Original subtitles

[upbeat music playing]

I Dance your cares away ♪

I Worry's for another day

I Let the music play }

I Down in Fraggle Rock ♪

I Work your cares away

I Dancing's for another day

I Let the Fraggles play

We're Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red!

“Whoopee! Wowee!

Ooh, a Fraggle!

[chuckles] Look, Ma. I got a Fraggle!

Argh!

Whoopee!

I Dance your cares away ♪

I Worry's for another day

I Let the music play }

I Down in Fraggle Rock ♪

I Down in Fraggle Rock ♪

Down in Fraggle Rock.

Oh, you should learn the noble art of knot-tying, Sprocket.

Everyone should know what is a knot and what is not a knot.

It's a knotty problem.

[Sprocket whimpers]

[Doc] Get it? Knotty.

Oh, nuts. That is not a knot.

[barks] -Oh, Sprocket,

how many times have I told you,

there is no intelligent life behind that baseboard.

Mice, maybe, but that's it.

[whimpers)

[barks]

Boy, they're right outside the hole, Gobo.

“Wembley. “What?

Look, Uncle Matt's marked this postcard "special announcement."

Wow.

Old houses occasionally have small rodents,

but not these silly creatures you go on about.

[Gobo] Whoopee!

[whispers] Sprocket, did you hear that?

You may be right, Sprocket. There may be life beyond this hole.

No, no, keep back. It might bite you. You just keep an eye on the hole.

Let's see...

Sound-activated tape recorder, automatic trip-wire camera.

I tell you, Sprocket, if there are wall creatures,

we'll prove it once and for all.

Mice do not go, "Whoopee."

[Sprocket whines]

Wembley, what's the most amazing thing you can imagine?

Uh... owning more than one shirt.

What? No. Wembley, a wonderful thing is about to happen.

Hey! Hey! My Uncle Traveling Matt's coming home.

He says he's tired of exploring Outer Space

and he wants to see me, and he's coming home to stay.

I was there when Gobo got the news.

-He's coming back for good? -Yeah.

I share a room with a Fraggle whose famous uncle is coming home.

Oh, Gobo, I know how you miss your uncle.

-And-and I'l enjoy seeing him. “Well, of course you will.

Anybody back from a long trip will have piles of laundry.

You know how I love challenges.

[laughing]

Well, at least we won't have to put up with any more postcards.

Hey, Red, you don't understand.

Oh, yes, I do. We'll have to put up with him instead.

[niggers]

Red, have a heart.

Oh, okay, okay.

So what are you and the postcard king gonna do?

Well... when my Uncle Matt went away, Iwas just a kid.

Now I'm an explorer, too.

-Yeah -Together, he and I, we could do anything.

Why, we could, oh, map the Red Ridge Caves.

-Yeah -Oh, sure you could.

-Explore the Outer Barrens. -Sure.

Yeah, and probably start an avalanche doing it. [giggles]

Listen, my Uncle Matt and I could find the Crystal Caverns.

Oh, give us a break, Gobo. I mean, Crystal Cavern?

Even the legends say it can't be found.

Yeah. Well--

[stammers] Don't you kid yourself. Gobo and his Uncle Matt could find it.

Yeah.

Gobo, we must welcome your uncle with loud huzzahs.

-Huzzahs! Huzzah.

A grateful people welcoming back their hero.

Yes.

We could drape moss into a triumphal arch.

Of course.

That's it. A welcome-home celebration.

-A party! Hey, everybody!

A party? Why didn't you say s0?

Any excuse for a party.

Okay, everybody. Everybody, yes.

Now Gobo's Uncle Matt could be here at any moment.

Let's rehearse our whoopee cantata one last time.

[trumpeting]

Let's start with the boings.

Boing. Boing. Boing.

Boing, boing. Boing, boing.

Now the dingalings.

I Dingaling

I Dingaling

I Dingaling, dingaling ♪

The Fraggle choir.

I Aahbh?

I Aahhh aahhh

The welcome.

Welcome. ‘Welcome.

Welcome. ‘Welcome.

Welcome. ‘Welcome.

Now, everybody!

I Ticker tape and drummers drumming

I Tell the world the hero's coming ♪

I While we're dozing, While we're stumbling

I Heroes have to roam}

7 If you wander in your wending

I Just remember, no pretending

I Every journey has an ending

I Time to hurry home?

