Cookie and Mojo went up to White Plains for a birthday party this morning, which gave me a chance to poke around the house and try to find things to throw away. I found an old VHS tape with miscellaneous clips from sometime around 1992 -- Telegiornale shows from RAI, Liquid Television segments from MTV, a wide assortment of non-descript video... garbage, and, huzzah, a string of Ren and Stimpy episodes I taped off Nickelodeon so many years ago.

I was watching them when the boys returned home. They were immediately drawn in -- they sat transfixed as Ren painted himself and Stimpy like dalmations so they could become fire dogs. And they laughed insanely when Ren sneaked into the house and cut a mouse-hole in the wall using a pull-start beaver.

"Mighty incisors."

Anyway, I know I'm going to pay for having introduced them to this particular cartoon. Still, I suppose it's an important rite of passage.