Big Meaty Claws said:
Upward and Onward- Disgusting. It's trying to attract older viewers with the grossness that the original show had, but it takes it up to eleven.
Ren Seeks Help- Interesting backstory, but it's really disturbing. Worse than anything else the original show has done.
Fire Dogs 2- FILLER
Naked Beach Frenzy- Fanservice.
Altruists- probably the best of the bunch. Animation is amazing. but the saw scene *shivers*
Stimpy's Pregnant- NO.
I almost forgot about Onward and Upward. I think that's the only episode that has almost no redeeming factors. The animation is fantastic, but it's really unfunny and it's an embarrassing episode to premiere the show with. The show might have lasted more than 6 episodes if the first one was watchable for most people and didn't immediately turn the majority of the audience off of it.
Ren Seeks Help was disturbing, but I think it was awesome because of that, personally.
I disagree that Fire Dogs 2 is filler as that implies that it was something that no thought went into and was just made to fill up time, whereas if you listen to the behind the scenes stuff, it's clearly something John K made with passion. The whole thing is based off of when he worked for Ralph Bakshi on Mighty Mouse and he actually said it's almost like a documentary on him. That makes it a thousand times funnier to me. :P
Naked Beach Frenzy was fanservice, but I like that they also had anti-fanservice in it with Ren getting mouth to mouth by the disgustingly hairy man. That part cracked me up. It went on too long in my opinion, though, it should have been 11 minutes like most of the old Nick episodes.
Altruists had great moments in it, but it's way too long in my opinion. (It was like 40 minutes and the plot never actually went anywhere that mattered. It should have been 22 minutes.)
And as for Stimpy's Pregnant, I actually loved that one. Although, it was a little too obvious with some of the jokes and it felt vulgar for the sake of being vulgar where it would have been funnier if they kept it subtle and just implied anything inappropriate (like with Ren and Stimpy's relationship, that felt too spelled out for the audience instead of something subtle and funny.) It was apparently pitched as a Nick episode and I think that would have been more interesting, because they'd have to try and sneak things by the censors and not be ridiculously obvious and spell everything out.
(Also, if it counts, Man's Best Friend is awesome! That was technically a banned episode of the original show, though and I honestly don't see the big problem with it and why it never aired.)
