Ren and Stimpy were two of the most cherished icons from my childhood. 'Were' is the operative word in that sentence after I saw the premiere of their new 'Adult Party Cartoon' on the National Network (TNN). Anyone who grew up with Ren and Stimpy remembers the psychological drama of 'Space Madness,' the harebrained schemes of 'The Boy Who Cried Rat,' and the inspired nonsense of 'Robin Hoek.' None of those classic cartoons' qualities were present last night. Instead, we got crude sound effects and raunchy jokes about homoeroticism and consumption of human waste.
Now, I have absolutely nothing against people with alternative sexual orientations, but I believe there's a right way and a wrong way to present them in the media, and Ren and Stimpy's new show failed miserably at it. Sure, there were various hints at the two title characters' relationship scattered throughout the old show (like Ren's job as a romance novelist), but seriously, didn't Kricfalusi and Co. have any second thoughts about the whole 'pitcher and catcher' thing? I seriously doubt that 'Queer as Folk,' the award-winning HBO show that presents homosexuals as believable people instead of walking stereotypes, would ever resort to that kind of humor. Seriously, it felt less like a Ren and Stimpy cartoon and more like a piece of perverted fanfiction from a disturbed 12-year-old girl.
The premiere episode was the first sign of the show's inevitable downfall. TNN marketed the show as a 'Cartoon for F***ing Adults,' gave it a TV-MA rating, and put it in the same block of programming with a foul-mouthed anthropomorphic rat lawyer and a crimefighter named Stripperella. All this, presumably, to compete with Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Comedy Central's 'South Park.' And for what? 'Ren And Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon' lacks the heart of 'South Park' and the wit of 'Home Movies.' Not to mention how the show's TV-MA rating makes it unfit for children, although children are the only people who might find the show even remotely funny. 'Ha ha ha, they're eating boogers! I can eat boogers too! When I grow up, I wanna live in a spittoon just like Ren and Stimpy!'
In closing, Billy West made the right decision after he read the script and refused to lend his voice acting talent to the show.

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It's very rare that I will make a point to watch something on TV. When I heard that Ren and Stimpy was returning, I had to see it, no matter what. It was my favorite TV show for a very long time. The sense of humor was delightfully twisted and original.
Upon seeing the premier of the new version of the show I was mortified. I mean all of the 'jokes' were not funny. OK they're eating snot and puke. That's funny? Anal sex between Ren and Stimpy? I don't see how anyone except immature children would find that funny. It's like John K was just trying to tick everyone off or something. And this is on the first channel for guys?
If this is what the show was supposed to be like the whole time it's a good thing that restrictions were put on it because the show would have bombed and nobody would have any clue who Ren Hoek or Stimpson J Cat were. I am really angry they would go and ruin this great series. I will not regard the adult party cartoon as Ren and Stimpy.
2 stars out of 10 is completely justified. The show is deplorable.

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First off, I want to say that I bought the DVD because it looked GOOD. But the second after opening the case, popping in the sucker, and pressing play, I was in shock! purely because John K creator off one of the funniest shows ever on nick, destroyed his own work.
What really shocked me was that he actually wanted to make an adult version of ren and stimpy! No longer was the show subtle, no loner was the show slightly INNOCENT! Without those two things, all the humor is gone.
You may say, how could John K pull a george lucas! well he did, he really DID! Who knows, maybe he agreed to this because nobody in town is giving him a job! The adult party cartoon only had SIX episodes. Because he was fired, just like on the original version.
Well, the cartoon isn't the only thing on the DVD. There's some bonus interviews. Most of them containing EDDIE FITZGERALD who has nothing to say but 'this cartoon the best cartoon ever made.' YA they actually put something on the DVD that almost pisses you off more than the actual cartoon.
I just want to go on the record saying, I love ren and stimpy. I loved it ever since I first saw space madness when I was a kid. But this is not the show I LOVED

