The episodes

Hey! Sorry I took so long. I did get the episodes a few months ago, it just rarley crossed my mind to upload them Any, here they are.

Ren and Stimpy Blog Week #9

Well, if anyone has been keeping up with my blog, which obviously, no one hasen't, then you'll get to see the fire dogs episode I promised. But so far, only one person has been keeping up, so luckily even though ToonEGuy had his video removed from dailymotion for whatever reason, I can't get complaints from people if I don't get it on here soon. But I promise, I'll try to get the DVDs as soon as possible, and , maybe I can upload them directly on to blogger. Well, these are my current thoughts. That's all.

Ren and Stimpy Blog Week #7

Hey you Ren and Stimpy fans. How many of you like the episode of Ren and Stimpy called Fire Dogs? (It's not my #1 favorite, but if you've seen the first episode, then you'll find this episode to be really funny.) But John K. made a APC version of it. Why is this important you may ask? After all, no one is really fond of that version of the show. But here's the cheese. You see, because he made another part of that episode on that version of the show, the one that aired on Nickelodeon a long time ago can't be shown as a rerun on Nicktoons Network because of legal situations. But I will be getting that episode soon, so keep up with my blog and you'll see your two favorite toons in Fire Dogs Original version.

Ren and Stimpy Blog Week #6

Favorite Episodes

Hey all you Ren and Stimpy fans. I have some new updates for you. Well, I saw on this Spumco website that they were having a thing about what's your favorite episode , and I'd like to do that,too. So, to help you start out, I'll give you some choices.Man's Best Friendhttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3j5p_ren-and-stimpy-mans-best-friendMonkey See, Monkey Don'thttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ir6_monkey-see-monkey-dontPersonally, I like The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen and Stimpy's Fan Club. Those are the best Ren and Stimpy episodes ever. You can post a comment on this post and you could see your comment on Week # 30. See you.Note: You can see some more episodes on my past posts as well.

Ren and Stimpy Blog Week #5

Hey all you Ren and Stimpy fans. I have some new updates for you. I'd like to discuss the three different shows of Ren and Stimpy . Even though they all have one basic element in common (Ren is a greedy feeble jerk, and Stimpy is an eediot), they have extreme noticable diffeences. They were all produced by toatally different cartoonist, yet they are all counted as one show. Originally, John Kricfalusi's Spumco team did all the work. Then games crudded it up for the next three season version. Later, time changed people and John K. started up the crap head APC. Although there were mostly the same cartoonist for the first and the third shows, time showed that they didn't seem to be. APC was terrible, inappropriate, and flat out not funny. Infact, the only time it made you laugh was when it was so terrible, you had to laugh at it, not with it. Look at this clip. It'll really illustrate my point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PigUk4V014w
But hey, at least this show wasn't bland animation, terrible voice acting, crappy stories, and a thing that nearly always made you lose interest in everything. These were the things that aired on Nickelodeon for the next three years after John K. was fired. But hey, you don't have to take my word on it. Check it out for yourself.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3iip_ren-stimpy-a-friend-in-your
So far, there really hasn't been a good spin off to the show. Ren and Stimpy has just been tossed around like it's just another cartoon to fill in time slots, and it hasn't really been treated very well. Out of a total of 3 versions, there have only been 58 episodes. 58! Now that's just sad. Very little episodes and there have been not that many memorable ones. I scatterd around the internet, and you know what I found for games animation episodes? Very few. Adult party Cartoon Version? Not as little, but still not a lot. They're only problably on there because the first two seasons were good, and so people post any available Ren and Stimpy Episode of any kind anywhere. The only time when Ren and Stimpy fulfilled its perfection is in the first two seasons. If you go to dailymotion, and type in Stimpy, lots of results for the original two season will pop up, and there are other ways to find the good episodes as well. I mean, look at all these:



Son of Stimpy

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xho_episode-206-son-of-stimpy

Man's Best Friend

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3j5p_ren-and-stimpy-mans-best-friend

Log

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1uc6x_nickelodeon-ren-and-stimpy-log

Mad Dog Hoek

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11bo1_ren-stimpy-mad-dog-hoek

Space Madness

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1c96y_space-madness

Haunted House

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1cj76_ren-and-stimpy-haunted-house

Ren's Toothache

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1chq6_ren-stimpy-rens-toothache

Big House Blues

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1c8y7_big-house-blues

There are many more if you wanna see for yourself.

