Rocko's Modern Life
TV Show • 1992 • Animation
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Rocko's dog, Spunky, is idiotic and frequently walks into situations, which can result in situations such as him being packaged among meat, usually through short-sightedness or natural hazards instead of malice. He is never harmed nor upset by these situations. Occasionally, anthropomorphic characters are treated in ways animals are, such as being turned into meat.
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Not by intention. A running gag has Rocko's shortsightedness result in him touching Gladys the Hippo Lady in incomfortable areas, but he never intentionally tries to cause her distress nor gets statisfication from the encounters, and she promptly beats him up with a cry of "How dare you?"
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Does a pet die?
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"Bye, Bye Birdie."
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Rocko will often runafowl of a recurring character named Gladys the Hippo Lady by accidentally getting in uncomfortable areas - to which her voice deepens as she exclaims "How dare you!" and attacks him.
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One flashback scene in "Who's For Dinner" shows Heffer being punished by his adoptive father using a water from a shower hose, in that same episode Heffer meets his biological father who actively resents him and says many cruel things.
In "Jet Scream", Rocko locks an annoying child on an aeroplane into a luggage compartment, and is cheered on for it.
In "Jet Scream", Rocko locks an annoying child on an aeroplane into a luggage compartment, and is cheered on for it.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Mild cartoonish gore and blood are regularly seen in season 1, but phased out by season 2
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Is someone tortured?
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In "To Heck and Back", Heffer gets sent to Heck. There, he is tortured by being shown the ways his gluttony has effected his friends.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does a kid die?
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"Tickled Picky" has Rocko caring for his removed appendix, Pinky, who acts like a terminally ill child. He dies at the end.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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"Carnival Knowledge", a background character's thumb falls off and tiny squirts of blood come out.
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Is there sexual content?
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Some innuendos, sex references, and some nudity, but nothing major as far as I am aware.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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A lot.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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The Christmas episode has an ending credits gag, but it is not relevant to the plot, and - on virtue of being a TV episode - the credits are very short.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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Rocko's car gets impounded and becomes anthropomorphic in these scenes. Rocko hears noises over the phone after we see an anthropomorphic truck act threateningly toward him.
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Are there abusive parents?
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In "Who's For Dinner", Heffer goes looking for his "real father", who it turns out is an A-hole. He returns home with a newfound appreciation for his adoptive family. Heffer's family can themselves vary in quality as parents from episode to episode - in "Who's For Dinner" they are seen physically punishing a young Heffer with a showerhose, albeit in a cartoonish manner.
Ed Bighead disowns his daughter in "I Have No Son", and in the Static Cling movie he misgenders her - in both situations, he eventually learns the error of his ways.
Ed Bighead disowns his daughter in "I Have No Son", and in the Static Cling movie he misgenders her - in both situations, he eventually learns the error of his ways.
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The Static Cling movie features a transgender character - even villains in the story are accepting of her, with the exception of her father who eventually does come to accept her.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Heffer, a bull, is a known consumer of beef.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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"Hypno-Puppy Love" has Rocko shaved bare and hypnotised into being a dog
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Characters are frequently flattened into pancakes, but never killed.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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One episode has Rocko and Filburt perform a sham marriage to avoid getting Rocko deported, Filburt wears a dress to pose as bride.
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Is someone buried alive?
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One episode has Rocko and his friends perform a mock funeral for a still-alive Ed Bighead
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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In "Wimp on the Barbie", Rocko forgives his childhood bully, Dingo, who has since converted to a pacifist religion/cult - though Heffer and Filburt don't. Dingo's childhood bullying was very silly and cartoonish in nature.
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Are there bugs?
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Recurring characters include Flecko, a fly, and Bloaty and Squirmy, microscopic parasites. Episodes include Rocko trying to save Flecko's fly friends from being eaten by the Bigheads; Flecko journeying into Rocko's nose to obtain his glass eye; Bloaty and Squirmy creating a cult around a vitamin in Spunky's ear; and Bloaty and Squirmy journeying to a wild west inside Spunky's fat.
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Is there copaganda?
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The show discusses both police corruption and prison reform in "Uniform Behaviour" and "Ed Good, Rocko Bad" - the prior focusing on Heffer becoming a cop and growing mad with power, and the latter focusing on Rocko running a political campaign to give dogs in dog pounds better treatment, with a very clear allegory.
That being said, Heffer being arrested is treated as a "karmic comuppance" in Uniform Behaviour
That being said, Heffer being arrested is treated as a "karmic comuppance" in Uniform Behaviour
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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No anorexia, but Heffer is a very heavy eater and on at least one occasion dies and goes to "Heck" due to his diet
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Only retroactively
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there hate speech?
