The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men! (also known as The
Ripping Friends) is a Canadian animated television series, created by
John Kricfalusi, creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show on Nickelodeon. The
show premiered September 22, 2001 on Fox Kids, but was cancelled in
September 2002. Adult Swim later picked up the show. The series
occasionally airs in Canada on Teletoon. The series also aired briefly
in the UK on the CNX channel and on ABC in Australia.Kricfalusi and
his long-time partner Jim Smith created the Ripping Friends before
they created the similar superhero Powdered Toast Man for The Ren &
Stimpy Show. After Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi from The Ren & Stimpy
Show in September 1992, he had plans to make a feature film starring
the world's "manliest men". The feature film plan was scrapped, but
the characters were used in The Ripping Friends. Also, as early as a
1987 story session for the Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures,
Kricfalusi, who would go on to develop the concept for The Ripping
Friends for around a decade, had proposed using a wad of gum as a
character, an idea which was employed to create the first villain for
the new series, the Indigestible Wad. The Ripping Friends was slated
to premiere in September 2000 alongside another Spümcø show on Fox
Family, The Heart Aches, which follows the adventures surrounding a
girl band. The latter one never made it to television, and The Ripping
Friends first aired a year later, after missing another premiere
slated for May 2001, lasting for thirteen episodes. The budget was set
to US$400,000 per episode. Because of production costs, the show was
cancelled after one season and thirteen episodes.Kricfalusi felt the
show's supervisors were doing away with the Spümcø style and was
displeased with the direction. He was not fully involved until halfway
through production and considers the episodes with his involvement to
be experimental. One of his contributions to the show was directing
the voice actors, whom he "really worked out" so much that he was
afraid he'd give one of them a heart attack, which resulted in
re-casting the original voice of Crag, Harvey Atkin, with Mark Dailey.
Although Kricfalusi directed the actors, he recorded for his
characters separately at his home.The show centred on a group of four
superhuman brothers who attempt to fight crime from their base, RIPCOT
(the Really Impressive Prototype City Of (Next) Tuesday): Crag, Rip,
Slab, and Chunk Nuggett, Crag being the leader. Friends of the four
include Jimmy The Idiot Boy, a mentally-challenged drooling child, and
their foster mother He-Mom (the name speaks for itself). The villains
range from the Indigestible Wad (a wad of gum who sucks moisture out
of people), to the evil Euroslavian dictator Citrocett, to Flathead
(an invertebrate in search of a spine), to their own underpants.
Ripping Friends) is a Canadian animated television series, created by
John Kricfalusi, creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show on Nickelodeon. The
show premiered September 22, 2001 on Fox Kids, but was cancelled in
September 2002. Adult Swim later picked up the show. The series
occasionally airs in Canada on Teletoon. The series also aired briefly
in the UK on the CNX channel and on ABC in Australia.Kricfalusi and
his long-time partner Jim Smith created the Ripping Friends before
they created the similar superhero Powdered Toast Man for The Ren &
Stimpy Show. After Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi from The Ren & Stimpy
Show in September 1992, he had plans to make a feature film starring
the world's "manliest men". The feature film plan was scrapped, but
the characters were used in The Ripping Friends. Also, as early as a
1987 story session for the Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures,
Kricfalusi, who would go on to develop the concept for The Ripping
Friends for around a decade, had proposed using a wad of gum as a
character, an idea which was employed to create the first villain for
the new series, the Indigestible Wad. The Ripping Friends was slated
to premiere in September 2000 alongside another Spümcø show on Fox
Family, The Heart Aches, which follows the adventures surrounding a
girl band. The latter one never made it to television, and The Ripping
Friends first aired a year later, after missing another premiere
slated for May 2001, lasting for thirteen episodes. The budget was set
to US$400,000 per episode. Because of production costs, the show was
cancelled after one season and thirteen episodes.Kricfalusi felt the
show's supervisors were doing away with the Spümcø style and was
displeased with the direction. He was not fully involved until halfway
through production and considers the episodes with his involvement to
be experimental. One of his contributions to the show was directing
the voice actors, whom he "really worked out" so much that he was
afraid he'd give one of them a heart attack, which resulted in
re-casting the original voice of Crag, Harvey Atkin, with Mark Dailey.
Although Kricfalusi directed the actors, he recorded for his
characters separately at his home.The show centred on a group of four
superhuman brothers who attempt to fight crime from their base, RIPCOT
(the Really Impressive Prototype City Of (Next) Tuesday): Crag, Rip,
Slab, and Chunk Nuggett, Crag being the leader. Friends of the four
include Jimmy The Idiot Boy, a mentally-challenged drooling child, and
their foster mother He-Mom (the name speaks for itself). The villains
range from the Indigestible Wad (a wad of gum who sucks moisture out
of people), to the evil Euroslavian dictator Citrocett, to Flathead
(an invertebrate in search of a spine), to their own underpants.
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