That’s not to say the production wasn’t troubled. Ren & Stimpy squeaked by censors time and time again, managing to keep a main character that talked to the ghosts of his own farts and be really, really funny. Surprisingly, Ren & Stimpy was to be one of the Nickelodeon’s flagship shows and was included in both the network’s new Nicktoon and Snick initiatives, not only covering the network’s two key demographics, teens and pre-teens, but also grabbing some adults. Being one of the few shows on children’s television to reflect the actual humor of a child, Ren & Stimpy acted as a softened Garbage Pail Kids, complete with boundless toilet humor and excessive violence. When The Ren & Stimpy Show first aired in 1991, it was a revelation, a revolting, occasionally terrifying revelation.
That’s where “Brilliantly Canceled” comes in, looking at the shows that had a healthy, original run only to come back in a new, inferior form. Other times, the powers that be cancel those shows and then resurrect them to diminishing returns. “Thank god this happened!” we cry in glee. Sometimes TV shows drag their funny, interesting, and highly-rated feet across our living rooms for years.
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