In a television cartoon world where stylistic familiarity has bred ever-increasing viewer contempt, “The Ren & Stimpy Show” is proving there’s an audience anxious for something a tad, uh, different.

They are quite possibly two of the most disgusting characters ever seen on TV. But Ren, a short-tempered, asthmatic chihuahua with bloodshot eyes, and his gullible, hairball-prone companion, a fat cat ...

Watch the cartoon Ren and Stimpy and you may see something like this: Stimpy the cat takes his friend, Ren the chihuahua, in his mouth and chews him up. What makes this cartoon different is that the ...