Written and directed by series creator Joe Murray and Cosmo Serguson, alongside fellow writers Dan Becker and Tom Smith, and based on a story by Murray, Mr.
The series has been revived with Netflix's Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling, a final chapter of sorts in the story of "I Have No Son!" and a triumphant return to what made the Rocko's formula so effective: vivid slapstick, canny topical references, and stories with a genuine warmth to them. So when no one was paying attention, Rocko's used a poignant story - about a child leaving home to chase the dream of being a cartoonist - to roast Hollywood, corporate America, and the animation-industrial complex on a spit and rip jokes off the bone. Almost a full 25 years ago, on Saturday, September 24, 1994, Rocko's Modern Life kicked off its second season with the show's first two-part episode, "I Have No Son!" Nothing else particularly special aired on TV that weekend: NBC had premiered Friends days earlier, The Simpsons ran one of its widely derided clip shows, and in the theaters, The Shawshank Redemption had just debuted.
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