Funny / Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock

Pilot

• Travelling Matt is quickly established as a bit of a Talkative Loon who likes self-glorifying speeches... only to immediately demonstrate that the glory really isn't justified.
  "Look at us, walking and talking. Some Fraggles walk, some Fraggles talk. Me? I do both! Well —" (And then he trips and falls.)
• After Gobo tells his friends about his encounter with Sprocket, calling him "the most ferocious creature in the known universe." Cut to Sprocket lying on his back while Doc rubs his belly and goes "Who's my peanut butter biscuit boooooy?!"
• Boober's deadpan reaction after the cave-in.
  Boober: This day just keeps getting worse... which I respect.
  (Mokey gives him an odd look)
  Boober: Well, it's honest.
• Boober's panicked "Somebody other than me do something!!" when Gobo's in danger.

Red and the Big Jump

• After a trip to the beach, Doc enters the workshop wearing a wetsuit and flippers, insisting to a laughing Sprocket that "fish have a very strict dress code when you go to their house."
• Boober, as the referee for Red's "Floop, Bloop and Whoop" game, insists on going through the rules first. There are well over 800 of them, and the first rule is that every rule must be recited twice. After he's bored everyone to sleep with his lengthy recitation of the rules, Red finally has enough and cuts him off when he tries to start a Q&A session as well.
  • Even more absurd: Even with 800+ rules, there's apparently not a single rule that says how you determine who the winner of the game is.
  • But there is a rule about players who are frozen (i.e. covered in ice)... apparently they must preregister.
  • Red's Oh, Crap! reaction and groan when Boober starts reciting the rules is priceless.

The Merggle Moon Migration

• Mokey's dream in the beginning of the episode. She suspects she's dreaming, but isn't quite sure... then a giant, talking radish appears.
  Mokey (totally unfazed) Evening, giant talking radish. Am I dreaming?
  Giant talking radish: Does this answer your question? (vomits up a rainbow, which flies away)
  (Beat)
  Mokey:...not really.
• Doc's so excited about witnessing the baby turtles' migration into the sea that she follows Sprocket's lead and starts howling at the moon, only to be yelled at by (offscreen) Mrs. Shimmelfinney. Cue Sprocket doing his trademark "bleh-bleh" vocal impression, although without clutching his throat this time.

The Glow

• Uncle Matt suggests the Fraggles organize a museum to hold the "Bizzle," and that they call it something "understated" like: "The Uncle Traveling Matt Museum, Hooray Uncle Traveling Matt."
• Wembley's overly-complicated plan to smuggle the "Bizzle" back into the Uncle Matt museum involves dressing up as the World's Oldest Fraggle and digging a tunnel into the museum. It also involves Wembley being caught by Henchy, Henchy immediately seeing though the disguise, and Wembley not being able to convincingly impersonate the World's Oldest Fraggle. How the plan would go from there, we never find out, because Boober interrupts Wembley's ramblings.
• Doc wonders aloud who on earth would send a water bottle through the mail. Cut to the Traveling Matt segment with him announcing "It's MEEEEEE!"

Four Wembleys and a Birthday

• Uncle Traveling Matt visits a Mexican restaurant and assumes the patrons are all there to celebrate his birthday, and proceeds to disrupt everyone's meal, including wearing a tortilla as a hat and plunging his face into a birthday cake meant for someone else.
  • The artifact he sends back to Gobo and his friends: tortilla chips, which are more or less ground into dust by the time they get there. Boober is not impressed.
• When the Doozer Monorail gets stuck, we get this little exchange:
  Doozer Worker: Aw man, I'd better tell my boss I'm gonna be late for work. (turns to the Doozer sitting right next to him) Hey boss, I'm gonna be late for work.
  Doozer Boss: Ah! Unacceptable!!
• Doc's So Bad, It's Good "fun" video on microplastics, which totally fails to deliver any sort of comprehensible message. It even includes a dance break.
• Speculating on who "Gobo" might be, Doc wonders if it's a nickname.
  Doc: My aunt used to call me Gobo... no, wait, she called me "Yoyo."
• Boober recalls his last birthday, which he spent doing what he loves to do best: laundry.
  Boober: [in flashback, while ironing] I'm having a blast!
  Gobo: [as the other Fraggles sit around, bored] Us too.

