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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.
Except that’s absolutely not true.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness
en.wikipedia.org/…/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controver…
wiseoldowl.net/12-tv-censorship-rules-from-1950s-…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
Anyone 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.
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.
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.
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 done untapped potential there.
I didn’t know about Kricfalusi. Damn.
Yeah he’s pretty horrible. I try to pretend he was switched with a bad clone…
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, no kids or adults ever like this sort of thing. It definitely isn’t mainstream and wildly popular.
You have obviously not watched the brain rot videos kids watch today. Ren and Stimpy is like reading a dictionary in comparison.
Ren: “You know Stimpy. Your wealth of ignorance astounds me.”
Stimpy: "Well they don’t call me stupid for nothin’ "
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.
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.
SPACE ……… MADNESS!
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!
Wow. Ren and Stimpy in the wild. My namesake.
YOU BLOATED SACK OF PROTOPLASM!!!
It was on SNICK on Saturday night
Eventually it was on in the mornings too, but yeah it started as a SNICK thing
I think it aired at 9pm on Saturdays, though?
Yeah, it wasn't a Saturday morning cartoon. It was on MTV in the evenings.
That was the reboot. The original aired on Nickelodeon, but a more “adult” version was made for MTV after the initial got canceled.
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.
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.
“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!
aaannddd you know what else im gonna do?
Im gonna hit ya…
…aaaanddd youre gonna fall down…
Lol. 90s cartoons were something else.
By far I think the most extreme part that I probable wouldn’t wantnkids watching is either the ghost suicide episode or the one where Ren verbally tells Stimpy and his own cousin how he’s gonna basically kill them.
Otherwise, it was a weird and at times grossout show that I wouldn’t mind letting a kid watch, creator aside.
There are many episodes that I wouldn’t consider save for kids now but back in the days they ran the show some time from morning till noon in Germany. Which I gladly watched as a pre schooler (I’m not ok for some other reasons). But a few weeks ago I watched the Sammy Mantis episode which haunts me until today. I guess it was also banned from German TV because it felt fresh but what a ride watching everyone shivering with anticipation to become the next one being beheaded on stage. Stimpy in the end even wishing his mother could see him… Well… Congratulations, I thought I’ve seen them all.
There must be episodes I have forgotten because I don’t remember that Sammy Mantis episode. Huh, guess I gotta rewatch the series for other messed up things I forgot about.
I mean it was awesome
Idk I always thought these hyper detailed stills were pretty funny
“Gross-ups”!
Ah. The good ol days when “cartoons are for kids”. I think South Park finally shattered that illusion.
and this isn’t even the most disgusting scene. I grew up watching this and I am ok (no I am not help me)
={🎼 I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend…cut ties with all the lies that you’ve been living in… and if you do not want to see me again I will understand…
And what do you want to drink, Kowalski?
MEAT!
People are way to fragile today I feel. When I was a kid, I watched this with my parents. It was perfectly fine then and it should be now.
Because they didn’t think that and it wasn’t.
What’s the problem? That’s just me from morning to lunch… and until evening and bed.
Try some good old German tales like “struwwelpeter”. Was fun growing up ^^
That was never on Saturday morning cartoons. The Denise if the Saturday morning occurred by the beginning of the 90s. Ren and Stimpy was after and on Nickelodeon. Saturday morning cartoons was on the big 3.
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lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I used to watch this on MuchMusic, it was so disturbing and funny
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