Trivia / Ren And Stimpy3x 04 Stimpys Cartoon Show

• Creator Backlash: In the DVD Commentary, John Kricfalusi criticized some aspects of how the final cartoon was handled, namely for muddling its "Artist Vs. Non-Artist" message by changing Ren from executive to producer—while he did submit it in the cartoon as that in an attempt to avoid executive scrutiny, he felt Games used it as a chance to turn the cartoon into a attack on him instead of meddling executives (although he was ok with that), and that there were weird expressions that didn't really work in context.
  Elinor Blake and I wrote "Stimpy's Cartoon Show" and I had planned for that to be an epic, but the direction was pretty bungled. I explain it all on the commentary. The first Games DVD is coming out soon. I'd say it's definitely worth getting. Lots of good artwork, great backgrounds and some good stories-alas, no discernible direction."
• What Could Have Been: Had Spumco remained on the show, Wilbur Cobb's role would have been taken by Raymond Spum, a sort of Walt Disney-type figure. Also, Stimpy's cartoon was originally going to be animated and designed like a short from The Golden Age of Animation.
• Writer Revolt: This whole episode is basically a testament to what it was like to work under John Kricfalusi, with Ren being his stand-in. Nickelodeon hated the episode for its content. They even sent a note saying:
  You may think we have a sense of humour about ourselves. We don't.

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