OT - Ren & Stimpy Classics Schedule (March and April)

[Pietro]

Here's what'll be airing on "Ren & Stimpy Classics" throughout March and April:


Apr 5 2004 12:00AM - Unknown
Apr 6 2004 2:00AM - Ol' Blue Nose/Stupid Sidekick Union
Apr 6 2004 2:30AM - Space Dogged/Feud for Sale
Apr 7 2004 2:00AM - Hair of the Cat/City Hicks
Apr 7 2004 2:30AM - Stimpy's Pet/Ren's Brain
Apr 8 2004 2:00AM - Bellhops/Dog Tags
Apr 8 2004 2:30AM - I Was a Teenage Stimpy/Who's Stupid Now?
Apr 9 2004 2:00AM - School Mates/Dinner Party
Apr 9 2004 2:30AM - Sammy and Me/Big Flakes
Apr 10 2004 2:00AM - Terminal Stimpy/Pen Pals
Apr 10 2004 2:30AM - The Last Temptation [of Ren]/Reverend Jack [Cheese]
NOTE: Spike's website is now fixed so that the contents of "The Classics" are not shown (the "joiks"). Here's what I predict will air (according to Spike's rotation pattern) from April 11th to April 14th:
Apr 11 2004 12:00AM - Unknown
Apr 10 2004 2:30AM - A Scooter for Yaksmas
Apr 10 2004 2:30AM - Stimpy's Big Day/The Big Shot!
Apr 11 2004 2:30AM - Robin Höek/Nurse Stimpy
Apr 11 2004 2:30AM - Space Madness/The Boy Who Cried Rat!
Apr 12 2004 2:00AM - Marooned/Untamed World
Apr 12 2004 2:30AM - Black Hole/Stimpy's Invention
Apr 13 2004 2:00AM - In the Army/Powdered Toast Man
Apr 13 2004 2:30AM - Ren's Toothache/Dog Show
Apr 14 2004 2:00AM - Out West/Rubber Nipple Salesmen
Apr 14 2004 2:30AM - Big Baby Scam/The Littlest Giant

All the titles in bold are cartoons that are premiering on Spike. Titles in bold red have Spike time edits.

-Pietro:daffy:

[Thad Komorowski]

How can any of those Games episodes be considered classic in any way ???? :confused::sad:


-Thad

[Matthew Hunter]

How can any of those Games episodes be considered classic in any way ???? :confused::sad:

-ThadGood question!

[Lord Dalek]

Can't see why they aren't airing Ren's Bitter Half. That's the peak of the Game's episodes.

[Corrado]

I think Ol' Blue Nose is the only decent one of the list there.

The rest of these are lame, LAME!!!

[TServo2049]

How can any of those Games episodes be considered classic in any way ????
They're not just showing the good episodes, you know. Waaaaaaay back when "The Strip" was first announced, the press release said that "Ren and Stimpy Classics" would consist of all 52 episodes of the series. In other words, it's just called "Ren and Stimpy Classics" because it's the pre-"Adult Party Cartoon" series; not because the episodes they're showing are classics.

[Pietro]

Spike is airing "Ren's Brain" which, of course WOULD HAVE been a classic if it were produced at Spumco (it was boarded for season two)...

Also, for the record, some of these alleged "Classics" are not even Games episides! "Terminal Stimpy," "Hair of the Cat," "Dog Tags," and "School Mates," "Dinner Party" are all non-Games episodes that were farmed out to an independent producer. However, the quality doesn't vary at all.

It seemed as though by this time, Games was more focused on finishing up "Rocko" and beginning "Hey Arnold." They were just doing Ren & Stimpy because they had to.

-Pietro:daffy:

[nakak]

Not all Games episodes are bad though. Some they at least tried. I thought "Jimmy Lummox" was funny.

Didn't "Dog Tages" was pulled after original airing because of the "tail" scene?

[Jon Cooke]

Watching the Ren and Stimpy episodes in order is kind of depressing. It's sad watching the quality declining so fast. The first two seasons are full of funny, brilliant cartoons and a few of the earlier Games shorts are quite funny ("To Salve Or Salve Not", "Golden Hairball"). Then... well, we get a whole bunch of cartoons that are just plain sick and unfunny. :o

I haven't seen most of the Games episodes on the line-up for the next few weeks, but, after reading some of the descriptions, am not sure I want to.


-Jon

[Corrado]

""Golden Hairball")."

The ending of that killed the short which was actually sort of funny.

