

On his website Murray said, "He was always yellow to me." Murray said that the company later backed out of the commitment and did not create the plush series. Murray fought the changes with the Nickelodeon executives in the end the executives insisted on changing the color, so Murray changed the color to beige and disliked the choice.

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One month before the first episode was submitted to the animation studio in South Korea, Murray changed the color when a toy company wishing to make Rocko plushes refused to license the character after citing that Rocko looked too similar to a yellow character used in one of the company's existing products. In the original pilot for Rocko's Modern Life, the animators colored Rocko yellow instead of light beige. Murray added that the personality of a wallaby mirrored Rocko's humbleness and his tendency to keep his frustrations to himself instead of publicly complaining about them. Afterwards Murray made substantial changes to Rocko. Murray wanted to get his comic into syndication. He'd be like the everyman who's affected by the dramatic personalities around him." Rocko would be at the center of the hurricane of everything swirling around him. After the event, Murray said that "t kind of clicked. Joe Murray, creator of Rocko's Modern Life, believed that the personality of a wallaby suited Rocko after observing a zoo wallaby "minding his own business" while elephants and monkeys "screamed for attention". Rocko first appeared in a never-released comic, where he has the name "Travis". According to Murray, this led to the development of Rocko's character. Joe Murray said that as he visited a zoo, he encountered a real-life wallaby that was "minding his own business" while elephants and monkeys "screamed for attention".
