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     Ren Höek 
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Ren’s natural state.
Voiced in English by: John Kricfalusi (seasons 1-2 and Adult Party Cartoon), Billy West (his laughter and a few episodes in season 2, seasons 3-5, reboot);
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Alfonso Obregón (original show and Adult Party Cartoon episodes 1-2, 4), Igor Cruz (Adult Party Cartoon episodes 0, 3, 5-6)
Voiced in Japanese by: Isao Yamagishi
"They think I’m crazy. But I know better. It is not I who am crazy - it is I who am MAD!"

An "Asthma Hound" Chihuahua prone to psychotic breakdowns and acts of violence. Whatever he does, expect for it to be somehow materially motivated, but he's still good friends with Stimpy. In fact, Stimpy might be the only friend he has.

  • Adaptational Villainy: He was hardly a nice guy in the original show, but Adult Party Cartoon ramps up his negative traits while reducing or outright excising his good ones. He does show a few more sincere moments of friendship towards Stimpy however, a redeeming quality that was often lost in the Games episodes.
  • All Men Are Perverts: Just watch "Naked Beach Frenzy" and you'll know what we mean.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Word of God says Ren likes human women, but "when you look like Ren, you take what you can get".
  • Anti-Role Model: With how mean, deranged and self-serving he can be, he's obviously not a model example of how people should behave. Stimpy thinks otherwise, though (but then, he's Stimpy...).
  • Author Avatar: Of John K himself. Particularly obvious in the episode "Ren Seeks Help".
  • Ax-Crazy: He's usually prone to psychotic fits of fury for little to no reason at times. This is not played for laughs in some episodes, however.
  • Asshole Victim: Whenever Ren gets what's coming to him he deserves it for his asshole personality.
  • Badass Adorable: A small "cute"-looking chihuahua that can beat anyone up, even those twice his size.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: "Ren Seeks Help," the second episode of Adult Party Cartoon, reveals that he regularly tortured and mutilated animals as a child, and particularly abused a frog to the point where it begged him to put him out of his misery. He refused.
  • Berserk Button: Having an extremely short fuse, Ren has several, but two that qualify are:
  • Butt-Monkey: Gets put through Amusing Injuries a lot of the time, such as in "Stimpy's Invention". More often than not it's his own fault.
  • Character Catchphrase:
  • Characterization Marches On: In the pilot and the first season, he was a lot less abusive to Stimpy and mostly only lashed out at him and threatened to hurt or "keel" him, only hitting him when he did something really stupid. The second season evolves him into the Ax-Crazy, sociopathic, physically-abusive Jerkass he's better known as, and he hits Stimpy on a regular basis, often without provocation...and then the Games episodes seem to flanderize him by overplaying his more negative tendencies towards the "eediot"...
  • The Chew Toy: In the original series he was quite accident-prone though he deserves most of it, given his jerky nature.
  • Civilized Animal: He's down-to-earth and rational for the most part. Except when he's not...
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: He acts as the voice of reason to Stimpy.
  • Collector of the Strange: Opera records, rare incurable diseases, dinosaur droppings, used celebrity underwear, and celebrity wigs. Also glass coffee tables.
  • Comedic Sociopathy: Acts pretty sociopathic at times, and it's almost always played for comedy. Actually deconstructed in "Ren Seeks Help", when his sociopathy isn't played for laughs and he goes to a psychiatrist to "seek help".
  • The Conscience: To Stimpy. The latter is so incredibly stupid that it's a wonder he's able to think for himself in Ren's absence.
  • Cute and Psycho: Is Ugly Cute and can get psychotic and deranged.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Sometimes. "What's so secret about that spot?"
  • Depending on the Writer: Stimpy is consistently on thin ice with Ren, though it varies whether Ren deep down genuinely cares for Stimpy or just flat out uses and loathes him. Generally, things shifted more from the former to the latter after the transition from Spumco to Games Animation (and later Adult Party Cartoon) though even then it isn't totally consistent.
  • Depraved Bisexual: He has sex with Stimpy and feels attracted to women in Adult Party Cartoon, while he's not the most stable person to be around.
  • Dismissive Kick: After Stimpy's butt cheeks deflate from the strain of trying to fart a second time, Ren kicks the remains and scolds Stimpy for wasting his time.
  • Dogs Are Dumb: Inverted and Averted. Ren is rather intelligent and most definitely very cunning. Besides.. as far he's concerned, it's cats who are dumb, especially one in particular.note 
  • Dog Stereotype: He's a neurotic, aggressive, and high-strung Chihuahua.
  • Domestic Abuse: He physically and emotionally abuses Stimpy in Adult Party Cartoon, which confirms that the two are lovers. Most noticeable in "Ren Seeks Help", despite Ren denying that he and Stimpy are an item in that episode.
    Ren: So I hit him harder... and harder... but he wouldn't go down!
  • Enfant Terrible: It is shown in "Ren Seeks Help" that he enjoyed torturing and mutilating animals as a child.
  • Enraged by Idiocy: More like "Enraged By Eediocy". Stimpy's idiocy is what usually gets to him.
  • Expressive Ears: His huge ears tend to go downwards whenever he's depressed.
  • Face Palm: Does this frequently. The best example is in "To Salve And Salve Not" when he does the after going insane for about five seconds and his face cracking and turning blue.
  • Freak Out: Extremely prone to them, as he's both neurotic and psychopathic. Surprisingly for a cartoon, however, his freak-outs tend to be very realistic.
  • Freudian Excuse:
    • He explains his tendency to be violent with "the first sensation I felt in my life was unspeakable pain. From then on, I wanted to inflict the pain on others!". He was referring to a doctor who slapped him on the buttocks right after the carriage.
    • As seen in "Ren Seeks Help", his life growing up was anything but sane; his father was a Bible-pounding, Fire-and-Brimstone Reverend whose own sanity was extremely questionable, his mother's sanity was just as dubious, and the two were more interested in making very passionate love with each other, often in front of poor, young Ren, and did little in the way of actually raising Ren apart from their own twisted forms of "discipline" — An example of their questionable parenting is demonstrated in scene in which Ren's father gives Ren a pistol to kill a frog*  with, but his mother quickly intervenes....and passes Ren a chainsaw instead.
