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From: bmacdona@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Brian K!z!K MacDonald)
Subject: "In the Army" and "Powdered Toast Man" reviews
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 16 Aug 92 20:43:36 GMT

   Well, before the new episodes last night, I held a R&S mini marathon
  at 6:00pm playing all 6 full shows plus the introductory BHB.

   It was getting QUITE annoying with that guy saying "HEY KIDS! It's
  SNICK LIVE!  OK MICHELLE FROM BUTTFUCK, ALABAMA, PICK A NUMBER AND
  SEE IF YOU CAN MATCH OUR NICK SHOWS!" seconds before the episodes.

  In the Army:  Well, after god knows how long, I thought anything new
   from R&S would be inviting, and ITA didn't dissapoint. Although it wasn't
  bad, there were obvious standouts in the show, and not one big side-splitter
  all the way through.  Here are my favorite moments:
    Stimpy accidentally peeling his nose with a knife and not noticing.
    Stimpy in the tear-gas room.
    Ren's expression after seeing Sarge come out of the mud (Nice skull, man).
    The whole scene when R&S were going to bed.
    Ren's reaction to little sleep: "NO SLEEP.  NO BED" then taking an
        axe and killing the bed.  I like Ren's voice here, similar to the
         crazed floating tub scene in Space Madness.
    Ren's crazed dialogue before he grabs Stimpy to escape boot camp.
    R&S singing "America the beautiful" while in a falling tank about to
      crash.

   Powdered Toast Man:
     First off, I congratulate John. K for introducing a episode centering
  on a new character.  I hope to see many more PTM episodes.
    This one I though was a good-to-great all-the-way-through side splitter.
    PTM's voice along makes the episode worth it.  I won't mention standouts
   as most of the scenes were very good.
   But I wonder if Zappa had an influence in the writing of this episode.
    I would never expect to show a cartoon burning the Bill of Rights and
    the Constitution.  I'm glad SOMEONE was brave enough to do it.
   I'd really like to see what happens between PTM and His Lovely Assistant.

           "THE END?"

    Worst moment in weekend:
      I was confident that they would show this same episode this morning
  at 11:00am.  But curiousity got the better of me, so I woke up and tuned
  in, only to see the intro to "Marooned".   THAT SUCKS!  Can't I have ONE
  SATURDAY NIGHT free without worrying about missing new R&S?

   Yeah, Yeah, you'll say "what about programming your VCR?".  Well if you
  edit out commercials like I do, then that's just not the best solution.
  Guess I'll have to propel myself with my Super Toaster Projectile to find
  someone willing to do it for me on the night of the Sonic Youth/Mudhoney/
  Pavement show this coming Saturday in September.

    "NO SLEEP.  NO BED.  NO NO NO BED BED BED. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHH!"

                                                       K!z!K

Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: bates@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Andrew Bates)
Subject: Re: but..do any kids watch ?
Organization: NASA/ARC Information Sciences Division
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:41:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.213403.3431@bnr.ca> labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche) writes:
>
>In article <1992Aug20.154859.1046@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu>,
>ngsippel@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu writes:
>|> 
>|> The first part with no dialogue was bad.  There was no explaination about 
>|> them standing there nude (!). :)  We can blame Bob Camp for this bad cartoon
>
>Whats wrong with nudity, especially with cartoon characters?  Were Ren's or
>Stimpy's private genitals displayed for all to see?  For shame, for shame.
>
>So many people are so uptight about nudity in this country.  Maybe if we
>all treated Nudity as natural we'd have a little less sex crimes today.
>Maybe making it ok to be naked will take some of the thrilllll out of it!
>Was Pat Buchanan raving about Ren&Stimpy the other night? Hmmmmm? 
>maybe PTM will save the day.

    I think the original poster's intent was "There was no explanation about
them standing there...this is bad." as opposed to "they were standing there
nude...this is bad."  The big pro-nudity speech was not necessary.  And I
agree that the lack of explanation was bad...at least in eps like Fire Dogs
and TBWCR, we know WHY they're doing what they're doing.  I don't see RnS
joining the Army unless there's a good reason.  And yes, I know it's just
a cartoon, but I like a little sense.  I can accept Cmdr. Hoek and cadet
Stimpy just fine, though.

	Andy Bates.


Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: rmoore@nmsu.edu (-liZard-)
Subject: New Archive Gifs & Sounds
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:32:39 GMT


A Ren & Stimpy archive has been set up on:  freedom.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.14)
in /pub/ren-and-stimpy.  There are some gifs and sounds already
available, but any submissions are welcome.

