#source: ren and stimpy

[lwde-encrusted-sideblog]

Summer: Hmmm.

Summer: No, I can't say I have a use for Rubber Nipples.

Summer: !

Summer: Oh, *Pulling Tai out from behind her* but do you have any Rubber Husband Protectors?

Tai: *Deeply traumatized* Call the poliiiiice ...

[shit-the-vampyr-cast-never-said]

Geoffrey: Sean, I looked death right in the eye. And it smelled like cheap cigars and stinky fish.

[beckettumartanner]

ELEANOR: Britt, I looked death right in the eye. And it smelled like cheap cigars and stinky fish.

[incorrect90snicktoonquotes]

Mr. Horse: You're weird! Ren: Says you! And several psychiatric professionals, but that's beside the point.

[zimbofan]

WHO REN & STIMPY SOMEWHERE YET

[life-in-toontown]

I didn’t think the reboot was a great idea but damn

[ofgods]

𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐌  𝐒𝐀𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐆, a moodboard. 🎶

   ❝ dear old world, you are very lovely, and i am glad to be alive in you. ❞ ― l.m. montgomery.

[ducktracy]

Hi! So... I have to admit the last like 4 decades of Looney Tunes has not appealed to me in the least, though I've been a long time fan of the older content. The Day The Earth Exploded kinda seems different. I have to ask though... The last few shorts that have come out turned me off of even trying to watch new Looney Tunes specifically because of the ren & stimpy-esque grossout humor that permeated in them. Is this movie different from that?

I trust your judgement, and your post made me reconsider seeing the new movie, but I am not interested in modern Looney Tunes in the least. Honestly, will I be disappointed?

HEY THERE!! welcome to the club HAHA! you asked the right person, as someone who is also EXCEPTIONALLY picky with anything modern LT! i’m happy you thought of me!

SO… i guess it depends. which maybe doesn’t seem promising HAHA. i can’t say that the film isn’t completely devoid of those Ren and Stimpy-isms, and one of my critiques of the film in a recent rewatch was that i did wish it had more of that sort of classic Looney Tunes nuance and subtlety. however, rewatching it on the big-screen, i wasn’t bothered by it at all (and i was expecting to be bothered, since i had noted it before).

it’s nowhere near the levels of what the latest run of shorts could be. because i was worried about the very same—i DO love Looney Tunes Cartoons (the latest incarnation), i’m so proud of my friends and colleagues who worked on it, i’m so proud to have kept up with it every step of the way. but i do have a lot of critiques and nitpicks with it as well. because of that, i was going into this film thinking “these things i don’t like about the shorts are going to be in here, and that’s okay, make peace with it now, etc”

and i have to say i was VERY pleasantly surprised at how they seemed to address my every criticism. the film has a surprising amount of emotionality to it and room for things to actually BREATHE, which i was surprised by. the Daffy and Porky shorts, as much as i adore them, are pretty built on the foundation of “Daffy makes Porky’s life miserable and there’s a lot of screaming” and i was expecting that to be the case here. save for a very few insignificant moments, it wasn’t the case at all.

it’s still very much more hyperactive than, say, the Chuck Jones shorts of yore. there are some jokes that don’t really work for me as well as they could. i can’t say it’s completely absent of Ren and Stimpy-isms, but, at least in my eyes, it’s MUUUUUCH more tamped down than much of what LTC goes for with its gross out (which i find very distracting too. maybe that’s funny for me to say working on SpongeBob where i work with and am friends with people who worked on Ren and Stimpy! but it’s not what i want out of LT at all. i say this with Ren and Stimpy having been my foray into LT).

so, i would say go into it with an open mind. i work with a lot of Ren and Stimpy DNA all the time on the Sponge shows, and so i may have a bit of a blindness to some of those quirks. maybe there is more present in the movie than i thought. but as someone who was expecting much more gross out and screaming and all of the bad habits of LTC, my expectations were completely blown away. this is genuinely some of the best the characters have ever been handled in the last 65 years or so.

i think if you’re more used to/fond of the Chuck Jones or Friz Freleng school of LT humor, you may not be the biggest fan. but, if it helps, while there are things i would do to massage and mold the characters a bit differently if it were in my hands (including making the humor a bit more unique to the source material), i genuinely think it’s some of the best modern LT material we’ve ever gotten and ever will get. i’m trying to speak as unbiasedly as possible. R&S and its influence is sort of imbued into the modern animation pipeline as we know it, and so it’s difficult to be completely removed of it, but i didn’t at any point think “this feels Spummy [referring to Spumco]”. and my tolerance for Spum-isms has completely plummeted within the past few years, as i’ve found upon my latest attempt to rewatch R&S.

so… i can’t say for certain. our tolerances may be different, and what i think may be devoid of those habits still may be plenty for you. but no, there is no immediate gross-out that i can think of--maybe one or two quick gags/visuals, but nothing super comparable, and any high octane moments that may feel Spum-esque are either quick or contextually appropriate (and immediately followed by “normalcy”). i would say give it a shot! maybe keep an open mind just in case. but as someone who was also kind of mentally preparing myself for that sort of thing, my expectations were blown away, and i am REALLY protective about how my boys are portrayed. i can say comfortably that they did these characters right and there is a lot of love for the source material clearly on display. take the plunge! and if you didn’t enjoy it, i’ll proudly eat some crow HAHA. i’m flattered you thought of me to ask

[paulkleestan]

More Random Invader ZIM facts!

