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crispycreambacon · 5 months ago

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🎉 I FINISHED FRAGGLE ROCK SEASON 1 EVERYONE LET'S GO LET'S GO 🎉

What a fantastic season all around!! I'm so happy that I got recommended this show by my lovely friend Gem 'cause it was such a delight and a perfect treat to give myself after graduating high school :D

Where do I even begin with this show? Let's get the obvious out of the way: everything regarding the art direction and the puppetry was stunning from the character designs to the colour direction to the sets they built. They built such an immersive, creative world and blended vibrant and naturalistic colours so well.

Shout out to the voice actors! Every very single one of them gave it their all and brought their own character to life. Not to mention how they double as their puppeteers. I really do believe that puppeteers are magicians since they made the puppets so expressive with their acting even though they don't really change their faces.

Howevet, the heart of it all is the story, especially the character writing. The Fraggle Five—love the nickname btw—are all so charming with their unique personalities that compliment each other so well, so no matter who's the star of the episode or who's paired with who, you're in for a ride of well-thought out character development and fun banter. Each of them bring something new to the table like Gobo's levelheadedness, Mokey's gentleness, Red's boldness, Boober's neuroticism and Wembley's... wembling :P (I'm jesting, but I can't resist that ehe)

I adore how the power of friendship is such a dominant theme as presented by how much they care for each other. I love even more that sometimes, they suck! They can be quite mean to each other at times, and while they don't mean to be malicious, they still hurt each other, and they have to remedy that. It's very realistic to how friend groups actually work, and it enhances the sweetness of the times where they do support each other. Moreover, it's a really good lesson for kids to learn. In general, Fraggle Rock has great ideas and delivers them very well, so not only kids but also older audiences will greatly benefit from watching this show and taking in its themes.

Overall, I cannot wait to see what the rest of this show has to offer, and I'm so happy to have hopped on the ride. My only problem with it is that I got a fCKUING CRUSH ON UNCLE TRAVELING MATT WHAT THE F. FRAGGLE-

#but other than. that. 10/10 would recommend.#long post #fraggle rock #the muppets #media review #media commentary #media criticism #show recommendations #opinion #chris p fried rambles

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franciya · 2 years ago

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TOP 5 SCENES FROM FRAGGLE ROCK THAT UTTERLY BROKE ME

(As a grown adult watching the show for the very first time in 2022)

s1 - I Don't Care: Boober thinking he killed Wembley after a thrilling action scene lmao this part here is chilling tho

s1 - Marooned: a classic if you're familiar with the show, Red and Boober are trapped, slowly losing air thus dying throughout the episode etc this is the line that did it for me

s2 - Wembley and The Great Race: Wembley thinks Gobo is going to move out and never speak to him again and it's like, the end of the world as we know it, Gobo might as well be dying it was so dramatic, you gotta feel bad for the little fella.

s4 - Uncle Matt's Discovery: Gobo is your 80s angsty rebel without a cause, Uncle Matt just wants his little nephew to think he's cool, they can't quite meet halfway and communicate their feelings to one another all that well and I cry idec

s4 - The Perfect Blue Rollie: Boober is about to be buried alive so he says that by dying he's just getting what he deserves.

Goodnight everybody.

Honorable Mention:

s2 - Manny's Land of Carpets: Looks like nothing sad will happen this time around until everyone wants to leave the rock and half of them want Gobo to lead them outside but it's only season 2, Gobo isn't ready to leave his home yet! (or will he ever be?)

The scene that broke me was Gobo pulling Boober by the arm to join the rest of the group, their friendship is so underrated (even by the writers themselves 😭)

#Fraggle Rock #i bawled in all of these scenes is what I mean #gobo fraggle #boober fraggle #wembley fraggle #red fraggle #uncle traveling matt #muppets #the muppets #basically if you want to cry you go for a Boober episode? lmao

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frog-chemicals · 2 months ago

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My thoughts/headcanons(/a little bit of speculative biology?) for Fraggle Rock

Fraggles (if they even have multiple sexes) seem not to have much sexual dimorphism. While the more masculine presenting Fraggles generally tend to have shorter hair, that’s most likely just an aesthetic choice, rather than something due to their biology, much like humans.

