Billy West

Billy West voices Stimpy (and later Ren) on The Ren & Stimpy Show, the 1990s catalog Nicktoon that treated close-ups of gums as a painting. John Kricfalusi’s expressionism collided with the brand until the network flinched; West is the sound of ugly becoming beautiful. He makes a simpleton cat feel like an opera.

West does not need a clip package: The Ren & Stimpy Show is 1990s weather, and a new viewer should not skip. The catalog still points at s01e01: Stimpy's Big Day: gums, gravy, and expressionism in a kids' timeslot — Kricfalusi colliding with the Nickelodeon brand. Nickelodeon ran it 1991–1996; Stimpy / Ren (later) is why the run still has a person in the frame.

Futurama put the instrument into Groening’s nerd-precision sci-fi — math jokes, robot unions, hours that wreck you between punchlines. On TV Flash West is 1990s animation craft — Stimpy as the named weather, a frozen-delivery-boy future as the encore, still the reason a gross-out show and a sad cartoon share a throat.

Second climate for West: Futurama. Billy West clocks in as Philip J. Fry / Professor Farnsworth. Start that title at s01e01 — Space Pilot 3000: frozen delivery boy, a thousand years later, nerd-precision already finding the sad note under the gag. s04e01 still shows a later grip: Roswell That Ends Well: math-joke sci-fi at concert pitch, Fox animation still refusing to stay only silly. West does not visit this floor; he works it. s02e01 on The Ren & Stimpy Show remains a useful hour: In the Army: deranged close-ups as house style, the Nickelodeon brand already flinching right on schedule.