• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    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.

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    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!”

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    Because it was ok. People were mentally healthier. Socially wiser. Less hysterical.

    People are still that way outside the US, Russia and Afghanistan.

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    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.

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      Oh, my beloved ice cream bar…
      …how I love to lick your creamy center!
      And your oh-so-nutty chocolate covering!
      You’re not like the others. You like the same things I do. Wax paper… boiled football leather… DOG BREATH!

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    11 days ago

    You have obviously not watched the brain rot videos kids watch today. Ren and Stimpy is like reading a dictionary in comparison.

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    It was ok lol. My dad was the one to put me on Ren and Stimpy. It gave me a huge love and appreciation for cartoons and animation in general.

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      The animators of Ren and Stimpy felt like they put a lot of love in that show. Their enjoyment of their job shines through.

      Ren and Stimpy is my favorite Nickelodeon show.

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    Ren: “You know Stimpy. Your wealth of ignorance astounds me.”

    Stimpy: "Well they don’t call me stupid for nothin’ "

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    aaannddd you know what else im gonna do?

    Im gonna hit ya…

    …aaaanddd youre gonna fall down…

    Lol. 90s cartoons were something else.

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      Eventually it was on in the mornings too, but yeah it started as a SNICK thing

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        10 days ago

        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.

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          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