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[upbeat music playing]

♪ Dance your cares away ♪

♪ Worry's for another day ♪

♪ Let the music play ♪

♪ Down at Fraggle Rock ♪

♪ Work your cares away ♪

♪ Dancing's for another day ♪

♪ Let the Fraggles play ♪

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

-[female Fraggle] Whoopee!-Wowee!

Ooh, a Fraggle!

[Gobo groans]

[chuckles] Hey, look, Ma.

-I caught a Fraggle!-[screams]

[Gobo] Whoa! Whoopee!

♪ Dance your cares away ♪

♪ Worry's for another day ♪

♪ Let the music play ♪

-Yahoo!-♪ Down at Fraggle Rock ♪

♪ Down at Fraggle Rock ♪ ♪ Down at Fraggle Rock ♪

Down at Fraggle Rock.

[Doc] Honestly, Sprocket, Soto's Market gets more crowded

every time we go there.

[Sprocket grumbling]

Oh, yes, Sprocket, I know you hateto go to the grocery store.

Actually, you hate not goingto the grocery store.

I always feel bad when I have to tieyour leash to that bicycle rack.

[Sprocket mimics choking]

Well, dogs just aren't allowedinto grocery stores.

Well, I thinkit's a health department rule.

-[Sprocket growling]-I don't know why.

Maybe they think that grocery storesaren't healthy for dogs. [chuckles]

Anyway, I got something hereto cheer you up.

Peach and praline ice cream.

-Ooh.-[telephone rings]

Hello.

Ned. Are you feeling any better?

Oh, that's too bad.

I'll... I'll bring you over your groceries.

No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no.

You stay nice and quietuntil this asthma attack is over.

I'll see you in a second.

Back in a flash, Sprocket. I gotta give Ned his groceries.

[whimpering]

[sighs]

[Red] In Fraggle Rock, there is a meeting place

known as the Great Hall.

And in the hallsits the ancient stone Fraggle horn.

This is a story about that horn.

It was an afternoonpretty much like any other.

I was in the mood for a party, and had decided to blow the Fraggle horn.

Boy, this is gonna be fun.

[Red] But I was about to stumbleonto a mystery so strange, so bizarre

that I would always think of it as "the strange and bizarre mystery."

[grunts, chuckles]

[breathes heavily, exclaims]

The Fraggle horn. The Fraggle horn.

It's missing.

This is strange and bizarre.

[Red] Then I saw Henchy.

He was the assistantto the World's Oldest Fraggle.

Henchy!

-Yes?-I've got some bad news.

The Fraggle horn is missing.

-[whimpers] Missing?-Mm-hmm.

But... But I need it.

What do you mean by that?

The World's Oldest Fraggle

was just talking to meabout the Fraggle horn.

-Meeting, Your Decrepitude?-Yes, of course a meeting!

Now, Gobo's Uncle Travelling Matt

is always doing brave thingsin Outer Space.

I think it is high timewe had a little party in his honor.

Uh, yes, Your Elderlyship.

Now go blow the Fraggle hornand get all the Fraggles together.

So, I rushed right here.

But now I can't blow the Fraggle horn, so we can't have a meeting.

-That's true. Hmm.-I'll tell the World's Oldest.

Wow!

This looks like a case for Inspector Red.

[dramatic music playing]

♪ I'll get information and speculationFor the exploration, it's true ♪

♪ And the expectations of the operationAre very high ♪

♪ But the motivation for the perpetrationls a botheration right through ♪

♪ And the preparation of the accusationLeaves me high and dry ♪

♪ But I'm on the caseAnd I'm in the chase ♪

♪ And I won't go back'Cause I'm on the track to know ♪

♪ To know ♪

-♪ To know ♪-♪ To know ♪

♪ And the facts come inTill my senses spin ♪

♪ But my mind is clearAnd I'm searching here to know ♪

-♪ To know, to know, to know ♪ -♪ To know, to know, to know ♪

♪ There's a lot I want to know ♪

Now, let me get this straight.

