Gobo's hats

During the early planning stages of Fraggle Rock, Michael K. Frith's original design for Gobo Fraggle had noted that one of the costume options was to be a collection of hats. While the character didn't have such a collection during the first production period of the series, he eventually began to display a fondness for headwear halfway through the first season. 
The collection is never mentioned directly, though Gobo's hats have shown to be vital for plot purposes. In "The Grapes of Generosity" he utilizes a hat as a means to hide the titular fruit, while in "Gobo's School for Explorers" his hat is converted into a parachute to aid Red and himself in a dangerous situation. 
The hat collection is made more evident in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, mainly as a decoration for Gobo and Wembley's room. For the pilot episode, he ponders how many fancy hats he should bring while going to the Crevice of Solitude. In the following episode, "Red and the Big Jump," he boosts his confidence while going into Outer Space by telling himself, "You're brave, you're quick, you look cute in a hat..."
Late in the original series, during the episode "Mokey, Then and Now," it is revealed that Gobo's name has its origin connected to head coverings. In the language of the Ancient Fraggles, the word "Gobo" meant "Take off your hat!"
==Fraggle Rock==
===Season 1===
Picture	Episode 	Notes
 	Episode 102: Wembley and the Gorgs 	Cymbal-helmet.
 	Episode 111: Catch the Tail by the Tiger	Ceremonial outer space hat.
 	Episode 113: We Love You, Wembley 	Bowler hat with yellow feather.
 	Episode 114: The Challenge 	Same as "We Love You, Wembley," but without the feather.
 	Episode 120: The Garden Plot 	Spiky-brimmed childhood hat in the "Muck and Goo" flashback.
In the episode "Gobo's Discovery," Gobo is seen as a young Fraggle in a flashback, wearing the same hat.
===Season 2===
Picture	Episode / First Appearance 	Notes
 	Episode 204: Red's Sea Monster 	Gobo wears a bonnet with a shark-like fin attached to it while swimming, tricking Red as if he were the titular monster.
 	Episode 210: A Friend in Need 	Purple knit winter cap with yellow and green pom-poms. This hat fell off near Sprocket during a failed attempt to push him out of the Fraggle hole. This leads to Gobo's friends believing that the "hairy monster" ate him. They consider burying the hat in his stead.
Gobo also wears it in "The Bells of Fraggle Rock," "Blanket of Snow, Blanket of Woe," Muppet Family Christmas, "The Legend of Icy Joe," and "Night of the Lights."
 	Episode 215: Manny's Land of Carpets 	Brown and grey felt cap.
 	Episode 218: The Day the Music Died 	Flat striped hat.
 	Episode 220: A Cave of One's Own 	Wicker crown. The crown is on a shelf in the next episode, "Wembley and the Great Race", but it isn't worn.
 	Episode 224: The Invasion of the Toe Ticklers	An explorer's hat.
===Season 3===
Picture	Episode 	Notes
 	Episode 302: Red-Handed and the Invisible Thief 	For most of the episode, Gobo wears a green hat with red and white stripes and two tassels.
 	Episode 302: Red-Handed and the Invisible Thief 	When keeping watch for who may have been "stealing" Red's radish bars, he wears a rock disguise hat.
 	Episode 303: Boober and the Glob 	A Joke Day top hat with a loose green ribbon and two large purple feathers.
 	Episode 304: The Grapes of Generosity 	A nightcap-like floppy hat with stripes and a tassel. At one point in the episode, Gobo hides The Grapes of Generosity underneath his hat from Mokey, making it appear to stand up.
 	Episode 305: Blanket of Snow, Blanket of Woe 	For most of the episode, it is the same hat as "A Friend In Need" with the exception of one scene, where Gobo and Mokey are inside the Gorgs' kitchen and Gobo's knit winter cap inexplicably changes coloration to a hat with more green and yellow than before. This was likely done so that the hat could work better with the chroma key. It changes back to his initial hat when they run back out into the garden.
 	Episode 309: Wembley and the Mean Genie 	Red hat with white stripes and a purple tassel.
 	Episode 310: The Secret Society of Poohbahs 	Poohbah hat.
 	Episode 311: The Beanbarrow, the Burden and the Bright Bouquet	A yellow backwards baseball cap.
 	Episode 311: The Beanbarrow, the Burden and the Bright Bouquet	During the Beanbarrow race, Gobo wears a flower crown over the baseball cap to keep the Clinging Creepers away.
