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This show was rated Y7 when I was a kid. Now it’s rated TV-14.
Jul 28, 2025 4:42 AM
P0sit1veTh0ughts
25293
683
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This show was rated Y7 when I was a kid. Now it’s rated TV-14.
tallroses
My parents questioned this at the time….very seriously. It was not permitted for quite a while
MajorasFlipFlops
I know it’s not a popular opinion. I absolutely just had to pretend to like it as a kid. I thought it was creepy. Granted it did have episodes, nah man, show made me feel like I needed a shower.w
djangojazz
Mr Horse: "No sir I didn't like it". Trapdoor opens and everything falls away. That and 'Log' remind me of things that randomly enter my mind for no reason from the 90s
lightfoot2
Renn going wild with a boat oar was.... impressive.
DustyBibbles
I told you I'd shoot! But you didnt believe me! Why didnt you believe me!?!
ToonamiT0M
My parents drew the line at Ren and Stimpy, and they were absolutely right to do so.
slidewhistlesymphony
I loved Ren and Stimpy! Thank you for posting this!
FuzorFishbug
Oh hey, actual for-kids Ren & Stimpy and not the Adult Party Cartoon run. It's been a while.
Melonfish
Are you kidding? Me and my Mum used to sit down and watch Ren and Stimpy together laughing like loons.
My dad thought it was weird, we loved it.
SoraHjort
Meanwhile, you and your dad would sit down every saturday morning to watch Earthworm Jim and Freakazoid. which both were their own brand of weird :P
Exyr
They were gonna remake the shoe but it turns out the creator was a cho
michiyl
Gesundheit
4EverWaz
The tooth fairy episode was such gold.
ROGUEdenied
My favorite episode
bitemark
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bzBsaDh1azFkN3gwZjRkYzE1bWFod2pjZDZ1cDd3cmR5aGppeXZleSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/xUNd9QgrvD0Iol0VUY/200w.webp
Macetheace50
I remember The Maxx and Aeon Flux, too.
bourbonandbaddecisions
Liquid television
Mithi
"Do you know how hard it is to catch an airwhale going in this direction?"
Telemapus
When R&S debuted they of course had to tone it down, walk the line, push as far as they could and no further... and that's part of what made it great. Supporting this idea is that when it got a reboot on Spike TV with no rules, no holes barred, fully nudity and profanity etc... and it kind of sucked. Possibly undermining this idea is that I'm not sure if it really did suck or if it was more about how Kricfalusi didn't care about production schedules?
eggmuffin
Great art is born from limitations. Problems beget solutions.
When there is no obstacle to expression, it becomes just that. Just someone saying stuff.
moosemaimer
johnnydeeznutz
I never understood why my parents never LET me watch ren and stimpy. I still would behind their back but the truth is kids don’t really understand what’s going on they just see a funny looking dude doing funny stuff, but as an adult I would never let my 8 year old watch this either haha
andrewcj8
President... president of what? HIS fan club
ZeRootOfAllEvil
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1ZnA4NXFmY3hxcm55czdvcHZ3dmJvbDR4YTRsZnF1ZDhjeTdpbmdwcCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/33UbGsRWIZhkc/200w.webp
thatwoodguy
Stimpy, you idiot
lehenry
Sometimes, he has 4 fingers, sometimes 3.
ongabonga
"AI" entered the chat.
psmith00
interesting. i saw these as an adult back in the day and always thought they were intended for adults. maybe it was the particular channel they were on in Canada. to find now they were rated Y7 is weird. almost as weird as the cartoons.
i mean when the cartoons included scenes like a walrus imprisoned in a giant nipple pleading for someone to "call the police."
vissago
billy west has voiced like, all of your childhood cartoon voices
ThatBobbersonBoy
Billy West? What a stupid, phony, made-up name.
Slidje
And Charlie Adler
certifiedllama
No he didnt. Phil LaMarr did Samarai Jack
Lizzzardwizard
And now adult cartoon voices. Love ya Moxxy
vissago
oh hes definitely still at it
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
That’s not Billy West, Moxxy is Richard Horvitz (aka Invader Zim)
hashbaz
They both voiced Zim.
Hashbrown123
Daggett.
Lizzzardwizard
Oh dang you’re absolutely right! My brain is mush… from all the cartoons. How embarrassing, as someone who won’t stop watching Futurama I did actually know this. https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJld2VmNzQ1d2p3ODdiZ3ptOHNlb3d4bnh3YXEyNXV0bnp2c2JnZ2Q1dyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/xUOwGm7pdxSPh6uzXq/200w.mp4
dripstone
what's wrong with this? Happy Happy Joy Joy!
WhatAboutEyebrows
You think my parents ever saw what I was watching? They both worked long hours.
