DISNEY has paired up with the creator of the controversial animated hit “The Ren & Stimpy Show” to develop a new show called “Green Monkeys.”

The show — about a pair of green monkeys who run a temp agency — was originally developed internally at Disney, but officials there were not happy with the results.

Now Disney has asked John Kricfalusi and his animation studio, Spumco, to redesign “Green Monkeys,” according to a report on the website, Animation Blast (awn.com).

It is not known if the show is being developed for primetime.

Disney officials refused to comment about projects that are currently in development, a spokeswoman said, and Kricfalusi could not be reached yesterday.

However, sources close to “Green Monkeys” confirmed that Spumco and Disney were working on the project.

Kricfalusi’s involvement with Disney is odd, mainly due to his free-wheeling approach to animation and now-famous dislike for large corporations dictating how his cartoons should appear on screen.

He is best known for creating Nickelodeon’s “Ren & Stimpy,” an offbeat and sometimes racy cartoon about an uptight chihuahua named Ren Hoek and his best friend Stimpson J. Cat (Stimpy), a dense but well-meaning oversized housecat.

The show, which aired on Nickelodeon and MTV in the early 1990s, raised eyebrows with its edgy approach to animation and its shameless and physical humor which often consisted of nose-picking and flatulence.

Some of the more controversial aspects of the show included scenes where the two main characters were gutted and filleted, overt homosexual references and an entire cartoon about gas-passing.

Throughout his tenure on “Ren & Stimpy,” Kricfalusi clashed with the network over creative control of the show. Ultimately, Nickelodeon fired him after he delivered an episode in which the pair are adopted by a thick-headed, red-neck named George Liquor whom Ren eventually beats senseless with an oar.

Since then, Kricfalusi has mainly focused on developing original animation for the Internet.