John K. really wanted to make in the early 90's: Now that his fans are all grown up, he can make something that the kiddie fans can currently enjoy. Many of my friends who were die-hard fans of the children's show knocked the new Ren and Stimpy because of the numerous implications that Ren and Stimpy were a gay couple. You heard me right. And after careful analysis of the cartoon, I came to the conclusion that they weren't really "gay" in the true sense of the word. Ren is the masculine, babe-watching tough-guy character, and Stimpy is, well, sort of the sensitive, caring (but still incredibly stupid) "female" character. There are scenes where Stimpy has women's breasts and even a "camel toe", and I believe a scene in which Ren has a noticeable erection. Also, there is an episode where Stimpy gets...pregnant?!? What? Well, not exactly pregnant. Watch the episode and you'll see what I mean. You have to take into account the twisted sense of humor that John K. utilized only subtly in the original series. Calling it "adult" is an understatement. Actually, "adult" is not the right word. The Godfather was an "adult" movie. "Party Cartoon" is just really, really distasteful. But the old Ren and Stimpy was sort of distasteful. So I don't know why people are complaining. What did you expect? John and his animation/writing team (which surprisingly contains many females) embark upon offensive animated territory the likes of which has not been seen since South Park's debut. I must admit that I can understand why the concept of Ren and Stimpy being a couple would disappoint some viewers. But what other direction could a cartoon that formerly featured horrific, over-the-top violence and even depictions of blood, surgery, and death go? They had broken all the new ground they could in the old cartoon, the only thing missing was the warped, absurdist sexual humor that John touched upon in the original before Nickelodeon booted him off. I mean seriously, what did you expect, Ren and Stimpy protesting against the war on Afghanistan? Practicing safe sex with human partners? That would be bestiality, friends, and probably twice as many people would have been ticked. It's not that bad. If there was an updated version of "Doug", Doug would probably get arrested for drugs, get kicked out of his parents house, or knock some girl up. And I think that'd be pretty darn funny.

Adult Party Cartoon was a great show with a talented cast of voice actors. One of Spike TV only good shows. The show revolves around Ren and Stimpy doing there usual stick. but only aimed at adults and is TV-MA. Ren is now more of an egoist than before but not in a cringy way of that of Bud Buckwald or Rudy Tabootie. Mr. Horse is by far the best character in the series with my favorite line from the show "You Crazy Son of a Bitch!" I still can't believe this show is gone & is hated by millions.

John K as Ren and Mr. Horse. Eric Bauza as Stimpy and Mr. Pipe. Cheryl Chase as Various. The old Ren and Stimpy was talked about back in the day as being one filthy kids show. They occasionally used mild language, had poo and fart jokes and had Ren being violent. This is one of the most explicit cartoons I've ever seen. It has animated female and male nudity. It has gratuitous gay sex between our two used to be straight stars. It has disgusting on screen poo jokes. It uses the f-word and whatever it wants to. It's as though John K reverted back to his childhood when he was 11 and all the dirty filthy things he thought of he could do now. A good example of an episode is "Ren Seeks Help". That episode was on par with the old stuff, and was even better. Then there are episodes like "Onward and Upward" which has a really horrible plot and is just gross, and not funny at all. I'm not saying that this show killed the Ren and Stimpy franchise, but it certainly did it no justice. My rating: 6/10. Episodes range from 20 to 3o mins. Rated TVMA

The hard to please Critic I was sitting down on June 26th getting ready for SpikeTv's new animation line up. With New Ren and Stimpy, Gary the rat, stripperella and Ren and stimpy classics I was set. When ren and stimpy came on I was sitting there with my mouth open with shock. There having anal sex. Then there in a spit jar at a bar eating snot,vomit and all the other stuff. I was trying to laugh but couldn't. The Second Episode Well i thought this one is about ren and ren only. Ren goes to a horse therapist becuase he did something to Stimpy. Ren's childhood comes to life. At the end he kills a horse. It still didn't appeal to me. 3rd episode Hmm a new installment of firedogs. There were moments i laughed. There were moments i felt like puking. It was ok. Firedogs Part 2 its ok but as nothing to do with The firedogs. So like 4 episodes and nothing??? Overall Grade: D+

Ahhhh.....Ren and Stimpy. The greatest cartoon of my youth. This was my favorite show for so long, and when John K. was rudely fired by the jerks at Nickelodeon(Which gets worse every single day), the show was destroyed thanks to Bob "Backstabber" Camp, and Nickelodeon's PC ways. But that was then, this is now... Now 10 years after all of those terrible things occured, John K. has his show back, and now, he can do whatever he wants with it!! Thus begins the adult side to Ren and Stimpy. Sure, the first episode was gross(eating boogers in a spitoon with vomit as gravy), but it was somewhat funny. I do believe the whole "Having R&S being gay" is a bit much(It's not really a good thing to do to these characters. Not that being gay is bad or anything). However, things haven't changed for the chihuaua, and his cat companion. Ren is still an a-hole, and Stimpy is still an eediot, the only thing that has changed is that now, they're going to be in a lot more adult situations. Overall, I think this is a HUGE step for Ren and Stimpy, and besides, if you think the show is gross, don't watch it. P.S. I sort of think that having a sequel to "Fire Dogs" wasn't necessary, but I guess John K. did.

