Artcow Michael John Kricfalusi / John Kricfalusi / John K. / John K. Stuff / Raymond Spum - scammer animator who pissed away his own career, salty blogger, CONFIRMED predator and child rapist

Jewelsmakerguy said:
Probably not, given how the quality of their works were turning into utter garbage at that point.
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It was quite sad to have witnessed it in my childhood. It went from the brilliance of Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff to New Kids on the Block and Hammerman (the ALF cartoon was a speed bump). Needless to say I was turned off.

EDIT: Just thought I add this, here's the full, uncut version of "Reverend Jack"! This was just perfect!
 
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Trilby said:
It was quite sad to have witnessed it in my childhood. It went from the brilliance of Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff to New Kids on the Block and Hammerman (the ALF cartoon was a speed bump). Needless to say I was turned off.

EDIT: Just thought I add this, here's the full, uncut version of "Reverend Jack"! This was just perfect!
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That's brilliant.

I didn't get it until somewhere halfway through; the "meat" is the perfect animation John K. (the Reverend) so sought after... but he screwed it up, and 4 years later Ren and Stimpy (the remaining animation crew working on the show without John) are still holding up what was left behind, while the Reverend/John K. is slandering them. That is perfect.
 
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rburch91 said:
That's brilliant.

I didn't get it until somewhere halfway through; the "meat" is the perfect animation John K. (the Reverend) so sought after... but he screwed it up, and 4 years later Ren and Stimpy (the remaining animation crew working on the show without John) are still holding up what was left behind, while the Reverend/John K. is slandering them. That is perfect.
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There's certainly a lot to notice here, like how the whole bit about driving without stopping is an allegory to how John fell behind in getting any episodes done on time.
 
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Supposedly all sorts of odd little details were inspired by actual incidents involving John K. - according to an interview with Bill Wray and Bob Camp, the sandwich anointing scene was inspired by a moment at a party.

BW: Let me tell the cheese story… The main joke in that cartoon was them putting cheese and lunchmeat on his head, like they were anointing him in a religious ritual. That actually happened at a party of John’s when we were all so drunk we couldn’t walk. And Bob Jaques, the animation director on most of the better Ren & Stimpy cartoons, walked over to John, and he had a big platter for the party… And he put a piece of cheese or meat on John’s head. And John was too proud and too drunk, he couldn’t even lift this arms. He said, “I’m sure you think that’s funny.”

BC: “I’m sure you want to waste perfectly good lunchmeat like that!”

BW: And he built a sandwich on his head.

BC: So it ended up in a cartoon.

BW: So it was a true-to-life cartoon.
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Steamboat_Bill said:
He was involved in a studio in Miami, but when the news broke, they kicked him out. Now he's just a loser who keeps posting to his Instagram and deleting any comments that bring the allegations up.
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Interesting he was doing that at all until that point. Glad to see how swift that decision was made by the studio before it was too late.
 
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scrambles said:
I think he was also selling a lot of worthless old plastic and sketches/autographs to his small but remaining cult following, at least until the accusations broke.
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Yup. His George Liquor and Jimmy the Idiot Boy figures make me cringe for some reason. Maybe my cheapskate senses are telling me he’s overcharging for these cheap pieces of plastic.
 
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From what I had heard, the Reverend Jack Cheese episode made all sorts of other references to Kricfalusi - the gag where the Reverend Cheese has his butt squared had to do with a theory somebody had that the best animation directors had the flattest posteriors.

Note near the end the Games crew took a poke at themselves; the puppet show Ren and Stimpy put on without Jack attracts the kids, but it's noticeably not as strange and is kind of dry.
 
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Commander X said:
From what I had heard, the Reverend Jack Cheese episode made all sorts of other references to Kricfalusi - the gag where the Reverend Cheese has his butt squared had to do with a theory somebody had that the best animation directors had the flattest posteriors.

Note near the end the Games crew took a poke at themselves; the puppet show Ren and Stimpy put on without Jack attracts the kids, but it's noticeably not as strange and is kind of dry.
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"Reverend Jack" was essentially Games' way of telling their side of the story, which very few people back then wanted to listen to, but which thankfully has been told as John's reputation has gone down.

In "Stimpy's Cartoon Show," when Ren is the producer for Stimpy's cartoon, his appearance is a caricature of John K. as well. (Ironically on an episode he came up with.)
 
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Funnily enough, Stimpy's Cartoon Show started as a John K premise which was mostly just a soapbox on how non artists always head cartoons which he says is what caused the Dark Era of Animation. Originally intended to satirize network executives. Once he was fired, the Games crew took the story and reworked it into a stab at John himself.
 
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Commander X said:
Funnily enough, Stimpy's Cartoon Show started as a John K premise which was mostly just a soapbox on how non artists always head cartoons which he says is what caused the Dark Era of Animation. Originally intended to satirize network executives. Once he was fired, the Games crew took the story and reworked it into a stab at John himself.
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Supposedly John K., to make sure Nick would approve the story, changed Ren from an executive to a producer and said he was just poking fun at himself. Which he wouldn't have done, but the Games crew did.

But the Games crew not only did that but improved the story. Raymond Spum, John K.'s fictional Uncle Walt-esque founder of Spumco, was substituted with Wilbur Cobb, perhaps one of the show's greatest characters.

Stimpy's cartoon was also going to turn out to be good in the end, but Games instead decided to make it incredibly bad and therefore much funnier.
 
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