  • Funny Schizophrenia: "Hermit Ren". His Sanity Slippage was extremely disturbing and borderline creepy, every second of it, but it was Played for Laughs.
  • Furry Reminder: He has a habit of trembling when emotionally overwhelmed or otherwise in a compromising situation, much like how an overstimulated chihuahua will tremble when they have too much excess energy.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Ren has an extremely violent temper, especially when it comes to Stimpy; he even states at the end of “Stimpy’s Invention” that he loves being angry. Averted in episodes like "Sven Hoek" and "Hermit Ren", where it takes several incidents from Stimpy (albeit in fairly short succession, mind you)to rouse his anger.
  • The Hedonist: Many of the things he does is just to make himself happy.
  • Heroic Dog: Of the Sociopathic Hero variety.
  • The Hermit: In the episode "Hermit Ren".
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: Word of God confirmed that the "heterosexual" part varies depending on what is funnier for a specific episode.
  • Humanlike Foot Anatomy: He's a chihuahua, and has human-like feet.
  • Hypocrite: It's jarring to see Ren smack Kowalski for smoking in "Fake Dad", telling him that smoking is unhealthy... but in many episodes of Red and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon we see Ren smoke constantly.
  • I Am Not Weasel: He was mistaken for a number of other animals, like a rat, cat and even a mosquito.
  • Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: To a far lesser degree than Stimpy, but even though he's shown open resentment to Stimpy's idiocy, several episodes showcase Ren isn't much brighter himself.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: Says this word for word in 'Stimpy's Fan Club'.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: And how. He's an intelligent but egomaniacal narcissist with a fragile ego and a neurotic mind.
  • Informed Species: He is supposedly a Chihuahua, but he barely looks like one, and resembles more like a very slim, hairless cat (ironically), a rat or a weasel.
  • Insane Equals Violent: Sort of averted here. Ren is both insane and violent, but almost never at the same time. It's very scarce for him to perform acts of violence when he's having his psychotic Freak Outs. To the Pain monologues, on the other hand...
  • The Insomniac: Outside of the episode Insomniac Ren, his sleeping habits don't seem all that healthy. One episode showed Ren sleeping during the day, which is a symptom of insomnia.
  • Intelligence Equals Isolation: Something he complains about in "Sven Höek" and "Stimpy's Fan Club". Also, Stimpy seems to be his only friend and admirer.
  • Iron Butt Monkey: Even more so than Stimpy, but he usually brings it on himself.
  • It's All About Me: Ren is frequently selfish and inconsiderate (when not outright abusive) to Stimpy. This was a more nuanced vice in the Spumco made episodes, though took over his personality in many Games episodes.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: While Ren can be cruel and abusive to Stimpy for no reason, his anger with Stimpy is often quite justified, as Stimpy is frequently obnoxious and inconsiderate and destroys his most prized possessions on a regular basis.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the original Spumco made series, Ren, in spite of his psychotic temperament, seemed to genuinely care about Stimpy. More of a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk in the Games episodes (with the odd exception), but returns to his old personality in some episodes of Adult Party Cartoon!
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Had his moments in the Games episodes, where he would of have a selfish motive behind his kinder actions.
  • Karma Houdini: He frequently gets off scot-free with abusing Stimpy, with the odd exception.
  • Karmic Butt-Monkey: A lot of the Amusing Injuries he suffers generally is often brought on himself.
  • Kick the Morality Pet: Stimpy is one of the few people he genuinely cares about, but even that doesn't stop him from doing really cruel things to Stimpy on occasion.
  • Knight of Cerebus: In most cases of his epic freak outs. When pushed to his mental limit, Ren becomes genuinely terrifying and disturbing. Some of them are quite dark for a cartoon ostensibly aimed at kids; it seems as though the aim of several of his freak outs weren't exactly to incite laughter from the audience, but for pure shock value. Take, for a good example, this scene where he very realistically descends into madness while contemplating murdering Stimpy.note 
  • Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Yes, Ren is definitely brilliant when compared to Stimpy, but at times, he pretends to know things around him, even though he really doesn’t.
  • Lack of Empathy: It comes with being a sociopath.
  • Large Ham: Usually during his freak-outs.
  • Laughing Mad: Frequently - John Kricfalusi admitted Billy West did the most extreme laughs, seeing as John isn't a professional voice actor and was unable to laugh madly enough.
  • Lean and Mean: A huge sociopath, very mean, and very thin.
  • Lorre Lookalike: Ren is one of a long line of cartoon characters who have a voice and visual design inspired by Peter Lorre.
  • Loser Protagonist: Several episodes depict Ren as physically inadequate, unemployed or underemployed, and bitter about his life.
    • For example, in "Pixie King", Ren wakes up one morning and mutters, "What a night! I dreamed that I had a good-looking wife and a real job."
    • "Hermit Ren" begins with Ren coming home from work. Ren has a footprint and a "Kick Me" sign on his back, a pink slip in his hand, and a furious expression on his face.
  • Man Hug: Not very manly in some instances, like "Stimpy's Fan Club".
  • Mean Character, Nice Actor: A few in-universe segments such as some post-episode sign-offs and the parody documentaries like "Untamed World" imply that Ren's considerably more amiable off camera. Though episodes like "Stupid Sidekick Union" and "Who's Stupid Now" show Ren as irritable off-camera as well.
  • The Mentally Disturbed: Pretty well sums him up.
  • Mood-Swinger: He's infamous for being erratic and emotionally unstable as the creepy and insane character he is.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: In "Aloha Hoek", Ren kicks Stimpy out of the whale carcass they were inhabiting. Later, when Ren incorrectly believes that Stimpy has been eaten by cannibals, he curls up on the floor and weeps with remorse.
