It's Ripping Time

Remember Ren & Stimpy? Sure you do. It was the odd-ball cartoon show that never should have existed. Produced at a time when everyone was looking for the next Simpsons. Excellent as it was, it was too quirky to compete with the global phenomenom that The Simpsons became (others that tried and failed to meet their might included Family Guy, King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead). Ren & Stimpy soon went ‘tits up’, as network execs proceeded to batter the thing to death. Luckily founding father, John Kricfalusi, and his company Spümcø didn’t throw the towel in and, although none of their later projects could match the appeal of Ren & Stimpy, they came up with some pretty cool by-products. By far, my fave has to be Ripping Friends… 4 superheroes, Jimmy the Idiot Boy and their Mum battling mutant chewing gum, spine-stealing flatworms and more. Almost impossible to find on DVD or your telly schedule, you can now find them on GameBoy (?!).