05x06 - Beyond the Pond

[bunniefuu]

[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.

[whimpers]

[exclaims, pants]

[groans, whimpers]

It's an outrage!

Worse than that,
[stammers] it's blasphemy.

Sprocket, do you knowwhat
Mr. Herman Grubtoe,

our honorable candidate
for mayor, wants to do now?

He wants to chop down our tree.

[Sprocket gasps, exclaims]

That's my favorite tree.

It's where I put my clothesline.
It's where I repose to cogitate.

-And it's the tree
where you... [gasps]

-Well, it's your favorite
tree too.-[whines, barks]

I... I agree Sprocket. But the
problem is, how do we stop him?

[whines]

Oh, look. There's
old Ben Stribling.

-His... His grandmother
planted that tree.-[whimpers]

I bet he's going to be sad whenhe
finds out Grubtoe is cutting it down.

Sprocket, I've got it.
Sprocket, I've got it.

If Grubtoe wants
to win the election,

then he can't cut down a treethat
means so much to the local voters.

We'll keep a constant watchand
see how many use its shade

or stop and admire its beauty.

Well, come on, Sprocket. I
need your acute canine vision.

-[Fraggles
chattering]-[Wembley] That's it!

-[Mokey] Thanks,
Rita.-[Red] Come on.

-[Mokey] Okay, let's see.-[Red]
Been doin' this all day.

[Wembley] That's great, Gobo!

Is this saw broken or what?

-You've really got the
hang of it now.-[Gobo] Ah.

-[Red groans] Whew.-Okay, Red.

I'm ready to challenge youto the
Swimming Backwards Underwater Race.

He's really ready, all right.

No one's challenging anyoneuntil
I get rid of these knobblies.

-Oh.-[sighs] I just
don't understand it.

They've never grown
like this before. Oh!

Yeah, they are kinda
bad this time, aren't they?

Bad? They're horrible!
Hideous! Horrendous!

Bad? They're horrible!
Hideous! Horrendous!

Oh, I hate these knobblies.

Every time we wanna
havean Underwater Frolic,

they appear for no reason.
Who needs 'em? [scoffs]

Oh but, Red!

That's how we know it's
timefor the Underwater Frolic,

when the knobblies appear.

So you see, we do need them.

But not when they
take up the whole pool!

-Good morning, everybody.-Ah!

-Juice time!-Oh boy.

[Mokey] Ooh, thanks, Boober.

Uh, juice? Now?

-[Wembley] Ah.-[Boober] Mm.

[sniffs] Uh, wh... what
kind of juiceis this, Boober?

-[sniffs] Ew.-Kohlrabi.

-[Mokey] Ah.-Kohlrabi? Oh.

[sniffing]

[smacks lips, gags]

Oh, Boober. This is horrible.

[gags, coughs]

-She's right. [gags,
coughs]-Oh. [stammers] I see.

-[Gobo] Yuck!-[Mokey]
Well, I'm sorry.

-Ew! Yuck. Ew.-[Wembley
coughs, clears throat]

-[water bubbles]-[gasps] Whoa!

-What's in this stuff,
poison?-[Mokey gasps]

-Look. It's k*lling the
knobblies.-Oh! It is? [groans]

Aw! Poor little knobblies. Oh.
Aw! Poor little knobblies. Oh.

Poor knobblies nothing.
Give me more of that juice!

Ah, ah, ah! Red, Red, Red.

Pruning them is quite one
thing, but k*lling them is another.

No, no.

-[Wembley] Oh, ow!-Wembley,
what are you doing?

-I'm dead. I drank the poison
juice.-[Mokey] Oh, Wembley.

Wembley, kohlrabi juice is not
poisonousto Fraggles, just to knobblies.

-I'm saved!-You're
weird. Uh, Boober.

Pass that pitcher here.

-[Mokey] Ah, ah,
ah!-[Boober] Uh, yes.

-No, Red. No, no,
no.-[Boober] Huh?

No. I'm not gonna let
you killinnocent knobblies.

But what about the Underwater Frolic?
Those knobblies are ruining everything!

Oh. We can swim around them.

[stammers, growls]

[mimicking] "We can
swim around them."

Oh, we can't. And we won't.'Cause
I'm gonna get rid of them! [grunts]

-[Wembley gasps]-[stammers]
I don't know, Red.

Maybe cutting them backis a
better idea than k*lling them.

-[growls]-Ahhh!

Then again, maybe it's not.

-Boober!-Uh, yes?

-Have you got any
more kohlrabi juice?-Yes.

Well, bring all you've got
and pour iton these knobblies.

Well, bring all you've got
and pour iton these knobblies.

Yes.

-[growls]-[whimpers] Uh...

-And we'll help him.-Yes, yes.

Mm. [pants]

Ooh! I'm gonna get rid of these
knobblies, if it's the last thing I do.

Oh! [grunts]

Ooh! Oh.

[whimpers] What's going on?

[whimpering]

Oh. In my head, [pants] I see...

a giant tree. [gasps]

Oh! Ooh... [pants] Uh...

Uh, ahhh!

Oh. And now
[pants] I hear a voice.

Uh, what's it
saying? Uh... [gasps]

[singsong] "Follow the
roots. Follow the roots."

[gasps] Could these
knobbliesbe roots to something?

Huh.

[grunts] Oh.

"Follow the roots.
Follow the roots."

I wonder where that voice
is coming from?[inhales]

I wonder where that voice
is coming from?[inhales]

Boy, look at all these
knobblies. Hmm.

Oh. Whoa.

[gasps] It's that voice again.

"Follow the roots.
Follow the roots."

Ah.

Hey. There's a
tunnel down there.

A long, dark tunnel.

[whimpers]

Well, here goes.

"Follow the roots.
Follow the roots."

Hmm.

[gasps] