gorgs

I always wondered that. It seems to me that the Gorgs and Doc/Sprocket would be next door neighbors.

I don't think one can really quantify where the Gorgs live. I think they live in some sort of magical dimension which is linked to the real worl by fraggle rock. I remember that the two worlds did interact occasionally. I remember once when a crown was thrown away into the air by the Gorgs Doc later found it. I used to think that they lived underground, but the episode with the crown ended that theory, plus the fact that Gorgs clearly have a sky and sun. I think that the magical dimension theory works pretty well. Yes?

I would say that the Gorgs most definitlyy lived on Earth. First off, they clearly had a sun, a blue sky and a single moon so they did not live underground. Secondly, they grew raddishes and spoke english and thus grew a vegitable and spoke a launage each of which are indiginous to Earth. Ok, I supose all of these things could exist in an alternate demention, but what is the point of even having an alternate demention if it isn't going to have anything more exotic than a blue sky and single moon, and if they aren't going to grow anything more fantastical than raddishes (I mean raddishes are pretty dull even by earth vegitable standards). Then of couse there is the crown connection, that is the episode where Junior Gorge threw away the crown and it landed in Doc's yard. This would indicate that Doc and the Gorgs lived in the same demention and on the same planet (Junior is strong, but probably not that strong).

So then if the Gorgs lived on Earth then why do humans seem to be unaware of them? Well one explaination could lie in the fact that as a species Gorgs seemed rather endangered. One of the big running jokes on Papa Gorg was that he was a king but had no royal subjects. Prehaps at one time a large kingdom of Gorgs had existed on earth but for some reason (disease? fammine?) their numbers had become diminished and had ultimatly dwindled down to just three (Papa, Mama and Junior Gorg respectivly). However, I'm sure that the Gorgs would have sometimes gotten tired of eating raddishes and would have ventured out into the woods to find other sources of food. On some occasions they would be seen and even photographed by humans (though the photos would always be fuzzy and vauge) and since there is no would for Gorg in the english lauange they would instead be called Sasquatch or Big-Foot.
On the other hand, it was never stated that humans were not aware of the Gorgs. It is quite possible that humans and Gorgs were quite aware of one another and that they interacted all the time. I mean this is the Jim Henson Universe we're talking about and in a world where frogs sing of rainbows, bears tell jokes, dogs can play the piano and pigs can dance while serving pizza would Gorgs really seem that out of place? (not to mention that none of the humans in "outerspace" seemed particularly awed by Traveling Matt, which makes me wonder why he went to such trouble to avoid being seen by Doc. But thats a discussion for another time). In fact considering that the Fraggles could reach either Doc's place or the Gorg's garden from Fraggle Rock in a relativly short amount of time I would have to conclude that Doc and the Gorgs could not have lived very far apart. All things considered is would seem that Doc and the Gorgs were practically neighbors. In fact, Papa Gorg was only ever called Papa which would make since considering that his wife and son were the only ones we ever saw address him. Surely, however, Papa Gorg must have had a fist name by which his friends addressed him and it is quite possible that that first name was in fact Schemelfinney. I know we always assumed that Schemelfinney was the last name of Doc's elusive friend and neighbor (and that said friend and neighbor was human for that matter) but they never explicity said that this was the case. Thus it is quite possible that full name of Doc's mysterious friend was Schemelfinney "Papa" Gorg.

It all kinda makes ya' think don't it?