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[1 star out of 5]
Now, this isn't just another review that says that the new Ren and Stimpy is nothing like the OLD Ren and Stimpy. I can tell that when John K. was given the OK to once again recreate R&S, he wanted to steer as far away as possible from the Nickelodeon version (after all, he was fired from his own show). But THIS version of the show is just unsettling.
Let me do a quick comparison of a few other cartoons. Now, a little bit of 'bathroom humor' can be seen on The Simpsons from time to time, and even MORE can be seen on South Park. But calling the new Ren and Stimpy bathroom humor would be an understatement. The stuff seen on this show is just disgusting for no reason. Ren and Stimpy living in a spittoon eating people's snot and vomit -- I'm sorry, HOW is that funny? If you're going to be gross, shouldn't it at least remotely make sense?
I was looking at the R&S page at IMDb's affiliate site, TV Tome, and of course it had the different synopses for the episodes. When I read some of them, I said, 'Holy living F!' Stimpy getting pregnant by Ren? Okay, last time I checked, Stimpy was a guy. I know this is a cartoon, but that's just stupid. And there were a few episodes that showed Ren and Stimpy having oral sex or something, and I'm not homophobic or anything, but I agree with the reviewer that said that that's not exactly the kind of thing that people want to see on 'the first network for men.'
A lot of Adult Party Cartoon lovers say that the show needs to find its niche, as do the other Spike TV cartoons (Striperella and the hilarious Gary the Rat), which is why only three episodes were shown and the rest held back until sometime this summer (supposedly). But these people are overlooking an important point: there were more than three episodes of Striperella and Gary the Rat shown. In fact, some of the Ren and Stimpy episodes they showed came from the Nickelodeon years (and no, all of them were NOT first parts of sequels, as some fans will probably argue).
I know this is hard to do, but the new Ren and Stimpy is even more disturbing than the OLD Ren and Stimpy. I'm not 100% sure if it's actually coming back, but it's not like I care, either.
Anthony Rupert

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Just because you can make a cartoon without the censors bugging you doesn't mean you should. 'Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon' is a perfect example of the assumption that gross out humor is enough to make a cartoon funnier for adults! Sick and twisted shock gags do not make a cartoon any funnier. If anything, this cartoon was boring and lacked any good story. South Park and Family Guy are examples of adult cartoons that include wit and cleverness with any so-called 'gross-out' humor. There is no good story to compliment the witless extremes that John Kricfalusi felt he needed to bring to this waste of ink and paint. There is no wit or cleverness to be found in the new Ren and Stimpy. It is just amped-up grotesqueries that do no feel in the least taboo, but rather worn-out and trite. John Krickfalusi should feel very ashamed for making this thankfully-short series. Mr. K. thinks himself as a sort of 'Mr. High and Mighty' in the cartoon biz, but this baloney should certainly be enough to deflate his ego.

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I was a huge fan of the old Ren & Stimpy cartoons when I was a kid, and I had heard about John Kricfalusi and his company, Spümcø, getting fired by Nickelodeon. Sure, I was a little upset about that and I had to admit, while I still watched them, the Games Animation cartoons didn't compare to the early Spümcø cartoons.
Then, years later, I heard that Spike TV was bringing back Ren & Stimpy with Kricfalusi placed back at the helm. I was so excited, I began doing the Happy Happy Joy Joy dance. If only I had known.
First of all, Billy West wasn't coming back. OK, initially, I had wondered if there may have been some bad blood between him and Spümcø. There wasn't. So why wouldn't he return to one of his best known roles? After watching the first episode of the new Ren & Stimpy, I found out why.
I had to force myself to sit through the first episode. The old Ren & Stimpy cartoons were funny because they were gross, these episodes, however, were just gross. I could've done without watching Ren and Stimpy happily eating phlegm, vomit, and various other bodily fluids, the sex scene was just wrong, and above all, did Kricfalusi forget how to write gags? The endearing charm of the original cartoons was gone, the pacing was off, and any sense of strange quirkiness was replaced with mere gross-out humor. I didn't laugh once the entire episode. The following episodes were a little better, but not by much. I was also bothered by Ren's altered personality. I understand he was supposed to be a jerk with a tendency for insanity. That was the basis for much of the humor in the original cartoon. Still he did have his nice moments and signs of vulnerability. In Adult Party Cartoon, he became a flat-out sadist with no redeemable qualities.
As for one final problem; The title of the new show was Ren & Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon. For some reason, 'adult cartoons' these days revolves around nothing more than sophomoric humor. I mean, come on, even South Park will touch on social commentary now and then!