Any questions to rmoore@scf.nmsu.edu

Happy Happy!
From: troch@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU (Rod Troch)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: POST!!!
Date: 16 Aug 92 20:24:07 GMT
Organization: Right Coast HQ For Stupid Pub Tricks
In-reply-to: tdodson@hotcity.COM's message of 15 Aug 92 22:24:14 GMT

>>>>> On 15 Aug 92 22:24:14 GMT, tdodson@hotcity.COM (Tim Dodson) said:

	Tim> Oh, come on! can't ANYONE think of anything to post here?! 
	Tim> REN&STIMPY RULES!!!!!
	Tim> --Palin Majere
	Tim> tdodson.alt.hotcity


There is a lot of action in alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy.....
Check it out, if you get it.

Rod
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From: donnell@squid.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: Music in ITA
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:35:50 GMT

In article <Aug.20.10.44.12.1992.28804@athos.rutgers.edu> trudel@athos.rutgers.edu (Jonathan) writes:
>Some people have commented on the "poor" music used in In The Army.
>For those that don't know, it was a selection written by Raymond
>Scott, written in the late 30s or early 40s.  If you listen to his
>music, you're realize just how unoriginal Carl Stalling was when he
>composed music for the old Bugs Bunny Cartoons.  Most of the good
>stuff was borrowed from Scott.
>
>The credits for ITA do list him, and the music used was taken from
>"original" masters at CBS (my sister was lucky enough to sit in on the
>re-recording sessions CBS did for Spumco, which is why I know this).

I was not aware that Stalling composed much music at all. I have the 
"Stalling Project" CD, and it flat out states that Stalling arranged
music that they had the rights to at Warner Brothers. There are credits
for the actual Authors, I believe. Stalling was a fine arranger and Conductor,
and those talents were on display with Warner Brothers, not his compositional
skills.

					--Judex--
From: gtsrlip@strosa.unocal.com (Lila Prescott)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: R&S Audio files wanted
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:16:24 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Unocal Geothermal Division, Santa Rosa, CA


Where can I find an anonymous ftp site for R&S Sun audio
( *.au ) files?  Please email me if this is a FAQ.

Thanks in advance,
LP
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From: jeg@sangabriel.desktalk.com (John E. Greene)
Subject: Re: Frank Zappa
Keywords: buttocks, pontiff
Organization: Desktalk Systems Inc.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:24:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.200710.9892@reed.edu> tboyd@reed.edu (Toby Boyd) writes:
>  If I'm not very much mistaken, Frank was the voice of His Holiness,
>the buttock-seizing Pope. By-the-by, does anyone know why Spumco
>switched to the 'two-rather-longwinded-segments-per-show' format?
>

This was covered in an interview a while back.  Apparently it takes just as
much time and money to produce one of the little 'shorts' as it does the 
full-length cartoons.  So, they elected not to do the short segments any 
more. 


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From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Best moment in ITA/PTM
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:13:44 GMT

I don't know about anyone else, but I thought the best moment
was the look on R&S' faces when they were walking away from
the (first) canon towards the tear gas room... That sort
of "Oh yeah. That's where we were going anyway" look.
precious. And Ren's insane speech after peeling the H-bombs
was wild too.

"Don't make me come in there..."

-- 
Nick Sayer <mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us> | "I used to eat sugar cereal
N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NA       | But it made my teeth bacterial.
37 19 49 N / 121 57 36 W             | Ah ee oh! Killer tofu! ee-ah-ee!
+1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'   | Ah ee oh! Killer tofu!"
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: kak1@cray.com (Kevin Kramer)
Subject: Re: R&S gifs
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 12 Aug 92 09:58:20 CDT

Where exactly are these gifs at remus.rutgers.edu?  I could not find them.
All I could find was a section on anime and a section on Jethro Tull.

BTW, for the question on what is a gif.  It stands for Graphical Interchange
Format and what it is a a format that allows pictures to be viewed on 
multiple machine platforms.  Look around the archives, there are tons of
GIF viewers out there.  My favorite is SVGA111.

Kevin
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: by785@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robin Gibson)
Subject: Re: but..do any kids watch ?
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 12:24:27 GMT


Hi!  I have just discovered this group (where have I been??) and
I have been a R&S fan from Day One.  I, too, have wondered how
many kids actually watch (appreciate) this show.  Like the old
Looney Tunes, it is just not geared towards children (i.e., some
of the lines they say, etc.).

Since this group has been in existence (and how long has it been, BTW?)
has there been any kind of survey to see what kinds of folx there are
on this list?  If not,
I'll start:  I'm 30 years old (so is my husband), we have a 5-yr. old,
and I don't care WHAT is going on, we don't miss the show.

And on the "In the Army" episode:  I was a little disappointed by this one myself:
"No Sir, I don't like it" (either).

