Review of 2 Stupid Dogs

2 Stupid Dogs deserves better than simply being called a Ren and Simpy copy. It is in actuality one of the more original cartoon series of the past twenty years. Visually, as designed by Craig McCracken (of Powerpuff Girls fame), this show introduced a new style which has since been seen on almost every other show produced by Hannah-Barbera and Cartoon Network, such as Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Bravo. The style harkens back to the simplified sixties, with its modernist architecture and industrial design, its costumes and its UPA inspired characters which contain as few lines as possible and are undoubtedly 2-d. Many of the stories also are throwbacks to the sixties mentality, especially the episode with a suspiciously Brady Bunch looking family (complete with a musical number), and the middle cartoon Super Secret Secret Squirrel, which is a wonderful parody of all those sixties secret agent movies and tv shows (Man from UNCLE, the Prisoner, James Bond, Our Man Flint, The Avengers, etc). This show deserves to be mentioned as being as important and influential a cartoon as DuckTales, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman:The Animated Series, and, yes, Ren and Stimpy. It deserves a closer look!