<P> Kricfalusi originally voiced Ren, styled as a demented Peter Lorre . When Nickelodeon terminated Kricfalusi's contract, Billy West, already the voice of Stimpy, took the role using a combination of Burl Ives, Kirk Douglas and a slight "south of the border accent" for the rest of the Nickelodeon run . West voiced Stimpy for the Spümcø and Games Animation episodes, basing the voice on an "amped - up" Larry Fine . Some notable artists and performers who voiced incidental characters on the show are Cheryl Chase, Frank Zappa, Randy Quaid, Gilbert Gottfried, Rosie O'Donnell, Dom DeLuise, Phil Hartman, Mark Hamill, Alan Young, Frank Gorshin and Tommy Davidson . </P> <P> The Ren & Stimpy Show features a wide variety of music, spanning rockabilly, folk, pop, jazz, classical music, jingles, and more . The opening and closing themes are performed by a group of Spümcø employees under the name "Die Screaming Leiderhôsens". Three Ren & Stimpy albums have been released: Crock O' Christmas, You Eediot!, and Radio Daze . In addition to music written specifically for the show, a number of episodes used existing works by composers such as jazz musician Raymond Scott, Claude Debussy, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander Borodin, Antonín Dvořák, Gioachino Rossini (particularly The Thieving Magpie), and selections from production music libraries such as APM Music, which fans later compiled into several albums . In 1993 a compilation album, "You Eediot!", was released as a soundtrack album . The album's front cover is a parody of The Beatles' 11th studio album Abbey Road . </P> <P> Stimpy's rousing anthem titled "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy" was composed by Christopher Reccardi and written by Charlie Brissette and John Kricfalusi . A cover of this song, performed by Wax, is included on the 1995 tribute album Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, produced by Ralph Sall for MCA Records . The line "happy, happy, joy, joy" is first used in episode three of the series; the song is first played in episode six . It is sung by a character introduced as "Stinky Whizzleteats", who is named in the episode's script as Burl Ives, an American folk singer and actor . The song liberally quotes numerous lyrics and lines of dialogue from Ives's films and records, creating a series of non sequiturs . </P> <P> Kricfalusi did not want to create an "educational" series, a stance which bothered Nickelodeon . Parents groups decried the series . Some segments of the show were altered to exclude references to religion, politics, and alcohol . The episode "Powdered Toast Man" had a cross removed from the Pope's hat and the credits changed to "the man with the pointy hat". The same episode had a segment featuring the burning of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights which was removed, while in "Dog Show" the last name of the character George Liquor was removed . Several episodes had violent, gruesome, or suggestive scenes shortened or removed, including a sequence involving a severed head, a close - up of Ren's face being grated by a man's stubble, and a scene where Ren receives multiple punches to the stomach from an angry baby . One episode, "Man's Best Friend", was shelved by Nickelodeon for its violent content . The show's spin - off, Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", debuted with this "banned" episode . </P>

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