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Dance your cares away

Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.
Work you cares away,
Dancing's for another day.
Let the Fraggles play,
We're Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red.
Dance your cares away,
Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.
Down at Fraggle Rock.
Down at Fraggle Rock!

I so love the muppets & Jim Henson is an absolute genius! Lee brought home the Fraggle Rock Season 1 DVD set last night and we watched two episodes while head wobbling to the catchy theme song. Heheh... It was a flashback to the good old days of wonderful children shows.

Its amazing though, how we don't notice a lot of things as a kid. While watching, Lee & I started pointing out some of the production bits including the obvious use of blue screen in some scenes. He even laughed when he saw one of the puppets in the air, "I can't believe how the puppeteer just threw it up like that!" Hehehe... I can even imagine what the set would've been like for the puppeteers handling the Fraggles and Doozers because I helped out in the puppet TV show, Planet Bizzarro (omg, I can't believe I've been listed as a supporting puppeteer! Cool!), more than a year ago. These people are so amazing, it takes a lot of coordination and more than just two pairs of hands for one puppet sometimes. This is one of the things I love about working in television.

There's been a creative ignition for me being here, and not working though. Even looking at the events being shown in Sydney is awesome. Lee & I are looking forward to catching The Jim Henson's company's Puppet Up show at the end of this month. That also after watching Cirque du Soleil's Varekai in Canberra next Saturday. I love Lee for refreshing my artistic side and memory with all the things I loved as a kid. You should see our studio - with cel animation and posters of Disney and Warner Bros cartoon characters all over the place! *^_^* I'm gonna have to start calling Lee Gobo from now on. Heheh...

If you still can't remember Fraggle Rock, let this video refresh you memory. ^_~ *puts the DVD on & headbangs to the Fraggle Theme*



Comments

'Jim Henson is an absolute genius!'

WAS a genius. Unfortunately he passed away a long time ago (1990). We certainly lost a lot when he went.
I've alwasy wondered who has been doing Kermits voice since then. I've guessed it is probably his son, but I could be wrong.

Ooo, I just looked it up. Kermit now gets done by a Steve Whitmire. Who, apparently told kids when he was at school that one day he'd be doing the voice for Kermit the frog! Talk about prophetic!

he still is - cos his puppets still live on. hehe... =P

yeah, amazing innit?

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