Ren and Stimpy (2019 TV series)

***Ren and Stimpy*** is an American animated surreal slapstick comedy television series, serving as a reboot to *The Ren & Stimpy Show* by John Kricfalusi, being co-developed by Bob Camp, Chris Reccardi and Lynne Naylor. It is produced by Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation Studios and it airs on Nickelodeon since August 11th, 2019.

## Synopsis

Ren and Stimpy are two unlikely roommates who often up in random situations like getting trapped in a freezer or fighting the queen of the mutants while raising Ren's teenage niece and keeping her safe from odd happenings.

## Characters

### Main

* **Marland "Ren" T. Höek** (voiced by Billy West) - a short-tempered and selfish chihuahua who is often is annoyed by Stimpy's stupidity, even if, despite that, he still cares about his safety.
* **Stimpson "Stimpy" J. Cat** (also voiced by Billy West) - an idiotic and joyful cat who is somehow Ren's best friend and often wants to make friends with anyone and everyone he sees.
* **Tracey Höek** (voiced by Lacey Chabert) - Ren's friendly niece who loves to make friends and doesn't know about the cruel, harsh reality of the real world as Ren tries to keep her safe.

### Supporting

* **Mr. Horse** (also voiced by Billy West) - a straight-talking and serious horse who is Ren and Stimpy's occasional ally and often serves as a psychologist whenever Ren has problems.
* **Powdered Toast Man** (voiced by Nolan North) - an overdramatic vigilante who is Ren and Stimpy's favorite hero and often does some stupid things, despite his good intentions.
* **Muddy Mudskipper** (voiced by Tom Kenny) - a selfish mudskipper who is the host of his own children's show, *The Muddy Mudskipper Show*.
* **Sven Höek** (also voiced by Billy West) - Ren's idiotic cousin and Tracey's father who, despite being as idiotic as Stimpy, he's a good parental figure to her and trusts Ren and Stimpy with her safety.
* **Adrian** (voiced by Josh Keaton) - a chill cat who is Tracey's love interest as, unlike Stimpy, he's shown to be rather intelligent and is TBD, being sometimes confused as a girl due to having a unisex name and bearing a hairbun.
* **Natasha** (voiced by Kath Soucie) - a chipmunk who works for a foreign country as Stimpy is in love with her, even if she is out to expose America's secrets.
* **Chalupa Dude** (voiced by Chris Parnell) - a serious superhero who is Powdered Toast Man's rival in heroics.
* **Slam Slammerson** (voiced by Eric Bauza) - a world famous wrestler who is Tracey's idol and is shown to be usually trying to TBD.
* **Eddy Pugg** (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz) - a lazy pug who Stimpy attempted to make friends with.
* **Princess Minerva** (voiced by Ashley Johnson) - the princess of a far off world that Tracey saved.

### Antagonists

* **George Liquor** (voiced by John DiMaggio) - a grouchy man who often annoys Ren and Stimpy with his constant schemes to get them into his own traps or getting Tracey into TBD.
* **The Pounder** (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) - a vicious animal pounder who is out to hunt stray animals and show that Ren and Stimpy aren't a match for him as he TBD.
* **Rodger Randall** (voiced by Xander Mobus) - the greedy founder and CEO of BagBoot Incorporated who created the BagBoot app, yet forces customers to pay high amounts of money for certain items by having them be expensive. He as also developed various other ventures with the main purpose of just getting cash.
* **Soggy Waffle Woman** (voiced by Kari Wahlgren) - Powdered Toast Man's arch-nemesis who is out to discredit TBD.
* **The Queen of Mutants** (voiced by Erica Lindbeck) - the ruler of an army of mutants who is TBD.
* **Claudia Wolfcraft** (voiced by TBD) - a seductive yet vicious wolf that wants to completely burn the world [for laughs, Ren has a crush on her or the opposirte or it's mutual].
* **Catrick the Catfish** (voiced by Mark Hamill) - a malicious giant catfish who can somehow breathe on land and wants to eat cats, including Stimpy.
* **Priscilla Quack** (voiced by Mae Whitman) - a spoiled duck heiress who wants to completely freeze the world.
* **Izzy** (voiced by Jessica McKenna) - a fan girl of Stimpy who has been creepily and eerily stalking him.
* **The Snatching Tree** (voiced by Tony Todd) - a mischievous living tree who likes to steal people's money whenever they walk near it.
* **Flynn the Flea** (voiced by TBD) - a crazy flea who has been sucking people's blood.
* **Johnny Russo** (voiced by Dante Basco) - the sensei at Python Chi who is extremely serious and evil.
* **Shawnbandagenose** (voiced by Seán McLoughlin) - an overactive gamer who is extremely wild and crazy while also being egotistical.
* **Rich Marrison** (voiced by Kevin Conroy) - the egotistical host of *The Loverette* who wants to be the primary star of the show.
* **Manny Musclepeacock** (voiced by Matthew Mercer) - an animatronic peacock who runs his pizzeria and wants to shove people's faces down toilets.
	+ **Muchacha the Polar Bear** (voiced by Alanna Ubach) - TBD
	+ **Bucky the Hare** (voiced by Troy Baker) - TBD
	+ **Yamato the Samurai Turtle** (voiced by James Sie) - TBD
* **[give them names that represent: the four assholes that worked at Nick, four serial killers, four founding fathers, four gothic horror writers or TBD]** (voiced by [4]) - four fictional cartoon characters who were revived by Rodger to brainwash the viewers into buying merch.
* **Derrick, Bob and Katie** (voiced by Roger Craig Smith, Danny Cooksey and TBD, respectively) - three ugly teenagers who love to prank people and just be jerks.

## Episodes

*See List of Ren and Stimpy (2019 TV series) episodes.*

## Trivia

* The show is rated TV-PG for some dark and grossout humor and some adult innuendo.
	+ According to the show's crew, they wanted the show to still TBD while still suitable for Nickelodeon.
* Due to the sexual abuse cases involving its creator John Kricfalusi, Nickelodeon ordered to remove all references and mentions to him on the series to avoid potential judicial problems.
	+ Nickelodeon and the crew also ordered journalists and critics to avoid mentioning his name when talking about the show due to his acts still bringing some trauma to the ones who were victims of his abuse.
	+ However, George Liquor is often used to symbolize the abuses done by its creator towards its staff during its original run and likely during the infamous *Adult Party Cartoon* run.
* The series often uses uses grossout humor like its predecessor because it wouldn't be a *Ren and Stimpy* show without it, yet it doesn't overfocus on it, making the viewers fundamentally grossed out.
	+ Camp stated that the show's crew is committed to keep it faithful to its origins, but not by committing the same mistakes that *Adult Party Cartoon* committed, especially since it airs on Nickelodeon like the original.
* Ren is designed to be less of John Kricfalusi's author avatar as the developers toned down his jerkass and sociopath traits in order to make him more sympathetic at times.
* Compared to her uncle and father, Tracey is notably rather fanservicey.

### Easter eggs

* Tracey owns two plushes that look like Momo and Appa.
* During an angry fit, Ren threw a sponge and a starfish in the trash.
* While Stimpy was watching news, an ad showed up for Dairyland Amoosement Park.
* Tracey was seen watching a show with characters that look like Agent Xero and Mole.