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Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"

American adult animated television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ6311398 ↗
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Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" is an American adult animated comedy television series created by John Kricfalusi and produced by Spümcø for TNN / Spike TV. The series was developed as a more extreme revamp and reboot of Nickelodeon's The Ren & Stimpy Show, whose first two seasons were produced by Spümcø.

The series premiered on June 26, 2003, and was removed from the network on July 24, after airing three episodes; the remaining episodes were released on DVD.

While the series did receive praise for its animation quality, Adult Party Cartoon was heavily panned by critics, audiences and fans of the original series for its humor, tone, and deviations from its predecessor, leading to its abrupt cancellation. It has since been widely regarded as one of the worst animated series ever made.

History

The original Ren & Stimpy Show premiered alongside Rugrats and Doug as one of the original Nicktoons on the children's network Nickelodeon in 1991. The show's creator, John Kricfalusi, had many altercations with the network, eventually culminating in his termination the following year. The series continued until 1995 at Games Animation, with issues prevalent during Kricfalusi's tenure still present; it eventually ended with a single episode airing on MTV in 1996. In 2002, about a decade after Kricfalusi's termination, Nickelodeon's parent company Viacom contacted him to produce a new version of his series for an updated version of sister network TNN/Spike TV, which was devoted to programming for male audiences. Kricfalusi said that TNN wanted an "extreme" version of The Ren & Stimpy Show. TNN gave Kricfalusi greater control of the writing and contents of the episodes, and he produced six "new" episodes aimed at adult audiences; of the episodes, "Altruists" was not a leftover from the original series, being an original idea from Eric Bauza. As in the original series, Kricfalusi ran into problems with meeting production deadlines and budgetary limits, with three out of the nine episodes ordered by the network being completed on time at the cost of the entire nine-episode budget initially allocated by Spike.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.