♪ Now the aggravation of the investigationls the imputation of guilt ♪

♪ And the implication is a prevaricationWhen they talk to me ♪

♪ And the implication is a prevaricationWhen they talk to me ♪

♪ But my reputation for concentrationAnd inspiration is built ♪

♪ On a dedication to imaginationTo a high degree ♪

♪ But I'm on the caseAnd I'm in the chase ♪

♪ And I won't go back'Cause I'm on the track to know ♪

♪ To know ♪

♪ To know ♪

♪ To know ♪

♪ And the facts come inTill my senses spin ♪

♪ But my mind is clearAnd I'm searching here to know ♪

-♪ To know, to know, to know ♪ -♪ To know, to know, to know ♪

♪ There's a lot I want to know ♪

♪ There's a lot I want to know ♪

♪ There's a lot of stuffl've gotta figure out ♪

[Red] I took a bite of radish barand thought things over.

Hmm. Here's the crime,

someone has taken the Fraggle horn.

Possible motive,

someone doesn't want to have a meeting.

But Fraggles love meetings. Who would want to stop them?

[Red] There was nothing to dobut move the old Fraggle feet

and ask some questions.

Well, since they were goingto have a meeting for Uncle Matt,

Well, since they were goingto have a meeting for Uncle Matt,

I'll start by asking him.

[humming] Lovely.

-Hi, Uncle Matt.-Oh!

Oh, Red Fraggle, what are you doing here?

I just came to ask a few questions.

By the way, what's that on your head?

Never mind about that! Just ask your questions.

Okay. I understandthe World's Oldest Fraggle

was going to hold a partyin your honor today.

I refuse to go.

But it's to celebrate your bravery.

Well, never mind about my bravery.

What? Come on, you're always boastingabout your brave deeds in Outer Space.

-Boast?-Mm-hmm.

I never boast. I always speak the truth.

Then speak it.

Come on, what have you done lately?

-Well, I...-Well?

-Well...-Well?

Well, the other day...

[Matt] I went for a walk in Outer Space.

I walked and walkeduntil I was quite tired.

It was at that pointthat I started to look for someone

who might give me a ride. Who might give me a ride.

Ah! Perhaps this gentlemanwill give me a lift.

Um, excuse me, sir, but, uh, could you give me a ride?

[car engines revving]

Whoa!

That was my hat, you fool!

The gentleman compliedwith my wishes at once,

although it was nota terribly smooth ride.

For that, the World's Oldest Fragglewas going to give you a party?

Red, I've told you, I don't want a party.

Let it lie, just forget the whole thing, I...

Whoa! Oh! Oh, oh.

Uncle Matt... [gasps]

you're bald.

Well... Well, yes. You see, when I took my little ride, I, uh...

I lost my toupee.

-You lost your toupee?-Shh.

-[all] You lost your toupee?-Argh!

[all laughing]

That's not polite.

I think I'm going to go lie down.

[Red] Anyway, my extensive detective work had paid off.

[Red] Anyway, my extensive detective work had paid off.

Matt had taken the Fraggle hornto stop the party.

Ooh, I've gotta go findthe World's Oldest Fraggle. Yeah.

Come on.

So you came to me to makean official accusation, then?

Mm-hmm. It's an open-and-shut case.

Ha! You do remember, don't you, that the penalty for false accusation

is greater than the penalty for theft?

Oh, I do.

Then make the accusation official.

Recite the solemn oath.

Ooh. Yes, by the solemn oath of the Fraggles...

-Come on, snap it up.-...I accuse Matt Fraggle

-of taking the Fraggle horn.-Brother... Takes forever.

Weeba-weeba, woffa-woffa, garpox gumbage, whoopee!

Well, in that case, why is the Fraggle horn

sitting there in Boober Fraggle's room?

[gasps] Oh, no!

There, now Ned has his groceries. Now, where were we?

There, now Ned has his groceries. Now, where were we?

[Sprocket gasps, barks]

Oh, yes, we were going to havethe peach and praline ice cream.

Mmm-mmm.

Where's the ice cream, Sprocket?

I remember I had the carton in my hand

when the phone rang.

Then I went to Ned's.

That left you here...

alone...

with the ice cream.

The finger of guilt points your way, Sprockie.

[Sprocket growls]

[Red] Had I pointed the finger of guiltthe wrong way?

I anxiously chewed a chunk of radish bar.

Yep, there's the Fraggle horn, all right, right here in Boober's room.

And you officially accused Matt.

