Episode 214: The Secret of Convincing John

Wembley's indecisiveness leads to an accident, so Gobo encourages him to go to Convincing John -- the world's most persuasive Fraggle -- to learn how to be more decisive. Convincing John teaches Wembley self-confidence, but the new Wembley (renaming himself "Wilfred") is a bossy, obnoxious Fraggle who turns off all his friends.
Meanwhile, Doc takes on a more positive attitude as he tries to fix his pipes.
==Fraggle Facts==
*Convincing John is prepared for anything. When he helps Wembley, he even pulls out a 50-year-old Doozer stick from the legendary Tooth Tower, a tower so sweet that it had to be locked away because it drove Fraggles crazy, and a slice of mossmelon, the rarest and sweetest fruit in Fraggle Rock that can only be harvested every hundred years.
==Notes==
*The lyrics for "The Clown Concerto" and "A Tiger and a Terror" were written by the episode's writer, B.P. Nichol.
==International versions==
*UK version: The Captain is inspired by a repair manual to fix more things by himself. When he notices that there's no water coming from his faucet, he decides to fix them. Sprocket has been using his tongue to lick stamps for the Captain, just like in the Canadian version, but in the UK version he is more upset about not getting anything to drink. When the Captain is looking around in the hole in the floor, he finds a large bone he thinks might have belonged to Sprocket. Uncle Traveling Matt's postcard is the same as in the Canadian version, but as usual in the UK version, features an instrumental version of All Around the World in the background. Near the end, the Captain finally decides to call the Waterboard, and his dialogue plays out similarly to the Canadian version. Sprocket is very desperate for a drink by now, and the Captain says he hasn't even got any milk in the lighthouse. He then decides that they should get some from an old well. Before they leave, he turns off both of the taps in case the waterboard suddenly turns the water back on. At that moment, water bursts from the hole in the floor and Sprocket jumps forward to drink from it. The Captain also jumps into the hole and soon both are soaking wet.
*German version: Uncle Matt's postcard in the German version is the sequence about marionettes in San Francisco that was seen in the Canadian version of Episode 112: The Finger of Light.
==Supporting cast==
*Convincing John (Jim Henson)
*Fragglettes (Kathy Mullen, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz -- speaking voices)
==Songs==
*"The Clown Concerto"
*"A Tiger and a Terror"
*"Choose-Right (Up-Tight Move-Now) Blues"
==Video releases==
*Fraggle Rock: Complete Second Season (HIT!, 2006)
*Fraggle Rock: Complete Series Collection (HIT!, 2008)
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