"We'll attack at dawn. That's how these things are done."
Red and Mokey go camping. The next morning, Mokey comes across another group of Fraggles, who call themselves the Cave Fraggles. They capture Mokey and take her prisoner. Red runs home and rallies the Rock Fraggles to rescue her—but the World's Oldest Fraggle, informing them that the Cave Fraggles are old enemies of the Rock Fraggles, declares war. He brings a long-hidden weapon out of storage and says that at dawn, they will attack the Cave Fraggles.While the Cave Fraggles are preparing their own weapons for war, Mokey befriends Beige, her guard. That night, while the other Fraggles are asleep, Red sneaks over to Mokey's cage and meets Beige. They agree that they both want to free Mokey and prevent any fighting. Before any weapons can be fired, Red hits the World's Oldest Fraggle in the face with a pie. Beige does the same to the Cave's Oldest Fraggle, and soon both groups of Fraggles are laughing. War is averted, and Mokey is freed.
This episode contains examples of:
- Badass Pacifist: Red and Beige, averting the war with pies.
- Big Damn Hug: Red and Mokey share one after Red lets Mokey out of the cage.
- Blood Knight: The World's Oldest Fraggle, eagerly declaring war on the Cave Fraggles for no other reason than that they're enemies of the Rock Fraggles.
- Bucket Helmet: The Rock Fraggles wear pots and other cooking supplies as helmets.
- But I Read a Book About It: Beige thinks he's read all he needs to know about the right way to treat a Rock Fraggle, but Mokey has other ideas.Beige: Are the facilities satisfactory, prisoner?
Mokey: Of course they're not!
Beige: What? B-but I'm following all the rules in the Fraggle security manual. Uh, Chapter 3, Section 7, on the care and feeding of prisoners...
Mokey: Yes, well, I'm really sorry to be the one to have to tell you this, but... you know... there is absolutely nothing satisfactory about being blindfolded and locked in a cage! - Camping Episode: Red and Mokey encounter the Cave Fraggles while on a camping trip.
- Can't See a Damn Thing:
- Mokey, until Beige reluctantly lets her take the blindfold off.
- Wembley's helmet is so big, it covers his eyes, and he has noticeable trouble seeing where he's going.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Red's yellow skin and bright red hair reflect her fiery persona. In contrast, Beige's beige skin and white hair suggest his more apathetic personality.
- Comically Missing the Point: The Rock Fraggles' Skewed Priorities are Played for Laughs.World's Oldest Fraggle: Remember, my fellow Fraggles, we will be victorious! We will be triumphant!
Red: Don't forget about Mokey!
World's Oldest Fraggle: We will be Mokey! [A Beat.] That doesn't make any sense. - Commonality Connection: When Red and Beige first meet, she accuses him of locking Mokey in a cage, and he accuses her of bringing in an army of enemy Fraggles. What brings them together is agreeing that they want to free Mokey and prevent any fighting.
- Conflicting Loyalty: Beige has always been loyal to the other Cave Fraggles, who consider the Rock Fraggles their enemies, but he begins to sympathize with Mokey. By the end of the episode, he just wants to set her free and prevent a war.
- Creepy Monotone: Downplayed with the Cave Fraggles. They speak with some inflections, though with less than the Rock Fraggles do. This can sound creepy, especially when they take Mokey prisoner, but it's a reflection of the fact that their personalities are more apathetic than those of the Rock Fraggles.
- Crowd Chant: Right after locking up Mokey, the Cave Fraggles chant: "PRISONER! PRISONER! PRISONER...!"
- Dawn Attack: The World's Oldest Fraggle plans to have the Rock Fraggles do this.
- Do Wrong, Right: This happens moments after the Cave Fraggles capture Mokey.Mokey: [as she's being locked up] You know, I really think there's been some sort of a mistake here...!
Beige: [to the other Cave Fraggles] Hey! You can't do that!
Mokey: Thank you! That's why I've been trying to tell them.
Beige: You can't guard a prisoner without weapons. - Electric Joybuzzer: After Shimmelfinney leaves a fake spider on the front seat of Doc's car, Doc plans to pay him back with one of these. Before Doc can even offer a handshake, though, Shimmelfinney throws a pie in his face.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: The episode ends with the Rock Fraggles and Cave Fraggles laughing after the World's Oldest and Cave's Oldest Fraggles get hit in the face with pies.World's Oldest Fraggle: [to the Cave's Oldest Fraggle] Do you think it was something we said?
- Fire of Comfort: At the beginning of the episode, Red is roasting a radish over a campfire.
- Foreshadowing:
- We get a bit of this at the beginning, when Mokey tells Red that deep down, all Fraggles are the same.Red: You've got to be kidding! Are you saying that I'm the same as Boober?
Mokey: Mmm-hmm.
Red: Yeah? That is nuts! Could you imagine Boober deciding to travel this far? He wouldn't do it for anything!
