Scary Fraggle Moments

[JaniceFerSure]

:) Hi there.I like to hear of your scary fraggle moments,episodes,characters.Thanks-JaniceFerSure

Mine are 2:
The episode where Mokey befriends a bunny character,the bunny makes Mokey shrink & puts Mokey in a dollhouse.<<shiver>> :sympathy:

The second is the Mudbunny episode,Wembley befriends the Mudbunny,& the Mudbunny turns bad; before it goes into its cocoon. :boo:

These are the only ones that come to mind right now.Thanks for looking. :flirt:

[Foodie]

:) Hi there.I like to hear of your scary fraggle moments,episodes,characters.Thanks-JaniceFerSure

Mine are 2:
The episode where Mokey befriends a bunny character,the bunny makes Mokey shrink & puts Mokey in a dollhouse.<<shiver>> :sympathy:

The second is the Mudbunny episode,Wembley befriends the Mudbunny,& the Mudbunny turns bad; before it goes into its cocoon. :boo:

These are the only ones that come to mind right now.Thanks for looking. :flirt:

I get kinda spooked when Wembley first enters the Terrible Tunnel and you here that voice answering " Ho " to Wem's " Hidies ". I can do that voice pretty well too actually. But that's one of the creepiest fraggle moments for me.
Mudwell's mood swing is un-nerving as well. ( Is " un-nerving " a word? )
:smirk:

Nick

[janicegroupie]

I find the episode Home is Where the Trash is to be really scary when Philo and Gunge get captured by that McMooch guy because he is really creepy looking. Especially when he is having Philo and Gunge pulling him that wagon or whatever (I'm trying to remember it as good as I can.) Like I said he is so scary looking and that scene just made him even scarier for some reason.

[JPJappic]

Is it just me, or do Wembley's eyes freak you out? I've noticed that in some episodes when he's singing, his eyes start turning around in circles and it's really creepy.

J.P.

[Foodie]

Is it just me, or do Wembley's eyes freak you out? I've noticed that in some episodes when he's singing, his eyes start turning around in circles and it's really creepy.

J.P.

The guy burning my fraggle tapes to DVD said something like that too. I always thought Wem's eye spinning was cool though.
:smirk:

Nick

[TravellingMatt]

I always thought Wander McMooch was kinda cool. I even incorporated him into a Muppet Show outline. He pops up in a Muppet Melodrama skit with Miss Piggy and Uncle Deadly. The Dead Man is doing his villain shtick when instead of Wayne coming to Piggy's rescue, it's Wander McMooch, and it turns out he's UD's brother, and they spend the rest of the skit arguing over who the better villain is, with Wander telling UD, "You couldn't tie up a telephone line!"

My scariest Fraggle moment was in "The Bells of Fraggle Rock" when Gobo is exploring, trying to find the Great Bell, when he comes back to find all his friends frozen solid. Runner-up has to be when Mokey, Red, and Wembley fall victim to Pa Gorg's Boredom Juice in "Bored Stiff".

Pa Gorg was a delusional, pompous old windbag, wasn't he? That Jerry Nelson can play just about ANYONE... :crazy:

[Don_Music_2004]

I think a scary Fraggle Moment was in The River of Life when all the Fraggles got sick from drinking the bad water. That seemed like a really scary and emotional episode.

[camilla]

My scariest Fraggle moments were the Gorges full stop. I always used to get scared when they would catch the poor helpless little fraggles

[SarahFraggle]

I thought it was freaky when the Gorgs heads were invisable, but I find that funny. :excited:

[frodis58]

I remember when I was a kid I was really afraid for Red and Boober
in the "Marooned" episode.
The song they sang made my head tingle with emotion.

[Xerus]

How about the episode where Red and Lanford the Plant ended up in that cavern with those clinging creeper plants? They were like huge octopuses that almost grabbed Red, until Lanford saved the day in the end.

[beigefraggle]

The River of Life had its scary moments, but nothing ever bothered me as much as "Wembley and the Mean Genie" when the Genie hypnotizes all the Fraggles except Wembley. They all lined up in ranks acting like they'd just returned from a Communist re-education center, and they start singing Do you want it? (Get out of our way!)

Scary. They were all like evil soulless vampire fraggles.

[JaniceFerSure]

The River of Life had its scary moments, but nothing ever bothered me as much as "Wembley and the Mean Genie" when the Genie hypnotizes all the Fraggles except Wembley. They all lined up in ranks acting like they'd just returned from a Communist re-education center, and they start singing Do you want it? (Get out of our way!)