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Racism is a fixture in Rocko's universe, with many background characters expressing distaste for other animal species - they are portrayed as in the wrong.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Very brief usage of "Eskimo" in "The Lounge Singer".
Occurs in-universe in the episode "Floundering Fathers", where all the characters share inaccurate stories of how their ancestors discovered O-Town - The Native O-Townites are drawn quite stereotypically, but are also made out very clearly as the victims by the plot, with Mr. Bighead being forced to literally repay them for his ancestors - who didn't kill the Natives, but rather shortchanged them on breath mints - in the end.
Occurs in-universe in the episode "Floundering Fathers", where all the characters share inaccurate stories of how their ancestors discovered O-Town - The Native O-Townites are drawn quite stereotypically, but are also made out very clearly as the victims by the plot, with Mr. Bighead being forced to literally repay them for his ancestors - who didn't kill the Natives, but rather shortchanged them on breath mints - in the end.
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Is an infant abducted?
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In one episode, Easter Bunnies have a ring where they smuggle unhatched turtle eggs and paint them.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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As to be expected from a slapstick cartoon of this era.
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Is there childbirth?
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An episode revolves around Rocko looking after Dr. Paula Hutchison and Filburt's children before they hatch from their turtle egg.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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"Leap Frogs", an infamous banned episode, has Bev Bighead commit adultery on her husband with Rocko - Bev has a daughter who is Rocko's age.
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Is someone terminally ill?
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"Tickled Picky" has Rocko caring for his removed appendix, Pinky, who acts like a terminally ill child. He dies at the end.
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Does someone die?
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"Tickled Picky" has Rocko caring for his removed appendix, Pinky, who acts like a terminally ill child. He dies at the end. Additionally, Heffer dies on two occasions and is sent to "Heck".
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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In flash-back scenes in the episode "Wimp on the Barbie", we see Rocko being bullied in his youth by a wallaby named Dingo
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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In "Camera Shy", Heffer and Filburt film Rocko naked without his consent, and get it turned into an arthouse indie film
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Filburt and Hutch's four children.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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In one episode, Easter Bunnies have a ring where they smuggle unhatched turtle eggs and paint them.
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Are there clowns?
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"Closet Clown" uses clowns as an allegory for being a closeted gay man
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Is there incarceration?
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Arrests occur in "Uniform Behaviour" and "From Here to Maternity". The prior is treated as karmic, but the later is a symphatic scene of a father while his eggs have yet to hatch - though the mother still arrives in the end to see the egg hatch.
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One episode, "Fortune Cookie", has a suicide joke featuring a pooping pigeon. He eventually does poop off-screen.
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Is there a large age gap?
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Mrs. Bighead tries to come on to Rocko.
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One episode, "Fortune Cookie", has a suicide joke featuring a pigeon that wants to poop on a statue being dissuaded by Really Really Big Man. He eventually does poop off-screen.
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Does a baby cry?
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Filburt's daughter Missy with Mrs. Bighead, after the latter says she doesn't have a nose for the former to poke. Very brief.
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Does a non-human character die?
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"Tickled Picky" has Rocko caring for his removed appendix, Pinky, who acts like a terminally ill child. He dies at the end.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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The final episode, Future Shlock, has Rocko and his friends flung into space - Static Cling technically continues this story, but changes a lot of the details and therefore is hard to take as a proper continuation.
Some episodes, such as a Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic and Uniform Behavior, have individual sad endings that are then reverted.
Some episodes, such as a Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic and Uniform Behavior, have individual sad endings that are then reverted.
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Is there addiction?
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"Tooth and Nail" revolves around Rocko's nail-biting addiction, and ends with the magical creatures sent to stop the habit losing all their money at a Los Vegas casino
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Is someone possessed?
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Mortimer Khan, descendant of Genghis Khan, possesses objects to fight Rocko and his friends - in addition to Heffer and Spunky.
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Bye Bye Birdie revolves around Rocko thinking he's killed Filburt's dead bird - Filburt reassures Rocko that the bird only had a very short lifespan so they hold a funeral for it.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Cartoon. None could've been.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Extremely common - Rocko's eyes popping out of his skull is a signature gag, and it's common for eyes to be chewed or swung by the optic nerve
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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A lot thanks to Rocko's best friend Heffer, who is a freeloading slob.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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"Heck" is a recurring location - a demonic character named Peaches appears in these episodes, but is specified as not being Satan.
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Violence
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One infamous scene has a bull who's arms rip off and unveil chunks of flesh
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