Profound Messages


So I was watching the episode "Wembly and the Gorgs" and I noticed that Wembly made a very profound statement at the end when he said "I guess some kins of slavery feel like freedom". This really shocked and impressed me, it's not your standard, run of the mill, moral to put in a kids show like "always say please and thank you" and "don't make fun of people" and what not. This is making a huge statement about humankind and how easy it is to trick people into thinking they are free when they're not.

This little statement made me look at Fraggle Rock a whole different way. Obviously the Fraggles are serious hippies (I mean just look at Mokie, she reminds me of Joni Mitchell) and there's so much more. The Doozers are like the working class, the industrial workers who need constant consumption of their work to stay alive and the Gorgs are like the power drunk leaders or something. I was just wondering if anyone else noticed any allegorical ties between Fraggle Rock and other things or any other profound lines or messages in the show.

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Hey I just watched that episode last night and you're definitely right. Then they went on to say something to the effect of "some types of creatures value freedom more than others". Talking about freedom and slavery are very esoteric concepts that you would never see in a children's show today. Isn't that a famous saying "There's no greater slave than one who falsely believes they are free", or something like that? Who would've thought there was social commentary on a show like this?

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