Synopsis: Wembley dedicates his life to scaring Boober, who’s three steps forward of him the entire method.
Unique air date: March 25, 1985
With April Fools Day quick approaching, there’s no higher time to get pleasure from this episode of Fraggle Rock full of pranks, scares, and goofs!
The pranking theme is showcased early on as Doc is pranked by Ned Schimmelfinney: regardless of Sprocket’s warning yelps, Doc opens his entrance door and a bucket of what seems to be to be styrofoam beads falls on his head. Really an efficient prank! This half is just not very fascinating, I’ll be sincere. Doc all the time seems like a weak level within the episodes for me until he’s straight fidgeting with the Fraggles.
We sweep in to The Rock, accompanied by some basic Wembley grunting and scatting as he makes his solution to go to his pal Boober. His pleasure doesn’t final lengthy as Boober pops out of a pile of laundry and scares Wembley out of his gourd! Boober is out testing baloobiuses, as a result of apparently when a Fraggle is scared, their baloobius flares up which implies Fraggles can’t be scared to loss of life!
I’ve all the time cherished Wembley’s eye mech and expressions, and this scene is full to the brim with some nice examples of that! Wembley rolls his eyes and scrunches his nostril as Boober tries to elucidate the aim of his scaring, however Wembley isn’t having it. He swears revenge, however sadly, Wembley is just not pretty much as good at scaring as Boober is. He tries so onerous all through your complete episode! He even goes to the Trash Heap for recommendation!
Marj provides him the nice recommendation of “you search revenge, you’re taking the implications”, which he promptly disregards as Philo and Gunge inform him to try to scare Boober again. The 2, um, rats? Worms? Ratworms? No matter they’re, they inform Wembley to say “boo!” and use pretend snakes and spiders to get his lick again. They even do it in a track! A reasonably good one at that! Makin’ Fraggles shake their behinds, extra like!
Right here we come across my favourite a part of your complete episode: throughout this banger, Wembley turns into surrounded by varied imprecise monsters. Amongst these monsters is a fuzzy brown man with a giant mouth, sharp enamel, and yellow eyes. This episode got here out in 1985. You may’t inform me that’s not an homage to Fizzgig from The Darkish Crystal! I gained’t hear in any other case!
The track ends, and we see Wembley prepping to prank Boober… unsuccessfully. Boober is behind him the entire time and hears every part. Later, earlier than Boober departs to Cleaning soap Rock Cave, he says to Wembley: “It’s all within the timing.” and provides him a bit of kiss on his nostril. When you’ve ever been on Tumblr or Twitter round Fraggle Rock followers, you’ll absolutely have seen a gif of this floating round. The Traditional Woober Kiss, on this episode! What a nice shock!
Wembley returns to Boober’s room and scats as he units up an entire gamut of pranks: a bucket of pebbles to fall on Boober’s head (that’s one I’ve by no means heard of…), scary masks that pop up, flying snakes within the cabinet, and pretend spiders in Boober’s mattress. This half was type of boring to me. I believe it ought to’ve been a bit of shorter, and perhaps not a track. However Wembley’s scatting is all the time enjoyable, at the least.
Wembley studies to Philo and Gunge about his epic prank arrange solely to seek out that they’d simply performed the flying snake prank on Marj, and she or he did not prefer it. She nearly “blew up”. He rushes again to The Rock, scaring all his different associates within the course of, solely to seek out all his pranks triggered already (Boober had seen them coming, after all), and Boober nowhere to be seen. Candy, candy, real Wembley cries and cries, horrified that he has blown up his greatest pal. It’s really fairly unhappy, regardless of Wembley’s humorous little sobs! It makes you wanna give the little man a hug!
Purple, Mokey, and Gobo seem with Philo and Gunge in tow, admonishing Wembley for supposedly sending them round to scare them. After all, that isn’t true, and the rat-worm-whatevers apologize to Wembley for tricking him.
Fortunately, they’ve all acquired good, reactive baloobiuses, so no person blew up. Boober, too, apologizes for taking his baloobius testing too far.
All in all, a really cute episode! A number of Fraggle screaming, which I in all probability might’ve accomplished with out, however in any other case time. That is like Really feel Dangerous For Wembley: The Episode! Poor, poor, poor Wembley.
Strongest Second: I don’t know for those who’d name it the strongest per se, however Wembley satisfied that he had blown himself up in addition to Boober was my favourite a part of the episode. It confirmed Wembley’s real, good-natured methods in a foolish method.
Weakest Second: The prank-set-up montage to “Very Scary (If This Don’t Getcha)” felt very very like an area filler.
MVF (Most Helpful Fraggle): Poor, candy Wembley. He tried his greatest. Particular Point out to Boober, the professional of being scared. This was episode for him too.
Most Traditional Second: The Woober Kiss™!
Musical Spotlight: Scare Them Boo was so, so enjoyable.
Fraggle Lore: Baloobius lore! Fraggle baloobiuses fluff up once they’re scared and forestall them from dying of fright! Very neat!
One Extra Factor…: FIZZGIG CAMEOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! LETS GOOOOOOO DARK CRYSTAL FOREEVEERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
by Moomin
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