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MeatiestMeatus posted...

fwiw when I go back and watch Ren & Stimpy now, which I loved as a kid, a lot of it doesn't appeal to me any more

Even at the time I found Ren & Stimpy to be mostly shit.

It's like, in your memory you remember it being good, but you're mostly only remembering the first few episodes. Most of the best jokes I still remember today are literally from the first six episodes or so. After you get past the first season, the show becomes incredibly uneven, and a lot of the humor falls flat. I remember having my "Man, this is really starting to suck now" moment in the middle of the second season, and things just kept getting worse from there.

Kricfalusi's surrealist humor worked best when he was still limited in what he could do - as the show succeeded and he had more room to push the envelope, most of the jokes stopped being funny. And then after he got booted off the show (after season 2), things kind of went too far in the opposite direction, and it mostly just became bland and pointless. The show had like 90 episodes across 5 seasons - and maybe a dozen or so of those episodes at best were actually worth watching.

It's sort of like The Simpsons in that respect. Almost everything I remember enjoying from the Simpsons comes from episodes from the first 8 seasons or so. And even at the time I started feeling like the show was getting worse somewhere in the 7th season (and looking back with hindsight, I'd say the slow rot kind of started even earlier). Who Shot Mr. Burns? might actually have been the shark-jumping moment, though there were still good episodes after that (even if they started to become more and more rare).