Scary. They were all like evil soulless vampire fraggles.

Absolutely true!

[Purple]

I was scared of Marjory the Trash Heap, did anyone else find her scary?.

[beigefraggle]

Some of the Fraggles found Marjorie frightening. Boober especially. *wink wink*

She was much more frightening early on in the series, in my mind. Back when she was sort of dimwitted and dangerous. She is monstrous when you first look at her, a sort of motley Jabba the Hutt. But deep down she's a big cuddly mother-figure.

[PukkaPukka]

I thought the episode was cool, but I was a little spooked by the episode where Junior Gorg attempts to smash - and then blow up - Fraggle Rock...I forget the episode name. What scared me in a sad way was when Red sang at the mouth of the tunnel to the Garden. It was scary in a really really sad way...but hey, I was a tyke. It still gets me though, mainly how the puppeteers play so well that they disappear into the character. Karen....man.

Just my thoughts. Scary and sad at the same time.

[PukkaPukka]

...and yeah, "Wembley and the Mean Genie" - that Commie-march semblance was eerie. Eerie. Still, a fun fun episode though. But they were all great.

[EmilyFraggle]

I know what you mean Camilla, man those gorgs scared the **** out of me!

[Baby Rowlf]

I'm surprised no one touched on this more, but the freakest thing I've seen on Fraggle Rock was the aforementioned Terrible Tunnel. Wembley goes through it and sees ghosts, and hears weird voices, and then there's that weird rock formation that looked like teeth, and chewed things.

I haven't seen the episode since I was, like, 5, so my memory's a little fuzzy on it.:) I do recall that it was made clear that very few fraggles came out of that alive..o.O

[tallnikky]

How about that weird from creature from "Junior Sells the Farm". That guy gave me the creeps...and he would always pop out of nowhere with some crazy sound effect. I think he was a frog but I don't know if he had a name. :o

[Mokey Fraggle]

I'm gonna liven up an old discussion and say that "Wonder Mountain" gave me nightmares when I was little. I was petrified of the Avalanche Monster but it wasn't only that. It was the entire episode that really freaked me out. The eerie instrumental was scary. Red being hypnotized by the singing cactus was terrible. Mokey crossing the invisible bridge made me nervous. Even Doc scared me with all that talk about bobcats and such! (This was because Sprocket stood watch dog for Mr. Shimelfinny and Doc was worried about him). The ending didn't exactly soothe me when Red and Mokey get to the top of Wonder Mountain and you know that it's really high and there just isn't a lot of room for both of them - plus that eerie instrumental is now just weird and chilling. Yeah, this episode would scare me today.

[Frogster]

Is this the one where Gobo, Boober, and Wembley have to cure Mokey's plant and Gobo gets the hiccups? I remembered that episode when you mentioned the invisible bridge! I remember Red hitting her face and saying "Found it." I remember her falling down and Mokey making it across. The hypnotizing scene is where Mokey rescues Red from those mummies, right? I also remember her wearing earplugs to protect herself! I saw this episode 14 years ago!

[Mokey Fraggle]

In Wonder Mountain, Gobo, Wembley, and Boober plant-sit Mokey's plant Lanford. They're all trying to get him to eat and he won't. They turn around for just a second and Lanford has eaten Boober's laundry soap or something (I don't quite remember what it is). He starts breathing bubbles and Gobo gives him "mouth to leaf recussitation" as Boober says. This results in Gobo breathing the bubbles!
Frogster, I think the part you're thinking of is where Red tries to protect Mokey by marking off the place where the singing cactuses are. She says, "One...." and then the cactus comes alive singing "Two, Three". They sing the "Do the Sashay" song and Red is hypnotized. Mokey comes along and sees this, plugs her ears with radishes, and saves Red. I swear, this whole scene is just emblazoned in my brain!

[Frogster]

Thanks for the clarification! Well, my scary moment, from when I was young, was from the episode "The Great Radish Caper" when Mokey sets off the trap by trying to drag the radish Junior called Geraldine. When the cans go off, you hear that erie music, Junior runs toward her and catches a terrified Mokey. Also, When Red, Gobo and Wembley are out there, it looks like they'll get caught too. Junior had a special way of terrifying me as much as the fraggles. Know what I mean?

