The Ripping Friends

The Ripping Friends is a cartoon which centers around a group of four superhuman friends who attempt to fight crime: Crag, Rip, Slab, and Chunk, Crag being the leader. Friends of the four include Jimmy The Hapless Idiot Boy, a mentally-challenged drooling child, and their foster mother He-Mom (The name speaks for itself). The villains the group faces are questionable: from The Indigestable Wad (a wad of gum who sucks moisture out of people) to Flathead (an invertebrate in search of a spine) to facing their own underpants.

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Superhuman - Jimmy The Hapless Idiot Boy - Gum - Invertebrate - Spine

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The first season of show aired on FOX Network and was then cancelled. Cartoon Network later picked up the show for its Adult Swim programming block. The series airs in Canada on the channel Teletoon. The series aired briefly in the UK on the Toonami channel.

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FOX Network - Cartoon Network - Adult Swim - Canada - Teletoon - UK - Toonami

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The superheroes' favorite breakfast cereal is Sugar Lumps. In one episode a cereal called Oorids is shown. This a reference to Ralph Bakshi's ' TV series, which Ripping Friends creators John Kricfalusi and Jim Smith worked on.

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Breakfast cereal - Sugar Lumps - Ralph Bakshi - John Kricfalusi - Jim Smith

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