“I looked at the cameras and I thought, ‘Well, I’ve gotta be Boober,” he recalled. He was instantly suspicious that the puppets had been made with exact puppeteers in mind, even though the writers alway denied it. Goelz remembers going to New York to “meet” the puppets that had been created for Fraggle Rock. Stevenson then decided to get her own back in another way, by writing the Season 3 Fraggle Rock episode ‘Scared Silly’.Įach Fraggle was inspired by a specific puppeteer Goelz got her during a lunch break once by sneaking up on her while she was at an ATM - and then ruined all of her attempts to get him back. And I never tried it again.”įraggle writer Jocelyn Stevenson also fell victim to a scaring prank during her time on the show. Finally about 10:00 I realized he’s not coming back tonight. I thought, ‘He’s not a guy of absolute rigid habits, maybe he’ll come later.’ 9:00, 9:30. It was a hot summer night, the air-conditioners were not on. I would win for all time! 8 o’clock came, 8:15, 8:30, 8:45-and I’m still sitting on the toilet in this bathroom under a black cloth. I sat down on the toilet and I covered myself with black duvetyne, that black velour stuff, so that when he came in and reached for that switch there would be a human hand on it. “I had it off and the whole place looked like nobody was there. Keeping in mind that Sahlin would leave work around 4pm and return to work later that night, when an employee who entered the building unoccupied would have to throw a master switch in a breaker panel in a small bathroom, he devised this plan: Goelz one extracted a revenge plan on his “fake enemy” Don Sahlin, from the Muppet art department, who had once rigged his desk to “explode” with puppet-making materials. Goelz has said that the legendary Frank Oz had a phobia about seeds and once Jerry Juhl put birdseed between the slates of venetian blinds in the Muppet workshop nap room right before Oz went in there and closed them, prompting the seeds to go everywhere. Scaring competitions aren’t new to the Muppet world. The duo also thought up the name Fraggle Hill, but ditched after they thought it sounded too British. That name was abandoned when they discovered that Woozles were already characters in Winnie the Pooh. An archivist at the Henson Company, however, confirmed that-while Jim Henson and show writer Jerry Juhl liked the sound of “Frackles,” who were the bad guys from The Great Santa Claus Switch-the show was originally called Woozle World. I think it was probably just that they were looking for a word they liked as much as that one,” Goelz said after revealing that Fraggle itself has no specific meaning. “It’s a variation on a character group that dated back to the early ’70s called Frackles. The Fraggles were almost called The Woozles Get ready for a serious nostalgia overload! To celebrate the frankly AMAZING news that the puppets will be returning to our screens we’ve compiled a list of ten things you might have never known about the hit children’s series. If you were of a certain age in the early 1980s, there’s probably no denying that Fraggle Rock was one of your favourites, and now it’s been announced that The Fraggles will make an official comeback in a live-action movie which will see Hollywood cutie Joseph Gordon-Levitt star AND produce.įor those of you born post-1990s that made have no idea who the Fraggles are, they’re puppets, who live in a cave next to the home of a man named Doc, and they’re literally music mad, oh, and their neighbors are Gorgs and Doozers (and an oracular heap of trash). Fraggle Rock’s making a comeback! 10 things you probably didn’t know about the 80s hit!
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