the ren  stimpy show was an animated movie series
animation historian michael barrier writes that while the creators of the games episodes used crude jokes that were similar to those used by kricfalusi they did not find the material particularly funny they were merely doing what was expected
 these methods are in contrast with animation production methods in the 1980s where there was one director for animation and a different director for voice actors and the cartoons were created with a topdown approach to tie in with toy production