Gender wise, I think they’d have a very Fun Based fluid genders. Neos are a great medium for self expression and can tell you lots about a Fraggle! Pronoun Keeper is a job and boy do the lists get long!

That said, here’s my Specific Headcanons for the main five!

Gobo uses he/him with a handful of mostly Exploration themed neos because that’s what his Uncle Traveling Matt uses. At some point does have a moment of Self Exploration and adds a few more that feel more like just him.

Red uses she/her because those are exciting sounds to her (also because those are the Base Ones Boober Doesn’t use). Also has SO MANY Activity themed pronouns and Fun Sounding ones.

Mokey Only uses Spiritual and Musical Neos.

Boober uses he/him because he’s Used To those and they Feel Safe. (Sidebottom used she/her and SO many Fun neos)

Wembley… Wembled his way into Any being fine but would probably stick to he/him with a small handful of carefully picked neos if Actually Given The Time To Contemplate.

Doozers also do not seem very sexually dimorphic (aside form hair styles), even if there does seem to be some degree of a binary. I also think they’re far too busy with building to be concerned with the concepts of gender. I do think they would have different pronouns based on ranks/roles, such as Students/Workers/Bull Doozers/Architects.

Gorgs, on the other hand have a very strict quaternary system. Not only gender wise but also sex wise.

As young, they’re divided into Princes and Princesses. Once they reach puberty, they’re kicked from their parents territory to find a mate. Only when managing to find a mate, will they turn into Kings and Queens respectively. All four have their own pronouns (at the very least, they do in Grog Language). While not very sexually dimorphic as young, they gain a far more colorful coat, as well as more notable physical changes post-metamorphosis!

#a lot of these I came up with along with my partner :]. and by came up with I mean we rambled at each other while it was. way too late to #still be up watching fraggle rock. ALSO. I’d like to have it on the record that I have not yet finished Fraggle Rock and have been avoiding #spoilers for Back To The Rock. while I do have Some knowledge on Pokey. I get to have fun with My world building. which in this case also #means ignoring some of the moments The Silly Puppet Show For Kids Is Doing Educational Episodes For Kids #To Me Fraggles are A Species that Know what a They is and think it’s one of the Basic Starter Pronouns #Also. I think Philo and Gunge either know Exactly what gender is and don’t give a shit or have No Clue and tell a fraggle to stop swearing #at them when they try to explain the concept of gender to them. very little in between #Fraggle Rock #Fraggle Rock headcanons #Fraggle Rock Worldbuilding #yeah. sure. I’ll tag it with that.#rat rambles

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rowlfthedog · 1 year ago

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There are more in there. I know I missed people, but I stopped once I noticed I got past a hundred (Zoot makes 102). I stuck these in an alphebatizer real quick, but I could not think of a Muppet for X...

Abby Cadabby

Animal

Apollo Pajanimals

Baby Bear

Baby Natasha

Baskerville the Dog

Beaker

Beauregard

Bert

Big Mean Carl

Bobo the Bear

Boober Fraggle

Bunsen

Cantus Fraggle

Clifford

Constantine

Convincing John

Cookie Monster

Count Von Count

Cowbella Pajanimals

Denise the Pig

Digit

Dodos from Follow that Bird (all 4 of them)

Dr. Teeth

Dr. Van Neuter

Edwin Pajanimals

Elmo

Ernie

Floyd Pepper

Fozzie Bear

Frank Oz Muppet

Gobo Fraggle

Gonzo the Great

Gramps

Grover Monster

Grundgetta

Guy Smiley

Happy Yellow Creature

Henrietta (The Chicken)

Hugga Wugga

Iggy Wiggy

Irvine

J.P. Grosse

Janice

Java

Java Again (baby)

Jim Henson Muppet

Joe the Janitor

Johnny Fiama

Julia Autism

Junior Gorg

Kermit the Frog of course

King of the Universe

Lenny the Lizard

Lew Zealand

Lips

Ma Bear

Mahna Mahna

Mean Mama

Miss Piggy

Mokey Fraggle

Muppet Newsman (That is his name)

