It was a fiasco all around... they gave John Kricfalusi
carte blanche, and he turned in a half-a dozen cartoons which ran the gamut from passable to downright horrific, suffering from uneven pacing and bizarre, disjointed jokes that rang more weird than funny. I think the big problem was a new creative team and not having guys like longtime collaborator Bob Camp to reign in some of Kricfalusi's more incomprehensible flights of fancy. Only three of the new episodes ever made it to the air, plus an encore of the original "Fire Dogs" and the rarely seen "Man's Best Friend".
That said, my brother and I grew up on the classic R&S shorts, and this one was one of our favs.
We used to perform the whole scene where the boys first meet Wllbur Cobb verbatim. "...
Walter Lantz! That no-account son of a...
bus driver!!" I'd play Cobb; he'd do Stimpy. It was a riot.