Top Ten Best Rocko's Modern Life Episodes
The best episodes of the 1993-1996 Nicktoon "Rocko's Modern Life" which centers on the surreal life of an anthropomorphic wallaby named Rocko and his friends.
Since I saw the show on Paramount+, I didn't really like it during Season 1. However, when I watched this episode, it became my favorite and the only one I gave 5 stars. I loved the scene where Heffer and Filburt secretly record Rocko going downstairs to get a glass of milk naked. The next day, the video went viral, and this was before YouTube was a thing.
This is the only episode where Rocko is accidentally filmed nude (a reference to Nude Descending a Staircase), and the public's reaction when the video nearly goes viral is as pricelessly hilarious as it is disturbing. "He's completely... NAKED. WITH NO CLOTHES ON!"
That Satanic guy named Peaches was what really made this episode. He acts like Satan, but he's really just doing his job. Also, the plot of this episode is pretty wacky and disturbing, which I like.
This episode was funny and dark at the time.
I love this episode so much that I watch it even when it's nowhere near Halloween.
This is an incredibly dark and horrifying episode, but that's why it's amazing!
A spat followed by a disappearance leads Rocko to believe that Mrs. Bighead murdered Ed.
An episode about a show within a show. "Wacky Delly" is designed to be the worst show ever, but people still eat it up like maniacs.
Best Rocko episode in my opinion, hands down.
This was originally the pilot episode. I prefer the official extended version, but either way, this episode about Rocko scrambling to pick up all his trash on trash day is a classic. And who could forget the psychotic stray dog, Earl? "Garbage day is a very dangerous day."
Charmingly rough, but at times had great animation. As I was watching it, I thought to myself that it must have been one of the first episodes ever produced. I wasn't wrong. Overall, this episode was incredible.
The high school flashback was the real meat of this episode. The potato-battery science experiment was really creative, and Filburt going insane over potato chips after Heffer ate the potato was especially hilarious.
The best flashback was when Mr. Bighead talked about when Heffer was his paperboy (back when he was the handsomest man in town).
Another episode about a show within a show. It is emotionally deeper than "Wacky Delly" (Ralph's cartoon series, "The Fatheads," is causing arguments and conflicts with his corporate father, Ed) but is not nearly as funny.
Rocko discovers that the creator of The Fatheads is Ed and Bev Bighead's estranged son, whom Ed has disowned for leaving the corporate world for a career in animation.
One of the only environmental protection musicals to openly admit how preachy and sappy it is.
This will teach Mr. Bighead about not caring for the country and littering.
The Newcomers
In my opinion, this is one of the best episodes ever!
Then Rocko got his teeth knocked out of his mouth. She did that, flung him into the pavement, and he got smashed by a steamroller.
I hate her screaming HOW DARE YOU! because she's a Wo-Mad-Man.
Crazy bus drivers, Americanization, cheesy French love proposal scenes... This episode had it all.
I liked this episode because it was both funny and heartwarming. The heartwarming part was when Heffer reunited with the Wolfe Family because he realized that, even though he's adopted, he's still a part of their family.
Heffer's backstory is some seriously sad stuff, I gotta say.
Mrs. Bighead is an odd one, she is. Just one of the many reasons we have a fence between our houses.
Filburt's marriage proposal to Dr. Hutchinson, which sounds pretty normal by the show's standards, predictably goes hilariously wrong. In the end, though, they get married.
Filburt gets bad luck from a fortune cookie that says, Bad Luck and Extreme Misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity. He got fortune cookies to celebrate becoming Mr. Lucky on the Game Spinner Show, but will his bad luck ruin his chance? Find out!
"BAD LUCK AND EXTREME MISFORTUNE WILL INFEST YOUR PATHETIC SOUL FOR ALL ETERNITY." Leave it to Filburt to deny the fact that he became a bad luck magnet after reading that fortune. In fact, he even gets that exact same fortune repeatedly.
This episode had Heffer trying to help Mr. Bighead win a golfing match between him and his boss (even though he's NOT supposed to win). It also features a parody of Darth Vader, exploding pianos, and a flying tractor! How is this not a great episode?
The best episode. They light up Ed with, like, 80 pianos when he's just trying to hit the ball.
It's hilarious when Rocko grabs the monster's balls by accident!
This had to be one of the world's scariest episodes ever made. Have you seen those ghosts? It's crazy!