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Tis time, you learn certain things.
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Always this Pat talk, Daddy. Yes, his time, you learn how to?
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Yes, role Universe. This is that talk.
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Welcome to help. Allah a muppet quiz show brought
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to you by tough pigs.com. It's your favorite quiz show.
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That's not like the others here, Muppet fans, Muppet
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professionals and everyone in between Pete's for fabulous
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prizes, and to see who's this week's toughest pick.
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I'm your host. Becca petunia of tough pigs.com
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today on ha ha. We're going to dance our cares
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away and save our worry's for another day.
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That's right, it's time for our first Fraggle Rock themed
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episode folks. Fraggle Rock is one of my
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favorite Muppet things and writing this episode was super
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hard for me because there's so So much.
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I wanted to talk about will have to return to this topic later
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because after all we cannot leave the magic.
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As always these questions were written by me with help from
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that amazing Muppet resource Muppet Wiki and also with help
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from Fraggle Rock, the ultimate Visual History.
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The book released by The Jim Henson company.
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Speaking of Muppet Wiki, let's agree to play fair today.
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If you cheat at this game, you'll disappoint your hero Rock
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hockey, Hannah know, I know, I know you gotta play fair.
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So Fraggle Rock. Of course begins with are five
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main characters saying their names.
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So we're going to do something similar.
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It's our first round, which we call to tell a face.
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Contestants. You're going to buzz in.
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To answer, three questions about yourself.
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Whoever buzzes in first will get introduced first ready.
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Go All right, Beth. Hello.
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Hi Beth. So, your first question, what is
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your name? My name is Beth cook.
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All right. Correct.
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Question, 2. What is your history with the
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Muppets? I do not remember a time in my
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life before the Muppets. But like many of us out there, I
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probably started diving into obsession with purchasing Jim.
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Henson the work. In high school, great book,
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great book, and Beth. What do you what do you do
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related to The Muppets now because you're, you are
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certainly involved in the fan Community.
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Yeah, I met Julia Gaskell in I think like, two thousand twelve
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or thirteen at a poetry slam. And when I heard that, she had a
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book entirely of Muppets. Poetry, I went, oh, this a is a
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chapbook I need to own and be Be a person I need to know.
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And so I connected with her she told me about tough pigs and
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just in the last year or two. I got brave enough to reach out
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to Johannes and say, hey, I'm also a writer, can I write some
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stuff for you and and recently, you were on our unofficial
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Fraggle, Rock back to the Rock recap podcast.
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You were, you were on every The episode in your dig deeper
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segment. Yes what an amazing opportunity.
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I had already been talking with Joe about some fraggle e
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projects for tough pigs because that is my particular love in
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the Henson Cannon and then he mentioned this opportunity to me
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and I said part, excuse me, what?
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Yes, hello sign me up and I still can't believe that it was
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something that I got to do and I just want to put that at the
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first line of my resume for the rest of my life.
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And the third question that I want to ask you of our main five
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fraggles, who are you most like I'm gonna show my Wembley Side
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by saying that I can't pick one because I think I'm a
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combination of Wembley and boober because I'm also very
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anxious and I've definitely got a Mochi side as well.
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All right. Well you got all three
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questions. Correct.
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So that's 20 points right there. Let's move on to our second
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contestant Sprout. What is your name?
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So my name is Sprout. Okay, great.
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Correct and say, yay Sprout. What's your history with the
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Muppets? So, same as Beth.
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I don't remember a time without any of the Henson company IPS my
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parents were working at Disney when I was a kid.
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So I grew up seeing Muppet Vision all the time Sesame
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Street, of course, was a staple and Fraggle Rock as I got older.
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And yeah. And I got lucky enough to find
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Muppet Twitter. My God holder.
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Yeah. And, and not only are you a,
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really a really big presence on Muppets Twitter.
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But also, you also have a podcast, a muppet podcast,
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correct. I do.
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I do, it's called Muppet fans talking and it's as you would
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expect Muppet fans. Talking.
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The lovely time we tried to do off-topic deep, Dives on
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different Henson topics such as movies that never happened or
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what we think of this group of characters.
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And it's a lot of fun and Sprout, which of the five main
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fraggles. Do you think you're most like?
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Boober boober, boober very popular choice, very anxious all
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the time. I'd like to think that I'm not
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boober, but I'm, I'm boober. It's, I have to admit, I'm, I've
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been re watching the show and I was sitting there crying on my
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couch watching marooned. So, you know, they're not alone.
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Yeah. Well Sprout, you have also
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earned 20 points for getting those questions.
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Correct. Tying the game at 20 points to
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20 points. So we're going to have to move
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into our next regular round. You know the fraggles love to
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have fun but as they say all Play and No Work makes math a
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dull boy. That's right.
