I'm not doing these storylines in any specific order...
These first 4 happen to be the ones I have the least to say about.
Skid Marks
The whole thing begins with a car chase being broadcast on live TV.
It winds up being Rocko’s car and the police find an escaped convict in the trunk. The car gets impounded because of this and the fact its gas cap is missing. So to get his car back, Rocko has to take Driver's Ed.
Through all the courses, the teachers keep saying, “don’t get the fat guy.” Come driver's test time, he gets a fat elephant as his instructor and they simulate driving while on foot. (One funny joke- there's a sign saying “Slow Children at Play”- it’s a couple of kids playing catch in slow motion).
Then something dramatic happens and the teacher is rendered hysterical, but says Rocko passed the test. The chameleon brothers (who see do several jobs throughout the series) take his picture and explain to him. “Oh no, that’s not the fat guy. (Points) THAT’S the fat guy.” (It’s a large pig that stomps around, fat oozes from his backside and smothers any nearby people).
So Rocko is all set to go, but then he can’t pick up his car because his gas cap is still missing… why that’s such a big deal, I have no idea. Then again, all of our gas caps are on leashes nowadays.
Turns out the criminal they arrested moments earlier had taken it and is forced to apologize. One funny final comment is between a father and son.
It winds up being Rocko’s car and the police find an escaped convict in the trunk. The car gets impounded because of this and the fact its gas cap is missing. So to get his car back, Rocko has to take Driver's Ed.
Through all the courses, the teachers keep saying, “don’t get the fat guy.” Come driver's test time, he gets a fat elephant as his instructor and they simulate driving while on foot. (One funny joke- there's a sign saying “Slow Children at Play”- it’s a couple of kids playing catch in slow motion).
Then something dramatic happens and the teacher is rendered hysterical, but says Rocko passed the test. The chameleon brothers (who see do several jobs throughout the series) take his picture and explain to him. “Oh no, that’s not the fat guy. (Points) THAT’S the fat guy.” (It’s a large pig that stomps around, fat oozes from his backside and smothers any nearby people).
So Rocko is all set to go, but then he can’t pick up his car because his gas cap is still missing… why that’s such a big deal, I have no idea. Then again, all of our gas caps are on leashes nowadays.
Turns out the criminal they arrested moments earlier had taken it and is forced to apologize. One funny final comment is between a father and son.
“Daddy, daddy, teacher says ‘every time a gas cap is found, an angel gets its wings.”
"Your teacher’s full of snot.”
While on the driving topic, I thought I'd go into:
Driving Mrs. Wolfe
Heffer’s dad gets a new car but forbids anyone else to drive it. Something about this inspires Heffer’s mom to want to learn how to drive so he offers to teach her. His efforts seem to be all in vain because she's a klutz on the road, but she eventually gets the hang of it.
This whole episode is memorable because of one running gag. Rocko gets pretty neurotic about Mrs. Wolfe being inept about driving and a couple times when this lands them in a dangerous situation, he screams for them to move… oblivious to what’s going on around her, she gives him grief for yelling and, at least once, says “we’re not going anywhere unless you change your tone.” Hesitantly he says “Mrs Wolfe, please…” and she’s like “ok since you asked nicely”.
No idea why I found that so hilarious but I do. That’s such a mom thing to say.
Bye, Bye, Birdie
Filbert is going to the hospital to have tests done. So he entrusts his pet bird Turdy to Rocko until he returns.
Plain and simple, the bird is a jerk and gets Rocko and Heffer in all kinds of trouble. He’s such a nuisance that there’s a montage of people coming to his house to report the bird’s various crimes. And there’s this one guy who keeps saying “keep your bird away from MY monkey…"
So anyway, after Rocko (now chained to Turdy to keep a closer eye on him) gives the bird a lecture for all the trouble he’d caused, Heffer accidentally sits on the bird, killing him. They panic and don’t know how to break it to Filbert. Then Filbert gets sent home early, to his utmost chagrin.
“The doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with me. (Throws hospital band on the ground) Fools…”
Yeah, he’s the only person on the planet that gets excited about medical tests and would have that reaction to a lack of diagnosis.
