The RHLC!

[Skye]

I admire you guys for having such will power here.

Haha... thanks!

I know that I'm really looking forward to so many episodes in the fourth and fifth seasons of Fraggle Rock... I can't wait for the third season, too, but the next ones are the ones I think I'm really gonna be nuts over!

 

[CensoredAlso]

Definitely, that's where big things start happening in the series, the different species slowly start becoming more comfortable with each other and desire some peace. Whereas like in the first two seasons, they only worried about themselves.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Yeah true, most previews are pretty minimal and disapointing.

Well I wasn't careful at all about spoilers with The Two Towers. And as a result, I felt like the final viewing experience was not all it could have been. I knew way too much going in. So I decided I would start fresh with Return of the King, the way I had with The Fellowship of the Ring. (I thought the movies were going to be bad so I avoided FotR at first. But when I finally saw it in the theater, I was very pleasantly surprised!)

Yeah, when I went to see the Two Towers on openinng day, I knew nothing about it except that it was coming out and that is was suppost to be a really good movie.

Ooh, I really love season 4/5 of fraggle rock. I remember those episodes. those were sone of the best episodes of the series.

 

[CensoredAlso]

TTT was really good. A lot of people think RotK was the best emotionally, but I still say FotR was perfect from beginning to end! (Can you tell I used to post on an LoR message board?!)

Erm, I figure this isn't giving anything away. It's weird seeing Junior Gorg as a regular puppet. The voice is the same of course. And the puppeteering is great (it's definitely Richard, he does that head tilt at one point, never fails!). But it feels like something's missing. I think you unconsiously miss Rob Mills/Frank Meschkuleit's movements and Faz and Richard's contributions to the face.

Even seems Richard knows this, he tries doing the same facial expressions Junior would normally have, like blinking the eyes up and down (which most of the ordinary puppets can't do). Basically, it's cute seeing Junior Fraggle-sized, but it's even better to see him back to normal at the end.

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Then again, that might have been the whole point. When Junior's down at Fraggle size, he's not as powerful as he is at full Gorg size, and perhaps Richard and the others show this by having Junior try to do things that he would do normally. But yeah, it is weird seeing Junior being the same size as Gobo...and it was probably even weirder for Junior and the Fraggles.

Better get going, I've got J-class in just under 20 mins, and French club after that.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Hmm, true, it makes the issue all the more clear. The audience needs to feel the same disorientation Junior is feeling. I could be wrong, but I felt like Richard was trying to make him sound just a bit meeker than normal, partially because he's afraid and partially because, hey his lungs aren't as powerful! lol

Wow you are busy! Good luck!

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Yeah, and when you consider he's now the same size as the little creatures he spent much of the first few seasons trying to thump (though it seems to me that relations evened out a bit around season 4)...

Ah, yes, the Richard Hunt head-tilt. If you're not sure if a character is one of Richard's, watch to see if it does the head-tilt and the comprehending nod. That'll tell you for sure (or fer sure...) if it's Richard down below.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Ah, yes, the Richard Hunt head-tilt. If you're not sure if a character is one of Richard's, watch to see if it does the head-tilt and the comprehending nod. That'll tell you for sure (or fer sure...) if it's Richard down below.

Oh yeah the comprehending nod too, particularly seen with Scooter.

Oh I'm so glad they put this back up! It's from an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show in 1971. It's probably one of the first things Richard did with The Muppets. Wow, how do you imagine that? You're like 20 years old and performing with your heros on the biggest show of the time!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jHCn2OAQ-jk

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Yeah, that's a real heady feeling for a fresh-faced kid from north Jersey.
Five or six years later, Richard was channeling that heady feeling into a red-haired, green-jacketed kid named Scooter. He who most prominently displays the comprehending nod...and back home, Jane was watching it all, and proudly thinking, "That's my boy."

 

[CensoredAlso]

I'm sure she was, I love the story she tells in The Works. Richard enjoyed the Muppets so much, and then to find out their creators were just like him.

Notice, Richard pretty much gets the first laugh on Ed Sullivan skit when he's counting off the missing solo!