The Overly Ambitious History of Fraggle Rock: These Muppets Are Going To Change The World!
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Fraggle Rock (also known as Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock or Fraggle Rock with Jim Henson's Muppets) is a children's musical fantasy comedy puppet television series about interconnected societies of Muppet creatures, created by Jim Henson.
In the US Fraggle Rock ran for 5 seasons on HBO from 1983 to 1987.
After the end of The Muppet Show, Jim Henson had some very lofty expectations for Fraggle Rock.
Too much? Maybe a bit.
Contribute to the fall of communism? Maybe a bit?
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People are wowed by the MCU crossovers, but when the Fraggles met the Muppets from Sesame Street and the Muppet Show for Christmas, I knew my childhood was complete.
I loved that Christmas special. The turkey convincing the Swedish Chef to go after Big Bird so he could put the moves on Camilla. The running gag icy patch by the front door. Jim's cameo washing dishes. If not for RUclips I fear I'd never see it again given all the rights issues.
For the longest time I thought this was some weird fever dream only I had. Nobody i knew had seen or remembered it! Also, I can't unsee Doc's character from the Boondock Saints!
@@Will-me8zw It's that other Muppet Christmas film no one remembers. Thankfully it's on RUclips.
That to me is one of the best ever crossovers in history of my childhood.
There's actually a lost version of it which was the very first version aired which aired only once. I actually tried to tape it at the time but it didn't record. There's probably a copy in the Henson vaults but the one currently available is the only one we're likely to get. There's a few differences but nothing really major.
Thank you for including the Lighthouse Keeper!! I remember being so excited when this show started. All DVD and streaming releases are the American version, and I would so dearly love to revisit the British version that I grew up with.
Would be interested to see the British version. For purely couriosity. Was there an Australian or New Zealand variation?
@@mlmcproductions4191 there are episodes of the UK version on RUclips if you search "Fraggle Rock UK"
I loved this show as a child of the 80s, unfortunetly almost all the uk footage was lost and only those youtube clips remain. The US version just feels wrong to me. :(
@@manticore5733 You do know they have DVD sets of the UK version right? Yes I don't know anything expect for what episodes I've gotten from trades but I do know there are DVD sets of the UK Fraggle Rock out there. Not bootlegs like actual ones.
@@mlmcproductions4191 On the Muppet Wiki it shows there were 3 VHS releases of the show and it says it's from Australia but not sure about DVD sets of seasons. It also talks about re-runs of the show airing in Australia and New Zealand too. I do know they have DVD sets of the UK version of the show. Just look up Muppet Wiki and look type in Fraggle Rock and you should find out other things about the show.
This one choked me up. They were trying so hard to make things better. Thanks for the video. I learned a lot.
Yes, i remember this. Was trying to remember the name a few weeks ago, i liked that episode where they stopped eating the structures and the little guys thought they were no longer needed and were about to leave.
That exact episode popped into my head when watching this
As a kid, we had a crawl space in the basement which I always thought was a fraggle hole. When I saw A Muppets Family Christmas and the part where Kermit and Robin discovered a faggle hole in the basement, I assumed that crawl space was a fraggle hole. Sadly, my mom had to prove that it wasn't a fraggle hole, and teh crawl space wont lead me to fraggle rock.
Only in America do you hide the secret to world peace behind a subscription paywall. I never knew it was an HBO show, as a Canadian I grew up watching the Fraggles on CBC.
Yeah the irony isn't lost on me as an American. It sounds like Henson didn't have much involvement outside of his production company as he was working on movies.
But the production cost was never going to work outside of something like HBO. The fact the other places that helped make it the UK and Canada got it for free is also deeply hilarious to me. I'm sure this came to network or PBS or something when I was a kid but I can't exactly remember.
Your channel is so refreshing and entertaining. Thank-you for all the work you put into making this high quality production seem so effortlessly easy. I imagine its not as easy at you make it look. All the research that must go into this.