ExOneOneSeven
Divisive show it seems
GasBandit
I loved this show, it was so ugly. Awesome.
parabolic000
I used to watch tons of TV at my grandparents' house up north because my mom refused to spring for cable, and they had satellite TV. I was watching Daria and my grandpa walks in, stands there for maybe a minute, and then walks off, saying "Jesus Christ this is a depressing cartoon."
RIP Grandpa, you were funny as hell.
moosemaimer
"Find some other way to feel. Then, you won't be sad."
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
how very Macbethian - and the music fits perfectly too
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
I hated this cartoon as a kid. It was just so ugly in every way.
NecroNikolai13
Same, mom wouldn't let me watch this show. Well of course I eventually watched it, the halloween episode on a vhs of Nick halloween specials, and I've never watched R&S again, thought it was just dumb and went back to Rocko.
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
I couldn’t stand the humor.
proxyinitiative
What humor
billymaditsdone
I loved it as a kid. It wasn't like this scene. Most the time, it was more goofy like walking with their butt cheeks instead of their legs. Or that time when one of them gave birth to a cute fart baby. But strangely, beavis and butthead I hated bc it was low effort gross humor in my mind lol. I still can't get into Beavis & Butthead.
stonecoldstevebuschemi
It was always intended to be ugly. That's weirdos like me like it.
Pizzeption
Same. Evan as an adult, I can't get behind it. Just not my brand of weird I guess.
ArchSchnitz
It was geared to my age group, but I never enjoyed it. It was weird and perverse, and not in the way I enjoyed.
VictusVonGuyver
And this is tame compared to the creators later works. I could stand Ten and Stimpy, but not that later stuff.
stevelite
I loved this magnificent masterpiece in all its righteous glory 😅
Zixtank
Titally agree. The artstyle is disgustingly offputting
lurkertron5000
The best kind of agree
ladyjigglebutt
I remember watching Ren & Stimpy a few times. Not out of enjoyment, more like morbid fascination and disgust, trying to understand why others found it so entertaining.
kn1fe79
what about now? still the same?
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
Worse, because now I understand all the references.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Yep
ApothecaryGrant
Nobody questioned it in the 90s. The show was widely celebrated at the time.
The reason why people no longer celebrate or talk about Ren & Stimpy today is not because we suddenly realized the show was too grotesque or too psychologically unhinged to be shown to kids.
It's because the show's creator John Kricfalusi is a pedo who groomed underage girls and reportedly had child porn on his computer. He only escaped investigation because police said the statute of limitations had passed.
whitebbwolf
IncognitoEnthusiast
I've literally never heard about this holy shit.
ThatQuietlySmirking
TBF, he was fired from the show after the first season.
Telemapus
It's available right now on Paramount+ in my country (Australia)?
ApothecaryGrant
The cartoon itself was never banned. It's just zombie IP that companies can use to pad out their content for cheap. Besides, it's not like Paramount has a moral compass.
spaceskimo
Tons of parents, including mine, wouldn't let their kids watch Ren and Stimpy. A lot of adults questioned it in the 90s because it was viewed as too edgy for children.
DarkVoivod
Well, ad that to the list of shitty things I now know. God fucking dammit....
StaircaseOfSatan
Not sure exactly true, but it sure didn’t fuckin’ help. There’s still a back order of sensibility changes about what can be allowed in shows like these before all that came out.
That said, John K was a shit person to work for apparently, even without all the pedo shit he was pulling behind everyone’s back
ExTechOp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kricfalusi#Sexual_abuse_allegations
wraithnix
I wouldn't call Dilbert "beloved".
StaircaseOfSatan
Dilbert definitely was beloved for a long time, even as a non-office rat kid back in the aughts. Scott Adam’s just isn’t funny and is just…a problem to put it nicely
ExTechOp
Currently not (the strip has really gone down the drain), but I remember about 35 years back when the strip started it really resonated with office rats like me.
Sypurist
If you told me that was a real Dilbert strip, I wouldn't even doubt it.
gapalanaky1
Do I dare ask what the creator of Earthworm Jim did? And who’s the character on the right?
ExTechOp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_TenNapel#Criticism_and_controversy
On the right, Harry Potter, so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_J._K._Rowling#Transgender_people (it has been claimed an impulse for her agreeing to the creation of the upcoming Harry Potter TV series is that the film series cast openly opposed her TERF views)
Magnar1183
I've never been able to figure out why Doug's surname has two capitals.
SpicyTrashManda
I’m not positive, but it might be a Dutch surname. “Ten” is an element of some Dutch names in the same manner as “von” in German or “de” in French, showing that someone is from somewhere/belonging to a group.
Whitemannatee
Jfc, and this is the guy who's most known for a hermaphroditic hero in a super-suit.
gapalanaky1
Yeah, I wouldn’t have guessed HP.
KWJester49
Oh, thats supposed to be Harry Potter
Canigetbannedagain2
Same thought.