He clings to nostalgia and the things he loved before because they are a "warm safety blanket" to him in the expanding new world. His friend Filburt and Heffer have become obsessed with their online personas, but Rocko shies away from it, trying hard to live out his simple suburban life as he used to enjoy it. The film's name is Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling, and it stars the famous titular wallaby in a world that is overrun with social media. It really resonates with this trend we're seeing. To Nickelodeon's credit, they said 'yeah.' I actually brought a lot of the old stuff back so there's plenty of nostalgia, but I feel like it says something about how we are right now socially. If we're going to bring this back, I have a vision and a direction of how I want this to go. Only now, he's calling them out for their obsession with social media and technology. In an interview with Polygon, Murray says that he intends to aim that social commentary back at the generation he spoke to when they were kids. While I never picked up on it as a kid, the subtle satire of Rocko's Modern Life is a beautiful thing, pointing out and laughing at the mundanity of boring suburban life in the 90s. This film exists for more reasons than just nostalgia. This is definitely more exciting than seeing Doug Funnie have a midlife crisis.īut not so, says the show's creator Joe Murray.
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Naturally, when I hear that the show is coming back to Nickelodeon for a one-hour movie special, I can't help but feel like I'm falling prey to the channel's most alluring nostalgia grab imaginable. I liked the jokes, the weird humor, the characters, and the absurd storylines in each episode. If there was one Nicktoon I made sure to watch every day, it was Rocko's Modern Life.
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