The Ren & Stimpy Adult Party is a horrible adult cartoon based on the original The Ren & Stimpy show a show that ran on Nick from 1991-1996. It's not my Favorite show but I still like it. This Show However I loathe. I didn't know anything about this show until 5 years ago when I watch a little bit of it and didn't think much of it until The Mysterious Mr. Enter reviewed the episode "Ren Seeks Help" in August 2014 & I watched his review & in November 2015 I Watched the episode and thought this was awful. This show is even Grosser than the original show. There a lot gross out humor & sex humor. There was even an episode called "Naked Beach Frenzy" which was an abysmal episode where they showing women's breast uncensored which was disgusting. This show is An Abomination to the original Ren & Stimpy. WHY DID John k. RUIN HIS OWN SHOW. BOTTOM LINE STAY WAY FROM This UNFUNNY, LAZY, GARBAGE Watch the ORIGINAL INSTEAD 0/10

I was a huge fan of the old Ren & Stimpy cartoons when I was a kid, and I had heard about John Kricfalusi and his company, Spümcø, getting fired by Nickelodeon. Sure, I was a little upset about that and I had to admit, while I still watched them, the Games Animation cartoons didn't compare to the early Spümcø cartoons. Then, years later, I heard that Spike TV was bringing back Ren & Stimpy with Kricfalusi placed back at the helm. I was so excited, I began doing the Happy Happy Joy Joy dance. If only I had known. First of all, Billy West wasn't coming back. OK, initially, I had wondered if there may have been some bad blood between him and Spümcø. There wasn't. So why wouldn't he return to one of his best known roles? After watching the first episode of the new Ren & Stimpy, I found out why. I had to force myself to sit through the first episode. The old Ren & Stimpy cartoons were funny because they were gross, these episodes, however, were just gross. I could've done without watching Ren and Stimpy happily eating phlegm, vomit, and various other bodily fluids, the sex scene was just wrong, and above all, did Kricfalusi forget how to write gags? The endearing charm of the original cartoons was gone, the pacing was off, and any sense of strange quirkiness was replaced with mere gross-out humor. I didn't laugh once the entire episode. The following episodes were a little better, but not by much. I was also bothered by Ren's altered personality. I understand he was supposed to be a jerk with a tendency for insanity. That was the basis for much of the humor in the original cartoon. Still he did have his nice moments and signs of vulnerability. In Adult Party Cartoon, he became a flat-out sadist with no redeemable qualities. As for one final problem; The title of the new show was Ren & Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon. For some reason, "adult cartoons" these days revolves around nothing more than sophomoric humor. I mean, come on, even South Park will touch on social commentary now and then!

[1 star out of 5] Now, this isn't just another review that says that the new Ren and Stimpy is nothing like the OLD Ren and Stimpy. I can tell that when John K. was given the OK to once again recreate R&S, he wanted to steer as far away as possible from the Nickelodeon version (after all, he was fired from his own show). But THIS version of the show is just unsettling. Let me do a quick comparison of a few other cartoons. Now, a little bit of "bathroom humor" can be seen on The Simpsons from time to time, and even MORE can be seen on South Park. But calling the new Ren and Stimpy bathroom humor would be an understatement. The stuff seen on this show is just disgusting for no reason. Ren and Stimpy living in a spittoon eating people's snot and vomit -- I'm sorry, HOW is that funny? If you're going to be gross, shouldn't it at least remotely make sense? I was looking at the R&S page at IMDb's affiliate site, TV Tome, and of course it had the different synopses for the episodes. When I read some of them, I said, "Holy living F!" Stimpy getting pregnant by Ren? Okay, last time I checked, Stimpy was a guy. I know this is a cartoon, but that's just stupid. And there were a few episodes that showed Ren and Stimpy having oral sex or something, and I'm not homophobic or anything, but I agree with the reviewer that said that that's not exactly the kind of thing that people want to see on "the first network for men." A lot of Adult Party Cartoon lovers say that the show needs to find its niche, as do the other Spike TV cartoons (Striperella and the hilarious Gary the Rat), which is why only three episodes were shown and the rest held back until sometime this summer (supposedly). But these people are overlooking an important point: there were more than three episodes of Striperella and Gary the Rat shown. In fact, some of the Ren and Stimpy episodes they showed came from the Nickelodeon years (and no, all of them were NOT first parts of sequels, as some fans will probably argue). I know this is hard to do, but the new Ren and Stimpy is even more disturbing than the OLD Ren and Stimpy. I'm not 100% sure if it's actually coming back, but it's not like I care, either. Anthony Rupert