Just For Fun / Meet the Fatheads

Meet the Fatheads is a Show Within a Show on Rocko's Modern Life created by Rachel Bighead.^note Credited at the time as "Ralph"

It stars Mr. and Mrs. Fathead, a happily married couple who engage in wacky antics such as whacking each other with their trademark parking meters.

Word of God says that the two were modeled off of her parents. The series ran for a successful 893 episodes before ending and being replaced with a Spiritual Successor called Wacky Delly.

20 years later, Rachel revived the show for a one-off special that not only saw the return of Mr. and Mrs. Fathead but also saw the arrival of a baby Fathead. Originally, the plans were for Leon and Chuck Chameleon to direct the special using modern computer-generated animation, but these plans were scrapped after a disastrous test screening, and Rachel Bighead was instead hired to oversee the project.

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Contains examples of:

• Accidental Misnaming: The maitre d' introducing the show gets beaten with a parking meter by Mr. Fathead for erroneously referring to the couple as the Boneheads.
  Mr. Fathead: It's the Fatheads, you dolt!
• All Animals Are Dogs: The Fathead's pet fly acts just like a small dog, walking on a leash, and sometimes getting a bit too affectionate with Mr. Fathead.
  Mr. Fathead: Get this flying disease OFF MY HEAD!
• Amusing Injuries: The characters constantly hurt other people or each other, and it's hilarious!
• Anthropomorphic Food: Melon Man is a man made out of watermelons.
• Aside Glance: The characters often turn and smile at the camera when they deliver a punchline.
• Berserk Button: Do not smash Mr. Fathead's eye. You will anger both him and his eye elf.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Mr. and Mrs. Fathead have a pet giant fly whom they walk on a leash like a dog.
• Cartoon Creature: The titular couple look like slimy green things. They were modeled off of the parents of the creator, who were toads.

• Deliberately Monochrome: The backgrounds are all black-and-white.
• Deranged Animation: The intro shows a cage crashing onto people, and leads to the Fatheads beating each other up with parking meters.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mr. Fathead can be one.
  Mrs. Fathead: Guess what I got?
  Mr. Fathead: A lobotomy?!
• The Ditz: How stupid is Rollo, exactly? He doesn't know how to use his hands. He knocks by bashing his head against the door.
• Eye Scream: In one episode, Mrs. Fathead whacks her husband in the head, causing his eye to literally shatter like glass.
• Full-Name Ultimatum: Mrs. Fathead exclaims "Edward Elias Fathead!" when she catches her husband eating a girl scout that tried to sell him cookies.
• Gonk: Rollo, even by the standards of this series, fits this trope to a T.
• Grossout Show
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mrs. Fathead. Mr. Fathead is debatable, though.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Rollo is the nicest, most polite character in the show. He's also, by far, the densest.
• The Klutz: Rollo is an idiot who slams his head into everything, and of course, messes up the Fatheads' cheesecake.
• Large Ham / No Indoor Voice: Both characters, but especially Mr. Fathead.
• Laugh Track: This one is different in that instead of a whole crowd of people, you hear one man laughing insanely in the background. Somehow that makes it funnier.
  • It gets even better when we learn that the lone deranged laugher is Heffer.
• Long Runner: In "Wacky Delly", we find out that it ran for 893 episodes.
• Made of Explodium: In one episode, Mrs. Fathead buys some melons from Melon Man, which explode in her and Mr. Fathead's faces.
• No Name Given: The Fathead's pet fly, who just stands there on a leash.
• Noodle Incident:
  • The beginning of Rollo's introductory episode. How did Mrs. Fathead get her feet in Mr. Fathead's nostrils? And what was that "bake sale" Mr. Fathead was talking about?
  • In the same episode, when Mrs. Fathead offers Rollo some cheesecake, Mr. Fathead yells, "Don't give him anything!" as if she's tried giving Rollo food before.
• Our Elves Are Different: Mr. Fathead is revealed to have an elf living in his eye in one episode. Of course, the elf grows extremely irate when his eye is smashed.
  Elf: Somebody's gonna pay for that glass!
• Pig Man: Two appear at the beginning of the opening theme, only to be crushed by a falling cage.
• Remember the New Guy?: Rollo, whose only introduction in his debut episode is Mr. Fathead referring to him as an annoying neighbor.
• Scout-Out: The girl scout who gets eaten by Mr. Fathead in one episode.
• Simpleton Voice: Rollo is an idiot who talks in an exaggerated Australian accent.

• Verbal Tic: Rollo has an Australian accent, and thus, as part of the common stereotype, ends all of his sentences with "mate".
• Would Hurt a Child: In one episode, a girl scout walks up to Mr. Fathead and asks him if he would like to buy some cookies. Mr. Fathead responds by snatching her up in his jaws and chewing her up. You can even hear her bones crunching! Thankfully, Mrs. Fathead pulls her out, and she's okay.

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