I just got two DVD's and watched the first with my son tonight. At first he didnt want to. He decided from the name that it would be about a bunch of froggies who live on a rock.
Then when I told him about some of the characters... He asked what the Fraggles look like "Do they wear ragged clothing?"
At the end of the first episode "Wow! This is MUCH better than I thought it would be!"
I was a big Fraggle fan as a kid. Who else?
-Mimi
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
I always pretend I was to fit in with all the cool people who watched the show. I'm sure I've seen it once or twice, I certainly remember the "Down in Fraggle Rock!" do do do "Down in Fraggle Rock!" in the theme song. And something about a cat and living under some dude's floor.
Who am I kidding, I've got nothing.
Posted by Zamphyr (Member # 6213) on :
mmmm, doozer buildings :drool:
Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :
I loved it! I am so glad its on dvd! I'll have to go get it so I can watch it with my kid. I loved Madame Trash Heap. Back then my room looked like that so I guess I felt she was a kindred spirit! Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
YAY! I loved Fraggle Rock, especially Mokey. She was my favourite!
Posted by Choobak (Member # 7083) on :
Yes !!! I have some episodes. I remember the time when i was kid (around 3 or 4 : In France it appear in 1982-3 and i was born in 1979). I love it a lot ! This muppets show is incrusted in my head for a long long time... as movies like Dark Cristal...
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Me too, Cyberdan. I can rember having it on the tv, and I remember watching it a couple of times, but I don't really remember the show at all.
Ni!
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Fraggle Rock was about the only thing worth watching on HBO back in the early 80s.
Especially notable for being the rare Muppet production in which the most memorable female characters (Red and Mokey) were actually played by real life women (Karen Prell and Kathryn Mullen)...and managed to be an uneven mix flaws and bright points just like the best Muppet characters.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I liked Not Necessarily the News back then, too.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
I was only seven, so I wasn't interested in more adult comedy stuff. Posted by Uhleeuh (Member # 6803) on :
I love Fraggle Rock. I have a VHS still, full of the show, that I watch every once in a while. I guess I should look into those DVDs though...
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Madame Trash Heap? I think I need to see this! I must be too old or something because all I remember is the name of the show and that it was done by muppet people. *gets out Google*
Posted by bunbun (Member # 6814) on :
I love any show that involves felt creatures with spindly airborne filaments rambling over thier heads. Therefore, Fraggle Rock is in my opinion, muppetasticky fun.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Kom og syng en sang! (klapp-klapp) Leke gjør vi dagen lang! (klapp-klapp) Vi er godt i gang! (klapp-klapp) I vårt Fraggelberg!
Now, if I re-translate the other way, I get
Come and sing a song! (clap-clap) We will play the whole day long! (clap-clap) We have started well! (clap-clap) In our Fraggle Mount!
So how close is this to the original?
Posted by RackhamsRazor (Member # 5254) on :
I can't believe this. I signed on to Hatrack just to make a thread asking anyone if they remembered Fraggle Rock because I had just bought the DVD's. Hehe. YAY FRAGGLE ROCK!
...dance your cares away...worries for another day...
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I alluded to the deep deep dark dark deep dark pit once and had everyone at Sakeriver wracking their brains for the source of that oh-so-pervasive nostalgia.
I'm trying to remember the name of the boy fraggle who was always doing his laundry...
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Boober!
You know, one of the most beautiful episodes of the series was the one where Red and Boober were trapped in a cave-in...and it seemed very possible that they would not be able to be rescued in time.
Boober...hypochondriac, gloomy, boring Boober helped Red cope and not give into panic and despair.
(They survived, of course...but it's rare that a children's series addresses such a difficult topic. Let alone so well.)
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
I loved Fraggle Rock! I only remember the last few seasons because I was really young, but they are fond memories!
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
While The Muppet Show remains Jim Henson's masterpiece to me...one can really see a lot of his heart went into Fraggle Rock.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
The acronym LM is still used by our family. (Large Marvin)
What was the deal with those little things that built the crystaline structures?
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
The Doozers see building the same way others see breathing.
They also fulfilled a key role in the FR food chain.
[ March 05, 2005, 07:41 PM: Message edited by: Puffy Treat ]
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I loved Fraggle Rock!
I remember the one where the underground was dying...even Madame Trash Heap couldn't give any advice. I think it was due to the old man moving away or something...
And the main Fraggle dude as a last attempt left his uncle's postcards out for the old man to find...and he finally realized that there was something going on under his house.
Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
I think we had a Fraggle Rock thread a couple of years ago. I am a huge fan. I always loved Travelling Uncle Matt - I thought it was hilarious that that was his name. I also loved how frustrated the Doozers always were when the Fraggles ate their buildings.
Remember when the Fraggles decided to stop eating the Doozers' buildings and they filled up Fraggle Rock?
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I remember when the young Doozers got into the forbidden practice of jumping on pogo sticks...leading to them hicccup and thus almost destroying the main Doozer city when their hiccups got out of control and they smashed into the supports.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
The Doozers got frustrated if the Fraggles ate the buildings before they were finished building. Otherwise they were utterly delighted! Because it meant they could _build more structures_...to them the equivalent of joy.
And yeah, the episode where Doc was moving out was the episode before the last.
The very final one had Gobo finding a magic passage to Doc's new home. The Fraggles, Silly Creature (Doc), dog (Sprocket), Gorgs (the huge things that lived outside the other end of Fraggle Rock), Doozers, etc from then on all lived in peace and happiness.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
I think one of my favorite episodes was the one where they explained the light that lights up the deep tunnels of Fraggle Rock comes from.
It's rare that a show takes a plot hole and spins it into a cool story. Posted by RackhamsRazor (Member # 5254) on :
HAHAHA- i like this episode where Boober gets amnesia and thinks he is a Gorg. His friends try to explain to him what he likes and who he is in a song, so he sings back to them and gets all mixed up!
Im a little stew pot, laundry is my name, boo-boos are my job here, la la not the same, When I set a germ free, something whispers “Whee!” I make friends with germy, he makes friends with me. I love to squash rocks, sitting on the floor, cooking little fraggles, that’s what life is for. And when I think back, something something clear, you are Boober Fraggle, I must cook you here.
[ March 06, 2005, 01:28 PM: Message edited by: RackhamsRazor ]
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes do a great punk version of the Fraggle Rock theme song.
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
I think my favorite episode is the one where everyone starts getting hiccups.
But my favorite Fraggle Rock reference of all time is the fact that the Tourrette's Syndrome suffereing bartender in Boondock Saints was the old man who always tried to catch the fraggles in fraggle rock. You know him, "C'mon Sprocket, we can get them this time!"
Posted by mimsies (Member # 7418) on :
Dance your cares away, Worries for another day. Let the music play, Down at Fraggle Rock.
Work you cares away, Dancing's for another day. Let the Fraggles play, We're Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red.
Woweeee!
"Ooooh a Fwaggle! Look Ma! I caught a Fwaggle"
Ma: "Ahhhhhhh!"
"Wahhhhhhhhhhh! Woopee!"
Dance your cares away, Worry's for another day. Let the music play, Down at Fraggle Rock. Down at Fraggle Rock. Down at Fraggle Rock.
"Every day the world begins again Sunny skies or rain Come and follow me
Every sunrise shows me more and more So much to explore Come and follow me
Every morning, every day Every evening, calling me away
While the sun goes 'round I'll still be found Following the sound Something's calling me
When the world goes drifting back to bed Memories in my head Wonders follow me"
Posted by RackhamsRazor (Member # 5254) on :
hey-does anyone know the significance of the Fraggles to the Gorgs? I mean, everyone has some type of connection to each other and they all can't live w/ out each other but how about the Gorgs? What can't the Gorgs live without? Does it have something to do with the Fraggles stealing their radishes? My DVDs, I guess, are from the beginning and I don't think it has gotten into that yet. It is that or I just missed it. Anyone remember?
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
quote:I vårt Fraggelberg!
:snicker:
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Ok, this is another one of those shows that makes me feel young because I don't actually remember anything specific from it, but I know I used to watch it all the time. And then I consider the fact that there are people who have no concept of Garbage Pail Kids or You Can't Do That on Television, and I feel old again.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
The stealing of the radishes means that the Gorgs always plant a surplus...which they need to make their anti-invisiblity cream.
(Without the cream, Gorgs turn invisible.)
Also, Fraggle Rock (which they call "Kissing Rock") is a sacred part of Gorg courtship rituals.
Posted by RackhamsRazor (Member # 5254) on :
OOOOOHHHH! thanks Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:And then I consider the fact that there are people who have no concept of Garbage Pail Kids or You Can't Do That on Television, and I feel old again.
This is just wrong.... How can there be people on this planet who've never heard of YCDTOTV???? Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
"I don't know."
**SPLATSPLASHSPLUTGLOOP*** Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
HAHAHAH.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I loved Fraggle Rock.
I was so pleased when they started showing it on a channel other than HBO. I remember begging my mom to get HBO so that we could watch Fraggle Rock.
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