Line #30 Funny/FraggleRock


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mattgoelzrollercoaster.jpg]]
2	* Philo and Gunge's CatchPhrase whenever Marjory lays down her wisdom...
3	-->'''Philo and Gunge:''' ''[in unison]'' THE TRASH HEAP HAS SPOKEN! NYAAAH!
4	* From "The Thirty-Minute Work Week," after the Trash Heap reveals that she always wanted to be a fireman...
5	-->'''Philo:''' So how come you didn't become a fireman, Marjory?\
6	'''Gunge:''' Yeah!\
7	'''The Trash Heap:''' Oh, I couldn't have. I don't even know how to start a fire.
8	** At one point, Wembley tries to help Mokey get radishes from the Gorgs' garden, leading to Junior trying to thump them. He then leaps onto his stomach so he can get his face right up next to the Fraggles. This does not end well for him.
9	--->'''Mokey:''' [[TranquilFury Oh. You almost hit Wembley!]] ''[Bops Junior in the nose with a radish.]''\
10	'''Junior:''' ''Ooh!''\
11	'''Mokey:''' C'mon, Wembley, let's leave.\
12	'''Wembley:''' Ohhh, gladly!\
13	''[The Fraggles scurry off, with Junior watching them in astonishment.]''\
14	'''Junior:''' That Fraggle hit me!
15	** And at the end of the episode, after Wembley's interview with the President of the Volunteer Fire Department...
16	--->'''Wembley:''' Hey, guess what, everybody?\
17	'''Gobo:''' What?\
18	'''Wembley:''' I get to be the siren!
19	* From "You Can't Do That Without a Hat", after Boober fails at being look-out for Gobo while he fetches his postcard:
20	-->'''Red:''' What's wrong with him?\
21	'''Boober:''' I'm a worthless coward, that's what's wrong!\
22	'''Mokey:''' Ohhh, Boober! Now, Boober, it takes a very brave Fraggle to admit he's a worthless coward.
23	* In "I Want to Be You", Boober looks up from his book on disease and notices Red's new appearance.
24	-->'''Boober:''' Now, look. Right here on this page, it tells you all about—[[AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOUR HAIR?!]]
25	* The entire third-season episode "The Secret Society of Poohbahs" is hilarious with all the increasingly silly and absurd customs of the Poohbah society (this silliness and absurdity shown in the end to be the the entire ''point'' of the Society), but the definite highlight is the roll call (made even better by Creator/JimHenson's brilliant performance as the Vanguard—even funnier is the fact that the Vanguard is none other than Convincing John):
26	-->'''The Beggler-Beg:''' The trial of Mokey Fraggle shall now begin! All Poohbahs should be present! The judge will call the roll...
27	-->'''The Vanguard:''' Allllll present shall reply by saying 'present,' And allllll absent shall reply by saying 'linoleum'! Fritz?
28	-->'''Two Fraggles, in unison:''' Present!
29	-->'''The Vanguard:''' Fritz?
30	-->'''Another Fraggle:''' Present!
31	-->'''The Vanguard:''' Fritz?
32	-->'''Another Fraggle:''' Present!
33	-->'''The Vanguard:''' Fritz?
34	-->'''Another Fraggle:''' Present!
35	-->'''The Vanguard:''' Fritz?
36	-->'''Another Fraggle:''' Linoleum!
37	-->'''The Vanguard:''' Ah, that Fritz, he's never here when you need him. And finally, Fritz, Fritz, Fritz, Fritz, Fritz and Fritz!
38	-->'''Fraggles:''' Present, Present, Present, Present, Present... present with an explanation!
39	-->'''The Vanguard:''' Mmmmmmmm. ''[turns to the Beggler-Beg]'' All present and accounted fooooor... except for Fritz!
40	-->'''The Beggler-Beg:''' Thank you, Fritz.
41	* In "The Preachification of Convincing John," not long after Mokey makes her friends take the Solemn Fraggle Oath to stop eating Doozer constructions...
42	-->'''Gobo:''' Aww, let me just nibble on the bridge. It's been three days, and all I've had to eat is food.
43	* In the "Great Radish Famine", the Doozers [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbeGkovaXQ&feature=relmfu take up knitting]] as a substitute for their construction work. Needless to say, they hated it.
44	* In the same episode mentioned above, the Trash Heap optimistically fantasizes what the Fraggle/Doozer/Gorg meeting turned out to be. She imagines them singing a SickeninglySweet song. Soon, the Trash Heap learns how the meeting truly went: cue cut to a disastrous, messy meeting.
