"Who Gives a Buck" is an episode of the first season from Rocko's Modern Life. In series' production order, it is the second segment of the seventh episode of the first season, as well as the fourteenth episode overall.[1]
Summary[]
Rocko goes out shopping with his new credit card, but ends up charging for way more than he can actually afford.
Plot[]
When Rocko receives a new credit card, Heffer urges him to go on a shopping spree. Rocko finds out that he needs new stuff because his old furniture is crummy and worn out. Heffer asks Rocko if he can watch something on television besides the All Scottish Show. Rocko explains how he does not have enough money to pay for any cable channel besides the Scottish Show's broadcasting channel. Spunky sadly walks up to Rocko and shows him that his food dish has melted. Heffer confesses and tells Rocko that he "thought Spunky would like his food heated up".
Rocko receives a Conglom-O credit card Heffer suggested going to the O-Town Mall to buy things. When they arrived, they tried to find a parking spot and followed a guy all over to see where he's park and take his spot, only to be told that the guy was actually a little boy who was looking for his mom and got lost for years in the parking lot while looking for her. Afterwards, Rocko arrives in the mall and uses it to buy many brand new pieces of furniture, most notably a new, clean couch, an unbroken television set, and a fire hydrant dog bowl for Spunky. When Rocko moves everything into his house, he realizes that he went crazy and almost bought everything in the store. Rocko then receives a call from Conglom-O saying that the company wants its share.
Rocko's new furniture is taken away by Conglom-O as Rocko cannot afford everything he recently bought (in fact, the slogan on the repo truck says "Don't charge a dime if you can't pay on time"). Heffer brings a fire hydrant identical to the one Rocko bought for Spunky previously and explains that he could not stand it when he heard Conglom-O was taking his friend's new items away. Rocko asks Heffer what he used to buy the hydrant and Heffer tells him that he used the All Scottish Show's organ exchange program and traded one of his three stomachs for it.
Characters[]
Trivia[]
- This episode is another episode that contains blood. As Rocko keeps driving up the levels of the mall's very tall parking garage, Heffer's nose bleeds from the thin air.
Cultural references[]
- Rocko's nightmare of the shredded credit card's pieces transforming into several credit cards is a reference to the "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment from the 1940 film Fantasia.
- At the end of the nightmare, a demonic version of the dog bowl salesman eerily says, "Don't leave home without it", which was for a long time the slogan for American Express.
Innuendos[]
- This episode is known for the innuendo joke whilst Rocko is buying Spunky a new bowl. The weasel shopkeeper then says "Why don't you just jump in on our doggie-style bowl ride? Everybody on their hands and knees!" This in an Innuendo for Doggie Style which a person bends over, crouches on all fours, or lies on their abdomen, for sexual intercourse. More likely a Doggie Style Ride.
- The title is also an innuendo as it is a play on the phrase "Who gives a f***?"
- The All Scottish Show is an innuendo for "ass".
Quotes[]
- Rocko: Spunky, your bowl! It's... It's melted!
- Heffer: Gee, I thought Spunky would want his heart valve bits warmed up. Sorry, Rock.
- Heffer: Rocko, that's it! Plastic! The answer to all life's problems! You can charge now and pay later.
- Heffer: Wow. Many trees. (reading a sign) "Welcome to O-Town National Forest".
- Rocko: (reading another sign) "Enjoy nature's splendor."
- Rocko and Heffer: Ooooh... (gazing upon the Conglom-O Mall) Splendor.
- Old Lady: Son? Have ya found the car yet?
- Salesman: A dust bowl. His master's bowl. (I hope everyone remembered to flush!) Super bowl! Fish bowl! Finger bowl!
- Salesman: Go! Go, little fellow! Run! Run like the wind! Go find that special bowl the screams out your name... Stinky!
- Rocko: That's "Spunky."
- Rocko: A sad crying clown in an iron lung. I've always wanted one.
- Heffer: Ooh, velvet. Pre-Elvis even. A rare find indeed.
- Rocko: We don't need that stuff to be happy. A credit card can't buy what we have. All we need is this couch and each other.
- Spunky: (growls in disagreement)
- Heffer: I couldn't help myself. When I found out you were gonna lose everything, I went out and got the last one!
- Rocko: Heffer, you're a pal! But wait, you don't have any money. Hey! You didn't use credit, did you?
- Heffer: Heck, no. Only an idiot would use credit. I used this! (pulls out a card)
- Rocko: (reading card) "The All Scottish Show Organ Exchange Program"?
- Heffer: I sold my second stomach for cash!
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