Well, sad to say life hadn't changed much for poor Rocko. He still was unjustly mistreated by various members of O-Town and still low on cash. One year it got so bad that he decided to do something about it.
"Oh Spunky, my job at the comic book store just doesn't pay enough." Rocko said sadly, looking for a better paying job in the classifieds. "And if I don't get a better job soon, we might get kicked out of our home."
Spunky, whimpering, just looked at his empty dog food bowl. In order to cut back Rocko stuck to having just two small meals a day, while Spunky only got one meal a day.
"Great, there's nothing better." Rocko frowned, tossing the newspaper to the other end of the kitchen table. "If I don't think of something soon, I'll have to end up shopping for a cardboard box to live in. Hey, wait a minute!"
Rocko ran upstairs until he reached the spare bedroom. The spare bedroom could also be called a bare bedroom, as it only had a bed and dresser in it.
"Of course, I can rent out this bedroom, maybe some extra cash from a tenant will help." Rocko snapped his fingers. "I'll have to spruce it up a bit though, at least get some curtains and a mirror."
The doorbell rang. Rocko went back downstairs and opened the door to find Filburt standing there with a glove and bat.
"Hey Rocko, how about hitting a few homers at the park?" Filburt smiled.
"Can't right now, I have to figure out how to spruce up my spare bedroom." Rocko shook his head. "I'm going to rent it out to help pay the bills."
"Good idea." Filburt nodded. "Hey I can help, Paula and I have some leftover supplies from when we renovated our house."
After they got married they moved into Dr. Hutchinson's house (Widow Hutchinson moved out) and put Filburt's trailer in the garage to use for camping trips. Filburt also switched to calling Dr. Hutchinson Paula instead of Hutch since she only used her old last name for business now. She went by Filburt's last name for everything else.
"Great, let's go get then!" Rocko smiled.
They went back to Filburt's house and got the supplies. Paula, having returned from taking the kids for a walk, helped out as well. The kids were now four, and were close to Rocko and Heffer, but no more than Norbert who originally thought that Heffer and Rocko were his parents. Filburt and Paula set him straight when he was three.
They all returned to Rocko's house and spruced up the spare bedroom. Filburt cleaned, Paula put up wallpaper, and Rocko hung the curtains and mirror. Gilbert, Shellbert, Missy, and Norbert played with Spunky during that time. When they were done, Rocko wrote an ad for the newspaper to print. Hopefully, someone nice would respond and help him out with his financial problems.
