8.30.2026

How It Should Have Been Cut: Between a Rocko and a Hot Place


While on vacation from the real censored cartoons page ("Drawn and Quartered"), I decided to do a one-shot piece on how I think the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocko's Modern Life should have edited a scene from the season one episode, "Carnival Knowledge." 

You see, much like the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts (some of which did end up airing on Nickelodeon), Rocko's Modern Life was edited in reruns. Unlike Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, Rocko's Modern Life was edited in reruns to tone down/get rid of some of the more suggestive scenes that have become the stuff of legends for its fandom. However, the Nickelodeon censors didn't catch everything, and this is an example of one of those things (plus a look at what a hypothetical edit would look like, especially in this day and age when digitally removing objects is both a horror and very impressive, depending on context).