Gobo, not just a Fraggle

[Princeton]

I bought a book today about movie slang, and one of the terms is "gobo":

"gobo-These are large adjustable four-inch aluminum knuckles permenently affixed to the end of grip stands that hold lights, flags, and so on, and look like large metal Tinkertoys. Gobo heads are deceptively difficult to manipulate with any sort of elan."

Just thought I'd share it with y'all.

 

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

Actually, that's where Gobo got his name from.

 

[Foodie]

A few Fraggle Rock characters take their names from the film industry; Traveling Matt and Sprocket as well as Gobo. Red got her name from Crayola. She stole it actually. Crayola has a bounty out for her capture actually. That's why she lives underground these days. Don't tell Marlin about any of that though. He'd turn her in for the 30 silver pieces " Big Crayon " is offering in a doozer heart-beat. Yessiree! No fibbery here. Just the straight facts!

 

[zeldazipple]

Yeah I knew Gobo had more than one meaning, but I didn't find this out 'till a couple of year ago when I was helping out with some stage stuff and they were showing me how the lighting worked, and what the Gobo lights were for.
Those special lights produced the illusion of trees and sky. By over laying green leaf shaps in a blue background.

A few Fraggle Rock characters take their names from the film industry; Traveling Matt and Sprocket as well as Gobo. Red got her name from Crayola. She stole it actually. Crayola has a bounty out for her capture actually. That's why she lives underground these days. Don't tell Marlin about any of that though. He'd turn her in for the 30 silver pieces " Big Crayon " is offering in a doozer heart-beat. Yessiree! No fibbery here. Just the straight facts!

Hahahahah!! * falls off chair. That explines the ' Crayloa Red ' and orange hair. I always learn something I didn't know about the Fraggles when I read your posts.

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

And some Fraggles are named after British towns or sports stadiums.

Wembley is named after both the region in NW London and the stadium that is located there; that's where they held the British portion of Live Aid back in '85.

 

[Foodie]

Boober is named after a cow and I can't remember where Mokey's name came from. Maybe she was named Monkey but the Spellbinder stole her "n".

 

[Giar Fraggle]

Mokey was named after one of Jim Henson's childhood friends.

 

[zeldazipple]

You sure?

Are you sure you're not thinking of Kermit the Frog? I know Kermit was named after a close classmate of his.

Mokey was named after one of Jim Henson's childhood friends.

 

[Giar Fraggle]

Muppet Wiki says, so it must be.

Yeah, a guy can have more than one friend with a cool name, y'know.

 

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

It's also in "Fraggle Rock Season 1" in the bonus material---I believe you can see it written somewhere the camera pans across that Mokey was named after one of Jim's friends.

And Nick, is that true about the crayon and Red? I just thought they named her Red because it was so obvious---that huge red hair, and the red sweater. I'm just curious if you were being witty or serious, lol.