"Cabin Fever" is an episode of the first season from Rocko's Modern Life. In series' production order, it is the first segment of the thirteenth and final episode of the first season, as well as the twenty-fifth episode overall.[1]
Summary[]
Rocko and Heffer end up sharing a cabin with the Bigheads.
Plot[]
Ed and Bev Bighead go on vacation to a mountain cabin. But when they get there, they discover that Rocko and Heffer have also rented the same cabin. Ed tries to substantiate the fact that he rented the cabin for the weekend on July 4, only for Rocko to remind him that it's January. Despite this, however, Rocko agrees to share the cabin with the Bigheads, much to Ed's annoyance. As the other three play outside, Ed watches in frustration and plans to run Rocko and Heffer out of the cabin.
He attempts to heave a large snowball at them from the top of the mountain while the two are making a snowman below, but it rolls pass them and lands on Ed after it rolls off the other side of the mountain. Ed gets into a snowball fight with the two and accidentally tosses some at a bear, who subsequently punches him out, knocking out all his teeth in the process. During the night, Rocko, Heffer, and Bev play shadow puppets and when Ed joins in, the others are too obtuse to guess what they are. So in a fit of pique, Ed attempts to leave, shouting out, "How can I rest when I have to spend my weekend with those two PINHEADS?!" At which point, his echo elicits an avalanche, which traps the four inside the cabin.
The next day, Ed tries to call for help, but the phone is dead. The four watch the news explaining the snowed-in cabin with them inside. Ed tries to call for help to make the rescuers with the metal detector hear his cries, but to no avail. While Rocko, Heffer, and Bev are playing poker, Ed then uses a phone and a microwave to make a radio transmitter to call for help. But the speaker mistakes him for a customer ordering food and soon, Ed becomes infuriated and overloads the radio transmitter, causing it to explode in his face.
Without taking a second thought, Ed impetuously attempts to dig through the snow himself. Later that night, while the other three tell scary stories, they open the door to find a frozen Ed pressed against the door and attack him, mistaking Ed for the "Abdominal Snowmonkey" (as Heffer calls it in his story). Later, the three circle around an unconscious Ed, who starts getting hallucinations and sees the three as devils. When he finally regains consciousness, he goes insane and invents a cannon, which he expediently fires himself out of, freeing him from the cabin. Later, Rocko, Heffer, and Bev have been rescued out of the cabin, while Ed is trapped on a deserted island with two stranded pelican sailors.
Characters[]
Trivia[]
- When Rocko, Heffer, and Bev are playing poker, Rocko and Heffer have removed their clothing and set them on a table, implying that they are playing strip poker.
- The news reporter and search-&-rescue squad didn't see the clearly protruding chimney sticking out of the ground.
- The Abdominal Snowmonkey is a reference to the Abominable Snowman.
- Mr. Bighead somehow makes shadow puppets of Rodin's The Thinker and the Eiffel Tower.
- The pelicans playing charades on the island Mr. Bighead ends up on guess Lord of the Flies and Harold and the Purple Crayon.
- This is the last episode to use the original theme song. Starting with Season 2 onwards, the theme song was re-arranged by Pat Irwin and performed by Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson, members of the B-52's.
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