History WesternAnimation / RockosModernLife

* NakedPeopleAreFunny

* DeathByIrony: In "Rocko's Modern Christmas", the most magical elf of all, Mitch, was the only elf who could make it snow. But he died in a blizzard.

* ManOfAThousandVoices: In addition to voicing Heffer, Tom Kenny provided the majority of minor and one-shot characters in the show.

* CaptainErsatz: Who else thought the head gardener guy in ''Teed Off'' reminded them of [[StarWars Darth Vader?]]

* FridgeBrilliance: In ''Future Schlock,'' Heffer and Rocko don't seem to have aged much or to be otherwise worse for the wear after seventeen years in space. If they traveled at relativistic speeds, more time would have passed on Earth than would have on the spacecraft.

* HoYay: In one episode, Rocko gets married to Filburt to become a legal immigrant in the USA.

* ASimplePlan

--->'''Kid:''' [[ItsAWonderfulLife Daddy! Teacher said that every time a gas cap is found, an angel gets his wings!]]

** A pink [[StarTrek ''Enterprise'']] makes an appearance in the episode "A Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic".

* SorryILeftTheBGMOn

*** A none-too-subtle TakeThat at how badly ''{{Fantasia}}'' fared in its theatrical run.

* TropeOMatic: Several times, most obviously in "A Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic".

* {{Expy}}: Who else thought the head gardener guy in ''Teed Off'' reminded them of [[StarWars Darth Vader?]]

* AbsenteeActor: Rocko doesn't appear at all in "Frog's Best Friend" and "Magic Meatball". In addition he makes non-speaking cameos in "She's the Toad" and "Teed Off" (Rocko screams in the latter, but that's it).

* AbsenteeActor: Rocko doesn't appear at all in "Frog's Best Friend" (although Spunky appears) and "Magic Meatball". In addition he makes non-speaking cameos in "She's the Toad" and "Teed Off" (Rocko screams in the latter, but that's it).

* AbsenteeActor: Generally Rocko is absent in episodes focusing on the Bigheads.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Rocko the wallaby seems about 3 feet or so tall, making him the only realistically sized animal on the show(along with Spunky, though as he is not humanoid this doesn't count), compared to him Heffer the steer and Dr. Hutchison the cat(presumably of the house variety) look normal human size about 5 and a half to six feet, Filburt the turtle is in-between, while the Bigheads who are cane toads are maybe 6 and a half feet tall, with their heads counting for at least half of that, their adult son Ralph who does not have a large head, and has about the same body height is a little taller than Rocko, not counting his hair.

* TheBermudaTriangle: One short sees Rocko board a senior cruise ship with Heffer and his grandfather and passes through the Bermuda Triangle. After some Deranged Animation, it turns every old person on the ship young, and every young person old.

** In one episode, Filbert goes on a big speil about how he always wanted to be a chimney sweep which is a clear nod to the [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Lumberjack Sketch]].