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Although the fraggles are usually dancing and singing,
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they do spend a lot. Lot of time talking about jobs
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as well. That's why we call this round.
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Working in this game I'll ask you a variety of questions about
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fraggles jobs or the jobs of other characters who live in and
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around the rock. Each of these questions is worth
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one point. Please.
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Wait until I finish asking the question to buzz in so the silly
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creatures at home can play along.
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Us or I guess work along with us.
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Here we go. Dear nephew Gobo exploring outer
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space is hard so hard. In fact it's sometimes I wonder
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if I've chosen the right job in this life or in spring.
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So these first five questions, refer specifically to the jobs
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established in the episode The 30-minute work week question 1.
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What is boober fraggles job? Sprout.
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Doing everybody's laundry. Doing everybody's laundry.
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Correct. Question 2.
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What is mochi fraggles job? Sprout.
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Looking radishes collecting radishes Gathering radishes.
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Yes, question 3. What is Gobo fraggles job?
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Best exploring, I will give you a point but I'm curious, can you
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be more specific? Because he, specifically says
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that there's one key exploration job that is his, at least in
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that episode. Oh, that he's responsible for.
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I can't think of the dialog I can only think of the song.
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Yeah. In the song he just says explore
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explore and bring back. Pink ice cream which we never
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see him do it. Yeah, unfortunately, I'm going
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to have to that's as specific as I mean, exploring new, Uncharted
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places you'd think but that's not correct.
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Sprout. Do you know the, the more
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specific answer? I do not, I have no idea.
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He mentions to Wembley. That his job is specifically
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getting traveling Matt's postcards which doesn't feel
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like exploring because it's always going to know the same
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place, but he does say to rambling in that episode.
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Like my jobs exploring, I go to the, you know, the outer space
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to get Matt's post cards, and bring them back and it's like,
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okay, not really exploring Gobo, but you do you question for what
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is Wembley? Lee fraggles job.
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Sprout. He is the siren for the
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firefighting. That is true.
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Question. 5 again, as established in this episode,
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what is read fraggles job? Beth.
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Again, quoting the song, Dive and crash and swim and splash to
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keep the water clean, correct? I feel like on back to the Rock
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and granted, all of these questions are about the original
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series, but I feel like I'm back to the Rock, she's a lifeguard,
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but in this apparently, I guess I always imagined her using her
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big puffy hair to like, scour, the pool clean.
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Oh, I like that. Yeah, but no cleaning the pool
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and it's, I mean, maybe she's oxygenating it getting like,
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diving in and getting more air into it.
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Like a fine wine? Yes, yes.
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All right. Moving on to other characters.
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What is Pas? Gorgs job, Beth King of the
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universe is King of the universe.
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Question. 7. What is cotter pin?
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Doozers job. Sprout.
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She's an architect. Can you be more specific?
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She designs doozer Towers. Okay, I will give you a point
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for architect, but technically she has a different title in the
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original series. Beth can you, Can you steal it
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or rather? Can you also earn a point from
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it? She is The Apprentice to the
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Chief Architect. Yes, she's The Apprentice but
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Sprout, I will give you a point as well.
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Question 8, what is the purpose of a pipe banger?
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Best the pipe bangers. Bang on the pipes that bring the
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water every day to refill the fraggle Pond.
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Correct, question 9, what is the name of the location where doc
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frequently Works? Helping Miss are deaf.
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Beth. The Captain's Inn.
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It is the captain's in question, 10.
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According to Legend what happens to Doozers who don't work?
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Beth. They turn into fraggles, they
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turn into fraggles. Correct.
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Question 11 before Matt encouraged him to be an
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Explorer. What job did Gobo actually want?
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Sprout, do you want to be a juggler?
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He did want to be a juggler. Correct, you know, once he knew
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just what to do once, he knew his name before that he wanted
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to be a juggler Okay, so this next question, has a number of
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correct answers? You can earn a point for each
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one. It's kind of like a mini be the
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time but we're doing it a little differently.
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So speaking of things that you could be when you grow up, what
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are the things that cantus? Tells junior gorg he could be in
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the song ball of fire name, as many as you can buzz in Beth.
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Am I just missing one or as many as As I can think of in one go,
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you know what? Let's let's make this more
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interesting. Let's do it.
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Like, like beat the time name one.
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Coward. Okay, correct.
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Sprout, can you name one? King correct?
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Yeah. Beth.
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So are we going back and forth or yeah we're going to go back
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and forth. So Beth do you have another okay
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know that that last one was me? I interrupted.
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So it should actually be Sprouts turn o Sprout.
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You could be a walk-in talkin. What is it ball of Fire?
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The whole line of the hook. I mean I'll give it to you.