Jhonen was only 22 when contacted by Nickelodeon to make a series for older children, specifically one that could recreate the success the network had with Ren and Stimpy as the network felt it was losing the “edge” it used to have

Ms. Bitters is in her 50s. She looks old because the show is supposed to be seen through the eyes of Dib/other children

ZIM, like Gaz, is a gamer but is generally terrible at them and a sore loser

ZIM was originally going to hug and kiss TAK’s hand in the “romance” montage of TAK: The Hideous New Girl but Jhonen took it out because he didn’t want viewers to think he actually liked her (sorry ZATR fans)

Jhonen had to fight with the Nickelodeon higher ups to keep Dib’s trenchcoat in after the Columbine massacre made them controversial

The PAK that Irkens have comes from Jhonen’s own habit of wearing a backpack everywhere

IRKENS TYPE IN ALL CAPS WHEN USING THE LATIN ALPHABET

Gaz was never intended to be “goth”. That’s why her outfit changed dramatically when the comics started - Jhonen wanted her to be a gamer first and foremost

ZIM’s eye color was originally purple

TAK was conceived as a parody of self-insert Irken OCs on the internet who are commonly paired with ZIM or Dib

Dib’s personality was based on Jhonen as a kid while ZIM’s personality consisted of Jhonen’s self-perceived worst personality traits as an adult

Irkens don’t need to eat as their energy source is in their PAKs. They eat snacks purely for recreation.

ZIM is ambidextrous

Most of the technology the Irkens use was developed by Vortion engineers, not Irkens

[samobservessonic]

StC Post-Mortems: Simpson the Cat

By popular demand one person asking, Simpson is getting his own Post-Mortem. As the stand-out member of Captain Plunder’s crew, I reckon he deserves it. Like, I love Filch, but there really isn’t that much to say about the guy outside of him being Plunder’s second-in-command who’s a ghost, but with Simpson, I feel like there’s enough to talk about the character on his own merits

How it started

We saw this already in Plunder’s post, but Simpson was something of a late addition to the crew - a fellow prisoner who helped break Plunder out of jail and then joined him for the rest of his adventures. We never find out why Simpson was arrested in the first place, but he does mark the beginning of Plunder’s stories moving away from being tied to the Sonic cast to become more of their own thing

From a real world perspective, when Simpson was introduced, he bore such a close resemblance to his inspirations of Felix the Cat and Stimpy (yes, from Ren and Stimpy) that the editor at the time, Richard Burton, even contacted Kitching to make sure that the character hadn’t been ripped off from other sources. ALSO, his name comes from O.J. Simpson and not, like I thought as a kid, from The Simpsons “on account of him being cartoony”

How it went

…I really couldn’t do this post without using that image at least once now, could I?

Simpson became the comic relief that stopped Plunder’s crew from becoming too serious. Their disdain for him was evident throughout and there were very few instances of Simpson appearing where someone wasn’t annoyed by him, but it really worked. Simpson allowed the team to use more visual gags via his leaning on the fourth wall, as well as occasionally being the explanation as to why Plunder’s ventures did or didn’t work out

How it ended

You can choose to decide for yourselves how Plunder reacted to having a coconut dropped on his head, but something tells me that Simpson would be fine. His luck’s better than Plunders is, anyway

Were there any unused future plans from the StC writers?

I wasn’t able to find anything on either the Sonic or StC wikis about future plans for Simpson outside of Captain Plunder, and with Kitching’s Yahoo group now being defunct, there wasn’t anything to look into there, either. Unless anyone knows something I don’t, I just assume there weren’t any specific plans for him

What would I personally have liked to see next for him if StC continued?

I would say that he keeps appearing as part of Plunder’s crew in any future adventures, like that unwritten Ebony story, but that’s the boring answer. For something a little more fun…

…team him up with Big the Cat. Yes, Big the Cat did appear as a cameo towards the end of the series and Kitching has even said that he’d have been interested to develop the character had the series not been cancelled. I just think it’d be funny to team up these two characters with opposite personalities - Simpson being over-the-top about everything, while Big takes everything in his stride. Also, they’re both beings with god-like skills and strength, so it’d be funny to see them have a big anime fight for no reason at all Outside of that, I think Simpson could benefit from interacting with any of the other Sonic characters. Beyond appearing in one Knuckles story, Simpson being from the era where Plunder was his own thing prevented him seeing the other game characters. I don’t have any other examples, but I think you could pull a name out of a hat and whoever you get it’d be possible to make a fun story where they’re stuck dealing with Simpson Lastly, this one isn't mine, but I have to shout-out Okida's fancomic, Sonic the Continuation, in which it turned out that Simpson was actually a Tantaror pretending to be a cartoon cat for his own amusement. That's pretty much the Simpson headcanon for me and will always have a special place in my heart

What if he was in other Sonic media?

