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You’ve got to love the entire movie premise of a recent film—“Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story,” a documentary that debuted at Sundance earlier this year—and that posit being completely ignored just a few short months later.

Over the past few years, audiences have been asked to grapple with authorship in increasingly complicated ways. As more creators have had their off-screen actions pushed into the spotlight – or, more accurately, as we have belatedly come to realize that art does not excuse creators from consequence – fans have had to grapple with the impact of those actions on the work they love.

By Amanda N'Duka

For many the 1990s were the Age of Irony, with hipster cultural touchstones like Spy magazine and the TV show “Strangers With Candy” helping make snark the preferred flavor of the day. “The Simpsons” was also a big player in that area, yet arguably no cartoon series before had been quite so postmodern as “The Ren & Stimpy Show,” which premiered a couple years after it in 1991.