Netflix is featuring a special of the 1990’s cartoon ‘Rocko’s Modern Life’, and in it Ralph bighead will become Rachel Bighead, a transgender male:
NBC NEWS – When Nickelodeon debuted “Rocko’s Modern Life” in 1993, the world met an immigrant Australian wallaby who found life in O-Town, a modern American city, overwhelming and confusing. In O-Town, everything is owned by the corporation Conglom-O, whose motto is “We Own You.”
Like some other early 1990s Nickelodeon cartoons like “The Ren & Stimpy Show,” “Rocko’s Modern Life” was noted for its veiled social commentary, anti-corporate themes, and adult-oriented jokes that sometimes veered into the indecent.
When the 45-minute special “Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling” drops on Netflix on August 9, the show will feature an even more modern storyline — a coming out tale of a transgender character.
The character who in the ’90s show was called Ralph Bighead — child of Rocko’s toad neighbors, Bev and Ed Bighead — is now named Rachel.
Nick Adams, Director of Transgender Media & Representation at the LGBTQ media advocacy group GLAAD, consulted on the show and spoke to NBC news about the process. Adams said he first began to work on the show in 2016 when producers reached out about a plan to include a transgender character.
“What I really liked about the story was that the transgender character Rachel, and the storyline about her, was not turning this episode into ‘a very special episode’ about trans equality,” Adams said. “The Rachel storyline was woven very well into the overall message of the special, which is that we all have to accept change, that there’s really nothing constant in the world except change.”
Hollywood just can’t help themselves. They have to push the transgender lifestyle as much as possible to make it seem normal and acceptable – especially to children. Which is why this is so bothersome.
They can’t just let kids be kids. They want them to think that the ‘tomboy’ phase they are going through isn’t really just a phase, but an emerging gender identity. They will wreck the lives of so many children with this garbage.
I get that Rocko’s Modern Life wasn’t necessarily just a children’s cartoon, that it featured adult humor, which may be why it was ultimately canceled by Nickelodeon after just four seasons. But that said, it’s still a cartoon and I expect that mostly children will watch it on Netflix when it comes out today.