John Kricfalusi Net Worth

John Kricfalusi's Quotes

• (The censorship of his work on the "Nickelodeon" kids network): "The main thing is that they never understood the show. Even the basics. I'm not talking about the outrageous stuff. Just talking about things like "Well, we'd like to do a cartoon with Ren and Stimpy in space." The response was, "What do you mean in space? How could they get in space?" Well, I'd say, "They're just in space in this cartoon." "That doesn't make any sense," they'd reply. "How will the kids understand it?" Well, I'd ask, "Haven't you people ever watched cartoons before? Sometimes Bugs Bunny's in space, sometimes he's a caveman, sometimes he's in a forest. It's a cartoon." They never quite got that."
• Saturday mornings were hilarious in Ottawa because we didn't get Saturday morning cartoons until years after they were started in the States. So the poor kids growing up in Ottawa, man, you know what we got on Saturday mornings? We got Bowling for Dollars (1972). We got The Bingo Show - there was a show about Bingo! You would watch people sitting at a table filling out Bingo cards, but it had the coolest title sequence. It had all these balls going down the video tubes, flying around everywhere. It was mesmerizing. I think the best show on Saturday morning was wrestling. It was the Canadian wrestling. It had the Vachon brothers from Quebec - Mad Dog Vachon and all that. (Edouard) Carpentier, the French guy who did all these flips and things. He was always teamed with a guy who later changed his name to Andre The Giant, but I think he was called something else. I don't remember who he was.
• I just knew at the regular networks there was no way in the world they would buy my stuff undiluted. So I diluted it. I hid the Ren and Stimpy characters, surrounding them with a bunch of kids in a show called 'Your Gang.' And I made up a bogus pitch about it being socially conscious.
• The Ripping Friends (2001) is about the world's most manly men, four guys who go around the world kicking ass and taking the law into their own hands and making the world a safe place in which to be manly. They're kind of the opposite of what men are brainwashed into being these days. They're like old-fashioned men, before political correctness. You ever see young guys now, where they're all hugging each other and shit like that? Trying to convince the girls that they're sensitive so they can get laid? Pile of crap.
• People deserve to have cruelty inflicted upon them, but animals don't.

Interesting Facts about John Kricfalusi

1. When approached by Nickelodeon to do a cartoon series, he gave them the characters Ren and Stimpy because he didn't want to risk losing the rights to his original two characters, George Liquor and Jimmy the Idiot Boy (Ren and Stimpy were originally the two characters' pets). In fact, he was right-- after 'Ren and Stimpy' was a big hit, Nickelodeon fired him and kept the show.
2. In March of 2003, it was announced that the TNN cable network had hired him to re-start the series "Ren and Stimpy" with new episodes (He had been originally fired from the project when it ran on Nickelodeon due to production and budget disagreements). Since the resurrected "Ren and Stimpy" series will be on prime-time and NOT on the child-friendly Nickelodeon, there will be greater creative freedom in the show's writing (and presumably, content). Kricfalusi has promised his fans that "Ren is still an asshole and Stimpy is still a retard."
3. When he acts, writes or directs in a cartoon that gets edited in a way that he feels ruins it and robs it of his "artistic vision," he uses the name "Raymond Spum' as an alias. The same way a major Hollywood director uses the moniker "Alan Smithee" when the studio has ruined his original intent.
4. Kirk Douglas is his favorite actor.
5. His mentor was animation pioneer Ralph Bakshi who employed John K. for his TV venture Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1987). In return, John had Bakshi play the voice of the angry fire chief on John's own TV venture Ren & Stimpy 'Adult Party Cartoon' (2003).
6. Identifies Robert Clampett as one of his strongest influences, in particular his short film The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946).
7. While he doesn't keep up with much anime, he has mentioned a liking for Shin Tetsuwan Atom (1980).
8. Last name is pronounced: "Kris-fa-loo-see."
9. He based the voice of Ren from The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991) on Peter Lorre. While that of Stimpy (voiced by Billy West) is based on Larry Fine of The Three Stooges.
10. Does not use scripts, he uses storyboards.
11. His father supposedly never had a high opinion of his interest in becoming a cartoonist instead of taking up a "manlier" profession like sports, and regularly made fun of his shrimpy stature. Any time he portrays father figures (such as Anthony's Dad or George Liquor), he's clearly working some issues out.
12. He's best remembered for Ren and Stimpy, but John considers George Liquor to be his "strongest character".
13. He claimed that he went into cartooning because it was the only job he could do well enough to get paid for.
14. He refused to give himself credit for his directorial role on The Ren & Stimpy Show: Robin Hoek/Nurse Stimpy (1991). He thought it was so bad that he credited himself as "Raymond Spum" instead, out of embarrassment.
15. He claims that he can barely watch The Ripping Friends (2001), since the whole show was meddled with by the network.
16. He has deeply regretted some of the decisions he made in his works, such as his use of eyes that squish in the middle to form a ) shape (which he only meant for the storyboards and never actually wanted them in the final cartoons) as well as many of the mistakes he made in his cartoons, such as one scene of Stimpy's eyes defying proper perspective (which was a sloppy mistake, but "everyone thought it was on purpose") and claiming that many TV cartoons (such as Animaniacs (1993)) had made "whole styles out of his mistakes.".
17. He has warned his fans to not study his cartoons, but rather all of his influences-"For everything I did right, there were a ton of mistakes.".
18. He is mostly self-taught, having only spent a year in Sheridan College, barely attending class. He acquired his skills largely by copying cartoons from newspapers and comic books as a child, and by studying cartoons and their production systems from the 1940s and 1950s.
19. Nearly sued Trey Parker and Matt Stone, because the South Park (1997) character Mr Hankey was similar to his cartoon short, "Nutty the Friendly Dump". It was eventually proved to be a coincidence.
20. He disliked Ren & Stimpy 'Adult Party Cartoon' (2003), because of how he was (supposedly) forced to add strong adult themes. That being said, he considers Ren & Stimpy 'Adult Party Cartoon': Altruists (2003) to be the best episode of Ren and Stimpy he's ever made.