[Mokey Fraggle]

I've never seen this episode! It sounds like a good one, though. I thought that I had seen most of the episodes of Fraggle Rock until I started reading these posts! It turns out that I haven't seen close to half of them. My mom taped almost all of the episodes from HBO and TNT when I was little but she threw quite a bit of them away a couple of months ago while cleaning! (This makes me sick to my stomach!) I don't remember all of the episodes she threw away but two of them were "Beyond the Pond" and "Boober and the Glob". I remember "Boober and the Glob" pretty well, but "Beyond the Pond" is very vague in my memory. The only thing I remember from this one is Red swimming under water and something about these pink vine-type things. Somebody help me out, here!

[Frogster]

Mokey Fraggle,
The Great Radish Caper is the best Mokey episode I know of. If you go to your library, you can get it thru inner-library loan. I rent it from time to time. It was the second episode I ever saw.
Sorry I can't help you on the episodes mentioned above. I know what you feel like when your mom threw away the tapes. My mom video-taped over Honk of Honks, Gorg Who Would Be King, Wembley and the Gorgs, Can't Do That Without A Hat, Wander Mountain, A Tune For Two, Boober Rock, as well as some episodes of the animated Fraggle series.

[Frogster]

:smirk: Some very crucial episodes were taped over! Go to Fraggle Rock Episode Guide and you can probably find some old episodes you recognize. Can someone out there give Mokey a summary on that episode? :excited:

[Mokey Fraggle]

Frogster, if you want to email me at tpws4244@yahoo.com maybe I could help you out with some of those episodes you mentioned your mom taped over. I have most of those recorded from TV that I managed to save. We might could do some trading.

[Mokey Fraggle]

Just thought of another fraggle moment that scared me! In "A Cave of One's Own" the part where Red gets grabbed by the lurk monster! So creepy but I love it!

[Gorgon Heap]

I used to be scared of the Trash Heap and Junior Gorg. The first four episodes I ever had on tape were "The Battle of Leaking Roof", "Wembley and the Mean Genie", "The Beanbarrow, the Burden, and the Bright Bouquet", and "The Great Radish Caper".

Junior's eyes were scary to me, and the Trash Heap grossed me out.

I got scared during "Boober and the Glob" when it seemed like the doozers who got swallowed would be gone forever. The terrible tunnel was creepy too- that voice Karen did has got to be the scariest Muppet voice bar none.

David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole

[heralde]

Definitely, the Mean Genie episode disturbed me as a kid, I can still remember watching in my Family Room. Still, it's a really good story; the lesson is if you don't stand up to evil, it will just continue to grow.

I don't remember being scared of the Gorgs. But I remember not liking the beginning of the show's theme song, the pan into Doc's window with the music playing. That always freaked me out and I tried to avoid watching the beginning of the show sometimes!

[Emosewa]

For some reason that flying bug thing from the episode where Mokey was named the new oracle of the fraggles kind of creeped me out. ^_^

[superboober]

What would scare me was the episode where they all got gassed with the boredom juice (no wonder Boober left early; he probably could guess something terrible was about to happen and was warranted for once). While any instance of them under hynosis was disturbing to a 4 year old, this was the worst of all, with me getting the feeling that all life had been irreparably drained from them given how mechanically they'd respond "Boring." to everything. An episode every would-be al-Qaida operative should look at before he'd consider pushing the detonator.

[maniacal muppet]

the episode with skenfrith and he sings " now you're caught"
( he looks deamony:boo: shiver)

[Muppets Forever]

I have so many. 1. Any time Wander McMooch appeared. He gave me nightmares.I actually thought that he was going to get me when I was a child.:eek: 2. The terrible tunnel. 3.The fraggle wars, with the humorless fraggles. 3.Beyond the Pond, with the underwater fraggles, 4. The episode with the pink blob that ate the doozers. 5. The episode with the caves of bordem. 5. The episode where Mokey went on a trip and Red decided to sneak along and there was some scary creature make of rocks or boulders. 6. When Red and Boober were in a cave in. 7. Now I can't remember why this episode scared me so much but, the episode where the Fraggles found a porthole and they went into "outerspace" and there were garden gnomes all around.:smirk: Now I'm sure there are many other episodes that scared me but these are all that I could remember at the minute:excited:

[nickmetroid]

Fraggle Rock scary?

Well there is one. Mokey when she opens her eyes. That is FREAKY stuff man! :eek: meep!

Other than that, the sea monster in 'Red's sea monster' who has a 'trumpet' on his head. Let's just say I'll leave it at that.

