“When Nickelodeon contacted me to float the idea of bringing Rocko back for a special. When first approached by Nickelodeon to revisit his beloved cartoon wallaby, Murray hesitated. Where garbage day or laundry day can be a very dangerous day.” When I developed a show about modern life, I wanted an everyman who deals with life in a very satirical and caricatured way… the eye of the hurricane where everything is going on around him. Influenced by everything from old Looney Tunes cartoons to underground comics, Murray, who worked as a political cartoonist early in his career, made several short animated films in the 1980s, as well as two MTV IDs, before creating My Dog Zero, a 1992 short that generated network interest, which along with one of his unpublished comics, eventually led to Rocko’s development.Īccording to Murrary, “Rocko was a character I had played with in comic strip form.
ROCKO MODERN LIFE SERIES
The series boasted a crew of creative talent that included many well-known names in TV animation, including Murray, who went on to create Camp Lazlo! and Let’s Go Luna, creative director Stephen Hillenburg, who left to create SpongeBob SquarePants, Jeff Marsh, a storyboard artist who went on to create Phineas and Ferb, and voice actors Tom Kenny, Charlie Adler and Carlos Alazraqui. Greenlight by then Nick development head Linda Simensky and launched as the fourth new Nicktoon series back in 1993, the 52-episode Rocko’s Modern Life became a fan favorite though often controversial show, known for its wink-wink sexual inuendo and sometimes crass character behavior. After being in space for 20 years, Rocko and his friends attempt to conform to an even more modern life in O-Town, where coffee shops are on every corner, food trucks offer multi-layered tacos, touch-screen O-Phones are being upgraded on a near-constant basis, an instant-print kiosk has replaced Rocko's old job at Kind-of-a-Lot-O-Comics, and radioactive energy drinks turn their consumers into mutants. With today’s Netflix release of Nickelodeon’s Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, creator Joe Murray once again visits the zany lives of his timid wallaby, Rocko, and best friends Heffer Wolfe and Filburt, in a raucous 45-minute animated special sure to delight fans of classic, gag-driven animation.
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