Innuendos in Rocko's Modern Life

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Innuendos are a type of jokes, in this case, referring to anything related to the act of sex or other adult topics.

Rocko's Modern Life is laden with innuendos. Here is a list of these innuendos.

Season 1[]

No Pain, No Gain[]

One of the video game characters says "we're gonna make you squeal, Piggy," then tickles a pig's crotch. This in itself is a parody of the rape scene from the movie Deliverance.
One man struggles to execrise, and succeeds in tearing his arms off, exposing his bones and leaving some blood on the floor.
At one point when Heffer exercises, a woman comes up and asks if he needs any help, to which he replies. "Yeah" then holds up a plate and a pair of chopsticks, and says, "These plastic things can't cut my burrito."
Heffer smashes a basketball into the backboard so hard, it collapses the wall behind it and reveals the girls' shower room. While most of them are covering themselves, at least one doesn't bother to.
Heffer accidentally strips Mrs. Bighead of her towel, making her shout "I'M NUDE!!" before going into hiding.

Who Gives a Buck[]

The title of the episode is a parody of the term, "who gives a f**k."
The weasel shopkeeper once says "Why don't you just jump in on our doggie-style bowl ride? Everybody on their hands and knees!".
The All-Scottish Show's initials are "A-S-S."
Due to thinner air in the higher reaches of the parking garage, Heffer suffers a severe nosebleed.

Leap Frogs[]

The plot centers around Mrs. Bighead attempting to seduce Rocko, examples of these attempts include:
- Mrs. Bighead spiking Rocko's lemonade with Spanish Fly, a legendary aphrodisiac.
- Mrs. Bighead having Rocko zip up her dress, and Rocko accidentally ripping part of it off and getting an eyeful of her rear.
The female frog in the nature show has breasts with nipples in plain sight.
In the beginning of the episode, Bev is shown watching a romance movie on the TV. The movie ends with the characters French kissing.
When Rocko is shown working in his yard, the opening chords to Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" play and Mrs. Bighead's leg enters the frame, a direct reference to the The Graduate (a classic movie in which an older married woman seduces a young man).
Mrs. Bighead then gives him a wad of cash, and just as he is about to leave with no shirt on and a hand full of money, Mr. Bighead comes in. Rocko then exclaims that it's "not what it looks like."
There is a scene in which Mrs. Bighead implores Rocko to touch her eyeballs, and the dialogue is as if they were breasts.
When Bev catches Rocko after he falls down from getting his fur shredded by the ceiling fan, she looks at him seductively and says: "You shaved! For me?" This refers to shaving pubic hair.
In the final scene, we see the Bigheads breaking plates and appear to be excited at the sexual level.
Lastly after they land on the floor, we are shown wide shot of their house with a fireworks display while Mrs. Bighead moans, "Oh, Ed," in a sexual manner.

Bedfellows[]

Heffer asks if he can sleep with Rocko, which could be misconstrued as Heffer wanting to have sex with Rocko.
Rocko is kept up all night with Heffer's snoring. He solves the problem by using a cattle prod on Heffer's behind, and Heffer says "Mmmmm, Sheila?"
When Rocko uses the bathroom, he is seen naked.
Heffer parties with nudists in Rocko's backyard, one of whom strips off Rocko's clothes
The band playing at the party is named "The Dangles".
Mrs. Bighead spies on the nudist party in Rocko's backyard. This could be mistaken for voyeurism.
At the end of the episode, we hear Mrs. Bighead partying with the nudists.
- Also, Rocko watches Mrs. Bighead partying with the nudists. This could also be mistaken for voyeurism.

Skid Marks[]

When Rocko gets his eyes examined, the eye doctor cups Rocko's eyes and asks him to cough, alluding to a hernia exam.
The crash test video features tomatoes as dummies that splatter like blood upon impact.

Power Trip[]

Really Really Big Man, who already has a suggestive name, makes Rocko gaze into his "nipples of the future".
After being cured, Rocko tells him "We've all been touched by your bigness."

A Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic[]

The episode opens with Heffer watching a presidential motorcade that ends up being shot at by a gunman. The reporter also says "Oh my God". This is a reference to the JFK Assassination.
The Suck-o-matic is shown with a button depicting an image of a dog beside a minus sign and two baseballs while Rocko says "Maybe we should try the neutering device later."
A voyeuristic gopher is shown staring at the naked fairies in Rocko's garden.
Heffer says "My God!" towards the end.

Popcorn Pandemonium[]

At the beginning of the episode, we briefly see an exercise show called Sweating In Your Undies.
When the movie theater catches fire, and Rocko is the only one who notices (everyone else thinks it's 3D effects of the movie they're watching) Rocko screams that there's a fire (shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theater), but everyone else just shushes him.
As Rocko and Heffer run out of the entrance because of the movie theaters getting flooded with popcorn, there's a sign above which says: "666" (which is the number of the beast).

To Heck and Back[]

This episode marks the first appearance of the Chokey Chicken, whose name derives from the slang term for masturbation "choking the chicken".
In Hell, there is a sign that has the word "HECK" on it. Underneath the C and the K, there are Ls. Then, when Heffer corrects Peaches about where he is, Peaches slaps a hand over Heffer's mouth and says, "Censors!".

The Good, The Bad, and The Wallaby[]

A farmer puts a milking machine on Heffer, and he receives very sexual pleasure out of it. At the climax, he gets stars in his eyes and he falls backwards. Later, he is shown giving the machine a heartfelt farewell. These scenes were cut in reruns and are missing from home video releases, but still airs uncut in other regions.
Rocko and Heffer sing the song "Miss Susie", which has them almost singing the word "hell" before Heffer interrupts to point out the farm's cattle.

Canned[]

In one of Rocko's temporary jobs, ('Specialty Phone Operator') Rocko is seen talking on a phone, flatly saying, "Oh baby" three times into the phone until he realizes he is talking to Mrs. Bighead and they both hang up. In the same scene, in the background there is a sign on the wall that says 'REMEMBER: Be Hot, Be Naughty, Be Courteous.'
The rhino's name is Mr. Horny. "Horny" is slang for someone desperate to have sex.
The comic book fan gushing over fictional "elf wenches" is based off actual behavior of how more fanatical fans will have extreme fetishes for and only a fictional character, and how some will not keep this in check and keep it from being inappropriate in their daily lives. The elephant comic book fan may also be arguing with him on this same topic, and also showcases how more hardcore immature adult or adolescent hobbyists and fans of series will infight in jealousy and pride over what series is "best" in popular media.

Carnival Knowledge[]

Rocko Hell Innuendo — Shouldn't this sign say "Elevator to Heck"?

At some point in this episode, there is a sign for a carnival ride that clearly says "Elevator to Hell". The word "Hell" is not replaced with "heck" or "Hades" nor is it blocked by something strategically placed; later airings of the episode don't edit the sign at all.
In one scene, Slippy is reading a magazine called "Playslug" (a reference to Playboy), showing a big-breasted slug on the cover.
The episode title is a play on the phrase "Carnal knowledge", a euphemism for sexual intercourse.
All of the animals on the Merry Go Round (a beaver, a snake, and a chicken) are used in sexual euphemisms.

Sand in Your Navel[]

There's a nudist beach, which Rocko takes off his trunks and puts on his head to bypass, then a censor guy comes and censors Rocko's butt.
Rocko somehow manages to get stuck in Gladys's cleavage, which is then followed by her yelling "HOW DAAAARE YOOOU!"
About halfway through the episode, Rocko hops a fence into a nude beach and a censor is placed over his buttocks and crotch. Shortly afterwards, he bumps into Gladys again and his censor bar falls off in front of her.
After Rocko says, "I think she likes me", a walrus with a pipe appears and tells Rocko, "Boy, you've got a buoy in your pants", which is a euphemism for an erection.
At one point, a crab exclaims the Spanish sentence "Oi! Mi culito me pica!" (which translates to "Oi! My *ss is itchy!")