"Also, for the record, some of these alleged "Classics" are not even Games episides! "Terminal Stimpy," "Hair of the Cat," "Dog Tags," and "School Mates," "Dinner Party" are all non-Games episodes that were farmed out to an independent producer. However, the quality doesn't vary at all."

I seem to remember Games not being credited at the end for those.

What R+S was the Games logo from?? (Stimpy with Milk)

[Pietro]

What R+S was the Games logo from?? (Stimpy with Milk)It wasn't from any cartoon in particular. John K. calls Games Animation "milkmen" because they and Nick are trying to "milk" out as much Ren And Stimpy as possible; this explains why Stimpy is in a milkman's costume in the logo.

One Games episode that I definetly do NOT want to see again is "It's a Dog's Life" (Games' variation on "Man's Best Friend") :sad:

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[Pietro]

The schedule is updated! Come see!

-Pietro:daffy:

[Thad Komorowski]

Hey, it's nice to see some of the really great episodes again... The ones that make Ren & Stimpy the best cartoon in the past thirty years...


-Thad

[Pietro]

Hey, it's nice to see some of the really great episodes again... The ones that make Ren & Stimpy the best cartoon in the past thirty years...
Yeah, but with sleazy Spike time cuts:sad:

-Pietro:daffy:

[Jave]

Watching the Ren and Stimpy episodes in order is kind of depressing. It's sad watching the quality declining so fast. The first two seasons are full of funny, brilliant cartoons and a few of the earlier Games shorts are quite funny ("To Salve Or Salve Not", "Golden Hairball"). Then... well, we get a whole bunch of cartoons that are just plain sick and unfunny. :o

I haven't seen most of the Games episodes on the line-up for the next few weeks, but, after reading some of the descriptions, am not sure I want to.


-JonI believe "Salve or Salve Not" was a story originally concieved at Spumco but only a few storyboards (if any) were actually made, Games pretty much picked up the whole thing but I'm pretty sure it wasn't their idea. "Golden Hairball was doing fine until Stimpy started making hairballs from the back of the fat guy. It becomes unwatchable after that.

"Stupid Sidekick Union" is a good R&S episode, one of the few that apparently showed that Games was actually trying.

[Steve Carras]

For the most part i still love both the real classic SPUMCO sicx and about the first ten or twelve GAMES ones (I have a tape of the classic ROYAL KILTED YAKSMEN, for instgance).

The jokes are still there--Ren finding somehting to eat and..

[spoiler] USING A GEIGER COUNTER WITH ROAST TURKEY--FOOD!!!-WHICH HELPS HIM AND STIMPY FIND MUD WHICH THEY THEN DIG UP AND EAT!!!:D{/spoiler}

I as awalsys enjoy the Capitol and Associated Produciton library music (the latter, as bigshot's said, owns the former for the most part).This was the library that the following 1958 titles at Warner Bros. used...

___WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK

__A BIRD IN A BONNETT

___HOOK LINE AND STINKER

___PRE-HYSTERICAL AHRE

____GOPHER BROKE

___HIP HIP HURRY!

Widely over teleivison back in he golden blakc and white era, these libaries were older British ones (as bigshot's also noted) that predate Capitol--KPM., Berry, Chappell,etc.plus Music for Television, aka MUTEL (created the near obscure TV sitcom MY LITTLE MARGIE--a cross if you will between the later GIDGET and I LOVE LUCY and LIZZIE McGUIRE starring a once-hot Gale Storm), old the B&W ghost with themost comedy TOPPER and possibly LASSIE, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER and GUMBY), Sam Fox (thanks Ray Pointer, animation veteran over at Jerry Beck's forum, for the info on this), and some others. GUMBY used Seely, Loose, Spencer Moore,and George Hormel (any relaiton to the chili and Spam meat giant??), to name a few!! Others who composed R&S music oft-used in old boomer shows were Jack Shaindlin who ran his own production muic library, the nice gang at Thomas J.Valentino/Major Records, one of the oldest, Ed Lund, Phil Green (he did the nice bouncy GOPHER BROKE music, y'know.."Ba-BUMBUMBUMP"-on QUICK DRAW cartoon a lot-titled "Original C-T-7",thanks to Piet Schreuders of the Beau Hunks produciton team in a 1998 alt.animation.warner.bros NG thread (CARFTOON MUSIC IN 1958).)

