Wow ... I didn't realize 30-40 year age bracket had that much disposable income to dedicate a movie exclusively too. I grew up with Rocko's Modern Life, and it was damn near prescient.
I'm not sure how much the satire will survive beyond now middle age millenials nodding their head and gelling with the lightning fast pace of technology leaving even us in the dust, and going so far as to change the very physiology of the brains of today's children.
It's actually pretty frightening. We were frightened back when Rocko was airing and we considered the jobs market shift to 'part time permanent' was happening, and we're even more frightened now with 6 month contracts and year long internships ... but neither Baby bomers will listen to us nor will the kids that we're having.
Hard to make a movie that only 12% of us in the West will get. Because no one outside the 30-40 year bracket will understand why we liked this show and why it was probably one of our first formative looks at economic theory and the philosophies of hyperconsumerism that we kind of just 'gelled with' as time went on.
Going to be honest, this show taught me more economic theory satire than high school did simply by making it relatable. Dead-end afterschool job at 13, being abused by bosses at a young age, being taxed by a government by about 30% of my $4US an hour job, that told me I was also powerless to change it, being lied to by Baby Boomers by saying how they had it 'tougher' and I should be grateful for getting 7 hours of rest before going to school.
Rocko's Modern Life was a breath of fresh air of just how lonely and betrayed of basic civility we were. The falsity of the new. The painful emptiness. It gelled with me. But very few I think will get that if they're either much younger or much older.
