Hardcore Chores is a stage in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, originating from Rocko's Modern Life. It was revealed on October 7th, 2022. It’s the home stage of Rocko Rama in both games.
Description[]
Hardcore Chores is a medium sized stage with one big middle platform (and a ceiling), and two smaller platforms. Being based on the 2019 Netflix special Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling, the stage takes place within Rocko's house as it is adrift in space. The players fight in Rocko's living room, with everything in the background floating to reflect the zero gravity. Players can hop outside Rocko's house onto two space rocks (one on each side of the stage) that slowly move up and down.
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Origin[]
Rocko's house as seen at the start of Static Cling
Hardcore Chores takes place between the events of Rocko's Modern Life and Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling. In the canonical finale of RML, "Future Schlock", a future Filburt tells his now-adult children the story of how Rocko and Heffer got marooned on a Conglom-O rocket while chasing a monkey, and once his friends return, alongside the monkey and its bananas, which had become sapient, they end up stranded again alongside Filburt when the rocket impales Rocko's house - Static Cling retcons this story somewhat, establishing Rocko as having been stranded since the 1990's instead of the future, with him returning to Earth in the 2010's after discovering that the remote that could launch them back had been planted on Heffer's butt for the last 20 years, confused by new technology; societal progress; and most of all, the cancellation of his favorite cartoon The Fatheads, leading him to seek out the show's reclusive creator: Rachel Bighead, who went by the name Ralph the last time anyone saw her, and convince her to revive the cartoon, all the while Conglom-O are working on their own shoddy CGI revival of the series to turn around their financial slump. After the success of Rachel's Fatheads reboot restores Conglom-O's corporate riches, the company's rocket returns to impale its skyscraper headquarters, marooning CEO Mr. Dupette into the sky and leaving the corporation's money vault falling onto the ground for the citizens of O-Town to share.
The appearance of the house on the stage, where the front is torn off, resembles a gag in "Keeping Up With the Bigheads" where the front of Rocko's house falls off while still on Earth, referencing the Buster Keaton movie Steamboat Bill Jr.
Trivia[]
- If Rocko is present on Hardcore Chores, Spunky will not appear in the background. This is because Rocko's Down Grounded, Mid Special and second idle animation involve Spunky.
Hardcore Chores in its earliest incarnation.
- Hardcore Chores was the first stage created for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, originating as a test stage for a very early prototype to show what the game could look like. The stage was designed by Ludosity developer Regnslöja, who had recently watched Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling at the time, being reused and refined much later by Fair Play Labs when Rocko was being developed.
- The design of the moon on the NASB2 version of the stage, with protruding pimple-like holes, comes from the episode "An Elk for Heffer". That same moon would appear later the same year (1996) in Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker.
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