One of the great things about growing up in Detroit was regular access to CBC shows. So FRAGGLE ROCK, Anne of Avonlea (for mum and my sister) Hockey Night in Canada, later Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, Highlander and that vampire cop show were all just basic tv to us
Much the same in the Buffalo area! I always joke that I'm culturally half-Canadian.
@@ttintagel I’ve said the very same
What? I had no idea there were different versions!
Yup, it was localized. They even talked about it in a behind-the-scenes documentary back in the day when it was airing.
My favorite part is that the actor who played Doc in Fraggle Rock also played Doc (The bartender with tourette's) in The Boondock Saints
Good memories of watching Fraggle Rock as a kid with my brother and dad on ITV in England.
One episode, where Red was sleepwalking, scared the crap out of me.
I never knew that their were multi national live action parts!
In my teens, calling someone a Fraggle was an insult and we also used to sing a variation on the theme song which described, er, the brualisation of at least two Fraggles by using their genitalia as a sling shot and involved, if my memory serves me correctly, a chainsaw.
Explains the state of the modern world I guess!
One of my favorite childhood shows.
We didn't have HBO. So I had to watch the show at my cousins house. I loved the show and might just have to get Apple TV+ to see the entire series over the holidays.
I always learn something new about a subject I consider myself an authority on when I watch your show. I appreciate it.
Ahhhh... Jim Henson's The Storyteller. I would love an episode about that masterpiece.
As a kid I never got to see as much of this show as I wanted. My folks didn’t get HBO. I did watch during the free trials though.
Same. Those free trails were life to us that didn't have HBO
i grew up with fraggle rock and remember it fondly from my days as a child.
I don't know what the Fraggle I just saw but Holy Sharq I want to see more! Thank you Dan Larson!
I didn't have cable in the 1980s either, but I did have relatives who would tape shows off cable and send them to me sometimes, although it was mostly Disney Channel and Nickelodeon programming. HBO was usually the rarest of treats reserved for whenever our family was staying at hotels.
My mother still has my little backpack with fraggle rock picture books she bought me when I was in kindergarten
_Fraggle Rock_ came out one year after Jim Henson's creepy but interesting _The Dark Crystal._
I definitely think the Dark Crystal holds up better than Fraggle Rock in general. Then again Fraggle Rock was stretched out over 96 episodes and five seasons.
and remember it was filmed in Toronto Ontario Canada. and i think maybe two countries only had two different humans for the live action parts
Fraggle Rock was wonderful, The Storyteller was just magic, it still stands up as amazing telly today.
I'm so glad we got Fraggles on ITV and Storyteller on the Beeb (back when it was good).
I remember watching Fraggle Rock when it aired on the Disney Channel 30 years ago.
You ever considered covering MST3K ?
They literally just raised 6 million dollars in crowd funding to be independent
Crazy considering it started off as local tv to Comedy Central to sci-fi channel to Netflix to crowdsourced add in a movie and live shows and the split into different camps
Still has a rapid fan base of fans
Idk think it be a fun video to make
While my friends had the NES (I Sega parents) & I had to go to their house to play it, however I had HBO and a VCR so my friends had to come to MY house to watch the Fraggles!
Good episode. Now it's time to listen to All Around the World again. 🎧
I loved Fraggle Rock. I was fortunate enough that we had HBO, and I watched it every week. I remember thinking the clear glass like tubes that the smaller things used to build shit probably tasted garlicky for some reason.
I loved the Muppets too, but the Swedish chef used to creep the shit out of me. The weird voice was a part, but it was mostly the human hands swinging a chef's knife around. It was…shiver😬
BTW: who the hell goes out for swedish food?
I did have cable, but didn’t have HBO, so I only got to see it when they had free weekends or weekly promotions. I did have all of those McDonald’s toys though.
HBO Muppets, very interesting, great information as always. I enjoy your content very much.
Happy Thanksgiving! Sorry I was late catching up. Have a great night!
Fraggle Rock is a genius childrens show!
I had never watched the show, but I immediately recognized the McDonalds toy in the video. I still have it after probably over three decades!
