The Ren and Stimpy Show/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** This is prevalent in [[Nightmare Fuel|"Ren Seeks Help"]] For torturing bugs which are very sentient, begging for mercy, one especially he states that he has a wife and children and forces a tick to stop sucking on ears out of horror. Then moving on to a frog to which he stuffed lit explosives up its rectum, pressed the tires of a tricycle on its stomach to release its organs and finally electrocute it with applied car battery resulting in being burnt alive; when it asks to [[Mercy Kill|put it out of its misery]], Ren refuses not of pity, but to have it slowly die of its suffering because he was confounded by the fact that a victim actually preferred death over life (to which he admits that he slept soundly afterwards with dreams of sadism) in his adolescence and denying it when confronted with his parents as witnesses; as well as becoming elated when he got to kill it with a chainsaw (from his mother where he gets the sadism from while his father preferred a quick death from a gun...at first) WHICH HE DOESN'T DO ANYWAY CHOOSING TO THROW IT IN A TRASH CAN {{spoiler|it shoots itself with the gun at the end}}. What's worse is what he does to Stimpy from abuse, admittedly loathing him for being immune to the usual pain treatments to which he had to the animal and finally something so horrible that his psychiatrist attempts to kill him out of sheer terror not before he tells that Ren is absolutely insane. {{spoiler|Ren responds by first clawing then biting and finally clubbing the horse to death with a gun that the therapist owned. When the cops arrive, he looks more like a blood-crazed beast than his usual self proceeding to bite one of the cops' hands off.}}

* [[Creator's Pet]]: George Liquor. Many people (both in-universe and in real life) dislike him, but [[John Kricfalusi]], somehow, is really fond of him (possibly due to him being the only Ren and Stimpy character he still owns).

* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: A bit of Adult Party can be described as this.

* [[Fridge Horror]]: Mr. Horse asks Ren and Stimpy for a rubber walrus protector. The walrus that is to be protected asks them to call the police in the single most disturbing scene in cartoon history.

** Same thing with the episodes made without John K.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: In "The Big Shot!", Stimpy says, "I'm hunting for a wabbit." [[Billy West]] would later become the regular voice actor for [[Looney Tunes|Elmer Fudd]].

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]] / [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: "The Littlest Giant", where Stimpy (playing [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Littlest Giant]]) runs away from home after a long time of torture by [[Jerkass|the mean, larger giants]]. Made harsher by the fact that nowadays, [[Butt Monkey|bullying]] [[The Chew Toy|victims]] have often done pretty much the same, [[Driven to Suicide|or worse]] (case in point, [[wikipedia:Suicide of Phoebe Prince|Phoebe Prince]]).

* [[Ho Yay]]: Even before ''Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon'', which ran so far with the homoerotic overtones that it circled the globe at least twice.