When it comes to the race to the bottom for the single worst response to #MeToo, there are no winners, only losers. The competition for worst #MeToo response is fierce. It’s hard to beat Harvey Weinstein’s delusional insistence that after spending a few weeks to work on himself and his whole “being pure evil” thing, he was going to come back bigger and better than ever, and take down Trump and the NRA in his spare time while he was at it.

Mario Batali famously included a cinnamon roll recipe at the end of his apology but for sheer, creepy wrongness, it’s tough to beat formerly revered Ren & Stimpy cult auteur John K, whose response to a bombshell Buzzfeed expose on how he sexually harassed and groomed vulnerable teen girls who just wanted to work with him and be part of his world, and ended up the uneasy targets of his unrelenting and inappropriate sexual advances was a toxic combination of gaslighting, nostalgia and self-promotion of the “Wasn’t Ren & Stimpy great? Aren’t you hankering for some of that John K magic?” variety.

For Gen-Xers who grew up with Ren & Stimpy on Nickelodeon, K’s gross play to childhood nostalgia might have some currency. For anyone who suffered through 2003’s Ren & Stimpy’s “Adult Party Cartoon” even the distant possibility of more John K wackiness has a sinister connotation. Adult Party Cartoon isn’t just so utterly appalling that it’s more or less wiped out any positive feelings I have towards Ren & Stimpy; it also feels like an exhaustive confession thinly veiled as an outrageous animated romp.