Preboot Archie:

Have him kill maim bonk over the head with a mallet ...replace Al and Cal in the pre-boot Archie Sonic. My word, I just hate these two. Even Ian Flynn, who can generally always change my mind on early Archie characters who I feel “Meh” about, couldn’t win me over on Al and Cal. I was just waiting for Scourge to inevitably betray them in that one arc, so I wouldn’t have to look at them any more

The thing is, Al and Cal fill the same niche as Simpson, but probably by virtue of being an anthro cat, Simpson just looks more like he belongs in a Sonic comic. Even if he is basically Felix the Cat. Also, there’s only one of Simpson, so we don’t have to deal with boring stories where Al and Cal are talking about crap for ages and then fighting each other in their robot forms

What I’d give to have the Scourge: Lock Down arc from Sonic Universe, but instead of Al and Cal, Scourge meets Simpson in zone jail instead. Simpson is exactly the sort of character who’d be in zone jail. Hell, he was even in jail during his first appearance. I just think he’d be a funnier character to play against Scourge. Also, when the inevitable betrayal happens, I’d at least feel a bit sorry for him

AoStH:

By contrast to that, I’d like to see Simpson being a fish out of water in the AoStH universe. Or rather, a fish too much in water, in that all the other fish are the same as him. We see Simpson in StC as standing out because he’s so different from the other characters in the stories he appears in, but how would he deal with being put in a universe where everyone runs on cartoon logic? Would he continue to be unflappable and perhaps feel like he’s found his people or else would he feel put out that no one reacts to him the way his “friends” on Plunder’s crew do? This one is admittedly more of a crossover idea, taking the established StC Simpson and putting him in the AoStH world, than it is coming up with an AoStH take on Simpson, but that’s just how I’d like to see it

[krissiefox]

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[sm0k3yb0w]

Updated Introduction (2024)

Welcome to this page lmao

I mainly like to go by Mary and Marz

My main interests are Chuck e. Cheese (PTT mainly),Ren and Stimpy,Luluyam,Heathers,Ride the Cyclone,and TADC

I go by She/he/They!

I identify as Lesbian!

I am taken as of 8/1/23 by @neongrimlen505

I reblog a lot of shit so expect that a lot, lmao,but I do post my art.

I have Autism-

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And just problematic sources and people in general -

That's all!

[henrykathman]

This video was produced for ​⁠the essay library's 2025 Essay Jam, where essayists were tasked with writing, producing a full video essay in the span of 48 hours. The theme for the jam was Journey, which caused me to think about animator Gints Zilbalodis and the ways his eight films embody the struggles and joys found in the artistic Journey.

For more info about the jam

Watch the other jam entries

Sources:

Away. Directed by Gints Zilbalodis, Tubi, 2019.

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Bailey, Jason. ““Twilight Zone: The Movie” and the Deadly Accident That Plagued It.” The New York Times, 25 June 2023, www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/movies/the-twilight-zone-the-movie-accident.html.

Bromwich, Jonah, and Liam Stack. ““Ren & Stimpy” Creator Accused of Sexual Misconduct with Teenagers in the 1990s.” The New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/arts/ren-stimpy-creator-misconduct.html.

Coyle, Jake. ““Flow” Review: Cat Parable about Climate Change Is the Year’s Best Animated Movie.” AP News, The Associated Press, 6 Dec. 2024, apnews.com/article/flow-animated-movie-review-98940a387edd5f83354719f51139bc33. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

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Stage, The Film. “Flow Director Gints Zilbalodis on Animating Animals, Allegories, and Cinema vs. Videogames.” The Film Stage - Your Spotlight on Cinema, 25 Nov. 2024, thefilmstage.com/flow-director-gints-zilbalodis-on-animating-animals-allegories-and-cinema-vs-videogames /. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

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I love your work! Who/what are some of your influences in style and line work? Some of your pieces remind me of John K (creator of Ren&Stimpy) they're so fluid and emotive!! Great work op, big fan😄

A lot of my influence comes from my lots of my friends art. Seeing them draw is the most fun and inspiring since I get to learn along side with my favorite people.

Another source of influence is classic Disney in how they squash and stretch their characters.

Klaus is such a great film that I had a phase where I tried to mimic it exactly, but it’s also helped out with drawing characters and their designs.

[incorrect90snicktoonquotes]

I am not really a hater so much as a disliker. Occasionally the fires of hate burn within me but mostly I just encounter things and go, "Hm, no sir, I don't like that."

Mr. Horse

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

DO YOU PLEDGE YOURSELVES TO THE ULTIMATE IN STUPIDITY? -- YOUR TWO KINGS!

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on "Ren and Stimpy" All-Prism trading card titled "The Loyal Order of Stupids," released in 1994 by Topps.

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/3284141826250780126 & Beckett Marketplace.