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The Best of Rocko's Modern Life Volume 3 (2 Disc set)

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Rocko's Modern Life is one of my favorite cartoons from my childhood, it's strange, crude, clever, and absolutely hilarious.....and I would love to own the show on DVD, but I refuse to pay so much for sets that contain such little content. Right now we are in a golden age of TV on DVD, where you can buy full season sets of just about any show at very reasonable prices, so for Amazon charge $25 each for what amounts to only six full episodes worth of content is laughable. Also, what really perplexes me is that they are only doing this with the Rocko's Modern Life sets, not any of the other Nickelodeon "Burn on Demand" sets that they've released over the last year.

Let's use Hey Arnold! as an example:

Amazon is currently charging $35.99 for the complete first season of the show, and what does that get you? Well, that gets you all 20 episodes of the show's first season on four discs. That's right, you get more than 3x the amount of episodes for only ten dollars more than a single Rocko's Modern Life set. This proves that Amazon is willing to take a more reasonable approach to the pricing of these sets (similar examples could be used for Doug and Rugrats) yet they choose to adhere to charging such a ridiculous price for Rocko's Modern Life. Not only does this give the fans less content for more money, it also affects how long it takes for these sets to become available. Over the course of just over a year Amazon was able to release all 5 seasons (100 episodes) of Hey Arnold!, and in the same time frame only a season and a half of Rocko's Modern Life (roughly 18 episodes) has been released, and at the current pace of about 6 episodes per set it will take another 5 sets to finally get the entire series on DVD.

Until Amazon either lowers to prices of the current sets (I think $9.99 is more than fair for 6 lousy episodes of a TV show, even though iTunes is currently selling the same set for $5.99) or re-releases these with more episodes per set at a reasonable price, I will refuse to purchase these DVDs.

I totally agree with most of the reviews here. It's great to have Rocko's Modern Life on dvd but these " best of " releases are a bit much. These are only burn on demand episodes, no special features, no re-mastering, and the price for one best of dvd is like the price for a season one or season one part one dvd set that we are more use to seeing.

If they are already on volume 3 of these " best of " dvds it does seem logical they are selling and why not reward people who want whole season sets to finally put that out. You can leave these " best of " for people who only want to buy a few episodes. Just take a look at " The Real Ghostbusters " cartoon, there was about 3 volumes as well and finally Time Life released the whole damn series and I applauded them for that.

Some times these studios leave your head shaking, look what happened to Pete and Pete, all you have to do is visit that product page and see fans clamoring for another release. Look what happened to Amazing Stories, no second series, Ducktales, Gummibears, Rescue Rangers I could go on and on. Just how much sales justify releasing more series or season series for these studios?

Bring on Rocko Season sets, you the fans demand it!!, flood consumer division email boxes and mailboxes with your requests! Let your views be known.

**Update. Well since this review there has been a proper Season 1 dvd set put out by Shout Factory and it's under 20 dollars, also announced Season 2 coming early 2012! Those are the sets to get, stay far, far away from this MOD SET!!!

I watched these Rocko episodes when my Granddaughter, Danielle, was little. She is now in her third year of college! Now, I am getting the retro Rocko's to share with my Grandson, Hunter (age 7), who loves them. The main reason I purchased the DVD's was in the hopes of getting a particular episode featuring, "Philbert," the turtle. Rocko, Heffer, and Philbert were finishing their meal in a Chinese restaurant. They were opening their fortune cookies, when Philbert's fortune read the worst news possible (i.e., bad luck will follow you the rest of your days, type of fortune! Hilarious!! Not found on the first two DVD's. If I knew that Rocko's Volume 3 DVD had this episode on it, I would gladly purchase it as well.

Sandra

I am a huge Rocko fan and have the first two volumes. When i recieved the last volume (3) it advertised that there were "OVER 10 EPISODES", and to my suprise after loading up the discs and reviewing the episode selections i found out there were only 9 (10 at most if you consider "crusin" which is a two part installment, two episodes). On top of the false advertisment the last volume was the most expensive of all three! FYI volume one has 12 episodes on it and volume 2 has 14 episodes on it, so if you want to spend your money wisley only invest in volume one and two!

I made the mistake of purchasing "The Best of Rocko's Modern Life Volume 3 (2 Disc set)" a few years ago from Amazon and at the time thought it was great but now I wish I would've waited and saved some money... The whole first season cost less than these 12 episodes, so save some money and buy the first season Rocko's Modern Life-Season 1

Volume 3 did not include the Bloaty and Squirmy episode "Down the Hatch" or the Rocko and Heffer road trip episode "Road Rash" even though its clearly mentioned on the back in the description...

DISC 1
1.HAIR LICKED- Rocko has hair troubles before his picture for the O-Town newspaper.
2.THE LOUNGE SINGER- Filburt starts listening to motivational tapes and becomes a lounge singer.
3.SHE'S THE TOAD- Ed has a breakdown before a big proposal so his wife Bev decides to write the proposal and have Heffer and Filburt give it while disguised as Ed.
4.BOOB TUBED- Rocko wants to buy Mr.Sensible but mistakenly buys a whole new entertainment system.Heffer sits to close and has his brain sucked into it.
5.COMMUTED SENTENCE- Rocko's car gets impounded and he must find another way to work without being late again or he gets fired.

DISC 2
1.HUT SUT RAW- Rocko, Filburt, and Heffer go camping
2.KISS ME I'M FOREIGN- Filburt marries Rocko to keep him from being deported.
3-4.CRUISIN PART 1-2 Rocko and Heffer get stuck on a senior citizen cruise with Heffer's Grandpa.
5.BORN TO SPAWN- Filburt can't resist the call of nature and travels to the island to spawn.
6.UNIFORM BEHAVIOR- Heffer becomes a security guard at conglomo only to let the power he now has go to his head.
7.GUTTER BALLS- Ed will do anything to win the championship bowling trophy.

Show your support and buy it ^^

Its a little disappointing that they are releasing Rocko in 'best of' sets. But honestly Im just happy they are releasing it on DVD. I dont need extras, just having the episodes is good enough. I hope they continue to release more Rocko as well as other sets like Rugrats Season 3,4,5,etc.

Please dont stop mid season for these shows. We will take them any way we can!

Fans of the show, or similar shows will probly like this collection. However, it doesn't have any special features. If any of the episodes are censored, then a lot of stuff got past the censors. The DVDs and box are labeled as "Not Rated". Some of the content is not stuff you would want to show little kids.

I saw these and was so excited but then saw they weren't even full seasons!! Just best of with about 6 episodes on them! Lucky for me I check multiple things before purchasing things online. itunes has all three of these dvd and for $5.99 and Dvd. About $18 for all three dvds. Negative it takes up space on your harddrive but saves you some $$!

I just love this show.its one of my favorites, as is ren and stimpy. i love you amazon for giving us this awesome show on dvd. and the artwork for the dvds are just so great. please o please amazon, please come out with a volume 4 for rocko.who ever loves rocko, go get your self copys of these awsome show.i love rocko:)

Yo! I am so happy that another Rocko's Modern Life DVD has become available. This show is so funny with such original characters and situations. I intend to keep on buying as many sets of this show as Amazon comes out with, because the episodes get better and better.

I sure hope all the episodes will eventually make it to DVD, and also that more Nickelodeon shows come out too, like
Hey Dude,
Salute Your Shorts.
(more episodes of) Clarissa Explains it All,
(more episodes of) Pete and Pete

Yay for being able to purchase my old favorite shows!