Finding Muppets at Walt Disney World

Lisa Alexander - Hi folks! Lisa the Intern here. For those of you who don't know (which is probably all of you), I recently returned from a trip to Disney World. A word of advice for those of you who may be planning a trip soon: Don't try to do all four parks in three days. You will be rushed and stressed and will have to skip some potentially awesome rides and shows for the sake of getting to the next park. Also, it will severely limit your time for admiring and purchasing Muppet merchandise.

Yes, you read that right. Muppet merchandise is popping up all over all four parks--Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios--and it's selling.

First of all, you are probably familiar with the classic Mouse Ears--cute little hats you can buy to make it look like you have ears just like Mickey. And then there are the novelty Mouse Ears, with random things attached like a bridal veil so you can announce to the entire park that you just got married (or that you're a really cute little girl who asked Daddy really nicely). But the kind of Ears I saw most often actually being worn or carried around the parks? They were green and had Kermit eyes between the Mickey ears. Now, granted, my eye is naturally drawn to anything Muppet, and a bright green hat is much more noticeable than a black one, so it would probably be a little too bold of me to venture that the Kermit Ears (ain't that oxymoronic?) are the most popular Mouse Ears, but I would definitely say that they rank fairly high. I would also like to mention that there were an awful lot of people walking around the parks wearing Muppet t-shirts. It was very encouraging.

Now, like I said, there was Muppet merchandise for sale in every single park. I can't say exactly how much, because I didn't go in every single store. To be honest, the only Muppet merchandise I saw at Animal Kingdom was a Kermit pin, but that's still more than I was expecting--Animal Kingdom is not exactly the most character-centric park. Elsewhere, a small 3-D Kermit vinylmation pin was incredibly easy to find; I was practically tripping over it at Epcot. There was also a lovely set of three pens that looked like Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Animal, which I would have bought except that I never would have used them and simply don't have anywhere in my room to display Muppet pens. You could also buy the Kermit pen individually.

Of course, the real locus of all Muppet merchandise at Disney was the lovely gift shop you find upon exiting Muppet*Vision. And that, my friends, is where I have plenty of good news.

You may know that the waiting area for Muppet*Vision is filled with all sorts of fun props and decorations and random things that presumably belong to the Muppets. I would give you more details on the sorts of things you can find there, but I simply can't; the waiting area was so full that I could not explore. Yes, this very large area was PACKED with people eager to see the Muppets (or to enjoy some air conditioning, but an audience is an audience). This was QUITE a contrast to my trip to Disneyland two years ago, where my parents and I pretty much had the waiting area of Muppet*Vision all to ourselves and I wandered around taking a hundred pictures of everything.

Similarly, you may or may not know about the lovely Muppet fountain outside of Muppet*Vision. It's lovely in person, but I kept having to wait to take pictures of it because so many other families were posing with it.

"But what about the merchandise?" you are wondering. Well, Muppet fans, if you're heading to Disney, bring a very full wallet with you and leave plenty of room in your suitcase for souvenirs. I'm very particular about my Muppet merchandise, and I still managed to spend almost $90 of my parents' money. (What? It was my graduation present. And it was partly their fault. "What do you mean, you don't have a Fozzie plush? You NEED to have a Fozzie plush!")

Now, a lot of it is the same stuff we've been seeing for years--the same Kermit, Fozzie, and Miss Piggy plushes, although you have quite the selection in the size of those plushes. But there were new t-shirts and mugs, plus a bunch of the Muppet Comic Books, and other things that I'm forgetting because there was just SO MUCH there to love.

The vinylmation is harder to find. Like I said, this stuff is selling. The only Muppet vinylmation (other than the Kermit pin mentioned earlier) I could find was NOT at the Muppet*Vision gift shop, but at a gift shop attached to a presentation on animation. They seemed to have quite the selection, but it was of course all blind-boxed, and by that point I was being dragged out the door so we could get some lunch and move on to the next park. (Like I said, I do not advise doing four parks in three days.)

