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Opinion by
founten
posted
2 months ago
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Ren and Stimpy, Just the name is iconic, but how did it all come to be? well a long long time ago a little nobody named John Kricfalusi would doodle, he'd doodle all kinds of things, one of them was a cat with a gigantic nose which was inspired by a 50's cartoon that was a throwback to 30's cartoons that always featured characters with huge noses. Another was an angry little chihuahua inspired by a postcard with a picture of a little angry looking dog wearing a sweater.
Now John loved the golden age of animation for many reasons but mainly one, the cartoonist control the cartoon. Since the late 60's cartoons wern't like that, in the 60's every cartoon featured sexy teenagers solving mystery's, playing rock music or often both. In the 80's nearly every cartoon was based on a toy, or trying to copy a show based on a toy, with rock music. But in the 90's nickelodeon had a radical new idea! Let the cartoonists decide the cartoon, let them run it. This is what John K was talking about! so he got in on this. Like he always does he presented a number of different characters, while coming up with them one of his friends suggested putting Ren and Stimpy together, and from there...
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