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It is a it is a walk-in talkin breathin ball of fire and Sprout
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since Beth went twice. Do you want to go again?
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My mind is going blank. I'm sorry, Beth back to you.
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Okay. Beth, cowboy cowboy correct
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Sprout, you didn't. You didn't have one.
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That's, do you have another creep?
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A creep, correct. Sprout, anything else.
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My I haven't heard that song in a hot minute.
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It's okay. It seems like Beth is getting
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stuck to you can be the something of the good things in
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your sleep. That's it.
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That's all I got. Yeah.
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But you're missing, you're missing the actual job part of
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that. Um, I want to say it repeats is
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like king of all the good things in your sleep.
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It is the king of all, the good things in your sleep.
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And that is, that is the bottom of the barrel for me.
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I cannot remember. Okay, others other ones.
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Other things that you could be the kind of kid, who teaches us
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to sing, whatever your little heart desires, a mountain, a
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stone, a river, wind and round to find a home and the person
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you most admire. So I would have accepted any of
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those things. But either way, I think we can
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agree that that's more than enough work for the day.
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So now it's time to spend Some time with our friends in our
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next round. Now, you know, you are welcome
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in our home and that invitation extends to more than just Gobo
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mokey Wembley boober and red. You know, that's right.
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While there are five main fraggle characters.
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There are a lot of other fraggle, denizens of Fraggle
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Rock. That's why we are going to sing
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the friendship song and play a special round.
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And this time, it's a real round of our class.
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Make head-to-head Game beat the time.
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That's right. It's beat the time where the
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rules are a little different or actually the rules are pretty
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similar to what we just did with cantus and Junior gorg today,
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your job is to name as many recurring named fraggles, as you
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can who aren't Gobo mokey Wembley boober or red, we're
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going to start with Sprout. You will each take turns naming
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a recurring fraggle character. We're looking only for fraggles
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with names who appeared in more than one episode, right?
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If you can't name anything, your chance passes to your opponent.
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Again, we're looking for fraggles who appeared in, at
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least two episodes of the original series even if some of
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those appearances were non-speaking roles and for what
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it's worth were counting titles as names.
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So for instance, if we were doing back to the Rock, I'd
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consider archivist to be that character's name and that would
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count as a named character but of course we're not doing back
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to the Rock and also she's only in one episode of back to the
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Rock, so she wouldn't account for this anyway.
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Anyway, long story short. There are 19 named fraggle
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characters who appear in more than one episode of Fraggle,
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Rock. And are not part of our core
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Gobo mokey, Wembley boober red cast.
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So Are you ready to gather a gaggle of fraggles?
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Here we go. Sprout name.
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A fraggle. Marlon Marlon that's the world's
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oldest fraggle. The world's oldest fraggle.
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Correct back to sprout. Convincing John convincing.
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John correct. Beth Angie henchy, correct?
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Sprout, does can't discount cantus, does count.
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Best any of the other minstrels count.
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The one that is a fraggle, because three of them are
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monsters, which is the one that's a, that's a fraggle 30.
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It is Brio. Correct.
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Nice work. Sprout.
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I'm trying to think of this name.
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The world's oldest fraggle is assistant.
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But that's henchy Beth said, oh, okay.
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Excuse me. Then.
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No, it's okay. You can think of another Melvin.
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There is no Melvin that I recall, I can double check
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because I always trust the guest.
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Let me check. Did I miss?
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I'm not seeing a Melvin Fraggle. I'm not sure who you're thinking
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of sprout but we're going to go to Beth and then we'll come back
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to you. Beth might be thinking of large.
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Marvin large. Marvin is On my list, back to
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sprout. There's a couple that are
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definitely ones that you guys know like there's some that are
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weird but there's some that you definitely know.
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Any other guesses? Sprouted.
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We want to bounce back to Beth and all right, Beth, I don't
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think we've yet mentioned the Storyteller.
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We have not mentioned the Storyteller yet.
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Sprout to that ring any bells traveling.
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Matt Uncle traveling Matt, technically not part of the five
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characters I listed Beth on that note Uncle Gobo.
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Uncle Gobo is only in one episode so he'd count for this.
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Not even a flat, another flashback I don't believe.
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So let me check Muppet Wiki. Yeah I could have sworn he was
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in more than one Oh no. You're right.
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He isn't more than one Beth. You are correct.
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Oh secret Point. Yeah.
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Secret Point. Not on my list.
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He's in two episodes. I forgot one of those.
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All right. Back to sprout.
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All right, I'm trying to think through Lou.
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We're absolutely loo fraggle. Wembley's Crush.
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Beth Tosh. Tosh fraggle.
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Absolutely Yeah. They're getting harder at this
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point. No, it's okay.
