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deadlypastelcutieart · 1 year

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Im very late with this drawing... And we only got 6 days left till the end of this. Im not ready for next week! :(

Well so.. This was some news that really feel sad. And im not talking about something super serious but.. It’s about the end of a channel that I’ve been watching for years and still to this day that help me love animation! And that is a Canadian channel called teletoon. Which unfortunately has announced a few weeks ago, it will be replaced by Cartoon Network on March 27th.

For those who don’t know, Teletoon was basically our cartoon network. Before it ever came to Canada in 2011, we had Teletoon to provide us with the cartoon network shows! When I was a toddler I watched a lot of this channel as well as YTV! I remember all of the cartoon network shows that aired on this channel back in the day like Dexter’s Labaratory, Johnny Bravo, The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy, Codename Kids Next door, and many more! And not only that they also aired Warner Bros’s shows like the looney tunes, the scooby doo cartoons,the tom and jerry cartoons, the DC cartoons, and of course not to mention this is the channel that aired my number one favorite cartoon that made me go back to falling in love with animation, MAD the animated series!

However, this channel wouldn’t just show cartoon network shows! Since here in Canada we have this law that requires all Canadian channels to focus mostly on Canadian content, they do air some original content that might not be good but there are some that I highly remember watching that I loved back in my childhood, and there’s even cartoons that airs on the channel that dose come from CN or isn’t an original series from the channel.

As you can see, this was a Canadian channel for many cartoons! And the channel even has it’s own version of Boomerang and Adult swim! I remember it’s adult programing block back in the early 2000′s which was call The Detour on Teletoon where they actually aired the adult swim shows, but it would later be called Teletoon at Night in 2010. (However the block’s dead now since we officially got a separate Adult swim channel in 2019. I'm not joking! We actually have an full on Adult Swim channel!) And we also had Teletoon Retro which of course is our version of Boomerang where they aired some classic hanna-barbera and warner bros cartoons! But it became Cartoon Network and no longer aired retro shows. (for now..)

There was a lot of things I remember when watching this channel and it was really great to at least have access to watch most of CN’s content before we ever used the internet. And I’ve seen this channel change over the years, and yeah it’s not the same today as what I’ve used to watch when I was just a toddler and had no idea what’s even going on in these shows, but hey! Cartoons are meant to entertain kids and also adults! And I did had some memories where I enjoyed watching a show or two! And to hear this sad news that Teletoon is going to become Cartoon Network, and the Cartoon Network channel we have is actually going to be Boomerang, it feels...sad to me.

Again, this is a channel that I grew attached to in my childhood as well as other Canadians who grew up in the late 90′s to the early 2000′s. Heck even born in the 2000′s, like me! And im thankful I was able to watch this channel at it’s prime before we became so reliant on the internet and shows always have to be reliant with the internet today.

I’m going to miss teletoon so much, but... It’s not really dead since they have mentioned they’re going to make a new streaming service called teletoon+, but since it’s a streaming service, I aint paying for one! Ugh..

But yeah, overall I am sad to see the time where this channel disappear, but I am curious to see how will things go with Cartoon Network taking it’s place next week. But the time comes, I’ll always remember it as Teletoon! This channel gave me the chance to see Cartoon Network’s greatest cartoons! And Im glad that it did and i’m thankful for that! So here’s a little somber art piece I made just to pay respects for the network. I even added a little cameo of two cartoony characters (the wolf and the gopher) from one of the bumpers the channel used to air. However.. I don’t remember seeing those bumpers but they came out in 2003, I think?

So Teletoon, thanks for the memories and you’ll never be forgotten..

#my art #teletoon #canada #im not ready for the 27th :(

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fannish-karmiya · 2 years

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Sailor Moon in 90s Australia

Since the news about Saban Moon broke again with the new documentary about it (here’s a post about it with youtube link: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/luna-whiskers/693308308231159808?source=share) I got interested in my own ‘lost’ Sailor Moon experience.