There is an ultimate collection in the works, but I advise you don't buy it. My advice is that you wait a few years until a perfect season 1 and 2 box set comes out, and then buy those. Of course, if this includes the whole uncut season 1 and 2 with no snipped footage, then all the loyal fans will surley get up and buy the convienient complete first 2 seasons of Ren and Stimpy that are included in the collection box set. If........ If you just want to see the Spumco commentaries that are on the Ultimate Collection, rent it from Hollywood Video or check it out at your local library. But say you are ever to purchase this set, I want you to think of something. Who will get the money? They're a lot of rights and money dealings with all these different companies. Spumco, Carbunkle Cartoons, Games Animation, Nickelodeon, TNN(later renamed Spike) and Time Life. For each one that is sold, there will be very little going out to each company. Exactly what's the point here? It's just another one of those sore attempts to get a little extra money.

Ren and Stimpy Week #4

When cartoonist John Kricfalusi took Ren and Stimpy to Nickelodeon, he made it sound like a complete load of crap, which is what Nickelodeon wanted. No, the results won't shock you. Like many other shows, Nickelodeon has asked for shows to completely be the exact opposite of what meets many of our expectations, and obeying their demands has gotten many people mad. John K. presented a show called Your Gang, sorrounding Ren and Stimpy around a bunch of other characters and he made up a bogus pitch that it was socially concious. That wasn't anything that the cartoon was about at all. The only thing that stayed true about what they liked was that it was a creator driven cartoon series. Doug and Rugrats must've slipped the minds of many of the many viewers after Ren and Stimpy debuted that first night. Even with a lot of edits on the storyboards from the network, Nickelodeon couldn't keep his genius from leaking out of every minute of the episode. The ideas were new and different, the voices were spectacular, the animition was the best you'd problably have seen sine the 40's, and to top it all off, it was the funniest thing that had ever broughten to your television set. Nickelodeon must have gotten mad about this, or something happened, because they constantly edited episodes that did not need to be edited. This resorted to an episode delay, and the whole show was rerean until two months after and they aired Marooned/Untamed World. But even after that spring of HOPE for continuous episodes, it wasn't until February that they aired another episode. It was unfortunate for John K. and his Spumco team, because not many would bother to figure out the real story behind the catastrophe. By the time they were airing the second season, they fired the ball of brilliance named John Kricfalusi. Most of his Spumco team left, although a few stayed. Problably not to keep the show good, but for money. Tratiors, if you questioned my personal opinion. Luckily, alls they need to do was animate a couple episodes, otherwise they would only have 1 and a half good seasons. But who more then to trust to finish then Spumco's co-animating team, Carbunkle Cartoons. But there were too many complaints, and after season 2, they too, left the show. After that, the show dropped tremendously, and it never ever did meet the the Ren and Stimpy standards us loyal fans crazed. It was a sad fate to see. One of the most watched cartoons to one of Nick's lowest rated cartoons ever.

Ren and Stimpy Blog Week #2

Hey all you Ren and Stimpy fans.I have some new updates for you. The Ren and Stimpy History Page. Most of this article was written by http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=5718, some of it was written by http://wikipedia.org/, and some of it was written by me, and the videos and some of the pictures were uploaded by me. Together we've created a really cool article. So sit back, and enjoy. (Warning: Don't click on that dvd link, because I didn't include part of it because it spoiled episodes for you. Don't click on that particular link. The rest, fine. But not that one.)

