Top 10 Alternate Titles for Rocko's Modern Life

"From all the choking chicken VOICES IN MY HEAD"
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The Top Ten
1 Badly Treated Show

As is typical for most of the actually good Nickelodeon animated series; see "Too Good To Last" for more info, but just to name a few major ways in which this show was flat-out HORRIBLY mistreated by its home network(s):

Was forced to extremely blatantly downgrade the overall age of its target audience when MTV wouldn't accept it because their, for lack of a better way to put it, EXTREME brand bias toward Ren & Stimpy deemed it "too kiddy" and therefore gave him basically no other choice but to pitch it to Nickelodeon instead (ironically, the show probably wouldn't have been NEARLY as good as it is overall if not for this issue, but still)

Has censored parts that were censored for downright ludicrously petty reasons, with the part in Wacky Delly where Sal Ami beats up Betty Baloney (off-screen, no less) with a telephone in classic Looney Toons style being probably the worst offender (technically violence against SOMETHING female, yes, but certainly ...more

2 Millennials' Suburban Angst

Go on, just TRY and name even one other show of its type that represents this more accurately

3 Radiohead's OK Computer: The Animated Series

Almost as overrated and pretentious of a show as OK Computer is of an album? CHECK
Centers around someone who is deeply mentally traumatized and paranoid? CHECK

Is basically a modernized version of past works from vastly more famous artists? CHECK
Has a completely nonsensical continuity between its episodes just like OK Computer does between its songs? CHECK

Damned near the only exceptionally good thing that its lead creator has ever made? CHECK
Is an ungodly cynical mockery of what modern-day capitalism has degenerated society into? CHECK
Is about as blatantly 1990s as you can possibly get without coming off as outright cringy? CHECK
Actually takes place in modern times, even by 1990s standards? WHERE ARE ALL THE COMPUTERS

4 Post-Modernized Looney Tunes

Seriously, the resemblance is downright uncanny (FAR more coincidentally than I initially thought, Ren & Stimpy is also VERY much a demented 1990s acid-trip version of Looney Tunes, right down to the often inanely excessive usage of slapstick humor)

5 Rocko's Got The Bends

Yet another Radiohead joke, this time in reference to the show's weird, crooked and "bendy" art style and how it reflects the similarly bizarre and twisted nature of the world in which the show takes place

6 Four Decades Behind

In reference (and, to an extent, mockery) of how the show was made in the 1990s but appears to be set in the 1950s, complete with the ever-so-classic mid-20th-century racism that we all know and hopefully hate with more or less every fiber of our being (re-skinned into "animalism" by the show, naturally)

7 A Teenage Emo Hipster's Wet Dream

Writing fanfiction where Rocko and Heffer sneak their way directly into Dr. Hutchison's brain through her ear canal and mind-control her into BDSM-torturing Filburt nearly to death on public television, you mean?

(I kid you not, this fanfiction IS, in fact, actually real; look up "Filburt's Postmodern Wife" if you're curious)
On a slightly more serious note, however, this show DEFINITELY shares this role pretty noticeably with Ren & Stimpy and Invader Zim

8 (Joe Murray's) Try-Hard, Pompous Show

Granted, the show does indeed have a massive tendency to act WAY smarter, classier and ESPECIALLY funnier than it actually is in reality (see Wacky Delly and the vast majority of Season 1 for probably the biggest examples of this), but once you've successfully gotten yourself into it, it's pretty hard not to absolutely adore it (or at least enjoy it quite a lot) regardless; also, a lot of the show's satirical underpinnings actually ARE legitimately brilliant (particularly for what the show is), so I'd personally have to say that it at least somewhat DESERVES the right to be mind-numbingly pretentious and egotistical about itself, if nothing else

9 Nickelodeon's Magnum Opus (Besides Avatar)

As far as comedy shows go, this is pretty much one of the ULTIMATE diamonds in the rough amongst kids' cartoons, as well as the overall best work of Nickelodeon by so RIDICULOUSLY far that it even makes quite a few of the full-on adult cartoons of more recent years look like a joke by comparison (looking at you, Modern-Age Family Guy, for one thing)

10 All-Ages South Park

Stan, Cartman and Kyle, meet Rocko, Heffer and Filburt (now if only the show actually had a proper equivalent to Kenny or pretty much any of the other characters from South Park; Ed Bighead DOES come pretty close to being Mr. Garrison, I'll admit, especially in terms of how evil they are, but it's just not quite the same)