Fraggle Rocks nod to Peanuts

[Foodie]

The line "it was a dark and stormy night" originally comes from an 1830 novel by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton:



A competition now exists to attempt to find the worst possible opening line to a novel. More information can be found here: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

Ah! I knew it was pre-Peanuts.

 

[RKUNKLER]

Harvey Towers thanks for finding that. Its great because i never read that before. i stil weonder why Fraggle rock did that.

 

[Foodie]

Harvey Towers thanks for finding that. Its great because i never read that before. i stil weonder why Fraggle rock did that.

I think because it's just a well-known phrase that just fit the episode.

I think a lot of the Fraggle Rock episode titles are plays on umm.. famous words and sayings and things. Like " The Day The Music Died ". * thinks *... Umm... that is the title of the " ditzy " episode isn't it? * mutters to self * I should know this.

 

[RKUNKLER]

The Day The Music Died is also a line in Don mcleans American pie as well. You may be right Fodie.

 

[CensoredAlso]

4.12) What's the complete text of Snoopy's novel?

As firmly established in the Holt, Rinehart & Winston
book, "Snoopy and It Was A Dark And Stormy Night"
(published in 1971), this is Snoopy's novel...in all its glory:

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
by Snoopy

Part I

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out!
A door slammed. The maid screamed.
Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!
While millions of people were starving, the king lived in
luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was
growing up.

Part II

A light snow was falling, and the little girl with the
tattered shawl had not sold a violet all day.
At that very moment, a young intern at City Hospital
was making an important discovery. The mysterious patient
in Room 213 had finally awakened. She moaned softly.
Could it be that she was the sister of the boy in Kansas
who loved the girl with the tattered shawl who was the
daughter of the maid who had escaped from the pirates?
The intern frowned.
"Stampede!" the foreman shouted, and forty thousand
head of cattle thundered down on the tiny camp. The two
men rolled on the ground grappling beneath the murderous
hooves. A left and a right. A left. Another left and right.
An uppercut to the jaw. The fight was over. And so the
ranch was saved.
The young intern sat by himself in one corner of the
coffee shop. he had learned about medicine, but more
importantly, he had learned something about life.

THE END

(At which point, Linus asked, "But what about the
king?" He got clonked on the head for his impertinence.)

I remember this from a Peanuts TV special years ago! It was Snoopy singing his ideas at the type writer while we see live action footage to go along with his story. Then Charlie Brown comes at the end saying, "What about the king?" Lol

 

[Foodie]

The Day The Music Died is also a line in Don mcleans American pie as well. You may be right Fodie.

Yeah. I was gonna mention that but I wasn't sure if Don got that phrase from something else or not.

 

[Foodie]

Oh, here's another Fraggle Rock title that's prolly a nod to something; " Fraggle Wars ". Eh? Eh?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It would have been funny if, in Fraggle Wars, they had made some kind of 'robot' something to look like R2D2. Or some Fraggle character to resemble Chewbacca.

Or, maybe not...I'm glad FR didn't have parodies like that.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

The line "it was a dark and stormy night" originally comes from an 1830 novel by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton:

My world...is crushed...

That is a fantastic bit of trivia that I had NO IDEA about! How on earth did you learn about that?

 

[RKUNKLER]

heralde what special is that.