Try some good old German tales like “struwwelpeter”. Was fun growing up ^^
Yeah, no kids or adults ever like this sort of thing. It definitely isn’t mainstream and wildly popular.
“They” made the right decision. Without Ren and Stimpy there would not have been a successful SpongeBob SquarePants. Also, a booger collection under an end table? Genius!
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbours dog?
It fits on your back, it’s great for a snack
Its log log log!
Its loooog, its loooog, its big its heavy its wood!
It’s looog, it’s looog!
It’s better than bad, it’s good!
Log, from Blammo!
[ending jingle]
Things like this are why I like Lemmy people.
LOG!
*from Blammo™!
Have you seen the price jump for LOG! lately? And people complain about gas prices…
I used to watch this on MuchMusic, it was so disturbing and funny
my car
I met Bob Camp once in Atlantic city. He told me very many strange things about his life as an animator but when I told him that those close-ups haunt me in my dreams he simply laughed and said “Yeah! We call 'em Gross-Ups! It was our favorite thing to make!”
The gross up close up. It’s one of my favorite techniques.
EDIT: In fact I saw great use of it in a new cartoon pilot that I quite enjoyed: Gnome Show
I was lucky enough to buy some animation cells from him when he came to our local con.
Because kids love gross-out humor? Lmao
Nearly every 4-10 y.o. I’ve known in my lifetime had “fart,” “poop,” “butt,” and “booger” as their top most said words of the day. The remainder was yammering about their favorite TV shows and books/toys. And bugs. And rocks.
Because it was ok. People were mentally healthier. Socially wiser. Less hysterical.
People are still that way outside the US, Russia and Afghanistan.
lol, this was on when I was growing up and I, along with a great many of my peers, were rolling with undiagnosed ADHD, autism, depression, etc, because the teachers and adults around us didn’t know shit about mental health, and didn’t help any of us.
Have we reached the point now for my generation that younger people assume those times were better, where people were magically wiser etc, and where older people have rose tinted glasses and start telling the youth how much more mentally healthy everyone was, etc?
People were people then just like they are now. People had mental health problems then just like they do now. It wasn’t heaven on Earth, it was just a few decades ago, that’s all.
Except that’s absolutely not true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controversies
https://wiseoldowl.net/12-tv-censorship-rules-from-1950s-that-seem-ridiculous-now/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_AuthorityAnyone that thinks that society has gone soft and media can’t really be free doesn’t remember what it was actually like before.
None of those overlapped with Ren and Stimpy. All of those were for the parents of the kids watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, the sole exception being the Satanic Panic from the 80s (which involved the duplicate article you posted about D&D).
Ren and Stimpy was allowed because the people who would cry foul were too cheap for basic cable and didn’t know it existed.
Even more striking is when you look into the creation of Ren and Stimpy and how he kept his job and is still enjoying a free life.
One my greatest dilemmas is how much I love Ren and Stimpy’s first seasons but I absolutely despise John Kricfalusi. I can’t even downplay his hand on the show, the humour comes straight out of his sick mind and I love it.
Maybe we should arrest guys like him and, instead of putting them in jail and letting them rot there doing nothing, force them to make cartoons. There may be some untapped potential there.
I didn’t know about Kricfalusi. Damn.
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kricfalusi
See “sexual abuse allegations”.
Yeah he’s pretty horrible. I try to pretend he was switched with a bad clone…but that doesn’t do much
Yeah the guy was a real piece of shit, sadly the show felt worse when he left the staff and they continued the seasons. It was for the best though since he should have been in jail, rather someone be help acountable than a dumb tv show have better episodes.
The 90’s were a special time that we didn’t fully appreciate until they were gone.
I loved the 90s, hit em at the right age
Yeah, as a little kid I hated seeing this on TV, it felt really creepy and disgusting. I still don’t like it :-(
I mean it was awesome
I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
I told you i’d shoot, but you never believed me…whyyyy didn’t you believe me
Whillikers! It’s so big.
You have obviously not watched the brain rot videos kids watch today. Ren and Stimpy is like reading a dictionary in comparison.
It was on cable TV, not everyone had this at the time it aired
Also it was part of Snick. Saturday night Nick. It wasn’t a morning cartoon
It was part of the original Sunday lineup of Nicktoons! Along with Doug and Rugrats. Ahhh Real Monsters and Rocko’s Modern Life joined them a few years later. They syndicated and moved R&S around quite a bit, probably trying to make their money back on it or find a timeslot it fit into well. It moving to late nights and other channels with the much later Adult Animation Show did confuse the issue for many people, but I assure you it used to come on weekend mornings and was a trip to live through. You’d finish watching the wholesome adventures of a band of babies, and then in under 10 minutes a man made of toast is shoving cats between his buttcheeks.
It really is astounding that John Kricfalusi isn’t in jail and stayed working for so long.
Now that you mention it that does sound right. The only thing of his I’ve ever seen other than original Ren and stimpy is some contribution to a little collection of short stories.
It was about a baby duck that was really tall that shit itself constantly? It was really trying too hard
