Rocko's Modern Life Thread

File: tfw an old man is trying to shit-talk you.webm (2MB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1280x720px

>it's a blunt and un-subtle metaphor for "cartoons these days are not as good as 90s cartoons"

>Hey Arnold and Samurai Jack
Sure, those were a lot of people's one-armed man.

>Invader Zim
I can't believe Vasquez is actually going along with it, but OK. It was a huge cult hit that only got 27 episodes

>Rocko's Modern Life
OK, you need to stop. Deliver me from all this nostalgia crap. Hell, we're even nostalgia'ing the Cold War. Something something quote about dying empires that only look back.

>>93384015
>while Heffer and Filburt embrace every aspect of new technology, social media and the endless diversity of food trucks.
No, no, god dammit NO.

Part of what made Rocko's Modern Life so special was that it rarely (if ever) brought the technology of the time into focus. Despite the title of the show, many of the episodes were about situations that were agnostic to the technology surrounding them. Even I Have No Son and Wacky Delly, which illustrate animators using techniques which have been out of use for several years, is not about the tech so much as the universal story of "estranged father and son reconcile" and "Springtime for Hitler in cartoon format", respectively.

Casting a spotlight on "OH LOOK THERE'S SOCIAL MEDIA NOW" or "OH LOOK AT MY SMARTPHONE" cheapens the show as a whole, makes it unnecessarily self-referential and almost seems like it's trying to get you to hate the original run because "LOL they use old technology, what a bunch of cavemen".

Man, I can't imagine how Rocko would handle air travel today. They did an episode in it back in the 90s that tore it to shreds and that was pre-9/11.

File: Hutch.jpg (68KB, 563x383px) Image search: [Google]

68KB, 563x383px

>>93384015

Okay, but I want blatant sexual content this time, not just clever innuendos.

>>93384015
>diversity
hmm

File: dead again.png (23KB, 92x114px) Image search: [Google]

23KB, 92x114px

>>93384015
>Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling
that can't be the name

what the fuck that's the name

>>93384015
It's a sequel to the banana episode?

>>93384896
Yes, a banana has 2 uses, we've seen but 1

>>93384015
>Can /co/ survive until 2018?

Probably not.
>>93384453
I remember having a boner for this chick as a kid. makes a lot of sense now because I still have a thing for crazy chicks.

>>93384453
I would Dr. Hutchinson so fucking hard, you have no goddamn idea.

File: Frank.png (158KB, 250x371px) Image search: [Google]

158KB, 250x371px

>>93385025
>>93385010

Y'all know she a half southern turtle jew right?

>>93384015

Wait this is real?

Wasn't there a preview recently for it? At a film festivaI?

>>93385194
I don't give a shit, she's got a sexy fucking hook and that's good enough for me.

>>93384015
Filbert is a cuck.

>>93385025
I know, anon, and thats why you belong in here with us.

File: giphy.gif (2MB, 500x280px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 500x280px

>>93386033

It's better than being alone I guess.

>>93386176
theres some nice cuck porn with rocko as well

>>93386176
wait they followed up on Heffer's kid being there in the egg hatching scene? how is he the uncle and not dad #2?

Remember, rainbows are degenerate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTOJCCuP9T4

>>93384015
god bless will mcrobb or chris viscardi. I forget which one they got to head this nickelodeon nostalgia dig, but he's doing exactly what you should with something like this. GET the creative people back, don't just recycle the name.

>>93384408
Did we watch the same show? Rocko had a ton of modern stuff, with episodes focusing on them. Like when they got an entertainment center, the blender, the vacuum cleaner, not to mention the animation industry in the 90s.

Seems like a stupid thing to complain about, the story seems perfectly suited for Rocko.

File: 1472404977656.jpg (14KB, 184x200px) Image search: [Google]

14KB, 184x200px

>>93384015
I'm surprisingly okay with this.

File: 1497904452498.gif (3MB, 412x304px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 412x304px

>Bev Bighead is coming back.

>>93387214
>they make her flat and remove the old smoker voice to be pc

>>93387447
That'll suck for the first, but the second, she's being voiced by the same dude.

2007 is the year where everything went to shit and we entered the modern social media hellhole

2007 brought us
iPhones
The Big bang theory
Social media starting to get really popular
PRISM Internet-spying program begins
Tumblr founded
Great Recession begins
Crank That Soulja Boy
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Obama begins his campaign

>social media
dropped forever, social media in shows has never not been cringe worthy, lets just say they decide to be original and not parody every popular app under the sun, they're still going to be DIRECTLY focusing on everyone's love for websites and phones, and that's never been funny and "omg send me that pic again my phone crashed!" is retarded relateable crap.

Every, EVERY, time modern shit happens in shows or even in commercials, it's in this weird older mom kind of humor, and it's obnoxious as fuck.

Joe Murray's more recent show, Frog In A Suit, makes me question what exactly he was doing beforehand with Camp Lazlo, because Frog In A Suit is great and Lazlo was a piece of shit.

File: Rockos-Modern-Life-11.jpg (131KB, 1003x768px) Image search: [Google]

131KB, 1003x768px

Just picture this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQxHcl8tRCY

but with a rocko character

for 60 minutes

>>93387520
Don't forget that the very next year is when Iron Man 1 came out, AKA the birth of capeshit and the ruination of movies as we know it.

>>93387520
>obama beginning his campaign is a bad thing when the alternative was hillary and the republicans had no chance of winning after 8 years of bush, even with mccain who is basically a democrat that pretends to be in the republican party
hell, we actually got into and out of the housing market crash through very little executive action, most of it was legislative with bank and car company bailouts to keep people employed and having money

>>93387812
>when the alternative was
not him and i'm out of the politic game, but he wasn't referring to the only other option, just that one of these things happened rather than not happening at all

You see the difference is

>old series
>everyone's doing something in their life like having a job, running errands, hanging out with friends, etc, and what was modern then played a supporting or even less apparent role in their lives, just occasionally being a focus, such as the surround sound big tv episode

>new tv movie
>everyone's lives are focused on the modern day equipment and are living off the internet, and our character's story is directly linked to coming to terms with it due to that being the plot so it's going to be a priority

>>93387692
He was in his rut/partially creative era of his life, it happens

>>93384015
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1fCeEeqQrZB

>>93387214
You ready?
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1JY2zZYptqj

File: IMG_4978.jpg (28KB, 290x400px) Image search: [Google]

28KB, 290x400px

>>93384408
>rocko gets a TV with a billion channels
>rocko engages in health fads with Heffer
>rocko deals with credit card debt
>rocko goes to a hip coffee shop with 90s hipsters
>rocko's MODERN life doesn't deal with interacting with things that are considered MODERN at the time of writing

What the fuck are you talking about? Even in Wacky Delly as you describe they showcase how fucking cartoons were made with the technology that existed

>>93390723
Oh I forgot

>ROCKO HAS A FUCKING EARTH DAY EPISODE BECAUSE RECYCLING AND SHIT WAS HUGE IN THE 90s

You must be underage

>>93390723
>>93390813
not him but some of those can be spread out in certain times, like health fads whether popular in the 90s or not could've happened at any time, same for credit card debt abeit in a wider frame

internet was a precise thing made at a precise time

that's like saying ED EDD N EDDY WASN'T TIME-LESS BECAUSE IT HAD MAGAZINES AND BEDS AND THOSE WERE MADE AT SOME POINT

you're right with a few but not the others and that's what im discussing here

>>93390943
That's a fair assessment