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Ahhhh.....Ren and Stimpy. The greatest cartoon of my youth. This was my favorite show for so long, and when John K. was rudely fired by the jerks at Nickelodeon(Which gets worse every single day), the show was destroyed thanks to Bob 'Backstabber' Camp, and Nickelodeon's PC ways.
But that was then, this is now...
Now 10 years after all of those terrible things occured, John K. has his show back, and now, he can do whatever he wants with it!! Thus begins the adult side to Ren and Stimpy.
Sure, the first episode was gross(eating boogers in a spitoon with vomit as gravy), but it was somewhat funny. I do believe the whole 'Having R&S being gay' is a bit much(It's not really a good thing to do to these characters. Not that being gay is bad or anything).
However, things haven't changed for the chihuaua, and his cat companion. Ren is still an a-hole, and Stimpy is still an eediot, the only thing that has changed is that now, they're going to be in a lot more adult situations.
Overall, I think this is a HUGE step for Ren and Stimpy, and besides, if you think the show is gross, don't watch it.
P.S. I sort of think that having a sequel to 'Fire Dogs' wasn't necessary, but I guess John K. did.

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I found out about this cartoon about a week ago and I was amazed at how it got past me so easily. They don't air this cartoon where I come from but I should've at least known about it because I am a number one fan of John K and his Spumco crew. So I downloaded the first two episodes. Wow! I am so disappointed by the so-called fans who dislike this new series. The episodes are brilliantly funny in premise and hysterically funny animation wise! The first episode is just short of a masterpiece, a great send up on the cartoon that John was forced to abandon and it paves the way for the new team to fulfill their duties. This unfortunately ill recieved episode was followed up by 'Ren seeks help' a grand epic that explores the twisted youth of Ren Hoek. This episode is a must see and it is filled with animation gags that most people won't even pick up. The new voice of stimpy grew on me and, while I really do like his voice, Billy West's departure was much needed. John K does a great job at doing the voice of Ren, it sounds very similar to his original work but with a great new twist that makes the character seem that much funnier. John K clearly loves to animate the torture of animals and the stupid behaviours of the creatures and I love to watch it, this is one of the things that was lost when Games took over the show way back when! But now the show is back and me and my buddy are both two happy fellows who could not stop laughing at these great episodes!

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Ren and Stimpy is back! I've been waiting for this for 10 years and I'm not disappointed! Ren is still a complete a**hole and Stimpy is still an eediot. Mr Horse has made an appearence and hopefully we'll see Muddy Mudskipper and Powdered Toast Man as well before long. The perfectly selected music and sound effects that added to the enjoyment before are still there.
After John K 'left' the original series it rapidly downhill and was, thankfully, cancelled. Now the he's back at the helm and no longer pretending that it's a kids cartoon (which it was never meant to be) we can finally see the true humour come out.
The first episode was a little bit shaky, but I'm blaming that on the fact the creators where a little rusty after all this time! The rest of the series, so far has been spot on. It was so nice to see an old first season episode (Jail House Blues) sneaked in last night. Can we have Space Madness too, please, pretty please?

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The hard to please Critic
I was sitting down on June 26th getting ready for SpikeTv's new animation line up. With New Ren and Stimpy, Gary the rat, stripperella and Ren and stimpy classics I was set.
When ren and stimpy came on I was sitting there with my mouth open with shock. There having anal sex. Then there in a spit jar at a bar eating snot,vomit and all the other stuff. I was trying to laugh but couldn't. The Second Episode
Well i thought this one is about ren and ren only. Ren goes to a horse therapist becuase he did something to Stimpy. Ren's childhood comes to life. At the end he kills a horse. It still didn't appeal to me.
3rd episode
Hmm a new installment of firedogs. There were moments i laughed. There were moments i felt like puking. It was ok.
Firedogs Part 2 its ok but as nothing to do with The firedogs.
So like 4 episodes and nothing???
Overall Grade: D+

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The first episode was bad, but the second episode was pretty good. I think people are being too harsh on this show. That was just one stinking episode. No show is perfect. All shows have bad and good episodes. Not all of the episodes from the original are good either.
Just give the new show a chance. It's brand new.

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Words cannot describe how AWFUL this show is. This is actually the PERFECT influence for something as ungodly awful as Superjail! on Adult Swim. This was on Spike TV back in 2003, right? That makes it even worse, because I was actually a KID when this show premiered. I LOVE the original Ren & Stimpy. Yes, that show can be weird and gross at times, but that show has more to it than just that; that's what made the original show good. THIS one has NO REASON to be like that!!! I watched ALL 6 episodes of this ill-gotten series, and I felt like I caught the flu from watching an episode of this!! 'Ren Seeks Help' and 'Stimpy's Pregnant' are some of the most infamous episodes of this entire show!!! Not only is this the worst animated show from my childhood, or the 2000s worst animated show, it is also the WORST animated series of all time!!! If you wanna watch Ren & Stimpy, WATCH THE ORIGINAL INSTEAD!!!!!! Ren & Stimpy 'Adult Party Cartoon' is something NO ONE should EVER WATCH!!!!

