The Ripping Friends
| The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men! | |
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| Genre | Comedy Action Adventure Slapstick |
| Created by | John Kricfalusi |
| Starring |
Harvey Atkin (Crag, original) Mark Dailey (Crag) Michael Kerr (Chunk) Mike MacDonald (Rip) Merwin Mondesir (Slab) John Kricfalusi (Citrocet) |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Running time | approx. 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Spümcø Cambium Animagic |
| Distributor | CinéGroupe |
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| Original network | Fox Kids and Adult Swim (USA), Teletoon (Canada), CNX (UK) |
| Original release | September 15, 2001 – January 26, 2002 |
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.
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.
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.
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