I never really realized it before, but Fraggle Rock is actually a pretty technically impressive show. I mean, the intro alone has like forty fucking puppets in it, and they're all singing in union. While there's only probably ten or so actual voices in there, the fact that Jim Henson could find that many people capable of doing the weird Fraggle singing voice sure impressed me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7TTk_0XYn4

I'm unable to embed it, but it's worth watching.

On top of that, excepting the scenes with the fat troll things (which are impressive due to the scaling and such, as are the little dudes in the intro, which, if I remember, are Doozers), there's always at least ten fraggles on screen doing things, in a well designed set that fits it all without showing strings or obviously being designed to hide things.

While looking for the intro, I found this. When you add DJ Kool to anything, it = the best ever. Add in the inhereint awesomeness of Fraggles, and, well.



I also managed to find a whole episode, and quite a few more are available. It's not a bad one, though it's a little different from the version I saw the other day.



It's a musical kids show, which means I should hate it, but childhood memories, and the fact that it's just a nice show, make me actually kind of like it.

So yeah, you should like Fraggles, cause they're actually pretty cool, and a perfect stoner show.


On a completely unrelated note, having only one decent 24 hour background channel has not messed with my sanity in any way. Nope.