Cabin Fever[]

Rocko, Heffer and Bev Bighead were playing strip poker.

Rocko's Happy Sack[]

The title itself is an innuendo (alluding to the scrotum).
During Rocko's tirade about the supermarket sale, among the things he mentions is being "threatened by your Gestapo security guards"
Rocko speaks to a customer, who unknowingly has Spunky in his shopping cart, cased in plastic. The customer goes on a rant that the "world would be much better without sea mammals". Another customer, a gorilla, overhears this, gets mad because his manatee wife is crying her eyes out at such abusive speech, and beats him up. A direct reference to racism.
- Additionally, this customer is drawn as a pig, a possible reference to the derogatory term "racist pig".

Flu-In-U-Enza[]

The title is very suggestive sounding itself.
One of the doctors is named Doctor Ned Crow-Philiac, referring to necrophilia.
A character is not only seen smoking, but he also dies on-screen when he retches his heart out.
Someone over the PA system pages a doctor over to gynecology.
Blood appears on a knife, a chainsaw, and an operating table.
In addition to having a suggestive name, Rocko's sadistic doctor Dr. Bendova puts his hand between Rocko's legs (implying he’s cupping his testicles) and asks him to cough, and then is implied to give him a prostate exam with a rubber glove. Later, Bendova appears as a professional wrestler known as "The Proctologist of Pain."
After Rocko swallows the comically large pill he got from the doctor, he reads the jar and discovers too late a warning on the back saying that the pill was not to be taken orally, indicating that it was actually a suppository.

Who's For Dinner?[]

Heffer's grandfather mistakes Rocko (a wallaby) for a beaver and says "I can smell a beaver from 30 miles away," a reference to the female anatomy.
- Also, after Rocko inadvertently drives Heffer away from the house, Grandpa Wolfe says "I say we eat the beaver!" This is an obvious reference to cunnilingus.
- His distaste for non-wolf animals is a reference to the racism that is common among older members of society.
When Heffer finds a tombstone which he believed was his father's, he notices the engraving says, "here lies a big wet cat." Because a cat is sometimes referred to as a pussycat, the reference here is to a "big wet pussy" meaning a woman's genitals.
Peter is seen going to cheerleader practice dressed in a female cheerleader's outfit. When his shocked father catches him, his wife responds "We were afraid to tell you."

Love Spanked[]

At the beginning of the episode when Rocko is lusting over Melba, his beating heart goes back and forth through his body; and when it goes under his tail, the heart shape has hairs on the arches of the heart—looking similar to a scrotum with pubic hair on it.
Heffer puts down on Rocko's personal ad "I am adventurous and will try anything once. Twice if you're lucky!"
On one of Rocko's dates, the girl pins him down and says "How 'bout we trade math equations, baby!"
One of the dating show contestants has "an unbearable fetish for short wallabies".
During the dating show segment, as the third contestant is being introduced, an animation of a jack hammer is displayed within Rocko's head, a metaphor for sexual intecourse.
- Also, the host says that the third date spends a lot of time on the couch, which can be interpreted in one of two ways.
After Rocko and Heffer come out of the Tunnel of Love, the next boat reveals a man who decided to ride alone. This is a reference to masturbation (self-love).
At the end of the episode when Heffer is showing Rocko the ad he placed in the newspaper, a line of it reads, "Let me dance in your lovecups and serve you tea." The word "lovecups" refers to a bra.

Clean Lovin[]

A train is seen entering a tunnel, mimicking intercourse.
A slice of bread being buttered is also seen, alluding to ejaculation.
We hear escalating squeaky sounds coming from the garage. When Rocko opens the garage, we see Spunky laying in a post-coital pose, and an unidentified liquid under the mop (implied to be semen).
Later on, Spunky's psychologist takes a strange attraction to the mop and says he must “have a word alone” with it. After he closes the door, the same squeaking sounds are heard, implying that he is also having sex with the mop. This is corroborated when he and the mop are seen dating later in the episode.

