Line #45 Recap/FraggleRockS1E19TheGreatRadishFamine


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:♫ Knit one, purl two! ♫]]
3	Wanting the Fraggles, the Doozers, and the Gorgs to come together, the Trash Heap secretly takes all the radishes, believing this will help the three races to become friends. Instead, they all panic and blame one another. In despair, the Trash Heap sulks.
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5	When Mokey visits to tell her the Fraggles are starving, the Trash Heap says they'll have the radishes back—but only if Mokey meets in the garden at midnight with a Doozer and a Gorg. Mokey, though nonplussed, manages to do so. Pleased at this, the Trash Heap returns the radishes.
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7	!!This episode contains examples of:
8	* BlameGame: The Doozers and the Gorgs blame the Fraggles for the missing radishes; the Fraggles blame the Doozers and the Gorgs in turn.
9	* CommonalityConnection: Subverted. Flange agrees to come with Mokey to the garden and meet a Gorg. Mokey doesn't realize that this is because the Doozers also depend on radishes, though, and the meeting doesn't result in their coming together.
10	* ADayInTheLimelight: The first episode to primarily focus on the Doozers (aside from [[Recap/FraggleRockS1E6ThePreachificationOfConvincingJohn "The Preachification of Convincing John,"]] in which the Doozers themselves didn't appear much despite the plot focusing on them). The next season would introduce Cotterpin, a recurring Doozer character.
11	* DescriptionCut: One happens when Mokey tries to calm down a panicking Boober.
12	-->'''Mokey:''' Take the Doozers, for instance. They are absolutely unflappable. They're different from us. If they were in trouble, would they panic?\
13	''[Cut to Doozers panicking.]''
14	* DespairSpeech: The Trash Heap makes one when Philo and Gunge report that the Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs have been blaming one another for the disappearance of the radishes.
15	-->'''The Trash Heap:''' Ohhh, I don't know, boys. I try so hard, and still I can't bring 'em together! Why do I bother? Ashes! All is ashes!
16	* EpisodeTagline:
17	** Uttered by Boober, then the Trash Heap: "Ashes! All is ashes!"
18	** Uttered by the Trash Heap, then Mokey, then Flange, then Junior: "Listen up and listen tight!"
19	* TheFamine: The Fraggles have one when the Trash Heap takes all the radishes.
20	* FantasySequence: When Philo and Gunge tell the Trash Heap that Mokey met with a Doozer and a Gorg, she sings "Perfect Harmony" while fantasizing about the three of them harmoniously singing the song together. [[spoiler:Philo and Gunge reveal that when Junior came out of the castle, his head having turned invisible due to a lack of anti-vanishing cream, the three of them screamed in panic. Seeing that they all met anyway, the Trash Heap calls it close enough and returns the radishes.]]
21	* FigureItOutYourself: What the Trash Heap tells Mokey when she asks how to get a Doozer and a Gorg to meet in the garden with her.
22	-->'''Mokey:''' Me... and a Doozer... and a Gorg? How?\
23	'''The Trash Heap:''' Your problem. Make it happen.
24	* GetOut: Philo and Gunge say this to Mokey when she asks to see the Trash Heap, who's languishing and refusing to speak.
25	-->'''Gunge:''' Go away. She can't see ya.\
26	'''Mokey:''' But she always sees us!\
27	'''Gunge:''' She isn't well!\
28	'''Philo:''' Yeah! It's your kind that made her sick. So go away, and don't come back no more.
29	* TheIdealist: The Trash Heap.
30	* {{Invisibility}}: What happens to Gorgs [[spoiler:when they don't have their anti-vanishing cream, made from radishes]].
31	* {{Irony}}: The Trash Heap commenting that the Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs will learn something from the events. While they will eventually come together, it had nothing to do with this incident.
32	* JobSong: Early on, the Doozers sing "Doozer March Song," which is about the joy of building their constructions.
33	* MassOhCrap: The Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs, when the Trash Heap takes all the radishes.
34	-->'''Boober:''' Ashes! All is ashes!
35	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: By taking all the radishes, the Trash Heap condemns the Fraggles to starvation, leaves the Gorgs headless, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and forces the Doozers to resort to knitting]].
36	* NotSoAboveItAll: The Trash Heap, for all her wisdom, fails to consider the holes in her plan.
37	* NotSoDifferentRemark: The Trash Heap makes one about the Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs.
38	-->'''The Trash Heap:''' Some ways different, some ways the same. Take, for example, radishes!
39	* OpinionFlipFlop: Wembley does this when the radishes have disappeared and Red and Mokey are discussing what to do.
40	-->'''Red:''' No radishes? We'd better call a town meeting!\
41	'''Wembley:''' Good idea!\
42	'''Mokey:''' But everyone would panic!\
43	'''Wembley:''' Bad idea!\
44	'''Red:''' But it's ''time'' to panic!\
45	'''Wembley:''' Good idea!\
46	'''Mokey:''' Quiet, Wembley.\
47	'''Wembley:''' Good idea!
48	* OutOfJobIntoThePlot: Without the radishes, the Doozers resort to taking up knitting as an occupation. They unhappily sing "Doozer Knitting Song" while getting tangled in the yarn, just wanting to go back to building.
49	-->'''A Doozer:''' Ohh, this sweater itches!
50	* SecurityCling: Boober clings in terror to Mokey after she reports there are no radishes in the Gorgs' garden.
51	* TheSymbiote: The Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs all depend on radishes. The Doozers build their constructions, and the Fraggles eat them, leaving the former with more space to build. The Gorgs grow the radishes to make [[spoiler: anti-vanishing cream, which prevents them from turning invisible]], while the Fraggles gather them for food, and the Doozers mine them to construct more buildings.
52	* TalkingInYourDreams: Parodied at the start of the episode, when the Trash Heap dreams of having a conversation with ''herself''.
53	-->'''Philo:''' You appeared to ''yourself'' in a dream?\
54	'''The Trash Heap:''' You know how it is. When the Trash Heap appears to you in a dream, you better listen up, and you better listen tight!\
55	'''Gunge:''' I should say so!\
56	'''Philo:''' So what did you say to yourself?\
57	'''The Trash Heap:''' Ohhh, I said, "Why can't the Fraggles and the Doozers and the Gorgs... why can't they understand one another? Why can't I bring them together?"
58	* ThisIsNoTimeToPanic: The Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs all say this—before panicking anyway.
59	* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: The Trash Heap tells Mokey to meet in the garden at midnight with a Doozer and a Gorg.
60	* WrittenInAbsence: Gobo does not appear in this episode. Red mentions that he's off exploring the Singing Caverns.

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