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The Ren & Stimpy Adult Party is a horrible adult cartoon based on the original The Ren & Stimpy show a show that ran on Nick from 1991-1996. It's not my Favorite show but I still like it. This Show However I loathe. I didn't know anything about this show until 5 years ago when I watch a little bit of it and didn't think much of it until The Mysterious Mr. Enter reviewed the episode 'Ren Seeks Help' in August 2014 & I watched his review & in November 2015 I Watched the episode and thought this was awful. This show is even Grosser than the original show. There a lot gross out humor & sex humor. There was even an episode called 'Naked Beach Frenzy' which was an abysmal episode where they showing women's breast uncensored which was disgusting. This show is An Abomination to the original Ren & Stimpy. WHY DID John k. RUIN HIS OWN SHOW. BOTTOM LINE STAY WAY FROM This UNFUNNY, LAZY, GARBAGE Watch the ORIGINAL INSTEAD 0/10

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I absolutely HATE this show. I hate how they portrayed the 'characters'-if you want to call them that- and I hate how you can still buy this almost everywhere!! But enough of my panicked hysteria, here is why I hate this retching excuse of a cartoon: 'Ren' & 'Stimpy': As I stated in my summary, this is NOT the Ren & Stimpy I knew, and I'm right. In APC, Retch & Stumpy are portrayed as a weird gay-bisexual couple thing, something that shocked me the most. And I have nothing against the LGBT community, it's just disturbing(ahem, the dreaded saw scene) I mean, I never saw the original Ren & Stimpy to be gay so.... Also, Ren is an evil, animal abusing maniac and Stimpy is now the clingy,obsessed girlfriend. Ooh, and John K voices Ren again and to replace Billy West, Eric Bauza/Buaza is Stimpy!
The Episodes: Are bad....well except 'Ren Seeks Help'. I think that's the only episode I'll consider watching more than once.I'll give a brief rundown of each episode:
Onward & Upward: The first APC episode I ever saw. And threw up because of it. Remember all the gross moments in the original? Amp those up times a million and you'll get all those scenes from this episode.
Ren Seeks Help: I will admit: this is actually a beautiful story; It's just not constructed the right way: Too many awkward walking scenes, Stimpy's new annoying cries, and animal abuse.
Fire Dogs 2: What was the purpose of this? To show what the fire chief was really like? But...we already know what he's like: he hates circus midgets and he's a fire chief. It may not be many characteristics but that's better than having him become Ralph Bashki and watching him on the toilet for five minutes.
Naked Beach Frenzy: Need I say more? This episode is just filled with naked girls with chest tumors. I don't even know what the story was.
Altruists:(or something) This actually had a really nice story that would have been perfect for the original show: Ren & Stimpy want to help a poor homeless women and her headless son. But because it's the 'new and improved' version, this episode is garbage just like the others. Oh and for all you kinky lovers, you can watch Ren saw a log off a Stimpy's butt!
Stimpy's Pregnant: WTF?
However, there are very few nice things in the rip-off that make me hate it less.
1. Eric Buaza/Bauza did do an okay job on voicing Stimpy. He's no Billy West but he comes close.
2. The animation. My God it's beautiful. This truly brings out the original Ren and Stimpy style of this...sort of.
In conclusion, this is probably one of the worst spin-offs I've ever seen. It's definitely not the original. I recommend this to...well, if you like really gross crap. As for anyone else who's also a die hard Ren & Stimpy fan, heed my warning and stay away from this.It's not the same as the original.

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I really like Ren and Stimpy. But seriously? The episode 'Ren Seeks Help' is so traumatizing and dark that the original voice actor refused to be in it? That sounds about right. Ren is great, he has great character. But that episode RUINED the show! I don't understand how it can be called Ren and Stimpy! Poor Ren! The episode is so bad it made me almost dislike Ren. But I will always love Ren, he is very funny. AND PSYCHOPATHIC! Okay, he is originally kind of crazy, but this has gone too far! There are kids out there who thought this was the original, BOOM! Childhood ruined! What the hell.....
Yours truly, a random 10 year old

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It is not a stretch of the imagination to say that this show is the worst spin-off of any show i have ever seen in my life. I honestly can only review the first episode since it was so horrible i couldn't bring myself to watch a 2nd. The humor just isn't there. They attempted a few times to pull in gross-gags similar to some of the stuff they did in the first series, but they overdid it to the point it wasn't funny at all. They were eating a snot wad for lunch and living in a spitoon. It was just sick. And the topper was the ending where they screwed each other. That's just not necessary in a cartoon.

