The most tear-jerking Muppet moment...

[Puckrox]

How about when we all lost Jim Henson? I cried.

I was born two months after Jim Henson passed. I never really put much thought into his death until last summer when I discovered the video of the muppets singing 'If Just One Person'. Upon watching it, I bawled almost instantly. Since then, I have cried over Jim Henson's death multiple times. Whether I'm watching an interview of Jim, watching pieces of his memorial, or there's a touching part in one of the movies he worked on, I have come to realize just how truly amazing this man was. It kills me that I never got to know this world while Jim was still in it. He was truly amazing.

 

[Gonzo's Hobbit]

I just watched the episode "Gone But Not Forgotten" Need I say more?

 

[Slackbot]

That's a sad episode, but for me the saddest part is hearing Richard Hunt's voice singing "Just a Dream Away."

Perhaps this is just me, but I think the ending with the lizardy thing weakened the story, as if they wanted to back away from the issue of death.

 

[Gonzo's Hobbit]

I kinda took it as a way to not end the episode on a terribly sad note and to find a way for Wembley to resolve it more. I kinda thought it was cool. Bah, the fact that that's Richard just makes it sadder.

 

[Slackbot]

I understand that they wanted to end on a high note, but to me to came across as a "but not really." In real life, when someone's gone they're gone, and that's it; a replacement won't just pop up. I don't know if I could write an ending that could get that point across without it being completely depressing, though.

 

[Gonzo's Hobbit]

The other thing I was thinking of when I saw that part was the idea that sometimes death gives way to life. That wouldn't be too surprsing because I've seen other movies and shows where they allude to soemthign like that. At any rate I never really thought of the lizard thing as a replacement because he did tell Wembley that he wasn't Mudwell and Wembley still did seem a little put out by that.

 

[Slackbot]

Yes, but his knowing Mudwell's song--the only song Mudwell knew--and having him come out of the earth which was presumably Mudwell's body did imply, to me at least, that he was Mudwell reborn in some fashion. (Or a parasite.)

 

[animalrescuer]

"Gone, but not forgotten" is one of my favorite Fraggle Rock episodes and it's one of those episodes that get in touch with sad and emotional things that happen in real life. I've never cried from watching it, but I do feel sad by watching it and makes me wonder what I'd do if any member of my family died. I actually like the idea of a lizard popping out of the dried mud where Mudwell had died in and in a sense, saying that "where there's life, there's death", but in this case, it's the other way around. When Wembley and the lizard sang "Just a dream away", it's a way to remember Mudwell as a new friendship formed between them.

 

[CensoredAlso]

I understand that they wanted to end on a high note, but to me to came across as a "but not really." In real life, when someone's gone they're gone, and that's it; a replacement won't just pop up. I don't know if I could write an ending that could get that point across without it being completely depressing, though.

I didn't see it as backing away from the issue of death at all. If you listen to Mudwell's song, it's about how in nature things change, rather than just go away ("one day it's an ocean, one day ice in motion, one day it's a tear drop in your eye"). Plus the idea of a resurrection after death has been a constant theme in literature and art for thousands of years.

And personally, I was never taught that when someone dies, "that's it."

 

[Gonzo's Hobbit]

I've never cried from watching it, but I do feel sad by watching it and makes me wonder what I'd do if any member of my family died.

I tend to cry at everything these days and I wonder if I would cry at this episode if I had seen it as a kid. Just as a kid I used to have a more disconnected response to things like that, or a simple faith that things would work out. Watching this episode I had that same faith but it was different. I'm trying to figure out if it's because I've grown up so part of me is a little more cynical (I miss being a kid) Or I'm just tired of always having to say goodbye to people.
I really like Mudwell's song in this but either because it's a very deep song or just the nature of the episode it makes me wanna cry to listen to it