Ren and Stimpy are homeless. When they see your house. They live in it

John Kricfalusi and Bob Camp recalled Nickelodeon’s story editor, Mitchell Kriegman, complained about the characters not living in the same location. They explained how it’s like Looney Tunes or The Three Stooges: if the characters are strong enough, they can be put into any scenario.

In my opinion, I think what they’re going for is that every episode can exist in its own vacuum like Ren and Stimpy die in like 30 episodes

I like to imagine that those aren't actually their homes and they just break it when the original owners go on vacation or something. That's why they keep changing houses

Ren and Stimpy are more like Looney Tunes then anything. You just put them in any setting and the plot writes itself. Modern shows have this one set setting which gets stale very fast. Plus, I love the inconsistently of where they live, it's more of a running gag then anything.

I think I have a couple explanations: 1) Ren and Stimpy are squatters who move into whatever house they can find while the owners of the house are on vacation. (Dinner Party, Aloha Hoek) 2) Ren and Stimpy are orphans that get passed around to different pet owners. (Big House Blues, It's A Dog's Life)

I always liked the trailer as their house, I wish they kept that in.

I think it's a good idea to add more rooms to the Ren and Stimpy trailer, it would be like in Space Goofs, a house with several rooms and it will help to be more involved in the wacky universe of ren and stimpy

The reason why Ren & Stimpy kept and keep bouncing from house to house is because it’s all done for the gag, but it’s a throwback to the OG Classic Looney Tunes cartoons.

Having more homes is in my opinion actually more interesting, as it allows for more ideas

My favorite house for Ren and Stimpy is from "My Shiny Friend", in which the building looked like a giant television. Imagine if some of the most notable characters: Ren, Stimpy, Mr. Horse, George Liquor, and Wilbur Cobb all lived in that building, like they're living in a literal sitcom home.

They simply move from one house to another!

Maybe they keep getting forced to go somewhere else because of how crazy they are

I have a theory for why Ren and Stimpy have so many homes. They're rich actors and they can afford a ton of houses

I wish Ren and Stimpy lived in their house in Big House Blues

To be honest they get kicked out every episode due to noise complaints.

I guess they were trying to pay homage to Looney Tunes with the houses constantly changing. I just keep thinking about how Bugs Bunny would pop out of holes in so many different locations.

Ren and Stimpy has to be the most inconsistent show in history. Even the picture quality is inconsistent. Some episodes look like they were made in the 2000s while other episodes look like they smeared vasciline on the camera lense.

3:13 the hole in the ground is obviously inspired by bugs bunny's home

Tell me you just don’t get it without telling me you just don’t get it

ren and stimpy die and they reincarnate in a different universe with a different home

We don't talk about the creator-

Everybody's saying it's like Looney Toons, but this isn't Looney Toons. But even those had consistency, like the woods Elmer always hunts Bugs in, or Leghorn's farm. They may not have been particularly defined, but they were still there. Even in the later Looney toons we had some familiar locations. I agree with you, that was a large part of what was missed out on the show, and SpongeBob has such an inviting appeal to it that lets it have its own consistency, despite the randomness, because there IS some part of it that feels grounded.

I've always liked them having different homes. I will say that I wish they made some of rooms look more interesting. There are times whey add something to the rooms like a certain wallpaper or pictures on the wall. Or even making the homes look like trash. But outside of that, some rooms do look pretty bland.

Animation studios usually hate it when new locations need to be designed for every episode. But with all the other demanding shit during John K’s tenure, “inconsistent house” was not one of the things Nick objected to I guess. XD

Making themselves at home until the real owners arrive, then it's time to look for another one

I always wondered why they kept having different houses

I wish Ren and Stimpy live in the house in the episode Son of Stimpy🤔

it's a reference to the three stooges

I think it's rather silly to want a show like Ren and Stimpy to be consistent in its setting. You have shows like Spongebob for that. I personally like how each house is different. It makes it funnier how inconsistent it is. That time when they lived in a giant cow, but we never see it again in another episode, was weird, hilarious, out of nowhere, and fitting for the show's tone. You couldn't have something like that if the show was more consistent.

werent they like homeless so they probably rented the homes for a limited time

Ridiculously bad take lol. These characters and world are inconsistent and vintage, why not follow the traditions of old cartoons like Bugs being in a different environment in every short? I like your content but I occasionally wish you were slightly more educated on animation history because I feel like a retrospective series should be made by someone who truly understands R&S and not its superficial details like homes or title cards. Sorry if this came across as mean, I really do like your stuff.

Not to be that guy but you use do when you refer to plural subjects

tbh i do like their wacky houses and want it to stay but, i agree that for any other normal house that they for some reason lived in, should’ve been replaced by the trailer