Uh, well, it sort of does make it looklike Boober took it, doesn't it?

Are you saying that you falsely accusedTravelling Matt?

Are you saying that you falsely accusedTravelling Matt?

Oh, I wouldn't go that far.

Because, by cracky, I'll rear up and pass a punishment on you

that'll make your tail frizz!

No, no, wait. I mean, it makes it look like Boober's guilty,

but maybe he's not.

I mean, why would he take the Fraggle horn?

You got me.

Well, we better go find himand ask some questions.

All right.

-♪ La-la-la-la... ♪-Mokey, Mokey, have you seen Boober?

Uh, yes, as a matter of fact, I saw him this morning in the Great Hall.

What was he doing?

Returning my laundry.

But, you know, we had a very strange conversation.

Uh, here's your smock, Mokey.

Oh, thank you, Boober.

But even with bleachnuts, I couldn't get the paint stains out.

Oh, that's okay, the stains are my favorite part.

Hey, what you doing?

Oh, just drawing a pictureof our beloved Fraggle horn.

-Yuck! It's not beloved to me.-Huh?

Well, Fraggles are always blowing it, and calling meetings, and...

And meetings lead to parties, and singing, and group dancing, and frolicking.

[Mokey] Yeah, and games, and snacks. [Mokey] Yeah, and games, and snacks.

Snacks! Yuck! All that junk food.

Boy, if it were up to me, the Fraggle hornwould be hauled away and broken up

into little tiny pieces!

[giggles] Silly old Boober.

Well, if you'll excuse me,

I have a meditation meetingin Frieda's cave. Bye.

-Bye.-Oh. An open-and-shut case.

Boober did it.

Then recite the solemn oath.

Oh. By the solemn oath of the Fraggles,

I accuse Boober of takingthe Fraggle horn.

Weeba-weeba, woffa-woffa, garpox gumbage, whoopee!

-So, you falsely accused Travelling Matt!-[gasps]

Rats! You're right.

Hot dog! I get to give the punishment.[laughs]

Oh, no. What is the punishment?

The punishment is...

no radish bars for a week. I'll just take that, thank you very much.

-Hey!-Mmm. Delicious.

Oh!

[laughs] Oh, hi, Red.

Boober!

What's wrong? What's wrong? What'd I do?-Boober.

What's wrong? What's wrong? What'd I do?-Boober.

-Huh?-What a drastic thing to do.

-[stutters] Pardon?-Boober, I know all.

I know you took the Fraggle horn, and I know why you took it.

[stutters] But, Red?

I didn't touch the Fraggle horn.[nervous chuckle]

-Oh, no?-No.

Then tell me what this is.

Oh, that's my room.

Mm-hmm. And what is in your room?

Well, let's see, there are my socksand my favorite clothespins.

Oh, and there's my omelet pan.

-And what else?-Huh?

Well...

nothing.

[gasps] But the Fraggle horn!

It was in here just a few moments ago.

Now, Red, if this is some kind of a joke, I'm afraid I just don't get it.

It's not a joke, but I don't get it either. Where is it?

It's not a joke, but I don't get it either. Where is it?

Well, how should I know?

Gosh, Red, you...

You shouldn't go around accusinginnocent Fraggles without evidence.

[scoffs]

[Red] My strange and bizarre mysteryhad just gotten stranger and bizarrerer.

[sighs]

Could Boober have hidden the Fraggle horn?

Hmm.

Maybe he's got some sort of backentrance to this place.

-Argh! Oh.-Hi, Red.

Hey, where's Boober? Oh!

I found these great peaches and I thought, well, maybe he'll make 'em into a pie.

-Yeah, and I brought the pralines.-Yeah.

He's not here, and neither is the Fraggle horn.

Beg your pardon?

The Fraggle horn is missing.

Why, I saw Marlon messing around with itjust this morning.

You did?

Yeah. I thought he was gonna blow it, so I wanted to see what was up.

[pants, grunts]

[grunts echoing]

-Hey, Marlon. What you doing?-Argh!

I lost something. Something very important.

I lost something. Something very important.

Oh! Well, what'd you lose?

Only the greatest thing in the Rock, my lucky pebble.

Hmm. Well, how'd it get in the Fraggle horn?

