Ever wonder why there are so many ANGRY FATHER FIGURES in REN & STIMPY?
"If you ever do anything to hurt ANTHONY'S beliefs,
LORD HAVE MERCY!!!!!"
"I'VE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH THE LIKES OF YOU PEOPLE!!!!
Oh I'm sorry.... I thought you were CIRCUS MIDGETS...."
"IT'S DISCIPLINE THAT BEGETS LOVE!!!!!"
RAGING at his father MICHAEL KRICFALUSI for the many years he had to instill his discipline on his son and not even give a SHIT about his aspirations of becoming a BIG-SHOT in Hollywood.
Have you ever had a FATHER FIGURE with a MILITARY BACKGROUND who's always against your aspirations for an ARTIST's career?
NO?
Some of you are readers are too young to remember or even have experienced that....
Either because your DAD may not have been in MILITARY SERVICE or your DAD is in military service but left custody to your MOMs......
But there are people who've grown up with the Commodities of PEACEFUL LIFE
Which were all made possible thanks to the heroic efforts of our Fathers who'd participated in the WAR period during their late teen-hood or early adulthood.
Such as MR. HOOK here educating his son in 1953 about his service in the US NAVY 10 years prior.
Considering that JOHN K.'s father likely participated in WWII as he was part of the
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE during that time,
This may the source of discontent that MIKE had for his own son who was born in 1955.
Around exactly 10 years since the end of WWII.
who had little to no experience with CONFLICTS abroad... aside from being with his father in EUROPE for the first 7 years of JOHN K.'s life before returning to OTTAWA in 1962.
(John K. would see an English Dubbed version of the soviet SNOW QUEEN Animated film.)
I know that JOHN's childhood was firmly in CANADA and that the country remained NEUTRAL during the VIETNAM WAR but I have a hunch that MIKE KRICFALUSI would have been tempted to send JOHNNY down to the UNITED STATES to enlist in the war in order to set him straight about getting serious with life in general while fighting with the recruitment officer over how BULLSHIT the CLASSIFIED 4-F Classification is.
"WHAT YOU REALLY NEED IS
A GOOD LONG HITCH IN VIETNAM!!!
There must be an enlistment tent somewhere!"
Also, MIKE was very serious about how LIFE works it's ways and also knew that no matter how revered they are, CELEBRITIES ARE MERE MORTALS LIKE US!!!
Example?
It was a bright DECEMBER 16 Afternoon in the year 1966 in the suburbs of OTTAWA, ONTARIO.
Little JOHN K. had just come back home from school, and was about to head upstairs to his bedroom to read his DON MARTIN Comic Books...
When all of a sudden...
His father MIKE, who was reading the newspaper,
Slowly turned his head to his own son
"JOHNNY!!!! IS THAT YOU WHISTLING THAT ASININE SINATRA TUNE?"
MIKE sternly asked JOHN.
JOHN nervously looked at his father... He could tell that MIKE has something to say.
"You're still thinking about becoming a BIG SHOT down in HOLLYWOOD.... RIGHT?"
Again, MIKE sternly asked.
"Yes...."
JOHN Nervously said back..
"WELL, YOUR FANTASIES ABOUT BEING A BIG SHOT ARE GOING TO END TODAY!!!!!"
MIKE roared as he shoved the newspaper at JOHN's face.
"READ THE FINE PRINT!!!! I JUST SAW THIS ON THE NEWSPAPER!!!
YOUR HERO'S DEAD!!!!!"
And there in the fine print, were words that many people in 1966 had dreaded to read that day
JOHN K. was in shock.
Even though he prefers WARNER BROS. and HANNA-BARBERA,
JOHN also had a reverence for WALT DISNEY and because WALT is synonymous with Animation, this was a major shock to both him and all of us back in December 1966.
"WHAT!? NO..... NOT WALT!!!"
JOHN K. said in disbelief.
But MIKE KRICFALUSI wasn't finished yet.
He knew that JOHN K. had always ignored every facete of his lectures.
But to see his son in shock and disbelief of WALTER ELIAS DISNEY's Death due to LUNG CANCER,
MIKE was sure he'd be able to easily make sure his son eventually kotow to his lectures.
"Son....WALT is not a GOD!!!!
He's a mere mortal, just like us...
And he SMOKED which ravaged his LUNGS!!!!"
"I always told you NO SMOKING THEM CIGARETTES!!!!
And look what happened to Walt!"
"NOW HE'S DEAD!!!!!!"
"YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT DEAD IS?"
"IT MEANS NO MORE!!!!"
"THAT'S RIGHT!! GONE FOREVER!!!!
WALT'S KICKED THE BUCKET!!!
JUST LIKE YOU AND ME ONE OF THESE DAYS!!!!"
"YOU'RE 11 YEARS OLD!!!