[zeldazipple]

I don't think that any of the Fraggle shows were scary but I think the closest I came to being ' scared ' would have to be ' The Bells Of Fraggle Rock, where Gobo finds his friends all frozen. I was watching that one with a friend of mine who said that they did something bad and God was punishing them. And for some reason that always stuck in the back of my mind. lol
* Did I meantion that I'm slightly insane. * j/k :)

[Fragglemuppet]

The only two instances that I can think of were when I was very little. Keep in mind, that most of the episodes I've seen, I've only seen very recently. So there are certain things that I can see how they might be percieved as scary, without being scared myself.
The two moments that scarred me about sixteen or so years ago were:
1. The moment in "The Great Raddish Caper" when Mokey is first caught, and is talking to Junior. I don't remember the trap, but I remember Junior catching her, and I think Mokey was frightened at first. Can someone please fill me in on the details?
2. The moment in "A Friend In Need" when Gobo is talking to the monster, (I didn't even register that it was Sprocket), and the monster is kind of wimpering, and I thaught he was going to hurt Gobo! In both cases, this is all I can remember of the episode,.

[Twiddlebug]

Actually, I was going for the Grandmotherly energy.

[Twiddlebug]

My last post was meant to follow this post
Some of the Fraggles found Marjorie frightening. Boober especially. *wink wink*

She was much more frightening early on in the series, in my mind. Back when she was sort of dimwitted and dangerous. She is monstrous when you first look at her, a sort of motley Jabba the Hutt. But deep down she's a big cuddly mother-figure.

[Muppet Matt]

My last post was meant to follow this post
Some of the Fraggles found Marjorie frightening. Boober especially. *wink wink*

She was much more frightening early on in the series, in my mind. Back when she was sort of dimwitted and dangerous. She is monstrous when you first look at her, a sort of motley Jabba the Hutt. But deep down she's a big cuddly mother-figure.

Yeah, I think Philo and Gunge help to make her more funny.

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

They did add to her dimensions of personality, but I think she was also pretty funny in her own right.

Marjorie: "You get a fraggle, a doozer, and a gorg to meet together in the Gorgs' garden after midnight."

Mokey: "A fraggle, a doozier, and a gorg?...but how??"

Marjorie: "Your problem, make it happen."

LOL!

[ILuVERNIE]

scary fraggle moment... ooh! whenever mokey moves her eyes! that makes me feel weird...

[Gorgon Heap]

The episode where Mokey befriends a bunny character,the bunny makes Mokey shrink & puts Mokey in a dollhouse.<<shiver>>

Yeah, that one gets me.

"Oh Begoony, it's beautiful, it's charming, it's- it's..." (Begoony closes the door, locking her in) "FOR ME!!!!!"

*shudder* *shiver*

David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole

[Convincing John]

My last post was meant to follow this post
Some of the Fraggles found Marjorie frightening. Boober especially. *wink wink*

She was much more frightening early on in the series, in my mind. Back when she was sort of dimwitted and dangerous. She is monstrous when you first look at her, a sort of motley Jabba the Hutt. But deep down she's a big cuddly mother-figure.


I always liked Marjorie. I thought she was cool. In "The New Trash Heap in Town", she is able to intervene in the Fraggles' collective dreams and reassure them that everything will be all right. I always liked that scene, where she says "Do not be afraid, little Fraggles...it is only a dream..." and the Fraggles calm down and sleep easier. She truly cares about them, and that little scene shows it so well.

I can't remember any Fraggle moments that scared me when I was a kid, but I do use an expression of Gobo's from "Scared Silly". In the epsiode, Gobo says "You scared the radish resin outta me!" I thought it was a funny expression, and ever since if something scares me, I refer to it as "scaring the radish resin outta me!":smirk:

Convincing John

[iluvfragglerock]

I find the episode Home is Where the Trash is to be really scary when Philo and Gunge get captured by that McMooch guy because he is really creepy looking. Especially when he is having Philo and Gunge pulling him that wagon or whatever (I'm trying to remember it as good as I can.) Like I said he is so scary looking and that scene just made him even scarier for some reason.

oo that one always scared me too:boo: :grouchy:

[iluvfragglerock]

the terrible tunnel is a kinda freaky episode

[Morgan Clueless]

the terrible tunnel is a kinda freaky episode

Same here. I personally found it creepy when the Storyteller sang the tale of the Tunnel...

