Word: ren
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...prime-time success of The Simpsons (the medium's best-written series, no question, no competition) and the cult appeal of Nickelodeon's gross-out, only slightly homoerotic Ren & Stimpy is matched in daytime slots by cartoon shows from Disney and Fox. In commercials and music videos, in Nintendo games and as a top-selling portion of the videocassette market, animation appeals both to adults nostalgic for their Roadrunner days and to ) kids, whose attention span just about carries them from one frenetic cartoon frame to the next. "Video has made children discriminating consumers of cartoons," says Simpsons creator Matt...
Best of the International Tournee of Animation. Through Oct. 22. Featuring the original pilot of the Ren & Stimpy Show. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square. Fridays at 7 and 9:30 p.m. and midnight. Saturdays at 2, 7 and 9:30 p.m. and midnight. Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7 and 9:30 p.m. $6 in advance at Ticket Master; $6.50 at the box office. The box office opens one hour prior to the first show. Call 625-5700 for more information...
...wrote free-lance for Gaines in the '50s, and Kovacs and Mad begat Saturday Night Live and David Letterman (who is, physically as well as spiritually, Alfred E. You-Know-Who come to life). Without Gaines and Mad there might have been no National Lampoon, no Maus, no Ren & Stimpy...
...TELEVISION Ren & Stimpy breaks up 2.2 million households...
...style or substance should rent 101 Dalmatians. One of the new adventures visits the men's room of the White House, where the President has a painful encounter with his fly zipper; in the same episode, the Pope (voiced by Zappa) gets lost in Antarctica. In another show, Ren and Stimpy play their favorite board game, Don't Pee on the Electric Fence...