The Ren & Stimpy Show: Deep Thoughts About Taking Animation Seriously and the Complicated Legacy of Genius

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!This week on Deep Thoughts, Tracie brings nostalgia, comedy, and the unfortunate realization that you really can’t go home again with her analysis of The Ren & Stimpy Show. While creator and tortured animation genius John K brought back the artistry and commitment to craft when his angry Chihuahua and sweetly dim cat graced our screens in the early 1990s, he did so with a big old side of emotional and psychological abuse of his fellow animators and predation on teenage female fans. We revisit the hilarity that still makes Tracie and Emily snort their drinks, the comedy and storytelling that haven’t aged well, and the complicated pop culture legacy of a brilliant artist who thought the rules didn’t apply to him.Throw on your headphones because It’s Pod, it’s Pod! It’s long and funny and good!CW: discussions of statutory rape and grooming.Mentioned on this episode:Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy StoryOur theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Learn more about Tracie and Emily (including our other projects), join the Guy Girls' family, secure exclusive access to bonus episodes, video versions, and early access to Deep Thoughts by visiting us on Patreon. We are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find. We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com. For our work together, visit guygirlsmedia.com We are on socials! Find us on Facebook at fb.com/dtasspodcast and on Insta at instagram.com/guygirlsmedia. You can also email us at guygirlsmedia at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you!