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'''''Trash-O-Madness''''' is
▲'''''Trash-O-Madness''''' is a 1992 animated short created by [[Joe Murray (animator)|Joe Murray]], who, prior to this point, had made several independent animated shorts (including ''The Chore'' and ''My Dog Zero''), as well as a [[MTV]] ID, and it was the pilot episode for what became [[Nickelodeon]]'s [[Nicktoons|Nicktoon]], ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]''. During the series' first season, a new version of the pilot, that was extended for the purposes of including it as a regular episode, was produced. The new version was paired up "The Good, the Bad and the Wallaby." In addition, that episode featured an extended end credit sequence to accommodate the names of production crew behind "Trash-O-Madness". On February 7, 2012, the original pilot version found its way onto [[Shout! Factory]]'s season 2 [[DVD]] as a special feature. In ''[[Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day]]'', the second level is named after this episode.
==Plot==
=== Original cut ===
The sun rises over O-Town as Earl, a dog who escaped from
Downstairs, Rocko puts multiple piles of garbage while Earl sneaks around the house while peeking through the windows occasionally. Rocko plugs in his vacuum, the Suck-O-Matic, while Spunky stands in front of the sucking tube. It vacuums up everything in his nose, including screws, nuts, bolts, a small wedge of cheese, and a fish. The poor dog gets sucked up into the tube. Rocko realizes this, and hits reverse on the vacuum, inflating Spunky and bursts toward the ceiling.▼
In the kitchen, Rocko throws out any garbage in the fridge, such as a bone, a flat plastic-like surface with holes in it, and comes across a container that reads "Buy War Bonds". He opens it, revealing a slime smut ball being what's left in it, disgusting Rocko. He empties the container as the slime ball oozes out. Spunky examines it out of the trash can, and he barks at it. All the thing does is just squirt a black liquid-like substance.▼
▲Downstairs, Rocko puts multiple piles of garbage while Earl sneaks around the house while peeking through the windows occasionally. Rocko plugs in his [[vacuum cleaner]], the Suck-O-Matic, while Spunky stands in front of the sucking tube.
Spunky plays with the ball, but not before being caught by Rocko, and silently instructs the dog to spit that back out into the can. The dog hesitantly tries, not only to realize that it's also sticky, but while running out the window, the garbage men are coming closer. Rocko puts the rest of the trash out onto the now-huge pile of garbage. Spunky digs himself into the pile before Rocko carries it out to the trash-compactor, the Compact-O-Matic, which is in the kitchen. Rocko chooses either large, small, and decides on Chinese Take-Out Box size, and peeks under to see not only has it compacted the garbage, but his dog Spunky at the front as well. He notices the garbage men are getting even closer, and Rocko hurryingly attempts to carry the now-take-out-box-sized garbage out to the front lawn's trash bin, only to be jump-scared by Earl, causing his brain to literally pop out of his skull. He quickly shuts the door, and looks out the peephole. He nervously chips off his fingernails with his teeth.▼
▲In the kitchen, Rocko frantically throws out
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A battered Rocko emerges victorious and attempts to revive Spunky by kneading him into shape and inflating him, only for Spunky to wake up.
At night, Rocko takes a bath with Spunky, apparently able to take out the trash in time and expressed his gratefulness for Spunky's companionship, only to realize that Spunky had the slime ball in his mouth the whole time. The slime ball explodes after coming in contact with water.
==Production==
Joe Murray originally wrote "A Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic" as the pilot episode but the executives decided that [[Heffer Wolfe]] might be "a little too weird for test audiences." Murray, instead of removing Heffer from "A Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic," decided to write "Trash-O-Madness" as the pilot episode.
Murray co-produced the pilot episode with George Maestri, Marty McNamara, and Nick Jennings at Joe Murray Studio in Saratoga, California, United States. McNamara assembled a cadre of animators. Murray animated half of the pilot, and several San Francisco Bay-area animators such as Robert Scull, Maestri, Jennings, and Timothy Björklund animated the other half. Jennings created all of the production backgrounds.
Murray then hired a camera company. Once the plan fell behind schedule, Murray, Nick Jennings, and George Maestri modified a [[35
The team completed the film on schedule; the crew later expanded the film to 11 minutes for use in the series. Murray describes the animation of "Trash-O-Madness" as containing "variations in the Rocko models" and "a lot more stretch than usual" in the animation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.joemurraystudio.com/tv/rocko_factoid4.shtml|title=Joe Murray Studio - Little Known Rocko's Factoids|date=23 May 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523061442/http://www.joemurraystudio.com/tv/rocko_factoid4.shtml|archivedate=23 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.title14.com/rocko/contributors/murray.html|title=The Rocko's Modern Life FAQ - Joe Murray Interview|website=www.title14.com}}</ref>
==Differences between the original pilot and the Nickelodeon version==
* The music, sound effects, and some of the voices were completely different. Marshall Crutcher composed the music for the pilot,
* The pilot featured a completely different opening, that began with a photo album, showing Rocko through the years, and then showed clips from the pilot episode, along with sketches of Rocko with Ed and Bev Bighead, and Heffer. The Nickelodeon version, simply began with a
* Rocko was originally yellow, but was changed to beige
* The original pilot was 8 minutes long. In the Nickelodeon version, roughly a minute and a half worth of footage was added for, as stated above, the purposes of including it as a regular episode. An extended end credit sequence was also created to extend the length of the pilot.
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