I Welcome back, Uncle Matt

I Welcome home, welcome home §

I Welcome home 2

Again.

I Welcome back, Uncle Matt

I Welcome home, welcome home §

I Welcome home 2

Hooray!

I Ticker tape and drummers drumming

I Tell the world the hero's coming ♪

I While we're dozing While we're stumbling

I Heroes have to roam}

7 If you wander in your wending

I Just remember, no pretending

I Every journey has an ending

I Time to hurry home?

I Welcome back, Uncle Matt

I Welcome home, welcome home §

I Welcome home, welcome home, Uncle Matt?

Bravo!

I Welcome, Matt?

I Welcome home, welcome home §

I Welcome home, Uncle Matt

And that was pretty good.

Next time, let's do it in tune, okay?

I thought it was pretty good.

[all chattering]

[chomping]

[gasps] Wembley, Red, how could you eat the Uncle Matt statue

from the radish meringue cake?

I can see we weren't alone. Ha!

Oh, yeah, I see some radish frosting on your upper lip, Gobo.

Huh? Oh, uh...

Oh, what are we gonna do? Uncle Matt's not even here yet.

Wasn't he invited?

He better hurry. He's missing all the fun.

[laughing]

Well, that's one thing you can't do is hurry Uncle Matt.

Yeah. Sometimes he's lost for months at a time.

Listen here, moss mind. Quit insulting my uncle.

Yeah.

Would insult the Fraggle who's gonna find the Crystal Cavern?

No.

I didn't say he was going to find the Crystal Cavern.

I said we could, uh, he and I.

-Yeah. -If we wanted to.

Yeah, but you don't want to.

-No. Maybe. ‘We might.

Oh, Wembley, go lie down and rest.

Oh, well, it's getting awfully late.

-Mm-hmm. [sighs]

Red, my Uncle Matt is a great explorer.

And with the experience I've had, why, why, we could be great together.

Oh, you two couldn't find your way from here to the pool.

Oh, yes, we could, Gorg-breath.

And we'll find the Crystal Cavern.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and someday, we'll hand you a golden crystal that we brought back

and you'll say, "I'm sorry.”

Oh. And then I'l turn green and grow a second head.

-Oh. Ooh. [screams]

[laughter]

See, I fold you I could find my way to the pool.

[laughs]

We've been waiting here for hours.

Did you hear any more noises, Sprocket?

[snoring]

[chuckles] Poor dog.

-This scientific research does take time -[knocking on door]

and self-sacrifice.

A knock at the door at this hour?

[Sprocket snoring]

Hello. Anyone out there?

No, I didn't think so.

Thank you very much.

[humming]

[Doc] Look at those stars.

Ah.

Hmm.

[Sprocket snoring]

Ah.

Hmm.

Woof. [laughs] -{whimpers]

-[camera shutter clicks] [whimpering]

[grunting]

Whoa. Behold. Traveling Matt is home.

Hello? Hello? Nephew Gobo?

Where is that little fella?

Beho-- ooh.

Behold, Traveling Matt is home.

Oh. Uh, uh... Huzzah! Huzzah!

Play the welcome-home song, Wembley.

The whoopee cantata.

[trumpeting] [screams]

-Oh. For me? Aah! Wembley] Hey, hey, look out there.

Huh?

Whoa. You were right, Gobo. He is a great explorer.

-Delicious. -[Red] He found the cake.

Look. A picture, Sprocket. Maybe it's our wall creature.

Sprocket, this is a picture of you.

[barks]

I'm sorry. This is not a picture of a wall creature.

I'd know those whiskers of yours anywhere.

I'm gonna go check the sound.

[barks]

[whimpers)

Barking.

Sprocket, machines don't lie.

So no more jokes, okay?

Hmph.

[sighs]

Uncle Matt, it sure is great to have you back.

Ah, home.

How I longed for this moment when I was in Outer Space.

Oh, but it must have been exciting out there.

-Oh, yes, it is exciting, yes. -Tell us about it.

[sighs] Well, Outer Space is this, this big... space out there.

No kidding?

Yes. It's filled with silly creatures, but you can't make frignds with them.

