Things I Learnt From Rocko

What's it like for a wallaby - more preferably, a cartoon one - to live on his own? More importantly, what's it like to work as a comic book store owner, AND as a therapist? You see, Rocko's a good therapist, and he taught me everything I need to know about patience, being sick and getting essentials. Here are a few things he taught me from his own experiences:

• Explore while you wait. They may be other people at the counter of T T Retro, but trust me, there are loads of good things to explore. At his comic book store, Rocko dresses up as a superhero named W.O Man, and encourages the kids who visit to be patient and look at all the awesome things for sale while they wait for their turn to buy and pay. So, Rocko, I'm taking your advice from now on. Good lad, Rocks!
• Only eat three. At McDonald's, only three things are enough. Three pieces of chicken nuggets. Small Chicken McNuggets are fine, but, yeah, even French Fries need some respect, and if you're too full to eat your brownie, then drink your Coke instead. Even Rocko was proud of me for refusing to eat a pork belly that my support worker was eating - see? He doesn't obey Henry Danger any day!
• Buy it somewhere else. So, if you can't actually buy Supercar and Narnia in T T Retro, buy it online instead! Sure, Supercar was available on the Gerry Anderson shop, but sadly...only the Narnia audio stories are available. So, I bought a Sun Wordsearch instead! I do wish Rocko told me that before I went on that online shop.
• Take the essentials. Oi, if you're going to have a headache, ask your support worker to get you a nice cool bottle of fresh water and you can take some paracetamol in case your head starts thumping like the heavy metal music in the room below Elsa's family room in The Bed & Breakfast Star.
• Ignore any audiobooks with miserable narration or which trigger bad memories. Mainly Starring Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. Ladies and gentlemen, from now on Starring Tracy Beaker is history, and no longer will you be able to hear Hetty Spaghetti!
• Save other works for later. When you have other, important stuff you want to do like stories or songs, make a Save For Later Jar. The jar should contain every single story you want to save for later, plus songs and scripts you want to do later also.

So thanks, Rocks. Even though your show is filled with the kind of gross out humor '90s kids want, it's still full of awesome surprises and cartoony twists and turns - you're a cartoon character. You can squash, stretch, do almost anything you want to do - except go onto Adult Swim of course.

See you next therapy session in O-Town!