Unbalanced Load[]

Felch — I'll bet those donuts are extra cream filled

On their (Rocko and Spunky's) way to the laundry, we will pause the image and we can see Felch Donuts on the background with the word "felch" being an allusion to felliato, a type of oral sex. Alternately, felching is a sex act between gay lovers in where the "pitcher" proceeds eat out the rectum of the "catcher" after having sex.
The name of the episode itself is charged to almost be mistaken for one, bringing to mind the term for an inconsistent and imperfect cumming.

Season 2[]

Tickled Pinky[]

The sign at the jackhammer sale says "JACK ALL U WANT."
Rocko says at one point "Then the bungee jumping, the wall of death, flying over the Andes with a Brazilian soccer team...", which is a reference to the Andes flight disaster.
At the end of the episode, Heffer's fat (after he got liposuction) tells him to "get bent".

I Have No Son![]

The Fatheads call the audience "hosers," which is Canadian slang for drunks.
The Initials for "Bighead Studios" are "BS", which is a reference to the word "Bullshit" (this was carried over to "Wacky Delly").
When Rachel (then known as Ralph) pulls out the donut from her pocket, it's quite obvious from everybody's reaction that they thought she was pulling out a gun.

Pipe Dreams[]

The name of Rocko's goldfish, "Lolita", is a term that refers to a sexually precocious young woman.
When Rocko uses the plumbing snake with the gag of going everywhere but down his toilet drain, the final scene features Ed Bighead screaming in surprise and reeling away from his toilet with his pants pulled up. This is a rather lewd joke regarding one's posterior being violated in a non-sexual way, which is both awkward and somewhat forbidden in the manner of touchy subjects regarding dark humor.

Boob Tubed[]

A film entitled "Night of The Shaved Kittens" is featured, referring to female genitalia.
When Heffer loses his brain and when Rocko and Filburt go through the TV to get it back, Heffer then spends the time streaking nude around Rocko's house and acting like a chicken. Due to how he is nude and is a male, Heffer is likely impersonating a rooster or a cock.
While the title of the episode refers to an older pejorative phrase of television (literally the boob tube), the name overall itself is suggestive of porn and adult access cable channels like Skinamax.

The Lounge Singer[]

The tube of cold cream Rocko holds while helping Filburt's hives begins to spurt out uncontrollably on its own after a while, referring to stimulating the climax into ejaculation in sex or a hand job.
At one point, Filburt performs at a nudist club called "Nudist Swine Las Vegas Chapter".

She's the Toad[]

Heffer and Filburt accidentally come up with the phrase "Wee Wee!" when they are trying to mess with the shellshocked comatose Ed. The phrase itself can be interpreted to innocuously mean anything related to male genitalia, from urination to the penis.

Down the Hatch[]

Two parasites are seen humping each other before exploding.

Road Rash[]

When the No Tell Motel employee asks Rocko and Heffer how long they will be in the room, Rocko says all night making him surprised. The camera then pans outside the No Tell Motel, where beds can be heard springing, while Heffer mutters Sheila's name in his sleep as Rocko yells at him in annoyance. This scene implied that it was a motel used for prostitution (it even mentions premature departure, or ejaculation), and has been banned from reruns and deleted from most DVD releases. However, some people believe that this scene was also banned because the No Tell Motel employee was an offensive Asian stereotype because of the broken English and goofy teeth.
The line "retorqued your Johnson rods" was changed to "retorqued your curtain rods" in reruns because "Johnson" and "rod" are both slang terms for penises.

Kiss Me I'm Foreign[]

When answering the door, Rocko and Filburt say "WHAT IN THE HELL-oooo?"
Squirrels being a health problem for turtlekind and possibly other shelled animals is analogous to parasite based STDs like crabs or scabies.
Filburt marrying Rocko in a false marriage to protect his citizenship that eventually comes apart at the seams is suggestive of commentary on marriage status based immigration issues, specifically ones on mail order spouses, which were a hot button topic in the 1990s.
Surprisingly, what went beneath everyone's radar was how Filburt's faked marriage to Rocko was a homosexual relationship on paper.