I lived in Australia until I was nine, and the first tv show (not just anime) which I ever watched was Sailor Moon. I vaguely remembered that it was part of a long tv segment which included actors who would sometimes cosplay as Sailor Moon characters, and wanted to find some more information about it. It is not as obscure as Saban Moon, fortunately, and I did! For anyone else who is interested in the Aussie history of Sailor Moon, here’s what I’ve found so far.

https://www.moonkitty.net/aussie.php

Moon Kitty has a page about Sailor Moon in Australia, though their air date of 1994 is not accurate; the DiC dub of season 1 was only recorded in 1995:

This screenshot is taken from a 1996 episode of Agro’s Cartoon Connection, which is where Sailor Moon ran in Australia in the 90s. You can see this episode here on The Internet Archive, many thanks to the person who uploaded it:

https://archive.org/details/agros-cartoon-connection-the-book-place-partial-btq-7-1996

There’s no date beyond ‘96 listed, but the Sailor Moon episode which airs is episode 18 by the DiC dub count: ‘Worth a Princess’s Ransom’. This episode first aired September 22, 1995 in the US during Sailor Moon’s first run, according to Wikipedia. I’ve never been able to find a definitive date for when Sailor Moon first started airing in Australia, but based on this it must have either been early ‘96 or late ‘95. As the screencap before shows, it’s not possible for Moon Kitty’s date of ‘94 to be possible, since DiC only dubbed season 1 in ‘95.

This Agro’s episode features an entire Sailor Moon episode, as said, starting at 31:06. Another neat tidbit can be found a few times in this segment, an ad for Sailor Moon dolls! One repeat of the ad is at 22:10. I actually had some of these dolls as a kid!

Finally, I found some of the cosplay segments from Agro’s Cartoon Connection on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSrtIrVCm64

These are from a ‘Sailor Moon Week’ they did in ‘97, but I do recall that this was not the only time the cast cosplayed as Sailor Moon characters.

I can’t say for sure when I first started watching Sailor Moon, but now I know that it could have been as early as when I was five (my age during ‘96). It’s pretty incredible to get confirmation of just how long I’ve been into Sailor Moon; pretty much my whole life!

Actually, in the middle of writing this my parents called and I asked my mum about it, and got a bit more dating done. My school had a Halloween party in year 1, 1996 (I did not remember which year it was, only that it happened) and I was desperate to dress up as Sailor Moon for it. My poor mum drove all over Melbourne trying to find a costume for me and finally managed it (thanks and sorry, Mum!). So by that point I had already been obsessed with Sailor Moon for ages, ergo I did in fact start watching Sailor Moon at the age of 5 (I also still have my year 1 Japanese schoolbooks from back then, yes, my school taught Japanese back in the 90s). Incredible!

Sailor Moon ran pretty consistently in Oz all the way up until we moved to Canada in 2000, as far as I recall. I’ve heard that it had a much more bumpy road in the US, though? I never saw it airing in Canada (though I only watched Teletoon and YTV, so if it wasn’t on them I would have missed it), and when we moved to the US I never saw it airing at all.

#sailor moon #australia

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melis-hellis · 2 years

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teletoon tier list!

so first things first: i'm not canadian. i'm american. but i occasionally have moments where i become interested in Canadian cartoons. i'll be making blog posts and rambles about various Canadian cartoons that have shaped me. and what better way to start it off than none other than the famous tier list?

i originally made one giant tier list for all Canadian cartoons and it just ended up messy beyond comparison because of just how many i've never seen or hadn't seen in years and couldn't properly rank. also the tier list i used in particular was missing TONS of cartoons i personally thought were underrated.

so! i decided to use a better tier list for teletoon, my favorite of the Canadian networks and the one that obviously has produced the most animation, which is my specialty! i'll try to cook up a YTV list at some point because they've made bangers as well.

yeah i thought atomic betty was mid folks, sorry :(

also y'all may notice the weird placement of the total drama seasons. i watched the first season much, much later and the fourth but not any of the others. i was 6 when the show came to the US and i wasn't allowed to watch it (i wasn't allowed to watch any fresh TV cartoons until i was 10 lol). revenge of the island was the only one i watched as it aired and it was after they reallllyyy toned down the adult jokes. total drama was never one of my absolute favorites as i don't really plan to watch more of it, but at the same time i would DEFINITELY be up to writing a total drama/pixar AU with pixar characters competing against each other lol.

about rocket monkeys getting its own tier...yeah i'll get into that another day because it's too much to put here. god i feel so bad for dan and jason. i'm super happy they're doing graphic novels now to clear their name

this list still didn't include wishfart, which i haven't seen but i have heard it's underrated and it just happens to take place in a modern city populated by fantastical creatures and if you know me, my main fandom just happens to be a certain pixar film with that same premise...

all the shows in the hot pink tier are ones that i've heard are underrated, or ones that personally seem interesting to me. and i really need to change that soon since there's so many i haven't seen lol.

