Fraggles on TV's Family Guy

[Foodie]

Family Guy isn't much of a show anyway. Sometimes it cracks me up and sometimes it's just lame. My whole beef is that I don't like it when somet one has to add some negative spin to an otherwise good thing to make it palatible for public consumption. For instance, I didn't at all appreciate Hal Sparks' comment on VH-1's " I Love The 80's " or whatever it's called when he said Fraggle Rock was something to the extent of " puppets on pot ". That gives the impressionable and ignorant minds out there ( and unfortunately there's far too many of these types ) the wrong message. Some people really can't distinguish between what's said in jest and what's true. People in the media need to take more care in what they say to the public. People like the Howard Sterns and Rush Limbaughs. They won't ever do that though and will hide behind their " freedon of speech b.s. " but this is how I feel about the matter all the same.

 

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

I agree.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Family Guy isn't much of a show anyway. My whole beef is that I don't like it when somet one has to add some negative spin to an otherwise good thing to make it palatible for public consumption. For instance, I didn't at all appreciate Hal Sparks' comment on VH-1's " I Love The 80's " or whatever it's called when he said Fraggle Rock was something to the extent of " puppets on pot ".

I liked most of Hal Sparks' remarks on "I Luv the '80s" except for the one about Fraggle Rock. Though I can kinda understand, he was probably a teenager when the show was first on. No reason he would have understood it.

I totally agree about the negative spin in the media. The whole attitude is making this a much darker society. I just don't put Family Guy in that category. It's a very witty show.

 

[Teheheman]

Personally, I watch Fraggle Rock and some of the shows that I watched when I was a little kid, and I think "Why did I watch that? It's just too strange" I think that Hal was coming from the fact that, if you watch it now as an adult, you really don't get the lessons that the show provides, so you think that somebody was smokin something when they made the show. My point was that in that time period, everybody was on something.
I agree that Family Guy should only do Fraggle Rock references every once in a while. There are too many 70s-90's shows to make fun of. Like Turtles, and some of the Disney cartoons.

Daniel

 

[Foodie]

Personally, I watch Fraggle Rock and some of the shows that I watched when I was a little kid, and I think "Why did I watch that? It's just too strange" I think that Hal was coming from the fact that, if you watch it now as an adult, you really don't get the lessons that the show provides, so you think that somebody was smokin something when they made the show. My point was that in that time period, everybody was on something.
I agree that Family Guy should only do Fraggle Rock references every once in a while. There are too many 70s-90's shows to make fun of. Like Turtles, and some of the Disney cartoons.

Daniel

Welp, as somebody somewhere says or has said or might say in this instance, " to each their own ".


Nick

 

[Morgan Clueless]

Y'know, I was thinking of ideas for FR references in Family Guy--most of them involving some sort of ref. to the episode Boober's dream--and I came down to these admittedly strange and weird ones:

• Stewie talks to Brian about a weird dream he had, and how it was "almost as strange as that one time I went into Boober's dream." Then flash to Stewie lying in bed, his head in contact with Boober's (mostly off-screen). Once inside the dream, he shouts, "Good Lord!" Then zoom out to a plethora of psychadelic colors, flying Fraggles, laughing Doozers, and other freaky stuff. "What kind of crack-induced dream is this?!"
• Peter (or Stewie again), in a dream, is flying through darkness. Then an echo-ey version of "Dream a Dream and See", sung by Peter, Lois, Brian, Meg, and Stewie.
• The same as the above, but before the actual dream scene, Peter says something like, "Well, if Fraggles can share dreams, then we people can, too!" Then he runs off, and returns with a Fraggle (Boober or Wembley?)
• Stewie finds a mouse hole on the wall. "Pshaw! How dinky!" (Or something like that.) Then he saw, next to it, a larger hole about his height. "Well, this is going to be a problem." Then he stands as Gobo runs out, and returns seconds later with a postcard in hand.
• This is just a nonsensical scene. Peter walks into his room when he finds Uncle Travelling Matt writing a postcard to Gobo and skimming through his porno mags. (In case you were wondering, he was writing about his "observations" of the magzines.)
• A raccoon knocks over the Griffins' trash can, and Meg is asked by Lois to put it back in. But when she finishes the job, the garbage comes to life as none other than Marjorie the Trash Heap!

... Yeah. Just weird, crazy, random stuff I thought up while taking a big Spanish test, with a couple of added last-minute details and/or tweaks!

~ Morgan "Is Not On Anything... but Cold Medicine" Goat