I recgonized stuff like the following on REN AND STIMPY:
POWDERED TOAST MAN, where he's un tying the Frank Zappa pope (in reruns The FUnny Little man in the funny hat...), the now Gary Owens voiced dunderhead hero's accompanied by Pixie and DIxie string music..like this:
"Rumrumrum..rumRUMRUMrumRUM..RUMRUMUM(higher key here) ARUM RUM RUM RUM" if you've seen the episode, original or Nick-redone version, you'll still hear the music)..

The music in GOPHER BROKE right before the "FOGHORN LEGHORN series" dog's finally haivng a nervous breakdown when he sees the great outdoors from a view from the top of a telephone pole and McKimson cuts to the pig we've been seeing --right after the censored pill-taking scene (I like the music during the :"dog on a pole" scene, which i haven't heard R&S use, the Spence Moore bakcground bassoon stock, Original C-T-1158.Piet Schrueders,iabove mentioned)

Some great use of classics in REN ANF STIMPY like POET AND PEASANT, also the basis of a Lantz Andy Panda short..(P&P goes..well, say I'm your flamingo, then think strings playing that..it's used at the end of John K.'s anonymouslydirected piece LITTLEST GIANT when giant Stimpy asks Ren to wash him and stuff--THAT MUST HAVE been terrible for Kricfalusi if he didn't put his own name on it, not even his Allan Smithee (Raymond Spum, as in the earlier NURSE STIMPY).

And always remeember kiddos, happy happy joy joy.

[Killtacular]

I dunno, I prefer Ren Needs Help to Ren Seeks Help.

The Games episodes had stupid plots but better direction and timing. And the people from the Games staff have gone on to do incredible stuff, such as Chris Reccardi and Scott Wills (who have won Individual Emmys for their achievements on Samurai Jack, if I'm not mistaken.. or at least helped get it that far). Mark O' Hare... Steve Loter (Kim Possible)... Ron Hauge (Spongebob, Rocko, Back in Action)... it goes on.

Then you have the Spumco directors and boarders, who, if they haven't fled before 1993, are trapped working for Spumco or low-budget TV (like Vincent Waller, doing direction on Birdman, or Stephen DeStefano, who only does work boarding PILOTS for CN, not even series). There's a reason for it of course. But... I couldn't say any of the reasons flooding into my head right now, because I would get lynched for saying them.

Of course the last season does get pretty abysmal, but I chalk it up to Nick execs mucking with the series and trying to push their own ideas in, because the talent is the same and they DO have talent. Obviously Nick's ideas didn't sync up with Camp's staff, which is why someone ELSE handled the final few episodes.

[LupoTheButcher]

I thought the first half of "Aloha Höek" was funny, but the ending really sank the episode.:(

[Jon Cooke]

"I Love Chicken" was one of the better Games cartoons. Probably the only decent one to air last week. On the other hand, "It's a Dog's Life" and "Scotsman In Space" were just terrible. :shrug:


-Jon

[Killtacular]

The one that I remember hating the most was Who's Stupid Now, where Ren tries to be Stimpy and Stimpy tries to be Ren. It just seemed so overexaggeratively hateful. Kind of like the Jetsons flash cartoon by Spumco, only not funny. Oh, right, the Spumco Jetsons toon wasn't funny either. But you know what I mean.

[Jon Cooke]

Kind of like the Jetsons flash cartoon by Spumco, only not funny. Oh, right, the Spumco Jetsons toon wasn't funny either. But you know what I mean.

There were two Jetsons cartoons. I liked the "Father and Son Day" cartoon where George teaches Elroy how to shave. I didn't care much for other one, where George and Jane spend the 3 or so minutes just screaming at each other.


-Jon

[Pietro]

The one that I remember hating the most was Who's Stupid Now, where Ren tries to be Stimpy and Stimpy tries to be Ren. It just seemed so overexaggeratively hateful.
It probably would have been better as Spumco's "The Big Switch" which uses the same, basic premise. It was planned for the third season but never produced.

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[Daniel P]

The one that I remember hating the most was Who's Stupid Now, where Ren tries to be Stimpy and Stimpy tries to be Ren. It just seemed so overexaggeratively hateful.Wasn't "Who's Stupid Now" supposed to be the final episode? I never saw it, but I remember reading an episode description that stated the plot was Ren finding out his show was canceled or something to that extent.


-Dan

[Pietro]

Wasn't "Who's Stupid Now" supposed to be the final episode? I never saw it, but I remember reading an episode description that stated the plot was Ren finding out his show was canceled or something to that extent
I think it was supposed to be, but "Yaksmas" was decided to be the concluding episode instead.

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