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It's okay, oof. Yeah, good Beth.
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Do you have any others? If we mentioned Marlon yet, we
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did mention Marlon. Okay.
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Then I'm all out. Okay.
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One that I can think of and I can't, I know it's name starts
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with an f and he's friends with large Marvin oh wait.
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This point. It was your idea.
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Dude, please Feeny it is Feeny. Is the one that you're thinking
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of any other ones or should I call it?
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That's all I got. All right so you guys did real
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well and got some that I wasn't expecting you guys to get.
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But other ones that I would have counted Aunt granny with her
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famous radish joke, you know. Um from the aforementioned
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marooned Felix The Fearless convincing John's Sidekicks the
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frag laps. Gilles fraggle Morris fraggle
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Rumple fraggle who I don't remember and I would have
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counted him but I also get why you didn't consider him.
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Sidebottom. Yeah, technically yeah, he is
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boober but also maybe isn't. I don't know.
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All right, let me total up the points from that round Aunt.
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Granny fraggle is literally all I want to be in life.
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The Storyteller reminds me of an art teacher.
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I had in high school like down. Absolutely, the Storyteller.
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I know this is about Original series and not back to the Rock,
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but the Storyteller is so good on back to the Rock, like the
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reimagining of that character. Ah, anyway, I've been on the
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record as saying that the, the ideal, the ideal female body is
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of course, Marjorie the trash Heap.
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So that's that's my goals for life.
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I got I got the glasses. That's the best I can do.
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All right. Now, let's move into our next
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game. Game, which we are calling gobos
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school for explorers. One of my favorite things about
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Fraggle Rock is how the show presents us with a little world
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with new locations and settings every week, as they say, every
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Sunrise shows us more and more. There's so much to explore in
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this game. I'm going to describe a location
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from Fraggle, Rock. Your job is to name it.
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You learn one. Wait for naming the correct
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location but you'll earn an extra point for telling us the
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location in your best. Boober fraggle at the end of the
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theme song impression. So for instance, if I said it's
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the location where mapa and Junior Live.
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You could say down in the gorgs castle or down at the gorgs
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castle because I feel like no one is ever really sure whether
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it's down. Down in Fraggle, Rock or down at
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Fraggle Rock. So I'll take either, but you get
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two points if you if you do it like boober anyway, are you
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ready to take what you got and go because it's time to get
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going. Question 1.
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This is the setting of most Fraggle Rock episodes.
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It features the fraggle Pond and is where the world's oldest
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fraggle, give speeches best down in the Great Hall down in the
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Great Hall. Absolutely question to this is
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where wrench flange the architect and all their friends
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live when they aren't working. Death.
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I can't say to my boobs were replaced because I'm not
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confident about this one. Is that the doozer Dome?
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It is the doozer, Dome. Yes.
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That is what it's called, question, 3.
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Only when blee was brave enough to enter this dangerous cave
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where sir blunder brain once vanished, It's also the name of
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an episode in season 1 Beth. Down in the terrible tunnel down
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in the terrible tunnel. Absolutely question, for also
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known as boober rock, this forgotten Grotto is home to
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flowers that give fraggles Amnesia Sprout and take it a
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wild, guess down in the forgetful tunnel.
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Hey, listen, good, guess it is. Not the forgetful.
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No, unfortunately, boober goes here because it has a name.
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Its name is one of goobers favorite things and Sprout, you
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can buzz in again after this clue in the caves of Beth.
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Found in the caves of boredom. It is the caves of boredom,
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correct. I'll give you one point because
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you needed a clip question, 5 mokey stumbles upon this
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location where a race of fraggles who love work and
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boring things live in the episode where the fraggles go to
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war. Best you ever guess.
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It's fraggle cave, isn't it? It is fraggle cave.
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Correct? Like that's you that's you
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similar that can't be right. A lot of these have cave in the
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name, which I guess shouldn't be a surprise.
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Question 6, these dangerous tunnels are where boober and
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red. Get marooned in the episode
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Marooned. It's the something Caverns.
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The spiral Caverns, the spiral Caverns question. 7, Gobo and
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cotter pin discover this area which houses the ancient city of
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Doozers. Beth.
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It's either the cave of Lost Dreams or the Cave of Forgotten
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Dreams. Oh, you're gonna make me pick,
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aren't you? I'm gonna make you pick, but
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I'll probably give you points for either because that's still
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a pretty, pretty terrific poll, let's be honest.
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Okay, so unless it's the cavern of Lost Dreams because they use
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Cavern and Cave. They did you play a lot.
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What do you think it is? The cavern of Lost Dreams.
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Finally, it is the cavern of Lost Dreams.
