(also known as The Ripping Friends) is a Canadian-American animated television series created by John Kricfalusi, creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show on Nickelodeon.

After Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi from The Ren & Stimpy Show in September 1992, he had plans to make a feature film starring the world's "manliest men".

[5][6] The Ripping Friends was slated to premiere in September 2000 along with another Spümcø show on Fox Family, The Heartaches, which follows the adventures surrounding a girl band.

[7] The latter one never made it to television, and The Ripping Friends first aired a year later, after missing another premiere slated for May 2001,[8] lasting for thirteen episodes.

Kricfalusi felt the show's animation supervisors were doing away with the Spümcø style (primarily Jim Smith's designs) and was displeased with the direction.

[7] Friends of the four include Jimmy the Idiot Boy, a mentally-challenged drooling child, and their foster mother He-Mom.

The wad wanders the streets at night, sucking up people's moisture to sustain himself, turning them into "flavorless" zombies.

When the boys go swimming in the local water hole Chunk finds that he has a flatworm attached to his armpit.

After being removed, the flatworm decides to take one of the brothers' back bones and then wreaks havoc on the town with some of his invertebrate brethren.

There, due to some mystical energy, Citracett gains the ability to control his flatulence with destructive results.

Chunk is being made fun of by the other, 36-year-old brothers for only being 35 and a half, and therefore a "kid", so he runs away and attends a circus performance where he finds a magician who controls people's muscles.

The magician, realizing the potential that Chunk poses, possesses his muscles and has him commit robbery of the many national banks in town.

The intruder is revealed to be a man with an enormous thumb protruding from his chest, who claims to be a time traveler from "next Thursday".