Nephew (Rowlf’s Nephew)

Nigel

Oscar the Grouch

Pepe

Prairie Dawn

Queen of the Universe

Red Fraggle

Rizzo the Rat

Robin the Frog

Roosevelt Franklin

Rosita Monster

Rowlf the Dog

Sal Minella

Sam Eagle

Sclrapp Flyapp

Scooter the Gofer

Skeeter the. Twin Sister

Snowth 1 from Mahna Mahna

Snowth 2 from Mahna Mahna

Snuffy

Sprocket the Dog

Squacky Pajanimals

Statler

Summer the Penguin

Swedish Chef

Sweetpea Sue Pajanimals

Telly Monster

Uncle Deadly

Uncle Traveling Matt

Waldorf

Walter

Wanda

Wayne

Wembley Fraggle

Wilkins

Wontkins

Yolanda the Rat

Yorick (the All-Consuming Skull)

Zoe Monster

Zoot

#barks

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downatfraggleblog · 2 years ago

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Riley’s Fraggle Rock Reviews!

Season One, Episode One- Beginnings

Beginnings are always hard, aren’t they? Even if you have a vision for what you want your project to be, it can be hard to get to that point from nothing. You have to start *somewhere*, while making sure everything makes sense for your audience and keeping them entertained and promising that “This will be great! Really!!”

...Admittedly, this is more for me than for Jim, Jerry, and the incredible team of performers, puppet builders, crew members, songwriters, and gorg wranglers who worked their baloobiuses off to get Fraggle Rock made (because *surely* the work of one woman typing reviews about a decades old show is harder than actually making the show was). I’m not sure how to start things here myself, so I feel a little better seeing the crew of Fraggle Rock is in the same spot that I am on this one... more or less.

So! Without further ado, I want to welcome you to the review series! (If you’re looking for more information on the series, check the ‘about’ page.) If for some reason anybody reading this does not know anything about Fraggle Rock, I will be highlighting the names of all the major characters and groups in this episode. There are a lot of elements at play here, but I’m sure you’ll do just fine. Now, I know what you’re here for- let’s start the episode! How does Beginnings begin?

We begin with a dark workshop. *The* workshop, actually, as we see old handyman Doc and his loyal dog Sprocket begin settling into this old, dusty room. I always assumed the workshop was the front room of the house, as we often see Doc bringing in groceries and talking to neighbors, but he explicitly says he is converting an “unused room” into his workshop. Did they always live here? My personal theory is that Doc inherited the house from an old friend or relative, who simply used some other entrance to the house, as I simply can’t believe Doc just had a whole room lying around for who knows how long. He doesn’t strike me as a man to make waste of a whole room like that. Besides, I find more whimsy in him settling in here just as things begin stirring in the world just below his feet.

Speaking of which, just about five feet down and ten feet to the viewer’s right is fraggle explorer Matt, who is lamenting the end of his journeys charting out the caves of Fraggle Rock.

(I can see where Gobo gets his sense of style from!)

His wish for more adventure is quickly granted when a magical force (Doc) penetrates the cave wall (moves a box out of the way), opening a portal to the mythic “Outer Space,” a legend to fragglekind. The exposition from Doc in this scene is kind of flat, but I quite enjoy Matt’s antics here. He quickly rushes home to prepare for this new adventure.

Here we meet Matt’s nephew Gobo, who suffers from protagonist syndrome but has a healthy dose of eccentricity to balance the mixture. Matt trusts Gobo with his papers as he begins to pack (along with one of my favorite bits of physical humor in the episode).

“I am leaving my books and maps with you for safe keeping!” he says as they thud on the cave floor. (Look at his arms— he’s rod handed. I wonder how many takes it took to get this shot perfect…)

Gobo pages his uncle’s (presumably now damaged) tomes and here comes our first song of the series, “Hip Hip Hooray!” Despite the name, I’m not quite fond of this sequence. I feel like it’s mostly here to showcase some of the new puppetry tricks still being toyed with for the series, but we will see just about all these tricks honed much better in later episodes (swimming fraggles, waldos, fraggles “balancing” things on their nose). Admittedly, I am quite a fan of the one fraggle just before the song balancing on one foot atop another’s head, but I’ll let you find that one for yourself ;) Otherwise, the song is boring and so is the staging. Anyways, let’s meet some more fraggles!

(I find it adorable that Wembley comes out following Boober in their very first shot onscreen together. Just something I appreciate!)

Enter gloomy Boober, silly Wembley, and daredevil Red. After an endearing slapstick sequence, the trio all find themselves tripping over one another in Gobo’s room. This scene doesn’t really forward the plot in any way besides establishing these three as characters, and I honestly don’t mind too much.

After the brief visit from his friends, Gobo sees his uncle off on his newest adventure in what is probably my favorite sequence of the episode, and our second musical number, “Follow Me”. Not only am I getting a wave of nostalgic pathos, but the interactions between uncle and nephew are very charming to watch. Gobo’s interactions with Matt in this song and the sequence that shortly follows are endearing because of how natural they feel. There’s genuine chemistry between these performers, having worked together on the Muppet Show and first few Muppet Movies, but beyond that the relationship between Matt and Gobo feels like a real family. They are by no means perfect, but there is clearly a lot of love for one another. It’s a shame that a lot of relationships highlighted in Season One fall to the wayside as the writers figure out their footing.

Matt tasks Gobo with receiving messages he will send back home as he explores Outer Space, and while Gobo says he could never, his uncle doesn’t quite hear that last part. Gobo, feeling a sense of obligation to his elder, sees no way out of it, and wishes Matt goodbye. “Think of me as Uncle Travelin’ Matt,” he replies, and a music cue tells the audience (and, seemingly, the fraggles onscreen) that this name will be important. With that, he’s gone out the door, and Doc is none the wiser. Sprocket, on the other hand, is freaking out at the discovery of these strange little creatures coming out of the mysterious hole in the wall.

We catch up with Gobo a little later, when the nurturing and dreamy Mokey asks him why he’s been so down. Gobo doesn’t know how to talk about his feelings, which Mokey interprets as needing space to process things. Gobo announces to nobody in particular that no, he needs *help*, and Wembley (unaware of his friends anguish?) eagerly calls Gobo to look at a musical construction made by the diminutive, formic Doozers. We get an instrumental sequence here as Doozers build a new bridge with tiny construction tools. (Sequences like these are quite common in the earliest episodes of Fraggle Rock, and while they often can be fun, they can really stop an episode in its tracks...)

By the time Wembley finishes his song, the Doozers have trapped him in with the new bridge they just assembled, as Gobo glumly comments. “It’s a good thing I’m hungry,” Wembley proclaims, as he begins devouring the highway before him.

(If you’re new here, no this isn’t just a Wembley thing. All fraggles do it.)

Wembley asks Gobo what’s wrong, and Gobo again cannot elaborate, so he heads out to go get some wisdom from Marjory the Trash Heap (Again, if you’re new here, she’s their oracle. And yes, she is a talking pile of compost.)

In order to get to her, however, he must cross the Gorg’s Garden, guarded by the titanic Junior Gorg. His blundering mammoth size proves no match for a fraggles’ speed, however, and he misses Gobo as the latter makes his way to the oracle in question.

Her heralds (sons?), the murine Philo and Gunge announce her presence and the pile of compost awakens. She declares that Gobo has “Troubles,” and breaks into the highest energy segment of the episode, our last new song, “I Seen Troubles”. I adore this sequence, especially with how much fun everybody seems to be having and how high energy it is. It’s a spectacular contrast to the rest of the episode, in the best possible way.

Gobo explains that he doesn’t know how to do what he promised his uncle, and that he feels alone and scared of the terrible monster (Sprocket) that he will have to contend with. “Alone? Then don’t be alone!” Bring some friends, Marjory says, friends help. Philo and Gunge declare that to be all, and Gobo goes back to recruit his friends to tag along and help him out. Boober finds the request terrifying, and Red doesn’t believe a word of it, but the group agrees to go.

The sequence where they enter the tunnel to Outer Space has great scoring, and establishes a few running jokes, such as Wembley here bumping his head on a pipe. Everybody is subsequently stopped by a ‘Hideous, Round Thing’ (a red ball Sprocket lost down the hole) blocking up the doorway to Doc’s Workshop.

I hope this wasn’t bothering any of you before, but I just can’t help but be irritated by the fact the Hideous Round Thing is floating about six inches off the ground. Come on! Couldn’t they just have one of the Fraggle Five bend offscreen and pick it up? Couldn’t be bothered to do that?

Regardless, Gobo bravely ventures out of the Fraggle Hole and into Outer Space, past a sleeping Sprocket, only to find his uncle’s message when Doc comes in with the mail, various magazines and… a postcard for one Gobo Fraggle? Doc puts the errand card in the trash (...instead of checking with his neighbors? Perhaps more proof Doc just moved in.) and Gobo makes for the safety of Fraggle Rock. Only problem is the commotion woke up Sprocket, who now has Gobo by the collar of his cardigan, and everybody is freaking out. Mokey finally decides to throw the Hideous Round Thing at the monster to get it to let Gobo go.

This of course works, as dogs love their balls, and Gobo zips back into the tunnel with a “whoosh” sound- another running gag in the making. Red apologizes for not believing Gobo, and they head back home, singing a reprise of Hip Hip Hooray. That night, Gobo reads the message proclaiming his uncle is okay, and finally the young fraggle can rest easily.

(In actuality, Matt almost got hit by a car, ran into a fire hydrant, and mistook a bunch of children playing baseball for horrible warriors. He simply thought Gobo would find Outer Space too preposterous to put all that in his letter back home.)

We end the episode back on Doc and Sprocket, who have just finished setting up shop (literally). Sprocket barks down the hole at his new ‘friends’, and Doc declares that one of these days he’ll get around to boarding up that revolting crack in the wood paneling.

Final Rating- 6/10

Song Score- 3.5 radishes out of five “I Seen Troubles” and “Follow Me” are both spectacular songs, and I like them both in very opposite directions. I Seen Troubles provides a great energy boost to an otherwise meandering episode, and the fun everybody had during it is infectious. Follow Me is a wonderful lullaby for the soul, and one of the series’ classics for a reason (Oh yea, it’s coming back!). “Hip Hip Hooray,” however, brings the score down for its mediocrity, both times it comes about. It’s not horrible, but it’s weak as cardboard.

Story Score- 3 radishes out of five I admire the determination of the writing crew, getting every main character and group on screen with ample time to shine. However, the episode feels both very busy and very hollow at the same time, and the actual plot of the episode is kind of short compared to all the little side bits we run into (Gobo’s friends visiting his room, Wembley playing his song on the Doozer construction, etc.). None of these little bits really push the episode forwards either, but I do think all of this can be forgiven by a writing team that is still figuring themselves out.

Performance Score- 3.5 radishes out of 5 Everybody seems to be having fun! The quick establishing moments of Mokey, Wembley, Boober, and Red all do a good job giving the audience a nice feel for each character, and the physical comedy in this episode is very good, better than I remembered. The puppetry stunts are mostly standard for the series going forward, with many of them improving greatly beyond this episode, but there are a few novel ones as well, such as Matt dropping his books. Score is also a little low for this episode due to it being in what I like to call the “Glum Gobo” era, before Jerry really figured out the light inside Gobo’s character. Don’t worry, it’ll come with time.

That was Beginnings! It’s not perfect, but that doesn’t surprise me. The show is still getting its footing. This is by no means an episode I’d skip in future watchathons, but it’s not one I’ll go out of my way to see when I’m thinking about the Rock. Part of me fears I rated it so middle of the road because I don’t have much to review it on other than memories of other episodes, but I think it is still a fair rating. I apologize if this one was a little wordy too, there was a lot to cover! Next episode up to bat is “Wembley and the Gorgs”. I’ll see you there!

#reviews #fraggle rock

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galushanationalrailways · 2 years ago

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The Fraggle Rock Story

CHAPTER 2: Gobo’s Predicament

Gobo, as the intelligent reader no doubt already guessed, was not in love with Red and had no plans to ever be. Gobo hated romance to its core, especially the fact that it was inescapable. Every fraggle had it on their minds, it seemed, at the strangest and most inconvenient intervals, everyone but him. Even Uncle Traveling Matt, it was rumored, had broken several hearts back in his day. Worse, his little house, once his sole refuge from the mushy elements, had become home to two very lovesick Fraggles.

First Wembley had realized he was in love with Boober. And from then on it was Boober, Boober, Boober from dawn till night, an endless chorus from the little greenish creature on how handsome he was, how soft his hair was, how beautifully his tail glowed… Drivel, absolute drivel. Gobo hesitated to even send Wembley’s shirts to Boober to be laundered. Whenever they’d come back, there would be a lot of crying and carrying on over the silliest thing. “Oh, Gobo, it smells just like him!” Wembley would say, and then inhale deeply of the textile, tears leaking slowly from his eyes as he thought about his unhappy love. “Gee, Wembley, that’s great,” he would say, and then go about sorting his postcards or busying himself in the construction of a new twelve-stringed mandolin, looking just industrious enough so that Wembley would clam up and he could get a few moment’s peace. But nothing could have prepared him for the arrival of Red.

Say what one will about Gobo, his arrogance, his hero-worship, his quixotic hopes and often bullish personality, he would never turn away a friend in need. So when Red turned up on his doorstep with, of all things, tears in her eyes, he couldn’t help but let her in, fix her a drink, and listen to her troubles.

“Oh, Gobo,” she had said, “I just don’t know what to do in a situation like this—somehow, the other day, when Mokey was kissing me goodnight—” Gobo raised his eyelids. “Oh, stop it, Gobo, it’s only a goodnight kiss, no more than nine or ten seconds—I suddenly realized that I love her—and yes, I’m afraid it’s in the sappy way, I’m sorry… But such a dreamboat as Mokey could never love me. As you have pointed out, Gobo, I’m too brash, too arrogant, for someone like her to ever love me.”

“At least no more than nine or ten seconds worth,” said Gobo.

“Will you shut up and listen? Gee whiz.”

“Sorry, of course.”

“And since she could never love me, it is impossible for us to live together. I could only make her uncomfortable, I’m really a danger to her. I’d feel safer—for both of us—if I moved out, but I don’t really think there’s a cave available at the moment--”

“Well, Red, if you’re so worried about it, you could always stay over here for a little while,” Gobo said. “I can sleep on the couch until a cave opens up--”

“Oh, thank you, Gobo. But don’t move out of the bed, I’ll sleep on the couch. Why should you give up your bed for me just because I’m lovesick? I hate to impose on you--”

“Really, Red, it’s no trouble. Couch, bed, whatever, just get your things and come over, if you’re so worried. Wembley won’t mind, he’s currently infatuated himself.”

“With who?”

“Boober.”

“That bag of nerves? Well, at least I can rest assured I have better taste.”

And so Red moved in with Gobo and Wembley. This turned out, despite everything Gobo said, to be trouble. Every morning Red would start weeping on the couch, softly and slowly. This would wake up Gobo and Wembley a little too early. Gobo would try to go back to sleep but Wembley, always the most compassionate at the worst possible times, would go over to Red and “comfort” her, a process which usually involve him weeping as well.

“Listen to you two!” Gobo said one morning as he took up the breakfast dishes. “You’d think I was running an infirmary for the lovesick. Do you saps need a moss pack? But ah—I forget,” he said, lapsing into a startlingly accurate impression of Mokey, “One cannot apply a moss pack—to the—heart…”

“YOU STOP MAKING FUN OF MOKEY!” Red hollered, her face scrunched in rage. Then her voice softened. “Oh… Mokey…” Then it was back to blubbering among the two of them, even more than previously. “Oh, Boober, will you ever know how much I care?” wept Wembley. “That does it,” said Gobo finally, and he walked out the door. He was taking this matter straight to the Trash Heap herself.

#the fraggle rock story #fraggle rock #woober #boober #wembley #red #mokey #gobo #redkey

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fallen-child-escapism · 2 years ago

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Woober Rock:Chapter 4

Wembley woke up to his stomach growling. He sat up and yawned and looked over. Boober was curled up against him. His hair fell against his pillow. Wembley could see one eye. It was closed but it was more of Boober's face Wembley had ever seen. He felt guilty looking, surely Boober hid his face for a reason, and looking at it was a breach of privacy. Wembley turned away just in time for Boober to start shifting before he sat up. Wembley acted as if he had just sat up, stretching and yawning, all with closed eyes. Boober startled himself and fell out of bed,"Wembley!", he shrieked. "Boober!", Wembley matched his energy. Boober pushed his bangs over his face before he stood up. He fumbled with his tail,"Goodmorning, uh, sorry for scaring you" Wembley leaned towards the edge of the bed," scared me? I scared you!" Wembley's stomach grumbled and they both looked at it. "Uh...Breakfast?", Boober offered. "Yes please! I haven't eaten since second supper last night!", Wembley tossed the blanket off of himself and rushed to his bag to grab his shirt. Boober fixed his hair again and grabbed his hat and scarf from their hooks. They undressed with their backs to eachother. Sure, every fraggle looked the same under clothes and their bodies were covered in thick fur anyways but it was a sign of respect.

The boys walked to the great hall, where the smell of radish waffles and coffee filled the air. They said some goodmornings to some fraggles as they made their way to the table. It was a new Fraggle custom to have meals together 3 times a day, with the other two meals being had in each owns cave. And with this custom came a brand new grand kichen just off the great hall where Fraggles would take time with a team to make the meals for the rest of the rock.

Boober gave himself a good helping of waffles with a large mug of coffee. He watched wembley tower up waffles on his plate and hummed. Then they sat together by the pond, waiting for their friends. Boober picked at his food and Wembley had downed 3 waffles by the time Mokey and Red walked up with their own plates. "Hey Boober, Hey Wembley!", Red chirped. "Goodmorning you two", Mokey smiled and took a seat next to Boober, Red joining her. "Whats the plan for today? I have a swimming class to teach after breakfast but I'm free for the rest of the day!", Red was loud, especially for it being so early. But most Fraggles were. "Im on lunch duty today so I was gonna take my team up to the Gorgs garden for fresh ingredients", Mokey smiled,"But Gobo said he wanted us all to go up with him to get the artifact from his Uncle Matt" Boober spoke up," Not into outer space right? We wont actually go out there right??", Mokey took Boobers paw in her own. "Of course not, Im pretty sure he just wanted to show us how he does it". Boober sighed," Good! I'll learn from a distance then" Wembley chuckled next to him. At that moment Gobo plopped down next to the green fraggle, "Mornin' guys! Are yall ready to visit the portal later? Uncle Matt said this next artifact was going to be the coolest one yet!". Boober held his face in his hands and Red scoffed,"sure". Mokey glared at her," Red!" Red rolled her eyes but didn't say anything more. Wembley was bouncing in excitement, "ooh! What is it Gobo?" Gobo shrugged," I dont know yet, He said he wanted it to be a surprise cus of how magical it was" "Is he going to sterilize it before he sends it at least?",Boober groaned. Gobo laughed without answering.

They finished up breakfast just as the great hall began filling with more and more fraggles. Red had rushed off to her and Mokey's cave to get ready for her swim lesson, and mokey met with the other lunch team fraggles and left for the gorg garden. That left the boy fraggles alone until lunch. They all returned their plates to the dirty dished pile and walked back to Gobo and Wembley's cave. "What did yall do last night?", The explorer questioned after they got settled. "W-what do you mean?", Boober had the image of a sleeping wembley replaying in his head and all the things he was thinking. "I dunno, just what did yall do?", Gobo shrugged. "Not alot actually. Just talked for a bit and went to bed", Wembley said, tapping on his bongos to keep his handd busy. "Really? thats all?", Boober couldve sworn Gobo looked him in the eye. Surely he couldnt know he was up panicking over being so close to wembley. Surely he didnt know he stayed up thinking of the green fraggle. Surely he- "Yeah actually! But boy did we get some good sleep, right Boober?", Wembley smiled. Boober gulped, "Yeah...we did". Little did he know Wembley was having a crisis.