45	* "Let the Water Run": Wembley watches the water in the pond start to vanish.
46	-->'''Mokey:''' ''[coming over]'' Oh, look! The water's disappearing.\
47	'''Wembley:''' Yeah, why does it disappear every day?\
48	''[[AnswerCut [The scene cuts to the Gorgs' garden.]]]''\
49	'''Junior:''' ''[pumping water]'' Why does Daddy take a bath every day?
50	* In "The Wizard of Fraggle Rock", Wembley is helping the Wizard with a trick at a magic show.
51	-->'''Wizard:''' Nothing up my sleeves...\
52	'''Wembley:''' ''[sticking his hand in the Wizard's sleeve]'' Uh... well, your arms.\
53	'''Wizard:''' Oh, stop that!
54	** In the same episode, just before the Wizard takes off his hat and glasses to show Wembley that they could switch places because they're nearly identical...
55	--->'''Wizard:''' Come over here, my friend. I'll show you something that'll knock the banana trees off your shirt!\
56	'''Wembley:''' Oh, no, no, please don't do that! They're all I've got.
57	* In "The Grapes of Generosity", Wembley invites Gobo to go to the Messing-Around Cave with him, "to mess around". Gobo, who's been eating the grapes and finding himself not wanting to share any, hides them behind his back, then tells Wembley he's not in the mood and to go mess around by himself.
58	-->'''Wembley:''' It's no fun to mess around alone, Gobo.\
59	'''Gobo:''' Well, sure it is. Now, go on, have fun. Skedaddle.\
60	'''Wembley:''' All right, I'll try. ''[Sadly leaves.]''
61	* Traveling Matt's adventures in "Outer Space" could have their own page. Virtually every installment has him being hilariously and EntertaininglyWrong about something in the world of the Silly Creatures.
62	** One of Uncle Traveling Matt's postcards is about the time he decided to try out the rapid transit of the Silly Creatures—a roller coaster. His expression as the speed kicks up is utterly hilarious. His expression after he gets off is just as hilarious.
63	*** The RealitySubtext behind that one is just as funny: The guy next to Matt on the rollercoaster is his puppeteer, Dave Goelz (who had a false arm attached to the back of his seat so he could perform the puppet while riding). At a 2006 public screening of Fraggle episodes, Goelz [[http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2006/012306.shtml revealed]] that during filming of the postcard segments, producer Jerry Juhl would [[ButtMonkey put Goelz (as Matt) "in these aggravating situations like... on a roller coaster when he knew I was afraid of roller coasters".]] Even funnier was that Goelz had specifically requested that Juhl ''not'' script him to be on a roller coaster, and Goelz ended up having to do ''13'' takes. This did cure him of his fear of roller coasters, though.
64	** In "The Challenge," Traveling Matt throwing a pitcher of water on a guy smoking a cigar in order to "put out the out of control fire in his mouth." He's then perplexed when the man isn't grateful and begins angrily chasing him.
65	** In "The Finger of Light," he encounters a puppeteer and notices a certain "[[LampshadeHanging family resemblance]]" between himself and the puppeteer's "string creature" (a traditional puppet).
66	** Another segment has Matt discovering cotton candy. Interested in trying it, he spots what he thinks is a large mound of cotton candy, but was actually a woman's pink afro. Needless to say, she was not happy about Matt taking a bite of her hair.
67	* At the end of "Catch the Tail by the Tiger," after being struck by lightning (while wearing an invention of Doc's meant to function as a lightning rod), Sprocket is no longer scared of the lightning. He has a rather demented look and is so excited that he wants to go out on another walk through the storm.
68	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e44qV_DOHvo Sprocket's amazingly accurate imitation of The Swedish Chef]] in "The Cavern of Lost Dreams."
69	* "I Don't Care":
70	-->'''Gobo:''' I swear...\
71	'''Red, Wembley, Boober, Mokey, Other Fraggles:''' I swear...\
72	'''Gobo:''' To be fair.\
73	'''Others:''' To be fair.\
74	'''Gobo:''' Now solemnly repeat after me.\
75	'''Wembley:''' [[RepeatAfterMe Now solemnly repeat after me.]]