#teletoon #canadian cartoons #tier list #mel rambles about animation

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skelkankaos · 8 months

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#tumblr poll #canada #just saw one for american channels and i didn't get most of those channels until i was older so couldn't really respond

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onlyfroaskingcmcqusetions1 · 3 years

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Continue from last post from Tumblr doesn't delete this LOL. Okay, it's up for those who are unaware they have a lot of people say they have CBT which is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation again I might be remembering that wrong because I'm not from candida that's just one of my special interests so in about channels from other countries and find out what they have and don't have then there's a company called chorus course owned a lot of things including nelvana, and two other stations YTV is what they use for their General audience broadcast for children when I say General audience podcast for children I'm talking things like Invader Zim, and there's actually some others but we're going to stick with Invader Zim because that's the best ones that I can know think of right off the top of my head they also are things like Fairly OddParents because a lot of Nickelodeon's content with YTV Windows 10 Teletoon does have things for little kids to but it's kind of more I'm not sure the right word to explain it I think you'd be more likely to find things like 16 over there and maybe Clone High but I'm not sure. No, this is where the important one comes in this one is called a tree house and Treehouse television is designed for young when I say young children I'm mostly talking preschool I say mostly because there are some things that I'm specifically directed at preschoolers like say George shrinks which I think would party house at some point or other and just so you know she has direct is a wonderful platform does that the two ways you can access it via their YouTube channel 3 house Direct, and via the app on Smart television now I would stick to the YouTube channel I'm subscribed YouTube channel and that use the app but the the reason I say stick to the YouTube channel is because I don't know what the app is available on all smart devices. It may only be available on that everyone has Roku. Now, see how's direct has a lot of good things they have been stained Bears I'm pretty sure they have seven little monsters and I know for a fact that Timothy goes to school sometimes pop up their official and they have the episodes of shows there's an official Berenstain Bears Channel there is an official channel for Camp Lakebottom which by the way is that show is crap the only reason I watched one episode was because someone got turned into a baby, and fat is kind of interesting. So, there's even other channels as well I'm not sure if George shrinks as one and if they do well keep you posted because I'm going to immediately subscribe they have so many options out there you just need to know where the look little bear has a channel I'm pretty sure Max and Ruby might have one but I wouldn't go looking because that show was specifically made with Nickelodeon in mind so it's likely they fight, right strike I'm not sure that mr. Treehouse direct but to be fair Treehouse was the one that's made it for them or maybe Nickelodeon bought it from them I'm not sure. There are a lot of options out there you just need to know where to look, and another thing these channels are great.

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kujo1597 · 4 years

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Rules: Tag nine people you’d like to know better!

Tagged by @marikism Thank you! I haven’t been tagged in one of these things in a while. I enjoy them.

>Top Four Ships

I’m in so many fandoms, it’s hard to narrow down.

Yu-Gi-Oh: puzzleshipping, Yugi/Yami Yugi This one’s very nostalgic for me, a lot of my getting back into YGO is nostalgia. Yugi and Yami Yugi/Atem just have a great relationship with each other, they trust each other and help each other out. And guys, have y’all seen the way they look at each other?

puppyshipping/violetshipping, Seto Kaiba/Joey This is another very nostalgic one for me. I don’t remember what drew me to the ship in the first place in all honesty. I just know that I spent a lot of my teenage years imagining really cute domestic fluff involving them. They even adopted a daughter in my imaginings! Her name was Miranda Kaiba, she went by Randi. I watched the dub, can you tell?

Steven Universe: Amedot, Amethyst/Peridot, Too Far is when I started shipping them, the episode was all about Peridot trying to get close to Amethyst by making her laugh, until Peridot accidentally hurt Amethyst’s feelings, saving her life from a runaway drill led to some great scenes. And for the rest of the series they’ve been really close and adorable.

Dragon Quest XI: Luminerik, Luminary/Erik, I played the game, okay? I seriously can’t imagine playing the game and not shipping Luminerik. This is another ship where the characters trust each other deeply and are always there for each other.

Honourable mention, Kannao, Kanji Tatsumi/Naoto Shirogane, this was my first real ship in like, a decade so I have a huge soft spot for it. Pity it’s hard to find content for it now.

>Last Song

Useless Chatting, I’ve been rewatching .Hack//SIGN so I’ve been listening to that soundtrack. That show has some really fantastic music, even if you don’t plan on watching it, give the soundtrack a listen.

>Last Movie

The first live action Scooby Doo movie was on Teletoon recently and I watched that because why not. I swear, most of the movie watching I do is because something was on either Teletoon or YTV and I had nothing better to do.

>Reading

Whatever Infinity Train fanfics come trickling in. I haven’t had a ton of reading energy for a while. Which is a shame since there’s so many great writers in the Luminerik fandom. (I’m actually tagging a couple)

*Tagging*

Now the hard part, a lot of the people I can think of aren’t on Tumblr much anymore. So I’m gonna throw in some followers too since I’m curious about y’all. Of course, no obligation to do this.