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This is grosser and more disturbing than the original. I know the original went downhill but this show... WTF !! I watched an episode to see why people don't like it an I REGRET IT ! Well Atleast it was cancelled. It made me throw up. I watch the episode Ren seeks help and now I can never look at the original Ren and stimpy the same again. How dare they ruin millions of childhoods ! Well this show is banned in the us so none of us can watch it thank god.

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I felt sick, disgusted, gut-wrenched, nasty, filthy and all-around over the top happy when I saw Ren and Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon. I could not believe what I was viewing on my television. I really had to hand it to the artist because one of the scenes when the guy was relieving himself on the toilet, I had to make a dash for my kitchen sink because I almost tossed my cookies. I could usually not feel sick at items like that but John K. really put the whammy on me. I have to admit that my favorite adult cartoon would have to be the beach party scenes. I will always love beach balls and never view them the same way again. I will never forget the shower scenes and the appearance of Shampoo Master. I had tears coming out of my eyes. It was so damn funny!!! I give Ren and Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon two thumbs up, a ten and a twenty in old school animation. Prepare yourself for the filth, I did!!!

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I expected to laugh when I saw the first episode of the revamped version of Ren and Stimpy. But it wasn't funny, just plain disgusting. Blatant gay sex? C'mon. I thought this programming was geared towards straight males. This show might fare better on Comedy Central. But not amidst shows like Stripperella and Gary the Rat, as well as reruns of Highlander and Baywatch.

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This cartoon has not improved with age like fine wines do. No, it has grown green disgusting fungus mold like the nacho cheese I left under my bed since the show left Nick. That could be a good thing. The cartoon that got booted off Nick for Ren going inside Stimpy's colon more than once has found an 'Adult' audience on TNN. Now Ren can pound anything he likes into Stimpy's lower digestive track like baseballs and say catchy phrases like, 'Who's the pitcher and who's catcher!?'. Tonight's show we saw the Horse acting as Ren's PSYCHOtheripist and gave us some insight into the twisted brain of Ren. (Like we needed to see that!) TNN has purchased only six new episodes and I think that was to play it safe and see how the public reviewed them. I think the time slot of 10pm is early enough and I won't have a problem with twisted humor as long as this cartoon doesn't air in the morning/afternoon or rerun on a 'kids network' as it had before. The only backlash I would expect is the other networks will compete for viewers with more adult shows like Cartoon Network's 'Adult Swim' which appears on a network geared toward children.

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Well, it's funny, but... ... it's gross. The old Ren and Stimpy's were funny because they had little gross things here and there, but this is just awful... living in a spitoon, and eating boogers for dinner, and using vomit as gravy is funny, but it was abused. Ren and Stimpy being homo-sexuals, I think, was also a big mistake. In the originals, Ren gets pectoral implants to show off the girls, and he finds a female chiuaha on another planet. Stimpy rides in a limo with a bunch of girls in the originals, too. The episode I saw, I hope, was just one of the bad ones... I expect the others to be better. On a scale of 1 - 10, 5.5.