I put it in here so no one could get it, and now... I can't get it.

Well, I guess you'll have to geta new lucky pebble, eh?

You don't understand! I must have that pebble!

-[crashing sound]-[grunting]

[chuckles]

Boy, that Marlon sure is a crazy Fraggle.

Oh, yeah. I think he'd do anythingto get that pebble back.

Uh, excuse me, everybody, I've gotta go ask some questions.

Huh.

[Red] So, uh, Marlon.

What?

I just came here to ask youa few questions.

What kind of questions?

Oh, uh, about the Fraggle horn.

Uh, uh, I know nothing, I saw nothing, I heard nothing.

Then you know the Fraggle horn is missing!

I'm innocent, I tell you!

Do I look like a thief? Oh, the shame of it!

My name dragged through the mud.-Uh, I'm not accusing you, Marlon.

My name dragged through the mud.-Uh, I'm not accusing you, Marlon.

Oh?

On the other hand, what's that in your hand?

Argh! It's my lucky pebble.

-Aha!-Why do you want to know?

Yeah, yeah, right, right. Hmm.

Well, Red Fraggle, who do you thinktook the Fraggle horn now?

No doubt about it... [both] It's an open-and-shut case.

Whoo! I've heard that one before.

Well?

Who is it this time?

Marlon. He must have taken itto get his lucky pebble out.

Then recite the solemn oath.

Ah. By the solemn oath of the Fraggles,

I accuse Marlon of takingthe Fraggle horn.

Weeba-weeba, woffa-woffa, garpox gumbage, whoopee!

Then you falsely accused Boober, didn't you?

-Oops.-[laughs]

I suppose you realize

that the punishment for falsely accusingtwo Fraggles is gruesome.

Oh, no. Here we go again.

Now stand over there.

Bow your head. Bow your head.

[whimpers]

Look contrite...

-[whimpers]-...and kiss your happiness goodbye!

[gasps]

You are about to be punishedas you've never been punished before.

Oh! [whimpers]

Well, if you'd eaten thatpeach and praline ice cream, Sprocket,

there'd be an empty carton lying around.

Well, I don't see one.

Maybe I've been hasty.

[Sprocket scoffs]

You didn't eat that ice cream, did you?

Mm-mm.

Well, I guess I owe you an apology.

[Sprocket scoffs]

-[Doc] Uh-oh!-[Sprocket gasps]

[whimpers]

[laughing]

Are you sure walking backwardscarrying a large rock

is the proper punishmentfor falsely accusing two Fraggles?

Whoa!

Well, I'm only going by the book.

[Red] Whatever you say.

-Now then, Red Fraggle…-[straining]

I am tired of all this.

I want my Fraggle horn backso we can have a meeting.

Have you any idea where it is?

You're the one playing detective!

Now, you should be solving this case.

I'll have Henchy round up the suspects.

[panting] Whoa!

Hear ye! Hear ye!

The suspects are all brought together.

Oh, look, the suspectsare all brought together.

-I said that.-So did I.

Ooh!

I'm innocent, I tell you.

[grunts] I didn't do it.

-They did it.-This is an outrage!

Uh, Marlon, does my hair look all right to you?

Who cares? I'm innocent. Who cares? I'm innocent.

Uh-huh. Ah! Inspector Red, you will now make your case.

The Fraggle found guiltywill be severely dealt with.

But if you get it wrong...

-Yeah?-...you'll be up a creek.

[Red] I had no idea who was guilty, but I had to try.

You're... You're all probably wonderingwhy you've been called here today.

No, I know why I'm here. I invited me. [chuckles]

She's not talking to you, Your Geriatric-hood.

[Red moans]

She's not talking to anyone, she's moaning.

Now, why doesn't she drop that rock?

You told her to carry that rock.

Red, drop that rock!

-Oh, my foot! Ow! Ow!-[chuckling]

[grunts]

Well, wait a minute. I didn't drop that rock.

No, but you enjoyed it.

Now, Red, tell us who's guilty.

[stuttering] [stuttering]

All of these Fraggles have good reasonsfor taking the Fraggle horn.

Oh, Red, you aren't going to tellthe reasons, are you?

It took me all day to makethis new toupee.

Yeah. I have even seen the Fraggle hornin the room of one of these suspects.

