On The Ren & Stimpy Show
George Liquor’s first official appearances were in episodes of The Ren & Stimpy Show. The Ren & Stimpy Show was a cartoon series that Kricfalusi created, sold to the channel Nickelodeon, and directed at his studio, Spümcø. Liquor starred in the episodes "Dog Show" and "Man's Best Friend" and made brief cameos in the episodes "The Boy Who Cried Rat" and "Robin Höek". According to Kricfalusi, Liquor only appeared in a few episodes because those in charge of Nickelodeon at the time hated the character. Ren and Stimpy animator Bill Wray described Liquor as a character that Nickelodeon "never liked" because the name "Liquor" both was a reference to alcohol and sounded like the words "lick her". Wray said that Nickelodeon disapproved of George but did not forbid Kricfalusi from using the character.
In one of Liquor's starring roles, in the episode "Dog Show", George put characters Ren and Stimpy through a painful process of making the two into perfect pets for a dog show. Before the episode was broadcast, it was censored so that George's last name, "Liquor", was cut from the soundtrack. According to Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons And Blacklisted Animators in America, Nickelodeon has not officially explained why the name "Liquor" was cut from broadcasting. Liquor's other major appearance, the episode "Man's Best Friend", was banned from Nickelodeon and was not shown on television for years because of its content. In the episode, George makes threats and angry demands to Ren and Stimpy, and in the end of the episode, Ren beats George with an oar. In addition to missing deadlines for Nickelodeon and making too many controversial cartoons, Kricfalusi said that the episode "Man's Best Friend" was the episode of The Ren & Stimpy Show that got him and the Spumco staff fired from the series. Kricfalusi said that "Man's Best Friend" was actually approved for broadcasting by both Standards and Practices and Nickelodeon administrators, but the Nickelodeon staff declined to broadcast the episode when network executives saw the finished product. Wray stated that the episode was "all finished and ready to go" before the cancellation. The episode aired on Spike TV in 2003 as part of Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon. When Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi, the network gave him the rights to use George Liquor because the network employees did not like the character. The arrangement with the network also granted Kricfalusi the rights to Jimmy the Hapless Idiot Boy.
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