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词条 The Ripping Friends
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  1. History

  2. Description

  3. Episode listing

  4. Censorship

  5. Home video

  6. References

  7. External links

{{infobox television |
| show_name = The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men!
| image = Rippingfriends.jpg
| caption =
| genre = Comedy[1]
Action
Adventure
Slapstick
| runtime = approx. 30 minutes
| creator = John Kricfalusi
| starring = Harvey Atkin (Crag, original)
Mark Dailey (Crag)
Michael Kerr (Chunk)
Mike MacDonald (Rip)
Merwin Mondesir (Slab)
John Kricfalusi (Citrocet)
| country = Canada[2]
| company = Spümcø
Cambium
Animagic
| distributor = CinéGroupe
| network = Fox Kids and Adult Swim (USA), Teletoon (Canada), Netflix (UK), CNX (UK)
| first_aired = {{Start date|2001|9|15}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2002|1|26}}
| num_episodes = 13
|}}

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.

History

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".[3] 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 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.[4] The Ripping Friends lasted for thirteen episodes.

Description

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 Nugget, 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.

Each episode was usually tagged with a short episode which Kricfalusi says was composed of "left overs".[5] These segments were called "Rip Along with the Ripping Friends" and usually portrayed the Ripping Friends solving the problems of fans. These included: addressing the fact that hot dogs come in packs of 12 and the buns in packs of 8; "ripping" the man who creates insane video game controllers and the man who writes the instructions for them; and finding out why toys no longer come in cereal boxes, among others. In each segment viewers (referred to as "kids") are asked to "rip along" with the action by ripping pieces of paper up in front of the television when coaxed to.

Episode listing

EpisodeTitleSummary
1The Indisgestable Wad A young girl's wad of chewing gum that she has been chewing since before she was born – the one her mother swallowed – is granted sentience/sapience from a dentist's x-ray machine that is powered by cosmic rays. The wad wanders the streets at night, sucking up people's moisture to sustain himself, turning them into "flavourless" zombies.
2The Infernal WeddingCitracett, a villainous dictator from the fictional country of Euroslavia, decides to seduce He-Mom in an effort to get close to, and rid himself of, the Ripping Brothers, eventually asking He-Mom to marry him. The Ripping Brothers must now follow his orders "as if they were [Citracett's] own". [Never aired on Fox Kids due to scenes that would be considering in bad taste following the September 11th attacks; aired on Adult Swim].
3Flathead's RevengeWhen the boys go swimming in the local water hole Chunk finds that he has a flatworm attached to his armpit. After being removed, the flatworm decides to take one of the brothers' back bones and then wreaks havoc on the town with some of his invertebrate brethren.
4FrictorWhen Jimmy is unable to fully sew the uniforms of the Ripping friends (due to a lack of friction from his smooth fingers) Crag decides to give Jimmy some friction but Frictor, the master of friction, is created when the brothers' calluses are exposed to radiation. The Ripping Friends eventually track him to the moon.
5Rip's ShortsRip's shorts alter at the molecular level after being thrown into space. The shorts become evil and take control of Jimmy and then Pooperman, causing them to do "evil" things. The other three brothers mobilize to stop the shorts.
6The OvulatorThe boys discover that there is a shortage of beef and they send Slab out to rectify the situation, as he is the only one not affected by the lack of beef in his system. He soon discovers that a mad chicken, calling himself the Ovulator, is holding cows hostage.
7ManMan and BoyBoyA duo of supposed crime fighters called Manman and Boyboy are wandering around "solving crimes" with flesh coloured accessories. Their brand of crime fighting is soon revealed to be simply putting Boyboy in peril for no good reason. Crag sets out, because he has not had his own episode yet, to foil the duo and save Boyboy by dressing himself up as Man Friend and Jimmy as Boy Pal to save Boyboy.
8Stinky ButtCitracett is banished to the nether regions of the Earth by the Ripping Friends after attempting to destroy it. There, due to some mystical energy, Citracett gains the ability to control his flatulence with destructive results.
9The Muscle MagicianChunk is being made fun of by the other, 36-year-old brothers for only being 35 and a half, and therefore a "kid", so he runs away and attends a circus performance where he finds a magician who controls people's muscles. The magician, realizing the potential that Chunk poses, possesses his muscles and has him commit robbery of the many national banks in town.
10Jimmy's KidnappedCitracett and a gorilla (named "Gorilla Friend" in an organ grinder monkey outfit, later "Anaxamander - the Noble Primate" in a "Pericles helmet") kidnap Jimmy the Hapless Idiot Boy after Rip harasses him into running away. The Ripping Friends track him down to find that they are torturing Jimmy so Rip knocks out the gorilla, steals his fur, and infiltrates Citracett's basement to rescue Jimmy. [Never aired on Fox Kids]
11Dr. Jean PooleThe four boys get a lesson on "girls" from He-Mom and, as a final lesson, sets them up on a date with a Dr. Jean Poole. All five of them go out on the date together to the drive-in.
12The Man From Next Thursday, Part OneSomeone breaks into RIPCOT's secret vault and steals the Ripping Friends' "perfect" DNA, which he turns into "Riptonite" in order to kill the Ripping brothers. The intruder is revealed to be a man with an enormous thumb protruding from his chest, who claims to be a time traveler from "next Thursday".
13The Man From Next Thursday, Part TwoThe man from next Thursday relates his plan to his intelligent cat, revealing that his attempts to kill the Ripping Friends is based on revenge; the Ripping Friends ripped the nail off his giant chest-thumb and then re-attached it on the wrong side, making him a freak in the world of next Thursday.

Censorship

  • In a segment where Rip is asked by a fan to find out why hot dogs come in packs of twelve and hot dog buns come in packs of eight, Rip beats up a male hot dog and a female bun and asks them to "hug". The hot dog begins to slip inside the bun, and the segment immediately fades to black.[6]

The uncut version of Ripping Friends was also shown on Adult Swim.

Home video

Two VHS tapes with two episodes each were initially available with the two volumes later combined into a single DVD release with four episodes.[7]

In Australia, the Complete Series was released on Region 4 DVD by Madman Entertainment.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-ripping-friends-animated-tv-series-v261457/|work=Allmovie|title=The Ripping Friends [Animated TV Series]|accessdate=November 23, 2012}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/35487|work=British Film Institute|accessdate=November 24, 2012|title=Ripping Friends|location=London}}
3. ^"Ripping Friends {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804224604/http://www.abc.net.au/fly/tvfreak/feature/johnk_1.htm |date=2011-08-04 }}", ABC
4. ^"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZzjh1PgIbs Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures Story meeting]", YouTube clip of an episode of The MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour
5. ^"Ripping Friends Satire", All Kinds of Stuff at Blogspot
6. ^"hotdogs and buns should get along", All Kinds of Stuff
7. ^The Ripping Friends - The World's Manly Men at tvshowsondvd.com {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016203407/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Ripping-Friends-Volume-Release/1189 |date=2012-10-16 }}

External links

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