The Best of Ren & Stimpy
The Ren & Stimpy Show has a fascinating history however you look at it. It was turned down by ABC, NBC and Fox, and finally bought by children's network Nickelodeon. For around two years it made a name for itself as one of the most subversive, original and intelligent shows of all time, before the creators were fired for being too daring. After that, its popularity sank like the Titanic and the show was abruptly cancelled. Yet even today the original two seasons have a voracious cult following, and it is one of the most asked-for titles for DVD release. Now, twelve years after it originally premiered, the creators of the show are back in charge of it, producing new episodes for the adult network TNN, and the first ever DVD set has been released, containing episodes from the first two seasons.
For those who have never heard of Ren & Stimpy, it is a cartoon show featuring an irritable, psychotic chihuahua named Ren Höek, and his best friend (and lover), the mentally retarded and extremely effeminate Stimpson J. Cat. Together, Ren and Stimpy get up to all sorts of wacky antics.Although it aired on a children's network, its main audience was college and university students, who quickly tapped into its subversive nature and excellent characterisation. Despite all this, most people still dismiss it as silly and disgusting, viewing only the surface and ignoring its deeper elements.
The creator of Ren & Stimpy is one John Kricfalusi (popularly known as John K), a Canadian animator who became incredibly fed up with the stagnant state of the animation industry, which in the 1950s had been taken over by bureaucrats and sitcom writers. Ren & Stimpy was designed from the outset as a show that would break all the taboos that had been enforced on the industry. John K's goal was simple: to make cartoons funny again. Rather than writing scripts, he returned to the technique used on almost all animation until the 1960s (and still used by Pixar, Spumco and some Cartoon Network shows today): developing the stories on storyboards, eliminating the scriptwriting process altogether. This was radical at the time, as such a practice had not been used for nearly 30 years (studio executives, according to those in the know, can't understand storyboards and don't like the amount of freedom it gives the cartoonists). It is this, more than anything, that gives Ren & Stimpy its sheer energy and fusion, and is the reason why almost all scripted animation is lifeless and sterile, with little or no cohesion between the writing, artwork and voice acting.
When Ren & Stimpy debuted on Nickelodeon in 1991, it broke every single rule that had been established for television animation over the past 30 years. As a show that used what is known as "limited animation" (the practice of holding static drawings with only small amounts of animation in order to save money), John K tore down the unwritten rule that the drawings could not go to extremes for fear of looking odd. Whereas most people view limited animation as a restriction, Ren & Stimpy took great delight in the concept of static imagery, and the artists ran riot, creating some of the most grotesque and imaginative drawings to date. The show makes no attempt to conform to the rules of reality: there is practically no consistency between episodes, the rules of gravity do not always apply, characters change size and position mid-scene... In short, it does everything a cartoon should.

Ultimately, though, all John K's risk-taking came at a price. During the second season, Nickelodeon became increasingly more agitated with the extreme nature of the subject matter, and also the continual production delays (delays which they themselves contributed to, with their continual demands for risqué material to be altered), and fired John K from his own show. Most of the artists working at his studio, Spumco, refused to work for Nickelodeon after that, which led to the network removing production duties from Spumco and setting up its own studio, Games Animation. Although a few people from Spumco continued to work on the show at the new studio, the quality of the episodes declined dramatically, and as viewing figures plummeted, taking Ren & Stimpy from one of the most watched to one of the least watched TV shows, Nickelodeon pulled the plug in 1995.

Spümcø 1990-1992
Ren and Stimpy was created by John Kricfalusi and produced by his animation team Spümcø. The pilot, "Big House Blues," was finished in October 1990 and the first episode, "Stimpy's Big Day," premiered August 1991 along with Rugrats and Doug. However, Nickelodeon expressed concern about the show's grossness and violence, and routinely censored episodes. The network also censored certain episodes such as "Svën Höek", "Nurse Stimpy", "Man's Best Friend"and "Big House Blues." Kricfalusi was fired from his creative role in the show on September 21, 1992, and subsequently refused to continue providing the voice of Ren. The reason is that John K missed deadlines because he fought with Nick over censorship.

Games Animation 1993-1996
One of Kricfalusi's closest friends, Bob Camp, began writing and directing the episodes himself. However the Games episodes were despised by fans and was eventually canceled.




Perhaps Ren & Stimpy's greatest asset is also its greatest downfall. Each episode is completely unique, and the art style, story structure and timing patterns vary depending on who was involved in each episode. Each director brought a great deal of their own personal style to the mix, with variable results. Generally, the episodes directed by John K are the best of the bunch, as they show the tightest characterisation and some of the craziest ideas. At the other end of the spectrum are Bob Camp's episodes. They show a distinct lack of timing and a tendency to go for very generic situations. That said, they do contain some of the wildest and most inspired artwork. (Historical note: after Spumco was fired, Bob Camp took over as show runner.) The episodes directed by Vincent Waller are some of the most laugh-out-loud funny episodes, with extremely wacky twists on familiar situations and settings, although his episodes are not the outright classics that John K shows like Stimpy's Invention are. It is, however, a credit to Waller's abilities that the first episode he directed, Rubber Nipple Salesmen, remains a cult favourite and one of the most popular of all time.

