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I grew up watching that show, and can’t ever enjoy it like I used to. The 90s weren’t as great as they make them out on Portlandia. A lot of lower middle class kids turned to cable tv for escape when they felt like they had no allies.

This is good reporting…

But it hurts knowing what entertained you when you had very few allies came at someone else’s expense.

(Allowing someone like that to do shoe after show… shouldn’t have happened. Full stop.)

Also: this was previously posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34338744

(But trying to leave a substantive comment rather than come in and yell “first” like it’s slashdot.)

It’s so sad that people covered for this creep for so long. I could never watch Ren & Stimpy even as a kid. It was obviously the product of a degenerate mind.
I suspect he had comorbid depression.

I’ve never heard a bad word about, say, the creator of Rocko’s Modern Life - there was a similar vibe to the art and humor, though R&S was darker looking back.

The pattern I keep seeing is: if the art is deviant the artist usually is too.
Eric Gill the creator of the Gill Sans font was extremely deviant. His artwork is iconic and from what I can tell not deviant.
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