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What A Cartoon! - Rocko's Modern Life "To Heck and Back" and "Zanzibar" (Patreon)

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2024-10-07 04:00:03
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Chosen by our premium patron Andrew, we're returning to our favorite Nicktoon, Rocko's Modern Life! This time we're straddling eras of the show. First, we're covering a season one trip to Heck as we learn about factory farming and codependence. Then, we start some "spring cleaning" in Autumn with a beloved musical tribute to sappy (but well-meaning) environmentalism. So listen now before Mother Nature kicks your butt!

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d doven

Love when you guys hit 90’s Nickelodeon

glowstickjuice

For 'thing in children's media that got you being environmentally conscious', there was a song on Sesame Street about not wasting water that's been in my head for 30 years. Every time water is being wasted, I hear it, and I consider this a curse.

Frank Grimes

Speaking of that rocko ep where bev tries to seduce rocko...the Spanish fly joke went over my head as a kid...and the Dinosaurs corp is WeSaySo

RyoGeo

Yes, the DBZ censored solution, HFIL (Home for Infinite Losers). Awful. Just like the Ginyu Force being sent to “another dimension” as Vegeta clearly kills nearly all of them.

Joe Hodgson

Rocko was not my favorite Nicktoon growing up, but it's now my favorite to return to. The humor, aside from maybe the absurd amount of fart noises, holds up really well and it's as entertaining for an adult as it is a kid. Thanks to Beavis and Butt-Head, I'm pretty sure I was in on the Choky Chicken joke from the start, even if I didn't have quite a full grasp (heh) over just what masturbation was. This show is definitely one of the top ones when searching for jokes snuck in to amuse an older demographic. I very much welcome Rocko back to WAC whenever you fellas feel like heading on over to O-Town (also a euphemism?).

Kat Heagberg

I was so excited to wake up and see this! Both episodes were memorable and formative for my husband and me and we’ve quoted them regularly since the day we met. For me, I was really scared of hell and the devil as a kid — my family wasn’t very religious, but I remember seeing the Looney Tunes cartoons “Devils Feud Cake” and “Satan’s Waiten’” as a kid (in one of them Satan is voiced by Frank Nelson, which also made me terrified of Frank Nelson and I’m forever thankful that the “yes” guy on the Simpsons wasn’t introduced until I was older). My family was just religious enough, though that when I asked if the devil/hell was real, expecting a clear “no,” like when I asked about other monsters I got a “well, nobody really knows” type answer which was not helpful. For whatever reason, though “To Heck and Back” quelled my fear a lot because it was so silly and fun and helped me approach my fear with humor. I even remember my dad watching along with me saying “I thought you were afraid of this?” and when I realized I wasn’t, huge childhood relief. My husband works in sustainability on film sets and does a lot of environmental activism in his free time and always, whenever he’s asked, credits “Zanzibar” for stoking his passion. He’s also dressed as Captain Compost Heap and The Grim Recycler for a lot of Halloweens and refers to himself as “Captain Compost Heap” so whenever I hear “A great big rotting pile!” I think “that’s my spouse!” He’s on trash mission of some sort today and I’ll definitely send this to him to listen to while he’s sorting compost IRL.

RyanD

This inspired me to go back and watch a couple rockos. Been years.

Tyler Rampley

Oh baby, oh baby, oh baby finally more Rocko on the podcast!

Jim Gullickson

Listening to you trying to remember WESAYSO from Dinosaurs makes me wish you’d cover an episode for the show (or even a mini-series if you’re feeling frisky). Any chance we’d ever see this happen?

SilkiePJ

I'm sad to find out this is the last patron backed WAC, but I welcome that it's a double-header of great Rocko episodes. (Maybe we can learn why it got phased out on a TTTA?) Rocko was my favorite Nicktoon by the era, it captured that Ren and Stimpy's absurdity but had that pop culture commentary, real life anxiousness and distinct design that made me really love it. I also was humming along to the Zanzibar songs and remembering the great jokes from the Hell episode. I did watch Camp Lazlo as a Rocko fan and I would say it's very mid. It's pretty toned down compared to the wackiness that was in Rocko, but I never went to Summer camp so I don't know how many of the jokes just bounced off me. It had some funny characters and episodes, but the writing and visuals were a bit bland.

SilkiePJ

I wanted to separate this comment for the hosts as they were asking for a cartoon that had more of this kind of 90s sensibility of characters who don't learn lessons for the sake of jokes and I thought of the perfect example! The Cuphead Show on Netflix. It was created by Dave Wasson who made Time Squad and long time animation director Clay Morrow. On top of having great animation, The Cuphead Show is legitimately funny show that doesn't mind making Cuphead and Mugman rivals or idiots for the sake of old-fashioned slapstick and escalation jokes. Heck, the Devil is the overarching villain who appears in many episodes, and Hell (although it is called "The Underworld") is a frequent setting too! It hits perfectly in that PG-sweet spot that would appeal to kids and adults. And even though it's mostly episodic, it did get enough episodes to make a fully satisfying series.

John-Charles Holmes

So Camp Lazlo isn't *bad* per se but it does come as a bit of a hard recommend for hardcore Rocko fans. It's got a lot of the same parts as Rocko's— a lot of the same cast, nearly identical character designs, that same pomo 60's-meets-90s nostalgia— but it somehow doesn't come together quite the same. Perhaps its the camp setting and children characters holding it back which may explain why MANY of the episodes eventually centered on the Ed Bighead-esque scoutmaster/Smithers pair, both played by Tom Kenny. It still could make for an interesting WAC at some point if not only to catch up on Murray's later career but to also study how the show serves as the weird primordial ooze of modern-era Cartoon Network. You've got future alumni like Thurop Van Orman and JG Quintel getting their starts here and a lot of cross pollination from previous SpongeBob artists that would later go on to define the humor and feel of shows like Chowder, Adventure Time, and Regular Show. Still, even though its a little after my time (I was an older teen when this show, aimed at a much younger crowd, was new) it's still a guilty pleasure of mine, since before DVDs and streaming, it was the closest thing to a consistent hit of Rocko-like humor when it was still relatively hard to find reruns that show and Lazlo seemed to be on the air on Cartoon Network a LOT at the time.

Thad Komorowski

Rocko is definitely the Ren & Stimpy we all crave without the baggage and mental illness (whereas Spongebob is what Nick always wanted R&S to be). I’m sort of happy with Static Cling being a one-off (one Nick was clearly uncomfortable with given it was on the shelf for ages), because it showed that while they could recapture everything (I’d say it was better drawn than the original, actually)… that was when they were putting their all into a one-shot. As has been opined talking about R&S, today’s industry could not accommodate a show like Rocko. One of my favorite bits is during Tom Kenny’s freakout as the tour guide, with Heffer slowly backing away shaking his head… it’s a level of detail in the acting no one wants to bother with anymore. So… I agree with Bob on “the wrong child died”, but I’m pretty content with the 52 episodes we got that maintained a fairly high quality for the entire run (unlike R&S which had higher peaks but also varied wildly, or Spongebob where NOONE agrees on a dividing line and verge into insane diatribes/memes to make their point).

Thad Komorowski

Also, the miserable “Fatal Contraption” has at least one good horrifying gag: out in the desert, the food processor trips up the Rocko universe’s Road Runner, who is immediately seen getting roasted by the Coyote, who waves in thanks to the food processor.