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  • One character, Gordon, is a foot with a face on it. He's actually the missing foot of the Hopping Hessian (the Headless Horseman expy.) The Nostalgia Critic's reaction says it all.
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The Nostalgia Critic: AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH!

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    • And one is named Captain Compost Heap.
  • "YOU PUT ME IN A JAR?!" What. The. Hell.
    • Earlier in the episode, Rocko ends up in a room full of sentient organs in jars yelling "Don't cut us!"
    • Rocko's appendicitis is initially represented by a red bump on his stomach throbbing. What the fuck. This apparently scared some kids in The Nineties, and made them think if they ever got appendicitis, that would happen to them.
  • The episode in which Heffer choked on chicken and Rocko had to enter his body to find his heart and restart it. Of course, Heffer's insides were as creepy as could be, and his heart was a realistic heart. Fetish Retardant for those with endosomatophilia (at least if you're not part of the Furry Fandom...)
  • The end of the "Fortune Cookie" episode really screws with a young mind. Everything breaks, while Filburt goes insane screaming that he's "MR. LUCKY!!" And then the screen breaks.
  • "Sugar Frosted Frights" really did a good job of being surprisingly unnerving for a kids' show. Especially Filburt's sugar high, which pays homage to the "Night on Bald Mountain" scene from Fantasia, showing Filburt as a winged demon demanding more candy! Rocko and Heffer are understandably terrified.
    • Aunt Gretchen being in a containment tube. Why she was put in there and what her real face looks like are both unknown, and perhaps, should remain that way.[1]
    • How about when the gang and the Hopping Hessian were laughing over the photos of their encounter, then suddenly... they wonder who was taking them?
  • The episode "Who's for Dinner" had Heffer's house which was a family of wolves who were carnivores. Carnivores who are eating what is obviously completely sentient food. Rocko opens up a mirror in the bathroom, which reveals three pigs tied up and gagged, and Rocko responds by merely closing the mirror to leave them to their fate.
    • There's also the room full of girls who look like Red Riding Hood. Even worse, you know that's someone's fetish.
    • Rocko slammed the mirror shut on obvious impulse and looked horrified at what he saw, which doesn't seem to fall in line with someone "leav[ing] them to their fate." He could, y'know, open it back up again.
  • Most of "Ed is Dead," where Rocko suspects Mrs. Bighead murdered her husband in an obvious spoof of Psycho.
  • "Power Trip" gives us a scene where Filburt is bound to a chair by Rocko, who looks like his boss Mr. Smitty, but with really creepy orange eyes. He doesn't even look a wallaby; more like a deranged grey kangaroo. Earlier in the episode, after pushing the green button on Mr. Smitty's chair (which he specifically was warned not to touch) Rocko opens his eyes which reveals red spiral eyes!
    • That episode as a whole has some parallels to real-world situations: the nicest of people can be driven insane when in positions of large power. And usually, they don't get called out.
    • Really Really Big Man's nipples coming into play.
  • Anytime Rocko threatens to do something "NOT NICE!" especially if it's your first time seeing this happen. The Demon Head he gets in "Rocko's Happy Sack" (the animation of which being re-used, albeit with a few changes, for Rocko firing Filburt above in "Power Trip") especially. The first time this troper saw it, it was late at night (I was watching on Nicktoons TV) and when it happened, I just about froze in fear.
  • The scene in "Day of the Flecko" where Rocko sucks in Flecko's eye while he's sleeping, so Flecko goes into his nose to retrieve it. THAT'S JUST GROSS! Other bugs were apparently in there... GAG!! This troper legit threw up because of it. Thankfully, the show apologizes by having Rocko sneeze Flecko and the eye out in a rare case where a sneeze is adorable.[2]
  • Though I could probably be thinking too hard, how abusive Gib Hootsen is to his own nephew Rocko in "The Good, The Bad, and The Wallaby." I mean, he laughs at Rocko failing at roping and getting chewed up and spat out by Jezebel in a flashback; then when Rocko and Heffer actually visit him, he slams the door open on Rocko and proceeds to yell at him when he tries to tell him he did so; and later picks up a cowpie and throws it at Rocko. Adult Fear.
  • How could we forget Mr. Bighead's hallucination of Rocko, Heffer, and Mrs. Bighead as devils in "Cabin Fever?" We see Rocko asking Mr. Bighead if he's okay, followed by, from his perspective, a horribly drawn-out scene of red-tinted, demonic versions of the three with psychopathic swirling eyes laughing in what looks like Hell, taunting the poor toad, accompanied by a digital droning noise that would better fit Swayzak than in a Nicktoon. This troper was listening to the episode on an audio stream of classic Nickelodeon programming and even without the visuals, it's still terrifying! Even worse, if you look at Rocko, you can see he has his infamous eyes from "Power Trip."
  • The entire "Uniform Behavior" episode, which is a shout-out to The Shining. Especially when Heffer meets the ghosts who've been haunting Conglom-O "forever," in true homage to the little girls scene.
  • In "Fish 'n Chumps," the captain of the boat the gang is on takes his sunglasses off, revealing he has pegs in both his eyes!! Even the characters are freaked out! However, Heffer later pretends to be him by putting fishing bait balls in his eyes, which is pretty funny.
  1. It's basically the same deal as another character from another subversive '90s cartoon.
  2. Another case would be Miyuki's sneeze in Lucky Star.
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