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Its surprising success made a huge impact on the style of Nickelodeon's animated shows. Unfortunately, of all the inventive and challenging elements exhibited by ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', the only one copycat shows seized on was the disgusting animation, and thus the [[Gross-Out Show]] was born.
Friction between Nickelodeon execs and Kricfalusi - mostly over Kricfalusi's attitude and penchant for late work - eventually led to his removal from the show in 1992. Production was then absorbed by Nickelodeon itself as most of the original staff gradually left in disgust over Kricfalusi's firing. The show was canceled in 1995 after a total of 53 episodes and was removed from Nick's lineup in 1996.
In 2003, Kricfalusi successfully brought the pair back to TV when ''Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon'' debuted on Spike TV. However, there was some [[Executive Meddling]] still--for starters, and much to his chagrin, he was forced by Spike to shove a lot of, in his words, "unnecessary adult themes" into it due to Spike wanting another money-maker along the lines of ''[[South Park]]''. The show was fairly well received in ratings and reviews (although many fans hated it for its excessive grossout jokes) but due to John only being able to complete three of the nine requested episodes on time, the show was canceled after just a ''month'' of airtime. Plans for a second season for APC, three episodes were drafted. Spike however decided to cancel those plans on the last second. However, there is an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkjAD23VKSE an attempt to revive the show].
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* [[Episode Title Card]]: Most were just a still image set to some music, but "Sven Hoek" was live action footage of a lederhosen-wearing, accordion-playing man. John K. abhors the latter, confirmed by his [[DVD Commentary]] of "Sven Hoek".
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: "Eat My Cookies".
* [[Everything Explodes Ending]]:
** "Ren's Brain" is such a [[Mind Screw]] that the audience is seen [[Your Head Asplode|with their heads exploding]], and eventually the Earth itself explodes.
** "Sven Hoek" ends with Ren, Stimpy and Sven being blown straight to Hell after Ren pees on a game named "Don't Whiz On The Electric Fence".
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* [[Free Prize At the Bottom]]: In one early episode, Stimpy pours all of the cereal in a box into a big bowl so he can get at the free Muddy Mudskipper cereal bowl caddy at the bottom.
* [[Freudian Couch]]: Seen in "Ren Seeks Help".
* [[Fur Is Clothing]]: Ren And Stimpy have revealed their fur to be nothing but a suit in a few different episodes, by unzipping to take a bath or go skinny dipping.
* [[Gag Boobs]]: In "Ren's Pecs", Ren is able to punch the beach tough and throw him out to sea... all using only his pecs.
* [[Gag Nose]]: Stimpy.
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* [[Hands in Pockets]]: Ren doesn't have a tail because John didn't like animating it.
** It is actually removed in "Dog Show" by George Liquor using a rubber band and is never seen again.
*** But then it reappears when Mr. Horse passes Ren during the pre-judging (he even wags it in excitement). That's right. [[Negative Continuity]] is so strong in Ren and Stimpy that the character's physical attributes aren't even consistent between scenes in the same cartoon.
* [[Hard Work Montage]]: "Stimpy's Cartoon Show". Stimpy makes a cartoon all by himself, but when he promotes Ren to producer, Ren cuts his budget. So Stimpy is forced to literally chop down trees to make the paper he needs to draw on. Stimpy also does every task involved afterwards, including photographing each frame, one by one. By the end, he's appropriately exhausted.
* [[Head Desk]]: In "Space Madness" Ren bangs his head on the table after seeing the [[Food Pills]] Stimpy presents.
* [[Here We Go Again]]: Stimpy falling in love with a goat head at the end of "I Love Chicken".
* [[Hero Worshipper]]: Stimpy's idol is Muddy Mudskipper.
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* [[Iris Out]]
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Seen in "Who's Stupid Now?" when the boss insults Ren.
* [[I Will Show You X]]: In a ''Ren and Stimpy'' episode dealing with the Stimpy facing his own mortality and going throuh various emotional phases. To illustate "Anger", there's a short bit where Ren is at the dinner table, ready to eat.
{{quote|'''Stimpy''': *cheerily* Here's your breakfast, Ren!
'''Ren''': Uh...Stimpy? You forgot the toast.
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{{quote|'''Ren''': I can't go through with it! I'm not a dog! I'm a mosquito...}}
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Ren's parents in "Ren Seeks Help".
