remember the days when the FCC and censors weren't so uptight? remember what cartoons did something that you cant do today? name em' !

My favorite cartoon rockos modern life got away with alot!

well heres a breakdown of stuff rocko got away with:

Sexual Innuendo
Rocko as a model in "Seat to Stardom." Rocko is wearing briefs in front of an audience.
In Leap Frogs, Bev Bighead tries to seduce Rocko. This is made obvious by many significant looks, her slipping Spanish flies into his drink (Spanish fly is both an aphrodesiac and a sexual position). Bighead spiked with Spanish flies, caused him to vomit on his shirt; he takes it off and insists that he wash it at home. Mrs. Bighead then says, seemingly randomly, "Here's a couple of bucks I owe you." At this moment, Mr. Bighead walks in the door to see Rocko with his shirt off, being handed a wad of money by Mrs. Bighead. This is a blatant reference to prostitution. This episode was removed from the replay schedule entirely. However, it has been in regular rotation on the Nicktoons Network.
In "Canned", Rocko is fired from his job and has several temporary jobs that don't work well for him. In one of these jobs, Rocko is seen talking on a phone, dryly saying, "Oh baby, oh baby, oh", until he realizes he is talking to Mrs. Bighead and they both hang up. The job was apparently that of a phone sex operator. Two signs can be read in the background: One making it clear that the phone service is called the "One-On-One Hot Line", and the other instructing the employees to "Be Hot, Be Naughty, Be Curteous."
In "A Sucker For the Suck-o-Matic", the large vacuum goes on a rampage and begins sucking up everything around, including a bust of Sigmund Freud.
In "Boob Tubed", the movie "Night of the Shaved Kittens" is a possible euphemism for shaved vaginas.

References to masturbation

The restaurant Chokey Chicken (which has a giant choking chicken as a mascot) is a reference to the term "choking the chicken," a slang term for masturbation (apparently the censors caught onto this eventually, as in later seasons it was renamed "Chewy Chicken").

In "Gutter Balls", Rocko and friends playing a board game with paddles and a monkey with a bare backside in the middle, i.e. "Spank the Monkey", another masturbation slang term. Ed Bighead, who came to invite Rocko, Heffer, and Filburt to go bowling, responds by saying he was "thinking of something a bit more challenging", possibly another innuendo.
"The Good, The Bad, and The Wallaby" originally featured a scene in which Heffer is hooked up to an automatic milking machine. It is implied that he orgasms. Later in the episode Heffer can be seen "breaking up" with the milking machine.

Both scenes were cut in reruns -- but not in the Paramount home video release.

Other innuendo

In "I Have No Son", it shows the intro of "The Fatheads" and then it shows a picture of a naked man covering his private with his hand, and it also shows a man dressed like a woman.

In "Cabin Fever", Rocko, Heffer, and Bev are seen playing strip poker.

In "Skid Marks", an eye doctor cups Rocko's eyeballs and says, "cough, please."

In "Hut Sut Raw", Rocko and his friends go camping and Rocko looks for food. He stumbles upon a berry bush and while picking them he accidentally grabs a bear's testicles, causing the bear to flee in pain while grabbing its crotch.
Best rocko scene ever done I might add

In "Closet Clown," near the end, some of the characters are discussing things they secretly like but are ashamed to admit (i.e. a teddy bear). Rocko says that he likes rainbows, which causes the other characters to go silent and give him scornful looks (this was a reference to possible homosexuality, although it was never addressed again in the show, although in "From Here to Maternity", Heffer told Rocko that he loved him and Rocko smiled at him). On the flipside this could have been put in for humor because all the previous divulgences were somewhat offensive in nature, but accepted by the group.


In an episode where Rocko and Spunky are at a grocery store, he is harassed by a security guard. At the end of the episode, while he is complaining about everything that happened to the grocer after he misses the sale by one second, he describes the security guard as "Gestapo."


In "Commuted Sentence", while on the subway, a postal worker said after he was fired at work he was feeling "disgruntled" (a reference to the recent workplace shootings by disgruntled postal workers). When everyone around him fled, he grabbed the rails exclaiming he had swinging room. Another scene, in which Rocko is speaking to his car, a truck laughing manically can be seen behind the car, cutting back to Rocko, the sound of grinding metal can be heard. At the end of the episode, when Rocko proceeds to bail his car from the impound lot, the guard tells him "that the other cars call him 'Fancy Fenders'. Term of Endearment, i'm sure...".


In the epis

Did you know that there was a time when toilets weren't even allowed in movies?

wow that is... just wow

flintstones where the first televised couple to actually be seen sleeping in the same bed......very controversial in those days....didnt want the kiddies to know that babies came from somewhere other than the stork....sexual intercourse was taboo in those days but beastiality with a bird was just fine!!!

