7th April 2013, 11:13 AM
Happy Helmets is one of the best Ren & Stimpy episodes, as is Space Madness and Stimpy's Cartoon, but John K, while very knowledgable and tasteful, isn't what I'd call a talented cartoonist. When he was given full creative control in the Ren & Stimpy Adult Cartoon show, it was an abysmal experience to sit through. Terrible, unfunny humor that you'd cast off the moment you stepped into your college freshman dormitory. One awful joke after another, stretched to minutes past its welcome.
Ren & Stimpy had moments where it was the perfect balance between John K's weird sense of humor and aesthetic, while simultaneously toning him down. However, taken as a whole, even selecting a random episode of Ren & Stimpy doesn't do a lot for me.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, as pop culture isn't a factor here. I only meant that the same jokes / tempo of the show are not as appealing to me now as they were when I was a kid.
As for giving you one episode that epitomizes the humor of Adventure Time, I've only seen the first two episodes. Whether you get the humor or not can be pretty much decided by watching a few minutes of either of them. No big deal if you don't get it. I can't get into The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Wire, or any number of popular TV shows that people clamor about.
Ren & Stimpy had moments where it was the perfect balance between John K's weird sense of humor and aesthetic, while simultaneously toning him down. However, taken as a whole, even selecting a random episode of Ren & Stimpy doesn't do a lot for me.
Quote:I have a hard time saying they didn't age well considering there's really not much if any pop culture humor on the show.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, as pop culture isn't a factor here. I only meant that the same jokes / tempo of the show are not as appealing to me now as they were when I was a kid.
As for giving you one episode that epitomizes the humor of Adventure Time, I've only seen the first two episodes. Whether you get the humor or not can be pretty much decided by watching a few minutes of either of them. No big deal if you don't get it. I can't get into The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Wire, or any number of popular TV shows that people clamor about.