From: Adriene_Nazaretian@QM.YCC.YALE.EDU (Go GIANTS!)
Subject: Re: Attention All Fans
Organization: Yale University Computing & Information Systems
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 14:04:48 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.220451.9688@quake.sylmar.ca.us> Jenny.Lerew%bbs@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Jenny Lerew) writes:
>From: Jenny.Lerew%bbs@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Jenny Lerew)
>Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 22:04:51 PDT
>Subject: Attention All Fans

>    
>    
>     OK, first let me say that I'm a professional in the animation 
>business who's been following the posts here for some time with great
>interest.  My reason for this is that I know John K. and his core 
>group of artists, personally as well as professionally. After the
>events of a few weeks ago, John and I were discussing the situation,
>and I told him about the reaction of the guys on Usenet.  He was impressed
>by the action a lot of you said you were taking on behalf of his show.
>I also told him how, with each new development, rumors were flying 
>re: the reasons for Nickelodeon's yanking R&S, the future of the series,
>and whether or not he was going to have any involvement in it creatively.
>     He asked me if I'd post something to clear up a few things. I'm going
>to try to be as succinct as possible. First:

>        Nickelodeon's claims of *having* to take the show away because
>of missed deadlines and going over budget are false.  John had gotten 
>the series ON TIME.  Nick has just put the show behind by their actions.
>As has been mentioned before, they didn't have to show reruns so early
>this season--they did it because they suddenly decided not to air the 
>new episodes they had.  Furthermore, these episodes WERE EXACTLY THE SAME,
>SHOT FOR SHOT, AS THE STORYBOARDS THEY'D APPROVED MONTHS AGO, so Spumco
>WAS NOT pulling a fast one on Nick, as some have said.  I know, since I
>saw the boards, *and* Nick's notes on those boards, and the finished show.
>So why they got cold feet--who knows?

>     As for the budget: When Nick took the show from John/Spumco, all
>they got was Bob Camp and some drawings.  No equipment, no space,
>and NO staff...as I write this Nick has opened a new, expensive office
>for Bob Camp, they still need to buy everything to go in it, plus they
>have a standing offer to Spumco's artists to "go over" and work ther
> for a big increase in salary.  Sound like they're worried about the
>budget to you?  Incidentally, not one of the important artists that
>drew/wrote Ren & Stimpy have taken them up on that offer.  These are
>people who work in a currently tight market, who have house payments
>and (some of them) kids to feed.  No sir, they won't do it.
>     
>      Some of the best work John & Co. has ever done might never be
>seen, as Nick is NOW slicing and dicing away at the remaining shows,
>in their various stages of completion.  John is not going to allow 
>his name to go on these shows, so be warned.  When I heard that John
>had been made a "consultant" on R&S, I asked him what that meant.
>What it means, folks, is NOTHING.  It's PR on Nickelodeon's part,
>to calm down all the angry fans they've been hearing from.  Unless
>John has the creative control that got the series conceived in the 
>first place, he won't involve himself.  Anything less would amount
> to WAY too much less.

>    The question is: do you want to see the shows listed in FILM
>THREAT the way they were intended to be seen, done by an artist
>who has been killing himself to perfect them?  Or will you settle
>for a vastly inferior version, as Nickelodeon thinks, plans and 
>hopes smugly that you will?  

>Bob Camp, to put it mildly, is out of his depth as the "head"
>of production of Ren & Stimpy.  If he *does* somehow manage to eke
>out the shows, the shows will suffer for it.  It's entirely
>possible that when Nick sees disaster looming, they'll realize
>their mistake and go back to the source for help.  
> 
>    If any of you think *that* would be a nice turn of events--
>if you know that the reason this show exists is Spumco--John and
>the rest of his loyal cartoonists--then let Nickolodeon know.
>Don't be snowed by the company line.  Tell them you know the 
>difference between the real thing and a corporate, plastic
> changeling they would put in its place, if they can get away with it.

>BTW, the "inside dope" about John directing a Rescue Rangers movie
>for Disney is pretty funny to John.  Where do these things come from?


Thank you for discussing our concerns with John. 

Now on  to the FLAMES!
THOSE FEEELTHY SWINES.... I WILLL KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL THEM!

How DARE THEY try to pull a fast one on US!
NO SIR, I DONT THINK I HAVE ANY USE FOR NICK ANY MORE!

I will continue to bombard NICK and VIACOM with faxes, letters, etc...
We may have to ask the Evil Sheriff of Dodge City to step in on our behalf.

Adriene L. Nazaretian        
Yale University              
ADRIENE@YALEADS.BITNET        
ADRIENE@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU