Ren & Stimpy: Greatest Show Ever (3689 hits)
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Submitted by Sully (View user info) at 2004-09-09 01:05:16 EDT
Just kidding, it's not really the best show ever, but it's still pretty damn good. Well, it's not really 'pretty damn good' per se, but it was still an alright show... ok the show was crap but it's still one of my all-time favorites.
Ren & Stimpy first appeared on Nickelodeon in 1991. The show's main characters consisted of a sadistic, verbally and physically abusive chihuahua named Ren Höek, and a seemingly retarded, over-sensitive feline named Stimpleton J. Cat. The odd couple always got into entertaining circumstances while the funniness was derived from sight gags and toilet humor. There were countless unforgettable characters like Powdered Toast Man and Mr. Horse. For me and many others, Ren & Stimpy was one of the fondest memories during childhood, and it made the term "Veediot" a common insult.
The show made nipples, whizz, boogers, and nose hair suddenly funny. I remember knowing some of my friends' parents not allowing them to watch Ren & Stimpy because it was 'inappropriate.' A lot of people nowadays who have a sick sense of humor, myself included, probably had their personality somewhat tainted from watching this show.
There were episodes that were controversial, mainly the ones where Stimpy wore women's clothing and acted femininely. The show's creators always seemed to nudge your suspicion that Ren and Stimpy were a gay couple, without actually coming right out and saying it. It was certainly vague enough to slip by unnoticed and was able to be shown on Nickelodeon.
A year or so back, Ren & Stimpy debuted with all new episodes on TNN (now Spike TV). Hearing the news, I was pretty excited as this was one of my favorite shows ever, and all the same voice actors and writers were returning. Also, it was being aired at 10pm and right next to the risque "Stripperella,"which was notorious for its over-the-top sexuality for a cartoon. This must mean that they're going all out on the grossness, I assumed, since it was in this kind of time slot.
To put it in a few words, the show was ten times more grotesque then anything I could've imagined. At the start, I saw that it was rated TV-MA so I was glad that the creators were going to make it as controversially funny as possible. The episode's plot was that Ren and Stimpy were living together in a homeless man's mouth and they decided to move out and into a spittoon in a bar. Hundreds of possibilities for distastefulness, of course. In the beginning, the hobo's uvula kept wiggling up Ren's ass because he was snoring. Ren assumed that it was Stimpy trying to sneek-hump him so he reminds him that he is the 'pitcher' and Stimpy is the 'catcher.' I snickered at this until I realized what had just been revealed: Ren and Stimpy are gay. Haha, just a poke at their ambiguity, I reasoned, just like they had always done.
After they had moved into the spittoon, and of course ate all the wads of phlegm and vomit that had made its way into their abode, brace yourself, Ren and Stimpy had sex.
"WHAT THE FUCK!?" I screamed at my tv. In just the final five seconds of the episode, they had to throw in a sex scene with two of the biggest pop culture icons of the 90's. In that short span of a few seconds, my childhood was distorted and I was forever scarred.
"But...but...Ren likes girls!" I yelled at the screen as it went to commercial.
But no. There was no room for trying to figure out anything.
It is now a fact: Ren and Stimpy are gay. I had seen it with my own eyes, there was no denying it, Ren and Stimpy had gay, inter-specie hairy butt sex under the covers. They fucked like there was no tomorrow. That night, I cried myself to sleep.
After a few more episodes, the show pretty much faded out of existence and it may not ever come back. The writers had loaded the scripts with pervasive language, strong sexuality, and excessive violence, warranting the TV-MA rating, and I guess it was just too much for some people to handle. I hope it comes back, and I also hope that they never show Ren and Stimpy having sex again either. Damn, it still hurts now just thinking about it.
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Submitted by Lyris <lyris1.at.gmail.com> at 2004-10-17 13:19:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Somewhat misses the point...
Submitted by Davieboy <photo_dave.at.juno.com> at 2004-09-25 22:02:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Okay, let's look at the facts here folks. As several people mentioned, both Ren AND Stimpy had made it obvious that they did indeed like CHICKS! Stimpy actually married one in one episode (of course it was also a dead chicken). Anyway, my theory is this: Ren & Stimpy were never gay, but since people said that they thought they might be, the writers thought "what do the people really want to see?". Shock = Ratings. Of course, this equation only works sometimes (and it this case, it didn't). People were just too ticked off that their childhood rolemodels were destroyed. Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, the REAL Ren & Stimpy were NOT gay (maybe just a bit foppish), the new generation of cartoons are just a twisted basterdization of the REAL ones, so the don't even exist in my book. I can always go back and watch my neon orange R&S VHS tape if I'm feeling too much like an adult...