But the best indication about the Muppets at Disney World may have come from the lady working the register at the Muppet*Vision gift shop: "People are always so excited when they find this show ... It's amazing how many people still like the Muppets." She specifically mentioned the "older fans" and the little kids who weren't around for the hay-day of the Muppets, and yet somehow have still managed to fall in love with them.

The bottom line? I'd say the Muppets are "in."






The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier, ryguy102390@gmail.com

Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations: Week 19

Hi folks! Lisa the Intern here with a small batch of Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations for you. Sadly, I have entered that crazy time of the semester when everything has to happen at the same time, so Quotations have not been able to be my main priority... but here's what I've got!


Wonder Mountain: "Is he okay?" "...He has NEVER been okay." --Wembley and Boober Fraggle


Red's Blue Dragon: "Now I'm just upside-down, inside-out, falling down, turn-about. What I mean, where I've been, people don't know!" --Red Fraggle


Space Frog Follies: "I'm not a stick in the mud. I'm a lump in the laundry!" --Gobo Fraggle


See? Cute little batch. I'll try to have more next time. But until then, dance your cares away, folks!

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations: Week 18

Hey folks. Lisa the Intern here again. Yeah, my week running the blog is over, and I was out partying all night last night, but for some reason I still have to post a few quotations for you. Not too many this week, but hey, in my defense, I was busy pulling articles out of thin air for you guys.


A Brush with Jealousy: "Boy, is this 'talking' business ever tricky!" --Wembley Fraggle


Wembley's Flight: "Let your heart fly free and high." --The Odd Old Man


...Well. That is officially pathetic. But hey, better than nothing, right? Also, I have some re-watching to do to cull more quotations from further episodes, which is hard to do when you're also doing homework and writing articles and such. So I apparently had a life this week, or something. Sorry about that.

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Lisa the Intern's Fan Art

Lacking other content for today--darned if I know how Ryan manages to put something up every single day--I, your faithful intern, must resort to ego-centricism and show off my strange fan art. That should be enjoyable for everyone, right? I mean, my mom likes it, anyway...

I'm not much of an artist, and as anyone who has ever tried to draw a Muppet knows, they're not easy to capture. I try to get around both of these things. For one, I use Paint--no, not paint as in the stuff you apply with a brush, but Paint as in the crummy little program found on all Windows PCs. An odd choice, perhaps, but it works for me. My other trick is that I don't start from scratch--I sort of trace an existing picture of whatever Muppet I'm "drawing." I'm not quite sure how else to explain it, but since a picture is worth a thousand words, let's start showing, shall we?

You may or may not know that Robin is my favorite Muppet, so naturally the first bit of fan art I did was of him. I started with this picture here of cute little Robin sitting on the floor backstage at the Muppet Theater. Then I completely removed the background and sort of re-colored Robin so that he no longer looked like a photograph, but more like the sort of "shading" I can do in Paint on my own. Then I moved him around a bit and put him on a rock in the middle of a river, so the final result looked like this:

Note to self: Running water is really, really hard. Somehow, I always forget that.

Next was Miss Piggy. I started with this screencap of her when she's just won the beauty contest at the Bogen County Fair. Then I took out the background, moved her over a little, and put her in the wings of the Muppet Theater, just about to come on stage. We can see Kermit in the audience--the only one in the audience, apparently. But this one just sort of kept getting more complicated on me. So there's also a big hole in the wall behind Piggy, complete with rubble on the floor, a broom next to it waiting to tend to that rubble, and a couple of chickens strolling through that hole. And above the hole, there's an exit sign with an arrow pointing somewhere else, but someone took some black spray-paint, crossed out the original arrow, and made a new one pointing to the hole. Nice and Muppety, don't you think?

Note to self: I hate hair.

In attempt to avoid hair, I tackled Scooter next. Believe it or not, this one isn't entirely done, but it's close enough for me to feel okay sharing it. I took one of those pictures we got when we were waiting for Letters to Santa to come out, and I got rid of Kermit, Piggy, and the entire background. Then I put Scooter on some random city rooftop, where he's apparently looking at the stars, but his original reason for coming up to the roof was to fetch Kermit, whom we can see sitting at the edge of the roof, doing some star-gazing of his own.