Cable came to my neighborhood in roughly 1980, courtesy of Viacom. I grew up in an area some sources define as "lower middle class" but most of the kids I went to school with at any given time were "upper middle class" and occasionally "rich". No surprise that I was one of the last kids in my circles to get cable TV, some time in early 83. My folks opted for the "Super Deluxe" subscription and we had all three(!) movie channels, including HBO---and just in time for this new show about "Pink Puppet Turds" (as my dad called it). My sister and I described it to him as "underground alien muppets But Not *The* Muppets". Pink Puppet Turds was the one that he stuck with.
Around about 1985, as was not uncommon in my family's socioeconomic range, the money started drying up. Cable prices were rising along with everything else, though, so my parents decided we would henceforth be one of those grey-and-dreary households that were Basic Cable Only for forever and ever, The End. I would occasionally watch scrambled kids' movies and Fraggle Rock episodes in the same way some kids would later watch scrambled Cinemax for the occasional glimpse of a shimmering, discolored and slightly deformed boob.
Being British, I have no memories of Doc. In my memory, Fraggle Rock was below a Lighthouse kept by the Captain (Fulton MacKay) under the watchful eye of his never seen superior Commander Ponsonby.
Absolutely LOVE Fraggle Rock. Love it to pieces
this show was the Truth and they need to make a movie for it!
The story teller was epic too!
Jim Henson LEGEND!
I sometimes wondered about the setting of the Gorgs. It was very different from _our_ above-ground world and yet there clearly was sky. Was it a secret valley of some kind? I will likely never know.
Don't mind me while I not so quietly geek the fuck out over the stunning gem that is that Darkwing Duck shirt-I might have drooled a bit out of pure excitement and nostalgic feels, lol.
The guy that played Doc was the same dude that ran the bar in The Boondock Saints.
I call my youngest daughter my 'doozer'. Started when she discovered Legos, and started leaving them built everywhere
OMG that random 80s French-Canadian McDonald's ad in the middle. SO fucking nostalgic.
If you like muppets and fraggles and havent seen "Yonderland" I recommend you go check it out.
Its a BBC series from the 2010s that didnt get near the attention it deserved... and features "numerous Muppet-style puppet characters designed and built by longtime Jim Henson associates Baker Coogan, Lifecast and Fiona Cazaly."
No mention of the Fraggle appearance in the video for the song "Do it Anyway" by Ben Folds Five...?
Loved this show
Down at fraggle rock
I guess Farscape is next then...
"New Fraggle action figures"
Cool!
"From 'Boss Fight'"
*Neck-breaking whiplash with record-scratch sound* 👀
I'm sorry, what?
I know it's just a name, but the confusing dissonance felt hearing the words 'Fraggle' and 'Boss Fight' in the same sentence brings *questions*.
I didn’t grow up watching this show but I’d be lying if I said I don’t wanna watch it after seeing this vid. Is that ok? Is that normal. I’m 40 years old damnit. And I feel like I missed out! 🤣😂🤣
I always wanted to roam the caves....or I guess rock
ah see whatcha ya did there
I really didn't like Fraggle Rock as a kid. We had HBO, but I must have watched it on syndication since I was 4 when it ended. I just remember being annoyed when it would be on and I would sometimes try to watch it if there wasn't anything else on, but I just thought it was boring and they weren't as funny or unique as the Muppets and I just couldn't get into it. Though I do remember those Happy Meal toys being pretty fun, so I guess I'm just exactly what Henson didn't want to happen when he made the show.
You didn’t mention the Hulu show “The Doozers”
was this channel called toy galaxy at one time or am I having a Mandela effect moment.
Please do Farscape
Could you showed that history of fraggle Rock image any longer 🤣
My favourite bit of Fraggle trivia is that Uncle Traveling Matt’s name is a pun, a nod to the bluescreen keying used (a traveling matte) when they filmed his segments. Those guys were the best kind of nerds
I didn't know that!