    Ren: Poor Stimpy. He was probably tortured and eaten. I killed my best friend! I deserve to die!
  • The Napoleon: Much smaller than Stimpy, and is Ax-Crazy. Although how much taller he is than Stimpy varies depending on the scene, he is much more aggressive and vicious either way.
  • No Indoor Voice: Constantly yelling even when he isn't angry.
  • No-Respect Guy: He doesn't get much respect from anybody but Stimpy.
  • Odd Couple: He's friends (sometimes more than that) with Stimpy even though Ren is an ill-tempted psychopath and Stimpy is a fat idiot.
  • Odd Friendship: One has to wonder how they became best friends in the first place. Stimpy is a Kindhearted Simpleton whereas Ren is an Ax-Crazy Jerkass who's Enraged by Idiocy.
  • Official Couple: It's been confirmed in Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" that he and Stimpy are in a relationship.
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Billy West's voicing for Ren had a very erratic dialect, to say the least. Kricfalusi had some moments too, but far more subtle.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: If Ren is acting calm whilst pissed off, Run. Like. Hell.
  • The Pastor's Queer Kid: In Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", Ren is a Depraved Bisexual in a relationship with Stimpy. "Ren Seeks Help" reveals that Ren's father was a reverend, though the contrast is less about Ren's sexuality (as he denies being with Stimpy to his therapist in this episode) and more about Ren's abusive sadism (though the reverend is also quite abusive to Ren).
  • Psychopathic Manchild: He erupts into fits of rage at the drop of a hat, and frequently displays some very childish behaviors.
  • Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: Of the protagonists' category since Ren is considered a Sociopathic Hero before Ren was insincere, Ren being the mentally disturbed Jerkass who's Enraged by Idiocy to Stimpy's Kindhearted Simpleton.
  • Sanity Slippage: There are too many examples of him going off the deep end, but the most infamous examples are "Stimpy's Fanclub" (where he goes crazy out of jealousy at Stimpy being more loved by the fans than he is), "Space Madness" (where he loses his sanity over being stuck in space with only Stimpy for company), "Aloha Hoek" (where he loses it after being stranded on an island), and "Hermit Ren" (where he tries living alone in a cave and ends up cracking due to starving for company with Stimpy's absence). "Ren Needs Help" turns this up to eleven.
  • The Scrooge: He can have some greedy tendencies.
  • Seme: In Adult Party Cartoon, he explicitly states himself as the one who pitches when he and Stimpy have intercourse.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Stimpy's Sensitive Guy.
  • Shorter Means Smarter: This varies, of course, due to the Off Modelness of the show - sometimes, Ren would be Stimpy's height, others, he would be noticeably smaller. No matter what his size is, though, he's smarter than Stimpy in comparison.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Ren thinks of himself pretty highly.
  • The Sociopath: Although he wouldn't qualify as such in the first show due to his moments of emotional vulnerability, Adult Party Cartoon highlights certain sociopathic traits in him. He frequently verbally and emotionally abuses Stimpy, even more so than in the previous show, and seems to enjoy doing as much harm as he can. He is also incredibly self-centered, sadistic, and sexually promiscuous, very common traits seen in sociopaths.
  • Straw Nihilist: Would have been revealed to be one in the unmade episode "Life Sucks". He spends the whole episode telling Stimpy about the horrors of humanity and hammering into him that life is meaningless, horrible and stupid.
  • Strong Family Resemblance:
    • Averted with Sven. He has some typical canine traits, but in general resembles Stimpy much more than Ren, both in terms of appearance and personality.
    • Ren's father would either resemble Ren physically, albeit taller ("Ren Seeks Help"), or look more like Sven ("Hermit Ren"). His mother, as depicted in "Ren Seeks Help", looks like him more.
  • Talking Animal: A talking chihuahua.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: In the Games episodes. One could argue he's no less sociopathic under Spumco's pen, but he lacks as many redeeming moments of genuine empathy or repentance (or reveals them to have an insincere or selfish ambition). According to Bill Wray, the series was actually pressured to make Ren meaner in the Games era (a complete contrast to the mandates of the Spumco seasonsnote ). Some accounts even suggest some softer moments for Ren were intended in episodes such as "Ren's Pecs" and "Sammy And Me", but were omitted to befit this mandate.
  • Tranquil Fury: He can get so angry that he becomes eerily pleasant, which is best shown at the end of Sven Höek.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Hog Jowls according to the episode A Yard Too Far.
  • True Companions: With Stimpy.note 
  • Tsundere: Borderline type A. He lashes out at Stimpy constantly, but also depends on him and appreciates the cat's kindness. In "Son of Stimpy" he outright flirts with him.
  • Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Many of the misfortunes he gets are played for laughs.
  • Verbal Tic: Pronouncing his i's as long ee's, as in "You fat bloated eediot!" and "What ees it, man?!" Earlier episodes also had him frequently use "I tell you!" as an intensifier, .
  • Villain Protagonist: He borders on being an evil main character in the Games episodes and the occasional episodes of Adult Party Cartoon, where his actions come off as downright vile instead of just mean.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Type A with Stimpy. The vitriol is mostly one-sided on his part.
  • Vocal Evolution:
    • When Kricfalusi returned to voicing Ren in Adult Party Cartoon, his pitch was somewhat deeper and gravelier, with his resemblance to Peter Lorre being more blatant. Allegedly this was because Kricfalusi had trouble making his voice sound right via pitch shifting.
    • Billy West underwent a similar evolution. His initial roles as Ren were more helium pitched. When he decided he could reproduce the voice without pitch shifting, he continued the role in his natural voice. He also started to mimic Kricfalusi's version less, his accent becoming less pronounced and the tone more nasal and hammy.
  • Your Size May Vary: Ren will often be either the same height as Stimpy or much smaller.

     Stimpson "Stimpy" J. Cat 
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Joy!
Voiced in English by: Billy West (seasons 1-5, reboot), Eric Bauza (Adult Party Cartoon)
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: José Luis Orozco (original show), Jorge Ornelas (Adult Party Cartoon)
Voiced in Japanese by: Jun Ishimaru

"I'm hiding in the closet...like an idiot."

Stimpy is an overweight Manx cat with no...er, well, let's say "little" brains and a big heart. He is friends with Ren, despite having to deal with Ren's insanity and violence comically or not, he manages to put up with everything and is in good-spirits.

  • All-Loving Hero: He does not dislike anybody. In fact, he is never mad at Ren despite how much the latter is mean to him. Except that one time...
  • Ambiguously Gay: Prominent in the original series (unlike Ren, he was never portrayed as attracted to any female character, though the very first episode showed Stimpy as a chick magnet when he became famous). In 'The House of Next Tuesday' he uses a gadget to envision himself surrounded by sexy women. And in 'A Visit To Anthony' both characters are seen to have wives.
  • Ascended Fanboy: In 'Stimpy's Big Day', he wins a poem writing contest for the chance to meet Muddy Mudskipper, and becomes a big star in Hollywood, doing all sorts of TV shows and commercials, all despite Ren's "cartoons will ruin your mind" rants.
  • Badass Adorable: Stimpy rarely has his moments, such as "Son of Stimpy".
  • Beware the Nice Ones:
    • He calls out on Ren and is extremely grumpy in "Son of Stimpy". Then again, considering what this episode is really all about, it may not count...
    • In "Terminal Stimpy", he manages to terrify Ren in a brief fit of rage when the latter complains about his toast being forgotten.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Or in his case, "Beware the Stupid Ones". He yells at Ren in "Son of Stimpy" (You know, "when poor little STINKY is out in the cold! LOST! ALONE!...") and briefly goes nuts in "Terminal Stimpy".
  • Big Eater: He enjoys eating a lot.
  • Big Fun: The fat Nice Guy to Ren's Lean and Mean.
  • Body Motifs: The butt. Stimpy's huge butt is often given a lot of attention throughout the series. Such as in episodes like Son of Stimpy where it's given several close-up shots. Or in the music video Cat Hairballs where the video climaxes with it getting branded with a big "Grade A" stamp. More often than not, when it's given a lot of focus it is made to look very full and feminine.
  • Break the Cutie:

    • Though, in this case, it's more like "Break the Eediot". This happens in a number of episodes, most notably "Son of Stimpy". On the other hand, this was only done as part of John K.'s attempt to prove his point about "fake pathos".
    • Let's not forget how "Ren Seeks Help" started.
    • The music video for CatHairballs begins with Stimpy very happy and excited to start "hwarfing" up hairballs for Ren. Stimpy even does what can only be described as a gleeful seated twerk as the video opens and boasting "don't you fret, I won't run out, I've lots more hair to spare." However, as it goes on, and Ren continues to demand more from Stimpy, it becomes clear that the latter can't actually keep up as we see them start to get stripped bare. A little past the halfway mark Stimpy is desperately licking in places where there's nothing left to lick and the hwarfing went from sounding fairly subdued to this frantic, tortured sound full of exhaustion. And by the end Stimpy is completely stripped clean and looks absolutely miserable during their last lick and trying to hwarf causes Stimpy to fall onto a conveyor belt and get a huge stamp brutally smashed into their ass by Ren.
  • Bumbling Sidekick: So bumbling, that Ren would just love to "kick" Stimpy to the "side", but, as stated on the "You Eediot" music album...
    "He's better, than no one."
  • Buffoonish Tomcat: Quite likely, Stimpy is constantly the Plucky Comic Relief who is very goofy, silly, somewhat clumsy, ludicrous, and prone to tons of slapstick while durable yet he is pretty kindhearted (See Kindhearted Simpleton below).
  • Butt-Monkey: Stimpy is the butt of a lot of abuse as well, but not to Ren's extent.

Other Recurring Characters

     Mr. Horse 
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A true Renaissance Man.
Voiced by: John Kricfalusi (seasons 1-2, Adult Party Cartoon), Billy West (seasons 3-5)

"No, sir. I don't like it."

Mr. Horse is perhaps the Only Sane Man. But he might be the Ax-Crazy one, too. He was a doctor, a psychologist, note  a psychically unbalanced creep, a war hero, a spokesman for the United Nations, an airplane pilot and many, many more. Who knows what he really is?

  • A Dog Named "Dog": A horse named "Mr. Horse".
  • Ascended Extra: While he is largely a gag character in the original show, his two appearances in Adult Party Cartoon ("Ren Seeks Help" and "Stimpy's Pregnant") are more integral to the plot.
  • Character Catchphrase: "No sir, I don't / didn't like it."
  • Deadpan Snarker: At times.
  • Mask of Sanity: Comes across as the Only Sane Man in several episodes, but there's a few instances where he shows signs that he may not be all that he seems. In "Rubber Nipple Salesmen" he'd kidnapped a walrus and in "Ren Seeks Help" he fully intended to shoot Ren after hearing about his issues.
  • New Job as the Plot Demands: Depending on the episode, he's shown with various different jobs.
  • Only Sane Man: He does have his crazy moments, though.
  • Out of Focus: His appearances in the Games Animation seasons are more sporadic. He has no speaking roles at all until Season Four, where Billy West took over from Kricfalusi as his voice actor.
  • Renaissance Man: He has had many jobs.
  • Talking Animal: A talking horse.
  • Thinking Tic: When asked what he thinks of something, he rubs his chin with his hoof and puckers his lips saying "Hmm...", before inevitably replying "No sir, I don't like it."
  • Writer on Board

     George Liquor, American 
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George Liquor: American!
Voiced by: Harris Peet, Michael Pataki

"It's discipline that begets love!"

George Liquor is an American so conservative, he thinks Republicans are communists. However, that part of his character was expanded in his own cartoon, The Goddamn George Liquor Program and its spinoff comic - in The Ren & Stimpy Show, he's portrayed as a man with a strong faith in rules and discipline. He's only made 2 appearances on the show, due to the Nickelodeon execs' absolute condemnation for the character.

  • Ax-Crazy: He's almost to Ren's extent of being insanely belligerent.
  • Bowdlerize: His last name "Liquor" was censored with a Record Needle Scratch Sound-Effect Bleep in original Nickelodeon airings of the show due to the alcohol reference (according to Word of God, Nick also interpreted the name as a play on "lick her").
  • Breakout Character: Attempted with varying levels. After George was "retired" from the show, Kricfalusi utilised him in spin-off material of his own, including his own comics and flash web series The Goddamn George Liquor Program and Weekend Pussy Hunt.
  • Character Catchphrase:
    • "What's this crap?!" and "HELLO! I'M GEORGE LIQUOR! AMERICAN!"
    • "A smart-mouth, huh? A smart-mouth!!"
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He made only two official appearances in the show (one of which was banned for a long duration of time), Nickelodeon allegedly hated the character and were willing to let Kricfalusi take the rights to Liquor with him following his departure. A third Liquor appearance was planned for Adult Party Cartoon but only made it to storyboard stages by the time of its cancellation.
  • Comedic Sociopath: Mentally unstable, and it is played for Comedy.
  • Eagleland: The Boorish type. How many people that you know introduce themselves with their nationality?
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Though officially introduced in Season Two, he made cameos in Season One with a different voice and slightly undeveloped design. Word of God was that George was meant to be a recurring character from the start, but Nickelodeon was wary towards material including him.
  • Good Is Not Nice: George firmly believes in discipline and rules, but takes them to an overzealous extreme.
  • Jerkass: Let's count the ways; he's boorish, arrogant, overzealously imposes his values on others, gaslights his pets and bullies them to assert his authority over them, and is obnoxiously nationalistic and conservative.
  • Large Ham: Very loud and boisterous, courtesy of Michael Pataki.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: In "Man's Best Friend", he gets his just deserts for his appalling treatment of Ren and Stimpy when Ren snaps and starts beating the shit out of him with an oar. Given this was the whole point of the training exercise however, this only earns George's pride.
  • Line-of-Sight Name: Meta-example; in an interview with Wild Cartoon Kingdom #1, John K said that he instantly conceived the character upon seeing a sign for a (now long gone) liquor store◊ in Van Nuys, California which was named George's Liquor (although the S had fallen off by the time John saw it).
  • No Indoor Voice: You'd be hard-pressed to find a time where this guy isn't shouting.
  • Perpetual Smiler: He never stops smiling-even when Ren is beating him up.
  • Straw Character: He's very right-wing in his outlook, to the point that he thinks the Republican party is full of communists.
  • Take That!: He's an unflattering cartoon parody of John K's own father and the hyper-masculine lifestyle he imposed on him.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: A strange example of a fictional character being one in real life. The episode with him getting brutally beaten up by Ren was one of the reasons for John Kricfalusi's firing.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: To quote writer and story editor Will McRobb, Liquor is akin to "a father who wants best for his children, not realizing that he is really abusing them."