@e350tb @saltwaffle @dontouchperi @lotsarocks @dentedsky @rissa-posts @omgitsaddyc @nedryn-laughs @critterfritter

#Tag Game #I am curious about all my followers I see in my activity a lot #My blog is such a multifandom disaster #If I tagged all my most seen followers I'd have way more than 9. You guys are great #Some day I'll binge the Luminerik tag and yell at these great writers!

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laresearchette · 4 years

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Saturday, December 07, 2019 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL: LIVE ON STAGE! (YTV) 8:00pm A CHRISTMAS LOVE STORY (W Network) 9:00pm DAN SODER: SON OF A GARY (HBO Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT CHRISTMAS UNLEASHED (Premiering on Lifetime Canada on December 08 at 8:00pm) STEVEN UNIVERSE FUTURE (Premiering on Teletoon on December 15 at 12:00pm) A HOMECOMING FOR THE HOLIDAYS (Premiering on W Network on December 15 at 7:00pm) MISTLETOE & MENORAHS (Premiering on Lifetime Canada on December 15 at 8:00pm) HE'S OUT TO GET YOU (TBD - Lifetime Canada) CRIMINAL CONFESSIONS (TBD) HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS (TBD)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME/CRAVE/NETFLIX CANADA/CBC GEM:

CRAVE TV DAN SODER: SON OF A GARY

NCAA WOMEN’S HOCKEY (TSN2) 1:30pm: Boston University at Boston College

NHL HOCKEY (TSN5) 1:00pm: Sens at Flyers (SN) 4:00pm: Sabres at Canucks (CBC/City/SN) 7:00pm: Leafs at Blues (CBC/SN) 10:00pm: Kings at Flames

PARA HOCKEY CUP (TSN4) 4:30pm: Gold Medal Game

W5 (CTV) 7:00pm: Investigating the impeachment case against U.S. president Donald Trump; amateur sleuths investigate cold cases to bring closure to families, but the practice is not without controversy.

SENSE, SENSIBILITY & SNOWMEN (W Network) 7:00pm: Christmas party planners Ella and her sister Marianne clash with client Edward, a not-so-jolly toy company CEO.

TWAS THE CHAOS BEFORE CHRISTMAS (BET Canada) 8:00pm: Morgan and Jayla decide to rent a luxurious home in Washington D.C. for the holidays so that Morgan's mother can easily join them to celebrate Christmas.

STAGING CHRISTMAS (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm: Lori is intrigued when a wealthy widower named Everett asks her to stage his home for the holidays to cheer up his daughter, Maddie.

MARY'S KITCHEN CRUSH (CTV) 8:00pm/8:30pm: Mary Berg makes a festive feast of roasted pork and parmesan potatoes by repurposing holiday leftovers for her favorite cousins. In Episode Two, Mary celebrates her first cookbook with a soup and sandwich lunch for her editor and photographer friends.

POP LIFE (CTV News Network) 8:30pm: Bernie Taupin wrote the words and Elton John wrote the tunes; Taupin talks about his new works inspired by that 50 year collaboration.

A ROSE FOR CHRISTMAS (CTV) 9:00pm: When a talented artist has no choice but to take the helm of her father's float-building business, she's forced to deal with a demanding businessman who doesn't have patience for art.

THE AFTERMATH (Crave) 9:00pm: In 1946 a British colonel and his wife move to Hamburg to rebuild the shattered city. They share a large home with a German widower and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.

PYEWACKET (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm: A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.

CHRISTMAS CHOWDOWN (Food Network Canada) 10:00pm: Carla Hall has her table set for a food-filled holiday; whether it's a Christmas tree made from a tower of waffles, a turducken turned into a mammoth po' boy or even the entire Feast of the Seven Fishes atop one pizza, 'tis the season for eating.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #W5 #mary's kitchen crush #pop life #ncaa hockey #nhl hockey #para hockey

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seeksstaronmewni · 5 years

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Oh, Joy! The Insanely Amazing Art of Animation Cartooning in Ren & Stimpy

In the era and world of the “modern” cartoon, there’s one show that started and defined most of the cartoons that we watch today... and that show is Spümcø’s/s The Ren & Stimpy Show.

What is there to love about a crazy, wacky, gross, dark and violent cartoon that people say is “ground-breaking”?

The gags. The detail. The sound. The stock music. The design. The animation. The layout artists...

I could go on about a show that was a part of @nickanimation’s/@nickelodeon... although, while considered a “kids” show, it truly is one of those... “cartoons for MEN”.