I had no idea! I love fun triva like that, thank you.
And a "Gobo" is a metal plate put in front of a stage light to make light patterns of different shapes. Typically they're designed to hold colored films to change the light color as well.
Additional trivia: While chroma key compositing is often thought of as a more modern invention, it actually predates color film by a few decades. The bluescreen technique was developed at RKO during the 1930s, and the first film to use it for creating a traveling matte was 1940’s Thief of Bagdad (which went on to win that year’s Oscar for Best Special Effects).
@Brian Hykes The "colored film" is called a gel and it goes into a separate slot in the fixture.
I remember the one episode were the fraggles decide that it was wrong to eat the structures created by the little critters (which in my language were called 'engineers') and so they stopped doing it only to later realize that they were causing harm to the engineers because they soon built so many structures that they ran out of space in the caves and were desperately looking for a new place to live and build. They then realized that eating the structures was a vital component of their ecosystem and that messing with that order was a mistake. All that in the 1980's... what a group of legends...
That's the episode I remember most clearly. Yes, it was ultimately important for the Fraggles to eat the dooser sticks, but if the Fraggles hadn't stopped eating them for a time, they never would've known that the doozers needed them to do it. There's something deeply transcendental about that, but I don't fully understand it.
I remember that one! Very deep
I remember the one where the girl doozer doesn't want to take the doozer oath.
Namely the yes we really really do song. :P
@BeetleFartMediaYes, true, but only because we eradicated their natural predators and competitors.
I can't believe science existed back in the 80s!!
The Storyteller was my absolute favorite TV show back in the day, it's a shame it was so short lived.
It started as a stand-alone series then became part of The Jim Henson Hour. Did you watch the Greek Tales? It was a short follow-up in much the same manner.
@@writerpatrick I know and yes but to me the Greek tales didn't have the same spark to it. I have them both on DVD.
Same, I loved The Storyteller, it was one of the best programmes of the 80's. Taking the lesser known stories of Europe and giving them that special Henson twist, the actors they chose, especially Hurt were amazing.
Never heard of that series. Will have to check it out.
The mere fact that THIS crew did the show pretty much pro bono, working abroad sometimes specifically for this show, is a grand statement of their passion for the project.
And man does it show.
Loved this show as a kid. It was also one of the rare few shows to actually have an ending.
That and Dinosaurs.
"The Product was WAR. The target was children."
Way to shatter all my good childhood nostalgia vibes.
(I also learned you are 1 year older than me)
This channel has a way to sneak a hint of justifiable cynicism in between moments of pure love for the subject.
Still, that one (especially in a Fraggle episode!) was particularly... Sharp (can't think of a better word).
Hey, at least you learned that learning is half the battle.
@@shaider1982
Pork chop sandwiches!!!!!
And information is ammunition!
True peace can only be attained when evil is vanquished once and for all. Advocating for it prior to that condition being met is either pure naiveté or an insidious plot by villains to subvert their opposition. Ceasing to fight will only result in a fate far worse than conflict.
Mad respect for Jim Henson. Guy was a visionary.
Only have to say the words fragle rock and the theme tune instantly comes to mind and stays there all day long.
and it's a certified banger in different languages
Fraggle rock is what I imagine complete peace on earth is, I wish the entire world was as melodic and beautiful as fraggle rock
Same!
Instantly started whistling it in work 😂
Fragle rock
You're welcome
I grew up watching this show and even to this day I've never forgotten the theme song of Fraggle rock, it's seared into my brain for all time. A testament to how clever some of these theme song writters are at their mystical craft.
Fun fact: Doc's name is Jerome Crystal. It's revealed in the last (or next to last) episode of the show. That makes him Doc Crystal (Dark Crystal).
Go bother someone else scam artist
Thankfully for us Canucks, Fraggle Rock aired on CBC -- free, over-the-air transmission to every corner of the country. I think my favourite characters were the never-seen neighbours / rivals / best friends of Doc and Sprocket, Ned Shimmelfinney and his cat, Fluffenella.
