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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I hate you, you know how many years I've spent locking this episode away to protect myself from further trauma.

Sends a shiver down my spine.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 8 points 20 hours ago

The one bonus is it got me to brush my teeth.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 10 points 22 hours ago

Nerve endings??? What good are those?!?!?!

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A lot of children's entertainment is body horror... I was recently rewatching Spongebob with my kids, and even that had a bunch of scenes where horrible things happened to the characters.

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Literally the same animators making the same joke

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean.... Itchy and Scratchy? Tom and Jerry? Wile E. Coyote? This isn't really new.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago

But Itchy and Scratchy was literally a parody of Tom and Jerry poking fun at how central the violence was to the humor.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Squidward's toenail 🥲

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Interesting while I was a kid watching this scene I don't exactly remember this being that gross. But now I see why.

I still have nightmares because of this to this day.

[–] mosspiglet@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

I smell something stiiinky!

[–] stolig@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Steeeeempy you eeeeeediot!

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

My favorite episode is the one where Ren gets split into the two opposite sides of his personality: his evil side, and his indifferent side. I've never seen that episode since and I wonder what ever happened to it. I remember it was pretty dark, which is saying something for Ren and Stimpy.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The weirdest part of ren and stimpy for me was always the smash cuts to the grossout oil painting-like still frames.

Pure nightmare fuel.

[–] johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They were called gross ups

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you. I'd have had to see some of them if i were to look up what they're called.

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 15 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Well worth the search, I have been collecting them for years for reaction texts and avatars.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Thank you I hate it.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Come with me we'll go and see a place called Candied Island ❤️

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

there's all kinds of friends boy

takes a swig

aaaall kinds of friends

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[–] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

Loved that. I think spongebob got the idea from them and made it work so well. I miss old animation, real art and soul.

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The closeups... yes I can still see them etched in my mind lol. John K was a bodily fluid artisan

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

They called them "gross-ups" and I love them.

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[–] TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 18 hours ago
[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I grew up in a sheltered environment. I was friends with these guys:

[–] froh42@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I just remember the one epsiode where Heifer had to sleep in a barn. Next morning he woke up when someone came in to milk the cows, you just saw heifers upper torso, heard a "plop" and then he started looking weirdly and fell over backwards.

I saw that on a weekend on TV during the time when children watch and was wtf did they really just make a heifer had an orgasm because he was milked joke?

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That show was still pretty wierd.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, he was constantly getting invitations from his neighbor. Not to mention he worked for a phone sex service.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't this also the show that had the bit where a group of butch women on motorcycles show up and proceed to devour all the carpet in his house (i.e. "munching carpet/rug munching")?

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

That was Cow and Chicken. Those were the “Buffalo Gals” (“won’t you COME OUT tonight” was their refrain if I recall).

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

You’re thinking of Cow & Chicken

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Heifer is voiced by Tom Kenny who went on to voice SpongeBob.

[–] Shindo66@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He was also on the greatest show of all time called "Mr. Show with Bob and David". And went on to become an absolute legendary voice actor. His imdb page is absolutely insane.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

I’ve been needing to watch that, I’ll move it up the list.

Honestly so is that of the guy who did Rocco. Whose credits include among other things the Taco Bell dog and Spyro the Dragon.

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[–] lordziv@lemmy.nz 2 points 19 hours ago

Ohh that must be where Austin got his name from then

[–] Shindo66@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I was just thinking this morning how we all watched "jackass". How are we all this normal?

[–] protist@retrofed.com 2 points 16 hours ago

I don't know, to me Jackass was always guys being fucking stupid and nothing to admire. Ren & Stimpy was genuine entertainment though

I was too old but my guess is you tried the stunts and realized your heros are dumb as fuck...? Maybe.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"No sir. I don't like it."

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

"Call the police."

[–] from_D4rkness@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

yeeaa, the guy that made that is not safe around kids...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Fish sauce!

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