Maybe you get better bad cartoons on your cable system (and you don’t have a 10 year old driving the remote…)

K Lite™ animators saw enormous reaction shots on Ren & Stimpy, didn’t remember the rest of the toon, and figured “More of these = funnier. Also, more boogers, more exaggerated closeups that lead to grotesquery, more farts, more more more.” Sometimes, they remember to hang a cartoon between those shots.

(I like John K. as much as the next guy, but too many young animtors can’t remember a time before him, and much of what gets produced these days comes across as Kricfalusi Lite™

…and John K agrees with you, with full vengeance and spleen, viz:

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/

He’s also been doing some wonderful stuff there analyzing exactly where UPA went wrong and killed everything that the lads at Termite Terrace had learned, in exactly the ways that the Frederator (etc) folks that stuff the Nickelodeon pipeline with crap have taken all the meaningless surface stuff from his work, and left the important…what do you call it… yeah, the “art” wriggling on the floor.

But you already knew that, Gary.