WARNING FOR HATERS: Before I go on, in regards to the show’s controversial creator, If his wrongs cause you to think hatefully of him, AVOID THIS POST! Don’t associate your hate with my posts and tweets about this ground-breaking cartoon.

Anyway, let’s look deep into the magic of the wackiest cartoon ever created that changed animation--namely “Western” animation--forever and for good...

THE TALENT

Under the creators Lynne Naylor-Reccardi, Jim Gomez, Felix Forte, and controversial creator John K., many gifted artists were a part of this amazing series, including @donshank, Charlie Bean, Carey Yost, Bob Camp, Chris Savino, @stephendestefano, the late and great Chris Reccardi (I began this article prior to his death on May 2nd, 2019 A.D.), Marc Perry, Mr. Lawrence (the “Ooh! My leg! My leg...” guy), Vincent Waller, Donovan Cook, Larry Murphy, Richard Pursel, @gadworks, @ncrossanimation, and many others. These people, many of whom were in the layout department, would go on from Spümcø to work on some of the most popular pieces of “Western” animation in history, like Spongebob Squarepants, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Mickey Mouse (Paul Rudish era), The Incredibles, the also ground-breaking The 2 Stupid Dogs/Super Secret Secret Squirrel Show and so much more!

One thing to note about these creatives is that John K.’s production company, Spümcø, was based in Canada, and so were its staff and creatives. I note this as most Canadian cartoons these days have no creatives who work in popular American animation (save for Wild Kratts character designer Alan Stewart, who did character design for some Season 7--or, in “reboot terms”, season 2--episodes of The Powerpuff Girls, as well as Lauren Faust’s My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Season 1 of Johnny Test). Most Canadian cartoons these days are on PBS or Cartoon Network, and some of those are imported from Teletoon or YTV. Such Canadian cartoons as Total Drama’s franchise, The Adventures of Benjamin Bear, My Pet Goldfish is Evil, and the like don’t have creatives who work on more “American” media.

Certain talents of Ren & Stimpy included Michael Fontanelli, Charlie Bean, Vincent Waller and Eddie Fitzgerald (creator of CN’s Tales of Worm Paranoia), who went on to contribute their artist talents in the YouTube Poop-phenomenon Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, which somewhat resembles that art direction of The Ren & Stimpy Show. Such talents also contributed to another insane-looking cartoon, Film Roman’s The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. Likewise, one of my favorite character designers, Carey Yost, who contributed to The Powerpuff Girls, Uncle Grandpa and Spongebob Squarepants, was a major layout artist on this show. Charlie Bean (Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls, The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) and Don Shank (most of the above, plus Sym-Bionic Titan) also served as layout artists, and they with Carey created a gem of a Cartoon Network Minisode, Buy One, Get One Free*, which reflects the animation and art of Spümcø and features creatives of Spümcø.

THE DETAILS

First thing to note in both art and animation is the barrier-breaking levels of exaggeration. The “wild take” is a common element to slapstick cartoons like The Ren & Stimpy Show, and the controversial creator was a part of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons (which developed the Cartoon Network and its studios). Many Spümcø creatives would work at H-B, too. Hanna-Barbera, who worked with animation legends like Tex Avery, would create some of the wildest takes in cartoons with A Pup Named Scooby-Doo!, but The Ren & Stimpy Show’s Season 2 opener “In The Army”, written & directed by Bob Camp, features what is probably the wildest wild take ever conceived by man in the history of history:

“You don’t want to anger that big, dopey...”

“...sar...”

*( Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - FLAT JEWS HARP BOING )*

*clink!*

*( Sound Ideas, THUMP, CARTOON - TUBE THUNK 01 )* [+12 pitch]

*glass breaks*

*( Sound Ideas, WOBBLE, CARTOON - SAW BLADE WOBBLE, MEDIUM )*

This wild take is really slow, huh?

Wait for it...

“GYAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

As if that weren’t wild enough, his brain pops out of his skull! Now, that’s more than just icing on the cake... it’s GENIUS!

Teen Titans GO! is perhaps the peak in the evolution of the “modern” cartoon that began with Ren & Stimpy, and in the hands of producer/director Luke Cormican, a layout artist on Ren & Stimpy’s “Adult Party Cartoon” episodes. It’s very nice that, in TTG episode “The Streak (Part 2)”, there was the parody illustration of duos in media, comparing Robin to Ren and Beast Boy to Stimpy. Some of the character designers on TTG worked on shows that included creatives from The Ren & Stimpy Show, too, namely Chris Battle.

