Hollywood has reboot fever and Nickelodeon , the web responsible for for 80 % of your puerility memories , is no exclusion . Nick already has aHey Arnold!TV movie in the works , along with aIndiana Jones - style take onLegends of the Hidden Temple . Now we can add one more task to the mix : an update of the animated sitcomRocko ’s Modern Life .
Thursday , the twenty-fifth day of remembrance of Nick ’s first liveliness mental block , the internet announced an original one - minute TV special , withRocko’soriginal creator Joe Murray on board as executive producer . According to a imperativeness release , the newRocko ’s Modern LifeTV special will " bring back all the show ’s classic characters and extend some surprising new takes on living in O - Town . "
Rocko ’s Modern Lifeholds a topographic point in many a millennian spunk . Off - kilter , anneal , and overflowing with psyche guck , the serrated series thrived in Nick ’s creator - drive brio utopia . It did n’t look like anything else on TV then , and it certainly does n’t now .
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If Nick ’s secure enough to reviveRocko’sparticular brand of peculiar , can we evoke a few more display that totally merit the reboot intervention ? We have a go at it they ’ll never happen – let ’s face it , there ’s a limit to nostalgia - vs.-commerce – but we can woolgather .
You Can’t Do That on Television
What it was : A kid sketch show that made firing squads funny , introduced us to Alanis Morissette , and floor more unripened slime on the head of children than parents could possibly have been well-off with . Why it ’ll never come back : We ca n’t see Nick revert back to Canadian imports for its programming , rent alone for clowning that would get modern unproblematic schoolers sent to the lead ’s office .
Welcome Freshmen
What it was : First a sketch show , then a sitcom , all set inside a in high spirits school . Saved by the Bellfor cynics . Many fart joke . Why it ’ll never amount back : former ' 90s Nick display had a base streak , andWelcome Freshmenwas the meanest . totally , blissfully unaccepted with hazing becoming a headline - worthy American issuance .
Hey Dude
What it was : A sitcom about a New York divorcée who buys a dude cattle farm with horny teenagers for employees . Starring Christine Taylor ofZoolanderfame . Why it ’ll never amount back : permit ’s front it , Salute Your short ' cantonment setting is a thousand sentence more sellable than a dude ranch .
Wild & Crazy Kids
What it was : A sports series where playground secret plan became large - squad competitions . TheBraveheartof Nick biz show . Hosted by Cuba Gooding Jr. ’s brother Omar . Why it ’ll never come back : The show looked like a promotional picture for a day camp ( the good day camp of all time , but still , a day camp ) . This is the Golden Age of Television ! The weensy 1 need production time value . Gutswill come back looking likeGame of Thronesbefore aWild & Crazy Kidsreboot .
KaBlam!
What it was : A cartoon anthology featuring action soma stop - movement and Jack Handey - like interstitials . Why it ’ll never come back : YouTube creations killed any chance of aKaBlam!revival . OK , the stoner position to kids comedy drink down any chance of aKaBlam!revival , but the digital geological era hammered the last nail into the coffin .
Space Cases
What it was : Nick ’s answer toStar Trek . declare oneself yarn of serialisation before it was nerveless . Costarring a pre - FireflyJewel Staite . Why it ’ll never come back : Too expensive for a one - off TV motion picture , too nerdy for a full serial publication ordination , too cult for the nostalgia to burn bright enough .
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
What it was : Murder She Wrotestarring a Formosan - American teenager . The Karate Kid ’s Pat Morita as a wise old grandfather . Why it ’ll never add up back : Despite airing regularly on Nick ’s throwback net The Splat , we do n’t see this ripe detective serial pass water a comeback unless Nick confuse it to CBS and add together " CSI " to the title .
Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra
What it was : A fantasy serial and its sequel , arrange in a warfare - rupture world where part of the population can bend natural factor . Why it ’ll never issue forth back : M. Night Shyamalan have intercourse up the picture show version ofThe Last Airbender . Then Nick bungled the handout of the advanced , provocative stick to - up serial , finally yanking the final time of year from TV and dropping it all on its digital platform . There ’s good deal of elbow room for the Avatar macrocosm to expand – actual talk : it ’s as or more dense thanGame of Thrones– but unless Netflix swoops in to save it , line may prevent this one from rebooting down the road .
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