Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling Coming Spring 2018

Still on my 90s resurgence flow — a never-ending flow that the industry knows it can keep raking in dough from — one of my ultimate favorite cartoons is coming back, Rocko’s Modern Life!!

I don’t know if Nickelodeon was watching the Cartoon Network reboots and were like, “They F%#$ing up, now’s our chance!”, but Nickelodeon is bringing back the 90s. They had already begun this with NickSplat, a programming block that aired nightly on TeenNick. NickSplat featured reruns of classic mid-late 1980s, 1990s, and early-mid 2000s shows. I was weirded out when I was quoting Kenan & Kel thinking these 3rd and 4th graders wouldn’t get it, and they were chiming in! Then the Hey Arnold closure movie was announced and now this! Rocko’s Modern Life Is Even More Modern Now

Nickelodeon has done it, they found a way to bring the wacky characters of Filburt, Heffer, and Rocko into the modern world. The show looks to be an upgraded, social-media hashtagged, technology-addicted, hipster energy-drinking mania of a show. The trailer, perfectly animated in the Rocko style, takes us through the beginning credits just as it did back in the day. Setting us up with Rocko and friends popping out of the brush, “Fellas, I don’t think we are in the 90s anymore.” In this intro we see Rocko struggling with cellphone upgrades, laptops, mega brands, coffee shops, and hormone-injected energy drinks, all while Heffer and Filburt jump right in.

Now, I am not surprised at the execution of a new age Rocko’s…