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[Slackbot]

The agate is adorable. However, I'm not so sure about the petrified wood. On second look it kind of reminds me of a slice of Spam.

I been busy today...

Fraggle Economics: The Fraggles try to make sense of the concept of money in this fanfic snippet...

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Janken said, "That's what they say, but some of them save much more than they could ever need, and they call that being rich and are proud of it. They even have buildings called banks where they store their money. I don't know—I understand how it works until it gets complicated, but I can't explain why they do things the way they do."

Wembley leaned back on his arms and said, "Can you imagine if we used Fraggle pebbles that way? We'd have to carry around bags of rocks!" He laughed.

Mokey and Red had been listening from one the cave's 'windows.' Now they entered. Red said, "And we'd have caves stuffed full of rollies and smoothies. Hey, Mokey, trade you a rollie for a radish?"

"What color?"

"The rollie or the radish?"

Janken watched, amused, as his parents spun the concept of using stones as money into an increasingly elaborate and ridiculous fantasy. They clearly found the idea as silly as he did.

 

[newsmanfan]

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What do Fraggles barter? Ten-second chores?

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[Slackbot]

Fraggles don't barter, as far as we've seen. They give freely and accept freely.

 

[newsmanfan]

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But isn't that...gasp....socialism!? Don't tell Faux News!

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[Slackbot]

The difference is that socialism involves a lot of control, oversight, administration, etc. The Fraggles don't bother with that. They're just kind by nature, and help each other 'cause that's what they do.

 

[Slackbot]

Misery Loves Company - Wembley has cute tootsies.

 

[charlietheowl]

I saw the comment you posted on the deviantart link, and I can totally relate. One of my earliest memories is having to have surgery when I was four or so, and coming home and not being able to walk to the bathroom on my own because I was so out of it. I remember my mom picking me up and carrying my poor pitiful self into the bathroom. It's nice to have someone nurse you when you're sick, especially now that I'm in college and have to take solace from various medicines and The Price Is Right.

Plus Wembley's feet are really cute in those socks. Fraggles in winter gear are cute in general.

 

[Slackbot]

Yeah, I hear you. I just watched Pebble Pox Blues, and the sight of Boober taking care of Wembley at the end brought back those memories. Sometimes, when you feel really crummy, having someone there to cuddle you and feed you juice makes so much difference.

And, heh heh, I thought of you when I was drawing this because of your userpic. I changed Wembley's costume a little because when you have the flu you really need to keep warm, despite how cute toeless socks are.

 

[charlietheowl]

Ha ha thanks! The costumes in The Bells of Fraggle Rock are great. Considering no one wears clothes a majority of the time in the rock, winter temperatures must be strikingly cold down there. Even Boober has to bundle up!

And Pebble Pox Blues is one of my personal favorite episodes of the series, mainly because it does a great job of combining the funny (Red and Mokey's visits to Gobo) with the heartwarming (Boober and Wembley). Those are my favorite kinds of episodes of the series (Wembley's Egg, I Don't Care, The River Of Life). Leave it to the fraggles to bring out my hidden sentimental side.

 

[Slackbot]

Boober bundles up anyway. His hat and scarf are to help him avoid catching cold, according to some sources. And yet he's nekkid otherwise... but, yeah, it must be quite cold, for Fraggles to freeze solid so quickly. By the way, I suspect that Cantus comes from a colony in a much colder climate. Obviously he comes from a different gene pool, as he's visibly different from the Fraggles in Fraggle Rock. I suspect it's colder because he's furry all over, unlike the rest of the Fraggles we know, who have bare arms, legs, and faces. Plus, while the natives of the Rock find the cold intolerable, Cantus travels the tunnels in the deepest cold if it's no big deal.

Yes, Fraggle Rock can tug the heartstrings, and do it in a way that feels genuine rather than contrived. The first time I realized this was when I watched Marooned. Two puppet characters facing the very real possibility of their own deaths, and their own helplessness to do anything about it? Powerful stuff. I love Pebble Pox Blues, The River of Life (another sniffler), Wembley's Egg, and similar eps, and they've been a big influence on my fanfics.