Yeah, I was confused with the cable HBO talk because I knew I didn't have it but it was always on on channel 3 (CBC). It's funny, I haven't had cable since like the early 2000's when I left home, but I still think of networks as the channel # they were on in my region.
Weird fact: Jim Henson dying is what saved my dad's life. Shortly after Jim died, my dad got really sick. One of his friends said "What you have sounds an awful lot like what killed Jim Henson." So my dad went to the hospital and ended up staying there for a week with basically what Jim died of. If he hadn't gone to the hospital, I probably would have lost my dad as a kid.
I've been a longtime fan for 13 years old, no show means more to me than fraggle rock, i consider it the greatest show in the entire universe, fraggle rock is sacred to me and i will cherish it forever❤
I'm sure Mr Henson would be touched that one of his creations moved you so deeply. I too loved the show as a kid.
Have a nice day.
a lot of his creations have positively impacted my life, Jim Henson is my idol❤
Truly a man gone too soon.
I didn't grow up watching it but I did binge watch all 5 seasons and I agree the show has a lot of heart put into it that doesn't compare to other shows
There's actually only 4 seasons, season 4 was indeed split but it's still only 4 seasons, it's a common misconception
Vamos a cantar (clap clap)
Tiempo habra de trabajar
Vamos a gozar
Viva Fraggle Rock
Hay que trabajar
tiempo habra de descansar
vamos a cantar
y todos. vamos. a. cantar!
Vamos a cantar (clap clap)
Tiempo habra de trabajar
Vamos a gozar
Viva Fraggle Rock
Viva Fraggle Rock
VIVA FRAGGLE ROCK!
I was cringing this morning when the Thanksgiving parade announcer called Jim Henson "Jim Henderson" when talking about Fraggle Rock.
Awesome video as always!
What a clown, people need to respect a true legend.
Don’t worry, everyone in the Muppet/Fraggle community caught that and turned it into a running gag, in true Henson spirit 😂
When I was a kid I wanted HBO for just Fraggle Rock, but I didn’t get it, but thanks to my uncle who had cable at the time, was able to record the show for me! Jim Henson was such an imaginative producer!
'Dance your cares away, worries for another day! Let the music play, down at fraggle rock!' 40 years later, I still remember, fantastic show!
I was in my mid-teens when learning to play medieval music on the recorder and other folk instruments, and Fraggle Rock was on the air at that time. Still to this day, I'll play & sing the parts to Canthus' Song to friends who remember the show.
When it became apparent that Fraggle Rock was ending, I gave up watching TV, altogether, for years.
Thank you, Dan & Greg. This was some of the best television in all of Outer Space. ;)
I remember coming home from elementary school and watching this on HBO. Always like those buildings, bridges and roads the Dozers used to build and the Fraggles would eat them. And one time they stopped eating them and the Dozers were about to pack up and move away because that's why they built those things for for the Fraggles to eat them. But the Fraggles started eating them again and all was well.
I love Fraggle Rock. One of the first things I looked for when my folks got cable. Doc, Sprocket, and the Gorgs were my favorite.
fraggle rock is my favorite show, I've been a fan for 13 years
I will state plainly... I LOVED this show! I have such fond memories of it, and it was truly a good time to be alive. Fraggle Rock was so good; Pure genius. We will likely not see it's like again. I was lucky to have cable; Our household was not an early adopter, but because over-air reception was bad we gave it a shot. HBO was an amazing thing back then.
Man, it was and is just an excellent series with great music. Henson knew how to do it right.
Also, can't knock you for wanting Ace McCloud on your birthday. POWER EXTREEEEEEEEEEEME!!!
God I loved the little dudes who built things and then the fraggles ate them. Even at 5 years old I knew that whatever mind came up with that had to be brilliant.
Ahhh sweet memories of this from when I was in kindergarten.
And cheers to you, Dan, for saying "Fraggle Hole" with a straight face.
Although we can't be sure how many takes it took to get through that.
