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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...
...Initial responses were mixed. A reviewer for the Austin American-Statesman griped, "I don't remember ever seeing animated retching before, and hope to never see it again." Campus critics took a different view. Ren's constant bleat -- "You bloated sack of protoplasm!" -- began to replace Bart Simpson's "Eat my shorts!" as their put-down of choice. Frank Zappa joined the fan club. So did Robert De Niro and pop singer Matthew Sweet. Dormitories at Yale, the University of Michigan and U.S.C. staged viewing parties, where undergraduates displayed their new Ren & Stimpy T shirts...
...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...