Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling

Even though I wasn't born yet when the original series was airing, I did enjoy watching reruns. This special still captures the weirdness that I liked about the show. It also addresses change and I liked how self aware the episode felt. For nostalgia purposes, this is a fun little send off to watch. Because we don't need a full blown reboot or remake of every nostalgic thing. Looking at you Disney....

The people at Nickelodeon who are bringing their old cartoons back like Rocko, Hey Arnold and Invader Zim deserve all the praise in the world. Static Cling does what Rocko has always done, satirising and tackling modern society, and I'm tempted to say it may work better in the 21st century than it did in the 90's. Obviously that's just my preference, but I ADORED this special, it's honestly like Rocko never left! It has the same witty humour and raunchy moments that made the show so unique (and controversial) in the first place, tackles modern issues amazingly, has a ton of heart and includes a great commentary/message on change. Even if you aren't a fan of Rocko, give this special a shot, I think you'll probably like it.

Rocko's Modern Life was an amazing show back in the 90's that many people including myself loved. The show has never aired on TV for over 20 years and fans have been begging the Network to bring back the show with it's original creator. Eventually the Network decided to do just that, by releasing a TV special made by the creator.

Now replace the title Rocko's Modern Life with The Fatheads (Rocko's favorite show) and you pretty much get the plot of Static Cling, and where the creator got his inspiration from.

This TV Special is pretty much about change, and how we must always embrace it and we must accept it and for the most part I feel this TV Special does a decent job at giving that message in it's short 45 minutes. And it's quite fitting cause there is no doubt a ton of Rocko's fans going into this TV Special made by the original creator thinking its gonna be exactingly like the 90's Classic only to be confronted by the truth that blind fantasy is impossible (unless time travel). Because much like in the TV Special even the original creators never stay the same.

I do wish the special was much longer (90 minutes maybe), but as a fan of Rocko's Modern Life, this TV Special was great and I'm happy to see one of my favorite 90's cartoon return from a 20 year absents even if it might just be this one little special. In the end I accept the change.

This 45 minute flick exceeded my expectations and then some. First of all, it still looked like Rocko's Modern Life. It wasn't some remodeled version, essentially just looked like a clearer version of the old show. The writing was very well done; it didn't feel like a desperate attempt to be like the old Rocko, it just was. The voices were also spot on, i knew it was Tom Kenny as soon as i heard him but he did great with Heffer. The best part of this short was the characters. Of course the main characters were great to see but they managed to fit quite a few minor but memorable characters from the original show, whether it be a part of this story or just someone spotted in the background. The entire thing was very well done and brought me way back. Thanks again, Netflix.

If you liked the show, watch it. Maybe my expectations were too high, but it was nice to see the characters again.