5.3 /10 2 Votes
6.5/10 TV Country of origin Canada Running time approx. 30 minutes | 6.6/10 IMDb No. of episodes 13 Final episode date 26 January 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genre ComedyActionAdventureSlapstick Starring Harvey Atkin (Crag, original)Mark Dailey (Crag)Michael Kerr (Chunk)Mike MacDonald (Rip)Merwin Mondesir (Slab)John Kricfalusi (Citrocet) Cast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ripping friends intro 2001 a k a the ripping friends the world s most manly men
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, who was well known for creating 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. The show was rated TV-Y7 on Fox Kids and TV-PG on [adult swim] in the United States, and C8 to 14+ on Teletoon in Canada.
Contents
- Ripping friends intro 2001 a k a the ripping friends the world s most manly men
- Ripping friends fox kids promos
- History
- Description
- Censorship
- Home video
- References
Ripping friends fox kids promos
History
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 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 lasted for thirteen episodes.
Description
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, 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 Flathead (an invertebrate in search of a spine), to their own underpants.
Each episode was usually tagged with a short episode which Kricfalusi says was composed of "left overs". These segments were called "Rip Along with the Ripping Friends" and usually portrayed the Ripping Friends solving the problems of fans. These included: addressing the fact that hot dogs come in packs of 12 and the buns in packs of 8; "ripping" the man who creates insane video game controllers and the man who writes the instructions for them; and finding out why toys no longer come in cereal boxes, among others. In each segment viewers (referred to as "kids") are asked to "rip along" with the action by ripping pieces of paper up in front of the television when coaxed to.
Censorship
The uncut version of Ripping Friends was also shown on Adult Swim.
Home video
Two VHS tapes with two episodes each were initially available with the two volumes later combined into a single DVD release with four episodes.
In Australia, the Complete Series was released on Region 4 DVD by Madman Entertainment.