This extreme amount of variation means that, among all the risk-taking, there are some episodes which don't work so well. The first season has quite a few episodes which, though fun, were cleary intended to be filler material that could to produced quickly to allow the team more time to work on the more ambitious projects. This is less of a problem during the second season, where more than one director was working on the show and the duties could be divided up. (John K directed every episode of the first season himself, except for Black Hole which he and Camp co-directed, both uncredited.) This was actually true. Although most of the first season was good, they had up to four filler material segments out of 12. I mean, look at these segments. They are both Space Episodes. Although one is very clever, the other one is kind of dopey.
Space Madness
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1c96y_space-madness

Black Hole
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35qq_episode-106a-black-hole

Of course, one of the segments in the first season was like this whole first season situation. Some of the episode was funny, some of it was kind of dopey, some of it was pretty funny, and the ending was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Overall it was an A+. I'm talking about Stimpy's Invention. This is the gold miner cartoon that is what got Ren and Stimpy into all the newspapers, magazines, merchandise, and schools much more than it already was. It made up for all the screw-up time slots that were created. Possibly the greatest John K. directed episode ever, and you can watch it now. Seriously, now!











Stimpy's Invention
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1iw4a_ren-stimpy-stimpys-invention

The importance of Ren & Stimpy, both in terms of animation and in terms of culture, cannot be overstated. The amount of variety there is in television animation today is often taken for granted; yet, had it not been for Ren & Stimpy, animation on TV would still be limited to dreck like The Smurfs and He-Man. In short, Ren & Stimpy made it acceptable for cartoons to be cartoony. The show has spawned a whole slew of imitators, many of which are very good, although most have the habit of taking only the gross and bizarre elements and ignoring all the subtext. This is unsurprising, since most viewers only seem to view Ren & Stimpy as a sick and wacky cartoon, without realising what goes on beneath the surface.Such subtleties are, of course, lost on the average viewer, but it is a testament to the quality of the show that it can be enjoyed by people of all walks of life: the Rens as well as the Stimpys, so to speak.

In reality, this set should have been called "Ren & Stimpy: The First One-and-a-Half Seasons", because although every episode from the first season is included, the second season is very incomplete, with only eight out of a total of nineteen episodes included. Add to that the fact that the episodes have been thrown on to the discs in what looks like a completely random order, and you have a very confusing mess. Another major problem with this set is that a number of the episodes have been censored. When Spumco were hired by TNN last year to produce a new run of episodes, John K provided his own personal uncut "protection masters" for all the episodes he directed. These were brought into circulation on TNN, but they have not made their way on to this collection. Some of the episodes included here are in fact more edited than the versions previously made available. I am referring specifically to Powdered Toast Man, an episode censored by Nickelodeon after a grand total of three people complained about it. This cartoon, however, continued to air uncut on MTV in America and internationally, but it is the cut version that is included in this set. This is made even more bizarre by the fact that Sven Höek, an episode that was censored before broadcast and again a couple of years later, is presented here using the first, milder edit rather than the second, more severe one. The episodes, it would seem, have been culled from various sources so that some are actually older versions than others.
Because of the somewhat schizophrenic nature of this collection, it is worthwhile to list the episodes included in their correct production order, and also whether or not they are censored:
Pilot Episode: Big House Blues (censored) First Season: Stimpy's Big Day The Big Shot Nurse Stimpy Robin Höek Space Madness The Boy Who Cried Rat Fire Dogs The Littlest Giant Marooned Untamed World Black Hole Stimpy's Invention Second Season: In the Army Powdered Toast Man (censored) Out West (censored) Rubber Nipple Salesmen Ren's Toothache Dog Show (censored) Sven Höek (censored) (music and sound effects completed after Spumco was fired) The Great Outdoors (completed after Spumco was fired)

Perhaps the fact that the first season is provided uncensored and in its entirety will be enough of a hook for many people to buy this set, but the presentation of the second season and of the pilot episode is incredibly frustrating and shows a complete lack of commitment on TimeLife's part. Several fan favourite episodes, such as the ambitious Christmas special Stimpy's First Fart and the hilarious Big Baby Scam, are completely missing, and are sure to be missed given their popularity.