Note to self: Clothes are always a lot harder than they look.

So that is my fan art--or at least, the stuff that's worth looking at. Enjoy!







The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

The Magic of Fraggle Rock

I don't recall if I mentioned this back when I started my Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations, but watching Fraggle Rock almost constantly is about all that's been keeping me relatively sane this school year. I mention this now because as I sat down to watch this, I was having trouble finding the remote for the DVD player to start watching again after a full day of classes, and also because I have nothing else to talk about. We're just sort of going to figure this post out as we go, alright? It should be fun.

As I was saying, Fraggle Rock has been an almost constant presence in my life since August. That was sort of interesting last semester, when I had no TV in my apartment and therefore could only watch the show on my computer, even if I was also writing a paper on that computer. Still, I played Fraggles almost constantly when I was in my apartment and awake, I started putting quotations on my chalkboard (now a white board), brought the DVDs with to watch at my friend's apartment to properly indoctrinate her, and even named my new laptop Sprocket. I have to say, it makes interesting background noise when you're reading about slavery, Ancient Greek mythology, and the history of book publishing in America. (And yes, those were all subjects of my assigned reading last semester.)

So just for a moment here, let's examine why I'm so drawn to Fraggle Rock as my saving grace in the face of the emotional and academic drama that is my life lately.

I mean, there's the obvious fact that it falls into the realm of my Obsessive Muppet Fandom, but it must be more than that, right? I mean, why Fraggle Rock and not my usual reprieve, Muppet Treasure Island? Yes, there is a lot more variety in the length of an entire series than there is in a single movie, but watching the same thing over and over has never fazed me before.

It could be the comedy. It could be the inspirational aspect that so often comes up in the show. It could even be the fact that by going to Fraggle Rock, it's sort of like hiding under a rock, which sure sounds appealing sometimes. But I think it's the specific brand of magic that is Fraggle Rock.

It's the hope that everything--everything--will be okay. Someday, we'll all understand each other, and there will be world peace, and we'll all sing and dance and eat radishes. It's the idea that if I could just find the right hole in the wall, I'll discover an entire world of little furry creatures who live on music and vegetables and don't know what money is, where garbage is not a problem of waste management but a source of knowledge and odd riddles and the occasional snappy song-and-dance number. It's the comfort and amusement in the idea that when the pipes start banging, it's actually a catchy, rhythmical tapping involved in a daily water-producing ritual.

With Muppets, there is always the idea that people are basically good, and that somehow everything will work out, but I think Fraggle Rock is the purest embodiment of that. It shows how problems arise, and how we could so easily fix them if we would just sit down and talk about it--or sing about it, as the case may be. The world of the Fraggles, the Doozers, and the Gorgs may be simpler than ours, but it's complex enough that we can believe in it, and since there is so much good in that world, surely we can find that good in our world, too.

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Weekly Muppet Wednesdays: Cotterpin Doozer

Today's Weekly Muppet Wednesday spotlight is written by Lisa Alexander, your faithful (and now well-rested) intern.


COTTERPIN DOOZER

Performed by…

Kathryn Mullen

 

First Appearance…

Episode 119: The Great Radish Famine (1983)

Most Recent Appearance…

Episode 513: Change of Address (1987)

Best Known Role…

Apprentice Architect

Memorable Quotes…

“I’ve got the smartest toes in Doozerdom!”

“I don’t wanna be a Doozer. I’d rather be a Fraggle!”

WHO IS COTTERPIN DOOZER?

Cotterpin is the rebellious little Doozer who doesn’t want to build. She loves to draw and, unlike most Doozers, is a great admirer of Fraggles. She envies the way they laugh and sing and play all the time instead of always doing boring work. For this reason, she befriends the Fraggles and doesn’t hesitate to turn to them for help or to occasionally join them on their adventures.