Flight of the Flutterflies

• When Boober is chosen to give the New Day's Day speech and open the Flutterfly box, he goes into overdrive imagining everything that could go wrong, hilariously illustrated through an Imagine Spot, and Mokey's attempts to spin the story in a positive direction don't help. First, Boober imagines tripping and falling on his face and the audience laughing at his swollen nose. Mokey changes the story to have Boober fall on a tuft of flowers that lift him back up. Boober imagines they'll be flowers he's allergic to and cause him to break out in a rash and scratch furiously. Mokey insists the audience will interpret the itching as a hot new dance and begin imitating Boober. Wembley pops in unexpectedly and adds to the story: everyone gets Radish Shakes (just because). Boober, however, imagines drinking his shake too fast, getting a case of full-body hiccups so intense they leave him unable to open the Flutterfly Box, thus ruining New Day's Day for everyone. At this point, Mokey loses her cool and snaps at Boober, telling him to stop always thinking of the worst case scenario before stalking off in a huff.
  Wembley: See, now I just want Radish Shakes.
• Doc practicing her presentation ends up a hilariously awkward mess.
  Doc: (stands with her back to the audience) H...2... (suddenly turns around) Oh! Heh, I didn't see you there. My name is Spaghetti — nope, that is not a name. My name is Doc! —-Actually, that's not my name either, that's a nickname... I call myself... Hoo hoo hoo, that'd be embarrassing if I said that in front of all of you. (takes a breath) So! Professies! (cringes at the awkward word, puts her notes down) Hum. My goal is to find and replicate a bacteria capable of degrading micropl— (desperately fumbles to pick her notes back up again) Okay. One second. I got this. It's gonna be fine. (accidentally drops some of her notes on the floor, desperately scrables to pick them up) Oh no! No, no! oh! (gets to her feet again, trying to resume) Okay. Dear Diary — I mean teachers! I mean, ah, thank you... for coming! I love you! Did I just say "I love you"?
  • At the end of the episode, we find out that the actual presentation went even worse. Apparently, Doc got so nervous that she ended up calling her grandmother in the middle of the presentation and putting her on speaker phone to introduce her to everybody. Even Sprocket finds it hilarious.

Craggle Lagoon

• Travelling Matt mistaking a photocopier for a "light massage cavern" is already funny enough, but what really pushed this moment into CMOF is the look of freaked-out confusion on the office lady's face when she comes in to take a photocopy and Matt is lying there saying "five more minutes, please."
• When summing up their work week, Wembley tells about how he and the fire brigade put out a fire... except, as it turns out, it wasn't a fire. It was Boober making soup. A cold soup.
• Inspector Red loves her Private Eye Monologue sessions, but keeps forgetting the fact that speaking them out loud means everyone can hear them — which really becomes a problem when she uses those monologues to admit she doesn't have a clue what she's doing.
  Gobo: Don't worry. Red would've never brought the Craggles here without thinking all that through. Right, Red?
  Red: (nervously) Of course. Of course. (slips into Private Eye Monologue) What the gang did not know was that Inspector Red had not thought any of that through!
  (dramatic chords as the other Fraggles stare at her)
  Gobo: Again, we can hear you.
  Red: Oh.

The Giggle Gaggle Games

• When Sprocket just laughs at the idea of anyone calling Doc a genius, Doc quips: "You remember when that airline didn't believe you were an emotional support animal? I'm starting to understand why."

