History YMMV / RockosModernLife

** Rachel Bighead due to being a self-portrait of the series' creator, Joe Murray (who also voiced the character). Rachel's shows, WesternAnimation/MeetTheFatheads and JustForFun/WackyDelly, are well-liked among viewers. [[spoiler:Her coming out as trans in ''Static Cling'' both increased her popularity tenfold and was thematically relevant.]]

* RetroactiveRecognition: Tom Kenny would go on to play Dog on ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' and did many characters on 90s Cartoon Network shows, but ''really'' became famous as WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny:
** Upon its premiere, "Wacky Delly" was beloved for its sheer unabashed randomness and StylisticSuck, which is now a dime a dozen on Website/YouTube and Creator/AdultSwim.
** Back when it first premiered, the amount of innuendo was ''extremely'' impressive, and shocked many people. Lots of kids' cartoons nowadays, however, do the same thing, and so ''Rocko'' may not seem that impressive to some people who are used to watching ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' or ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', the latter of which got "pissed" past the censors.

** The entire episode of "Fish-N-Chumps" seems to be writers Stephen Hillenberg and Mark O'Hare [[JustForPun testing the waters]] for [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants their own nautical-themed show]]. In fact, a 2002 episode of WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants, "Clams", was based off "Fish-N-Chumps".

** In "Fortune Cookie," Filbert's unlucky streak montage is directly followed by a scene at a local O-Town park where Really Really Big Man tries to talk a pigeon out of "dropping the big one" by gazing into his "nipples of the future" to see that he still something to live for. Which somehow involves the pigeon thinking he's going to get front-row tickets to a Barbra Streisand concert (who apparently exists in this universe). He then breaks out into a rendition of a song about laundry - which evidently this version of Streisand was known for because the entire crowd of onlookers randomly starts to sing along ("Closet full of filthy clothes!/When you go to the Laundromat/Don't forget to clean the lint trap!/Laundry!") This almost works until Filburt shows up causing Really Really Big Man's nipples to go out of control and the pigeon to become furious at the deception. But the idea of a Streisand musical about laundry is never revisited again.

** In "Fortune Cookie," Filbert's unlucky streak montage is directly followed by a scene at a local O-Town park where Really Really Big Man tries to talk a pigeon out of "dropping the big one" by gazing into his "nipples of the future" to see that he still something to live for. Which somehow involves the pigeon thinking he's going to get front-row tickets to a Barbra Streisand concert (who apparently exists in this universe). He then breaks out into a rendition of a song about laundry - which evidently this version of Streisand was known for because the entire crowd of onlookers randomly start to sing along ("Closet full of filthy clothes!/When you go to the Laundromat/Don't forget to clean the lint trap!/Laundry!") This almost works until Filburt shows up causing Really Really Big Man's nipples to go out of control and the pigeon to become furious at the deception. But the idea of a Streisand musical about laundry is never revisited again.

** In "Fortune Cookie," Filbert's unlucky streak montage is directly followed by a scene at a local O-Town park where Really Really Big Man tries to talk a pigeon out of "dropping the big one" by gazing into his "nipples of the future" to see that he still has his life ahead of him. Which somehow involves the pigeon thinking he's going to get front-row tickets to a Barbra Streisand concert (who apparently exists in this universe). He then breaks out into a rendition of a song about laundry - which evidently this version of Streisand was known for because the entire crowd of onlookers randomly start to sing along ("Closet full of filthy clothes!/When you go to the Laundromat/Don't forget to clean the lint trap!/Laundry!") This almost works until Filburt shows up causing Really Really Big Man's nipples to go out of control and the pigeon to become furious at the deception. But the idea of a Streisand musical about laundry is never revisited again.

** The finale of “Uniform Behvaior.” Yes, it’s clearly a parody of The Shining but in terms of the story, no idea what’s going on especially with the ghosts of those old security guards.

** One of the reason's behind the show's lasting appeal is how it's arguably the first cartoon to discuss [[FirstWorldProblems the struggles of "adulting"]] (i.e., being self-reliant in your early twenties), a universal concept among young adults in TheNewTens and beyond.

* AssPull: Played with in "Manic Mechanics". Rocko breaks his car, and all seems hopeless....until he notices a "Broken/Fixed" switch on the engine.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Rachel can come off as this. She humiliates her father by saying she wanted to be a cartoonist in public, when she could’ve mentioned this in private. She insults her parents on live television with The Fatheads, never mind that Bev did nothing that we know of to become insulted.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Addressed by series creator Joe Murray: "What most people fail to appreciate is that if I was on drugs I never would've gotten anything done."