But there were only clothespinsand omelet pans in there.

Mm-hmm.

Yes, there is just cause to suspecteach and every one of these Fraggles.

Argh! How can you persecute me so?

My life... My life is an open book.

[crashing sound]

-Get on with it. I want a decision.-Oh.

[Red] If only one of them would confess.

That's it!

The moment of truth has come.

-Hot dog! Tell us.-My fellow Fraggles,

-I tell you with absolute certainty…-Uh-huh.

That the Fraggle horn was taken by...

-Yes, yes, yes.-...none other than...

Me.

[gasps] You?

You?

You?

Of course she took it. Of course she took it.

Look at that weak chinand those close-set eyes.

It's not true! I took the Fraggle horn!

Of course Henchy took the Fraggle horn.

Look at that weak chinand those close-set eyes.

Yes, I admit everything! I confess. You can't punish Red.

No Fraggle would let another Fraggletake the rap for him.

Exactly. That's why I said I did it.

I knew it would force the guilty Fraggleto step forward,

and I didn't want to insultthe innocent parties

any more than I already have.

Huh? Uh, I don't understand this at all.

Henchy, tell us how you tookthe Fraggle horn.

All right, Your Detectiveship.

[giggles] Boo.

[Henchy] I took it this morningwhen there was no one around.

But then I heard Red comingand I hid it behind a rock.

-I'll go tell the World's Oldest.-Hmm.

[Henchy] I told Red about the partyfor Travelling Matt.

Then I left.

Later, I returned,

determined to find a safehiding place for the horn.

Determined to find a safehiding place for the horn.

But as I was going past Boober's place,

I almost ran into Redand the World's Oldest Fraggle.

I quickly ducked inside.

[crashing sound]

Red and the World's Oldest saw the horn,

but they didn't see me.

Oh! [straining]

Then, when Mokey was telling themsome story about Boober,

I was able to sneak the horn outbehind them.

Later, when I was carrying itto its final hiding place,

something fell out of the horn, but I couldn't see what.

[gasps] Oh!

[stuttering] My lucky pebble.

[kisses]

So, that's how I took the Fraggle horn.

You mean I'm innocent? Ah!

Now, Henchy, please tell uswhy you took the Fraggle horn.

Tell her why.

[grunts, sighs]

Because I hate meetings. Because I hate meetings.

But why do you hate meetings?

Tell her why.

[grunts, sighs]

Because at meetings, you're alwaysbopping me on the nose like that.

It's very embarrassing.

-It is?-Yeah.

Ooh! It's not only embarrassing, it's painful.

I'm sorry, Henchy. I won't do that to you anymore.

-Promise?-Of course I promise!

Now go get the Fraggle horn. Go on.

-Go on. Move!-Yes, Your Forgetfulness.

All right, everybody, now we're gonna have a wingding party!

[chuckles]

[Red] So, Inspector Red had won the day.

My strangest and bizarrest mysterywas at last a closed case.

[sighs]

I'm tired of playing detective.

I think tomorrowl'll play thwack-a-ball. Yeah.

I'm sorry, Sprocket, but proof is proof.

You must have eatenthe peach and praline ice cream

because here is the empty carton. Because here is the empty carton.

[scoffs, sniffs]

-[howls]-Huh? Oh, you're right...

Wait a minute, this is chocolate ice cream.

This is yesterday's ice cream carton.

I give up.

I'll go and get some more.

I don't know where the ice cream went.

I know where the ice cream went.

I must have put the carton in my hatwhen the phone rang.

[Sprocket chuckles]

Well, Sprocket, this'll teach me a lesson, never jump to conclusions.

I'm sorry.

Now, sir, would you care for somepeach and praline soup?

[Sprocket licking]

Oh, come on, Sprockie.

Ugh.

[upbeat music playing]

[scatting]

♪ Dance your cares away ♪

♪ Worry's for another day ♪

♪ Let the music play ♪

♪ Down at Fraggle Rock ♪

♪ Dance your cares away ♪

-♪ Worry's for another day ♪-[Red] Whoopee!

♪ Let the music play ♪

♪ Down at Fraggle Rock ♪

♪ Down at Fraggle Rock ♪

♪ Down at Fraggle Rock ♪