Rocko starts to apologize, but Filbert explains that Turdy is a rare species of myna with a short 3-week life span… Heffer breaks the tension a second later (“did you tell him I sat on it?”)
Then the monkey guy comes back (after they bury the bird “at sky”) to drop off a shoebox, grumbling “Here, I ain’t dealing with it." So… apparently, Turdy and his monkey got together and now Filbert has a whole family of monkey birds. I mean, this is the same series where Filbert marries a cat (Dr. Hutchison) and they have an egg with 4 babies: 2 turtles, a cat and a cow that looks like Heffer but with glasses… I’m just gonna assume it’s because Heffer helped incubate the egg… the show certainly didn’t dwell on that turn of events too long. But unlike those children, we never see fur or feather from the monkey birds after this story arc ends.
Plain and simple, the bird is a jerk and gets Rocko and Heffer in all kinds of trouble. He’s such a nuisance that there’s a montage of people coming to his house to report the bird’s various crimes. And there’s this one guy who keeps saying “keep your bird away from MY monkey…"
So anyway, after Rocko (now chained to Turdy to keep a closer eye on him) gives the bird a lecture for all the trouble he’d caused, Heffer accidentally sits on the bird, killing him. They panic and don’t know how to break it to Filbert. Then Filbert gets sent home early, to his utmost chagrin.
“The doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with me. (Throws hospital band on the ground) Fools…”
Yeah, he’s the only person on the planet that gets excited about medical tests and would have that reaction to a lack of diagnosis.
Rocko starts to apologize, but Filbert explains that Turdy is a rare species of myna with a short 3-week life span… Heffer breaks the tension a second later (“did you tell him I sat on it?”)
Then the monkey guy comes back (after they bury the bird “at sky”) to drop off a shoebox, grumbling “Here, I ain’t dealing with it." So… apparently, Turdy and his monkey got together and now Filbert has a whole family of monkey birds. I mean, this is the same series where Filbert marries a cat (Dr. Hutchison) and they have an egg with 4 babies: 2 turtles, a cat and a cow that looks like Heffer but with glasses… I’m just gonna assume it’s because Heffer helped incubate the egg… the show certainly didn’t dwell on that turn of events too long. But unlike those children, we never see fur or feather from the monkey birds after this story arc ends.
Also, I didn't realize until very recently... Turdy's name should've been a huge clue that the bird was gonna have a crappy attitude. (Sorry, couldn't help myself, haha)
Future Schlock
20 years or so in the future, Filbert’s children are all grown up. They’re investigating things at Rocko’s old house and find a banana abandoned in the refrigerator. They also find an old photo of the trio and them as babies.
Norbert points to Heffer, asking who that is. Gilbert says, “that’s uncle Heffer, the one you take after.” Norbert quickly balks, “whadda ya mean?” (I mean, it’s obvious to the rest of us, right?)
They go to Filbert for answers and we learn he’s 38… the way he was acting makes it seem like he's a lot older, geesh…
Eventually, they get around to asking, “oh father, why would anybody put a banana in the refrigerizer?”
Eventually, they get around to asking, “oh father, why would anybody put a banana in the refrigerizer?”
We ultimately get a bunch of flashbacks from the time of the photo. The banana reminds him of how Rocko and “that fat guy” (“uncle Heffer?”/"yes... Uncle Heffer"…) disappeared.
At the end, they do come back. They'd been in space, along with a monkey Ed wanted to send into space, and a race of intelligent bananas. The wrinkly old banana that had been in the fridge (thanks to Filbert, apparently) was their leader. Mr. Bighead shows up, saying how that's his rocket and he gets abducted by the monkey and the bananas.
At the end, they do come back. They'd been in space, along with a monkey Ed wanted to send into space, and a race of intelligent bananas. The wrinkly old banana that had been in the fridge (thanks to Filbert, apparently) was their leader. Mr. Bighead shows up, saying how that's his rocket and he gets abducted by the monkey and the bananas.
Even with the wiki in front of me, a lot of this doesn’t make a lot of sense, but I still love that “refrigerizer” line.
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