GROW THE FUCK UP!!!!!!"
"IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO STOP WATCHING THOSE STUPID CARTOONS,
AND FOR YOU TO THROW AWAY YOUR COMIC BOOKS!!!"
"AND START PUTTING YOUR PAPER ROUTE MONEY IN THE
GODDAMN BANK!!!!!"
"ALL SO YOU CAN EARN SOME INTEREST FOR WHEN YOU RETIRE!!!!!"
All while MIKE sulks in disbelief.
But think this level of speech that MIKE instilled on JOHN K. about the mortality of WALT DISNEY should still be seriously enforced nowadays.
Nowadays, I feel that whenever a CELEBRITY of ours passes away due to things like illness or natural causes, murder, etc.
(For example: The day I first typed this, PATRICK STEWART PASSED AWAY)
It causes those in my GENERATION POOL to RAGE, & CUSS,
"MENDOZAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
AND THROW OBJECTS ON THE FLOORS OR WALLS
OR EVEN FLIP TABLES,
OR EVEN FLIP TABLES,
"ALONG WITH FLYING PIGS & THE TOOTH FAIRY!!!!!"
All to
JUSTIFY OUR REFUSAL TO ADMIT THAT CELBRITIES ARE MORTAL LIKE US.
Ok..... I was just exaggerating the table flip and collateral damage....
But people CUSSING about the death of CELEBRITIES is indeed a real thing.
Such ABERRANT ACTIONS would give fathers like MIKE KRICFALUSI a major headache.
"YOU.....YOU......AND YOUR SOCIAL MEDIAS.....
& F***ING DOOMSCROLLING!!!!
IT'S GIVING ME A HEADACHE MAN!!!"
DOUBLY SO since JOHN K.'s grandfather(who's also MIKE's Father) was a CATHOLIC PRIEST who was even more strict on his discipline than MIKE was.
You're gonna have to scroll down until you get to that part of the blogpost that is.
Though MIKE died of natural causes back in JULY 7th 2020,
He was alive when CARRIE FISHER passed in 2016 so maybe if I had a time machine, I could go back, meet with the elder KRICFALUSI, fly him from OTTAWA to VANCOUVER and give a certain friend of mine a MUCH NEEDED LESSON ON LIFE AND BIOLOGY.....
(Just a little speculative dream for my own sanity...)
and who's that friend of mine I'm referring to?
Well I ain't telling you who he is for privacy reasons.
Though he is at the cusp of turning 30 years old.
Anyway... what was I saying......
We all need something better to do instead of bitching or ranting about the state of things.
And if you don't like how things in HOLLYWOOD are going right now,
START YOUR OWN INDEPENDANT STUDIO!!!!
JOHN was able to do that with the help of LYNNE NAYLOR, JIM SMITH, BOB CAMP, etc.
back in 1988.
What's so difficult about starting your own?
Don't let your talents go to waste like that!
It's not healthy.
Anyway......
This post is a little different from my previous WRITING FROM REALITY posts as it's all related to REN & STIMPY....
But I had to because it's getting close to REMEMBRANCE DAY here in CANADA,
(VETERAN's DAY in the UNITED STATES)
And plus, We all need a DISCIPLINARY MAN in our life to instill important Life Lessons.
And one last thing,
MIKE can be supportive however.
For example, He was able to give JOHN a fresh set of clothes that fit with his lifestyle instead of the disciplinarian that MIKE wanted to instill, especially after a forced haircut.
Turning his son from this:
JOHN K. before HAIR WHIZ
He looks like MICHARL from RALPH BAKSHI's HEAVY TRAFFIC(1973)
JOHN K. after HAIR WHIZ.
Looks like his father liked THE BEETLES' YELLOW SUBMARINE film from 1968.
Also, the one LOONEY TUNES character that MIKE KRICFALUSI liked personally was FOGHORN LEGHORN
"Hey wait a minute,
IS THAT THE BIG CHICKEN??!
I LOVE THAT GUY!"
Why did MIKE KRICFALUSI like FOGHORN LEGHORN?
Maybe it's because he's a portrayed like a strict disciplinarian just like MIKE was in real life.
Though in reality, FOGHORN was just nothing more than an oversized fowl prankster
Despite their differences in personality(Mike and Foghorn that is),
MIKE still laughed at FOGHORN'S ANTICS
"HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!"
If only MIKE KRICFALUSI lived past JULY 2020,
then he'd see what DAVE GREEN & KETCHUP ENTERTAINMENT did to his beloved FOGHORN LEGHORN in COYOTE VS. ACME which I did see in cinemas in last AUGUST.
Anyway.....
Sorry for going off course.
Be sure to pay your respects to our VETERANS who served in the Military and bring us the peace that we cherish.
(Family Members Included)
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