02x10 - Fraggle Up

[bunniefuu]

[music starts]

- [barking]
- Whoa!

♪ Dance your cares away ♪

- [cheers]
- ♪ Worry's for another day ♪

♪ Let the music play ♪

♪ Down at Fraggle Rock ♪

♪ Work your cares away ♪

♪ Dancing's for another day ♪

♪ Let the Fraggles play ♪

- We're Gobo.
- Mokey.

- Wembley.
- Boober.

- Red. Whoo!
- [Gobo] Whoopee!

[Red] Whoo-hoo!

- [Pa Gorg] Junior!
- [chuckles]

Hello!

[grunts] Aw. My radish.

♪ 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.

- [growling]
- [toy squeaking]

[pants]

[gasps, chuckles] Hey, Sprocket.

It is so good to see you.

[laughing] You are too funny.

Hey, listen. Forgot to tell ya,

Mrs. Shimmelfinney has jury duty today
which, you know, we totally support.

Civic duty, you get it.

- But she asked if we could...
- [groan]

watch her cat Fluffinella, and I said yes.

[whimpers, groans]

- I know Fluffinella can be a lot.
- [grunts, whimpering]

But you can spend the day safely
up in the loft.

You won't have to see her,
and you won't feel scared.

- [grunting]
- [Doc chuckles]

It's okay to feel scared.
Just let me know, and I can help.

[grunting]

[Doc] Really? Weight lifting bones?

[clicks tongue] Okay, tough guy. There is
no need to push down your feelings.

The loft is open for you, and I'm here
for you if you need to bark something out.

- [knocking]
- [Doc] Oh.

- [barking]
- [door opens]

[Doc] Hi, Mrs. Shimmelfinney.
We'll make sure to take good care of...

And she's gone. Wow. Woman of few words.

- [sighs] Welcome, Fluffinella.
- [Fluffinella meowing]

Make yourself at home.

I don't think we have any mice,
but they're all yours if you can find one.

And you remember Spro...

Sprocket. [scoffs]

Mmm.

[scoffs]

- [meowing]
- [growling]

[gasps, whimpering]

[Fluffinella meowing]

[sighing]

- [purrs]
- [gasps]

- [hisses]
- [yowling]

- [Sprocket barking]
- [Fluffinella hissing]

Okay, everyone.
This is a very serious meeting.

Mmm. Mmm.

That's why I'm wearing
my very serious vest.

Very similar to my other vest,
but the keen eye can tell.

- I noticed.
- First thing I saw.

Friends,
we are completely out of radishes.

- Uh-huh. Mm-hmm.
- And if we don't fix it,

our way of life in Fraggle Rock
could change forever.

- [Fraggles gasp, murmur]
- Forever?

- Yeah.
- [Fraggle] No.

Pardon my language,
but it's heavy-duty tutti-frutti.

- [Fraggles gasp]
- Gobo!

I know, I know, I know.
But, we have solutions.

Boober's gonna introduce a special guest
who can share some exciting ideas.

Hang on. This next guest needs a hoist.

[strains]

- Cotterpin.
- Ah. [chuckles]

- How ya living, girl? [chuckles]
- [murmuring]

- Huh?
- Hmm.

- What? We're very close.
- We are?

Well, I mean, we should be.
[chuckles] Right?

- I guess.
- [Boober] Awkward.

Uh, okay, so I've been working
with hydroponic gardening,

- a method of growing plants without soil.
- Mm-hmm.

- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- Now that the Gorgs' Garden is dry,

this could help bring the radishes back.

[all cheering]

- Incredible!
- That's my girl right there!

Wow. Look at us.
Fraggles and Doozers working together.

And to think, in my day we ate them.

What?

Retracted.

Well, so, anyway...

[stammers] ...we should have
the first harvestable radish

in 45 to 50 helmet calendar months.

- Give or take.
- [Gobo] What?

- [Fraggle 1] Months? Aw, that's so long.
- [Fraggles groaning]

Hey, I said she was working on something.

