Stefan sez: Fox's Saturday Morning

Mark Frauenfelder 11:35 am Mon Nov 12, 2001

Stefan sez: Fox's Saturday Morning lineup includes something mighty peculiar: A superhero spoof called Ripping Friends.

There have been plenty of those through the years, but this one is masterminded by John Kricfalusi, the brilliant but notoriously difficult animator who created Ren & Stimpy. Last I'd heard had been banished to web animation land by freaked-out producers. It appears he's returned . . .

The Ripping Friends are a team of superheroes. Their sidekick is Kricfalusi's Jimmy the Idiot Boy. (No sign of George Liquor: American yet.) I caught a couple of episodes. It's mightily perverse. I can't imagine how they got this one on the air. This morning's adventure pitted the Ripping Friends against a shrimpy villain with the power to emit hideously stinky farts. And they call them farts, almost certainly a first for Saturday morning. Link Discuss

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