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Nice work question 8, according to Muppet, Wiki this Which rock
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formation apparently suffers from gastric distress quote from
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Muppet Wiki wherever it is. I don't want to go there.
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Yeah fair. Oh no I think I know it is.
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It belching Boulder? It is belching Boulder Beth man
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they love alliteration down there.
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They sure do question 9 in Wing. Enter episode where I guess Gobo
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decides that, he's an agnostic GoGo Ventures to this location
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at the heart of Fraggle, Rock to find if the fraggles Traditions
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are based. In fact, It's that holiday
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episode. Okay, could be a few different
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things. Okay, here here before he before
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anybody buzzes in. Yeah, before anybody buzzes and
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I'll give you, I'll give you the the, the word at least it is the
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Cave of the is the first part of it, right?
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So I've given you sprout at the cave of the heart.
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It's at the heart of the rock but it's not called The Cave of
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the heart. I'm sorry, sprout.
31:39
Beth any idea. Can you steal?
31:41
Is it the Cave of the Weber Beast?
31:43
It is not the Cave of the Weber Beast.
31:45
Love the Weber Beast mention but it is, of course, the Cave of
31:49
the great Bell. Everyone has to ring bells, to
31:53
make the great bell ring, there is no great Bell.
31:59
Or is there question? 10.
32:02
As Marjorie explains to Gobo and Wembley the Beast inside of
32:07
this. Legendary fraggle location isn't
32:09
a monster but is fear itself. This is an episode titled, the
32:19
Beast of and then this location Gobo and Wembley like walk
32:25
through a wall and then they see a giant Marjorie who explains
32:30
the moral of the episode. It's not great writing death.
32:36
Is it the Beast of bluerock it? Is the Beast of bluerock?
32:41
It has been a it does. Oh yeah, it does.
32:47
But it's, I was again, I've been re watching these because like I
32:50
said I you know, I'm a teacher, I don't work in the month of
32:54
July so I'll just like put on because they're all on Apple TV
32:58
I'll just put it on while I like clean the apartment.
33:02
And I did not remember that episode.
33:05
Did not remember that episode and when you get to the end
33:09
where they like, walk through the Blue Rock and they just see
33:12
a giant floating Marjorie head. Who's like there is no monster
33:16
it's just fear I'm like I love Fraggle Rock I love all of the
33:22
Fraggle Rock Riders this one is not doing it for me.
33:28
Not no no we didn't need to do this.
33:32
There's two more in this round question 11:00.
33:35
And And it route to the gorgs Garden.
33:37
This region is far too steep to climb but a great way for the
33:42
purple Springer's to get out of Fraggle Rock.
33:47
From the episode, the invasion of the toe Tickler see.
33:53
This is a cavern not a cave, Beth.
33:58
Is it chimney? Whole Cavern?
34:01
It is chimney whole Cavern Beth. I did not think anybody would
34:05
get that one. And question 12, last one, in
34:10
this round, this cave allows fraggles to travel to locations
34:15
around the world. Instead of just Doc's Workshop,
34:19
bad. I know this one.
34:19
Remember, they pulled a Narnia, they did.
34:22
Yeah. It's like a weird.
34:25
I don't love it as a plot device, like the first.
34:28
Yeah, to be completely honest death.
34:34
It's the T. Matthew fraggle room.
34:36
It is the T. Matthew fraggle room.
34:41
Nice work. I gotta say.
34:42
I might have an unfair advantage on this one because as I've been
34:46
going through and watching it I've been writing down all of
34:48
the location names and trying to choose one to call my cozy new
34:52
home. Hmm.
34:54
Well may I suggest belching Boulder, That is a great pick.
35:04
Well you guys are almost ready to be explorers but we are going
35:09
to shift our Focus to the World Behind The Rock for our next
35:14
game, which we call secrets of the month.
35:18
As recently, as I mentioned, I read the book Fraggle Rock the
35:23
ultimate Visual History and I learned a lot of fun making of
35:28
facts About the show in this round, I'll ask you questions
35:33
about some of the origins of Fraggle Rock.
35:37
Each of these questions is worth three points, you're going to
35:41
buzz in to answer each question. But, of course, wait until I
35:45
finish reading the question so that our friends at home can
35:49
play along. Ready, here we go. question 1,
35:54
Henson's famous goal for Fraggle, Rock was to create a
35:57
show that would end Sprout and cold war war.
36:06
But yes, that was the war that was going on at the time.
36:09
So I will absolutely give you the points.
36:13
Question to early Fraggle. Rock documents claim that the
36:17
fraggles live by the word that word is of course.
36:26
That's is it whoopee it is whoopee question 3.
36:33
Even at an early point in the planning of Fraggle.
36:36
Rock the creative team knew that this resource would connect the
36:41
three species together. Sprout water.