Robin Gibson
"...and thrust a generous portion of giblet gravy unto he..."
-- 
Robin L. Gibson      gibson@email.ncsc.navy.mil
Coastal Systems Station
Panama City, FL  32407-5000
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 08:21:22 EDT
From: Corn, Jordan M. <NASJC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject:    Saturday's Episode

I caught a radio item last night (WPST, Trenton)...this Saturday, we get to see
"Stimpy's First F*rt" (OK, censors...).  No info on content, but based on the
title, all I can say is...

Happy, happy....joy, joy...Don't let it start...


                                         -Jordan M. Corn
                                          NASJC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: djr@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu (Dan Redder)
Subject: Re: PowderedToastMan Question
Organization: Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Michigan State Univ.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 13:35:38 GMT

In article <shf.714176785@well.sf.ca.us> shf@well.sf.ca.us (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
>|>who's picture is hanging beside Stimpy's bed in "In the Army".
>|The same guy who "works hard for his trash...."
>I beg to differ. (PuhlEEEZe, Ren!)  The picture beside the bed "In the Army"
>was "Herr President" from "Black Hole."

Same guy?  He also appeared in the crowd be PTM during is "anugaration"...
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: Bucky.Whaley@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bucky Whaley)
Subject: Man's Best Friend?
Summary: yes, please... 
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 05:07:33 GMT

Would someone who's seen it please post a synopsis of "Man's Best
Friend" for those of us who haven't seen it--and apparently aren't
likely to any time soon  :-( 

Thanks, pal(s)...
 -Boeky

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From: cannabis@west.darkside.com (Cannabis Kid)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: PTM, cool toon
Date: 17 Aug 92 05:35:34 GMT
Organization: The Dark Side of the Moon +1 408 245 SPAM

The Army bit was kinda slow, but Ren's surprize take was the best (brains
jumping out of skull and skin melting, classic moment) and the Dialog 
before the Sarg's congratulations wus the best. BUT MOST OF ALL, PTM made 
up for alllllll of the slow parts the best R&S toon yet. There was farts.
arm pit farts (with crutons to boot =), caught zipper bit, Muddy on the 
TNT keg, burning of rights message, R&S cameo, and PTM's voice .. way
killer, but most of all .. the way the PTM's entrance had the strobe 
effect (big screen TV with stero sound and a dark room is what I was 
using) was the BEST .. consitering the mindstate I was in =)
 
Best toon till next week I suspect.
 
oh yea, and Frank Zappa voice to boot.
 
__

 
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the tone, BEEEEEP
From: rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long Haired One)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: PTM, cool toon
Date: 18 Aug 92 03:50:37 GMT
Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: bagley@oasys.dt.navy.mil's message of 17 Aug 92 21:55:08 GMT

>>>>> On 17 Aug 92 21:55:08 GMT, bagley@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Bagley) said:

|> In article <ROCKER.92Aug17115718@csa.bu.edu> rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long
|> Haired One) wrote:

>PTM's voice was a classic choice. Its done by Gary Owens. for those who
>you might have missed Rowan and Martin's "Laugh-In" series, he was the
>annoucer who always had a hand over one ear.

|>       Gary Owens was also the voice of Space Ghost, the coolest super-hero
|> to ever appear on Saturday morning cartoons (during the late '60s, I
|> think).

Cool, didn't realize he did Space Ghost. 3 cheers for Hanana-Barbara's
World of Super Adventure :)

-Rocker
From: rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long Haired One)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: The President
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:08:06 GMT
Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: BXP5@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 18 Aug 92 15:02:30 GMT

>>>>> On 18 Aug 92 15:02:30 GMT, BXP5@psuvm.psu.edu (Dan) said:

|>I thought he looked like (Gasp!) Dan Quayle.Let's hope they're not prophetic.

heh, that reminds me that the NBC show Mann and MAchine made reference
when it first started about  "President Quayle". What a scary thought.

-Tom
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: goldberg@iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg)
Subject: Preview
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:06:05 GMT

Last night I attended the official Ren & Stimpy preview party
at the fan club headquarters in Hamtramick Michigan

I got to see "In the Army", "George Liquor", and an old west parody.
In the Army was amusing and funny, typical r&s fashion.  The ending
seemed abrupt however. 

George Liquor was ok.

The old west was excellent!  I saw the pre-inked version (the characters
were but line drawings), and laughed my ass off.  The "Hics" all take
a 10 second delay before saying anything.  Very amusing.
 



Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Subject: R&S sighting
Reply-To: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:30:28 GMT

Ren and Steeeeeempy are on the current cover of Utne Reader.
No article just the cover.