Cotterpin does not like, under any circumstances, being bossed around. Determined to go the way she has to go, she is quick to ignore the Architect’s orders and to walk away from a situation where she feels she is being controlled, such as when she is pressured to take the helmet and build or when she is very much the subordinate member of Red’s Helping Club. With a very strong sense of self, Cotterpin is also very insistent about being addressed by her name; she is not just “a Doozer,” but a very specific person, thank you very much. While most of the Doozers are happy to be one of the collective whole, Cotterpin is determined to be an individual.

Cotterpin is a rather sassy Doozer; playful and always well-intentioned, she can also be quite the critic and has a talent for manipulating others when she needs to, such as when she convinces Gobo to help her find the Cavern of Lost Dreams by yawning and suggesting that he’s really only a second-rate explorer. But she is also a loyal friend, ambitious and—in her own way—a hard-working Doozer.

COTTERPIN DOOZER SONGS

Like all the characters in Fraggle Rock, Cotterpin loves to sing. Here are some of her more memorable songs: 

• “The Way I’ve Got to Go” 
• “I’m On My Own” 
• “Eye to Eye” (With Crusty and Yeaster Doozer) 
• “Children of Tomorrow” (With Wembley Fraggle)

WHY DOES FRAGGLE ROCK NEED COTTERPIN DOOZER?

Cotterpin is the bridge between the Fraggles and the Doozers—probably the only character in the show who can fully appreciate both lifestyles. She’s a friend of the Fraggles and loves to do some Fraggle things, but she is still a Doozer through and through, making her an essential link in bringing the Rock to a world of Perfect Harmony.

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Lisa the Intern Takes Command

Lisa Alexander - Hello there, folks! Lisa the Intern here. As you've seen, Ryan is on vacation, which means I'm in charge for the week. He even sent me a cute little document called "How to Run the Muppet Mindset," which I am keeping under lock and key in a concrete vault in the center of an underground labyrinth so that it will never fall into the hands of The British Correspondent. Which is actually why today's post is a bit late... I got a little lost in that labyrinth, triggered a couple trip wires, strained my back trying to get through a nasty web of lasers... by the way, is that my flesh I smell burning? Ah, crap... Lemme find some water...

Right! There we go. Now the bad news is that unlike last year, Ryan's Spring Break doesn't line up with mine, so while he's off gallivanting in Disney World, I am back at school trying to run this blog while I write ten-page papers and read post-modern theory and study for an Anthropology exam, which really wouldn't be too much of a problem except that he didn't leave me much in the way of posts to put up while he's gone. So just bear with me here, alright?

For the record, I am not at all bitter about being stuck here at school in Cornfield Central, slaving away under a huge stack of textbooks, while Ryan has a grand ol' time in the happiest place in the world filling his suitcase with all the Muppet merchandise known to mankind. ...Well, not VERY bitter, I mean. Or at least not as bitter as I USUALLY am. I mean, the guy goes to Disney just about every single year, and with as long as we've known each other... I'm just used to it by now, right? ...Yeah, not so much. More like I'm feeling tolerant because I get my own Disney trip at the end of May.

So as I mentioned, Ryan didn't leave much for me to post, and since I have a huge paper due tomorrow that I haven't really started yet, I don't exactly have time to sit here and make something up on the spot. So instead, I will show you a piece of my fan art, which I figure I'll display more fully later in the week unless I can think of something better.

But stay tuned, because we've got an interesting week ahead of us, starting with a fantastic announcement tomorrow!

In the meantime... I'm out.

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Ryan Goes on Vacation

Greetings, Muppet fans! It's that time of the year again... when I, Ryan Dosier, abandon my role as owner/operator of The Muppet Mindset to go on (a much-needed, thank you very much) vacation. Yes, it's Spring Break once again here and it's time for everyone's favorite unpaid intern, Lisa Alexander, to take over work here on the Mindset. I completely trust my dear intern with the responsibilities of the blog here, on Facebook, Twitter, and now on MuppetFans.com (and in our secret lair).

So anyway... I'm off to Walt Disney World once again to be happy in The Happiest Place on Earth! It's my favorite place to take a vacation... and I think it will be just the release and break I need after a long time at school. But anyway... enough about me; I wish Lisa all the best of luck and hope she hid the keys somewhere un-British-able (yeah... it's a thing).

