http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv2LCSJcDaE
The Ren and Stimpy Show was one of my favorites growing up, watching it at the time, I always thought of it as an “off the wall” type of show. The Ren and Stimpy Show is a classic example of a kids show having very adult themes. Looking back now, I did not realize some of the subtle things in the show. Animation for Ren and Stimpy is simple and rough. The background will be an animated still in a lot of cases. Also the characters facial expressions will be the same in certain instances. Stimpy has a human butt, while Ren has pink eyes. In this clip, it shows Ren and Stimpy getting ready to go to bed, Stimpy is going through his routine in the bathroom, which includes taking off his nose to clean it, and taking out his eyeballs. Crude jokes like that made the show stand out from all the other shows on Nickelodeon, it also caused some controversy.
The clip also shows that Ren and Stimpy sleep in the same bed, one can simply look past this and say “it is nothing, one is a cat, and the other is a dog”. It would be naïve however, not to think that they are in a homosexual/abusive relationship with each other. Ren is the dominant one, he is always yelling and angry, and in some episodes he physically abuses Ren. Stimpy is the passive one, he is never upset it seems, and always sees the glass half full. The passiveness of Stimpy is shown in his dream, where Stimpy is breast feeding several cats, and when Stimpy is sleeping he has hair curlers in his hair. The clip shown is only a miniscule of some of the crazy things the show use to show.
