But considering the similar obfuscation of truth that occurred with his removal from the original Ren and Stimpy, let's just say the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
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In light of the show's infamous legacy, Kricfalusi would later claim Executive Meddling - though he touted his creative freedom while the show was airing, he would come to drop some hints that Spike TV wanted the show to be more like South Park, hence the high levels of Vulgar Humor, which the Comedy Central series was known for at the time. So this wasn't (solely) the result of John K.'s hubris, so much as him just continuing to be really, really bad at managing a production in a timely and cost-effective fashion. note Note that when an animated series has completed work on its first season, it isn't uncommon for the studio/network to let them start pre-production work on a second season ahead of an official greenlight, just in case the show is a success. This actually led to a lawsuit with animation house Carbunkle Cartoons that made Spümcø close for bankruptcy, and had Kricfalusi slowly paying off the studio and the artists that were under his employ for several years afterward. The other three were completed after the fact, but remained unseen until Paramount released the show in its entirety on DVD in 2006, appropriately titled "The Lost Episodes".Īnd then there was that aforementioned seventh Unfinished Episode that started production under the hope that another season was in the cards, which never finished production due to a lack of money. Of the six episodes that were ordered, only three episodes made it to air. For what it's worth, every show managed to get all their episodes out before then. While the show was the most successful of Spike TV's animated programming and the animation block as a whole (called "The Strip") actually started off surprisingly well in the ratings against Adult Swim, the network losing interest in animation meant the whole experiment died within a year. Cheryl Chase and Harris Peet also returned to do voice work.
West's Stimpy would go on to be replaced by Eric Bauza, while Kricfalusi would reclaim his roles as Ren and Mr. Perhaps the writing was on the wall in this regard, as both previous showrunner Bob Camp and voice actor Billy West refused to get within a million miles of the production, among several other old crew members. This includes a glimpse at a very dark childhood filled with animal abuse, leering at girls in bikinis on the beach, some very disgusting male pregnancy, a lot of gay jokes, and detailed information about how cruel and miserable life is - oh, wait, that was one of the episodes that was never completed.Īdult Party Cartoon suffered from a poor production schedule birthed from Kricfalusi's infamous perfectionism, which didn't help the fact that the final product ended up being panned by both critics and fans alike for being a show arguably too raunchy for even its new target audience of males 18-35 to enjoy, having greatly exaggerated some of the original's elements while completely lacking others, such as its fake commercials. Ren and Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, which was Kricfalusi's last television series, is a more "mature" take on the eponymous Grossout Show duo, Ren Höek and Stimpy J. The call was made: John Kricfalusi would be given carte blanche to make an "extreme" version of his classic show, and in 2003, it debuted on television. Sure, its creator was booted off the original production because he couldn't ship an episode on time if his life depended on it, and even ignoring that, he was widely rumored to be an incredibly difficult person to work with. Thankfully, fellow Viacom-owned cable channel Nickelodeon had a certain cartoon in its vault starring a sadistic chihuahua and a dopey tomcat that just so happened to be a hit with college students during its initial run. While they already had some shows in production, they wanted another cartoon that could serve as a flagship series for their animation block.
Mrs.In The 2000s, a cable network known as TNN (now Paramount Network) was rebranding itself into Spike TV, and as part of that rebranding wished to break into the late-night adult animation game that had just proved lucrative.
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