Be sure to keep an eye on The Muppet Mindset's Twitter account (http://twitter.com/#!/MuppetMindset), where I will be tweeting numerous updates of Muppet things available in the Walt Disney World Parks, along with other pictures (probably of me with anthropomorphic mice and ducks and things) from my trip.

Also, stay tuned for an exciting announcement (yes, another one) coming later this week!

Have a great week, Muppet fans! I'll see you soon!

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations: Week 17

A day late, but with good reason, considering yesterday's announcement, don't you think? What, you don't think? Well, neither do I. It's Spring Break. Why on earth would I be thinking? ...Well, alright, so I am thinking a little. Just enough to think that this may very well be my favorite batch of quotations thus far. See for yourself!


Wembley's Wonderful Whoopie Water: "Magic is as magic does--it lives in you and me!" --Wembley Fraggle


FINAL SEASON

Sidebottom's Blues: "Fun is here to stay!" --Sidebottom


Uncle Matt's Discovery: "Remember, Nephew Gobo: The magic is ALWAYS there, as long as we keep looking for it." --Uncle Travelling Matt


Junior Faces the Music: "You could be a walkin' talkin' BREATHIN' ball of fire!" --Cantus the Minstrel


The Perfect Blue Rollie: "When you're givin' love away, love will come again to stay! And what you give is what you gain, as we--Pass it on!" --The Fraggles


A Tune For Two: "Help us to live here with our other--our brother--one in heart, one in home, one in name." --Wembley Fraggle, Cotterpin Doozer, and others


See, aren't those just lovely? I mean, I've been looking forward to that quotation from "Uncle Matt's Discovery" for months now. And there it is! And now, I resume my scheduled non-thinking... Huh. You know, not thinking makes it very difficult to make basic decisions, like what to eat and whether I should do some dusting or some reading. Alright, so maybe the whole "not thinking" thing is over-rated.

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations: Week 16

Hey folks! Well, it's Sunday again, and it looks like it's my turn to post some lovely quotations. Had a little fun with how I wrote the quotations on my board this time around... Although I've been slipping the past few days due to illness. Sad times. Where's Boober when you need him?


The Incredible Shrinking Mokey: "Wembley, can YOU control YOUR puppet?" --Boober Fraggle


A Dark and Stormy Night: "I got ways of knowin', and I know they're right for me!" --Junior Gorg


Gunge the Great and Glorious: "Dance like crazy 'til you're fallin' down!" --Gunge


The Bells of Fraggle Rock: "There will be motion in the stillness, as there is music in the silence." --Cantus the Minstrel


Sprocket's Big Adventure: "And it sometimes seems You can see your dreams In the sight that fills your eyes." --The Doozers


Ah, yes, that's a nice little set of quotations. And hey, look! I got all three major species again! Go me! Now, do you know which one of these quotations I've been planning to write up even longer than I've been doing these Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations? I'll give you a hint: It's the one that spent several months on a post-it note on my tissue box.

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations: Week 15

Hey folks! Lisa the Intern here with another friendly batch of Fraggle Rock Quotations. Considering how many days I spent snowed in and completely unable to leave my apartment, you'd think I'd have more... but hey, snow days are for fun! Unfortunately, I still need to dig out my car... Oh, if only I owned a shovel!


Playing Till It Hurts: "I get the feeling there's a different me appearing and it's time to be more than me!" --Red Fraggle


Bored Stiff: "Are you good at pretending?" "No... But I can PRETEND I am!" --Gobo Fraggle and Junior Gorg


The Cavern of Lost Dreams: "Hello sky, I'm right behind you! Hello highway, please don't mind my tone... I'm on my own." --Cotterpin Doozer

Huh... that's even fewer quotations than I thought I had. But look! I got all three major species from the show! I think that's an accomplishment, don't you? I don't think I've done that before. Anyway, if you'll excuse me, I REALLY need to dig my car out... I'm all out of dishwasher detergent, and I just used the last of the knives. And I'm kind of getting sick of eating nothing but peanut butter and crackers. Grocery shopping the day of the Super Bowl is a GREAT idea, right? ...Right?