I missed you, Gobo. I'm tired of being alone.

Great. We can explore together.

-Yeah, -Hmm, good.

We can go off on a little jaunt, yes.

There's my old bed.

Uh, Uncle Matt, that bed used to be yours, but...

It's okay, Gobo. Let him stay.

It would be selfish of me to want to sleep in my own bed.

Il go stay at Boober's tonight.

Ooh, there's nothing like your own bed back home.

[chuckles]

Well, uh, goodnight, Gobo. Goodnight, Gobo's Uncle Matt.

Goodnight, Gobo's friend Wembley.

[chuckles] Goodnight, Wembley.

Bye.

Uh, Uncle Matt, before you go to sleep, well, I have this sort of favor to ask.

[sighs] Anything at all, Gobo.

What can an old uncle do for a young whippersnapper like you?

Whippersn-- huh?

Oh, gee, Uncle Matt, nobody's called me that since, whoa, since you left.

Uh... Well, anyway...

You see, well, I kind of promised Red that...

Uncle Matt, do you think we could find the Crystal Cavern?

[snoring]

[sighs] Gee, it sure is good to have Uncle Matt home.

[burbling lips]

Ahh. You always sleep best in your own bed at home

surrounded by your nearest and dearest.

Yeah, it's good to have you back, Matt.

Well, from now on it's gonna be just like

it used to be in the olden days, my little laddie.

Little laddie? We're going to be inseparable, Gobo.

Yeah, that's what I want, too, Uncle Matt.

Hi there, hotshot explorers. Ooh hoo hoo.

Oh, no, here she comes.

Uh, listen, Uncle Matt, you gotta go along with this.

Last night, I told Red that we were gonna go find the Crystal Cavern.

-And I know-- -The Crystal Cavern.

The most beautiful place in the universe.

According to legend, the place glows and shimmers with a life of its own.

Good morning, guys. Hi.

H-Hello there, little Fraggle creatures.

Gobo has just asked me

to lead an expedition to the Crystal Cavern.

Lead? I thought you were doing it together.

Well, we are, but...

You mean you're really gonna try to doit? When?

No time like the present.

[sighs] Lead.

Come on, little fella. ['l'lead, you follow.

Uh...

We're really doing it together. I just like being nice to the old guy.

W-Wembley, uh, get my maps.

Coming, Uncle Matt.

Wow. They're really going to try to do it.

[Matt] Ah, here we are. Out in the tunnels again.

Give us a chord on that guitar, Gobo.

I Every day, the world begins again I

7 Sunny skies or rain

♪ Come and follow me

Try to keep up, Gobo.

I Every sunrise shows me more and more ♪

I So much to explore

♪ Come and follow me

Ooh.

I Every moming

I Every day!

I Every evening?

I Showing me the way

I While the sun goes round, I'l still be found 2

I Following the sound

I Something's calling me

[Matt clears throat]

What's wrong, uncle?

Thatis my song.

Oh, uh, sorry.

-Oh! [screams]

Gobo. Gobo's Uncle Matt. Oh, thank goodness I found you.

Ah, Wembley, you brought my maps.

-Yeah. -Great.

Just what we're gonna need if we're gonna find the Crystal Cavern.

Maps. I haven't used maps since I left for Outer Space.

What else would you use, Uncle Matt?

What's your plan?

Plan? I haven't got a plan yet.

I'm waiting for a typical stroke of genius.

I've always heard that there are only two impossible things in the Rock:

finding the Crystal Cavern and finding the home of the rock clingers.

Aah! I just had a typical stroke of genius.

The rock clingers must live in the Crystal Cavern.

I don't believe this.

Yes. So all we have to do is follow a rock clinger home.

‘What? Oh. Uh-huh.

That's terrible.

Rock clingers are the most disgustingly cute things in the universe.

Yeah. Yeah, if you-if you follow one, itll fall in love with you

and cling to you forever.

Eww. Eww.

Occupational hazard, Wembley.

Now, where is a rock clinger?

Gosh, Gobo, your Uncle Matt sure is amazing,

he will do anything to achieve his goal.

[Matt] Oof.

Yeah. Any dumb thing.

Quick. I've found one. Over here.

Oh, it's so cute.