One of the most popular episodes, of course, is the season one finale, Stimpy’s Invention.

These shots from the scene of Stimpy attempting to invent something are just beautiful! Great attention to detail and the lighting (including effects design) give a very cinematic, theatrical feel to a mere, 11-minute episode of a TV show. The art of the series has the charm of a 1940′s Paramount/Famous Studios “Noveltoon”, the Bob Clampett-directed Merry Melodies/Looney Tunes shorts (a major inspiration for John K.), and the Saturday morning cartoons of the 1960s, and the show’s creatives would become part of certain modern cartoons in the 1990s, some of which were dubbed by @cartoonnetwork as “Cartoon Cartoons”.

Also cinematic to the quality is the authentic film grain, a result of recording the cels (animated frame by frame on their respective backgrounds) on film. The deterioration of the episode’s film masters make it look believably like something out of the 1960s or even The Golden Age of Hollywood, the 1940s! (I personally dislike the quality that the videotape masters add to the picture, though. It may be that, in the future, UHD / HD prints could use the actual film masters, though!)

Some shots of Stimpy in Stimpy’s Invention have a color mistake where, like in the title card of the pilot “Big House Blues”, Stimpy’s nose is red instead of blue. It looks pretty swell on him, though.

The grooves and moves that Ren & Stimpy make during the montage of the song Happy Happy Joy Joy are filled with bouncy, weight-distributing pieces of animation, with lots of squash and stretch.

Speaking of “squash and stretch”, the above pics are of the extremes as Stimpy does a take of joy when he succeeds at making Ren be happy.

The takes of the characters really stretch their design and animation. Aurally, a common sound effect to accent these takes is a quick, loud record scratch, and their shaking/trembling movements often sound like a record rapidly skipping.

Regarding one of my favorite character designers, much of the designs by @cheyennecurtisart and @lynnvwang in early episodes of Disney’s Star vs. the Forces of Evil (particularly “Brittney’s Party”) are highly graphic and detailed, and that work of hers reminds me of the designs by Chris & Lynne Reccardi, Jim Smith, John K. and others. Very similar are the designs of @stephendestefano on Disney’s Mickey Mouse, which are also very graphic and extreme with character takes and injury aftermaths.

In the infamous Happy Happy Joy Joy sequence in “Stimpy’s Invention”, to stop himself from being controlled by the Happy Helmet, Ren whacks it (and thus himself) with a hammer to break it..

...and every hit pushes the extremes of not only the looks of his body, but also the styles of the psychotic-looking backgrounds.

Often in the show is a lot of mental breakdowns, including the end of Stimpy’s Invention as Ren goes from being the angriest he ever was in his entire life...

...to becoming very jovial as he comes to love being angry. That also causes a change in these psychedelic, psychotic backgrounds. The practice of such backgrounds came to other cartoons of the 1990s, such as The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show, in the episode “Night of the Living Shnookums”, with art direction by Lynne Naylor.

Another great episode, one of my favorites, is “The Boy Who Cried Rat!”, directed by Vincent Waller, who, replying to my tweet compliment, described the episode as “a chance to tip the hat to all the amazing cartoonist/ writer/ funny people who took the time to invest theirselves into their artwork for the enjoyment and tutelage of the regular folks and cartoonists to come.” The episode involves a literal game of “Cat and Mouse” and Stimpy tries to make a living for him and Ren by unleashing his inner cat in service to a couple. It probably bases itself, of course, on Tom and Jerry, and Ren’s costume references the fashion of Mickey Mouse.

Eventually, Stimpy is forced into eating the rat whom Ren plays (this reminds me of another classic cartoon, @paramountpictures’s Noveltoon called Cheese Burglar, featuring Herman and Katnip). In terms of cartoon physics, though, how did Ren become small enough to fit inside Stimpy’s mouth?

This episode features a very clever, unexpected visual gag that is the result of being hit with a frying pan.

See? and it’s not even a violent image, either.

Sometimes, the show would feature various segments among the episodes, including their close-out segment “What’ll We Do ‘Til Then”. The Ren & Stimpy Show actually predates Animaniacs (1993), VeggieTales (1993) and Uncle Granpda (2013), which were similar with a variety of segment material.

THE ANIMATION

The animation is certainly something when one considers the defining quality of this show’s animation, which occasionally was produced by Rough Draft Studios in Seoul, Korea, one of the most popular animation studios today. There’s also some great timing directors, like David Feiss (Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy), Bob Jacques, James Tim Walker (Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls, Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring), Kent Butterworth (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) and even the awesome Tony Fucile (Osmosis Jones, The Iron Giant, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Inside Out, The Little Mermaid), who was uncredited for a few episodes like “In The Army” and “Ren’s Toothache”).