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Weekly Muppet Wednesdays: Boober Fraggle

Today's Weekly Muppet Wednesdays post is written by our very own Lisa the Intern!

BOOBER FRAGGLE


Performed by...
Dave Goelz


First Appearance...
Fraggle Rock Episode 101: “Beginnings” (1983)

Most Recent Appearance...
Fraggle Rock Episode 513: “Change of Address” (1987)


Best known role...
Laundry-washer, cook, and medic for the Fraggle Five; superstitious pessimist.

Memorable quote...
“I’m worried about enclosed spaces and death and pain and spiders and words with R in them and—did you want the whole list, or just a general overview?”


WHO IS BOOBER FRAGGLE?
On the surface, Boober seems to be the anti-Fraggle. He doesn’t like singing, dancing, games, swimming, jokes, parties, noise, or… well, just about anything else that Fraggles live by. Or at least, he claims he doesn’t. Boober prefers the quiet drudgery of endless loads of laundry, peacefully watching the dust settle and the laundry dry, cooking up delicious feasts for his Fraggle friends, and listening to the gentle drip-drip drop-drop of stalactites. He devotes his life to the avoidance of germs and injury—two of the things he fears most. (There is, of course, a very long list of the things he fears most… but those two are somewhere near the top.)

Boober is Fraggle Rock’s self-proclaimed expert on death, doom, and destruction, but he does have a fun side. He represses this side of himself as best he can, which is how he ended up with an alter-ego, a second personality, known as Sidebottom—the fun side of Boober that he keeps on the bottom. Sidebottom comes out every once in a while to help (or force) Boober to cut loose and have fun, but Sidebottom is nothing if not extreme, going so far as to dress up as the Old Gypsy Lady or hypnotize a Gorg for the sake of a laugh.

But Boober doesn’t always need Sidebottom’s help to have fun; like it or not, he is a Fraggle, and Fraggles live for fun. Boober is as prone to burst into song as any of his friends, and you can often find him laughing with everyone else when there’s a big party going on (see, for example, “Catch the Tail by the Tiger,” “Mirror, Mirror,” and “The Honk of Honks”). He will even play tricks on his fellow Fraggles with the excuse of testing their beluviouses (Fraggle tails, which flair out when the Fraggle is scared).

Because Boober is so dedicated to the avoidance of illness and injury, he knows all sorts of remedies for just about any ailment a Fraggle may encounter. With this expertise, he is something of a medic for the other Fraggles. He is also more than happy to do all their laundry—cleanliness is another great way to avoid germs, after all—and although his cooking skills are sometimes questionable, he enjoys whipping up any sort of dish.


BOOBER FRAGGLE SONGS
Despite his occasional protests that the Fraggles sing too much, Boober enjoys a good song as much as anyone else in the Rock. Here are some of his classics…

• “Get Blue” – episode 115: “I Don’t Care”
• “The Friendship Song” (with Red Fraggle) – episode 117: “Marooned”
• “I’m Never Alone” – episode 202: “Boober Rock”
• “Party Hard (Who Knows What You See)” – episode 206: “Boober’s Dream”
• “Dump the Stuff Out” – episode 219: “The Doomsday Soup”
• “I Sniff the Rose” – episode 223: “Boober’s Quiet Day”
• “Talkin’ ‘Bout Germs” – episode 306: “Pebble Pox Blues”
• “Fun is Here to Stay” – episode 403: “Sidebottom’s Blues”

WHY DOES FRAGGLE ROCK NEED BOOBER FRAGGLE?
Well, who else is going to do all that laundry?

Seriously, though… Fraggle Rock needs Boober for balance. It’s easy for the Fraggles to get carried away without realizing when they could be in danger, and Boober forces them to be aware of the possibility of trouble. Yes, he thinks that everything is dangerous, but it takes quite an extreme Fraggle to balance out the entire rest of the Rock. And though his extremist attitude makes him easy for the other Fraggles to write off, he can and does take action when it’s necessary. Without him, Fraggle Rock would be a much dirtier and more dangerous place.