36:49
It is water. Absolutely.
36:52
Before they came up with the radish thing, they knew that
36:55
water was going to be important, which is appropriate.
36:58
Given back to the Rock, question for an original documents
37:03
written by the Fraggle, Rock creative team.
37:06
What were the fraggles originally called back?
37:15
Woozles Woozles. Correct.
37:19
What were the Doozers originally called?
37:22
This is question, five. Beth whistles.
37:29
Whistles, correct. And question 6.
37:34
What were the gorgs called? Beth.
37:41
Do you have a guess? Is that wozzles?
37:44
It is the giant wozzles. Let me tell, you know, not, not
37:53
great, not great naming. I could not even why they mate.
37:57
They renamed, this won't get confusing at all.
38:01
No, of course not. Especially if we're planning on
38:03
dumping this in multiple languages.
38:06
Where people have different Accents won't be hard at all
38:11
question. 7 Marjorie. The trash Heap was based on a
38:15
puppet design, Michael frith made for which earlier Muppet
38:20
production, he decided to reuse her after she didn't get used in
38:25
this production. Sprout to have a guess?
38:32
I'm going to take a guess at the Frog.
38:34
Prince it is not the Frog. Prince great.
38:37
Guess would have definitely fit into that world?
38:41
Beth. Do you have a guess?
38:43
Oh gosh. Not used for a project.
38:48
Yes, she's not, you're not forgetting it.
38:51
It's not like there's another TV show that had Marjorie.
38:54
Gotcha earlier project. I don't know Sesame Street, it
39:01
is Sesame Street. What's specifically season?
39:06
10 of Sesame Street, Michael, Frist pitched.
39:10
A A wise pile of garbage as a new resident of Sesame Street.
39:16
I love it. I will say, and I'll post a link
39:20
or I'll try to remember, to post a link if I don't remind me, and
39:24
I'll tweet it later, Muppet Wiki has a great article about some
39:28
of those abandoned ideas from That season of Sesame Street for
39:34
season 10. They were like, we need to make
39:36
lots of cool new characters, like Ernie and Bert.
39:40
Lady and Snuffy's younger brother who only has two legs
39:46
and no tail. Oh wow.
39:51
So so so Marjorie was part of that team and then a couple of
39:56
years later, 79 would have been the 10th anniversary of Sesame
40:00
Street. So, what, like, five years
40:02
later, they were like, okay, she belongs here.
40:06
I'm stuck on the two-legged Snuffleupagus.
40:08
There's a, there's a, there's a sketch of it.
40:11
Um, oh no, that's an excuse for a one Puppeteer.
40:17
Yes. Oh, absolutely right.
40:19
Absolutely, here's a, here's Carolee wilcox's sketch.
40:23
I'll link it here to you guys. In the call but everybody else
40:29
you'll have to I'll have to post.
40:31
It is Kirsten image as the original Snuffy with the green
40:35
eyes, it may be better than that, it's not bad.
40:42
It's it it looks like it can work as like a background Muppet
40:47
in Fraggle Rock. Yeah, it's definitely more of a
40:51
Fraggle Rock thing and this wasn't a Michael fourth Design.
40:53
This is a Carolee Wilcox design, but yeah, feels more Fraggle
41:00
Rock than Sesame Street. He does have a tail.
41:03
I do, I do want to. I apologize for forgetting that
41:06
he had a tail. Like, I don't like we would have
41:09
guessed it anyway. Oh yeah.
41:11
No, no, of course. All right, question 8, the
41:15
concept of fraggles living in a hole in a human's wall was based
41:20
off of which classic children's book.
41:27
Beth. Do you have a guess?
41:29
Is it the borrower's? It is the borrower's.
41:33
Question 9. What was Doc's?
41:35
Original name, which he shared with one of the Muppet
41:38
workshops. Most legendary puppet, Builders
41:41
and Tech whizzes. Any best you have a guess, I
41:49
don't remember, but based on your description I figure.
41:52
It's either got to be done saline or fuzzbuzz aqus.
41:56
So you're gonna you're gonna have to choose okay, Buzz sounds
42:01
like a fun name to call Doc. Yeah, ducks.
42:04
Ducks original name was Faz after a phosphor zachos question
42:09
10. Fraggle Rock.
42:11
Originally aired on HBO and is notable because it was HBO's
42:16
first. Sprout, your free subscription
42:24
shell. Well, HBO itself was
42:26
subscription so I'm going to need you to be a little more
42:29
specific children show. Technically, I suppose.
42:33
It was that as well. I will give you the points
42:36
because you're still technically, correct.
42:39
It's actually the first original scripted series to air on HBO.
42:45
So it is, it is the great-great-grandmother.