76	* For someone who changes his mind so easily, Wembley sure knows how to stick to his misunderstandings even when everything resembling logic or common sense scream that he's wrong. It reaches an absurd height in the episode "Scared Silly", where he, after an utterly failed prank war and due to a really silly misunderstanding, thinks that he and his friends have all blown up and gone to the Land Of Having Blown Up (ItMakesSenseInContext... [[AvertedTrope sort of]]). Even marveling at how similar the Land of Having Blown Up is to his own home, he refuses to consider the fact that maybe nobody's blown up because: "Gobo, listen to ''reason!'' We wouldn't be in the Land of Having Blown Up if we hadn't blown up, now would we?!"
77	* In episode 17 ("Marooned"), while Gobo and Mokey are preparing lima bean soup for Boober's birthday party:
78	-->'''Mokey:''' ''[tastes soup]'' Um... I think it needs a bit more salt.\
79	'''Gobo:''' A bit of salt?\
80	'''Mokey:''' Mmm-hmm.\
81	'''Gobo:''' That's easy. ''[Pours a cup of salt into the soup.]''\
82	'''Mokey:''' Um... now it needs a bit less salt.\
83	'''Gobo:''' Gee. Uh... that's harder.
84	* Red's OhCrap and SarcasmMode reactions every time Gobo announces he has a new postcard from Uncle Traveling Matt.
85	* Sprocket's playful teasing of Doc over Doc's apparent feelings for Ms. Ardath.
86	* In "A Cave of One's Own", Mokey's complete obliviousness to Red being attacked by a monster while the girls are out gathering plants and herbs for their cave-warming party.
87	-->'''Red:''' ''[terrified, as monster growls in background]'' But Mokey... what's behind me???\
88	'''Mokey:''' ''[turning around]'' Behind you?... ''[gasps]'' Oh, Red, you clever Fraggle, you! Yes, we ''definitely'' need some of these green leafy things.\
89	'''Red:''' Mokey, we've gotta get out of h- ''[a giant hand reaches out of the brush and grabs her as Mokey is distracted]''\
90	'''Mokey:''' ''[as a muffled Red moans and groans in the background]'' You know, I'm going to weave these into an unbroken circle... ''[Red manages to get free and lands behind Mokey]'' ...symbolizing our friendship and the happy containment of our lives, right, Red?\
91	''[Red faints.]''\
92	'''Mokey:''' Red, how can you sleep at a time like this?! Huh, what a Fraggle.
93	** And in that same episode, the boys trying to get comfortable in the girls' new cave during the girls' song "Share and You're Not Alone" and failing because the girls' possessions are taking up too much room. Especially Gobo being freaked out by Mokey's plant Lanford, and Wembley whacking his head on the wall while scat-singing and dancing... and ''apologizing'' to the wall afterward.
94	* "We Love You, Wembley," when Mokey is convinced that Wembley is head-over-heels in love with Lou and drags him to the Trash Heap to make sure Lou returns the feeling...
95	-->'''The Trash Heap:''' And does your heart soar when this Lou Fraggle is near?\
96	'''Wembley:''' ''[uncertainly]'' Yeah... I guess...\
97	'''Mokey:''' Oh, yes, Madame Heap! [[FunWithHomophones His heart gets very sore.]] What should he do?
98	** And in the same episode, when Love Potion No. 9 wears off and Red notices that she is actually ''holding'' Wembley in her arms like a baby.
99	--->'''Red:''' Correct me if I'm wrong, but... am I holding Wembley?\
100	'''Gobo:''' You are.\
101	'''Wembley:''' ''[to Red, innocently]'' Hi.\
102	'''Red:''' ''[[[TheComedyDrop drops Wembley]]]'' I can't believe it! YUCK!
103	* "I Want to Be You": Red struggling to keep up with Mokey as they sing "The Beetle Song."
104	-->'''Mokey:''' See the beetle sitting on a stone...\
105	'''Red:''' See the beetle sitting on a stone...\
106	'''Mokey:''' See the little simple, nimble Thimblebeetle's daughters doing curtsies like they ought'er as they sit 'n hit n' spit 'n spat 'n flit 'n flatten flowers on a pitted, spotted stone.\
107	'''Red:''' See the little simple, silly, dimpled, pimpled daughters as they flirt with dirty otters while they flit 'n flatten spatulas and smack-a-whiz and rat-a-tat and flatten maddened hatters on a skitzy kitten stone. ''[collapses, out of breath]''
108	** Same episode, after the Trash Heap serenades Philo and Gunge with a poem:
109	--->'''Philo:''' Oh, Marjory!\
110	'''Gunge:''' We didn't know ya had it in ya!\
111	'''The Trash Heap:''' Boys... I've got EVERYTHING in me! ''[laughs]''\
112	'''Philo and Gunge:''' ''[in unison, turning to the viewer]'' No comment!