And the spiders sorta freaked me out a bit, I admit. O_o

[iluvfragglerock]

Same here. I personally found it creepy when the Storyteller sang the tale of the Tunnel...

And the spiders sorta freaked me out a bit, I admit. O_o

lol i always thought the little creatures (like the spiders) were soo cute:flirt: and i got freaked when wembley found the terrible tunnel:eek: :eek:

[Hrodulf]

Mine would be from the episode where Boober gets amnesia and thinks he a Gorg (!) and at the end, when they've caught all the other Fraggles in a cage, Pa Gorg says something like "Ok, let's get the fraggle thumper and finish them off" and they bring out this huge club.

It's extra disturbing if you think about it because the fact that they have a "fraggle thumper" suggests they've violently killed Fraggles before . . .

[Kiki]

Ooh, The terrible Tunnel is soo scary-potatoes! (Just quietly when i watch it at night, i still get a lil' creeped out :o ). When i was younger the Gorgs were so-totally freaky-deaky and i used to have nightmares 'bout 'em.

[superboober]

I agree there just is something creepy about The Terrible Tunnel. As it was heavily in the episode rotation even in later seasons, I did get to see it quite a bit in my formative years. The actual level of terror in the tunnel itself varies; perhaps the scariest part for me was when the clam-like creature pops up without warning and roars at Wembley; I don't blame him at all for panicking and running deeper into the tunnel at that.

[Xela]

Yeah, I agree with everyone who's said that McMooch guy is creepy...because he is!

I'm almost 18, and still creeped out by it!! :o

[Frogster]

I thought the Avalanche Monster was awesome... pretty cool stuff.

[MuppetMarc]

I used to get Sweetums and Junior Gorg mixed up seeing as how they are both huge, hairy, and raggedy. I was afraid to go into our basement because I thought he was living in there as well as my closet. Now I find them hilarious.

Lovingly yours,
MuppetMarc

[MrsWembly]

None of the characters in Fraggle Rock ever scared me....but there were a few moments in two episodes that creeped me out when I was little. One of them has been mentioned. THE TERRIBLE TUNNEL when the fraggles are playing “Hidey Ho” and the creepy voice says “hoooooo..”

My second scariest moment is in GOBO'S DISCOVERY (great episode!) when the invisible garboil goes through Fraggle Rock. The garboil reminds me very much of a hurricane. I saw this episode for the first time in over a decade right after Hurricane Katrina. (I live about an hour away from New Orleans.)

“Sqeak sqeak boing boing just like that.... and now I'm singing in my hat!”

[JEANYLASER]

Red, Mokey, Weebly, Boober has been tied up in the cave

[weredog]

Like so many others, I found the Terrible Tunnel episode really creepy when I was little.

When I was little I remember being at the babysitters and thumbing through a magazine they had. In the magazine was an ad for an upcoming series on HBO. Fraggle Rock. The ad had a picture of Red's head popping out of a Fraggle hole. And for some reason, I thought Red was a monster. She kind of gave me the creeps. Every so often after that I'd get the magazine, turn to that page and enjoy the feeling of getting creeped.
Of course the show premiered and I watched it. I immediately stopped thinking of Fraggles as monsters and fell in love with the characters. To this day I don't know what five year old me was thinking. Red a monster. How utterly rediculous.

[heralde]

Lol, that's a great story. Sort of like that episode "Believe It or Not" when the Fraggles prove to Ma Gorg that Skenfrith isn't really a monster. He's only a monster because she thinks he is. (Great episode!)

[Java]

I wanted to revive this, because I've really been thinking about this lately having seen the episode where Mokey befriends Begoney and shrinks. That is one creepy scare episode for me.

The other one that I find scary is the one with the ditzies... for whatever reason that one creeps me out.

[FraggleRockRock]

I think the scariest thing I ever saw on fraggle rock was the mean genie. Basically everything he ever did freaked me out, but especially the song he sang! Goodness, how freaky was THAT!

Other than that, though, I was so scared when I saw "Fraggle Wars", when the worlds oldest fraggle explains that the different fraggles decided to go to war because they don't laugh at the same jokes and red says something like, "You want to fight with them because they don't laugh at the same jokes?" and the world's oldest fraggle says, "Well, its as good a reason as any," then he just goes back to sleep. That sent chills down my mind's chasm. whoa...

And then in "the day the music died " when the ditzies said, "Now we are dying... We don't know why." that stated so bluntly was just downright scary! :eek: