Ren and Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon (also known as Ren and Stimpy: The Lost Episodes) is an American adult animated television series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi for the cable network Spike TV/Paramount Network. The series was developed as an "extreme" revamp and spin-off/reboot of The Ren & Stimpy Show, which previously aired on the American cable network Nickelodeon, and is known for being significantly more vulgar and inappropriate than the original series. The series originally ran from June 26 to July 24, 2003, and was removed from the network after only three episodes. The series was received mostly negative reviews by both critics and fans of the original series.
History[]
The original Ren & Stimpy Show premiered alongside Rugrats and Doug as one of the original Nicktoons on children's network Nickelodeon in 1991. The show's creator, John Kricfalusi, had many altercations with the network, eventually culminating in his termination. In 2002, about a decade after Kricfalusi's termination, Viacom (which owns Nickelodeon) contacted him to produce a new version of his series for an updated version of TNN, Spike TV, which was devoted to programming for male audiences. Kricfalusi said that TNN wanted an "extreme" version of The Ren & Stimpy Show. TNN gave Kricfalusi greater control of the writing and contents of the episodes, and he produced six new cartoons aimed at adult audiences. Some of the head storyboard artists, screenwriters, and animators returned from the original Ren & Stimpy series, such as Vincent Waller, Eddie Fitzgerald, and Jim Smith, but most of the animation and writing team were a new team of artists, specifically instructed and headed by Kricfalusi. In a similar vein to the original series, Kricfalusi ran into problems with meeting production deadlines, with only three out of the nine episodes ordered by the network being completed on time.
Some of the original voice cast members returned, with the exception of Billy West, original voice of Stimpy and second voice of Ren and Mr. Horse, who turned down the role, as he did not consider it funny and felt that participating in it would damage his career. Eric Bauza was hired to replace West as Stimpy, while Kricfalusi reprised his roles as Ren and Mr. Horse. Cast members Harris Peet and Cheryl Chase also returned, and Kricfalusi's father Mike Kricfalusi and long-time childhood friend Tom Hay provided some voices.
All of the episodes were animated at Carbunkle Cartoons, in association with Big Star Productions. Kricfalusi had previously relied upon Carbunkle during the Nickelodeon years, and he subcontracted animation of many original series episodes (including "Space Madness", "Black Hole" and "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen") to that studio.
The new series began airing in June 2003 as part of an animation block also featuring Gary the Rat, Stripperella, and digitally remastered episodes of the original Ren & Stimpy series, subtitled "Digitally Remastered Classics". Kricfalusi wrote the first episode, "Onward and Upward", based on requests from fans from the Nickelodeon era. The episode portrayed the characters as bisexual. Advertisers objected to some of the new show's content, particularly that of the risqué episode "Naked Beach Frenzy" which did not air in the show's original run, causing trouble with scheduling. The show stopped airing after three episodes when TNN's animation block was "put on hold".
The remaining episodes were set to resume in August 2004 along with the premiere of Spike's new animated series Immigrants but both shows were pulled and never aired again.
Kricfalusi shut down Spümcø shortly thereafter following a lawsuit filed by Carbunkle for failing to pay the animation studio for their services. In 2005, he announced that all of the Adult Party Cartoon episodes that were fully produced were coming to DVD, which was released on July 18, 2006.
Episodes[]
Official Episodes[]
- Main article: List of Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon episodes
- "Onward and Upward" - Tired of living inside a homeless man's mouth, Ren and Stimpy move to the inside of a spittoon after Stimpy pools his secret stash of money into it. In the spittoon, the duo eats bottly fluids and play baseball under the sheets. They later get chased out of the spittoon and head back in the homeless man's mouth.
- "Ren Seeks Help" - After Ren does something so horrible to Stimpy that it leaves Stimpy in hysterical grief and Ren in guilt, he finally realizes how cruel he can be to his best friend and tries to apologize to him, but Stimpy refuses to forgive him, so Ren goes to see a psychiatrist. After a depressing walk from places to places, he walks to the "help" apartment and seeks psychiatric help from Dr. Mr. Horse, to whom he tells his dysfunctional early years, and why he became such an abusive psychopath in the first place.
- "Fire Dogs 2" - The fire chief was so impressed with Ren and Stimpy's heroic deeds from the first Fire Dogs cartoon from the original series that he mutates into Ralph Bakshi and moves in with them, and to also go out on a bachelor's life to eat pizza. However, even Ren and Stimpy are disgusted by the Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures creator's habits.
- "Naked Beach Frenzy" - Ren and Stimpy enjoy a day at a nude beach.
- "Altruists" - Ren Höek, renowned lover of humanity, and his friend Stimpy decide that they must do everything in their power to help a couple of misfortunates; a woman and her handicapped (headless) son, by building a house for them.
- "Stimpy's Pregnant" - Stimpy becomes pregnant with Ren's baby, causing Ren to at first abuse, and then respect Stimpy as a partner. Ren is at first disgusted with Stimpy's pregnancy, as he is forced to deal with his incessant loving moments with his child, such as attempting to explicitly eat for two. When Stimpy goes into labour, Ren is forced to start a driveby with other people on the highway. With help from the police, Ren and Stimpy successfully get to the hospital, where their child is delivered by Dr. Mr. Horse, only to learn that Stimpy was just constipated, although Dr. Mr. Horse does not have the heart to tell the anticipated "parents" this and so the waste is made to behave like an infant male, and was named Little Ricky.
Proposed Episodes[]
11 of the Proposed episodes of the show were scrapped due to the shut down of Spumco and the criticism of the original show's popularity. The episode "Man's Best Friend" was originally set to air in the original series' second season, but the episode was rejected by Nickelodeon due to disturbing violence and references to tobacco.
External Links[]
- Ren and Stimpy Wiki
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_%26_Stimpy_"Adult_Party_Cartoon"
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