- I did not say I knew the timeline.
- [groaning] Oh.

[groans] So, is there a plan

to get radishes back more like, uh,
now-ish?

Yeah, whatcha got, Gobo? We're waiting.

Yeah. Aren't you supposed to be
some kinda leader?

Uh... Uh. [stammers]
Well, uh, uh. Well, uh, it'll be okay.

I'll find a solution
to bring back the radish.

I mean, I'm the nephew of the Fraggle who
discovered radishes in the first place.

Oh, boy. Here comes the story.

A long time ago,

- my Uncle Matt triumphantly...
- [no audible dialogue from Red]

...discovered radishes in the Gorgs' Garden

and brought them here to the Great Hall.

- As he sounded the Fraggle horn...
- [no audible dialogue from Red]

...it marked the beginning of a new era.

- [Fraggles laugh, gasping]
- [Red groans]

- Wow. Chills. [chuckles]
- Mmm.

Hey. I bet my uncle's latest postcard
has some valuable guidance.

Unless he physically sent back a radish,
I doubt it.

-"Dear Nephew Gobo..."
- [groans]

[Matt] Just the other day,

I discovered a mountainous region
overwhelmed by a great flood.

I noticed that the Silly Creatures
were completely terrified.

[people clamoring]

[Matt] But I didn't have
a fearful whisker in my mustache.

[exclaims] What are you? [shudders]

When I saw a group of Silly Creatures
trapped on a cliff,

I knew I had to take action.

Coming through. Coming through.
Fraggle to the rescue.

[chuckles]

[Matt] Though others would be frightened
in this scenario, I was fearless.

This is higher than I thought.
[whimpering]

Nephew, a strong leader needs
to push down any feelings of doubt.

So I bravely led the way.

[shouting] No, no, no!

Mommy! Mommy! [shouting]

[whimpers]

[Matt] I loved it.

It made the frightened Silly Creatures
feel comfortable following me to safety.

They gave me a cape
suggesting I was some sort of hero,

- but more super. A superhero.
- I'm cold. Cold. [shivering]

Wow. I just invented that term.

Anyway, a good reminder
that others need us to lead. So we must...

"...push down feelings,
never show weakness and Fraggle up."

I love that. That's how I have to lead.

- [grunting, chuckling] Yeah!
- Ooh!

Wearing a towel?

- Uh, Gobo. If you're a superhero...
- Hmm?

...can I be the hero's helper? Like the guy
who stands to the side of the hero?

[stammers] Within kicking distance like,
uh, like a sidefoot?

- Huh? Yeah? Yes!
- I love that. Okay,

- time to Fraggle up and make a plan.
- Mm-hmm.

Step one, let's go to the Trash Heap.

- She's all-knowing.
- [all clamor]

She'll be able to help.

No more meetings.

- [grunts] Action.
- Just action.

- Action. [laughs]
- Ooh.

Bye!

Something is definitely off
about this garden.

- Yeah.
- I mean,

- it can't be all this Gorg-A-Max we used.
- Oh.

That stuff's perfect like us Gorgs.

- [Junior Gorg chuckles]
- But something's going on.

Maybe the Fraggles can help.

Uh, Gobo once told me
anytime I need a friend,

I could use these clappy hands,
and he'd come running.

I agree with my Junior. We could use
a little help right about now.

- Yay! [chuckles]
- [chuckles]

- Nay!
- [Ma Gorg] Oh?

- Huh?
- We are not involving

the Fraggles on this.
Our ancestors won't have it.

- Aw. [groans]
- Aw.

Oh, now Junior. I don't mean to be mean.

It's just that I think a Gorgs' Garden
is a Gorg's problem.

- Huh?
- It's on us to fix it.

- You and me. King and son.
- [gasps]

The only clappy hands
you need are right here.

- Clap these hands, my big boy. Yeah.
- [chuckles]

- Yeah. You're right, Pa.
- That's my nose.