113	* "The Terrible Tunnel":
114	** Boober's superstitions. Watching Boober and Wembley hop around Gobo's and Wembley's room screaming "Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!" (ItMakesSenseInContext) is priceless.
115	** Sprocket won't give up his lucky horseshoe for Doc's collapsible bookcase, unless Doc makes it worth his while.
116	--->'''Doc:''' I know. How about a nice bribe—I mean, trade? I'll give you my favorite screwdriver for your horseshoe!\
117	''[Sprocket shakes his head]''\
118	'''Doc:''' No? My drill?\
119	''[Sprocket shakes his head]''\
120	'''Doc:''' My garden shears?\
121	''[Sprocket scoffs]''\
122	'''Doc:''' I know! What about my... ''[holds mask in front of his face]'' ...ceremonial mask?\
123	''[Momentarily startled, Sprocket scoffs and shakes his head]''\
124	'''Doc:''' How about my... slippers? Good for chewing!\
125	''[Sprocket takes the slippers, looks at them for a second, and then gestures as if to say, "...And?"]''\
126	'''Doc:''' Slippers, and the quilt you like to snooze on!\
127	''[Sprocket nods; "...And?" gesture]''\
128	'''Doc:''' ''[desperate]'' The slippers, the quilt, and... and... a week's supply of tennis balls!\
129	''[Sprocket: "...And?"]''
130	--->'''Doc:''' Sprocket, [[AccidentalBargainingSkills you drive a hard bargain!]]
131	* "The Challenge": While playing a video game on the computer, Sprocket loses a life when he takes his paws off the controls to do his Shimmelfinney imitation, then has an OhCrap reaction when he realizes what happened.
132	* From "Wembley's Wonderful Whoopee Water," after Red and Gobo laugh off the idea of Wembley's ability to hear water inside rocks...
133	-->'''Wembley:''' ''[[[FunnySpoon digging at a wall with a wooden spoon]]]'' I don't care. Let 'em laugh! I believe there ''is'' water in this rock!\
134	''[He [[{{Gasp}} gasps]] as a burbling sound comes from the wall.]''\
135	'''Wembley:''' [[ImmediateSelfContradiction I don't believe it! There's water in this rock!]]
136	* Wembley the songwriter ("The Trash Heap Doesn't Live Here Anymore"):
137	-->'''Wembley:''' ''[singing while riffing on his bongos]'' Today had been an awful dayyyyyyyyy... (awful day)... until some Doozers came my wayyyyyyy. ... They- they squeet-squat-boing-boinged just like that... And now I'm sitting in my hat. An awful day they came my way... uh... a squeet-squat thing and a boing-boing-bing... lots of fun... ''[notices bun on the rock next to him]'' ate a bun... squeet-squat-squay and an awful dayyyyyyyyy... today. Uh, that's almost right, yeah. Writing songs is sure not as easy as it sounds. Now what about a second verse? Yeah. Ahem... ''[singing and riffing]'' What a day for me and YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!... ''[Doozers grumble and cover their ears]'' ...For Wembley and for... uh... Wembley and for... uh... [[GoshDangItToHeck oh, rocks!]] I'll never think of a rhyme.
138	** Wembley, who usually doesn't wear a hat and is now wearing a particularly funky-looking chapeau, insists on wearing it when he sings the song because it's in the lyrics, and to do otherwise would be "dishonest." Boober grumbles that he'll never understand pop music.
139	* The final episode, while mostly a TearJerker, has a funny scene in which Doc informs Sprocket of their flight arrangements.
140	-->'''Doc:''' Well, Sprocket, to be truthful, you don't actually have ''[a ticket]'', because you're... going baggage.\
141	'''Sprocket:''' Rowr-rowr? ROWR-ROWR?! (translation: Baggage? BAGGAGE?!) ''[Goes [[BerserkButton berserk]], attacking the airline ticket, Doc's hat, and the telephone.]''
142	** Doc, luckily, comes up with a solution so Sprocket won't have to travel as baggage.
143	--->'''Doc:''' ''[on plane, to flight attendant]'' Could I have another cup of coffee, please? And my... ''grandfather'' here would like some more cookies.\
144	''[Camera zooms in on the "person" sitting next to Doc. He's bundled up in a heavy overcoat and hat with a scarf covering most of his face, but from the eyes, we can tell it's Sprocket.]''

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