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Who in their right minds would give a mainstream animated series to the enigmatic [[John Kricfalusi]], known for causing chaos throughout the 80s in the animation industry with his attempts for putting out a [[Gross
The show was over-the-top in every way imaginable: In its animation, even traditional [[Animation Tropes]] were taken up a notch. Characters rarely [[Hammerspace|Temporarily Atomise]] anything smaller than a nuclear submarine and [[Non-Fatal Explosions]] generally take out at least one state. Even its dialog was pulled [[Up to Eleven]]--Ren didn't so much talk as scream threats and insults in other people's faces. And that's not even counting its macabre tone--in ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', even a standard [[Sit Com]] plot such as "Ren is jealous that Stimpy has a fan club" could become a tale of operatic angst and rage. And just when you thought you've seen everything, it comes up with a story about ''a fart cloud'' Stimpy made that turns into a major [[Tear Jerker]].
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
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.
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* [[Artifact Title]]: "Fire Dogs 2" has very little to do with the original episode. It just starts where "Fire Dogs" ended, then the fireman randomly transforms into [[Ralph Bakshi]] (with the man himself doing his voice), then he and Ren & Stimpy hang out together doing everyday things, and their jobs as a fireman and fire dogs are completely forgotten about.
* [[Art Shift]]: Stimpy's amateurish cartoon: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmAE6e6yVc I Like Pink]".
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Subverted at the beginning of "Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman": PTM is in a church and begins to recite Psalm 23, only it's the intro to calling a number in Bingo.
{{quote| '''PTM''': The Lord is my shepherd, but thou shalt want... B-11!}}
* [[Ass Shove]]: Happens twice in the episode "Altruists". The first is Ren accidentally shoving his finger into Stimpy's ass [[Domestic Abuse|while they were performing]] [[Percussive Therapy|their routine beatings]], and the second happens when Ren intentionally pushed a tile inbetween Stimpy's buttcheeks.
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*** And earlier, in "Son of Stimpy", he prayed for Stimpy's safety, and even told God he'd give up asking for bigger pecs if it got Stimpy home safe.
* [[Can't You Read the Sign]]: "Exact change ONLY!" at the end of "Black Hole", thereby causing Ren and Stimpy to be kicked off the bus back to Earth.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Ren and Stimpy are essentially updated versions of the [[Terry Toons]] characters Sourpuss (Ren borrowing his short temper and grumpiness from him) and Gandy Goose (Stimpy inheriting his infantile, flamboyant speech pattern as well as his stupidity). No surprise considering John K is a big fan of [[Terry Toons]] and even claimed Gandy and Sourpuss's [[With Friends Like These...|relationship]] was part of what inspired Ren And Stimpy.
* [[Cartoon Cheese]]
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Stimpy jolts up and screams "MUDDY!!!" after waking up from his nightmare that Muddy Mudskipper ate him in "My Shiny Friend".
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* [[Chainsaw Good]]: The ghost in "Haunted House" tries to scare Ren and Stimpy as a chainsaw-wielding masked killer. Also, little Ren is given a chainsaw (rather than a gun) to euthanize a poor frog he's been torturing for a while in "Ren Seeks Help".
* [[Channel Hop]]: From Nickelodeon for the original series to Spike TV for Adult Party Cartoon.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: George Liquor stars in "Man's Best Friend" and "Dog Show", and made cameo appearances in a few others. Years later, he gets his own webshow, complete with a supporting cast. It has recently been [[
** And now canceled, since George's voice actor died earlier this year.
* [[Chew Toy]]: Stimpy.
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** And Stimpy playing with his bellybutton in "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf" is almost definitely symbolism for masturbation.
** "For I have a dream that one day, everyone... everywhere... [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|will know the wonders of my nipples!]]"
* [[Double Standard Abuse (Female On Male)]]: "Ren's Bitter Half" near the end Ren's evil side decides to replicate himself so that the world will be full of Evil Rens, the first clone turns out to be female and they fall in love, near the end after they get married they playfully get into a fight, you will notice that none of his punches are able to strike her and she is able to beat him up all she wants.
* [[Downer Ending]]: As per the old lady's will, Ren and Stimpy are killed and stuffed at the end of "It's a Dog's Life", so that they may join her in the eternal salvation of the hereafter.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The frog that Ren was tormenting in "Ren Seeks Help", after Ren wouldn't honor his request to put him out of his misery.
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* [[Emotion Bomb]]: The Happy Helmet
* [[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.
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** Non-skin example: "Onward and Upward" was John K. fulfilling a fan request to make an episode of nothing but gross-out jokes. However, for many, especially those who grew up with the show, [[Literal Genie|this episode went too far and John K. probably should've known that the fans don't always know what they want.]]
* [[Fanservice Extra]]: The babes in "Naked Beach Frenzy". Most of them don't have names and aren't seen again after this episode.
* [[Fan of the Underdog]]: Despite the [[With Friends Like These...|constant abuse he enflicts upon him]], Stimpy is undyingly loyal and sympathetic to Ren. [[My God, What Have I Done?|Revealed rather bluntly]] to the latter in "Stimpy's Fan Club".
* [[Fantastic Voyage]]: "Blazing Entrails", when Ren traveled inside Stimpy to find out why he was acting abnormally stupid.
