So I watched the NEW Ren & Stimpy...
 

An acquaintance of mine has a job-related connection to the television industry, and managed to borrow a preview copy of the new Ren & Stimpy pilot for the weekend. (It's going to air on Thursday, June 26th on Spike TV (TNN) at 10 PM, followed by Gary the Rat, Stripperella, and Ren & Stimpy Classics (the old Nick episodes with the Nick censorship removed.))

A few mostly-nonspoilerish insights:

* You'll never think of baseball the same way again.

* The relationship between Ren and Stimpy has... changed a bit.

* This episode, for lack of a better description, may be a decade's worth of Nickelodeon-censor frustration coming out in a thirty-minute broadcast. Whoof. If you thought the gross-out humor was their trademark in the old days, wait 'til you get a load of them now in their South Park-esque time slot.

Which doesn't surprise me at all, really. I do wonder if John K. will do what Parker & Stone did with South Park -- attract initial viewers by being raunchy, then hook 'em with some nifty writing and inventive storylines -- or if he'll keep playing the booger-joke card that got him here. Either way, it should be epic in the telling.

It's good to know that everyone's favorite psychotic dog and cat team will be back. I was always dissapointed out how few were initally made back in 1992. So consequently I have them all memorized. So the relationship between Ren and Stimpy has changed?.....no more fat bloated eeediot?

Oh, Ren still berates and bullies Stimpy mercilessly, just like in the old days. Trust me, you'll know the change when you see it. :)