Many of the bumper cartoons such as fake commercials and "goodbye" skits are also included, although as with the episodes, they stop about half-way through the second season. These bumpers are actually counted as full episodes on the set's packaging, which in my opinion is pretty close to false advertising. Had this DVD set included all the episodes from the first two seasons, uncut, I would without a doubt have given it a perfect 10 out of 10 score. Ren & Stimpy is not always immediately satisfying, and some episodes work better than others, but I am of the firm opinion that it is the single greatest television show of all time. This release is sadly incomplete, with a number of its best episodes censored, and several more minor masterpieces missing entirely. That said, this release is still worth purchasing, if only to preserve some of the greatest modern animation on a lasting format.

Picture
All the episodes are presented in their original 1.33:1 aspect ratio (non-anamorphic, of course). The picture quality varies wildly, sometimes within individual episodes. The first season was, for the most part, shot on poor quality film, and as result these episodes suffer a little in terms of clarity. The second season episodes are generally of a higher standard, but there is still some fluctuation in terms of quality. During the second season, the episodes that were animated in Canada by Carbunkle Cartoons were transferred digitally, whereas the episodes animated in Korea continued to be shot on film. Only two digital episodes (out of a total of five), Out West and Sven Höek, are included in this set, and they are the best-looking of the bunch.
It should also be noted that some video editing was done in post production (whether due to censorship or to correct timing and animation glitches), and in such instances, the image quality degrades even further, becoming quite pixellated. These occurrences are thankfully rare, and are less of a problem during the second season than the first. The most striking aspect of these transfers is the vibrancy of the colours. Especially in the second season episodes, the colours are much more vivid than in any of the TV broadcasts or pre-recorded VHS releases. Given the fact that these are TV shows, dot crawl is a continual artifact, but there is remarkably little colour bleed. The encoding is also pretty good, with no major visible compression artifacts. Overall, these DVDs look a bit better than the TV broadcasts, but not by a huge margin (they certainly look superior to the DVD sets of The Simpsons). The quality could no doubt have been improved if John K's master prints had been used (judging by what I have heard from TNN viewers, they are certainly a lot cleaner than these), but I'm beginning to sound like a broken record now.

Sound
The audio is standard Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, the same as the original broadcasts. It sounds a little thin at times, but at least the dialogue is always clear. There aren't too many clever multi-channel effects, although the Space Madness episode does have two or three interesting uses of stereo. The music score, sourced from classical music libraries and the works of the great Raymond Scott, always sounds excellent. Bearing in mind that Ren & Stimpy is a show where the audio (including the dialogue) is far less important than the visuals, the sound stands up reasonably well. There are no subtitles at all.
Menu
The menu design is not exquisite, but it gets the job done. There is some animation (clips from the show) and music, but nothing to make your jaw drop.

Packaging
This is, without a doubt, some of the worst packaging I have ever seen. All the artwork is taken from the Ren & Stimpy style guide, a PDF version of which can be found on the internet if you know where to look. The layout is extremely primitive, and I honestly would have thought it was bootleg material had I not received it from a reputable retailer.

Extras
All that is included in the way of bonus material is a sing-along on each of the three discs.This is, for all intents and purposes, a bare-bones release, although you might consider the inclusion of the bumpers and fake commercials to be extras. That said, TimeLife has marketed the bumpers as actual episodes, which in my mind is nothing short of defective advertising, as most of them run for two minutes at most.
Conclusion
This release is flawed not only by being incomplete but by having fallen prey to pointless and often ham-fisted censorship. Although hardcore fans of the show will no doubt be salivating for a DVD release of Ren & Stimpy, these hardcore fans will be the ones who know the material inside out and will immediately notice the cuts. For the casual fan, this represents a fun little packagage that should provide a decent amount of enjoyment, and if you have never seen an episode of Ren & Stimpy, you should definitely crawl out from under your rock and purchase this set, as it is the best quality release of the series so far. In the end, however, I feel obliged to make people aware that this masterpiece has been irrationally butchered and is therefore not the essential purchase that it should have been.
A DVD set of seasons one and two of the original series was released October 12, 2004. Some fans were angered by the fact that the set, billed as "Ren & Stimpy Uncut," had a few missing scenes removed for time issues and fade outs where commercials had been inserted from the "remastered" versions played on Spike TV. Kricfalusi said in a statement that all of the cut footage he knew about had been returned. Additionally, another Spümcø member (Steve Worth) has also attributed the time-snipped footage and fade outs to the fact that the DVD production team were given master tapes that, while edited, made absolutely no reference to this.

