Episode 206: Boober's Dream

Boober is plagued in his dreams by Sidebottom, his playful side that he keeps on the bottom. Boober tries to repress this dangerous, uncontrollable side of himself, so Sidebottom enlists Boober's friends in a bid for a permanent identity.
Meanwhile, Doc has a recurring dream revolving around the Fraggles and the Doozers.
==Fraggle Facts==
* Fraggles can share each other's dreams. All they have to do is fall asleep with their heads touching and say, "Dream a dream and see / What a dream can be." Then, they can enter one dream. There's even a whole song dedicated to the ritual.
* A game the Fraggles play is Fraggle Freeze, their version of freeze tag.
==Notes==
* Sidebottom, who appears for the first time in this episode, makes other appearances in "Boober's Quiet Day" and "Sidebottom Blues."
* Another Henson fantasy world makes a cameo in this episode -- in Uncle Matt's postcard, he mentions visiting a drive-in, where The Dark Crystal is being shown. He sees a couple of brief clips of the movie.
* A View-Master reel was produced by Fisher-Price called "Boober's Dream," illustrating the story of this episode with stereoscopic photos.
* Doc reads in a dream analysis book that "...little creatures that high that are green and wear helmets are symbols of work and creativity." This is an obvious reference to the Doozers.
* At the end of the episode, Doc refers to the Fraggles he saw in his dream as "silly creatures," the same term Matt Fraggle uses to refer to humans and most other "outer space" lifeforms. This illustrates the show's premise of how things are seen from different perspectives.
* When this episode was released on the second season DVD, it displayed the newer "Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock" logo and the on-screen episode title, as used from the HIT Entertainment video release of "Down in Fraggle Rock." However, while this is retained on the Amazon release of the episode, the iTunes release uses the original logo and lacks the episode title.
==International versions==
*UK version: The Captain wakes from a nightmare and describes seeing a terrible "wee furry creature with huge staring eyes." Gobo overhears this and counters, "Huh, he can talk!" Sprocket makes a connection between the dream and the hole in the wall, but the Captain goes on to reveal that he saw the shadow of a sinister-looking man. He's sure it was Mr. Bertwhistle, the owner of the lighthouse, who once tried to evict the Captain and Sprocket from the lighthouse. Percy, the postman, arrives earlier than usual. The Captain becomes worried again when a letter from Bertwhistle arrives and recounts that the furry creatures in his dream were swimming. In Uncle Matt's Postcard, he wanders into an amusement park and goes to sleep in a box car of a ghost train attraction. He wakes up inside a haunted house and is very scared. David Barclay is seen sharing the box car with Matt (and is puppeteering him in several shots). The Captain finally reads the letter and is relieved to learn that Bertwhistle is asking them to look after his niece's two pet gerbils during a holiday. The Captain concludes that the creatures he saw in his bad dream must have been gerbils.
==Supporting cast==
*Sidebottom (Dave Goelz)
*Flying Whoopie Cushion (John Pattison)
==Songs==
*"Everybody's Doin' It"
*"Dream a Dream (and See)"
*"Party Hard (Who Knows What You See)"
==Video releases==
*Down in Fraggle Rock (HIT!, 2006)
*Fraggle Rock: Complete Second Season (HIT!, 2006)
*Fraggle Rock: Complete Series Collection (HIT!, 2008)
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