Commuted Sentence[]

Rocko's car is seen at the car impound calling Rocko to bail it out, and as it does so, a truck behind it is laughing and stares back at it. When it cuts to Rocko on the phone back at his job at Kind of a Lot-O-Comics, squeaking noises can be heard through the phone, implying that Rocko's car is being raped. Later, the impound guard tells Rocko that his car got the name "Fancy Fenders", as a term of endearment.

Cruisin'[]

A flashback shows a younger Grandpa Wolfe whispering something into Winnifred Wolf's ear, which causes her to slap him in the face.

Hut Sut Raw[]

Rocko is shown picking what he believes are berries from a bush. A bear runs out of the bush in pain, clenching his crotch, implying that the "berries" were bear testicles. This scene was banned from reruns, and is also exempt on all DVDs. The scene is still shown in Canadian airings on Nickelodeon.
Filburt says "We can't drink that water" when Rocko asks why not, Filburt says that "Fish are dating in it."
There is a camper with a bumper sticker that says "Leave my guns alone or I'll kill you."

Born to Spawn[]

The title alludes to giving birth (not by humans, but by some other animals that lay eggs).
There's a beach called "Shell-less Beach", where shell less turtles were seen lying down in their underwear.

Uniform Behavior[]

Heffer literally rips off his uniform upon his job as a security officer drives him insane, streaking naked down the streets of downtown O-Town before being arrested for indecent exposure.

Hair Licked[]

Before Rocko and Heffer enter Filburt's trailer, several women leave (and all that's shown are their legs; they've also followed by what appear to be male rabbits). When Heffer comes in, he says, whilst blushing: "I spilled my puffies…"
When Filburt's taking pictures of Rocko that he can use for the newspaper, he says "Work with me, Rocko, give it to me, baby!" in a tone all too lustful.

Snowballs[]

Heffer relieves himself in the snow, spelling out his name with his pee.

Gutter Balls[]

Rocko, Heffer, Filburt, and Spunky are playing a board game where they spank a monkey's buttocks with paddles. This is a reference to "spanking the monkey," a euphemism for masturbation.
In the flashback scene, Ed remarks "I don't need two balls to win this one!" before he destroys the bowling alley, a reference to testicles.

Rocko's Modern Christmas!: Can't Squeeze Cheer From a Cheese Log![]

Mrs. Bighead orders Ed to close his robe at one point.
Heffer's leg falls off when he gets frozen while selling Christmas trees.
The cloud struggling to make it snow is played similarly to someone suffering from constipation.

Season 3[]

Bye, Bye Birdie[]

When Rocko is trying to find Turdy, the bird takes off Bev's bikini. Her response is "such a naughty bird".
Turdy's name is based on the term "turd", which is another word for feces.

Belch of Destiny[]

There's a flashback of how Heffer's father got his wife to marry him. There are suggestive sounds coming from the car, implying sex. It was actually just Heffer's dad making armpit fart sounds.

Rocko's Happy Vermin[]

A female caterpillar turns into a butterfly. Her boyfriend then turns into a screw, symbolizing that he got "screwed" over.

Nothing To Sneeze At[]

Ed's trying on of fake noses is portrayed as giving Bev an orgasm.

Ed is Dead: A Thriller![]

The ending sequence outside of the Bighead's house showing them moving in a risqué manner (as well as their dialogue) mimics sex.

The Emperor's New Joe[]

The Chameleon brothers tell Rocko a story of a small country called Balzack, an innuendo of the term "ball sack", which is slang for male testicles.
The Czar of Balzac (represented by Heffer) forces his citizens to listen to a song he sings where the only lyrics are "I love your butt".
Rocko walks past a fountain of a naked man who is built to look like he's peeing out the water.