     Victor and Victor's dad 

Danny Cooksey (Victor)

  • Arch-Enemy: Victor, for Ren and Stimpy.
  • The Bully: Like father, like son.
  • Big Bad: Victor is probably the closest thing to the show's main antagonist.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: Victor is indeed aware of himself being a bully and even carries a card with him being a certified bully on it.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Victor's dad was disappointed in Victor for giving Stimpy the Christmas underwear his mother lovingly stitched.
  • For the Evulz: Their main motivation for most things.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Victor.
  • Jerkass: They are even worse than Ren. That definitely is saying something.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: While Victor gets away scot-free with beating up Ren, Stimpy and Anthony in "A Visit to Anthony's", he and his father get their comeuppance in their next appearance, when they accidentally drive off a cliff.
  • Killed Off for Real: In their second appearance, Victor's father accidentally drove off a cliff and they are not seen again after this.
    • Victor has a cameo in "Stupid Sidekicks Union".
  • Knight of Cerebus: Victor is known for being the most malicious and unpleasant character who has probably appeared on the show. And probably, he and his father are the only true antagonists in the show.
  • Perma-Stubble: Victor's dad has this.
  • Sadist: Both of them.
  • Smoking Is Cool: Victor's dad.

     Powdered Toast Man 
Voiced by: Gary Owens, Darrin J. Sargent ("Robin Hoek"), Billy West ("Dinner Party"), David Kaye, (Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl)

  • Adam Westing: It's Gary Owens using his Space Ghost voice.
  • Badass Preacher: His secret identity is that of a "cool youth deacon."
  • Breakout Character: He started out as a segment. Also, he's the most likely Ren and Stimpy character to appear in crossover games after the duo themselves.
  • Crossover: Received one with Spider-Man during the series' Marvel Comics run. In addition to a brawl between the two superheroes, it also featured cameos by Mary Jane Watson and even Stan Lee.
  • Character Catchphrase: "Leave everything to me!" and "POWDEEEEEEEEEEERED TOOOOOOOAAAAST MAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
  • Catholic School Girls Rule: His assistant and implied love interest is one.
  • Destructive Savior: He once tried delivering the President to a sickly boy at Mach 5, accidentally incinerating him. Later in that same episode he destroys most of the planet fighting Waffle Woman.
  • Distress Call: He gets these frequently.
  • Gasshole: Farts frequently.
  • Large Ham: "POWDEEEEEERED TOAAAAAAST MAAAAAAN!"
  • Pungeon Master: He is prone to puns.
    "This lead pipe will foil your plans!"
    "Lead? Foil? You're mixing your metal-phores."
  • Something Person: A "Powdered Toast Man".
  • Super Zeroes: He means well, but he tends to cause more problems than he solves. A key example is when he causes a plane crash to stop a cat from getting run over, then casually tosses the cat aside, afterwards it's implied the cat got run over anyway.
    • This is also the fact that he flies anywhere but forward.
  • 10-Minute Retirement: In "Waffle Woman Vs. Powdered Toast Man" after failing Little Johnny.

     Muddy Mudskipper 
Voiced by Harris Peet

     Mr. Pipe 
Voiced by: Billy West

     Mrs. Pipe 
Voiced by: Cheryl Chase

     The Fire Chief 
Voiced by Harris Peet

  • Ax-Crazy: As a dutiful fire-fighting hero, he has nothing but psychotic hatred for those public threats, circus midgets. Pity that those appalling apparitions appear everywhere and as everyone. With his trusty shovel thankfully he will take care of them as the beating of Haggis McHaggis and the torture of Ren and Stimpy when they were dressed up as clowns, demonstrates.
  • Berserk Button: He really hates circus midgets.
  • Character Catchphrase: "I've had it UP TO HERE WITH THE LIKES OF YOU PEOPLE!! (beat) Oh. I'm sorry, I thought you were circus midgets."
  • Large Ham: Especially chews the scenery when ranting about his dislike of circus midgets.