Happy happy
Maurice
From: Anton_Sanderfoot@qms1.life.uiuc.edu (Anton Sanderfoot)
Subject: Re: IN THE ARMY and POWDERED TOAST MAAAAN
Followup-To: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 16:14:24 GMT

In article <ed.713975646@cwis>, ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ed Stastny) wrote:

> P.T.M.: One of the best R&S episodes thusfar.  The total pointlessness
> of it all, the projectile raisin breath, the saving of the kitty, the
> Zappa "I'm sAAaaved.".  Total in-the-face goofiness.  This one will be
> hard to top.

I Just loved the way Powdered Toast Man "saved" Muddy Mud Skipper. And was
truly disappointed when he left Ren & Stimpy's breakfest without letting
one go, though he made up for it once he returned. Yeah, Right, this is a
kids show...
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: AntiMainstreaming
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:19:47 GMT

So, you refuse to wear R&S tees because they are now mainstream?  Well, don't 
fret!  You can still show off your tastes without having to wear a 
mass-produced mall-sold tee!  You see, there is a wealth of R&S stuff far too 
sick for even jaded Spencers outlets, and all you have to do is find someone 
with one of those custom T-shirt stands and get them to make you an R&S shirt 
that a "norm" would be embarrassed to wear in public!  Or if you're 
artistically inclined, make your own!
     Dave "makes his own shirts and it shows" Van Domelen
From: rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: sunday
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:13:45 GMT
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC, NY

In article <djr.18.0@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu> djr@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu (Dan Redder) writes:
>
>> Does anyone out there know if the show is still going to be on Sunday 
>> mornings as well as SNICK?
>
>Same Joyous Channel, same Joyous Time!

But NOT the same same Joyous Episode!  Sunday morning showed an old (but good)
episode (sigh.)  Since I'm unable to get Nickelodeon in the evening, I missed
the new episode.  (Believe it or not, Manhattan Cable includes "Nick at Nite"
in a premium tier which is not available to customers with older cabling, due 
to a lack of channel capacity.)

Now, does anyone know if the new episodes will be shown on Sunday Mornings
anytime soon?

Robert
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From: ammdawso@zeus.calpoly.edu (Angel Heart)
Subject: Happy happy joy joy
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Distribution: slo
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:47:51 GMT

     In San Luis Obispo, CA, I'm holding a Ren-and-Stimpy
party for the premiere of their new season. It is going to
be held the evening of Saturday, August 15th. Showtime is
from 9:00-9:30 PM (PDT) @ 1313 Peach St. #3 (closest cross
street is Johnson). Anyone who is a rabid enthusiast is
welcome to come.
                                             Angel Heart
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: as215@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Alexander Aingworth)
Subject: Frank Zappa
Reply-To: as215@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Alexander Aingworth)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 19:23:31 GMT


	I wasn't paying enough attention at the beginning of the new
Powdered Toast Man episode on Saturday night, but I noticed Frank
Zappa's name in the opening titles.  How was he involved with this
episode?



-- 
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    can smoke!
From: ejohnso@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: Canada vs. America
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:46:13 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

In <1992Aug13.151543.23208@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:

> Also, Kricfalusi now carries American citizenship, <would pretty much
>have had to, to have worked in LA for so long>. 

What???  Sez whom?   Ever heard of a green card?  (aka landed immigrancy
north of the 48) I know plenty of people working in the states for decades
w/o becoming citizens (one just so he could go to Cuba and get good cigars).


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From: robcruic@intacc.uucp (Robert Cruickshank)
Subject: odd coincidence
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 07:21:40 GMT
Organization: Inter/Access' Matrix BBS


On a recent trip to tokyo, I noticed an ad in the subway that had the words
"happy happy" in large type. They were the only english in the whole add. Of
course, I was amused, but not 15 minutes later, after I got out of the subway,
I noticed a restaurant called "Ren"! I think that this is some kind of message
to me....

---rob
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: dpearson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Pearson)
Subject: sunday
Summary: same as above
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:19:55 GMT

Does anyone out there know if the show is still going to be on Sunday mornings
as well as SNICK?

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From: ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ed Stastny)
Subject: Re: the new episodes HHJJ!
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:33:44 GMT

"Jeffrey T. Strnad" <js1j+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>i must say that i generally agree with  the majority here in being disappointed
>with "R&S/Army" and praise of PTM, but i was a bit bothered by the burning of
>the bill of rights and the declaration of independence at the end of PTM.
>if not for those documents, R&S would never make the air!!!

IT WOULD BE REQUIRED VIEWING.
 
Really, though...I don't think that scene had any deeper meaning than to
show how self-absorbed PTM was and to get people like us to talk about
it.  Shock value is alive and well on R&S (as if 75% of R&S's appeal
wasn't shock value).
 
...e

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