Deep Dive

• Gobo, Wembley and Boober's plan to frighten the Merggles out of their hiccups is a convoluted mess that makes absolutely no sense.
  Gobo: Yeah, okay. So let's review.
  Boober: Okay! I approach with a pie and say: "Hello, Merggles. Who would like some delicious pie? I promise you, it's not gnar gnar!"
  Gobo: Oh, that is good. You are using their language, and everybody loves pie! I mean, there's a pie for everyone, I mean... Don't like fruit? Chocolate-cream pie! Don't like chunks? Key lime pie! Want a pie that pairs well with cheese? Upside-down radish pie!
  Boober: I have blue pie!
  Gobo: Perfect! Okay, Wembley! You go!
  Wembley: Oh, and then I'll throw down some foggy fruit, to create a scary atmosphere!
  Gobo: I have goose bumps, I have chills! Then Boober disappears into the fog. I hoist Wembley up on this rake, so he's a big, tall, scary monster! (makes threatening grunt noises) And then the Merggles are like, "Where'd that pie guy go?" And then a big, tall, scary Wembley appears out of the fog and says...!
  Wembley: I ATE HIM! Raaaaaaaaaah!
  Gobo: Bam! Hiccups gone, foolproof plan!
  • Even funnier than this absurd plan is Mokey's flabbergasted expression as Gobo, Wembley and Boober walk off.
  • The plan works, but not quite in the way they intended: Wembley slips on some greaseberry leaves and ends up accidentally knocking the pie into Boober's face. This gets the Merggles laughing, which cures their hiccups.
• Doc can't get Sprocket to take his medicine - even covering it in peanut butter and then cheese doesn't help, as he always happily devours the morsel of human food but spits out the pill. Finally he agrees to swallow his pill after Doc spends some quality time with him.
  Doc: I still can't believe I wasted a block of cheese on you. You owe me some cheddar. [grins and hugs Sprocket]
• Red is in her room crying on her bed because of her broken baloobius. Mokey hears her crying and comes in to give her a hug. Red then grabs a corner of Mokey's dress and blows her nose on it, with a ton of snot judging by the sound. Mokey just stands there and says "Yeah, you let it all out", but the look on her face is priceless, and makes it very clear that she doesn't appreciate Red using her dress as a snot rag.

All of Us

• Sprocket's Imagine Spot where he imagines Doc calling him a genius and presenting him with a giant doggie bone as a reward for "capturing" Traveling Matt. Equally funny is the fact that he uses a clothes hamper to imprison the Fraggle explorer.

The Night of the Lights

• When Wembley and Mokey wonders if they ruined everything because their wishes were too big (Wembley) or something they didn't really need (Mokey), Boober counters with: "This one's on me. I shouldn't have wished to make it through the night. I got greedy."
• When Junior is about to light up the Gorgs' castle with Glow Grapes and Pa spies Jamdolin, the Fraggle Five and the World's Oldest Fraggle.
  Pa: Listen up! Connect the Glow Grape vines in three, two... FRAGGLES!
  [The Fraggles gasp in fright]
  Junior: "Fraggles"? I thought it was "one."

The Great Wind

• Pa Gorg is certain that his "Pa-Pa" would not approve of Gorgs and Fraggles being friends. Unbeknownst to him, the wind down in Fraggle Rock has just blown a panicking Wembley up in the air, under a blanket/parachiute of moss, leading to the most hilarious case of unfortunate timing ever:
  Pa: (speaking to the heavens) Pa-Pa! It's me, your son Pa! Should we be friends with the Fraggles? Oh, give me a sign!
  Wembley: (flies out of the well, covered by the blanket of moss, making him look vaguely like a floating ghost) No! No! NOOOO! AAAAAAH! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOO!
  • Needless to say, this convinces Pa that his Pa-Pa very strongly disapproves of Gorgs and Fraggles being friends.

The Repeatee Birds

• "Strawberries are bad for Fraggles. A bird said that, and I believe birds."

This for That

• Mokey has a little trouble understanding 'this for that' at first.
  Pryce: Interesting! That Fraggle wanted a berry. You have all these berries, and you could use some help with your mural.
  Mokey: (gasps) Yes! I also love listing true things!

Meta

• The Jim Henson Company created a "Yule Log" for streaming on YouTube to coincide with the release of "The Night of the Lights." It's the perfect combination of funny and heartwarming for the holidays. Most of it involves Sprocket snoozing by the fireside surrounded by decorations for various winter holidays, but various other characters show up periodically and add to the fun, including a Doozer replacing the Christmas wreath after its lights burn out, Traveling Matt trying to climb atop the windowsill but slipping and falling backwards into the snow (and later filching the gingerbread man off the milk and cookies plate meant for Santa Claus), and Sprocket humming "Jingle Bells" in his sleep, followed by Gobo chiming in with "Hey!" at the appropriate moment in the song and accidentally awakening Sprocket. Highlights can be seen on the official Fraggle Rock social media pages.