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bogleech:

If you’ve never watched Ren and Stimpy I want you to watch this sequence (no graphic grossouts, but it may be emotionally harrowing) and consider the following things:

• The amount of effort that went into every frame of this animation
• The NIGHTMARISHLY realistic emotion in Ren’s voice acting
• The horrifying soundtrack and effects that make every moment as carefully unsettling as possible
• The fact that this aired on Nickelodeon
• The fact that the man who created this show, performed Ren, and directed this episode was such a merciless control freak and perfectionist that his staff was afraid of him and Nickelodeon fired him early in the series run
• That what I just said does not even fucking begin to describe the unbelievable drama that went on behind the scenes of this show
• Literally enough to fill a book.

Ren and Stimpy was by far one of the weirdest fucking phenomenon in television history and that isn’t even just because of its actual content. We just finished that book actually, holy shit.

I ADORED Ren and Stimpy growing up. It was one of my favorite cartoons ever. I had the toys, played the video game, drew fan art- was just totally in love with it from pre-k onwards.

Then when I was around 13 I got a chance to attend San Diego Comic Con. They had a Ren and Stimpy panel and I was so excited to attend. Just hearing the way John K talked about people, plus having to sit though a showing of that fucking God-awful “Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon Show” left me feeling completely disenchanted with the whole thing. I felt betrayed.

I still enjoy Ren and Stimpy, but I can’t watch it the way I once did. I still laugh at the jokes, but man, there’s this slight…….discomfort the entire time I’m watching now.

Yeah, John had positively zero respect for any other human beings, thought he was untouchable hot shit and abused anyone who interfered with his vision. He bit the hand that fed him downright proudly, antagonizing his own bosses and mocking the same people who pushed to help get him his show. He hurled slurs around, screamed a LOT and worked everyone around him to the bone on the most meaningless tasks.

He wanted every single second of animation, every blink, every lip movement, every fingernail exactly a particular way and would have people draw them over and over and over until he thought they were just right, driving almost every cartoon he worked on WAY over budget and delaying some of them for up to a year straight.

After he was fired, he took to threatening and shunning anybody who remained with the show as though they’d personally stabbed him in the gut, which is especially absurd considering HE WAS STILL CREDITED AND PAID FOR EVERY NEW EPISODE ANYWAY. HE WASN’T EVEN “FULLY” FIRED HE WAS JUST “FORCED” TO SIT AT HOME AND RAKE IN MONEY FOR ZERO WORK.

Every single person who’s worked with him cites “severe daddy issues” as his prime motivator, and even his close friend Bob Camp called some episodes of the show “his personal primal scream against his father.”

I’m still hardly scratching the surface here you all gotta read that book. The glimpse it offers into the animation industry itself is even more incredible.