Mokey: Oh... he might surprise you. - Boober suggests a bake-off as a means of averting war, but Red brushes him off. Later, after hearing about the Cave Fraggles' sense of humor, she realizes that pies are the key to preventing the war.Boober: Wait! Couldn't we just have a Fraggle bake-off instead?
Wembley: Yeah!
Red: We're not going to be able to save Mokey with pies, Boober.
- We get a bit of this at the beginning, when Mokey tells Red that deep down, all Fraggles are the same.
- Great Big Book of Everything: The Cave Fraggles have one to plan their activities.
- Growling Gut: Mokey tries to convince the Cave Fraggles to listen to their inner voices. The only "inner voice" they hear, though, is a stomach gurgle, which one of them says is his lunch digesting.
- Horrible Camping Trip: Red and Mokey's trip becomes this when Mokey is captured.
- I Come in Peace: Mokey tries to tell the Cave Fraggles this when she first meets them, but they just take her prisoner.Mokey: Gee, don't be afraid. I'm just a Fraggle, like you.
- I Have Nothing to Say to That: Moments after Mokey has been locked up...Cave Fraggles: [chanting] PRISONER! PRISONER! PRISONER...!
Mokey: [over the chanting] Um... could... could somebody please tell me why you're doing this?
Beige: We're not permitted to speak to enemy Fraggles.
Mokey: Enemy Fraggles?
Beige: Mmm-hmm.
Mokey: There's no such thing!
Beige: Well then, why do you think you're being kept in this cage?
Mokey: Uh... uh... oh... - I Just Want to Be Free: Mokey sings "Sunlight and Shadow," a Melancholy Musical Number about this.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: The Cave Fraggles' idea of fun is dusting.Beige: [as the other Cave Fraggles dust] Well... well, I suppose it's all right for you Fraggles to have some fun, but I want you to pick up rocks the minute the break is over. Okay?
- Informed Obscenity: Beige informs Mokey that the word "whoopee" is a curse word by Cave Fraggle standards. After pieing the Cave's Oldest Fraggle, though, Beige yells, "Whoopee!"
- Lima Syndrome: Beige begins to sympathize with Mokey. By the end of the episode, he just wants to set her free and prevent a war.
- Noisy Shut-Up: Red, running back to Fraggle Rock to relay the news that Mokey's been captured, blows the Fraggle Horn, but nobody pays attention. She finally shuts them up by yelling, "QUIET!"
- No Sense of Humor: Subverted. The World's Oldest Fraggle explains to Red that they're supposed to hate the Cave Fraggles because they have no sense of humor. He says that the Cave Fraggles think the best part of getting a pie in the face is cleaning up afterward. In reality, their sense of humor is different from that of the Rock Fraggles. They tell Mokey about their sense of humor in the song "Ho Ho Ho (What a Funny World It Is)."
- "Not So Different" Remark: While on their camping trip, Mokey tells Red that, deep down, all Fraggles are the same. At the end of the episode, the Cave Fraggles and the Rock Fraggles discover they have something in common: an appreciation for pie-in-the-face comedy gold.Mokey: See? All Fraggles are alike. They all laugh!
- On Second Thought: Mokey, on first seeing the Cave Fraggles, runs to greet them. When they all start saying, "Get her!", she changes her mind and tries to run, in vain.
- On Three: Red and Beige pie the World's Oldest and Cave's Oldest Fraggles on the count of three.
- Orphaned Set Up: An example of the Cave Fraggles' kind of jokes...Beige: [singing] Did you hear the one about the person who went walking out, and then he came back home again?
- Passive Rescue: Red and Beige free Mokey by averting war in a nonviolent way.
- Pie in the Face:
- Red and Beige do this to the World's and Cave's Oldest Fraggles, making everyone laugh and preventing the war.
- Doc is pied twice by Shimmelfinney as part of a prank war. Bent on revenge, Doc buys pies of every conceivable flavor to pay Shimmelfinney back, until Sprocket convinces him to call off the war and invite Shimmelfinney to a party.
- The Prankster: Shimmelfinney is this to Doc.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: By the end of the episode, Beige is determined to free Mokey, even though she's one of the Rock Fraggles.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Sprocket, sick of the escalating prank war, threatens to leave Doc if he doesn't call a truce with Shimmelfinney.
- Secret Weapon: The Rock Fraggles have one stored away.
- Silly Reason for War: The Rock Fraggles and the Cave Fraggles have been enemies for years, simply because they don't have the same sense of humor.
- Skewed Priorities: The World's Oldest Fraggle is more concerned with declaring war on the Cave Fraggles than with freeing Mokey.
- This Means War!:
- When Red relays the news that Mokey has been captured by the Cave Fraggles, the World's Oldest Fraggle declares war on them.
- Doc says this the second time Shimmelfinney pies him.
- War Is Hell: Lampshaded.Wembley: What... what, exactly, happens in a war?
Red: Well, Wembley, I think you have to hurt other Fraggles on purpose.
Wembley: But... but I don't want to do something like that! - Written-In Absence: Gobo does not appear in this episode. At the beginning, Red and Mokey are discussing the fact that he's off exploring the Golden Grotto.