This scene of animation from the episode “Nurse Stimpy” (frame shown above) is one of the very best pieces of animation ever done in the series. The balance between slow and mostly fast-paced animation/timing, along with weight, looks very cinematic--of theatrical-quality animation (like Don Bluth, Tony Fucile, etc.). The film’s quality is fairly deteriorated here, but film specks and stuff add to the cinematic feel.

THE SOUND

The sound design, of course, done at Horta Editorial and Sound, which became/folded into Hacienda Post at Sabre Media Studios, was also defining for the modern cartoon as an unusual array of sound effects were used to accent all sorts of takes, impacts, etc. The use of Hanna-Barbera & Warner Bros. sound effects (mostly available from Sound Ideas) with Disney sound effects (mostly available from Hollywood Edge’s Cartoon Trax Volume One) became a very common blend for many sound designers, up to today. Hacienda Post’s founder and president, Timothy J. Borquez (Spongebob Squarepants, Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls), served as the Re-Recording Mixer and Supervising Editor, as well as the uncredited sound designer, and considers the groundbreaking show to be “a laboratory for using classic sounds (in different contextual situations); adding Foley and new design to create "hybrid" textures and moments. We conscientiously did this and it opened up a whole new world for us! A lot of this was done on the mix stage.” He worked with talented sound editors like Michael M. Geisler, M.P.S.E., Michael A. Gollom, and sound/music editor William B. Griggs. Speaking of cartoon sound design expert Michael M. Geisler, M.P.S.E., in an Animation World Network article, Michael Geisler described the detailed process of sound design in a moment of the controversially violent scene in “Man’s Best Friend” (which never showed the credits): “Sometimes the eyelid closing and the eyelid opening are two very separate actions, and so each motion, open and close, must have different sound effects. In "Man's Best Friend," the classic Ren & Stimpy episode that introduces George Liquor, Ren smacks George with his own "Prize Bludgeoning Oar" and George's eye pops out of his head like a piece of meat. The eyelid does a wet sounding movement down over the eye until the eyelids meet and blink (splat, wet hit), and then slosh up again.” For some reason, however, on prints of that episode, George’s blink is silent.

The music for the show was usually unoriginal, very much like the series soundtrack to Spongebob, as it was mostly composed of music provided by Associated Production Music (APM). This included classical music, too, just as Tom and Jerry, Disney’s Silly Symphonies and Warner Bros.’ Merry Melodies/Looney Tunes would often use. Someone even created 3 volumes of Production Music from Ren & Stimpy, unofficial collections of APM music from the series. I kind of wish that they made those.

You may wonder at this point: After many years of seeing almost nothing of this series, how found I The Ren & Stimpy Show in my life?

I knew or remember very little of the show as I grew up (at least attempting to watch the episode “Ren’s Pecs” one Sunday afternoon in 2007 on Nick), but on August 13th, 2016 I saw another Spümcø project, the later Yogi Bear (or Ranger Smith) episode “Boo Boo Runs Wild”, on @adultswim. John K.’s approach to a classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon (CN doesn’t even air this stuff on anymore) was very inspiring. Looking the names of the team up on IMDb, I found that they were a part of many amazing cartoons that i grew up watching! In May 2017, recommended on my YouTube user were “disturbing” scenes from The Ren & Stimpy Show, including Ren’s insane threats in Sven Höek (the audio of which I heard in a YTP where the King [of Hyrule] goes psycho and does the same menacing threats) and perhaps a spiritual taste of Hell in Stimpy’s Fan Club. Ren’s acting (voiced then by creator John K) was so hilarious that, from that point onward, I desired to see more of this groundbreaking cartoon on which I was missing out.

On the day that I began to concept this post, June 18th, 2018, in my final visit to Toys ‘R Us (a local one, though I remember visiting the New York one in 2001), I got collectible Ren & Stimpy figures, and at the time of this post’s original concept I placed Ren and Stimpy in the presence of my Aku wacky wobbler.

It’s interesting that a 2018 Google spot regarding how children react to crowd noise used an excerpt from the episode Stimpy’s Fan Club. This practice is like certain phone commercials (namely T-Mobile, I think) that use some brief footage from “public domain” cartoons. Likewise, what Google did with that ad makes The Ren & Stimpy Show feel like a public domain cartoon (and the highly famous Merry Melodies/Looney Tunes and Popeye shorts were often distributed as “public domain” too, though WarnerMedia holds the ultimate rights to the shorts).

