When it came to Season One of the show, I was delighted by the humor aimed at adults. Like Season One, Season Two of Rocko’s Modern Life is surprisingly topical in 2020. Rocko’s difficulties encountered with these tasks are obviously exaggerated for comedic effect, but like all good comedy there is still an element of truth to all of it making the show arguably more relatable for an adult than it is a child. Rocko was challenged by simple tasks such as laundry, household cleaning, commuting, work, and all of those others things we as adults have to deal with that we really take for granted as children. What separated Rocko’s Modern Life from the other shows was that emphasis on the mundanity of life itself. I was a young, dumb, kid though and upon revisiting such works I’ve come to find that, if anything, I’ve aged into a show like Rocko’s Modern Life. And after a few years, none of them were as I felt I had aged out of them. Sure, Rugrats and Doug were fine for what they were, but they weren’t appointment viewing for me. Rocko’s Modern Life was a favorite of mine as a kid, and if you had asked me to rank the Nicktoons back then it would have gone something like this: The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rocko’s Modern Life, followed by who cares? Those two cartoons were so far above the others that they didn’t feel worth mentioning. The second season of Rocko’s Modern Life premiered on September 25, 1994.Ī few weeks ago I wrote about my reintroduction to Rocko’s Modern Life via the show’s first season.
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