42:48
And father of Game of Thrones and Euphoria and and all those
42:53
we wouldn't have those without Fraggle.
42:56
Rock question 11, what was the first Fraggle?
42:59
Rock episode filmed, which was recorded before the premiere to
43:04
help the performers and crew better established, the rules of
43:08
Fraggle society, and the main characters individual roles
43:13
within it. Try to give you some Clues there
43:19
at the end. Beth is it the 30-minute work
43:24
week? It is the 30-minute work.
43:26
Week was the first episode recorded and last question.
43:31
In this round, Michael frith designed the caves in Fraggle,
43:36
Rock based on the crystalline caverns of his childhood home
43:40
country which is Beth Amina. It is Bermuda.
43:51
I swear I'm going to make a pilgrimage there someday.
43:54
Yeah, I reading the book, I was like, wow, that sounds really
43:56
pretty, but who knew I did not realize, Michael frith was from
44:01
Bermuda, but, you know, Here you go.
44:07
All right. There are also some Crystal
44:09
Caves in Ohio. If you don't want to go as far
44:11
as Bermuda, Ohio is closer to me.
44:14
I will say that so I'll look into it.
44:18
I've only ever been to how Cavern in New York, which is
44:24
very deep but there are no crystals or minimal crystals.
44:31
And no fraggles. Oh, well, yeah, that's another
44:35
problem. Well, now it's time for you to
44:39
challenge me in a contest in the game, we call the anything, in
44:44
the world, prize game. Now, you guys are able to ask me
44:50
anything in the universe or at least anything in the universe
44:54
of Fraggle Rock, which is basically all that the gorgs
44:58
know about the universe that they rule anyway.
45:01
The points. This round are also gorg sized
45:05
since if you stumped me, you'll earn 10 points.
45:10
So let's start with Sprout, Sprout.
45:13
Do you have a question for me? Yeah.
45:16
What was the inspiration behind the season 3 episode?
45:22
Scared, silly. So here's the thing, I know I
45:26
believe I know the general idea but I don't know specific enough
45:30
and certainly only because I'm the host and I should know the
45:34
specifics. The fact that I don't know, the
45:37
specifics means you are going to get the points but wasn't it
45:41
like inspired by a prank war that some of the crew was
45:45
actually having but I don't know the specific crew members so if
45:49
that's part of the answer you get 10 points.
45:54
So Jocelyn Stevenson who wrote the episode with scared by being
46:00
snuck up on at an ATM by Dave goals.
46:04
That's right. And then boiled multiple times
46:07
when trying to get back at him it's so she broke.
46:13
I read that story or I think it's actually in the ultimate
46:15
history. I believe that story wasn't,
46:18
didn't she? Like tried to get back at him
46:20
but didn't realize that he was like looking Adam the Earth at
46:24
the time like so he was like you're right behind me.
46:27
Joseline. Okay.
46:29
So here's the thing, I did know it but I didn't have the
46:32
specifics and certainly I'm the host, I should know the
46:35
specifics. I read that book.
46:36
I should know the specifics. So Sprout you have earned
46:39
yourself, 10, additional points Beth.
46:43
Do you have a question for me? I wrote down so many possible.
46:48
Stump the host questions just because I didn't know what was
46:51
going to be covered. Yeah, that's always, I feel bad.
46:54
Like with this round, I always had people who worry like, oh,
46:58
what is she going to ask? Like, I don't know.
47:01
You guys will hear this when the episode is released, but we did
47:05
an episode about monsters and both of our guests.
47:10
Wrote a question about Splurge from.
47:13
Hey Cinderella. And we had to like, I had to Off
47:18
my headphones and they had to check their like, did we write
47:21
the same question as each other about Splurge?
47:25
But it turns out that they wrote two different questions about
47:29
Splurge from. Hey, Cinderella soul of that.
47:32
In that episode, I will answer to questions about Splurge, the
47:37
monster from hey Cinderella who only says radish, but you'll
47:44
hear that soon Beth. Why don't you give me one?
47:48
Of your questions. Oh, God, okay.
47:50
Well, they're all tough. Okay, here we go in the episode,
47:56
Manny's land of carpets, what were the other two businesses.
48:01
But the fraggles heard ads, for and started chanting that they
48:05
wanted to visit, I haven't gotten here yet in my re-watch.
48:09
Oh no. So I'm not, I'm not gonna know,
48:14
so I'll guess the Fixit Shop. Hooper's store because those are
48:20
businesses. I know Beth.
48:22
What's the correct answer? Well you know they love some
48:25
alliteration around here, they did I it's Bubba's Burger Barn
48:29
and Sally's spotless cleaners. All right.