* [[Pilot]]: "Big House Blues", one of the most gorgeously-animated made-for-TV cartoons of all time.
* [[Plot Allergy]]: Ren's allergic to Stimpy's shedded fur in "Hair of the Cat", [[Idiot Plot|though it takes him the whole episode to realize it.]] The solution? Have Stimpy live in a sealed jar.
* [[Polka Dot Paint]]: To get jobs in the fire department, Ren and Stimpy use 'dalmatian paint' - one quick swipe each with a brush and they're white with black spots - Stimpy's tongue included.
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* [[Set Right What Once Was Wrong]]: The original proposed ending to Space Madness, nixed by Nickelodeon editors, would have featured Ren and Stimpy going back in time and undoing the damage caused by Stimpy pushing the History-Eraser Button.
* [[Sexophone]]: Such a musical motif is heard in "Pixie King" when Stimpy poses in his pixie outfit.
* [[Short Lived Big Impact]]: At 5 seasons and a spin off (the last two of which and the spin off are barely talked about nowadays) this show did not last so long as the two other shows in the original Nicktoons line up, [[Rugrats]] and [[Doug]], which continued in some form or another for the better part of a decade. And yet, R&S is among one of the most influential cartoon shows of the last twenty years, spawning dozens of imitators and being the [[Trope Makers]] for the [[Gross-Out Show]] genre.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The first episode has Stimpy making several to the catchphrases of several beloved Hanna-Barbera TV cartoons, as well as [[Looney Tunes]].
** In "Ren's Pecs", Ren goes to have pectoral enlargement surgery. In the background you can hear over the hospital's loudspeaker, "[[The Three Stooges|Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard...]]"
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* [[Something Person]]: Powdered Toastman
* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: The Canadian Kilted Yaksmen's Anthem, which contains the verse "And we will probably go to hell" had the word "hell" masked out, quite fittingly, with a fart...
** [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|...although its not masked out very well, and Ren and Stimpy's lip movements leave nothing to the imagination, nor is the word all that well covered-up in the]] [[Follow the Bouncing Ball]] [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|version...]]
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy" eventually devolves into this.
* [[Space Madness]]: [[Trope Namer]]; the trope takes its name from an episode title.
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* [[Stock Footage]]: "Farm Hands" reuses some animation from "Out West"; specifically, the scene where Abner and Ewalt get an idea and laugh goofily.
** "Marooned" and "The Littlest Giant" also use truncated versions of the openings of "Space Madness" and "Robin Hoek", respectively.
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* [[Sudden Anatomy]]: In "Superstitious Stimpy", Ren suddenly has a large birthmark on his face. Stimpy freaks out when he sees this, because it's a sign that he's cursed.
* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Ren and Stimpy acting like a couple in "Onward and Upward" surprised a lot of fans.
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** In "Pixie King", Ren turns deep red irately, when he struggles to prevent wetting himself as Stimpy delays his turn from using an outhouse.
** In " Ren Needs Help", Ren madly (both in terms of anger and mania) turns a slight shade of red after Stimpy drives him bonkers one too many times and finds Stimpy broke part of the former's favorite chair while golfing.
** In "Big Flakes", Ren turns intensely red after learning from Stimpy that the latter threw a moose's head (which was their dinner) into a lit fireplace and Ren becomes so ticked that he has Stimpy play charades with him, and after guessing correctly what Ren's about to do in response, he slugs Stimpy on the nose.
** In "In The Army", Ren and Stimpy are told by the sergeant to remove their gas masks. When Stimpy does, he turns green frontally from breathing in the poison gas, which causes him to cry hysterically and since he can't bear it, he flees outside for some clean air (this doesn't faze Ren due to using the cheating tactic of holding his breath).
** In "Dog Show", Mr. Horse's face turns red deeply, boiling over a poodle's imploration of not having to be subjected to getting inside a bulldog's mouth, as punishment for failing to pass the judgment.
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* [[Wild Take]]: This show helped bring them back into fashion.
* [[With Friends Like These...]]: The relationship between the characters goes between this and [[Vitriolic Best Buds]].
* [[Word of Gay]]: In a January 28, 1997 interview with the San Francisco Examiner, creator John Kricfalusi effectively outed the pair as a homosexual couple.
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: The Canadian Kilted Yaksmen Anthem.
{{quote|Our country reeks of trees,
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