Fraggle Rock (1983–1987): Season 1, Episode 6 - The Preachification of Convincing John - full transcript
Mokey decides that eating Doozer constructions hurts their feelings, so she gets Convincing John to help her get the Fraggles to stop.
Breakfast time, Sprocket.
The most important meal of the day.
I'll tell you what, Sprockey.
I'll open a can of food for you.
Go find your dish.
TD
I must build myself
a coffee grinder or something.
All right.
Of course I'll feed you.
Just let me make a note
of the coffee grinder in my diary.
Did I tell you
I started keeping a diary?
Have you ever kept one?
I suppose you wouldn't
being a dog.
still it's too bad.
They're a good fun.
You write in the diary
your very childhood thoughts and feelings.
Your most personal, special secrets.
Wanna hear some of these?
Okay, here it goes.
Here's a very special,
private, secret thought.
Wouldn't it be fun to figure out
a way to sew a button on a fried egg?
It's a really interesting problem.
Where is that needle and thread?
I hope we have enough eggs.
Everyone should keep a diary.
Dear diary:
today I must tell you
about a terrible time I've just had.
It started a few days ago
when I spent some time watching the Doozers.
Most Fraggles
don't care about Doozers.
They just want to eat
the Doozers buildings.
Hey, Boober,
I'll race you to the pool.
Okay.
You win.
The Doozers are really
kind of interesting.
If you watch them long enough.
TD learn to understand them.
Sometimes I'm alone
sitting on my very own
trying to find a simple
kind of clue.
And I would like to know
why the Doozers move me so
doing all the things
that Doozers do
Why the caterpillars crawl?
Why is there a sky?
Why is there a world at all?
Why do I ask "why"?
Ready.
Dump.
Here I go again.
Why do questions never end?
What keeps calling all day long to me?
Secrets come and go
I know we're not
the only ones
Sometimes magic,
sometimes only me.
Why the caterpillars crawl?
Why is there a sky?
Why is there a world at all?
Why do I ask "why"?
The way those litte fellows build
is just amazing.
They're coming back.
Gee, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to eat your tower.
It was very good.
Fraggles have always eaten
Doozer constructions.
And the Doozers work so hard
to build them.
TD that be right?
Hey Mockey, you should have seen
the belly flop Red did off the high rock
TD pool.
It was not a belly flop,
it was a graceful half gainer.
Wembley, do you think it's right
to eat Doozer constructions?
Huh?
I was just wondering.
Doozers are hard-working creatures
and they must love the things they build.
They build so many of them.
We Fraggles just come along
and eat them.
as if Doozer constructions
were worthless.
No, as if they were delicious.
Which they are.
The more I think about it
the more I know I'm right:
Fraggles should stop eating
Doozer constructions.
What has happened to Mockey?
The plug came out
and her brain drained away.
Mockey, you are silly.
There is no way you could make us
stop eating Doozer constructions.
I could always call for
the solemn oath of the Fraggle.
No! You wouldn't!
But that would mean
we would have to...
stop eating
Doozer constructions.
I have to go.
Hold it!
Let the oath be sworn.
The oath of the Fraggle
is one of our ancient
and unchangeable rituals.
It binds us together
in the great fragglehood of the rock.
Once one of us calls for the oath
the others have to swear to it.
Let's get it over with.
Shall we begin?
We,
Gobo
Mockey
Boober
Wenbley
and Red Fraggle
do solemnly swear never to willfully
eat or destroy Doozer buildings again.
Wonderful!
And so the oath was sworn.
Our TD was cast.
The Fraggle TD
to meet our destiny!
I just love diaries.
And so we, Fraggles begun anew.
Living our lives without destroying
Doozer buildings.
Of course, I had to be ever watchful.
The others were not as devoted as I.
Mockey, you don't have to follow us.
Wembley and I are just
going up to the first room
to get my uncle
Traveling Matt's mail.
TD Gobo always do that.
I just came along to exercise.
You just came along because you know
the Doozers built a big construction
up here yesterday.
It's not fair.
Look at these constructions.
They look delicious.
Don't be silly.
You both had really good TD
oranges for breakfast,
you don't need to eat
Doozer buildings,
Let me just never TD
It's been three days and
all I had to eat is food.
You swore the oath.
You called for the oath.
You could release us from it.
No!
Go on.
Go get uncle Matt's postcard.
How to sew a button to a fried egg.
That's just the sort of TD
that tickles my fantasy, Sprocket.
I can't get it out of my mind.
