The Ren & Stimpy Show
John Kricfalusi took the buddy cartoon, deleted the plot, and filled the space with faces: the gross up close of Stimpy’s tongue on a honeycomb, the sweat, the snot, the veins. The Ren and Stimpy Show is the reason nineties…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Four mutant turtles, a rat sensei, a pizza fixation, and a theme song that infected a generation. The 1987 series took Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s indie comic, ran it through the kid friendly filter of the decade, and became…
The Real Ghostbusters
After Gozer got tossed through the skyline, the franchise’s smarter move was to animate the property instead of chasing it. The Real Ghostbusters keeps the firehouse, keeps the containment units, and turns the team loose on a weekly parade of…
Johnny Bravo
A pompadoured gym rat with Elvis lips and zero self awareness flexes at women who recoil, and the joke holds for three seasons because Van Partible built the perfect machine: Johnny never learns, never lands, and never stops trying. The…