History Radar / TheRenAndStimpyShow

* There's an episode entitled "Weiner Barons". It's about Ren and Stimpy moving to Canada and getting into the sausage business, but seems to be an excuse for the writers to use the word "weiner" as many times as possible.
* In the series finale, when Ren is introducing himself to Wilbur Cobb, Cobb tells him to watch his dirty mouth after Ren says his last name.

*** The fact that someone reported on the sponge bath (and stated that millions watched it, even though there were only five people -- four people and a horse, actually -- looking through the window) [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything brings to mind sleazy celebrity tabloids, particularly those centered on sex scandals]].

* In "Farm Hands", at one point Ren is hired to milk a gorilla named Bossy. He doesn't want to do it, and gets Stimpy do it for him. During the process as you can hear the gorilla happily grunting while it rubs Stimpy's head, and he remarks "Hey Ren, I think Bossy likes it, I like it too" and he drinks some of the "milk" and points out how funny it tastes.

** Powdered Toast Man's assistant looks pregnant when she first appears in the cartoon, although her stomach is noticeably flatter in every other sequence.

* Characters frequently say the word "crap" onscreen. Take the episode "Weiner Barons" for example.

** What makes this funnier is that, Bob Camp, writer of this episode, claimed in an interview that this went completely past the censors, which shocked him, as the jokes in the episode were intentionally written as crude and blatant. Instead they got told to remove the "marijuana leaves" in the background (which were actually innocent ferns).

** Even better at the beginning of the episode, wherein he finds the magazine in the mail, eagerly saying: "Can't wait to try it out!"

** The President's assistant looks pregnant when she first appears in the cartoon, although her stomach is noticeably flatter in every other sequence.

This cartoon set the bar for a lot of 1990s and 21st century kids' cartoons that don't want to adhere to the unwritten rule that cartoons are for kids, though, looking at most of these examples, the bar may have been set a little too high -- at least by Nickelodeon's standards. If this were a Creator/CartoonNetwork show, only 40% of the dodgy content actually ''would'' be a problem with the censors.
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* In "Son of Stimpy" when Stimpy is searching for his lost fart he encounters a store Santa, it shows him ringing a bell for charity donations and he says "Ho Ho Whoa!" with a shocked look on his face and he frighteningly turns around to see Stimpy sniffing his butt.
** Earlier in the episode, Ren has been trying to cheer up Stimpy, who is more concerned about Stinky. Eventually, Ren gets Stimpy to look up at the ceiling where there's a mistletoe. It then cuts to Ren, who is looking at Stimpy coyly with visible eyelashes. This was the last straw for Stimpy.

** This scene is also on NickSplat's YouTube channel. The video's description has something ''very'' interesting to say:

* Fair amounts of blood can be seen in a few episodes. "Sven Hoek" has Ren imitating (albeit very realistically) "tearing [Stimpy and Sven's] arms out of the sockets" - while he does that, a spray of blood is visible for a brief moment. In "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen", at the end of the song while hats are being thrown into the air, there's a very indiscreet shot of a bleeding intestine flying among the head gear (complete with a turd flying off the screen). In "The Great Outdoors", Ren smashes an already fed mosquito that landed on his arm, which leaves a pretty nasty bloody stain. During the surgery in "Ren's Pecs", a very generous spray of blood appeared, along with some heavily bloodstained bandages.
* The entirety of "Rubber Nipple Salesman".

** For clarity, that was the episode where they were door-to-door rubber nipple salesmen. No, it does not make any more sense in context; yes, it WAS done simply to fill an episode with nipple references.

* In "Powdered Toast Man" the joke of the President getting caught in his zipper while kneeling in pain over a toilet, if you've seen "There's Something About Mary" you might know what's happening here.
** Also, the visual innuendo of Powdered Toast Man roasting a weenie and PTM's lovely assistant roasting a melted marshmallow during the romantic ending.
** His assistant also looks pregnant when she first appears in the cartoon, although her stomach is noticeably flatter in every other sequence.
*** In a stark contrast of what Nickelodeon censors deem is appropriate compared to what isn't, the reruns of this episode cut the part where Powdered Toast Man uses the Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence as kindling for the fire and all appearances of The Pope (who was voiced by Frank Zappa).

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* Characters repeatedly try to [[DrivenToSuicide kill themselves]] (mainly Ren, who is always stopped before he succeeds).

** The hilariously and suggestively exaggerated spoon scene with {{Double Entendre}}s like "Now swallow ''every little drop''! Isn't it ''tasty''?" and "This is some icky-tasting stuff!" (the latter line would have been less dirty if Ren specified that it was ''medicine'') [[note]]The spoon is brought up again in "Fake Dad", in which Ren feels it's necessary to inform us that "he has some tasty icing on his spoon"...[[/note]]

* The show features lots of gross-out humor, including ToiletHumor. Which, naturally, is to be expected when knowing [[GrossOutShow what kind of show this is.]]
* Characters repeatedly try to [[DrivenToSuicide kill themselves]] (mainly Ren, who is always stopped).

* The episode "Untamed World" contains a subtle example: Look at the close-up of Ren's mouth as he says "organisms". If you look carefully, it's clear he's saying... something similar.

--->'''Sven''': (giggling)

* Characters frequently say the word "crap" onscreen, the episodes "Prehistoric Stimpy" and "Weiner Barons" in particular.

---> '''Stimpy''': "I'm a juggler!"
---> '''Sven''': "I'm a bearded lady!"
---> '''Stimpy''': "And I'm a ''sword swallower!''... Oops."
---> '''Sven''': (giggling)

---> '''Stimpy:''' "I'm a juggler!"
---> '''Sven:''' "I'm a bearded lady!"
---> '''Stimpy:''' "And I'm a ''sword swallower!''... Oops."
---> '''Sven:''' (giggling)

--> '''"We are all guilty of infringing on Stimpy's intimate moments on The Ren & Stimpy Show."'''

--> '''Stimpy:''' "I'm a juggler!"
--> '''Sven:''' "I'm a bearded lady!"
--> '''Stimpy:''' "And I'm a ''sword swallower!''... Oops." --> '''Sven:''' (giggling)