yeah turn of this year is perfect. rocko doesn't get vulnerable with people often but i feel like sid seems so sweet and genuine he'd be like okay i guess i'll let my guard down with you and he would have been SO hurt and angry with the word for having that backfire on him. plus he lives in a post-sexuality world where his queerness probably has done wonders for his career and he would just be so frustrated with the machine keeping sid down although he'd never hold any of this against him, just like... hollywood why must you ruin things