Schnit-heads[]

The episode title is a play on the term "shit heads."
At one point, Rocko asks Heffer, "Is that a sausage in your pocket?", an obvious reference to an erection.
When discussing how to save Heffer from the cult, Filburt tells Rocko that "sausages are very seductive".
In general, most of the dialogue seems to be one penis gag after another.
The Schnit-Heads being a controversial group and having questionable interpretations of holy scripture are based on real world religious fringe sect cults, whose controversies stem from extreme exploitation of its members to promoting hysterical and zealous violence and even terrorism to promote their views and beliefs. By the time of Rocko's Modern Life, fringe cult activity had risen in belief of the coming of the second millennium being "the end of the world" or in line with end of the world prophecies inherent to their beliefs.
In consideration of the episode's themes, the Schnit-Heads's fanatical love of sausage may be a veiled reference to the vulgar swear word "cocksucker", which is sometimes used to insult individuals slavishly obedient to something.

Manic Mechanic[]

Rocko's car dies, and we see its soul floating away. Behind him, "HIV" is spelled on the wall. This could be a call back to the aforementioned joke in "Commuted Service".

Camera Shy[]

There's a scene where Filburt and Heffer record Rocko naked.
With some difficulty, the guys manage to buy all the tapes before they get out, but when they try to erase them, they discover one that isn't theirs. "Toads in Love" featuring the Bigheads.

Fortune Cookie[]

In one scene, Really Really Big Man is trying to discourage a bird from pooping on a statue by showing him visions of his future - an allusion to a "don't jump" suicide scenario.

Speaking Terms[]

Two of the audience members for Nosey are pigs with thick southerner American accents who claim that "wallabies and steers don't mix." Like the bigot in Rocko's Happy Sack, they refer to the phrase "racist pig", and their depiction harkens to American depictions of racists being backwater country dwellers derogatorily referred to as hicks, peckerwoods, or "good ol' boys" and being associated with outdated ideals like white supremacy and owning slaves of different races. Their appearance on Nosey is also evocative of more sensational daytime "trash talk shows" like Jerry Springer, where they would be allowed by right yet controversial displays of their views.

Wacky Delly[]

Rachel returns home to get her father's help with destroying the titular cartoon. When she gets there, Ed is chasing Bev around their living room, with Ed being inside a giant hamster ball and Bev giggling like a maniac and her eyes very dilated. The implication being the two of them are most likely stoned and are in the middle of some sex game - possibly a pun on "roleplay". To further support that, Bev doesn't even notice Ed's stopped chasing her and is still running around.
When Rachel is mobbed by the crowd of fans in front of Bighead Studios, some of them proudly proclaim they have parts of Rachel's shirt and clothing and one proudly states in disturbing glee they have a part of Rachel's scalp. This is based on actual real life abnormal and deranged behavior more diehard or fanatical of fans will display towards media celebrities and creators in popular awareness and stardom.
Wacky Delly and even I Have No Son! are rooted in real life scenarios of personal and inner lives of artists, and in Rocko's Modern Life's case, Joe Murray's and his creative team's difficulties and struggles with the show, specifically as animators and artists for a major corporation (like Nickelodeon). Wacky Delly in this instance is rooted in artist's dilemmas of pride over work one wishes to present and be known for being overshadowed by "lesser" works often, sometimes cynically, viewed by their creators as mere dayjobs and a paycheck. Murray, while with good memories and experiences, described working on Rocko's Modern Life as a "marathon with my pants around my ankles," and had worked on The Twisted Tales of Felix The Cat, a 1990s reboot of Felix the Cat that notoriously had a much more cynical and spiteful episode on Wacky Delly's topics in the face of its failing ratings, "The Fuzzy Bunny Show".

Tooth and Nail[]

The vision given by the dreaded 6th Step where Rocko chews on toes from hacked off feet in psychosis in a dumpster is suggestive of the worst case scenario of drug addict behavior, specifically those hooked on hard drugs and suffering from severe mental illness.

The Big Question[]

Dr. Hutchison's mother, the widow Hutchison, doesn't want a turtle and cat together, paralleling some people's disdain for any marriage that isn't considered "traditional" or "normal". For a harder answer, the widow Hutchison appears to be flagrantly racist.
Filbert had expressed concern that Dr. Hutchinson and her homecoming king had feelings for each other. To this, they both (and Rocko, who goes along without knowing why they are) begin laughing hysterically. It's never explained in the episode why they wouldn't be together, the implication is that the king is gay.

