In 1991, Nickelodeon founded Games Animation Studios as its own animation division under the guidance of Vanessa Coffey and Mary Harrington, who reported to Nickelodeon programming chief Herb Scannell. The initial duty was to continue producing The Ren & Stimpy Show as Nickelodeon dropped Spümcø and its creator John Kricfalusi from their duties on the show. At the time, Games was located in an office building in Studio City, California. Apart from The Ren and Stimpy Show, Nickelodeon's other Nicktoons were done out-of-house at Jumbo Pictures/Cartoon Pizza (whose next deal with Nickelodeon would be a live-action/puppet series Allegra's Window for Nick Jr. in New York City and Klasky-Csupo (who entered mainstream popularity as animation producers from Fox's longest-running animated sitcom Th