Home Video Releases
Fans have requested that Nickelodeon produce a DVD collection of the series for years. Murray has often got e-mails from fans, and his top question was "When will Rocko be on DVD?" Prior to the official DVD releases, Murray stated that he had not heard of any plans for a DVD release and that there are several illegal DVD releases of the series sold on eBay. He commented, "But at least someone is trying to give Rocko fans what they want. Because Nickelodeon sure isn't doing it." Murray worked with his legal team to regain the rights, so that an official DVD can be released.
The first home video release of the series in the United States was in February 1995, when selected episodes were released on VHS by Sony Wonder. Sony Wonder used Rocko's Modern Life, alongside releases from Ren & Stimpy and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, as "leading brands" in order for the company to break into the market. Paramount Home Entertainment later re-released the tapes in 1997 and 1998.
In July 2008, Rocko's Modern Life was added to the iTunes Store as a part of the "Nick Rewind" collection, in four "Best of" volumes. Eventually, in August 2008, Nickelodeon joined forces with CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com Inc. group of companies, to make a number of animated and live-action shows available on DVD, many for the first time. The DVDs were published via CreateSpace DVD on Demand, a service that manufactures discs as soon as customers order them on Amazon.com. Rocko's Modern Life was available in two "Best of" collections, released September 5, 2008.
All four seasons are available in streaming format on Netflix.
In March 2011, Shout Factory announced that they were going to release Season 1 in an official box set on June 21, 2011. The two-disc set received relatively positive reviews, only receiving criticism for video quality and the lack of bonus features. According to Joe Murray's website, he has struck a deal with Shout! Factory to create the artwork for the Season 2 set and special features are still pending. Season 2 was released on February 7, 2012. Season 3 was released on July 3, 2012.
| Shout Factory Releases | Release Date | Discs | Episodes |
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| Season One | June 21, 2011 | Two |
Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic / Canned-(September 18, 1993) Carnival Knowledge / Sand in Your Navel-(September 26, 1993) Who's For Dinner / Love Spanked-(October 3, 1993) Rocko's Happy Sack / Flu-In-U-Enza-(October 10, 1993) Clean Lovin / Unbalanced Load-(October 24, 1993) Leap Frogs / Bedfellows-(October 31, 1993) No Pain, No Gain / Who Gives a Buck-(November 14, 1993) Jet Scream / Dirty Dog-(November 26, 1993) Keeping Up With the Bigheads / Skid Marks-(December 5, 1993) Trash-O-Madness: Edited version)-(March 15, 1993) Power Trip / To Heck and Back-(December 19, 1993) Spitballs / Popcorn Pandemonium-(December 26, 1993) Cabin Fever / Rinse & Spit-(1994) The Good, The Bad, and The Wallaby-(1994) |
| Season Two | February 7, 2012 | Two |
I Have No Son-(May 1, 1994) Pipe Dreams / Tickled Pinky-(October 2, 1994) The Lounge Singer / She's the Toad-(October 9, 1994) Down the Hatch / Road Rash-(October 23, 1994) Boob Tubed / Commuted Sentence-(November 6, 1994) Rocko's Modern Christmas-(December 22, 1994) Hut Sut Raw / Kiss Me I'm Foreign-(December 4, 1994) Cruisin-(January 26, 1995) Born to Spawn / Uniform Behavior-(February 2, 1995) Hair Licked / Gutter Balls-(February 9, 1995) Junk Junkies / Day of the Flecko-(February 16, 1995) Snowballs / Frog's Best Friend-(February 23, 1995) Short Story / Eyes Capades-(March 12, 1995) |
| Season Three | July 3, 2012 | Two |
Bye, Bye Birdie / Belch of Destiny-(October 1, 1995) The Emperor's New Joe / Schnit-heads-(October 15, 1995) Sugar Frosted Frights / Ed is Dead-(October 22, 1995) Fish-N-Chumps / Camera Shy-(November 12, 1995) Nothing to Sneeze At / Old Fogey Froggy-(November 19, 1995) Manic Mechanic / Rocko's Happy Vermin-(December 3, 1995) I See London, I See France / The Fatlands-(December 10, 1995) Fortune Cookie / Dear John-(December 17, 1995) Speaking Terms / Tooth and Nail-(December 24, 1995) Wacky Delly-(January 21, 1996) The Big Question / The Big Answer-(January 28, 1996) An Elk for Heffer / Scrubbin' Down Under-(February 11, 1996) Zanzibar / Fatal Contraption-(April 21, 1996) |
| Season Four | TBA | Two | Thirteen |
Paramount Releases
| DVD name | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
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| Best of... Volume 1 |
November 16, 2008 | 2 |
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| Best of... Volume 2 |
December 12, 2008 | 2 |
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| Best of... Volume 3 |
October 24, 2009 | 2 |
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