Who needs these? Or Fraggles. [chuckles]

[exclaiming]

- [chuckles] That's me.
- That's my boy. [chuckles]

- [groaning]
- Oh, Gobo.

I know what it meant
to give that to Junior.

- Mmm. [grunts] Well...
- You okay?

[grunts]

[breathes heavily] I'm fine.
Come on, sidefoot. We got a job to do.

Let's Fraggle up. [grunts]

The other day when I got my head stuck
in that old shoe...

- Mm-hmm.
- ...I felt, well, scared.

- Hmm.
- Mmm. Mm-hmm.

What a generous expression
of your feelings, Philo.

- Gunge, anything to add?
- Hmm?

[Trash Heap]
The feeling stick is all yours.

- [crying]
- Well.

- When Philo was stuck, I felt sad.
- Uh-huh.

- Yeah?
- Because I don't wanna lose you.

[gasps]

[both sobbing, sniffling]

Aw, look at my boys.
Proud of you. Let those feelings out.

Oh, welcome, welcome.

You're just in time
for our feelings circle.

- Healthy. Mm-hmm.
- Cathartic.

Uh, no time for feelings, Madam Heap.

- [scoffs]
- Fraggle Rock is in a radish emergency...

- [Fraggles] Mm-hmm.
- ...and we need your help.

Did he just say, "No time for feelings"?

- That's what he said.
- Verbatim.

Well, the whole Rock is counting on me.
I don't need feelings. I need action.

So, do you know
how we can bring radishes back?

Hmm. I know what you need to do.

- Yeah?
- Go back to where it all began.

Look beneath the surface,

and bring what's down there
up into the light.

- Huh?
- [gasps]

The Trash heap has spoken.

[both] Yeah. [grunt]

- Look beneath the surface?
- Hmm.

What surface?

- [gasps] I got it.
- He's got it.

Is it contagious?

The Fraggle horn. Where my uncle
first announced he discovered radishes.

- Where it all began.
- Ah.

I still wanna fact-check that.

We just need to dig beneath the surface.
[grunts]

'Cause there must be
something buried down there

that we can bring back up into the light
and solve the radish problem.

Are we talking regulation-sized holes?

'Cause if not,
I'll need to caution tape this whole area.

- [Red grunts]
- Fraggles, looks like we've got some

- digging to do!
- Singing to do! Digging to do!

Digging to do. [sniffs]
We're on the same page. [clears throat]

[Sprocket barking]

[chuckles] Sprocket, what are you wearing?

[muttering]

[scoffs] I can't with you.

Now listen, buddy.
If you're scared, it's okay to admit it.

The loft is right there.

I'm gonna take the recycling out,

so you'll be alone
with Fluffinella for a few minutes.

Are you sure you're okay with that?

- [barking]
- Okay, tough guy. I'll be right back.

[sighs]

[whimpering]

Huh?

[grunting, barking]

[whimpering]

[screams, barking]

[barking]

[whimpering]

Hmm. Huh?

[gasps, yelps]

[whimpering]

[meowing]

Huh?

- [Fluffinella hissing]
- [screams, barking, whimpering]

[metal clanking]

- [grunts, barking]
- [gasps]

- Sprocket?
- [Fluffinella shrieks]

- See, this is a problem.
- [barks]

- Now I'm making you go to the loft.
- [barks]

You are in time-out.

- [whimpering]
- [Doc] Fluffinella, are you okay?

[Fluffinella meows]

Can you believe our entire way of life

hangs in the balance
as we go on this quest?

I just need to check in with myself.

- [humming]
- Uh.

Hmm.

Turns out
I'm feeling slightly overwhelmed.

Wha... Hey, hey, we're not getting
distracted by that right now.

We're Fraggling up.
It's time to dig, not feel.

But feeling's what Fraggles do best.

That's what the F is for.
Without them, we're just, uh, Raggles.