From a Christian viewpoint, The Ren & Stimpy Show is sometimes controversial, but its biggest controversy is whether it’s really a kids show or not--perhaps more of an adult show--mostly due to violence and intense situations like the aforementioned mental breakdowns (this excludes the “Adult Party Cartoon” episodes as those were deliberately produced for adults). Of course, classic cartoons of MGM, Warner Bros. and other studios would often show violence, sensuality, smoking, and alcoholics (even though Cartoon Network/Boomerang still rates them “TV-G”), so even those weren’t produced completely with children in mind. That’s why I consider this show and the aforementioned classic cartoons as “cartoons for MEN”.

The humor and heart of The Ren & Stimpy Show isn’t the purest either, given all of Ren’s hate and violent anger, but Stimpy’s Fan Club has an actually touching ending: after attempting to kill Stimpy or otherwise at least upset him, Ren discovers that the one fan letter addressed to him was from no one else but Stimpy himself--and Stimpy meant every word in his letter. Then, Ren is broken to tears.

THE FUTURE?

As a devote cartoon-watching guy, I find great inspiration from the barrier-breaking art and animation, visually and aurally, of The Ren & Stimpy Show. If you love slapstick comedy and cartoons, then this one’s definitely worth a watch--essential viewing. I surely hope that it comes back again; I can agree on one’s opinion for the show to come back (and, if you want the show to be rebooted as I do, share this IMDb list with Nickelodeon/Spümcø or whatever studio’s in charge). Now, if Viacom/Nick is willing, [adult swim]/Turner/WarnerMedia or some other studio may be better off to purchase the rights to Ren & Stimpy, as Nick or at least Paramount no longer wants anything to do with the series (due to the objectionable material in the “Adult Party Cartoon”), according to this article.

There were rumors of an upcoming Ren & Stimpy short that Nickelodeon Animation was producing. IMDb once removed the title, but now the short “It’s Our House Now!” may be in production by Jessica Borutski, also a former layout artist on the “Adult Party Cartoon”; this may be based on a short John K. sketched to promote Sponge Out of Water.

The closest thing to Ren & Stimpy so far is John K.’s Cans with out Labels [WARNING: some strong language and nudity], a dark, edgy Kickstarter short featuring George Liquor, including storyboards & layouts by Jim Smith and amazingly cartoonish, detailed, over-the-top animation, contributed by @gadworks, @mikepelensky and @sandrarivasart (a DVD is available for $25 purchase here). Color cards were made by @kalikazoo too.

In the future, also, it would be swell to see true high-definition transfers of the actual film negatives for the non-digitally animated episodes of Ren & Stimpy. Most filmed cartoons were often recorded onto videotape masters, which lowered the quality, and I suppose that some of the film negatives still exist in Spumco’s/Nickelodeon’s archives. In point of fact, this clip of The Muddy Mudskipper Intro here looks like it came from an actual film negative (of which I tweeted), with brighter colors and no videotape quality. Though the film looks fairly aged, it looks better than usual prints of the scene.

As we come to the conclusion, I have some additional notes: I began this post in January 2019. 5 months later, Chris Reccardi died, so I refer to him in my posts as the Late and Great Chris Reccardi. He and his family are in my thoughts and prayers. A documentary premiered at Sundance 2020 on January 28th, 2020, Ron Cicero’s Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story; while the controversial creator is known for some terrible things he did due to mental issues in the past, the least people could do is respect the work of both John K and his groundbreaking team. If it weren’t for them, many great Western animation projects for Cartoon Network, Pixar, Disney TVA, Nickelodeon and others would not be the same.

Before I close, whether or not you think negatively of John K., here’s something you should know, understand, and remember about the value of the creatives of The Ren & Stimpy Show: "Brilliant cartoonists like Lynne Naylor, Jim Smith, Bob Camp, Vincent Waller, Rich Pursel, Elinor Blake, Bill Wray, Chris Reccardi, Gabe Swarr and many many more added a lot of richness and personality to the cartoons. Actors like Billy West, Cheryl Chase, Mike Pataki, Gary Owens, Eric Bauza and others inspired us all to capture the subtle nuances in their readings. Henry Porch, Bill Griggs and Tim Borquez contributed much to the wacky new sound design style Ren and Stimpy was known for. We also had some very talented producers like Chris Danzo, Libby Simon and Kevin Kolde who helped me execute the totally new production system that gave the artists ways to express themselves more personally. These people and more are all heroes to me. Think of them when you remember my cartoons." I will always think of these people and pray for them.

For the inspiration, I give thanks to the entire Spümcø staff and creatives who went on to produce some of the best cartoons ever made.

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