Rocko’s Modern Life still “very dangerous” in the first footage from new special

The special’s premise is pretty simple: after spending the years 1996-2017 in space, Rocko and his pals Heffer and Philburt have finally returned to Earth, just in time for the show to take aim at Starbucks, 3-D movies, and the same obsessive consumerism the series has always loved to lampoon. And even if the targets of that cartoon satire are a little dated, it still feels like the old Rocko’s, pitting its good-natured wallaby hero against the big, mean, dumb jerks of the world, right down to a recreation of the show’s old intro that’s been updated for our ever-more-modern lives.