- [Fraggles clamoring] Yeah.
- [Gobo] No. The Trash Heap was clear.

There's no limit to what we can get done

if we push our feelings down
and Fraggle up.

Okay. Let's get to

- digging!
- Dancing! Digging!

Again, totally right there with you.

- Hmm.
- [grunts]

♪ Push it down and Fraggle up ♪

♪ Just move ahead no matter what ♪

♪ Your feelings count
But it's not enough ♪

♪ So, roll up your sleeves
Just stick with me, and soon you'll see ♪

♪ That when you
Push it down and Fraggle up ♪

Push... Push down our feelings?

♪ Trust me
Don't trust your gut ♪

Well... [stammers] ...I trust Gobo.

♪ Put your shovels in
And it might be rough ♪

We could give it a shot.

- ♪ But when the work is done we'll find ♪
- Yeah.

♪ Hey! ♪

♪ All the radishes we're dreaming of
Enough to feed me and you ♪

♪ So everybody just follow me
We gotta work till the work is through ♪

♪ Your feelings won't pick up a shovel
And dig this big old hole ♪

♪ We got a monumental task at hand
So, it's time to take control ♪

♪ And that means... ♪

Wait. What does that mean?

♪ Maybe I'm not being true to how I feel ♪

♪ With the pressure stacking up
On my shoulders ♪

[backup singers vocalizing]

♪ Maybe I'm not
Making room for my emotions ♪

♪ And I'm entangled in a notion
That there's a battle in my heart ♪

Nah, I'm fine.

♪ Push it down and Fraggle up ♪

♪ Just move ahead no matter what ♪

♪ If you start to feel you might give up ♪

♪ You might give up ♪

♪ But if we push on through we'll find ♪

- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah! ♪
- [all] Hooray!

♪ All the radishes we're dreaming of
Enough to feed me and you ♪

♪ Enough to feed me and you ♪

♪ So everybody just follow me ♪
We gotta work till the work is through ♪

[Fraggles]
♪ Work till all the work is through ♪

♪ Your feelings won't pick up a shovel
And dig this big old hole ♪

♪ This big old hole ♪

♪ We got a monumental task at hand
So it's time to take control ♪

♪ And that means... ♪

♪ Push it down and Fraggle up ♪

- [chuckles] Great progress, everybody.
- [all sighing, panting]

Ah, one small snag,
we dug in totally the wrong direction

- and we gotta start all over again.
- What?

- [all groaning, sighing]
- [chuckles] I'm just joking.

No time for feelings,

- but work jokes are good.
- Huh?

- Okay, keep on digging.
- [all chuckling]

[all panting]

- [gasps] I got it, Junior!
- [gasps]

We need to refresh this garden

the same way I refresh my back fur:
with a rake.

[chuckles] You so smart, Pa.

- Is he?
- Huh?

- [stammers]
- Pa, do you remember

when you spilled onion flour
all over the kitchen

when I was making dump cake
for your birthday?

- [stammers] I was dancing.
- [chuckles] Whoa.

And, uh, well, sometimes things happen.
What's your point?

Well, you raked the flour up,
and it turned into a huge flour cloud.

- [chuckling] Oh.
- The castle was dusty for days.

If you rake the garden,
it'll make it ten times worse.

[inhales sharply] Don't do it.

Oh, we won't...

- Oh, thank goodness.
- ...listen to you.

- [gasps]
- This plan is perfect, and I'll handle it.

'Cause the last time I checked,
I'm the king.

- [gasps]
- Uh...

- [groaning]
- [Junior Gorg] Huh? What's she doing, Pa?

- I... I don't know.
- [grunts]

[groaning continues]

I'm going for a walk.

- A walk? [stammers] What's a walk?
- Huh?

- [Ma Gorg scoffs]
- Wha... What's a walk?

[stammering] Is Ma okay, Pa?
Where's she going?

Ah, no time for worrying, son.

We got some... [groans] ...soil raking to do.

Ooh, okay.

