You Can’t Do That on Television
A room full of Canadian kids, a writers’ room that later ran half of American television comedy, and one rule that outlived the show itself: when a kid in a vest says “I don’t know” while the green slime descends,…
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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…
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…