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What could be said about John Kricfalusi's short-lived Ren & Stimpy show that hasn't been said by the other commentators? Well, for one thing, and this is just personal opinion- for what it tries to accomplish, up to a point, it works, sort of. It's also a kind of un-Godly evolution years after the original series on Nickelodeon started. The thing is that one can't really look at this in the same context as the original show, especially if you're going into it- like me- having been a young kid being a fan of the original Nickelodeon show, and now grown-up. John K's limitations on the old show had him dealing with really bizarre, surreal, deranged, unique, whatever-you-want-to-call-it type of ideals and comedy in a format that was meant for a kids network. And it worked through its zany abandon of all logic, which is what cartoons above all else need to do. The Adult Party Cartoon series, of what I've seen anyway, still do that too, but this time it's not for the kiddies- pretty much at all. Sure, you may want to approach this if you're, say, under 13 and already a fan of the 90s show, but it's the kind of experience that might introduce you to a few new words and explicit sexual details. Yes, sexual; there's even a homosexual undercurrent to many gags that end up giving what South Park does a run for its money.
And in a way this time John K pushes even further what might've only been hinted at in the original series- the influence of real, gritty underground comics, particularly to my knowledge Bob Crumb, who was all about the proverbial innuendo and just outright outrageousness of his creations. This time though if there has been just the little sense of innocence among the mania and stupidity and cruelties of the cat and chihuahua, it's now nearly all but lost in these episodes. Among the episodes I've seen, such as Stimpy's Pregnant and Altruists, we now see the pair as being dirtier with their language, much more on the side of being abstracted but almost becoming TOO much into its own reckless need to gross out and be depraved. You know things are a little 'off' when just when you think you knew things about the duo's genitalia, that comes into question. This being said, I did still find a lot of the material funny, sometimes hysterically so; the Altruists episode especially had a great fondness for Three Stooges shorts, as the pair go to great lengths to steal money and also build a house for a lady with a headless husband (I think it was her husband, I could be wrong, who cares).
Yet through the ambition that John K and his animation team has with these new 'lost' episodes, which may or may not have been intended originally for the Nickelodeon show (for the most part I'd really guess not, but I can also see where in the episodes it could have actually completely worked for the old show, which adds to its hidden, dark charm), there's something missing to it. It's not merely that the tone of the banter of the two is off, mostly due to John K having an odder, more crazed voice for Ren and a new replacement for Billy West as Stimpy. It's that what was a really awe-inspiring, as a child and even today, in seeing such debauchery in such a way that wasn't meant to outright offend (even if some did get offended by the original show), and was unique in its brand of random asides, product placements, and subtle, weird touches to Ren & Stimpy's bond. Here though the episodes are much longer, loaded with jokes that sometimes do fall flat, very flat, and now it's more fun as a simple 'after-hours' cartoon show then as something groundbreaking. The Adult Party Cartoons are raunchy, crude, practically X-rated trips into the twisted mind of John Kricfalusi and his team; that it isn't anything too special goes to show that, in an ironic way, restraint does work a little in the favor of Ren & Stimpy.

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After a long, long 'animation hiatus', (well not really, John K. animated a couple music videos and created 'The Ripping Friends' which went unnoticed, even by fans) came 'Ren and Stimpy Adult party Cartoon'. The show was billed as a cartoon that John K. really wanted to make in the early 90's: Now that his fans are all grown up, he can make something that the kiddie fans can currently enjoy.
Many of my friends who were die-hard fans of the children's show knocked the new Ren and Stimpy because of the numerous implications that Ren and Stimpy were a gay couple. You heard me right. And after careful analysis of the cartoon, I came to the conclusion that they weren't really 'gay' in the true sense of the word. Ren is the masculine, babe-watching tough-guy character, and Stimpy is, well, sort of the sensitive, caring (but still incredibly stupid) 'female' character. There are scenes where Stimpy has women's breasts and even a 'camel toe', and I believe a scene in which Ren has a noticeable erection. Also, there is an episode where Stimpy gets...pregnant?!? What? Well, not exactly pregnant. Watch the episode and you'll see what I mean. You have to take into account the twisted sense of humor that John K. utilized only subtly in the original series.
Calling it 'adult' is an understatement. Actually, 'adult' is not the right word. The Godfather was an 'adult' movie. 'Party Cartoon' is just really, really distasteful. But the old Ren and Stimpy was sort of distasteful. So I don't know why people are complaining. What did you expect? John and his animation/writing team (which surprisingly contains many females) embark upon offensive animated territory the likes of which has not been seen since South Park's debut.
I must admit that I can understand why the concept of Ren and Stimpy being a couple would disappoint some viewers. But what other direction could a cartoon that formerly featured horrific, over-the-top violence and even depictions of blood, surgery, and death go? They had broken all the new ground they could in the old cartoon, the only thing missing was the warped, absurdist sexual humor that John touched upon in the original before Nickelodeon booted him off. I mean seriously, what did you expect, Ren and Stimpy protesting against the war on Afghanistan? Practicing safe sex with human partners? That would be bestiality, friends, and probably twice as many people would have been ticked.
It's not that bad. If there was an updated version of 'Doug', Doug would probably get arrested for drugs, get kicked out of his parents house, or knock some girl up. And I think that'd be pretty darn funny.

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The voices do not sound the same. Ren is still the same guy, but he voices it different. Stimpy is some unknown guy I've never heard of and he does a really bad job of it. I can not watch this (Even though I am trying to right now...) because of this. Why couldn't they get Fry to do the voice again? It's not like he's busy with another cartoon!
This is just as bad as bringing back TMNT. At least they didn't try to 'X-TREME' it up like TMNT though.
Remakes like this are literally ruining memories of my childhood. It needs to stop now.

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