Fraggle Rock: The Complete Second Season (DVD)

Description: Fraggle Rock: The Complete Second Season Product Details Amazon.ca Fraggle Rock is a magical place that exists just beyond everyday reality, where the silly and carefree Fraggles live alongside small industrious Doozers - who never stop building their intricate constructions, huge fearsome Gorgs - who grow delicious vegetables and attempt to rule the world from their ruined castle and a talking Trash Heap - who delivers nonsensical but useful advice to Fraggles. From the clap-happy theme to the fuzzy creatures, Fraggle Rock is as flat-out fun as children's programming gets. And even a little profound. In second season premiere "Wembley's Egg," for instance, the youngest Fraggle fears his life has no meaning. When an egg lands on Fraggle Rock, he makes like a mother hen and sits on it. The other Fraggles laugh, but he pays them no mind. When a baby bird emerges the next day, Wembley feels his life has meaning after all. Existentialism with Muppets? Sure, why not! The other Fraggles have adventures of their own. In "Boober Rock," the mopey one moves to the Caves of Boredom for a little peace and quiet, but starts to miss his noisy companions. (This episode features a kaleidoscopic Busby Berkeley-style dance sequence.) In "Red's Sea Monster," the energetic one befriends the last of the Lily Creatures, a gentle purple sea monster. And in "Mokey and the Minstrels," the mellow one joins a group of singers who look like an all-Muppet version of hippie musical Hair. All the while, absent-minded inventor Doc (Gerry Parkes, the show's sole human) shares his discoveries with dog Sprocket (a shaggy cousin to Wallace's Gromit), Marjory the Trash Heap dispenses advice, and Gobo's Uncle Traveling Matt explores outer space, i.e. the real world. Part of the same eco-system, the giant Gorgs and tiny Bob the Builder-like Doozers usually remain in the background, except for a few episodes, most involving Cotterpin Doozer. To be sure, there are lessons to be learned, but the tone is never preachy and the musical sequences are always imaginative. As the cast sings in each episode, "Dance your cares away / Worries for another day / Let the music play / Down at Fraggle Rock!" --Kathleen C. Fennessy The world of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock is far from the sunny urban buzz of Sesame Street, where many of Henson's most beloved Muppet characters dwell, or the frantic, backstage shenanigans of The Muppet Show, the classic variety program starring Kermit, Miss Piggy, and other icons of children's television. In Fraggle Rock, humans and Muppets live in different worlds. So different, in fact, that the Fraggles--small but diverse creatures who live in a cavernous land behind a wall in the shop of a tinkerer named Doc (Gerry Parkes)--regard the realm of flesh-and-blood people as "outer space." Fraggles and people live apart, but the order of things is shaken up when the series' central character, Gobo, can't talk his determined uncle, Traveling Matt, from being the first of his kind to explore the great unknown. Matt leaves Fraggle Rock with a promise to get word to Gobo about how things are going. Thereafter, Gobo has to find a way, from time to time, to fetch postcards from Doc's trash can (Doc can't figure out why missives from someone named Uncle Matt keep turning up in his mailbox) by dashing into the tinkerer's warm workshop, avoiding not only Doc's eyes but the suspicions of his wonderful dog, Sprocket. (Doc mutters occasionally about boarding up a hole in the wall that serves as Gobo's door. When he finally does so, mid-season, it poses a crisis for Gobo, who is caught on the wrong side.) While Traveling Matt sees what people are like, Gobo and his fellow Fraggles--Red, Wembley, Boober, Mokey, and others--have adventures (and some misadventures) of their own, trying to get along, learning to say what they mean and how to avoid making the same mistake twice. Over time, they begin to ponder the big questions of their world and lives, questions that have an ethical subtext that can easily be appreciated by young viewers. Such as: Is it okay to eat elaborate structures built by Doozers, small construction builders whose materials apparently are so tasty? Should one ever trick a friend so seriously the latter actually grieves? Helping the Fraggles with these tough issues is all-knowing Marjory the Trash Heap, guru of garbage and life lessons. Not helpful by any stretch are the problematic Gorgs, giants who want to enslave Fraggles and who consider themselves royalty of the universe (such as it is behind Doc's wall). Each busy episode is designed to impart wisdom to kids, but they are also as funny as one might expect from the wisecracking Muppet Factory. Bonuses include recent interviews with cast and crew of the 1980s show, as well as a documentary about Henson. --Tom Keogh Special Features Season 2, Episode 1: Wembley's Egg Season 2, Episode 2: Boober Rock Season 2, Episode 3: The Trash Heap Doesn't Live Here Anymore Season 2, Episode 4: Red's Sea Monster Season 2, Episode 5: Uncle Matt Comes Home Season 2, Episode 6: Boober's Dream Season 2, Episode 7: Mokey and the Minstrels Season 2, Episode 8: All Work and All Play Season 2, Episode 9: Sir Hubris and the Gorgs Season 2, Episode 10: A Friend in Need Season 2, Episode 11: The Wizard of Fraggle Rock Season 2, Episode 12: The Doozer Contest Season 2, Episode 13: Red's Club Season 2, Episode 14: The Secret of Convincing John Season 2, Episode 15: Manny's Land of Carpets Season 2, Episode 16: Junior Sells the Farm Season 2, Episode 17: Fraggle Wars Season 2, Episode 18: The Day the Music Died Season 2, Episode 19: Doomsday Soup Season 2, Episode 20: A Cave of One's Own Season 2, Episode 21: Wembley and the Great Race Season 2, Episode 22: Doozer Is as Doozer Does Season 2, Episode 23: Boober's Quiet Day Season 2, Episode 24: The Invasion of the Toe Tickers width: 0 x height: 0 x length: 0 x weight: 0 Payment Details Shipping Details Thank you for visiting and shopping :). 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