Hello, good morning, and happy Saturday to all! It has been a minute since I last posted, but I’m ready to get back in action. And wow, top 10 titles I never would have written as a kid… this one. We’re breaking out of blog norms today!
I haven’t had as much time to write on my blog due to my work. It’s a good job, I work as a receptionist at a tax office. It’s a seasonal job, and since it’s tax season, there’s quite a bit of traffic as you can imagine. Heck, I even got my own taxes filed there this year. (It was a lot more intuitive than I thought, we were done within 15 minutes max!) But yeah, I’ve been getting a good amount of hours. I haven’t managed my time quite right yet in order to fit all of my hobbies into my free time, but I am working on it! Luckily, I have this weekend off, so I figured now was as good a time as any to begin writing again.
But onto the fun things, since I can’t talk about taxes for too long without absolutely boring the readers out! (I say that like I have any readers. Oh well, old habits die hard, I’m going to act as though there’s an audience even if no one’s reading or watching.) What’s with the “latest trends” in the title? Normally, I wouldn’t be about that. But amongst my TikTok doomscrolling about just how horribly the world is burning, I came across a little show that I ended up taking interest in, and that’s where we return to blog norms and begin talking about a cartoon.
I’ve talked about various cartoons on this blog before. Nothing can top the countless posts I have made about My Little Pony, I’ve written about Littlest Pet Shop a couple of times, even Nickelodeon shows such as The Loud House were not exempt. Truthfully, I have not been fully into cartoons since around that age. I rewatch ones from my childhood, but I don’t go out of my way to seek out new ones that I’ve never seen before. Call me picky, but cartoons really need to have something special about them in order for me to go out of my way to watch it. Whether that be a continuation of an old one, or based off an IP that I already enjoy. That said, unfortunately, this cartoon doesn’t fall under those categories at all. In fact, I’m not sure why I even like it at all.
The show is called Rocket Monkeys, and from the title alone you can deduce what it’s about. It mainly features the two rocket monkeys - Gus and Wally - going on wacky space antics that vary depending on the episode. They claim to be heroic, but they never actually do anything. In fact, most of the time, the villains of the show are bad because the monkeys messed their life up. It also features Yay-OK, a vaguely Gameboy-shaped robot that acts as the mediator when it comes to the monkeys’ shenanigans. I’ve compared a lot of this show to the ridiculousness of modern SpongeBob, although I don’t think that’s really a fair comparison considering I still have yet to watch a majority of that show. (Crazy right? A cartoon fan that isn’t that big on SpongeBob!)
The tone is mostly random and nonsensical, with humor that can range from dumb to flat out gross-out humor. It’s not something I could have ever imagined myself liking, but something about it just sucked me in, I suppose. My dad said it perfectly when he described it as “a train wreck you can’t keep your eyes off of”. This show is terrible, and I understand why a majority of its virality is merely clowning on it. However, in an age of AI generated shows and movies in development, I think it’s more important than ever that shows like this do exist. Human creation has inherent value by comparison, no matter how strange it may seem on the surface. That’s how I like to view it, anyways. I think I’d rather watch human-made slop than AI-generated slop any day.
Plus, Yay-OK is very cute! He is my favorite character in the show, as expected. I tend to really like robot characters, and he fit the bill pretty well. He’s the only character that seems to be level-headed, and perhaps it’s because of him that the monkeys haven’t gone completely off the walls yet. (Okay, maybe they have just a little bit. But they haven’t destroyed themselves yet.)
The show is long-since cancelled, with three seasons and one 45-minute movie special under its belt. It received some level of success during its time, mainly in Canada where the show was produced. It aired on Teletoon in Canada in January 2013, and Nickelodeon/Nicktoons in the US in March that same year. It ended in 2016, so that means this show was airing during the time I was actively watching Nickelodeon. I find it bizarre that I had never seen or heard about it before, although I only had the regular Nick channel, not Nicktoon. It’s possible that by the time I started watching Nickelodeon shows, it had already been pushed to the less popular Nicktoon channel. I can only assume that’s what happened, but even as a kid I feel like I would’ve found it pretty annoying and not worth watching. I’m still confused on why adult me thinks it is worth watching, but oh well, some things you just can’t explain.
I’m not sure what else to write here. I will probably swallow some shame and work on a Rocket Monkeys based story later on. I have a feeling that if by some miracle, younger me watched the show and liked it, she would have written a story about it and posted it onto this very blog. So, I guess I’m honoring that hypothetical. We’ll see about it though, I tend to take way too long writing nowadays. I could just replicate my old style of writing, that’s always a possibility. Again, we’ll see.
I hope you all have a good weekend, remember to prep for the weather accordingly! (It’s been all over the place lately. I blame the AI data centers… yes, I do blame a majority of problems on AI, how could ya tell? I hate it that much.)
See you next time on Bella’s Pink Planet!
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BYE!