* [[Fat and Skinny]]
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* [[Food Pills]]: Revealed by Stimpy in "Space Madness", which causes Ren to go berserk.
** A variant occurs in "House of Next Tuesday"; instead of being used for food, a pill enlarges into a bed.
* [[Freak
** Stimpy occasionally gets one as well, such as his rant that he can't walk another step in "Road Apples".
* [[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.
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** Ren goes more than a little nuts at the end of "Farm Hands" when he thinks he and Stimpy are the last survivors after a devastating tornado. However, it turns out the farm's cow also survive (and took a dump on them).
** Ren and Stimpy both slowly lose their sanity in "Big Flakes" while they're trapped in the cabin.
* [[Gross Up Close
* [[Gross
* [[The Grunting Orgasm]]: Stimpy has, or at least greatly implies, one in the episode "Altruists" of ''Adult Party Cartoon''.
* [[Hair
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Ren in the episodes post-Kricfalusi, when his anger and screaming traits were played up more, wheras in the earlier episodes he only broke down under the most manic and frustrating of circumstances.
* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: Subverted by Stimpy in "No Pants Today". He suddenly realizes that he wears no clothes and feels ashamed about it.
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* [[Hint Dropping]]: Stimpy drops a ton of hints to Ren that he wants a scooter for Yaksmas. Ren doesn't get the hint.
* [[Hollywood Healing]]: And how, given how much Ren and Stimpy are maimed in the show.
* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: [[Hey, It's That Guy!]], who first appeared in "To Salve and Salve Not" and appeared in a number of Games episodes.
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: ''Naked Beach Frenzy.''
* [[How We Got Here]]: "Who's Stupid Now?" is partially a flashback story, as it begins with fat Ren and spends half the episode leading up to how he got that way.
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* [[Letting the Air Out of The Band]]: Occurs in "Untamed World" when Ren is shot by a tranquilizer dart and runs slower and slower.
* [[Limited Animation]]: The very first few episodes, most notably "Stimpy's Big Day" and "The Big Shot". Then we get beautifully smooth animation in "Son of Stimpy" and "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen", only for it to go downhill with Games Animation taking the steers and never be as good again.
* [[Lions and Tigers And Humans, Oh My!]]: Humans and talking animals co-exist and outside of (maybe) acknowledging the difference in species, nobody thinks anything of it.
* [[Logo Joke]]: The Ren and Stimpy logos are played with in "Space Madness" and "Black Hole"; in the former, Stimpy pressing the History Eraser button caused R&S to be removed from the logo, while in "Black Hole", they're already absent when the camera cuts to it, due to having imploded a few seconds earlier.
* [[Loony Fan]]: Stimpy is this to Sammy in "Sammy and Me".
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* [[Marionette Motion]]: In "Stimpy's Invention".
* [[Media Watchdog]]
* [[Mid
* [[Missing Episode]]: While all episodes are now on DVD, a few episodes from the Games era were banned after one or two broadcasts. And in the case of Adult Party Cartoon, "Naked Beach Frenzy", "Altruists", and "Stimpy's Pregnant" never aired on American TV at all.
** "Man's Best Friend" also went unaired for years, until finally airing once on Spike TV in 2003. It can now be seen on the Seasons 1 & 2 DVD set as well on Netflix under the Adult Party Cartoon series. Allegedly, the censors objected to Ren repeatedly hitting George Liquor with a boating oar.
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** Not to mention there were many studios behind the animation process, including [[Rough Draft Studios]] (in their first project) and [[Carbunkle Cartoons]]<ref> Mr. Big Cartoons in Australia, [[Wang Film Productions]] in Taiwan and effects company [[Metrolight Studios]] also had hands in the production</ref>
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: A few of the music tracks feature this.
* [[One
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Happens frequently on ''Adult Party Cartoon''.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Ren and Stimpy in "Wiener Barons"; they're dressed as wiener inspectors to bypass the gate guard, but it's obviously them underneath the disguise. Additionally, the guard kicked them out before (and heard their voice, which they didn't distort when in costume), so it's hard to believe he fell for such a thing.
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* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
* [[Restraining Bolt]]: the Happy Helmet.
* [[Ret
* [[Retraux]]: The '50-'60s art style.
* [[Scenery Censor]]: When the woman removes her top in "Naked Beach Frenzy", Stimpy stands in front of her breasts just as her bikini top drops, obstructing Ren's view. With his ''butt'' no less.
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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 (Animation)|Rugrats]] and [[Doug (Animation)|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
* [[Shout
** 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...]]"
** The scene of one of the yaks going insane in the middle of the desert in "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" is a pretty direct lift of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NIuGkSikOU a similar scene] in the [[Bob Clampett]] [[Porky Pig]] cartoon Porky in Egypt, except with a yak instead of a camel. [[Word of God|John K. even confirmed it.]]
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* [[Widget Series]]
* [[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.
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* [[Written Sound Effect]]
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: The beatnik food items from Eggyolkeo.
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: Yak Shaving Day.
* [[Your Favorite]]: Ren loves hog jowls, as seen in "A Yard Too Far".
* [[Zany Scheme]]: "The Boy Who Cried Rat", which involved Ren posing as a mouse and Stimpy pretending to eat Ren so they could get $5 for rodent killing. Also "Big Baby Scam", which had Ren and Stimpy posing as babies so they could be pampered and not have to work for food or shelter.
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