They cut that bear in the bushes part out of Hut Sut Raw recently.

Man, I loved Rockos Modern Life when it aired. It was just twisted and bent enough that adults got the humor.

[FONT=Impact]man thats soooo cool why cut out the good stuff:D[/FONT]

Now you can't shoot a bullet in a cartoon. Damn you school shooters!

OMG the Bear testicles one HOLY CRAP wow I never ever realised how shocking that is Rocko rules I whish there was an Uncut DVD realise F***ING Soccer moms

well I seen it when it was first played and it wen tlike this

rocko went and was picking orange berries then hi shand went by another one and you dont see him grab it but you here this "Ding" sound and this bear run out of the bush grabbing himself going "unnn! unnn!"(like a donkey sorta but deeper)

The funny thing is that I never thought of those jokes to be sexual as a kid.

Unfortunately, these lying, Leave It To Beaver-esque parents wanted to pull it anyway. It wasn't like the cartoons were actually teaching the kids the punchlines. They need to either let their kids breathe and watch the show, or tell their kids not to watch it just because they think it's inappropriate *cough*like selfish idiots*cough* Why ban it for everyone else? For the record, I'm not disrespecting all parents.

fcc blows bush

Oh MAN....When I'm watching it on Nicktoons Network, I can't BELIEVE how much shit they got away with! That's amazing!

And here's the thing: When we 90's kids were all watching it as younger kiddies, it all went COMPLETLY over our heads! We didn't catch any of the innuendos or ask questions about possible innuendos. We just thought it was funny as hell. It didn't tramuatize us or anything. Why do parents think that a little innuendo is gonna tramautize kids today when we weren't? I don't understand where all the fear is coming from.

"Parents just dont understand" as The fresh prince would say, but now it is "parents just cant raise their kids"

Exactly!

Kids don't understand sexual innuendo behind jokes, unless the parent explains it to them, or says something about it in front of the kid. So, in my opinion, if parents shut up about things they're not ready to explain to their kids about, it'll go right over their heads and be forgotten until they find out for themselves a few years down the road and by that time, they'll be old enough to understand.

Wow...they really did get away with a lot back then. To think that all those jokes were way above our heads like 10 or so years ago. I always wondered why they changed the sign from "Chokey Chicken" to "Chewy Chicken" a while back. What about that episode when Rocko and Heffer went skiing? Rocko went to use the restroom and Heffer wrote his name in the snow while that guy was watching? I hope this comes out on DVD soon...lmao! :D

1) Captain Planet- Yes, I know this is "Captain Planet" we're talking about, but does anyone remember the anti-drug episode? They introduced a new character who, by the end of the episode, got hooked on pills, vomited blood, and then died.

2) Jonny Quest- the original show. Bad guys and extras in this series would drop like flies in violent fashion on a regular basis.

3) Speed Racer- again, the original. Bad guys and extras here would also drop like flies in violent fashion on a regular basis, but while the guys in JQ would usually get crushed by rocks, mauled by an animal, or fall off a cliff, the guys (while in their cars) in SR would burst into flames, explode,... or fall off a cliff.

4) There's one scene in a Powerpuff girls episode where it looks like Miss Bellum (actually Sedusa in disguise) is MAJORLY coming on to the (rather confused) Mayor and trying to seduce him, and the Mayor is holding a pencil, and she picks up his hand and very seductively has him insert his pencil into the pencil sharpener, and he, um, lets out a rather "pleasurable" "O-oh-ohhhh" as the pencil vibrates in the sharpener. Outside of Adult Swim, that's the most blatant sexual reference I've seen on Cartoon Network.

5) Batman the animated series. I think it definitely pushed the envelope as far as how dark a "kid's show" could get. I mean, you had the episodes where the bad guys weren't "supervillans" but were dangerous criminals who used guns (with bullets, not lasers, I should add) who had less in common with most cartoon villans and more in common with the real life Gambino crime family. Even the "supervillans" were rpesented less as silly kid's show villans and more as criminally insane, but tragic human beings. You had the episodes like "I am the Night" and "It's never too late" which were less about action and more about character.

Hell, the show was even capable of being a little scary. The Man-Bat transformation in "On Leather Wings" is STILL effectively creepy.

and this is one reason why wikipedia is considered unreliable, people. :|

anyone can go in and freely edit it.

ALSO

back in the day, on Rugrats (the one where angelica steals chuckie's glasses), they show her throwing up, full throttle. In a newer episode (Ransom of Cynthia) she eats too much candy and she throws up off camera.

Damn FCC >:(