Certainly, there is much to appreciate about this set. Not only is every episode from the first two seasons included, material that was previously censored has now been restored to a number of shows.They can also experience the splendour that is the long-banned episode (and the main reason that many cite for John K's firing), Man's Best Friend, as well as over two hours' worth of episodes that were missing from the Time Life set, including the much-loved classics Stimpy's First Fart, Stimpy's Fan Club, The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen and Big Baby Scam. It's all good... ...or is it? It seems that somewhere along the line, somebody screwed up. When Adult Party Cartoon was airing on Spike TV last year, the network also bought the rights to air the entire back catalogue of the original show. Plagued by numerous and lengthy commercial breaks, the only way that the original shows could fit into the schedule was by removing material. For the first season, this was simplified somewhat by the number of bumpers and fake commercials that accompanied each episode, facilitating the removal of content that did not interfere with the episodes themselves. During the second season, however, the episodes were generally longer and the bumpers fewer in number. As a result, Spike ended up removing whole sequences from the shows, and a number of these cuts have made it on to the DVD. These include the removal of a number of gags from Ren's Toothache (included uncut on the Time Life set, as if to add insult to injury), Big Baby Scam, The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball and Stimpy's First Fart. While these cuts may seem like small fry when compared to the indignities inflicted upon the show by Nickelodeon back in the early 90s, a number of excellent gags have been excised, and the result is that this set is not the be-all and end-all that was promised. Even owners of both this and the Time Life set will not end up with a complete collection, since many of the episodes that have been shortened here were not even included on the earlier set. Worse still, this makes Paramount guilty of false advertising, given their heavy promotion of the set as "Uncut". A lot of great material is indeed included on these three discs, and it is a shame to complain about the release after the great efforts John K and the Spumco crew went to in order to restore material previously deleted by Nickelodeon. However, this is a very clear case of one hand not knowing what the other was up to, with the set marketed as something that it is not. John K is apparently as surprised and shocked as the show's fans by these cuts (see his response), but he rightfully points out that a considerable amount of excellent footage is present, much of it unseen by all but the most ardent Ren & Stimpy fans. In an ideal world, Paramount would immediately issue a recall of this set and re-release it with all the missing footage reinstated, but I somehow doubt that this will happen. This release is still excellent, but the quest for the definitive Ren & Stimpy collection must continue.

The bonus materials are definitely a case of quality over quantity, but more is included than I was expecting, and I am fairly happy with the results. Commentaries are included on six episodes, with the following participants: Untamed World - Jim Smith, Vincent Waller and Eddie Fitzgerald Stimpy's Invention - John K, Vincent Waller and Eddie Fitzgerald Rubber Nipple Salesmen - John K, Vincent Waller and Richard Pursel Sven Höek - John K, Jim Smith, Eddie Fitzgerald and Katie Rice Powdered Toast Man - John K, Richard Pursel, Jim Smith and Eddie Fitzgerald Son of Stimpy - John K, Richard Pursel, Vincent Waller and Eddie Fitzgerald.

Paramount have squandered an excellent opportunity to deliver a knock-out set by failing to ensure that their source materials were complete, but even so this release is a must-buy for animation fans. I honestly believe that The Ren & Stimpy Show is the greatest television series ever created, or at the very least the best modern day cartoon series, beating scripted sitcoms like The Simpsons and South Park by a wide margin. With five episodes trimmed, the situation is hardly ideal, but given the wealth of excellent archive materials that have been unearthed, including previously censored footage and an episode that few have seen outside of dodgy 8th generation VHS copies, plus the fact that Paramount are extremely unlikely to issue a recall to correct their blunder, this is definitely the best release of Ren & Stimpy that we are likely to see at any point in the foreseeable future. So buy, buy, buy...