48:34
So if I said the Sesame Street laundromat I would have been
48:37
closer. So all right well you have both
48:43
earned 10 points that was harder than dealing with a In tackler.
48:49
But now, it's time for the two of you to stand up to the
48:52
ultimate test in our final round, say the word or in this
48:58
case, words in this round, you can wager any amount of points.
49:05
The winner will get those points.
49:07
The loser will lose those points and of course, unlike on that
49:12
other show, you do get to hear the question before you wager.
49:18
So let's check the scores. And by that, I mean, let me
49:21
actually add together what the scores are or a current source.
49:27
Sprout, you have 50 points. Whoo, nice best.
49:34
You currently have 89 points, you really pulled ahead in in
49:42
those last two, the locations pulling some weird locations out
49:49
of there and knowing those Woozles whistles and giant
49:53
wozzles, really helped you as well but it's still Anybody's
49:57
game because of the nature of this round.
50:02
So here's the final question. As described in Fraggle Rock,
50:08
the ultimate Visual History. Wembley's personality was
50:12
inspired by a joke from an earlier Muppet production.
50:18
So this is a two-part question. Question 1, which Muppet movie
50:25
or TV? Show had a joke that inspired
50:28
Wembley's personality and question to.
50:32
What was that joke? Whoever gets more of these two
50:37
questions. Correct will win their bet back.
50:43
I will say this and I'm going to make sure that this is in the
50:46
episode. I will say this, you do not need
50:48
the wording of the joke correctly, to earn the points.
50:52
If you get it close, I will give you the points.
50:57
So we're looking for the name of a muppet production.
51:03
It's a movie or TV show and A joke that inspired the
51:10
personality of Wembley. All right.
51:23
Well, you have each submitted an answer and a bent.
51:27
And let me tell you neither of you are very confident about
51:30
your answer from Lutheran. No.
51:35
But well Sprout, how many points did you bet?
51:39
I bet 40. Okay, you bet 40 and Beth.
51:44
How many points did you bet zero?
51:47
Zero Beth Beth is hoping that her lead is comfortable enough
51:53
that you're gonna, you're gonna wind up, okay, Beth, so you bet,
52:00
0, did you have a guest? Nope, I seriously cannot think
52:04
of anything. Great Sprout, you guessed.
52:09
I just said something on The Muppet Show you don't.
52:13
Listen, that's a fair, guess, because there were like a
52:15
hundred and twenty episodes of those.
52:16
Those, it's a lot of jokes and their little jokes, but it's
52:21
actually the great Muppet, Caper specifically apparently.
52:27
And again, this is in that book and on Muppet Wiki at this
52:31
point, specifically, the line where Nikki holiday says, why do
52:37
I say no? When I mean, yes.
52:41
Oh, that's wild. That's barely even a line.
52:44
He mumbles that correct. Barely even a line.
52:49
And the reason why he does it is because he's lying, like it has
52:57
nothing to do with being indecisive in that movie, like
53:01
it has to do with the fact that he's trying to lie to multiple
53:06
people at once. But apparently someone thought
53:11
that that line was so funny that they wanted to write an entire
53:15
character. Who said no when he meant yes,
53:21
it's amazing and vice versa. Wow.
53:24
What a deep cut, right? Yeah, yeah.
53:27
I don't know. So Sprout you have 10 points but
53:34
Beth because you didn't bet any points you remain at 89 points
53:41
and so today's winner and today's toughest pig is Beth
53:46
Revelations I'm sorry. I mean what hey there you go you
53:50
did it right? Red would be so proud at her
53:53
Whoopi training school. I forget what episode that was
53:57
but um so congratulations, Beth, you win your choice of mustard
54:06
flavor doozer, sticks, tomato flavor, doozer.
54:09
Sticks or this trash Heap magnet, which may come with some
54:15
other trash Heap. Magnet surprises.
54:18
Man, that's a really tough choice but I don't have any
54:25
fridge magnets yet and I would love Marjorie magnet.
54:28
Oh my gosh this is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
54:30
Yeah the belching the belching Boulder is going to need a good
54:34
initial bursary. I can't believe it.
54:39
So that brings us to the end of another one so guests.
54:44
Where can people find you? If you To be found.
54:47
Let's start with Sprout. To find me on Twitter at paopu
54:51
Sprout, and I'm up at fans, talking on any listening Network
54:57
and Twitter Muppets fans talking has a Twitter as well.
55:02
And wait, I already follow you, but can you spell that?
55:06
Because that was a little unclear.
55:07
Audio wise PA o pu sprout. Beth, thank you.
55:13
Thank you for thinking of that because I showed him, but thank
55:18
you and Beth. Where can people find you?
55:21
If you wish to be found, I am at Beth on a cook.
55:26
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55:45
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