Ren & Stimpy: The Lost Episodes

I really think John Kricfalusi is the only contemporary animator that has a direct link to the hilarious and brilliant animators of days gone by like Bob Clampett and Tex Avery.

These special episodes of Ren & Stimpy were created (long after the characters' debut in the late 1980s) for Spike TV, a young men's cable channel, and John K was pretty much give free reign to be as crude as he wanted to be. These cartoons are not for kids, because there's a lot of nudity and sexual situations. But they're funny, and if your kids do happen to get their hands on them, they are going to love them.

As a bonus, John K talks at length about each cartoon, and invites his animator pals to stand in front of the video camera pointed at the corner of the den in his San Fernando Valley ranch home to talk cartoons. For a cartoon fan like me, it's pure Heaven. $19.87 on Amazon