 	Episode 312: Gobo's School for Explorers 	Same as "The Invasion of the Toe Ticklers."
 	Episode 312: Gobo's School for Explorers 	This episode reveals that this hat can be converted into a parachute. This saves Gobo and Red's lives when they drop down the Hole to Who-Knows-Where.
 	Episode 313: Scared Silly 	A brown hat.
 	Episode 314: The Great Radish Caper 	A pointy grey and green hat with a reddish tassel.
 	Episode 315: Born to Wander 	A brown cowboy hat with red, green, and yellow round beads dangling off the back on ribbons.
 	Episode 317: Playing Till It Hurts 	A Rock Hockey helmet.
 	Episode 317: Playing Till It Hurts 	For most of the episode, Gobo wears his Rock Hockey coach hoodie's hood over the helmet.
 	Episode 318: Bored Stiff 	A bowl must be worn on the head while dancing and singing "Whoops! Feelin' Better!" in order to cure boredom caused by Boredom Juice. As such, Gobo wears a bowl on his head that was formerly home to Boober's radish dip when he has to cure Junior Gorg.
 	Episode 319: The Cavern of Lost Dreams 	Same as "Born to Wander."
 	Episode 321: A Dark and Stormy Night 	Black hat with stiff, shiny beads sewn into its brim.
===Season 4===
Picture	Episode 	Notes
 	Episode 402: Wembley's Wonderful Whoopie Water	A purple party hat with a yellow zigzag and red and white sunburst-like paper cut-out attached to its front.
 	Episode 404: Uncle Matt's Discovery 	Yellow cowboy hat.
 	Episode 406: A Tune for Two 	A square-shaped hat with black, white, and red stripes, reddish fuzzy furnishings, and a purple tassel.
 	Episode 407: The Perfect Blue Rollie 	A spiral-patterned hat with a feather-like red brush attached to it.
 	Episode 412: Space Frog Follies 	Insect costume hat.
===Season 5===
Picture	Episode 	Notes
 	Episode 502: The Riddle of Rhyming Rock 	Brown and grey striped cylindrical hat.
 	Episode 503: The Voice Inside 	For the song "You're On Your Own," Gobo puts on and dances with a dapper wicker hat with red stitches around the base of the brim.
 	Episode 504: The Trial of Cotterpin Doozer	Raccoon-skin cap.
==Fraggle Rock (animated)==
Picture	Episode 	Notes
 	"The Great Radish Round Up"	Gobo proposes using hat talk to tell the radishes to come home. He and the Fraggles sing "Without a Hat" while they craft their own hats.
==Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock==
===Season 1===
Picture	Episode 	Notes
 	Episode 101: Pilot 	Like the others, Gobo wears a radish hat during the party celebrating his Uncle Matt.
 	Episode 101: Pilot 	For the adventure to the Crevice of Solitude, he chooses a hat to wear from his hat collection in his room. It includes a tan cowboy hat and the hat from "A Dark and Stormy Night".
 	Episode 101: Pilot 	Other hats in Gobo's collection are a sun hat with fuzzy blue trim, the hat from "The Riddle of Rhyming Rock," a floppy hat similar to the one from "The Grapes of Generosity" but with a green tassel instead of red, a pink and purple striped hat, and a shiny green hat.
 	Episode 101: Pilot 	He ends up wearing a pith helmet like his Uncle's. The helmet gets lost in the collapse of the rock.
 	Episode 103: The Merggle Moon Migration	Same as "The Grapes of Generosity."
===Season 2===
Picture	Episode 	Notes
 	Episode 201: The Great Wind 	Same as "The Grapes of Generosity."
 	Episode 206: Mezzo: Live in Concert	A Mezzo-branded rainbow-colored brimmed hat with a star resembling what Mezzo wears over her eye on the right side, ribbons, and curly pipe cleaners in red, green, blue, yellow, and pink.
 	Episode 209: The Great Radish Ball 	Cylindrical hat made to resemble a radish, complete with leaves.
 	Episode 210: Fraggle Up 	A woven helmet for protection from falling debris while digging.
==Honorable Mentions==
Picture	Episode 	Notes
 	Episode 107: I Want to Be You 	A red pirate hat with a purple feather belonging to Doc and Sprocket was thrown onto Gobo's head.
 	Back to the Rock Episode 108: Craggle Lagoon	Swim goggles and a snorkel.
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