It's basically old Sup Forums vs nu Sup Forums for Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling.
>Reprising their roles in the voice cast are Carlos Alazraqui as Rocko (as well as Spunky and Leon), Tom Kenny as Heffer (as well as Chuck and Really Really Big Man), Mr. Lawrence as Filburt Turtle, Charlie Adler as Ed and Bev Bighead (plus Mr. Dupette, Grandpa Wolfe, and Mrs. Fathead), Linda Wallem as Aunt Gretchen and Dr. Hutchinson, Jill Talley as Nosey, and Joe Murray as Ralph. Steve Little (Adventure Time) and Cosmo Segurson have also joined the cast. >According to Nickelodeon, the TV special “brings the characters back to Earth after being lost in outer space since 1996. Rocko has trouble accepting this 21st century modern life, while Heffer and Filburt embrace every aspect of new technology, social media and the endless diversity of food trucks. Rocko whole-heartedly believes that his nostalgia for the past can save him from the tortures of the modern world.”
>it's a blunt and un-subtle metaphor for "cartoons these days are not as good as 90s cartoons"
Aiden Diaz
>Hey Arnold and Samurai Jack Sure, those were a lot of people's one-armed man.
>Invader Zim I can't believe Vasquez is actually going along with it, but OK. It was a huge cult hit that only got 27 episodes
>Rocko's Modern Life OK, you need to stop. Deliver me from all this nostalgia crap. Hell, we're even nostalgia'ing the Cold War. Something something quote about dying empires that only look back.
Camden Lopez
>while Heffer and Filburt embrace every aspect of new technology, social media and the endless diversity of food trucks. No, no, god dammit NO.
Part of what made Rocko's Modern Life so special was that it rarely (if ever) brought the technology of the time into focus. Despite the title of the show, many of the episodes were about situations that were agnostic to the technology surrounding them. Even I Have No Son and Wacky Delly, which illustrate animators using techniques which have been out of use for several years, is not about the tech so much as the universal story of "estranged father and son reconcile" and "Springtime for Hitler in cartoon format", respectively.
Casting a spotlight on "OH LOOK THERE'S SOCIAL MEDIA NOW" or "OH LOOK AT MY SMARTPHONE" cheapens the show as a whole, makes it unnecessarily self-referential and almost seems like it's trying to get you to hate the original run because "LOL they use old technology, what a bunch of cavemen".
Jace Nguyen
Man, I can't imagine how Rocko would handle air travel today. They did an episode in it back in the 90s that tore it to shreds and that was pre-9/11.
Samuel Gray
Okay, but I want blatant sexual content this time, not just clever innuendos.
Juan Sanchez
>diversity hmm
James Lewis
>Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling that can't be the name
what the fuck that's the name
Evan Perry
It's a sequel to the banana episode?
Nathan Roberts
Yes, a banana has 2 uses, we've seen but 1
Austin Wood
>Can Sup Forums survive until 2018?
Probably not. I remember having a boner for this chick as a kid. makes a lot of sense now because I still have a thing for crazy chicks.
Liam Jackson
I would Dr. Hutchinson so fucking hard, you have no goddamn idea.
Justin Taylor
Y'all know she a half southern turtle jew right?
Ayden Powell
Wait this is real?
Owen Nguyen
Wasn't there a preview recently for it? At a film festivaI?
Gavin Mitchell
I don't give a shit, she's got a sexy fucking hook and that's good enough for me.
Jose Stewart
Filbert is a cuck.
Julian Lopez
I know, user, and thats why you belong in here with us.
Joseph Lopez
It's better than being alone I guess.
Easton Sullivan
theres some nice cuck porn with rocko as well
Hunter Jackson
wait they followed up on Heffer's kid being there in the egg hatching scene? how is he the uncle and not dad #2?
god bless will mcrobb or chris viscardi. I forget which one they got to head this nickelodeon nostalgia dig, but he's doing exactly what you should with something like this. GET the creative people back, don't just recycle the name.
Nolan Cooper
Did we watch the same show? Rocko had a ton of modern stuff, with episodes focusing on them. Like when they got an entertainment center, the blender, the vacuum cleaner, not to mention the animation industry in the 90s.
Seems like a stupid thing to complain about, the story seems perfectly suited for Rocko.
Benjamin Young
I'm surprisingly okay with this.
Sebastian Jackson
>Bev Bighead is coming back.
Joshua Sanchez
>they make her flat and remove the old smoker voice to be pc
Charles Flores
That'll suck for the first, but the second, she's being voiced by the same dude.
Adam Watson
2007 is the year where everything went to shit and we entered the modern social media hellhole
2007 brought us iPhones The Big bang theory Social media starting to get really popular PRISM Internet-spying program begins Tumblr founded Great Recession begins Crank That Soulja Boy Keeping Up with the Kardashians Obama begins his campaign
Joseph Howard
>social media dropped forever, social media in shows has never not been cringe worthy, lets just say they decide to be original and not parody every popular app under the sun, they're still going to be DIRECTLY focusing on everyone's love for websites and phones, and that's never been funny and "omg send me that pic again my phone crashed!" is retarded relateable crap.
Every, EVERY, time modern shit happens in shows or even in commercials, it's in this weird older mom kind of humor, and it's obnoxious as fuck.
James Watson
Joe Murray's more recent show, Frog In A Suit, makes me question what exactly he was doing beforehand with Camp Lazlo, because Frog In A Suit is great and Lazlo was a piece of shit.
Don't forget that the very next year is when Iron Man 1 came out, AKA the birth of capeshit and the ruination of movies as we know it.
Carter Moore
>obama beginning his campaign is a bad thing when the alternative was hillary and the republicans had no chance of winning after 8 years of bush, even with mccain who is basically a democrat that pretends to be in the republican party hell, we actually got into and out of the housing market crash through very little executive action, most of it was legislative with bank and car company bailouts to keep people employed and having money
Ryan Robinson
>when the alternative was not him and i'm out of the politic game, but he wasn't referring to the only other option, just that one of these things happened rather than not happening at all
Cameron Robinson
You see the difference is
>old series >everyone's doing something in their life like having a job, running errands, hanging out with friends, etc, and what was modern then played a supporting or even less apparent role in their lives, just occasionally being a focus, such as the surround sound big tv episode
>new tv movie >everyone's lives are focused on the modern day equipment and are living off the internet, and our character's story is directly linked to coming to terms with it due to that being the plot so it's going to be a priority
Ethan Carter
He was in his rut/partially creative era of his life, it happens
>rocko gets a TV with a billion channels >rocko engages in health fads with Heffer >rocko deals with credit card debt >rocko goes to a hip coffee shop with 90s hipsters >rocko's MODERN life doesn't deal with interacting with things that are considered MODERN at the time of writing
What the fuck are you talking about? Even in Wacky Delly as you describe they showcase how fucking cartoons were made with the technology that existed
Liam Robinson
Oh I forgot
>ROCKO HAS A FUCKING EARTH DAY EPISODE BECAUSE RECYCLING AND SHIT WAS HUGE IN THE 90s
You must be underage
Xavier Hall
not him but some of those can be spread out in certain times, like health fads whether popular in the 90s or not could've happened at any time, same for credit card debt abeit in a wider frame
internet was a precise thing made at a precise time
that's like saying ED EDD N EDDY WASN'T TIME-LESS BECAUSE IT HAD MAGAZINES AND BEDS AND THOSE WERE MADE AT SOME POINT
you're right with a few but not the others and that's what im discussing here
