Kricfalusi's insistence on drawing and redrawing many of the scenes himself greatly hindered production. One scene, where Stimpy presents his "Stay-Put Socks" to Ren, took an entire month to complete as Kricfalusi kept changing his mind about the color of the box that held the socks despite the box being shown for only a few seconds. The show's painter, Teale Wang, painted 50 different versions of the box in different colors and shades until Kricfalusi finally chose Wang's first painting of the box. Wang reported that she felt that Kricfalusi was even then not pleased about the coloring of the box. Likewise, another animator, David Koenigsberg, recalled that Kricfalusi would explode in rage at him over his coloring of the Happy Helmet, and that it seemed that he could never quite color the Happy Helmet in a manner that was satisfactory to Kricfalusi. Koenigsberg stated: "He [Kricfalusi] comes storming into our workplace, yells at me in front of everybody 'You're wrong!', and storms out. He wasn't kidding around, he was really fucking angry. And I remember looking at Chris Reccardi, 'I don't know what that was for'. And Chris says, 'Welcome to the club'". The animator Mark Kausler of the Spümcø studio who drew the scene where Ren and Stimpy dance and the scene where Ren used a hammer to smash his own head stated that Kricfalusi was "not an easy director to please" and that "he didn't always know what he was looking for". Kausler stated that he had to draw both his scenes five times as Kricfalusi kept changing his mind about how he wanted the scenes to appear. For the homoerotic dance scene, where Ren and Stimpy repeatedly rub their buttocks against each other, Kausler drew five different versions where Stimpy's buttocks grew progressively more inflated with each drawing. The most extreme version of Stimpy's bloated buttocks was rejected by Kricfalusi as unsuitable. Kricfalusi then changed his mind several weeks later and chose that version for the broadcast version.
