The Ripping Friends (2001)
The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men! is a Canadian animated television series, created by John Kricfalusi. The show premiered September 22, 2001 on Fox Kids, but was cancelled in September 2002. Adult Swim later picked up the show. The series occasionally airs in Canada on Teletoon. The series also aired briefly in the UK on the CNX channel. The show is rated TV-Y7 on Fox Kids and TV-PG on [adult swim] in the United States, and C8 to 14+ on Teletoon in Canada.
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Episode 1 - The Indigestible Wad
Release Date: 2001-09-15Tracy has been chewing the same piece of gum her entire life and even refuses to spit it out while sitting in a dentist chair. This proves to be a deadly mistake when X-ray radiation transmutes her gum into a super human wad with a life all its own. Bent on destroying the human race, the wad pillages through humans' mouths and sucks out their saliva, generating more power for himself but leaving its victims zombies. It is up to The Ripping Friends to save the day, but are they clever enough to defeat The Indigestible Wad?
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Episode 2 - Flathead's Revenge
Release Date: 2001-09-22Flathead, a worm-like creatrue vows revenge on the human race for being ridiculed by the Ripping Friends. Flathead steals Jimmy's spine and then breeds more flathead creatures who in turn steal other people's spines. It is up to the Ripping Friends to get back Jimmy's spine and restore the townspeople's spines as well.
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Episode 3 - Frictor
Release Date: 2001-09-29In an attempt to donate their excess friction to speed up friction development on Jimmy's hands, they end up creating the friction monster named Frictor, self-proclaimed Master of Friction. The Ripping Friends have to find a way to deal with this monstrosity.
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Episode 4 - Rip's Shorts
Release Date: 2001-10-06Jimmy comes to get the superhero's dirty laundry, but Rip forgets to give him his shorts. He ends up trying to throw his shorts to Jimmy but he doesn't know his own strength. He throws the shorts so far, they go into a far and distant land where they become evil. The shorts, like most villians, try to destroy The Ripping Friends.
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Episode 5 - The Ovulator
Release Date: 2001-10-13Ovulator attempts to rule the world by selling the eggs and forcing the cows to hold their meat like ""the wretched herbivore"" they are. Slab, the only ripping friend to hold protein longer than the others, has to put a stop to the Ovulator's evil ways.
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Episode 6 - Man Man and Boy Boy
Release Date: 2001-10-27The Ripping Friends are enraged by a news story about a crime-fighter and his young sidekick: Man Man and Boy Boy. Not only does Man Man not have a license to fight crime, but he causes Boy Boy untold anguish by forcing his motif on him. Crag and Jimmy dress up as ""Man Friend"" and ""Boy Pal"" to save the day.
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Episode 7 - Stinky Butt
Release Date: 2001-11-10After defeating Citracett for the 37th time, the Ripping Friends banish him to the bowels of the Earth. The methane gases below the Earth's surface transform Citracett into the all-powerful Stinky Butt! It takes all of the Ripping Friends' strength an intelligence to prevent Stinky Butt from blowing up the Earth.
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Episode 8 - The Muscle Magician
Release Date: 2001-11-17Chunk meets the Muscle Magician, a performer who can control the muscles of other people. The Muscle Magician decides to put Chunk's great muscles to work for his own nefarious purposes. Against his will, Chunk finds himself robbing banks left and right.
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Episode 9 - Jimmy's Kidnapped
Release Date: 2001-12-15After being teased by Rip, Jimmy runs off to be alone in his favorite tree. Citracett happens by and kidnaps Jimmy. Rip painfully realizes Jimmy would never have been kidnapped if his horrible teasing hadn't driven Jimmy to run away, so he vows to rescue to rescue Jimmy at any cost.
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Episode 10 - The Ripping Friends Meet Dr. Jean Poole
Release Date: 2002-01-12He Mom wants the heroes to find love.
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Episode 11 - The Man from Next Thursday, Part 1
Release Date: 2002-01-19A new villain 'Thursday Man' was a big fan of The Ripping Friends, but there was one thing they did that got him to want to destroy the Ripping Friends! Heres what happened: In the land of next Tuesday everyone in the world has an apposable thumb sticking out of there chest, but Thursday Man had a thumb with the nail on upside down. He then heard that one of his favorite superheros, Slab, is a professional doctor. Maybe he could put the nail on right? After hours of hard work, Slab was finished. Thursday Man looked at his new apposable thumb. He saw, that his nail was still on the same way! Maybe Slab didn't know what way it was supposed to go on, or maybe he didn't care. Thursday Man then tries to get his revenge. Tune in next week to see what happens.
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Episode 12 - The Man from Next Thursday, Part 2
Release Date: 2002-01-26Will the Ripping Friends succeed against Thursday Man? We find out in this episode...
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Episode 13 - The Infernal Wedding
Release Date:Citracet the Merciless attempts to marry He-Mom.