To this day, one of my favorite things of all time has to be "Rocko's Modern Life". They simply don't make shows for kids anymore that are anything deeper than what you are actually looking at. This show used to joke about homosexuality, cults, addiction, politics, nudity, and literally the prospect of going to hell - and it was all created for the entertainment of children.
I went looking for this show on DVD, and ended up stumbling upon this website that had a list of all the episodes and short descriptions for each of them. As I was browsing some of them, I noticed that the general idea of each of these episodes is even more brilliant that I had even realized. Here are a couple of my favorite descriptions:
- "Heffer unknowingly trades his soul for an opportunity to be on a TV game show"
- "Filburt talks Rocko into going wig-snatching with him"
- "While helping Rocko make a video for his parents, Heffer and Filburt shoot footage of Rocko sleepwalking naked. When they give the footage to the Chameleon Brothers for editing, they edit together an Art-House video centering on Rocko's nudity"
- "Heffer wins a trip to Astro-Camp after participating in a talent show, but Heffer's dad won't let him go, since he thinks that burping his way to Astro-Camp is ridiculous"
Man, being a kid kind of blows now. Instead of all this cool shit, they just have... Gabba Gabba Goo or something or other.
Nostalgia
