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Episode Descriptions

Frogster

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I've been to punchandjewelry.com to see the summaries of all the episodes, but I was wondering if someone here could give me a really good description of these episodes...
The Challenge
Mokey's Funeral
Cavern of Lost Dreams
Ring Around the Rock
Thanks!
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I haven't seen The Challenge in months, so I may not be accurate, but here goes ...

Doc and Sprocket engage in a "Zombie Attack" video game competition with each other. Sprocket keeps beating Doc, and eventually Doc invites Ned Schimmelfinny over to join the competition.

Red's plans for a splash-a-thon coincide with Gobo's plans for a picnic. But everyone follows Gobo's plans, except Red, who wonders, why does Gobo get to make all the decisions? Meanwhile, Pa Gorg tells Ma Gorg that she shouldn't be reading their son fairy tales, and he forces Junior to get to work. Suddenly, Pa catches the arguing Fraggles in the garden (Red, Gobo and Boober) and traps them underneath a bucket. The Fraggles overhear Junior's wishes that he had a genie to give him a new pumpkin knife, and Red pretends to be a genie, who tells Junior not to lift the bucket or else his dad's ears will fall off. Junior naïvely obeys, which leads Pa to the assumption that Junior may be sick. Gobo, thinking quickly, tells Junior to stop sneezing or else he'll die. Junior believes that too, and falls down "dead." The Fraggles come out from under the bucket and stare in awe at the "dead" Gorg. Boober is the only one who feels sorry for Junior, so he starts singing a funeral dirge ("Dixie Wailing") that he wrote "in honor of my own departure." Junior tells him to "pick up the tempo," which they do, causing everyone to dance, including Ma and Pa Gorg, which gives the Fraggles a chance to escape safely.
 

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I'll do Mokey's Funeral - bearing in mind I've only got the UK version, so Doc, Sprocket and Uncle Matt may be up to something completely different in the American one - but the Fraggle Five won't be different.

Ok - It's snowing in the little cove where the lighthouse stands and Sprocket comes in with an empty bowl, so Captain thinks he's nicked all the bread he put out for the birds, only to later discover he didn't actually put the bread out for that day and feels very sorry for Sprocket.
Uncle Matt visits a market where he helps himself to radishes and gets chased - just like back in the garden.
Fraggle Five - Mokey is going to get radishes from the garden and she bumps into Gobo and Red, who're making a boat. When Mokey offers to help, they don't seem too happy. So Mokey goes to the garden, but can't get through because Junior has put up a fraggle-trap and Mokey - instead of going to get the others - she decides to take matters into her own hands and makes her own plan.
Anyways, she goes to tell the fraggles about her plan and to ask them to give her a hand, but they get a bit mean, saying it won't be a good plan, so Mokey gets upset and goes off in a huff to do the plan by herself. Gobo follwos her and makes Mokey promise that when she's made the preperations, she'll go back and show them what she did.
She makes this scary looking doll-thing of herself and calls it Rags and she feels really proud of herslef and its quite sad, because she talks to Rags and sings Ragtime Queen.
So she takes Rags to show the others, but overhears them talking about her, about how she's better at writing poems than doing practical stuff - which upsets Mokey and Red then says her poems weren't much either and they all agree and are really quite horrible - so Mokey goes off. The Fraggles see her and immediately feel sorry and Gobo and Red follow her.
Mokey throws Rags into the trap and then, seeing Gobo and Red, hides from them because she's still upset (understandably) Junior, alerted by the bell, thinks he's captured a fraggle when he sees Rags and takes the trap away, just enough time for Gobo and Red to get through. And THEY think it's actually Mokey, which Mokey thinks is really funny, then realises Gobo and Red have gone out into the garden and she can't get to them.
Junior declares out-loud that he's killed Mokey and Gobo and Red believe them and get very very upset. Junior gets really upset too and decides to give Mokey a funeral. Mokey realises that the joke has gone too far, but she can't get to them.
As Junior gives the funeral, Gobo and Red try to get to Rags (thinking its Mokey) to take her back to the rock for a proper fraggle-funeral. Mokey, meanwhile, finds a stick - one of the oars for the boat - and manages to ring the bell in the trap, which distracts Junior. He decides to do away with the trap which gives time for Gobo and Red to get to the box he's using as a coffin. They both cry over Rags, still thinking it's Mokey and Mokey, now able to get into the garden, goes over to them and says 'it's a dummy' - then, when this sinks in, Red and Gobo find it quite funny and shout at Junior 'hey, dummy gorg, you captured a dummy-fraggle!' - which at first makes Junior mad, then he gets really happy that he hasn't killed a fraggle, so they all go back to the Rock and play in the boat, which Mokey gets to name and Mokey recites a poem for them all and they all apologise to her and say how much they love her.
 

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Does anyone out there have these episodes, plus...
Beanbarrow, Burden, and Bright Bouquet
Playing Till It Hurts
Wizard of Fraggle Rock
30 Minute Work Week
Riddle Of Rhyming Rock
The Beast of Bluerock
Gobo's Discovery
If anyone does, could you PLEASE post back? I'd really like to see the rest of the episodes!!
(Pretty, pretty please, with radishes on top???)
 
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