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‘Happy Happy Joy Joy’ Review: Into the Dark Heart of ‘Ren & Stimpy’

Written by Jordan M. Smith

Jan 25, 2020
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Anyone who had their eyeballs near a television in the early ‘90s had either a queasy curiosity about Ren & Stimpy or a downright obsession with the Nickelodeon animated series (cue the close-up cutaway of a foaming mouth with rotting teeth and cracked lips overflowing with drool). As unlikely as it seemed at the time, the show reinvented how animation …

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