Unproduced Fraggle Rock episodes

Concepts for episodes of Fraggle Rock that were ultimately unused.
==Scripted==
The following exist in script form as a part of the Dennis Lee and David Young collections at the University of Toronto.
*"Boober Gets Normal" by David Young David Young Papers, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
:Boober wants to be "a normal Fraggle" and gets Sidebottom to teach him how. Sidebottom tells him to always "Do the opposite of what you feel." Boober adopts a new persona named Warm Norm who wears a tea cosy on his head and sounds "like a cross between a life insurance salesman and Ronald Reagan." He bravely ventures into The Gorgs' Garden and gets caught in a trap. He learns to listen to his own feelings. Meanwhile, Uncle Traveling Matt visits a turkey farm and dresses up to fit in with the turkeys. He hopes he will fit in well enough to be included in their upcoming Thanksgiving festivities! Doc prepares to host the Royal Society of Castle Owners at The Captain's Inn and worries that he won't fit in with such distinguished guests. He dresses as a Beefeater and grooms Sprocket to look like a greyhound. He ends up sticking out like a sore thumb because the castle owners are all perfectly ordinary people.
*"The Fan Club" by Carol Bolt Dennis Lee Papers, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
:Red starts a fan club for Fraggle opera singer Incredio de la Fantastica. All the Fraggles compete to be president; Wembley wins, despite not wanting the job. It turns out that Incredio can't sing; he just sells autographed pictures. Meanwhile, Doc wants Sprocket to enter a pet show.
*"Food for Thought" by David Young
:Boober is preparing a feast, and sends Red, Marlon, and Large Marvin to collect food. Red takes the last bongo bean from the Gorgs' Garden, which Ma wanted for her Queen of the Universe fruitcake, so Pa makes Junior seal up the Fraggle hole. Fearing a food shortage, Red, Marlon, and Large Marvin collect way too many Doozer sticks -- and so does everybody else. This causes the Doozers to step up production. The Gorgs, seeing the radishes disappearing underground, pull them up. The hoarded Doozer sticks start to rot; they're not meant to be piled up like this. The Fraggles have caused the very famine they feared. The Gorgs realize they don't have any loyal subjects to feed, and Junior misses the Fraggles; he unseals the hole and everybody shares fruitcake. Meanwhile, Doc tries to get people in town to care about world hunger. People start bringing him so much food that he has nowhere to put it all. He ends up giving it all to a nearby homeless shelter; there are hungry people everywhere, even in the midst of plenty. (Note: Doc's real name, Jerome Crystal, is spoken in this episode.)
*"Huckleberry Fraggle"/"The Lonely River" by Sugith Varughese
:Gobo and Mokey explore an underground river, and both learn to appreciate each other's strengths. Meanwhile, Doc shows Sprocket his microscope.
*"The Name of the Game" by Rachel Wyatt
:Gobo finds Sprocket's soccer ball and tries to get the Fraggles to play soccer, creating conflict among them. Meanwhile, Doc builds a monster vacuum cleaner.
*"Pennies from Heaven" by David Young
:Uncle Matt sends Gobo a package containing a handful of coins (he traded all his clothes to some kids for them). Hearing how great money is, all the Fraggles want to play the game of trading treasure for Gobo's magic discs. The arbitrary values that Gobo sets for the coins start a whole process of Fraggles assigning values to items in the Rock, disagreeing over who owns what, and offering to bribe Gobo for the last coin. Red decides that she owns the swimming hole, and Gobo should pay her if he ever wants to use it again. In the end, Gobo throws the coins back into Outer Space. Meanwhile, Ned Shimmelfinney plans to let a billboard company put up a big sign in his side yard that will block Doc's view of the seashore. He offers Doc a cut of the proceeds; is it worth it? (Note: similar themes would be explored decades later in the Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock episode "This for That.")
*"Rotten Radishes" by Susan Martin and Barbara O'Kelly
:Red accidentally starts a war against the Gorgs. While Junior is soldiering, the radishes rot in the garden. Meanwhile, Doc tries to improve his golf game.
*"Trusty" by Dennis Lee and David Young
:An evil shape-changer disguises himself as a Fraggle named Trusty and sows discord amongst the Fraggles during a cave cactus picking contest. Meanwhile, Doc and Sprocket get carried away trying to win a dog food contest.
*"Wembley and the Blubber Beast" by David Young
:Wembley, ashamed of being a "little guy" who cries, vows never to cry again, and gets a lot of other Fraggles to do the same. This saddens the Blubber Beast, a giant sea sponge who lives in Weeping Rock Grotto (and whom legend says will cry for you if you don't cry yourself). The Blubber Beast starts crying, thinking that Fraggles will never cry again, and his tears threaten to flood Fraggle Rock. The Blubber Beast teaches Wembley that laughing and crying are two sides of the same coin. Meanwhile, Uncle Matt sees Silly Creatures emerging from a cinema playing a sad movie, and thinks it's a "crying cave." Doc doesn't want any more bad news, so he cuts it all out of the newspaper, turns off the radio, closes the window, and puts cotton in his ears.
*"What You Give is What You Get" by David Young
:While gathering cave coconuts, Red realizes that she isn't good at sharing. Trying to correct this, she goes to the Gorgs' Garden to collect a huge load of radishes for Boober. Once every generation, the Gorgs raise an ancient time capsule, take out one item, and put one item in. It's Junior's turn to put something in, and he chooses Red! She convinces him to use a cave coconut instead. Meanwhile, Doc turns sixty and ponders his legacy. He decides to plant an acorn. (Note: We learn that one Gorg ancestor was called King Nog the Nasty. He was such a selfish ruler that all his subjects moved away, leaving Fraggles as his only remaining constituents.)
==Other==
*An episode was suggested in which Red and Mokey "[fight] over a boyfriend." Karen Prell argued against such a plotline.Fraggle Rock: The Ultimate Visual History page 145
*David Young wrote a handwritten outline for an episode called "Moonlighting," in which it is revealed that Marjory the Trash Heap gets her powers by going into a trance during the full moon. Nobody wants to play music with Marlon, so he brings Philo and Gunge into the Rock to help him, and Marjory loses her powers without them around. The episode ends with Philo and Gunge leading Marjory in ritual celebration under the full moon with lots of Fraggles in attendance. Meanwhile, Shimmelfinney organizes a neighborhood pet show, and Doc enters Sprocket to beat Fluffinella. Both are defeated by a shaved mouse who walks on a tightrope.
*David Young proposed a story idea called "Red Gets Sent to Coventry," in which Red is ostracized because of her friendship with Cotterpin Doozer. She must decide between loyalty and peer pressure.
==See also==
*Unfinished Fraggle Rock spin-offs
==Sources==
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