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2004-09-12 21:37:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by KingHFB (user info) at 2004-09-09 04:03:51 (#)
Ranking: 2
that made me sad
ren and stimpy were the greatest
if anyone has a midi of the opening theme [and NOT happy happy joy joy] could they let me know
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If you still want it, email me.
SullyThePirate.at.gmail.com
Submitted by melissa4 (user info) at 2004-09-11 22:40:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I had the Ren and Stimpy plush dolls that farted when you squeezed their bellies.
Good times.
Submitted by gbusman (user info) at 2004-09-09 23:40:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
What rolls down stairs,
Rolls over in pairs,
Rolls over your neighbors dog?
It's great for a snack,
And fits on your back,
I know you know it.
-Bus
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2004-09-09 16:30:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
rubber nipples!
Submitted by vodka7tall (user info) at 2004-09-09 11:51:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
ROYAL CANADIAN KILTED YAKSMEN THEME
Our country reeks of trees
Our yaks are really large
And they smell like rotting beef carcasses
And we have to clean up after them
And our saddle sores are the best
We proudly wear women's clothing
And searing sand blows up our skirts
And the buzzards they soar overhead
And poisonous snakes will devour us whole
Our bones will bleach in the sun
And we will probably go to hell
And that is our great reward
For being the
Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen
Submitted by Kent_Weirdo (user info) at 2004-09-09 10:48:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Finally.
Submitted by RyuFu (user info) at 2004-09-09 10:05:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Happy Happy Joy Joy!
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2004-09-09 08:50:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
"Ask Dr. Stupid"
I think that was what it was called.
I loved that.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2004-09-09 07:26:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Awko (user info) at 2004-09-09 07:22:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Belrafon (user info) at 2004-09-09 07:13:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
The episode I loved best was the one in the spaceship, where they go psychotic and eventually push the history deleting button.... a true classic.
Submitted by dolfin (user info) at 2004-09-09 07:01:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I always kinda figured... at least Stimpy. Sex I didn't expect.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2004-09-09 04:30:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Muddy The Mudskipper. Joy.
I had no idea that they were gay. I thought Stimpy loved chicken and stinky?
They tested the soundboard at Metallicas Big Day Out in Milton Keynes with Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy followed by Log From Blamo. It was so beautiful that God came down from heaven.
Submitted by KingHFB (user info) at 2004-09-09 04:03:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
that made me sad
ren and stimpy were the greatest
if anyone has a midi of the opening theme [and NOT happy happy joy joy] could they let me know
Submitted by PWNstar (user info) at 2004-09-09 03:53:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It's log! I't's log! It's big, it's heavy, it's wood!
Submitted by Impassive-Digressive (user info) at 2004-09-09 03:13:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
BEAVER FEVER!!
Submitted by BonesForBucks (user info) at 2004-09-09 03:07:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I loved Gritty Kitty cat litter, especially the commercial where the horse tries "brand x." He chews it up, swallows it, makes a face and says "No sir, I don't like it!" But he loves Gritty Kitty brand.
Oh, and trying to sneak into Canada, which was surrounded by a moat of baked beans, so they try to float across on a pig, due to the fact that the only thing that floats on baked beans is pork fat.
Submitted by tinactin (user info) at 2004-09-09 01:52:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Well done.
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2004-09-09 01:34:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Happy Happy Joy Joy indeed.
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2004-09-09 01:28:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
whoops it is Stimpson actually.
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2004-09-09 01:26:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
one of the best cartoons ever created.
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2004-09-09 01:22:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
A huge chunk of my upbringing consisted of Ren and Stimpy. To this day I get fits of Space Madness.
I thought it was Stimpson J. Cat. I could be, and often am, wrong.
Love,
Siren
Submitted by cigar (user info) at 2004-09-09 01:11:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
yeah. It was always assumed on the old series, but it was better left implied.
Good show though. Thanks for reminding me.
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2004-09-09 01:06:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
http://www.ubersite.com/m/35103
song lyrics and such.