Oh, no. It's adorable.

Don't look, Wembley. Don't let it fall in love with you.

I shall follow it thither.

Gee, Gobo, should we follow the rock clinger thither, too?

Well, I'm going to follow my maps like I always do.

And my maps indicate the Crystal Cavern is that way.

Come on, Wembley. Follow me.

But you two heroic explorers are going in two different directions.

Aah.

Okay, here we are. Map 19, downward tunnel.

Yeah, and it says that the Crystal Cavern should be somewhere in this general area.

Thank goodness for your maps.

Oh, there you are, Nephew Gobo. What took you so long?

Uncle Matt, how did you get here before we did?

Have you been peeking at my maps?

Certainly not. I simply followed my rock clinger.

That's amazing, Gobo's Uncle Matt.

-Thank you. -It's crazy is what it is.

Oh, there goes my rock clinger. Come on, little Wembley.

The Crystal Cavern is hard enough to find if you're being sensible like me.

I believe the word is stodgy, Nephew Gobo.

How did you get down here so fast?

Where-where is my rock clinger?

There.

Ah, yes. Come, Wembley.

Wembley... Okay, be that way.

But know that the Crystal Cavern is this way.

[groans]

You know, I'd forgotten just how boring these old caves are.

Yeah.

Well, well, well, you guys finally made it, I see.

Wait just a minute. Something sneaky is going on around here.

You couldn't have found these cavems using just those foolish maps.

Don't call my maps foolish.

Well, look at you. You're following a rock clinger.

Oh, look at the dumb little wimp.

I think it's falling in love with you.

Just a minute, just a minute.

Nephew, the point is that you're not showing the proper courtesy

to your old uncle as a little Fraggle should.

Who's a little Fraggle?

-You are. -I'm as much an explorer as you are.

Wait a minute, I have an idea! I have an idea. I have an idea.

Why don't we just sort of stand here and rest for a few minutes, okay?

[all mumbling]

I know what we can do. We can do what we always do at times like this.

Gobo can read a postcard from his Uncle Tra

He's here. How can I have a postcard from him?

Then I shall tell you of one of my adventures in wonderful Outer Space.

-Yeah. -Oh, brother.

You see...

1 once found this hilly place

where very brave and fortunate silly creatures go.

They were sitting around with white things on their legs

and being carefully looked after by some other silly creatures.

These lucky creatures acquire white legs through something called skiing.

Many try, but few are chosen.

Even though I'm a Fraggle, the temptation to try for a white leg was great.

[screams]

1 finally made it.

Whoa!

It took tremendous courage and quite a lot of pain,

but a hero's got to do what a hero's got fo do.

And that's another adventure from Gobo's Uncle Traveling Matt.

That was wonderful. Wasn't that wonderful, Gobo?

That was wonderful, Gobo's Uncle Matt.

[both laughing]

-Yeah, that was interesting. -Yes.

If true. ‘What?

Are you questioning my stories?

I question anyone who follows rock clingers.

Oh, please don't fight.

My plan has gotten us closer to the Crystal Caverns

than Fraggles have ever been before.

My maps are what got us close to the Crystal Cavern.

Well, you've got to follow my methods.

Oh, you couldn't lead your way to that rock.

What... This rock here? This rock, Gobo? This rock?

Well, Il tell you something--

You're too clumsy to explore caves.

“Who wants to explore boring, old caves? What?

I mean, it's not like exploring Outer Space.

Or making up goofy postcards claiming you explore Outer Space.

No, no... [screams] -That does it, Gobo.

You're going to have to have a spanking.

-Oh, a spanking? -Yes.

Oh, you and whose Gorg?

And I thought they were heroes.

You take that back.

Yeah, Il take it back s0 I can give it to you again.

Well, I thought coming home was going to be fun.

Oh. Nobody but a rock clinger would want to go exploring with you.

Well, I certainly don't want to go with you.

Oh, well, good. Good. Let's call the whole thing off. Agreed?

Agreed.

-Okay. Come on, Wembley. Let's go home. -Come on, Wembley. Let's go home.

Where'd he go?

I... I don't know.

Oh, Wembley always sticks with me.

Why would he leave?

He was upset about our fighting. He wants everybody to always be friends.

Well, can he find his way home?