Now. If can just calculate
the surface tension of the egg
X times the square of Y
where Y stands for the oak tension
over the sum of the quotient
density of the white
plus... less the temperature
of the butter which is...
Don't be absurd, Sprocket.
You can't sew a button on a fried egg
with a can opener.
Oh, hi, Steve.
I'm trying to sew a button
on a fried egg.
What do you mean "why"?
I haven't even figured out how yet.
Well, maybe to fasten it to the toast
so it won't slide off.
That's why.
Silly questions.
It's another postcard
from my uncle Travelling Matt.
Read it. Maybe it'll take
my mind off how hungry I am.
Dear nephew Gobo.
This morning I was walking down a street
in this strange world,
I turned a corner and there I saw
something familiar.
Doozers!
They have Doozers in this world.
The biggest giant Doozers imaginable.
They were building
a wonderful Doozer construction.
Just looking at it
I grew so hungry I could hardly stand it.
I waited until I was alone
and then I prepared myself
for a feast.
But then I learnt something else
about this world.
The food is terrible!
Love, your uncle Travelling Matt.
I think that's just awful.
Even your uncle is trying
to destroy Doozer works.
We're gonna have to get him
to swear the...
What are you two doing?
Sorry, I forgot.
I forgot with him.
You're just terrible.
Why don't you give this up?
I will not.
I won't give it up until
all Fraggles stop eating Doozer buildings
forever.
Water will turn to sone
before that happens.
It will not.
Even if I have to get
the help of
Convincing John.
Convincing John!
Yes.
Convincing John
can convince anyone to do anything.
She wouldn't really get
Convincing John, would she?
Nobody would do a thing like that.
I think.
I knew it was a big step.
It is said that Convincing John
can convince the stones to change color.
But I knew my cause was just.
So I took Red with me
and went to find him.
Mockey, Convincing John
is the type of Fraggle
nobody goes to see.
What a nice man he is.
You can sort of see why
they call him Convincing John.
He convinced you to wear
plastic cups on your hands.
He made me see
what a sensible idea it was...
Besides, how would you know?
You're wearing a blindfold.
Of course. Convincing John
told me it was the only—
only way to live.
- Are you all right?
- Sure.
Anyway, the important thing is
that he's going to come and talk
to all the Fraggles.
Soon Doozer buildings
will be safe forever.
On word!
- Are you sure you're all right?
- Sure.
So the very next day
we called a town meeting.
Hey, Mockey!
Yes, yes.
Let's get this thing started.
Isn't it exciting?
Mr. John!
Are you ready?
He'll be ready,
just get started.
Oh, yes.
Red, go introduce me.
Then I'll have to do it myself.
My fellow Fraggles,
today I bring to you
a Fraggle with a message for the world.
A message that I believe,
in all modesty,
is a great one.
Please, join me
in a warm TD applause for...
in a warm cheer
for Convincing John.
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
He's gonna tell it
spell it, sell it, just for you
Now listen to me, Fraggles,
give your Fraggle mouths a-waggle
you can chew a Doozer tower
till you're blue
but there's a mighty day a coming
when the food will hit your tummy
and you'll know that
what I'm telling you is true
so if you want to get ahold
of something extra good as gold
you gotta stop and give a thought
to what you do
never eat another tower
till I tell you what it's doing to you
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
Well you eat a Doozer tower
and it's as pretty as a flower
and a flower's what you pick up in a field
but the field can have a hole
and you can fall in while you stroll
and a Gorg can come along
to find a meal
and he can pack you in a sack
and you can try to scramble back
but then you'll never, ever, ever get free
'cause every time you eat a tower
you'll be shut up for eternity
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
He's gonna tell it, spell it,
sell it just for you
And if you wanna hear a story
that is horrible and gory
let me tell you
about a Fraggle I knew
he was sitting on a byway
eating up a Doozer highway
in a way
a hungry Fraggle will do
And he started in a-changing
and he started rearranging
and I pomise you
this story is true
by the time he was done
he was a human being through and through.
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
He's gonna tell it,
spell it, sell it
(but don't eat it)
just for you
And so Convincing John
worked his magic
and a solemn Fraggle oath
was sworn.
We, all the Fraggles in the world,
do solemnly swear
never to eat
Doozer constructions again.
And so at last
the little Doozers
were left alone
to build their wonderful buildings
without interference.
Couldn't we interfere
just a little bit?
I wished we could,
they just built my guitar
into an overpass.
If you think that's bad,
my washtub is full of Doozer constructions.
Laundry as we know it
is a thing of the past.
It's the Fraggle horn.
Someone's calling a meeting.
I wonder what
it could be about.