We've been digging for eleventy hours

- and haven't found a thing.
- Oh.

- Hey, Super Gobo. [stammers]
- Huh?

Not that I feel uncertain
about this mission

- because sidefeet never do. [chuckles]
- Uh-huh.

- Ah, but, uh, others maybe do and, ah...
- [gasps, grunts]

And also me. [stammers, groans] Blew it.

I don't believe in wastes of time.
Every moment is a gift.

- [grunts]
- That being said,

it feels like we're wasting our time!

- [Fraggles groan]
- [Gobo] No, no.

Push down those feelings,
we have to remember our mission.

Look beneath the surface

and bring what's down there
up into the light.

Hey, right there.
Oh, I think I see something.

[groans] Oh.

- Hey, it looks like an ancient tablet.
- [all] Huh?

It must have information
about saving the radish.

Are we sure it's a tablet?
Looks more like a clump of dirt to me.

As someone acutely aware of dirt,
I concur.

Love dirt.

Nothing better than a mud bath but yeah,
I feel like that's just dirt.

- Mmm. Mm-hmm.
- No. No, no. This... This tablet is proof

that Fraggling up was the right idea.

I'll just, ah, brush this dirt away
so we can see it more clearly.

- [both groaning]
- [wind howling]

Take that. Stand back, I'm king.

- Oh! Oh, my eyes!
- Ma was right.

It turned into a dust storm.

- Ma, we need you!
- No, we don't, son.

Everything's fine. Can't you see?

- No, I can't see a thing.
- [grunting]

This is part of a process.

Mommy! [crying]

[chattering]

What is it?

Well, it must mean...
It must mean... [groaning]

[gasps]

- That it's just dirt.
- [all groaning]

Well,
this is the biggest bummer in a while.

[Pogey panting]

Massive dust storm coming down
from the Gorgs' garden.

It's filling the Great Hall.
We're trapped down here.

I'm Pogey! [pants]

Oh, no.

- This is the biggest bummer in a while.
- [whimpers]

Oh. Come on, Gobo.
What would Uncle Matt do?

He'd... He'd Fraggle up. [pants]
Time for a backup plan.

Yes! The backup plan.
Even better than the front-up plan.

Hmm, okay. So, what is it?

- [shouting] Don't rush him!
- [yelps]

Uh, well, uh...

- Bye, Mrs. Shimmelfinney.
- [cat meows]

Fluffinella was such a cat.

[inhales sharply] Okay, mister. [sighs]
We need to talk.

[Sprocket whimpering]

Now, that cat brought up
some scary feelings

and being a tough guy
doesn't mean pushing those down.

Being honest with me and yourself
is actually the stronger move.

[groans]

[sighs]
You can let it out now, she's gone.

- [whimpers, yelps]
- [screams]

- [barks]
- [panting]

- [Fluffinella meowing]
- [Sprocket whining]

Are you sure you don't
have feelings about that?

- Because I definitely do.
- [whimpering]

[Gobo sighs]

I feel the plan coming.

Always quietest before the brainstorm.

- Ooh, I like that. [chuckles]
- Mm-hmm. [chuckles]

Yeah, take your time.
Don't rush these things.

Or, counterpoint,
we're stuck deep underground.

Possibly, hurry up.

Yeah, what's the plan, Gobo?
What do we do next?

- Yeah.
- [all clamoring]

- First thing off the top of your head.
- You've always got an answer.

- I know you'll figure something out.
- Fix it.

- [Red] I know you will.
- [clamoring continues]

- [gasps, screaming]
- [all gasp]

I have no idea what to do!

- [crying]
- [gasps]

I was trying to Fraggle up
and be a strong leader, but I'm scared.

And I'm sad about the radishes.

And the dig didn't work,
and there's a dust storm up there

and we're stuck down here
with no other option. [inhales sharply]

It's all just... just... [shouts]

- [howls]
- Oh, there you go.

