History Recap / FraggleRockS3E12ScaredSilly

** Beastie, Tosh's pet beast, introduced in [[Recap/FraggleRockS2E23BoobersQuietDay "Boober's Quiet Day,"]] makes a brief appearance.

* BlaseBoast: Wembley hides under a pile of laundry, planning to jump out of it to scare Boober, who isn't fooled, as he sees [[PaperThinDisguise Wembley's tail sticking out]]. Boober hides, waits for Wembley to jump out of the laundry, then scares him again. When Wembley complains of this...

* TalkingToTheDead: Wembley, alone in Boober's room and thinking Boober's blown up, tearfully talks out loud to him.

'''Philo:''' Did too...!\\

* ExactEavesdropping: Wembley talks out loud to himself about his plan to scare Boober, not realizing Boober is hiding behind him, listening.

** Wembley hides in a pile of laundry to scare Boober, who isn't fooled, as he sees [[PaperThinDisguise Wembley's tail sticking out]]. Boober hides, waits for Wembley to jump out of the laundry, then scares him again.
** Wembley gets scared into unconsciousness by Philo and Gunge, who were trying on Wembley's masks. When he wakes up, he thinks he's blown himself up and that he's in "The Land of Having Blown Up."

-->'''Boober:''' So Wembley thinks he's gonna scare me. This could be interesting.

'''Wembley:''' Boober... Boober, you and I have blown up—KABOOM! There's nothing we can do about it, and we're never gonna see our friends again! ''[He breaks down in tears and begins sobbing on Boober's shoulder.]''

** Boober accidentally scares himself with a device he had used to scare Wembley.

** Wembley hides in a pile of laundry to scare Boober, who isn't fooled, as he sees [[PaperThinDisguise Wembley's tail sticking out]]. Boober then waits for Wembley to jump out of the laundry so he can scare him again.

* TakeThatKiss: Boober does this to Wembley after getting in one more scare before leaving for Rock Soap Cavern.

After Boober scares Wembley to test his baloobius (the fluffy end of a Fraggle's tail, which flares when a Fraggle is scared), Wembley tries to pay him back and goes to the Trash Heap for advice on how to do so. The Trash Heap warns against this, telling Wembley that if he seeks revenge, he takes the consequences. Wembley tries to do so anyway, planting masks and popping plastic snakes in Boober's room while he's away at Rock Soap Cavern, but panics when Philo and Gunge tell him that Boober could blow up from being scared enough.

After Boober scares Wembley to test his baloobius (the fluffy end of a Fraggle's tail, which flares when a Fraggle is scared), Wembley tries to pay him back and goes to the Trash Heap for advice on how to do so. The Trash Heap warns against this, telling Wembley that if he seeks revenge, he takes the consequences. Wembley tries to do so anyway, planting masks and popping snakes in Boober's room while he's away at Rock Soap Cavern, but panics when Philo and Gunge tell him that Boober could blow up from being scared enough.

-->'''Wembley:''' If only I hadn't tried to get back at him for scaring me. He was only testing my baloobius! ''[He picks up a piece of laundry and cries into it.]''

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Wembley realizes he could have saved himself a lot of grief if he hadn't tried to scare Boober back.

* NervousWreck: Wembley becomes this after thinking that his traps made Boober blow up.

* JerkassBall: Philo and Gunge take this when they tell Wembley it's possible to blow up from being scared enough.

* ContinuityNod: When Doc realizes [[TheKeyIsBehindTheLock the key to the workshop is locked inside that room]], he asks Sprocket to get it by using the doggy door Doc built for him in [[Recap/FraggleRockS3E11GobosSchoolForExplorers "Gobo's School For Explorers."]]

* DudeNotFunny: Wembley's reaction every time Boober scares him.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Wembley hides in a pile of laundry to scare Boober, who isn't fooled, as he sees [[PaperThinDisguise Wembley's tail sticking out]]. Boober then waits for Wembley to jump out of the laundry so he can scare him again.

* PrankGoneTooFar: Wembley thinks the traps he rigged up in Boober's room made Boober so scared that he blew up.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If Boober hadn't scared Wembley, or if he had apologized at once, Wembley wouldn't have tried to get back at him.
** If Wembley hadn't tried to scare Boober back, he wouldn't have been led to believe that Boober had blown up.

-->'''Wembley:''' If only I hadn't tried to get back at him for scaring me. He was only testing my baloobius! ''[He picks up a piece of laundry and cries into it.]''