     It's That Man Again 
Voiced by: Billy West

A smarmy, overly-enthusiastic travelling salesman who occasionally crosses paths with Ren and Stimpy. He also serves as the announcer for the Captain Höek cartoons.

     Abner Dimwitt and Ewalt Nitwitt 

     Kowalski 

  • Dumb Muscle: He is very buff and very stupid.
  • Enfant Terrible: He's seven years old and in prison for crimes against humanity.
  • Fat Idiot: It's more muscle than fat, but he's still dumb.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: He violently lashes out when frustrated, such as the time he atomized a sofa and a television set with his bare hands, then did the same thing to Stimpy.
  • Hulk Speak: He's not very articulate.
    "Daddy hit baby! Baby mad!"
  • Noodle Incident: He's serving a lengthy prison sentence for unspecified crimes against humanity. Also when Ren made him pull down his pants to spank him, we never see what it is but whatever Ren saw, he tearfully made Kowalski pull his pants up because of it, Word of God... ok Billy West actually answered it's "Anything you can imagine"!
  • Psychopathic Man Child: Subverted. He may appear to be a childlike brute at first glance, but he's only seven years old.
  • Smoking Is Cool: At one point in "Fake Dad" he attempts to smoke all the cigarettes, only to be stopped by Ren.
  • Trademark Favorite Food:
    • Meat. During a picnic, when Ren asks him what kind of sandwich he wants, Kowalski replies, "MEAT!". When Ren asks what bread he wants for his sandwich, Kowalski answers, "MEAT!" When asked what he wants to drink, yep: "MEAT!"
    • Kowalski also enjoys candy. In one episode, Kowalski has a stomach ache from eating too much candy during his prison stay.
  • Younger Than They Look: He looks like a large, burly man with stubble and he has a gruff voice, but is only seven.

     Wilbur Cobb 
Voiced by Jack Carter

A former cartoon producer, first introduced in "Stimpy's Cartoon", to whom the years have not been kind. He showed up in a few other shorts as a stock "rambling, crazy old man" character.

  • Body Horror: In "Stimpy's Cartoon", we see a hermit crab crawl into his head, his ear falls off and when he takes off his glasses, his eyes and nose come off with them. Worst of all is when his arms tear off.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Half the time, he's rambling incoherently about subjects in a way that he appears to have no idea what he's talking about.
  • Killed Off for Real: Dies at the end of "Galoot Wranglers" after Tempting Fate by saying "may I drop dead." However, he still makes one last appearance as an angel in heaven in "The Last Temptation".
  • Malaproper
  • Rambling Old Man Monologue: He's prone to this. In one episode, he's rambling to another old man who promptly dies. Cobb fails to notice and goes right on talking.
  • Really 700 Years Old: He rants about yanking off Thomas Jefferson's "silly powdered wig", suggesting that he was alive during the Colonial era. In another episode, he claims to have been there when the first prehistoric life-form crawled out of the sea and that he was the one who killed the dinosaurs, though those turned out to be complete nonsense.
  • Sitcom Archnemesis: "Walter Lantz! No-account son of a bus driver..."
  • Those Wacky Nazis: "World War I...there I was, up to my elbows in Nazis..."

     The Shaven Yak 

  • The Big Guy: He's very large and strong.
  • You Mean "Xmas": He's the gift-giver of a Christmas-like holiday called Yak-Yak Shaving Day.

     Mrs. Buttloaves 
Voiced by: John Kricfalusi (seasons 1-2), Billy West (seasons 3-5)

  • Abhorrent Admirer: Most of the episodes where she appears have her showing interest in Ren.
  • Badass Bystander: In "Fire Dogs", when she sees Ren's passed out on the ladder after seeing how high up he is, she takes it upon herself to get him back down. She grabs him in his teeth and descends the ladder, and then tries to give Ren CPR as thanks for trying to help her.
  • Big Beautiful Woman: The severed head in Bellhops certainly sees her as such.
  • Nice Girl: She's one of the kindest characters in the series, possibly even kinder than Stimpy, as she's had no Jerk Ass Ball moments unlike him (or, more accurately, she hasn't had enough screentime to ever have caught the Ball in the first place).
  • Gonk: One of the show's ugliest characters.
  • Fat Idiot: Subverted. While she's definitely very fat, she's more eccenctric than flat-out dumb.

     Stinky Wizzleteats 

     Old Man Hunger 
Voiced by: Billy West

     Haggis McHaggis 
Voiced by: Alan Young

  • Asshole Victim: Gets beaten up by the fire chief after tearing up his son's favourite pair of undies.
  • Ax-Crazy: Finds humour in beating up his dog.
  • Barbie Doll Anatomy: The one time we see up his kilt, we see he has no nethers.
  • Berserk Button: In "Scotsman in Space", he gets extremely irate over Ren and Stimpy overcooking his eggs and serving him haggis without chutney.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: In "Scotsman in Space".