Besides… he has all the funniest lines in the show.

 The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations: Week 14

Hey folks! Happy Sunday! Lisa the Intern here with another batch of Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations. I'm happy to report that I've gotten back into my habit of almost constantly watching Fraggle Rock here in my apartment AND indoctrinating my friends when I visit THEIR apartments. I had the traumatic experience this week of having a good friend ask me what Fraggle Rock WAS... Let me tell you, it's a good thing we were at a stoplight when she asked, or I might've gotten us into an accident. But don't worry; I fixed it. She's very happy to have been introduced to the show now. Anyway, enough of my rambling...


Scared Silly: "Wembley... It's ALL in the timing." -- Boober Fraggle

The Great Radish Caper: "I'm gonna grow ROOTS!" -- Junior Gorg


Born to Wander: "I will follow ME!" -- (Young) Uncle Traveling Matt


The Battle of Leaking Roof: "Touché, soufflé!" -- Junior Gorg


Well, there you have it! And now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be watching the final season today while I write two or three papers and study for a test. For the record... I don't recommend procrastination. I'd give you a long explanation of why it's a bad idea, but... well... it can wait 'til next week...

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations: Week 13

So, I just finished my second week of classes this semester, and I'm still just getting back into the swing of things. So we've got fewer quotations than usual this week. But we do in fact have them! Whoopie!


The Secret Society of Poobahs: "She CAN'T be INNOCENT! I DON'T know what the word means." -- Convincing John / The Royal Vanguard 


The Beanbarrow, the Burden, and the Bright Bouquet: "Well, it's a long story... but it has a HAPPY ENDING!" -- Red Fraggle


Gobo's School for Explorers: "If you got what it takes to grow, You gotta take what you got and go, And if you got what it takes Then take what you've got And get goin'! Mm-hm!" -- Gobo Fraggle


And there you have it! Note that we have yet another new surface to write the quotations on, and that this drawing of Kissing Rock is even better than the last. Yes, it's still my drawing. I'm just apparently more talented with dry-erase markers than with chalk.

The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations: Week 12 (or something)

Hi folks! Remember me? I'm that lazy intern who hasn't posted her Fraggle Rock Quotations in who-knows-how-long. It's a long story... but the end result is that I have a random number of quotations and, at the moment, no pictures to go with them. But since I'd rather not get fired by my best friend from a non-paying job, I figured I'd post SOMETHING... so work with me here, huh?


Blanket of Snow, Blanket of Woe: "Whadaya think? Do I look like pepper?" -- Mokey Fraggle


Pebble Pox Blues: "But Boober, what about the poison cacklers?" "It's alright, Wembley... I'll carry them, too." -- Wembley and Boober Fraggle


Home is Where the Trash is: "Oh, irony! IRONY!" -- Philo and Gunge


Believe it or Not: "You know, I never would've believed it, but all this BELIEVING stuff really works!" -- Wembley Fraggle


Wembley and the Mean Genie: "Gosh, Wembley, I don't wanna blame you... but this IS your fault." -- Boober Fraggle


So... how many weeks did it take me to get one week's worth of quotations? ...Let's not answer that, shall we? I'll see you next week! I PROMISE!






The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier

Almost Daily Fraggle Rock Quotations: Week 11

Hey folks! Lisa the Intern here with yet another week of Fraggle Rock Quotations. You know, I always try to think of something funny and/or interesting to put here... but there are only so many ways to introduce a week's worth of quotations.


The Invasion of the Toe-Ticklers: "Those Gorgs may be large, but they sure don't see the big picture." --Mokey Fraggle

SEASON THREE!

The Red-Handed and Invisible Thief: "Can't you see I'm a rock?" "I KNEW something was different!" --Gobo and Wembley Fraggle


Boober and the Glob: "Count me out! Color me small 'cause fun's no fun at all!" --Boober Fraggle


The Grapes of Generosity: "A friend never bends or pretends when a friend is in need!" --Wembley Fraggle


And there we have it. So... How obvious is it that these are from the week before finals and I've been locked in my apartment writing papers?