fraggle_rock Flowers from Safeway I love the idea that just beyond the walls of your home is a cavernous world of mystical little creatures. And that beyond that world is a kingdom of giant Gorgs. Wish I were a Fraggle. 030825 ... Strideo they are using your mailbox ... 030825 ... shoccolo aww... dozers. 030825 ... mon don't get me started! 030825 ... tortuous why do the fraggles always break the builders' stuff?!?!?! 030826 ... pobodys nerfect Hey,don't forget about Uncle Travelling Matt! Somewhere out there,he's off on exciting adventures. ;) 030826 ... Strideo and he is using your mailbox ... 030826 ... delial Even as a kid I always thought it was kinda mean how those little purple guys built those giant cities and then the fraggles just ate all the buildings. All that work for nothing! 030826 ... Strideo the fraggles never seem to show any concern for the doozers when they're munching on their construction sites, but what the hell were the doozers building anyways? I mean, they just looked like a frame work of thin glass sticks or maybe candy if you're a fraggle. were they eventually going to put walls and a ceiling on them and move in? in any case the fragels kept the dozer construction industry thriving and maybe thats what doozers love to do (dispite their dismay at the occasional fraggle snack attack) ... 030826 ... pobodys nerfect *peeks into mailbox* hmm...nope,no postcards yet. :/ I have a theory about why the fraggles ate the doozer buildings. Mokey probably realised(and then convinced the others)that since doozers really like to build things,that the buildings would eventually take over the environment. But they didn't have the heart to tell them to stop,so they just ate the buildings instead. 030826 ... niska yeah i've seen this... it's hilarious. i don't think i'd have been half as impresses as an 8 year old though... but to answer torturous's question - they weren't breaking the dozers' stuff. they were harvesting it. isn't that the fraggles' main source of nutrition? wierd that it's made of radishes. i wonder what that crunchy shit tastes like... 030916 ... The Spork The Doozers and the Fraggles are a symbiotic relationship The Doozers are compulsive builders and the Fraggles compulsively (perhaps by nutritional necessity - as they were also known to raid the Gorgs' garden if i remember right) eat the towers... There's an episode where Mokey suddenly has an attack of conscience, declares everyone to be heartless for eating the towers and hires a Fraggle evangelist to convince everyone to quit it, so they do, at which point, as the Doozers run out of room to build and are hemmed in by old construction she overhears a mother Doozer telling her child that the Fraggles have become heartless and stopped eating the towers, at which point she realizes that must then call for the services of the Fraggle evangelist once again "The Preachification of Convincing John" Even though I was already a teenager when this show was originally on, watching it with my little brother and sister made me something of a convert to it. "Listen to Convincing John And all your troubles will be gone He's gonna tell it spell it sell it (...But DON'T EAT IT...) Just for you" has never eaten a doozer tower 030916 ... Flowers from Safeway Spork knows his stuff. Convincing John was one of very few minor characters played by Jim Henson. Another one was a wandering minstrel named Cantus, who sang of how music came from everyone everything and everywhere. "Music grows in the rose Rock and rain and the blowin snowstorm Everything seems to sing Everywhere I go 'Said one, two Play me do Let me sound as sweet as you Play me wide, play me long Let me be your song" Trivia question: What was the name of the all-knowing trash heap, and her sidekicks? 030917 ... crimson I miss this show so much. It makes me want to cry with want. 030926 ... mon uow bpNichol 050320 ... milo nostalgic. radish famine. 050321 ... mon uow dennis lee 050323 ... mon uow i loved sprocket 050323 ... mon uow trash heap: marjorie/marjory sidekicks: philo & gunge 050323 ... mon uow doc 050323 ... Gobo Well done, mon Don't forget Dennis Lee's writing partner Philip Balsam. After all, where would Rogers be without Hammerstein. 050324 what's it to you? who go blather from