The loss of their favorite TV show motivates them to hustle back to Earth only to find they're not in their familiar '90s O-Town anymore.
(This setup is a gentle retcon of the Season 4 episode "Future Schlock.") Our noble nincompoop slacker heroes Rocko the wallaby, Heffer the steer, Filburt the turtle, and Rocko's dog Spunky have been floating in space for the past 25 years, propelled by a rocket that punched a hole through Rocko's house, with only one VHS to entertain them, their favorite cartoon show The Fatheads, before the tape finally unspools and is destroyed. Static Cling stays true to the humor and horrors of the TV show Major spoilers for Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling follow from here on out. Luckily, it proves itself within the first five minutes of screentime and careens nonstop from there. Lawrence (who also writes on the show and voices Filburt), and Rocko's veteran Martin Olson - the 45-minute Netflix special came with the right creative pedigree but no guarantees. Written and directed by series creator Joe Murray and Cosmo Serguson, alongside fellow writers Dan Becker and Tom Smith, and based on a story by Murray, Mr. The series has been revived with Netflix's Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling, a final chapter of sorts in the story of "I Have No Son!" and a triumphant return to what made the Rocko's formula so effective: vivid slapstick, canny topical references, and stories with a genuine warmth to them. So when no one was paying attention, Rocko's used a poignant story - about a child leaving home to chase the dream of being a cartoonist - to roast Hollywood, corporate America, and the animation-industrial complex on a spit and rip jokes off the bone. Almost a full 25 years ago, on Saturday, September 24, 1994, Rocko's Modern Life kicked off its second season with the show's first two-part episode, "I Have No Son!" Nothing else particularly special aired on TV that weekend: NBC had premiered Friends days earlier, The Simpsons ran one of its widely derided clip shows, and in the theaters, The Shawshank Redemption had just debuted.
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