Maybe
they want to thank me.
I have called this meeting
because of Miss Mockey Fraggle.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you, shmank you.
You've made a mess of things
here today.
Admit it and release us
from the solemn oath.
Never!
You are all just heartless.
You don't understand.
I'm the only one that truely cares
about the happiness of the Doozers.
Doozers shmuzers!
What about Fraggles!
Fraggles schmaggles!
If you don't appreciate me
I'll just go find someone who does.
Well, dear Diary,
I was so angry!
I had worked hard to do the right thing
and nobody appreciated me.
So I went to find the Doozers.
I knew they would appreciate
what I had done
and then I found some Doozers.
I don't wanna leave.
None of us do, dear.
But Doozers have to build
and soon there'll be no more space left
in Fraggle Rock.
But why mommy Doozer?
No one knows.
The Fraggles have become heartless.
If they will not eat the constructions
be must move on or we will die.
For the first time
I understood.
Time to go.
Say good-bye to Fraggle Rock.
It was really hard
doing what I had to do next.
Mockey Fraggle has something to say
to all of us.
I thought I understood Doozers
but I didn't and I was wrong.
I'm sorry.
That's very nice, Mockey,
but there is one other thing.
Oh, yes.
You are all released from your solemn vow
not to eat Doozer buildings.
Now listen to me, Fraggles,
give your Fraggle mouths a-waggle
you can starve yourself
until you turn blue ??
but there's a mighty day a coming
when your tummy will be humming
and you'll know that
what I'm telling you is true
so if you want to get ahold
of something extra good as gold
you gotta stop and give a thought
to what you do
you got to eat a Doozer tower
'cause the tower really wants you to
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
Wait, they are eating!
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
he's gonna tell it, spell it,
sell it (they're yummy) just for you.
Well, dear Diary,
it's not easy to understand
other people's problems
but it's very easy to think you do.
I also learnt
something else today:
There is such a thing as eating
too many Doozer constructions.
Your friend, Mockey.
You'll ruin your teeth, Sprocket.
You should use a can opener.
I know I haven't given you
your breakfast yet
but I'll be right with you.
Just let me write down the method
for sewing a button on a fried egg.
It's easy, Diary.
You just freeze the egg solid,
drill a couple of holes
and sew on the button.
Isn't that a great solution?
Oh, yeah, breakfast.
It'll TD in a few minutes.
And don't eat the button.
The most important meal of the day.
I'll tell you what, Sprockey.
I'll open a can of food for you.
Go find your dish.
TD
I must build myself
a coffee grinder or something.
All right.
Of course I'll feed you.
Just let me make a note
of the coffee grinder in my diary.
Did I tell you
I started keeping a diary?
Have you ever kept one?
I suppose you wouldn't
being a dog.
still it's too bad.
They're a good fun.
You write in the diary
your very childhood thoughts and feelings.
Your most personal, special secrets.
Wanna hear some of these?
Okay, here it goes.
Here's a very special,
private, secret thought.
Wouldn't it be fun to figure out
a way to sew a button on a fried egg?
It's a really interesting problem.
Where is that needle and thread?
I hope we have enough eggs.
Everyone should keep a diary.
Dear diary:
today I must tell you
about a terrible time I've just had.
It started a few days ago
when I spent some time watching the Doozers.
Most Fraggles
don't care about Doozers.
They just want to eat
the Doozers buildings.
Hey, Boober,
I'll race you to the pool.
Okay.
You win.
The Doozers are really
kind of interesting.
If you watch them long enough.
TD learn to understand them.
Sometimes I'm alone
sitting on my very own
trying to find a simple
kind of clue.
And I would like to know
why the Doozers move me so
doing all the things
that Doozers do
Why the caterpillars crawl?
Why is there a sky?
Why is there a world at all?
Why do I ask "why"?
Ready.
Dump.
Here I go again.
Why do questions never end?
What keeps calling all day long to me?
Secrets come and go
I know we're not
the only ones
Sometimes magic,
sometimes only me.
Why the caterpillars crawl?
Why is there a sky?
Why is there a world at all?
Why do I ask "why"?
The way those litte fellows build
is just amazing.
They're coming back.
Gee, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to eat your tower.
It was very good.
Fraggles have always eaten
Doozer constructions.
And the Doozers work so hard
to build them.
TD that be right?
Hey Mockey, you should have seen
the belly flop Red did off the high rock
TD pool.
It was not a belly flop,
it was a graceful half gainer.
Wembley, do you think it's right
to eat Doozer constructions?
Huh?
I was just wondering.