Fraggle Rock is a great show. Glad that it got released on Blu Ray and DVD
this isn't a joke, I love fraggle rock so much than I wanna listen to the theme song when I shuffle off my mortal coil one day
I love this. 😊 And I hope you're around to enjoy the song *in person* for years to come
As a kid, we didn't get cable until later, so the times I was able to catch an episode of Fraggle Rock always felt so underground... Like a warped Muppets or some sort of pirated cult series, and that made me love this show even more. Even now as an adult it still brings back that feeling for me.
This show is the reason I became a puppeteer, and I’ve been lucky enough to meet Steve Whitmire and spend pretty much an entire day talking with him about it. 😊 Also just a minor thing- Dave Goelz is pronounced as “goals”, not “gells” 😅
I made a top 10 video on fraggle rock's 39th anniversary
Hey Dan, what's the deal with the two creepy Rejuvenique facial toning masks on the left-hand side?
DOOZERS
My dad used to wake me up early, make me some hot chocolate, and sit me down to watch Fraggle Rock before i had to get ready for school. Lot of good memories for me tied up with this show...
I hope I can be half the parent he was at moments like that...
7:36 Was distracted for a minute then suddenly heard Dan say “giant Gorgs”… had to rewind to make sure it wasn’t _that_ “Giant Gorg” (1984 mecha anime) and that i somehow hadn’t slipped into a totally different video 😆
You are a person of Culture and Sophistication for knowing about Giant Gorg :)
@@daishikaze3986 🍸🧐🎩
I watched Fraggle Rock when it originally aired and sure it was fun and even at that age I could tell it had a big “peace and love” vibe because ultimately it was about different cultures learning to live and work together in harmony…. And the character of Convincing John was always hilarious
Childhood memories of Saturday Dinnertime!
When I was about 4 or 5 I was convinced the Fraggles were real. Sometimes it was all I talked about and at first my parents played along, until it started to get a little dangerous. On several occasions they caught me trying to dig in my basement or put holes in the walls with shovels and picks. I was always a pretty good kid but no matter how many times I got in trouble, no matter the punishment, I was right back at it. Eventually, of course, they were forced to break it to me they weren't real and they even showed me a behind the scenes hbo special one day. I don't think I was too horribly devastated but I sure wasn't happy. The funniest part is I have no memory of learning about Santa Claus. I never was obsessed with another show to that same extent since.
As an autistic girl with a crush on Red, I'm surprised I wasn't like that!
@@SillyCreatureSally awe, that's sweet.
@@theriffwriter2194 Well, it's not surprising! She's CUTE!
@@SillyCreatureSally no argument here 😏
@@theriffwriter2194 IK!
Fraggle Rock was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I loved the Doozers so much. They may have directly inspired my love for architecture and construction.
Oh God, my sisters would make me sit and watch Fraggle Rock when I was 7-8 years old.
So glad I was lucky enough to have Cable TV/HBO for shows like this & the memories that they bring back. Especially considering I was only around 1-2 years old when this debuted in 1983 but I have vivid memories of watching this daily in my Pre-K to at least 1st/2nd grade years. Between HBO, The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon; this was an amazing time to not only be a kid but to have Cable TV as well. Definitely a time that won’t be duplicated again.
It aired on CBC for free in Canada.
@@writerpatrick
Apparently it eventually did here in the US too just a few years after it finished. I know that's how I am at all aware of it. As I definitely didn't have access to cable at all as a kid.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! I actually remember that commercial @9:15 ! It aired quite a bit on french TV in the Ottawa-Gatineau area back in the day. What a flashback!
Radio-Canada was showing it whenever they could. 🤣
Dan Larson putting out an awesome video on Thanksgiving? He's working harder than a Doozer.
I always wanted to watch this show as a kid, but no HBO for my family. Around 88/89 the show was syndicated on broadcast TV and was showed in the afternoons with other cartoons I was into at the time. Groovy!
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's when I got into this show as well. It still blows my mind it's an HBO show but seeing the budget of the time yeah it makes sense.