Netflix’s New ‘Rocko’s Modern Life’ Trailer Brings The ’90s To Now
"Why don't you go back to the '90s where you belong?!"
“The 21st century is a very dangerous century.” Rocko’s back, but his familiar life is now far from modern.
Netflix has dropped the first trailer for its upcoming Rocko’s Modern Life special, Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, and it looks as though the titular wallaby has some catching up to do.
In the 45-minute film, ’90s icons Rocko (Carlos Alazraqui), his dog Spunky (also Alazraqui), and his friends Heffer (Tom Kenny) and Filburt (Mr Lawrence) finally reenter Earth’s atmosphere after spending 20 years lost in space.
Though the group are glad to be back home in O-Town, they quickly discover that a lot can happen in two decades. Mr and Mrs Bighead (Charlie Adler) may still be Rocko’s neighbours, but it seems as though practically everything else about the world has changed.
While Heffer and Filburt dive into the world of smartphones and superhero movies with aplomb, timid Rocko has a markedly more difficult time adjusting from his now retro life.
The upheaval isn’t helped by the fact that Rocko’s job at the comic book store has been automated and his favourite television show is no longer running. This is apparently the final straw, prompting him to go on a mission to find the Bighead’s cartoonist son Ralph (series creator Joe Murray) and get The Fatheads back on air.
Rocko’s Modern Life originally aired on Nickelodeon from 1993 to 1996 in the US, and hit Australia in 1995. The cartoon was known for its social satire, innuendo and adult humour, much of which flew over its audience’s heads at the time.
It will be interesting to see Murray and the rest of Rocko’s Modern Life‘s original voice actors deliver that humour again now that all those ’90s kids are a lot taller.
Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling will hit Netflix on August 9.