Doozers are hard-working creatures
and they must love the things they build.
They build so many of them.
We Fraggles just come along
and eat them.
as if Doozer constructions
were worthless.
No, as if they were delicious.
Which they are.
The more I think about it
the more I know I'm right:
Fraggles should stop eating
Doozer constructions.
What has happened to Mockey?
The plug came out
and her brain drained away.
Mockey, you are silly.
There is no way you could make us
stop eating Doozer constructions.
I could always call for
the solemn oath of the Fraggle.
No! You wouldn't!
But that would mean
we would have to...
stop eating
Doozer constructions.
I have to go.
Hold it!
Let the oath be sworn.
The oath of the Fraggle
is one of our ancient
and unchangeable rituals.
It binds us together
in the great fragglehood of the rock.
Once one of us calls for the oath
the others have to swear to it.
Let's get it over with.
Shall we begin?
We,
Gobo
Mockey
Boober
Wenbley
and Red Fraggle
do solemnly swear never to willfully
eat or destroy Doozer buildings again.
Wonderful!
And so the oath was sworn.
Our TD was cast.
The Fraggle TD
to meet our destiny!
I just love diaries.
And so we, Fraggles begun anew.
Living our lives without destroying
Doozer buildings.
Of course, I had to be ever watchful.
The others were not as devoted as I.
Mockey, you don't have to follow us.
Wembley and I are just
going up to the first room
to get my uncle
Traveling Matt's mail.
TD Gobo always do that.
I just came along to exercise.
You just came along because you know
the Doozers built a big construction
up here yesterday.
It's not fair.
Look at these constructions.
They look delicious.
Don't be silly.
You both had really good TD
oranges for breakfast,
you don't need to eat
Doozer buildings,
Let me just never TD
It's been three days and
all I had to eat is food.
You swore the oath.
You called for the oath.
You could release us from it.
No!
Go on.
Go get uncle Matt's postcard.
How to sew a button to a fried egg.
That's just the sort of TD
that tickles my fantasy, Sprocket.
I can't get it out of my mind.
Now. If can just calculate
the surface tension of the egg
X times the square of Y
where Y stands for the oak tension
over the sum of the quotient
density of the white
plus... less the temperature
of the butter which is...
Don't be absurd, Sprocket.
You can't sew a button on a fried egg
with a can opener.
Oh, hi, Steve.
I'm trying to sew a button
on a fried egg.
What do you mean "why"?
I haven't even figured out how yet.
Well, maybe to fasten it to the toast
so it won't slide off.
That's why.
Silly questions.
It's another postcard
from my uncle Travelling Matt.
Read it. Maybe it'll take
my mind off how hungry I am.
Dear nephew Gobo.
This morning I was walking down a street
in this strange world,
I turned a corner and there I saw
something familiar.
Doozers!
They have Doozers in this world.
The biggest giant Doozers imaginable.
They were building
a wonderful Doozer construction.
Just looking at it
I grew so hungry I could hardly stand it.
I waited until I was alone
and then I prepared myself
for a feast.
But then I learnt something else
about this world.
The food is terrible!
Love, your uncle Travelling Matt.
I think that's just awful.
Even your uncle is trying
to destroy Doozer works.
We're gonna have to get him
to swear the...
What are you two doing?
Sorry, I forgot.
I forgot with him.
You're just terrible.
Why don't you give this up?
I will not.
I won't give it up until
all Fraggles stop eating Doozer buildings
forever.
Water will turn to sone
before that happens.
It will not.
Even if I have to get
the help of
Convincing John.
Convincing John!
Yes.
Convincing John
can convince anyone to do anything.
She wouldn't really get
Convincing John, would she?
Nobody would do a thing like that.
I think.
I knew it was a big step.
It is said that Convincing John
can convince the stones to change color.
But I knew my cause was just.
So I took Red with me
and went to find him.
Mockey, Convincing John
is the type of Fraggle
nobody goes to see.
What a nice man he is.
You can sort of see why
they call him Convincing John.
He convinced you to wear
plastic cups on your hands.
He made me see
what a sensible idea it was...
Besides, how would you know?
You're wearing a blindfold.
Of course. Convincing John
told me it was the only—
only way to live.
- Are you all right?
- Sure.
Anyway, the important thing is
that he's going to come and talk
to all the Fraggles.
Soon Doozer buildings
will be safe forever.
On word!
- Are you sure you're all right?
- Sure.
So the very next day
we called a town meeting.
Hey, Mockey!
Yes, yes.
Let's get this thing started.
Isn't it exciting?