Did Boober know he had seen his face? He'd hate to make him uncomfortable. What if he hated him for breaking his trust?

"What did you do last night, Gobo?"

Gobo reminisced about his night with Todd. "Me and Todd just hung out. Played some music, talked, just hung out", Wembley gave Gobo a teasing look but didnt say anything. "Um! I just remembered I had some laundry to catch up on, You guys have fun", Boober blurted out as he got up and fixed his hair. Wembley's stomach sank as he noticed it and his mind immediately started worrying about this morning again.

Total filler chapter, Im not sure how to write for Red and Mokey :/ I love them but rarrrr yknow? lol

#fraggle rock #wembley x boober #boober x wembley #boober fraggle #wembley fraggle #gobo fraggle #mokey fraggle #red fraggle #fraggle rock bttr

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styxbugg · 6 months ago

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I love the difference between hating a character thematically and hating a character personally

Like, there are characters that are written terribly or are unnecessary in the plot and i hate them cause of that. And then there are characters who i know serve a very important role in the story and are written extremely well, and i can appreciate them for that. But if i ever met that character in real life, it’d be on sight

#hating characters personally is so funny #This is about great uncle gobo btw. i love using him to analyze that whole family but GOODDD #I HATE HIM SO MUCH #im beefing with a fictional old muppet man. Who’s probably dead already

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synthsays · 1 year ago

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✨️Headcanons 4 Fraggle Rock✨️

Ok, to start off this AU takes place after the episode "Change of Adress" aka the last episode of Fraggle Rock, so again spoiler warning.

The AU is if Gobo left with Doc when he moved, and if they hadn't discovered the magic tunnel that therefore lead to his new house.

Headcanon #1:

Wembley would wear Gobo's long-sleeved shirt under his banana tree shirt, because much like Gobo's admiration for Traveling Matt, Wembley wants to follow after Gobo as an explorer, at least in his free time from being the siren for the volunteer fire department. Since Gobo and Matt have mainly explored the land caves, Wembley, along with Red and the Merrgles would explore and map the under water caves.

Headcanon #2:

Boober has let Sidebottom be more apart of him, with the addition to colorful patches on his cap, and letting his hair grow a little longer. He/They pronouns

Headcanon #3:

Obviously Mokey would be older, and I feel like she would find large, decorated glasses very pretty, so she would have those. I think she would go by She/They/Fae. She would knit/braid soul mate bracelets for Boober and Wembley.

Headcanon #4:

Red would probably become great friends with the Merrgles, and would try to find lots of ways to include the Merrgles in the celebrations and such in Fraggle Rock. Red would help Wembley and the Merrgles to explore the underwater caves. Obviously Red would have various small scars and bruises from her various athletic activities. Any Pronouns :p

Human AU headcanon:

So as @fiddlstyx has already said, the village that they would live in has a "takes a village" vibe with the kids, and this is very heavily hinging on the "magic" thing, what if kids (not like newborn but very young) just kinda appear? I would like to think that they have a Pagan type religion overall, worshipping perhaps a large cave in the area? Obviously the kids would not rember anything, and a certain person could decide to adopt the kid too. Of course there could always be still blood families just with the village helping in general :).

A small little thing I noticed, I know the lyrics of the songs sung in fraggle rock shouldn't fully be considered canon, with metaphors and stuff. But with saying that, Gobo mentions his mom in one of his songs. And even though everyone calls Great Uncle Gobo "Uncle Gobo" a specific other kid fraggle comes into their (Matt and Uncle Gobo's) room, which Uncle Gobo gladly follows to get away from Matt. So this may be Gobo's mom, unfortunately the other younger fraggle had brown hair and purple-ish skin, but if this is Matt's sister the purple hair orange skin might be a recessive gene. So perhaps, Gobo's mom left (some way or another) and Matt was left to take care of him.

Sorry for the long post <:]

thanks 4 reading :D

#fraggle rock #fraggles #headcanon #I love fraggle rock #wembley fraggle #boober fraggle #mokey fraggle #red fraggle #gobo fraggle #long post

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