Ren And Stimpy - Series 1 And 2

Customer Reviews:

Happy happy, joy joy!!!.......2007-01-13

***First of all, for all of those who have never watched Ren and Stimpy:

I would have to say, it is similar to a violent Spongebob Squarepants. The humour is based around Ren hitting Stimpy, mad screams and crazy laughs. No humour is based on celebrities, or toilet humour. Yes, there are farts, but the most disgusting things they do are eating dirt, rubbish and hairy balls of god knows what.

On the whole, I'd place it more disgusting than Futurama, but tamer than South Park. This is not for kids, but not for adults either. If you think you are weird, this is probably for you.

***Now, if you have seen Ren and Stimpy...
The region 1 boxset that everyone has said is uncut and much better than the region 2 one, its not worth the hassle of finding something to play it on (unless you cannot live without the cut parts that you probably haven't even seen before).

The noticable bits that were cut were:
-an extra line of what Ren's going to do to Sven and Stimpy
-on the western episode, there is a hanging song(which you can understand was cut, but it was a pretty naff song. Canadian Kilted Yaksman and Happy happy joy joy were 10 times better).
-then obviously the banned episode:Man's best friend
(SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT:
Man's best friend is only half an episode(10 mins). Its a pretty boring episode about the liquor man getting Ren and Stimpy as pets. The reasons for banning it (I believe) are: lots of implied smoking(they use doggy treats as cigars), and Ren attacks the owner for a good 3 minutes (that really is as violent as any other episode).
In conclusion, its not worth obtaining the boxset for this episode. Did you find Stimpy's fart boring? Its worse than that.)

Now, the best episodes:
-Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksman
-The great outdoors(beaver fever)
-Space madness(Icecream bar)
-Stimpy's invention(Happy happy joy joy song)
-Untamed world
and of course, the log adverts that should only be in these 2 seasons.

MISSING EPISODE.......2006-11-19

It is a fantastic show and i wouldve given it 5 stars except that the 'mans best friend' episode isnt on mine either, even tho its listed on the box, which i think is really disappointing.

Best cartoon ever gets censored again!.......2006-11-03

Why is it that the best cartoon ever is always censored?

In case you're all wondering, the cuts only apply to the UK release. The episode that has the missing ending is OUT WEST. The episode now fades to the end credits after the line "HORSE THEIVES! HANG 'EM!", meaning that the brilliant hanging song will never be seen on any home video release in the UK.

That's not the worst of it though. The cover is a joke because although the artwork is great the episode MAN'S BEST FRIEND is missing, yet it is listed on the box. Also, the second dvd case in the set (the box contains 3 slim DVD cases) says 'Uncut' instead of 'Unleashed'. Finally, the blurb on the back of the box is the same as the region 1 release, stating that all episodes are uncut when they are not. The region 1 DVD was released 2 years before this one, so Paramount's decision not to change the blurb at all makes them very lazy people indeed.

The last problem I have with this DVD is the menu system. The highlighter is almost the same colour as the text, making it very difficult to see what you are selecting.

Nethertheless, I still enjoy watching this DVD despite the low points of this release. The picture and sound quality is fantastic, and the episodes are as funny as I remember them. The cuts made for TV aren't too bad, but it is easy to tell where cuts have been made.

So Mr Horse, do you like this DVD? Yes sir, but it could have been better.

Don't let the above mislead you.......2006-10-18

Just to advise that my region 2 copy ordered from Amazon contains the episode My Best Friend so I don't know what the above reviewer was watching.

Best cartoons in over a decade bowdlerised by UK Censorship board.......2006-09-18

First of all, let me say that these first and second season episodes of Ren & Stimpy are the finest TV animated cartoons ever made.

Sadly, when the American DVD was made, the mastering team used versions of the episodes that had had material removed to free up time on commercial-heavy American TV. However, the DVD restored other cuts that had been made for children's TV.

This British DVD has been taken from the same source as the US version, but now adds cuts of its own. The British Board of Film Classification have decided to remove the end of one of the cartoons to make it suitable for children and idiots. This DVD is not aimed at children. If it was, it would have been released under the Nickelodeon brand. Also, the episode that children's TV executives "banned" (that is, decided to confine to the vaults for over a decade) - "Man's Best Friend" - which was on the American DVD, is missing here, probably because of its violent content.

This makes the tagline at the top of this being a "Collector's Edition" utterly laughable. Save yourself the bother and buy the American Region 1 version - it's still incomplete, but at least it's incomplete because of an accident instead of nanny-state government censorship.

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