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Ren & Stimpy
2024 · TV series · 11 min episodes · 1 season
Created by John Kricfalusi
AnimationComedyScience FictionFantasy
This reboot of the 1991 slapstick buddy comedy of the same name centers on a skinny, temperamental chihuahua Ren and his trusting feline sidekick, Stimpy. Together, this twisted twosome find themselves in crazy absurd adventures.
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Does anybody know the origin of the term? The author links to [1], which says it "probably" comes from a Ren & Stimpy episode.
According to wiktionary [2], the episode is called "Yak Shaving Day", of which a song clip can be viewed on youtube [3] and some more googling can tell you that yak shaving day is introduced in episode 3 of season 1.
But nothing about that song or episode has any relevance to the expression of yak shaving. So why did the MIT lab choose that name for the expression?
[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmISldi060
Yeah, and it's tamer than pretty much any episode of Ren & Stimpy.
> Thankfully they've taken to some PBS shows like Daniel Tiger and Thomas
I recommend tracking down some old-school Mister Rogers' Neighborhood if you can. Totally engages my 4-year-old, and she actually talks to him when prompted, which she does with no other children's show. The pace is sedate and the shots long (like, really long, in a way I didn't appreciate as a kid—that had to be difficult to film).
They make Thomas and Daniel Tiger and most of the rest of the PBS lineup seem like Ren & Stimpy by comparison.
Fellow HN'ers, don't click that link! You may soon find yourself reading a Seth Godin post about a Joi Ito post about an MAKE magazine article about a jargon file page about a Wiktionary Talk page about a MIT CSAIL post about a Ren & Stimpy episode.