DefunctTV: The History of Fraggle Rock

33 thoughts on “DefunctTV: The History of Fraggle Rock”

1. The Muppets… The Meek Shall for Inherit the Earth. (smile)

2. I love dark crystal, I am named after Kira from it 🙂

3. Really disrespectful ending you pseudo intellectual binch

4. Wonder if a Fraggle Rock reboot could work in 2023, and does Disney own these muppets or are these still with Jim Henson Productions.

5. I do find this show to be a bit entertaining from a Jim Henson show since I might have saw it on ABC Kids and one of the top 20 in the shows aged for mostly children and teenagers in my opinion

6. I didn't think I would have tears in my eyes during this video, but here we are. What a great ending for a show.

7. Annnnd I'm just now realizing the "Rock" in Fraggle Rock was not the "Rock'n Roll" type of rock. Doi!! 🤦‍♀️

8. I was never a major Sesame Street fan, or Muppet Show fan, but I would stay up late and catch reruns of Fraggle Rock. There was just something about it that I loved.

9. I didn't even remember this show, and… suddenly I realize things about myself that I learned from this show.

10. I hated the muppet show when I was little, but absolutely loved the Fraggles. The Fraggles was also dubbed to Danish, which helped a lot with digesting it, while the Muppet Show was always shown in original English because they felt it was too complex to translate and the jokes wouldn't work in Danish, but then a lot of the jokes fell flat here because Danish and American humour simply isn't compatible

11. As of this writing it’s January 8, 2023. January 10, 2023 will mark the 40th anniversary of the debut of Fraggle Rock. As a ten year old back then, I can clearly remember my excitement for the show and how I felt when I watched the first episode on HBO.

12. 11:03 "Dance your cares away"
    I did the double-clap!
    (edited to include time-stamp)

13. Ah yes, Lew Grade's ATV/ITC had lost a fortune on a few Box Office bombs – Raise the Titanic, etc, lost its regional ITV franchise, ironically as they'd been too good with Overseas Sales, neglecting their British regional franchise, resulting in the break up of Associated Communications Corporation, the tv and film library passing through Polygram/Universal eventually to ITV plc, the Pye record company sold off, the ATV Music Publishing company was sold off to Michael Jackson (this is why the Muppet Show could have Beatles songs, and loads of obscure music hall songs) and became Sony ATV Music Publishing, and the ATV Elstree/Borehamwood tv Studios, where the muppet show was actually video taped was sold onto to the BBC where Eastenders is made. Confusingly, the former EMI (film) Elstree Studios where some of the Muppet movies, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Star Wars, Indiana Jones etc were made, were around the corner, the one notoriously demolished in half to become a supermarket.

14. I do wonder if Jim saw the reach and power of The Muppets, a relatively disposable piece of light entertainment, and decided to do something more meaningful with a "show to end all wars" 😉

15. I'm just glad that this was not dubbed in Finland, learned some english while watching with cc. 🙂

16. A puppet show to stop a Cold War. Only Jim Henson. Thanks Jim.

17. Thank you for doing this. A masterful take on the wonderful show that is Fraggle Rock.

18. i loved this when i was a kid…born in 76.

19. 25:42 I feel like doc would start to think they've gone crazy when they heard this

20. 👉🏻👈🏻 me quietly learning about fraggle rock being puppets for the first time

21. The Dark Crystal is one of my favorite movies ever.

22. I was born in 1980 and grew up watching fraggle rock every Sunday night in Canada before bed
    Every morning Sesame Street

23. I love fraggle rock. It was a bit before my time, but I could never care.

24. Dozens? Or Dozers?

25. Ay Caramba Fraggle Rock

26. WAIT ARE THESE THE LITTLE TINY MUPPETS WHO LIVE IN A ROCK!

27. I loved the dark crystal as a kid 😭

28. Peach cobbler is a great narrator.

29. "Fraggle Rock was a resounding success that nailed exactly what it was going for from moment one"

    Well okay, guess I need to watch it. *looks it up*….it's not available to stream with a subscription anywhere, you have to buy it. Surprises me that HBO doesn't have it even though they now own Sesame Street

30. Were the Squarespace ads made using actual puppets?

31. if you like indie rock check out the band "the doozers", really great local band

32. If someone hasn't said this already, Jim Henson is What Walt Disney wanted to be as far as having a tight bond and father figure of his team.

33. Here at 1,373,077 views. (before that too… maybe)

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