Mr. John!
Are you ready?
He'll be ready,
just get started.
Oh, yes.
Red, go introduce me.
Then I'll have to do it myself.
My fellow Fraggles,
today I bring to you
a Fraggle with a message for the world.
A message that I believe,
in all modesty,
is a great one.
Please, join me
in a warm TD applause for...
in a warm cheer
for Convincing John.
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
He's gonna tell it
spell it, sell it, just for you
Now listen to me, Fraggles,
give your Fraggle mouths a-waggle
you can chew a Doozer tower
till you're blue
but there's a mighty day a coming
when the food will hit your tummy
and you'll know that
what I'm telling you is true
so if you want to get ahold
of something extra good as gold
you gotta stop and give a thought
to what you do
never eat another tower
till I tell you what it's doing to you
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
Well you eat a Doozer tower
and it's as pretty as a flower
and a flower's what you pick up in a field
but the field can have a hole
and you can fall in while you stroll
and a Gorg can come along
to find a meal
and he can pack you in a sack
and you can try to scramble back
but then you'll never, ever, ever get free
'cause every time you eat a tower
you'll be shut up for eternity
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
He's gonna tell it, spell it,
sell it just for you
And if you wanna hear a story
that is horrible and gory
let me tell you
about a Fraggle I knew
he was sitting on a byway
eating up a Doozer highway
in a way
a hungry Fraggle will do
And he started in a-changing
and he started rearranging
and I pomise you
this story is true
by the time he was done
he was a human being through and through.
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
He's gonna tell it,
spell it, sell it
(but don't eat it)
just for you
And so Convincing John
worked his magic
and a solemn Fraggle oath
was sworn.
We, all the Fraggles in the world,
do solemnly swear
never to eat
Doozer constructions again.
And so at last
the little Doozers
were left alone
to build their wonderful buildings
without interference.
Couldn't we interfere
just a little bit?
I wished we could,
they just built my guitar
into an overpass.
If you think that's bad,
my washtub is full of Doozer constructions.
Laundry as we know it
is a thing of the past.
It's the Fraggle horn.
Someone's calling a meeting.
I wonder what
it could be about.
Maybe
they want to thank me.
I have called this meeting
because of Miss Mockey Fraggle.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you, shmank you.
You've made a mess of things
here today.
Admit it and release us
from the solemn oath.
Never!
You are all just heartless.
You don't understand.
I'm the only one that truely cares
about the happiness of the Doozers.
Doozers shmuzers!
What about Fraggles!
Fraggles schmaggles!
If you don't appreciate me
I'll just go find someone who does.
Well, dear Diary,
I was so angry!
I had worked hard to do the right thing
and nobody appreciated me.
So I went to find the Doozers.
I knew they would appreciate
what I had done
and then I found some Doozers.
I don't wanna leave.
None of us do, dear.
But Doozers have to build
and soon there'll be no more space left
in Fraggle Rock.
But why mommy Doozer?
No one knows.
The Fraggles have become heartless.
If they will not eat the constructions
be must move on or we will die.
For the first time
I understood.
Time to go.
Say good-bye to Fraggle Rock.
It was really hard
doing what I had to do next.
Mockey Fraggle has something to say
to all of us.
I thought I understood Doozers
but I didn't and I was wrong.
I'm sorry.
That's very nice, Mockey,
but there is one other thing.
Oh, yes.
You are all released from your solemn vow
not to eat Doozer buildings.
Now listen to me, Fraggles,
give your Fraggle mouths a-waggle
you can starve yourself
until you turn blue ??
but there's a mighty day a coming
when your tummy will be humming
and you'll know that
what I'm telling you is true
so if you want to get ahold
of something extra good as gold
you gotta stop and give a thought
to what you do
you got to eat a Doozer tower
'cause the tower really wants you to
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
Wait, they are eating!
Listen to Convincing John
and all your troubles will be gone
he's gonna tell it, spell it,
sell it (they're yummy) just for you.
Well, dear Diary,
it's not easy to understand
other people's problems
but it's very easy to think you do.
I also learnt
something else today:
There is such a thing as eating
too many Doozer constructions.
Your friend, Mockey.
You'll ruin your teeth, Sprocket.
You should use a can opener.
I know I haven't given you
your breakfast yet
but I'll be right with you.
Just let me write down the method
for sewing a button on a fried egg.
It's easy, Diary.
You just freeze the egg solid,
drill a couple of holes
and sew on the button.
Isn't that a great solution?
Oh, yeah, breakfast.
It'll TD in a few minutes.
And don't eat the button.