maninahat
Since: Apr, 2009
01/20/2023 00:00:00
I was one of the suckers that paid this guy a buck for the cartoon a decade ago.
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TheCwazyCrowla
Since: Jan, 2023
01/20/2023 00:00:00
I\'m so sorry...
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An emetic embarrassment that deserves nothing but contempt
In 2012, John Kricfalusi, also known as John K., the creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, started a Kickstarter page for a cartoon starring George Liquor he wanted to make called Cans Without Labels. A simple story about what his dad used to do as a kid, the short didn't come out until 2019, after John K.'s history of child grooming came to light.
Personally, I didn't like this short for a lot of reasons. One, the animation. It's really bad. There are noticeable animation errors (one example being how George's nose gets smaller in the opening zoom out), and some of the faces, while fun to laugh at, are cringe-worthy and repulsive. I get that it's John K., but Ren and Stimpy had other jokes than just weird as Hell faces.
As for the jokes themselves? They're not good. It's either just yelling, swearing, ugly faces as I mentioned before, gross out, etc. For example, we get a whole shot of a cat's buttocks moving around and there's a whole character called Donald Bastard and the only actual joke with him is how he's a parody of Donald Duck.
Speaking of having a whole shot of a cat's buttcheeks moving around, that's another issue with this short. The pacing. Some scenes go on for WAAAAAY too long, like George threatening Slab and Ernie if they didn't eat the face, George going to the bathroom (and you can hear him take a shit no less), and George coming back into the kitchen with the belt. It's miserably unfunny and embarrassing
And here's the biggest problem with the short - how a fundamentally broken cartoon is not going to distract from your life of child molesting and grooming. John K. asked for MONEY to make this, and he responded by releasing this YEARS LATER after he was exposed as a creep.
In the end, Cans Without Labels is atrocious. The pacing and content issues of Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" have returned, and the fact that this was released after John K. was exposed is baffling. In the end, go watch the original Ren and Stimpy Show. It hasn't aged completely well, but it still manages to make me laugh, unlike this shit. I'm actually planning to make my own cartoon short, and even though I'm sure it's gonna take a long time, I just hope it turns out better than this. I want to be proven right.