Let it all out.
It's okay to be scared of Fluffinella.

[screaming, crying]

I just...
I just wanted to be strong like my uncle.

But the rock keeps changing,

and we don't know how to bring back
the radishes,

and Junior threw away my clappy hands

and who knows if we're gonna be
friends again. [breathes heavily, crying]

[crying]

I never cry but things have been hard,

and now Gobo's crying
and I wanna cry even harder.

[panting, crying]

[crying] Why am I so competitive?

Well, I wanna cook with radishes again.

I've been making moss burgers...
[sobs] ...and they're so gross.

[crying] They're so gross!

I'm always tapped into my cry,
so this isn't new territory.

[inhales sharply]
But... [crying] ...the first group cry...

[sobs] ...it brings me to a whole new
realm of emotions.

[panting] Am I crying about radishes
or... or the dust storm?

Or because all my friends are crying?

Or all of it? [crying]

We can always come up with a new system,
but the Doozer stick system was perfect.

I miss it. [crying]

- [whimpers]
- What the...

[both sniffle]

[all crying]

[crying]

[crying continues]

[sniffing, groaning]

You know, I did not know I had that in me.

Me neither.

[stammers] I had some sense of it.

Gobo, thank you for leading us all
through that cathartic release.

- Yeah.
- [Gobo gasps]

Maybe this is what Marjory meant
when she said to go beneath the surface.

Our feelings. Because, well,
that's where it all begins, eh?

♪ Look at the world
What can you do? ♪

♪ 'Cause it makes you ache
And it leaves you blue ♪

♪ And I guess my heart
Could break apart ♪

♪ With a long goodbye ♪

♪ 'Cause it makes you cry ♪

[vocalizes]

♪ But I had a dream
It was time to begin ♪

♪ And every creature... ♪

[sighs]

♪ We were sister and brother
We were part of each other ♪

♪ And it made us one ♪

♪ And it made us win ♪

♪ Sister and brother
And part of each other ♪

♪ It can make you ache
For the sake of another ♪

♪ And it takes your life
And it stakes it too ♪

♪ And it makes you
Make the world come new ♪

♪ Sister and brother
And part of each other ♪

♪ It can make you ache
For the sake of another ♪

♪ And it takes your life
And it stakes it too ♪

♪ And it makes you
Make the world come new ♪

♪ Sister and brother
And part of each other ♪

♪ It can make you ache
For the sake of another ♪

♪ And it takes your life
And it stakes it too ♪

♪ And it makes you
Make the world come new ♪

♪ We are sister and brother
We are part of each other ♪

♪ And it can makes us one ♪

♪ And it makes us win ♪

[sighs] You know, even if we didn't
get new information about the radishes,

I can honestly say
now I feel so much better.

- [all clamor]
- Mmm. Yeah.

I think if we stay
connected to our feelings...

- Huh.
- ...we'll always find a solution.

- [chuckles]
- Mm-hmm.

Hey. Like, what's that?

- [all gasping]
- [Gobo] Look.

- [Boober] I see it.
- Come on.

- [Wembley] Look at that. [chuckles]
- [Mokey] What is that?

- [all gasping]
- [Red chuckles] Wow. Cool.

[Gobo] Yeah.

Oh. Uh, um...

- [Fraggles gasping]
- [Boober shudders]

What in the...

[groans] I warned that old fool
not to rake that dust.

He always treats me like I'm nobody.

Sure, he's the king,
but what's a king without his...

- Queen?
- Huh?

- Oh. [gasps]
- Nothing.

You know, one queen
always recognizes another.

- [gasps]
- [chuckles]

[all gasping]

[Wembley] Unbelievable.

- [stammers] Where are we?
- Whoa. Uh...

I don't know, but what if all this
could unlock the radish solution?

Wow, look at these statues.

- They're incredible.
- [babbles]

But who made them?

[gulps] And are they still around?

- [all shuddering, gasping] Oh.
- [Gobo] Oh. Wow.