User:AlmightyKingPrawn/sandbox

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum

This is for the future so I don't have to feel as pressured writing descriptions all at once. This includes links when applicable. Feel free to use those links to work on things yourself.

To do:

We're gonna party, we're gonna rock, we've got tickets to the Cinemark!

13th Opening (2008-2012) (Segurito y el Gato Joe) (Chile)

  • The logo parody that starts "Evacuación".
    The logo parody that starts "Evacuación".


This is still here for easy access in case someone my stepmom knows does translations in the future.

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Background

Fraggle Rock is a family puppet series created by Jim Henson that ran from 1983 to 1987. Filmed in Canada, the show was created out of a desire to cause world peace. It focuses on the titular underground world of Fraggle Rock, where many creatures, notably the Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs, live their lives and slowly, over the course of 5 seasons, learn how they are connected. The show has been acclaimed for its handling of many difficult subjects, such as death, prejudice, societal injustice, and protecting the environment, and containing many catchy songs to keep things from getting too heavy. A rebooted series, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, premiered on Apple TV+ on the night of January 20, 2022.

Theme Song (January 10, 1983-March 30, 1987)


Description: The camera pans through the window of a house with ivy growing on it. Inside is an old man named Doc and his dog Sprocket. Doc is working hard at his workshop with a screwdriver, while Sprocket, who is lying on a dog bed next to a yellow bowl with his name on it, shifts his weight. The camera continues panning through the workshop to a hole in the wall.

Trivia:

  • The song has been referenced within the show itself on several occasions:
    • "Boober Rock" (Season 2, Episode 2): Red sings the song loudly while playing with other Fraggles, to Boober's annoyance. Later, she sings her own version of the song to mock Boober: "Dance your pants away/Worries will be here to stay/If you spend your day/Down in Boober Rock!"
    • "Boober's Dream" (Season 2, Episode 6): Sidebottom can briefly be heard singing the song after "Dream A Dream (And See)" ends.
    • "Fraggle Wars" (Season 2, Episode 17): The Cave Fraggles, in contrast to the Rock Fraggles, have their own 1st wave alternative rock version of the theme, "Down In Fraggle Cave": "Worry, wrath, and rave/No time now for for being brave/Order's what we crave/Down in Fraggle Cave"
    • "Gobo's School for Explorers" (Season 3, Episode 12): Gobo briefly whistles the theme.
    • "The Riddle of Rhyming Rock" (Season 5, Episode 2): Gobo sings the theme in an attempt to solve the titular riddle.
    • "Mokey, Then and Now" (Season 5, Episode 8): It is revealed that, due to a bootstrap paradox, Mokey is the one who technically wrote the theme due to her also being the savior of the Ancient Fraggles, Blundig, who traveled back in time. She sings the song to the Ancient Fraggles, who are so impressed by its ideals that they abolish laws against laughter to dance and play like the song tells them to, sparking the beginning of the Fraggles as we know them now.
  • Out of 17 possible intros, Jim Henson chose this one, the 11th.
  • According to the book Fraggle Rock: The Ultimate Visual History (2021):
    • Out of all the work Philip Balsam and Dennis Lee did for the show, the theme song was the biggest challenge. This is because the series has a remarkably complex premise that was difficult to explain with a song in such a short runtime.
    • The process of writing the theme didn't start until five or six episodes were filmed.
    • The ultimate focus on only the chorus instead of the verse-and-chorus structure of the unused theme was due to the limited time allowed for a theme song making the chorus the strongest part, overshadowing the rest.
    • The single most challenging part to write was where to put the Fraggle Five introducing themselves individually, as Jim Henson requested it be part of the theme, but there wasn't a lot of room for it. This explains why said verse is so rapid-fire. The speed of the verse made it so that Balsam himself couldn't sing it, though Jim Henson could.
    • As it was very chilly in Toronto on the day of filming (in January of 1983), most of the puppeteers were sick with colds and the flu.
    • The clapping was done with mechanisms inside of the Fraggles' arms. Red's arm mechanism was broken, however, so Karen Prell hid her puppet's arms behind a rock.
  • At end of the music video for "Do It Anyway" by Ben Folds Five (2013), which heavily features the Fraggles throughout, the band briefly covers the song alongside Red and Boober.
  • In the final 2020 quarantine-produced Fraggle Rock: Rock On! short, the theme is covered by a wide range of celebrities: Alanis Morrisette, Ziggy Marley, Tiffany Haddish, Neil Patrick Harris, Common, and Jason Mraz.

Variants:

  • On the 1984 Doozer Music VHS compilation tape (which is streaming on Apple TV+), the song stops after the Doozers' verse.
  • Many relatively-recent TV airings, such as on Odyssey Network and The Hub (both now defunct), shortened the theme, skipping from the end of the first verse ("Dance your cares away!") to Boober's ending line.

Technique: Live-action puppetry.

Song: A cheery, catchy song with rhythmic clapping sung by all of the citizens of the Rock, written by the show's two most prolific songwriters, Philip Balsam and Dennis Lee.

Lyrics:

Other Audio:

Legacy: A very popular theme that, similarly to those for DuckTales and Animaniacs, is particularly infamous for its catchiness.

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