Anvilicious: The Boom! Studios comic book leans towards a rather overbearing anti-consumerism and anti-corporations angle in its final arc, with Conglom-O depicted as a bunch of greedy jerks who can't stop manipulating people into buying their useless products until they're poor, the consumers retaliating to the CEO of Conglom-O's being tricked into publicly calling them easily manipulated idiots by burning down Conglom-O, the entire town descending into anarchy because of this, and all the chaos apparently being depicted as a good thing.
Rocko breaks his car, and all seems hopeless.until he notices a "Broken/Fixed" switch on the engine.
Ass Pull: Played with in "Manic Mechanics".
Was Smitty trying to save Rocko from a fate much like his because he wanted Rocko to remain a good person, or did he simply not want to return to work and find out he could no longer bully Rocko?
In "Power Trip", Smitty's warning to Rocko was to not push the green button, which transforms whoever's sitting in the chair into a rude, abusive, Bad Boss.
In "Kiss Me I'm Foreign," was Filbert taking his roll as Rocko's fake wife too seriously, or was he just playing it up because he knew the department of immigration would be watching?.