The Big Answer[]

Rocko and Heffer throw Filburt a bachelor party where they eat a bunch of ice cream, which is substituted for alcohol.
A supposed close-up of a woman dancing in shown, shaking her butt. We zoom out to reveal an ice cream man stirring a milk shake.

An Elk for Heffer[]

While Heffer and Elkie are seen on a canoe, a rabbit couple is seen rowing behind them as they enter the tunnel. When they exit, there are a number of young rabbits in the rabbit couple's canoe, implying that the rabbit couple were mating while rowing inside the tunnel.
When Heffer is told to go through his manhood rite of passage, he asks why can't Peter do it. He responds "I'm going out." George, Heffer's dad, suspiciously says, "Where are you going?" Cut to Peter in a tutu and ballet tights, grumbling, "Here we go again: judge, judge, judge."
George (Heffer's father) said they need to talk. Heffer asks, "Is this about the birds and the bees?" after George says "There comes a time in every man's life..." Heffer says, "Ohh, so it IS about the--" before his dad interupts him.

Season 4[]

Pranksters[]

The restaurant chain Stuff On A Stick and its slogan "Come stick your face in our stuff" can be interpreted in many ways.

From Here to Maternity[]

In the scene where Dr. Hutchison gives Filburt the egg that contains Missy Shellbach, Gilbert Shellbach, Norbert Shellbach, and Shellbert Shellbach, Heffer tells Rocko he loves him, a possible reference to sexuality.
One of the kids resembles Heffer with Filburt's glasses, which makes it look like Heffer and Dr. Hutchison had an affair.
The aforementioned rabbit in Road Rash is likely not a coincidence; the Easter bunnies let Rocko in after he convinces them he is a rabbit as well, saying "come on in brother". The Easter bunnies kidnap eggs away from their parents, which is evocative of large scale human trafficking operations by criminal organizations.

Wimp on the Barby[]

Rocko's childhood bully Dingo has reformed by joining a cult and hoping to "become one with the unicorn". An actual unicorn shows up in a van and both he and Dingo give a very excitable thumbs up to each other, alluding to an erection and suggesting they are in a very active sexual relationship.
Rocko's speech at the end of the episode after having punched Dingo in the face for his penance and unknowingly left him to the mercy of Heffer and Filburt (alternatively, with such a ruckus being loud and close enough to be heard indoors suggests Rocko deliberately ignores and lets them beat him up) appears to be purposefully contrived and rather mocking in a disguised tone about non-violence to be used in television shows, apparently to "appease" the censors; Nickelodeon's pride of being "by kids, for kids" was also known to be a contested point of aggravation for creators at the studio, working against them by also being a backdoor for censorship and instead catering to conservative parental influence as well as outdated broadcasting rules ("kid friendly" meant no resolution with violence no matter what and no "realistic" topics unless demanded by government) imposed upon animation by the Federal Censorship Committee upon the midway of the 1990s.

S.W.A.K.[]

A huge orange elephant named Wallace infers a homosexual relationship between Heffer and Rocko when Heffer reads an affectionate letter meant for a female wallaby mail carrier (Wallace's sister, Alicia) and expresses reciprocal feelings for Rocko.

The High Five of Doom[]

Filburt says "Nice melons" to a female grocery store employee who is standing by a display of watermelons. "Melons" is a slang term for breasts. In reruns, the employee is changed from female to male to tone the joke down.

Closet Clown[]

When everyone reveals their own secrets after learning that Mr. Bighead got a stint as a clown, Rocko says that he likes rainbows, causing all of the guests to attack him. Rainbows, for those who don't know, is a metaphor for homosexuality.
The episode itself is an allegory for homosexuality.*

*Note: While LGBTQ+ issues aren't seen as an inappropriate topic in the current day, and many children's cartoons from the 2010s and onwards (including Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling) have directly portrayed LGBTQ+ characters and situations, such content was extremely taboo for children's programming in Western territories when this episode aired and considered on par with the much raunchier content Rocko was known for alluding to.

Rug Birds[]

Filburt's dubious hobby of wig snatching is analogous to real life poaching, specifically of the feathers of protected bird species, but its more intrusive and invasive nuisance of an activity is akin to the deviant act of stealing sensitive clothing like underwear through panty raids or rummaging through celebrity belongings.
After the bald eagle throws out all his wigs and Rocko and Filburt throw them in the trash, a baboon takes two of the wigs and puts them on his butt. This could be a reference to a merkin (a pubic wig) or a mere balding analogy (since baboon butts are furless, and it's the female butts that display mating readiness)

Hypno-Puppy Luv[]

Under hypnosis, Rocko behaves like a domestic dog. Mrs. Bighead shaves him like a poodle and treats him like a dog. These are references to pup play and manscaping.
- Upon coming out of his trance (and obscuring his nudity with a turban), Mrs. Bighead doesn't recognize Rocko as her (now-missing) dog, but compliments him on his new shaved look.
Heffer orders a pair of X-Ray specs, which he ends up using on Rocko, Filburt and the Bigheads at the end of the episode.

Seat to Stardom[]

We can hear someone whistling at Rocko while he is just trying to put on some trousers.
Heffer ends up in a G-string at the end, barely concealing his nudity.
When Rocko is chased by the mob of fangirl birds through O-Town, a chair pops up during their chase shouting "Sit on me! Sit on me!" Though seemingly innocuous as a chair would want to be sat on by a celebrity for starstruck reasons, the chair may alternately be a stand in for more fanatical fetishists with affinity for celebrities that hit their turn ons.

Mama's Boy[]

Starting with this episode, Chokey Chicken has been renamed into Chewy Chicken, due to the original name being a euphemism for masturbation. Though the new name still sounds suggestive.
When partying with the roaches who invade and squat in his apartment, Heffer is made to down a bucket of "chicken bits", being a rather graphic container of raw unwanted parts and giblets of chicken after preparing them to cook, to impress his new "friends". This act is probably one of the few instances of realistic depictions of peer pressure and hazing on a show (typically peer pressure was poorly used in "very special episodes" revolving around drugs and promoting anti-drug use).
After losing his job and his home to the roaches, Heffer goes homeless, and explicitly undergoes many unfortunate experiences before finally caving in to go back home by request of his mother. Though some of the things he experiences are for farcical comedic dramatic effect, they may be suggestive of rather dark yet true to life terrifying situations that can happen to at-risk and vulnerable people:
- One scene shows Heffer goes down on a plane about to crash land; this may suggest that somehow, he reluctantly became a drug mule to gain easy money (drug mules tend to hide their contraband within their body, in their stomach or their rectum, and considering Heffer's digestive system this would make him a perfect patsy) and his traveling situation just got that much worse.
- Working hard labor at a farm suggests Heffer likely was sold into slavery on the black market at some point, and after, he is shown hanging on a meat hook in a slaughterhouse, suggesting his masters have found his use expired.
- Explicitly, Heffer is harrowingly shown to be robbed in a dark slum alley by a crook at gunpoint.
- Heffer later works on a chain gang in prison, meaning he did something desperate and criminal that got him sent to a tough maximum security facility.
- In one scene, Heffer is shown on a torture rack, meaning he was imprisoned abroad or was likely the victim of a serial killer/rapist.
- The montage of misery for Heffer finally ends in Heck, where Peaches is allowed payback for Heffer's misfortunes onto him, driving the point of how awful this period in his life really is. Those who have experienced the aforementioned situations and lived to recover and tell about it have usually summed up these periods in their lives in the phrase, "gone to hell and back", and for Heffer, quite literally.

Heff in a Handbasket[]

This episode quit airing for a while due to the content of Heffer selling his soul.

Characters[]

Spunky's name may be an innuendo, as while "spunk" is an innocent term in America, it is used in Australia to refer to an attractive person. Similarly, it is also British slang for semen - uncharacteristically for Rocko however, this connection may have been unintentional given that the show was not made in Britain, nor does it feature any major British characters.