Ren & Stimpy 'Adult Party Cartoon'

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+

Well, it's funny, but... ... it's gross. The old Ren and Stimpy's were funny because they had little gross things here and there, but this is just awful... living in a spitoon, and eating boogers for dinner, and using vomit as gravy is funny, but it was abused. Ren and Stimpy being homo-sexuals, I think, was also a big mistake. In the originals, Ren gets pectoral implants to show off the girls, and he finds a female chiuaha on another planet. Stimpy rides in a limo with a bunch of girls in the originals, too. The episode I saw, I hope, was just one of the bad ones... I expect the others to be better. On a scale of 1 - 10, 5.5.

First off, I want to say that I bought the DVD because it looked GOOD. But the second after opening the case, popping in the sucker, and pressing play, I was in shock! purely because John K creator off one of the funniest shows ever on nick, destroyed his own work.

What really shocked me was that he actually wanted to make an adult version of ren and stimpy! No longer was the show subtle, no loner was the show slightly INNOCENT! Without those two things, all the humor is gone.

You may say, how could John K pull a george lucas! well he did, he really DID! Who knows, maybe he agreed to this because nobody in town is giving him a job! The adult party cartoon only had SIX episodes. Because he was fired, just like on the original version.

Well, the cartoon isn't the only thing on the DVD. There's some bonus interviews. Most of them containing EDDIE FITZGERALD who has nothing to say but "this cartoon the best cartoon ever made." YA they actually put something on the DVD that almost pisses you off more than the actual cartoon.

I just want to go on the record saying, I love ren and stimpy. I loved it ever since I first saw space madness when I was a kid. But this is not the show I LOVED

Ren and Stimpy were two of the most cherished icons from my childhood. "Were" is the operative word in that sentence after I saw the premiere of their new "Adult Party Cartoon" on the National Network (TNN). Anyone who grew up with Ren and Stimpy remembers the psychological drama of "Space Madness," the harebrained schemes of "The Boy Who Cried Rat," and the inspired nonsense of "Robin Hoek." None of those classic cartoons' qualities were present last night. Instead, we got crude sound effects and raunchy jokes about homoeroticism and consumption of human waste.

Now, I have absolutely nothing against people with alternative sexual orientations, but I believe there's a right way and a wrong way to present them in the media, and Ren and Stimpy's new show failed miserably at it. Sure, there were various hints at the two title characters' relationship scattered throughout the old show (like Ren's job as a romance novelist), but seriously, didn't Kricfalusi and Co. have any second thoughts about the whole "pitcher and catcher" thing? I seriously doubt that "Queer as Folk," the award-winning HBO show that presents homosexuals as believable people instead of walking stereotypes, would ever resort to that kind of humor. Seriously, it felt less like a Ren and Stimpy cartoon and more like a piece of perverted fanfiction from a disturbed 12-year-old girl.

The premiere episode was the first sign of the show's inevitable downfall. TNN marketed the show as a "Cartoon for F***ing Adults," gave it a TV-MA rating, and put it in the same block of programming with a foul-mouthed anthropomorphic rat lawyer and a crimefighter named Stripperella. All this, presumably, to compete with Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Comedy Central's "South Park." And for what? "Ren And Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon" lacks the heart of "South Park" and the wit of "Home Movies." Not to mention how the show's TV-MA rating makes it unfit for children, although children are the only people who might find the show even remotely funny. "Ha ha ha, they're eating boogers! I can eat boogers too! When I grow up, I wanna live in a spittoon just like Ren and Stimpy!"

In closing, Billy West made the right decision after he read the script and refused to lend his voice acting talent to the show.

Ren and Stimpy is back! I've been waiting for this for 10 years and I'm not disappointed! Ren is still a complete a**hole and Stimpy is still an eediot. Mr Horse has made an appearence and hopefully we'll see Muddy Mudskipper and Powdered Toast Man as well before long. The perfectly selected music and sound effects that added to the enjoyment before are still there.

After John K "left" the original series it rapidly downhill and was, thankfully, cancelled. Now the he's back at the helm and no longer pretending that it's a kids cartoon (which it was never meant to be) we can finally see the true humour come out.

The first episode was a little bit shaky, but I'm blaming that on the fact the creators where a little rusty after all this time! The rest of the series, so far has been spot on. It was so nice to see an old first season episode (Jail House Blues) sneaked in last night. Can we have Space Madness too, please, pretty please?