Rocko joins the 21st Century in Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling trailer

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Time displacement can be a nasty business, especially if you find yourself thrust into a new era when technology has advanced beyond your understanding. It's true. If you don't believe me, I ask that you consider the case of Sylvester Stallone's John Spartan of DEMOLITION MAN fame. In addition to physical sex being replaced by sensor-based VR, the cop out-of-time was also meant to learn how to wipe his ass using the Three Seashells. I think what I'm getting at here is that sometimes the future can be scary, and if you don't adapt with the times you risk being left behind.

Speaking of having to adjust to modern times, Netflix has debuted an official trailer for ROCKO'S MODERN LIFE: STATIC CLING, an animated feature film that finds Nickelodeon's wacky Australian wallaby and his friends being ripped from the '90s and dropped into the 21st Century. Once there, the group will be forced to confront an era when technology rules the strange streets of O-Town.

Here's the official plot synopsis:

After being in space for around 20 years, Rocko and his friends attempt to conform to an even more modern life in O-Town, where coffee shops are on every corner, food trucks offer multi-layered tacos, touch-screen O-Phones are being upgraded on a near-constant basis, an instant-print kiosk has replaced Rocko's old job at Kind-of-a-Lot-O-Comics, and radioactive energy drinks turn their consumers into mutants.

Created by Joe Murray, produced by Nickelodeon, and co-written by Murray, Doug Lawrence and Martin Olson, ROCKO'S MODERN LIFE: STATIC CLING will catapult the beloved series into a contemporary setting, when the worrisome wallaby and his friends must adapt to a society transfixed by O-Phones and other new-fangled gizmos. With mutants running amok and O-Town being gentrified to keep pace with an energy drink guzzling, selfie-obsessed populace, there's a good chance that Rocko will lose what's left of his marbles before being able manage modern day mundanity.

Directing the feature are Joe Murray and Cosmo Segurson, with additional writing being contributed by Serguson, Dan Becker and Tom Smith.

What's old will become new again when ROCKO'S MODERN LIFE: STATIC CLING arrives on Netflix come August 9.