Synopsis: Pink tries to maintain Mokey secure throughout her journey to see Surprise Mountain.
Authentic air date: March 17, 1986
Hey, hey! We’re again with extra Fraggle Rock! This time, it’s an episode all concerning the friendship of Mokey and Pink, which is good; I like the 2 of them! It additionally has Doc and Sprocket in it. I like these guys too!
Mokey’s planning a visit to the well-known “Surprise Mountain,” the place she’s going to see the Aurora Fragglialis. She solely needs to go alone, believing will probably be a meditative expertise and is barely armed with a information e-book and a few radishes. Pink, nevertheless, thinks Mokey is just too unfocused and underneath ready to outlive such a journey all on her personal. However, she guarantees Mokey she received’t attempt to intrude. And that’s the place the episode ends! No, wait, that’s what would occur if this have been a nasty TV present. Which it’s not.
The primary half of the episode performs out like a kind of previous Looney Tunes shorts with Porky and Sylvester, or Buttons and Mindy on Animaniacs – one character tries to maintain the opposite “secure,” and will get brutalized within the course of whereas the opposite is completely unhurt. Pink trails Mokey alongside her journey and inside like two seconds, she’s caught in some bushes and it solely will get worse from there. The second half turns into somewhat private drama with some peril thrown in as Mokey realizes Pink broke her belief and so they’re being pursued by the damaging Avalanche Monster (who wears cute little glasses).
In the meantime, Miss Adarth hires Sprocket to protect her backyard, and Doc worries he would possibly get attacked by a ferocious animal. Additionally in the meantime, Gobo, Wembley, and Boober maintain down the fort at Pink and Mokey’s place by by chance feeding Landford a bar of cleaning soap. And THEN, Joey buys Chandler an unpleasant friendship bracelet he doesn’t need, so… wait, no. Scratch that final one.
How does this episode issue into Jim’s imaginative and prescient of ending battle? Nicely, I suppose one of many key steps in attaining world peace is belief, which is what the last word lesson of this episode is. Pink learns that everybody has their very own method of getting by way of life and we now have to belief they’ll make the precise decisions, particularly in the event that they’re your pals. The episode additionally teaches us you can succeed by turning your enemies in opposition to one another, as Pink and Mokey lure the Avalanche Monster within the musical clutches of the Singing Cacti. In the long run, everyone wins!
Now excuse me, I’ve to see the Aurora Fragglialis myself. I hear it’s shining down on Dallas.
Strongest Second: That complete enterprise with the Invisible Bridge is a enjoyable, visible deal with.
Weakest Second: “Adventures in Landford-sitting” is okay, however I don’t assume we wanted it. There have been a lot of episodes by this level the place solely a few the primary characters seem, and we didn’t actually them to make clear to us what the remainder of the gang is doing throughout Pink and Mokey’s journey. Particularly since no person can be asking “Who’s watching Landford when Mokey’s away?”
MVF (Most Useful Fraggle): I suppose it ought to go to Pink for enduring a lot hardship.
First Look Of…: The Singing Cacti, who returned very briefly within the Again to the Rock episode “Craggle Lagoon.” They weren’t hypnotizing folks in that one – character progress! Talking of…
Most Basic Second / Musical Spotlight: “Do the Sashy” is a superb music with nice vocals by Sharon Lee Williams. Mokey’s music “Simply Don’t Know What Time It Is” managed to search out its strategy to an official album launch within the 90s, however I’d love a studio recording of “Sashy” (sure, I do know they remade it for the brand new present. You understand what I imply!)
Coolest Puppetry Impact: There’s quite a lot of cool puppetry issues on this episode, from the invisible bridge to that loopy Avalanche Monster puppet. However the second that caught out to me is Mokey placing radishes in each her and Pink’s ears with out using a tape edit to maintain them in place. Was it magnets? Pins? MAGIC??
Darkest Second: Avalanche Monster is fairly scary, however the concept of being hypnotized and trapped by singing crops for the remainder of my life is a horrible thought.
Fraggle Lore: The Aurora Fragglialis is their model of the Northern Lights, which occurs as soon as each 1,000 days. That’s slightly below three years per incidence, which is about the identical period of time between seasons of Severance.
Obscure Character Watch: Imagine it or not, of us, however our previous good friend GOBO reveals up on this one! Loopy!
One Extra Factor…: So, like, is Surprise Mountain exterior? Is that this some a part of the Earth we don’t learn about or is it a hollow-Earth-type deal?
Okay, One Extra Factor…: Mokey makes use of the information “Surprise Mountain on 5 Radishes a Day,” a play on the e-book “Europe on $50 A Day,” a uncommon popular culture reference throughout the world of the Fraggles.
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By Shane Keating