Wembley's a great guy, but...

-He's not an explorer, no. Not an explorer.

He's been my best friend since you left.

We will look for him.

-Yeah. He would have gone this way. -Yes. This...

No, I think this way.

No, no, I think I'm right.

No, I'm sure I'm right.

Matt... you go your way, and I'll go my way.

I just hope one of us can find him.

Yes, yes, yes.

[Wembley] Gobo!

Matt!

Huh?

-[Gobo] Wembley. [Matt] Wembley.

Gobo, Matt. Isn't it wonderful?

I should say. I found you.

You found him? What about me?

But you weren't lost.

Anyway, little green Wembley, I'm glad you're safe.

We've called off the search for the Crystal Cavern.

Matt, look around us. We're surrounded by rock clingers.

-S0? -So rock clingers live in...

~The Crystal Cavern. [laughs]

[gasps] -Oh, wow.

By golly! You're right.

I've discovered the Crystal Cavern.

Wait a minute. Who discovered the Crystal Cavem?

-I did, of course. “What about me?

Why would I discover you?

You're both driving me nuts.

[crystal shatters]

The fact of the matter is, I discovered it.

Oh... well, yeah...

You've both been so busy fighting

that you haven't looked for what you're looking for.

But we did both got here.

Well, yeah, but you weren't doing it together.

Oh, well, I don't think we could find our own tails working together.

But working alone, we're wonderful.

Yeah, but neither one of us really discovered the Crystal Cavern.

Is it so important who discovered it?

What's important is that it got discovered.

Discovery is the important thing, all right.

I've discovered all sorts of things today.

Me, too.

Excuse me, guys, but the rock clingers are starting to love us.

Oh, let's get out of here.

Quick. First pick up some crystal. We got to prove we were here.

-Nice one. -Let's go.

The most beautiful place in the universe?

Huh. Not after you've seen a used-car lot at sunset.

Red, I told you one day I'd give you a crystal from the Crystal Cavern.

-I kept my promise. [yawns]

Gobo, Uncle Matt, I'm sorry I said you guys weren't good explorers.

Oh, hey, don't apologize. Actually, it was Wembley who found the Cavern.

Well, it was just really sort of an accident.

I wouldn't have been anywhere near it if I hadn't followed these two explorers.

Uncle Matt.

Uncle Matt is back. We can sing the song again.

Oh, no.

-Matt, you have to leave. “What?

You don't have to stay here. Go back to Outer Space where you're happy.

Then you've noticed. That is where I really want to be.

I can tell.

I thought I had changed, but you have, too.

-You've grown up. -Oh, thanks for noticing, Matt.

Besides, if I go back to Outer Space, you can once again worship me from afar.

-I'd like that. -Then would you please stop that song?

I Welcome back, Uncle Matt

Excuse me.

Just a minute.

Sorry, uh... I think my Uncle Matt has an announcement.

Indeed I do. Traveling Matt is returning to Outer Space.

[all gasp] -It's okay. We have a rewrite.

I Fare you well, Uncle Matt }

I Fare you well, fare you well?

I Fare you well, Uncle Matt }

Well, so long, Uncle Matt.

Yeah. Don't forget to write.

Oh. Careful of your head here, Gobo.

Ooh.

You know, as soon as I get out there, I'm gonna start missing you again, Gobo.

I'm gonna miss you too, Uncle Matt.

And if you ever get homesick, well, come home.

Il be back for visits.

But now, I want to leave you with something.

Really? What? Some words of wisdom?

No. My rock clinger.

Take good care of the little wimp.

Farewell, nephew.

Oh, no. I'm being worshiped from anear.

[grunting] Whoa!

[camera shutter clicks]

[snoring]

Hmm. What a postcard this will make.

Dear Nephew Gobo, the instant I returned to Outer Space,

I was met by a little silver creature who gave me a present.

How nice.

[door thuds]

[snoring]

[upbeat music playing]

[scatting]

I Dance your cares away ♪

I Worry's for another day

I Let the music play }

I Down in Fraggle Rock ♪

I Dance your cares away ♪

I Worry's for another day

I Let the music play }

I Down in Fraggle Rock ♪

I Down in Fraggle Rock ♪

I Down in Fraggle Rock ♪