     Svën Höek 
Voiced by: Billy West

  • Ascended Extra: He only made one prominent appearance besides the odd brief cameo, but appeared more often in the Marvel Comic book.
  • Collector of the Strange: He collects Band-Aids and spit.
  • The Ditz: He's an "eediot" like Stimpy, which is one of the ways they get along so quickly.
  • Dogs Are Dumb: He's a dog and is a lot stupider than Stimpy. His character design sheet even describes him as being "even more stupid than Stimpy".
  • Fat Idiot: Like Stimpy, he is an overweight moron, the latter word being the thing that they bond over.
  • Funny Foreigner: He has an exaggerated Swedish accent rather than a Peter Lorre-esque one like Ren, despite being related to him.
  • Kindhearted Simpleton: In the same vein as Stimpy.
  • Nice Guy: Like Stimpy, he's insanely sweet-natured. Also like Stimpy, he's presumably too stupid to be mean.

One-Shot Characters

     Reverend Jack Cheese 

Voiced by: Frank Gorshin

A meat-worshipping reverend. Only appears in the episode "Reverend Jack".

  • Captain Ersatz: A crazy, arrogant, obsessive villain with a bizarre fashion sense and the voice of Frank Gorshin? Sounds an awful lot like The Riddler to us.
  • Knuckle Tattoos: The reverend has tattoos grafted on his hands, with one saying "PITY" and the other "SELF PITY".
  • Large Ham: This is what happens when you invite the famously over-the-top Frank Gorshin to guest star on a show as crazy as this.
  • Parody Religion: "We are gathered here today to pay homage to MEAT!"
  • Sanity Slippage: He was never really all there, but his mental stability deteriorates through the episode.
  • Take That!: He is said to be based on Kricfalusi himself and the problems he caused during the show's first season.

     Jerry the Bellybutton Elf 
Voiced by; Gilbert Gottfried (English) / Humberto Vélez (Latin American Spanish)

  • Ax-Crazy: When he is given lintloaf, he becomes very insane and violent.
  • Berserk Button: Whatever you do, do not serve him lintloaf.
  • Cyclops: In his elf form, he only has one eye.
  • Disney Acid Sequence: "Climb Inside My World".
  • Disproportionate Retribution: He attempts to murder Stimpy just because the latter gave him lintloaf.
  • Does Not Like Spam: LINTLOAF!!!
  • Eldritch Abomination: As Adonis, Lord of Chaos.
  • Evil Is Hammy: "I AM ADONIS, LORD OF CHAOS!"
  • Hulking Out: He turns into a giant pork chop monster upon being given lintloaf.
  • Jerkass: He greets Stimpy by spitting on his hand and saying, "The pleasure's all yours." Later, he makes Stimpy perform his household chores while he lounges. When a well-meaning Stimpy offers him lintloaf, he maniacally chases Stimpy around the bellybutton realm in his car before transforming into Adonis and succeeds in eating both him and Ren.
  • Karmic Death: After eating both Stimpy and Ren, he gets eaten himself by Muddy's wife.
  • Large Ham: Duh, it's Gilbert Gottfried. Also literally since he morphs into a giant pork chop.
  • One-Winged Angel: His default form is a small, cute elf adorned with bellybutton lint. When angered, he transforms into a colossal pork chop monster with sharp teeth.
  • Suddenly Shouting: "Lintloaf...LINTLOAF?! I HATE LINTLOAF!!!"
  • Unstoppable Rage: He goes on a rampage after being served lintloaf.

     Sarge 
Voiced by: Bob Camp

     Brainchild 
Voiced by: Bill Mumy
  • Child Prodigy: He lives up to his name by being a child genius.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: He may be a bit creepy-looking, but he does manage to help Ren get Stimy out of a constant state of destructive stupidity.
  • Mad Scientist: He blows Stimpy up so that Ren can travel inside him and find out what's ceasing his brain activity, plus he appears to have experimented on his own mother.
  • My Brain Is Big: He's highly intelligent and he has a very large head.

     The Ghost 

A small ghost that spends his entire appearance trying to scare Ren and Stimpy and failing miserably. Only appears in the episode "Haunted House".

     Ralph Bakshi 

Yes, THAT Ralph Bakshi. He appears solely in "Fire Dogs II", with Ren and Stimpy hanging out with him.

     Charles Globe 

World-renowned fitness guru and socialite gadfly.

  • Hard Work Hardly Works: He admits that his well-proportioned torso wasn't a result of working out, but from having the excess fat in his legs surgically transplanted.
  • Hunk: Once you get past the fact that his head is a globe, he's pretty impressive.
  • Informed Attribute: While Stimpy introduces him as a fitness guru, he's never worked out a day in his life.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a lazier version of Charles Atlas.

     Waffle Woman 

Powdered Toast Man's arch-nemesis.

  • Alliterative Name: Her first and last name start with a "W".
  • Evil Is Petty: She blew up chunks on the world because her waffles didn't sell as well as powdered toast.
  • Yandere: During her last fight with Powdered Toast Man, both drop hints of being bitter ex-lovers.

     The Lifeguard 

Appears in Naked Beach Frenzy.

     Sammy Mantis 

Appears in "Sammy and Me".

Alternative Title(s): Ren And Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon

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