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The Ren & Stimpy Show / Season Five and Some More of Four : 2 of 5
7.18.2006 6:09 PM \| Link	One of my DVD-buying diseases is once I start a series, I just have to get the whole thing. I knew this would be interesting when I started buying Ren & Stimpy on DVD, since the final seasons were pretty lousy after John Kricfalusi was completely out of the picture. Well, I've finally finished these cartoons, and I'm kind of glad it's over (though there were a few good ones that I was happy to see). Everything on this set was produced by the Games studio, not Spumco, so the commentary is especially fascinating, since in many cases the artists are talking about cartoons they had no involvement with. It's a blast to listen to John cringe over some of the particularly bad ones! There are a few cases where a single episode will have two commentaries - one by Spumco guys and another by Games guys, and it's amazing to hear the differences in opinion! I kind of like Double Header (that has Ren & Stimpy sewn together!) and Ren's Brain (with Stimpy as a brain surgeon), just because the premise of their plots really reminds me of some of great early season cartoons. It's hard to describe just what's missing from the bad episodes - there's definitely a loss of animation quality, but I think the main thing is the plots just seem to run until their time is up and then end with hardly any resolution or punch line! Oh well, I'm still glad I have these to complete my set, although now I'll have to get the most recent episodes produced for Spike TV! Labels: dvds


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