Then, when Heffer corrects Peaches about where he is, Peaches slaps a hand over Heffer's mouth and says, " Censors!". Underneath the C and the K, there are Ls. In Hell, there is a sign that has the word "HECK" on it. In "To Heck and Back", Heffer goes to Hell.Heffer throws a nudist party with Bev taking a perverted interest in it (and even had her own at the end of the episode).He solves the problem by using a cattle prod on Heffer's behind, and Heffer says "Mmmmm, Sheila?" There is a scene where Rocko is kept up all night with Heffer's snoring.A crab exclaims a single phrase in Spanish before running away: "Oi! Mi culito me pica!" It translates to "My ass itches".
This show did a better, subtler job of getting away with these kind of jokes than its contemporaries at the time ( including John Kricfalusi's The Ren & Stimpy Show, although that had a bigger emphasis on shock value) and is a forerunner (along with Animaniacs) to how most works from the late 1990s to the present ( especially late 2000s/early 2010s Cartoon Network shows) get away with dubious content. cattle!"ĭespite being on Nickelodeon, a kids network note though it should be noted that early 1990s Nickelodeon had the kind of edgy kids' programming that most other networks wouldn't allow, whether it's the gross and chaotic The Ren & Stimpy Show or the scary, low-budget Are You Afraid of the Dark? or shows like Clarissa Explains It All or Salute Your Shorts that dealt with teen issues, such as puberty, crushes, parent issues, and friendship, Rocko's Modern Life had a virtual laundry list of "adult" jokes and innuendo that, for the most part, got by without the censors intervening. "Mary had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, Mary went to heaven and the steamboat went to heeeey, Rocko.