"Never Seen Again...."

[Saironi]

When I was little, I remeber the Storyteller a sing-song tale that was probably a little more heavy scare-wise than was meant for little kids.

I think it was about a monster living in a cave that sucked unfortunate victims into it, a Fraggle in armor comes to "slay it" I think, because I remember he had something like a lance, he freed the victims that had been reduced to souls, and the monster ends up closing its' jaws on him after he stumbles into its' mouth.

Is that right?

How did that story go? It scared me so much. *shivers*

 

[G-MAN]

It was the Ballad Of Sir Blunderbrain from the episode called The Terrible Tunnel, here are the lyrics:

Come gather round you Fraggle clan and hear the tale I tell,
About a grand disaster and a wicked magic spell,
About a Fraggle's bravery, about a Fraggle's brain,
About a mighty knight in arms, the bold Sir Blunderbrain,
About the tunnel back from which he never came again,
About the tunnel back from which he never came again.

A thousand years ago or maybe even thirty-three,
The ancient Fraggles wrestled with a strange catastrophe.
Every time they wandered down a certain tunnel lane,
One by one they disappeared like bubbles down a drain.
The darkness closed around them and they never came again.
A darkness closed around them and they never came again.

Sir Blunderbrain went bravely to the entrance of the tunnel.
The wind was low and lonesome and it wasn't any, uh, funnel.
And then he heard the spirits who cried their sad refrain.
It was all the Fraggles who had gone and never come again.
Yes, all the Fraggles who had gone and never come again.

Sir Blunderbrain he drew his sword and took a mighty swing.
The tunnel drew a sword as well and swung right back again.
And so for hours they battled, they fought with might and mane.
And all the while the tunnel cried, "You'll not go home again!"
Yes, all the while the tunnel cried, "You'll not go home again!"

At last Sir Blunderbrain he brought that tunnel to it's knees.
He cried, "Give me my Fraggles or I'll slice you up like cheese!"
And so the tunnel coughed them up, they all went home again.
Except our mighty hero, the brave Sir Blunderbrain,
For the tunnel sucked him under and he never came again.
The brave Sir Blunder stumbled and he never came again.
Oh, all ye Fraggles blubber for he'll not come home again.

 

[Gorgon Heap]

The tunnel itself looked like a giant stone clam, and was voiced by Karen Prell (in her 'monstrous' voice, which IMO is really creepy).

David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole