Rocko's Modern Life Movie: Sneak Peak

[Bedinsis]

Well that was a thing I remember watching.

Can't say much beyond that. It wasn't that memorable by my books.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Well that was a thing I remember watching.

Can't say much beyond that. It wasn't that memorable by my books.

I remember how shockingly adult and naughty it was, especially with regards to Mrs. Bighead.

And I remmeber some episodes like the Far Future where Rocko and Heffer left on a Rocket Ship leaving Filburt behind.

IMO this show was Spongebob before Spongebob or even more techinically this show was Nickalodeon's Dexter's Lab.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Rocko's Modern Life always was a weird cartoon. It had that kind of edge to it not many had. Cartoons like Animaniacs sometimes have you remember stuff you didn't understand as a kid and you suddenly get what the punchline was. Rocko'has you remember things you didn't get... and makes you feel vaguely dirty.

What I'm saying is, behind the zanyness there was sort of a bleak worldview there that came through once in a while.
Some genuine dark humour (which, mind you, isn't the same as vulgar humour)that no other cartoon as far as I'm aware managed to reproduce.

I'm not entirely sold on that trailer, to be perfectly honest, it doesn't require much in the way of insight to make fun of consumerism and it shows a lack thereof to reduce the times we live in to it. And that's, like, the majority of jokes in it. I hope they can come up with something a bit more... cutting.

 

[Natemans]

Well that was a thing I remember watching.

Can't say much beyond that. It wasn't that memorable by my books.

I remember how shockingly adult and naughty it was, especially with regards to Mrs. Bighead.

And I remmeber some episodes like the Far Future where Rocko and Heffer left on a Rocket Ship leaving Filburt behind.

IMO this show was Spongebob before Spongebob or even more techinically this show was Nickalodeon's Dexter's Lab.

Yeah, '90s and some early 2000s cartoons had some weirdly shocking jokes about innuedos and such that got passed the censors.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Really? No one's gonna say it? Fine, then I will:

OOOOOEEEE HEE HEE HEE! That was a HOOT!

 

[Epyc Wynn]

Rocko's Modern Life always was a weird cartoon. It had that kind of edge to it not many had. Cartoons like Animaniacs sometimes have you remember stuff you didn't understand as a kid and you suddenly get what the punchline was. Rocko'has you remember things you didn't get... and makes you feel vaguely dirty.

What I'm saying is, behind the zanyness there was sort of a bleak worldview there that came through once in a while.
Some genuine dark humour (which, mind you, isn't the same as vulgar humour)that no other cartoon as far as I'm aware managed to reproduce.

I'm not entirely sold on that trailer, to be perfectly honest, it doesn't require much in the way of insight to make fun of consumerism and it shows a lack thereof to reduce the times we live in to it. And that's, like, the majority of jokes in it. I hope they can come up with something a bit more... cutting.

I trust they won't be one-trick ponies. Those jokes feel like the jokes they just, need to get out of the way since they seem almost necessary as a transition into this new focus on the average person living in the contemporary world. I am hopeful they will get into the good stuff. Hopefully if this goes well we will get a reboot show.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

I just used to think the show was funny. Mind you, I was at high school at the time, those issues were a few months of years away.

When I first saw it I liked the fact of just having an Australian persona on American tv be like the actual average Australian you meet on the street. Mild-mannered, genuinely decent, boisterous only when driven spare, and effectively a wage slave that will put up with it with quiet stoicism.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I'm excited for it! Feels like coming home... Though does anyone know if it's gonna be a TV movie or an actual film?

 

[cathou]

I'm excited for it! Feels like coming home... Though does anyone know if it's gonna be a TV movie or an actual film?

for what i understand it will be an hour special to be air in 2018