John Kricfalusi
Ren Hoek
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Episode Guide
- 1. Stimpy's Big Day; The Big Shot Aug 11, 1991
- Contest-winner Stimpy goes to Hollywood; Stimpy meets his idol, Muddy Muddskipper.
- 2. Robin Hoek; Nurse Stimpy Aug 18, 1991
- Ren dreams he is an outlaw; Stimpy nurses sick Ren.
- 3. Space Madness; Boy Who Cried Rat Aug 25, 1991
- Boredom overtakes space travelers; the pals get jobs.
The Ren & Stimpy Show has received widespread critical acclaim from critics and audiences, with praise going to its visuals, animation, and surreal nature. However, it has also generated significant controversy for its dark humor, sexual innuendos, adult humor, violence, and shock value.
- Adult Party Cartoon
Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" is an animated television...
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The Ren & Stimpy Show is an animated series that premiered...
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Marland T. "Ren" Höek and Stimpson J. "Stimpy" Cat, created...
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The Announcer Salesman (also known as "That Guy") serves as...
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The Manx cat (/ ˈ m æ ŋ k s /, in earlier times often...
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Spümcø, Inc. (stylized as SPüMCø) was an American animation...
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According to Bill Wray, John Kricfalusi created the Ren and Stimpy characters around 1978 for "personal amusement" during his time in Sheridan College. He was inspired to create Ren by an Elliott Erwitt photograph, printed on a postcard, called "New York City, 1946", showing a sweatered chihuahua at a woman's feet. Stimpy's design was inspired by a...
Production system
The animation production system used in The Ren & Stimpy Show was similar to those found in Golden Age cartoons, where a director supervised the entire production process from beginning to end. This is in contrast to cartoon production methods in the 1980s, where there was a different director for voice actors, and cartoons were created with a "top-down" approach to tie in with toy production. Bill Wray describes the initial lack of merchandise as "the unique and radical thing" about The Ren...
Animation style
The show's aesthetics draw on Golden Age cartoons, particularly those of Bob Clampett in the way the characters' emotions powerfully distort their bodies. The show's style emphasizes unique expressions, intense or specific acting, and strong character. One of the show's most notable visual trademarks is the detailed paintings of gruesome close-ups, along with the blotchy ink stains that on occasion replace the standard backgrounds, "reminiscent of holes in reality or the vision of a person in...
Music
The Ren & Stimpy Show features a wide variety of music, spanning rockabilly, folk, pop, jazz, classical music, jingles, and more. The opening and closing themes are performed by a group of Spümcø employees under the name "Die Screaming Leiderhôsens". Three Ren & Stimpy albums have been released: Crock O' Christmas, You Eediot!, and Radio Daze. In addition to music written specifically for the show, a number of episodes utilized existing works by composers such as jazz musician Raymond Scott,...
VHS, LaserDisc, UMD
Sony Wonder initially distributed collections of episodes of The Ren & Stimpy Show on VHS, which were not grouped by air dates or season. Eventually, the rights for Nickelodeon's programming on home video transferred from Sony to Paramount Home Video. Paramount only released one video of The Ren & Stimpy Show, "Have Yourself a Stinky Little Christmas," which was actually a re-release of a Sony video from several years earlier. Like all of the other Paramount cassettes of Nickelodeon shows, th...
DVD
Time-Life released several episodes of The Ren & Stimpy Show in a "Best of" set in September 2003. This set is now out of print. 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. One of the episodes from the second season, "Svën Höek", did have footage reinserted from a wo...
In February 2016, Nickelodeon stated that they were going to reboot Ren & Stimpy. Three months later, John Kricfalusi was going to bring back Ren and Stimpy after the disastrous Adult Party Cartoon. Bob Camp and William Wray stated that in April 2016 in a panel discussion with John Kricfalusi that they were developing Ren & Stimpy shorts along with...
In 1993, Parody Press Comics produced a one-shot comic book entitled Rank & Stinky № 1. It starred a rabbit named Rank Hoax and a rat named Stinky, who looked almost identical to Ren and Stimpy. Th...The Tiny Toon Adventures episode titled "Spring Break Special" features a scene in which parody versions of Ren and Stimpy (a Rooster and Squirrel also coincidentally named Rank and Stumpy) try to...Ren and Stimpy was parodied on The Simpsons twice in its fourth season. In the episode "Brother from the Same Planet", a 15-second clip is shown where Ren starts sampling some of Stimpy's soup, whi...Issue #87 of the X-Factor comic book, written by Peter David, has Wolfsbane describing to the group's therapist (Doc Samson) a dream in which she was part of the Rahne & Simpy Show(Stimpy being the...
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Aug 22, 2005 · The Ren & Stimpy Show, often simply Ren & Stimpy, is an American animated television series, created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi for Nickelodeon. The series focuses on the titular characters: Ren Höek, a psychotic chihuahua, and Stimpson J. Cat, a good-natured, dimwitted cat.
The Ren & Stimpy Show. Top-rated. Sun, Dec 29, 1991. S1.E6. Black Hole/Stimpy's Invention. Commander Hoek and Cadet Stimpy are sucked into the hideous vortex of a black hole. Now as inhabitants on a new planet, and constantly mutating, the pair solve an age-old mystery after being tipped-off by a familiar smell.
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Dec 3, 1994 · Slap on your Happy Helmets with everyone's favorite psychotic Chihuahua and stupid cat in these classic episodes. Animation. Buy The Ren & Stimpy Show on Google Play, then watch on your PC,...
Stimpy wins a competition that takes him to the Big-time in Hollywood. Ren, left at home, begins to miss Stimpy more than he ever would have thought. Will Stimpy, rich and successful, remember Ren and return home?
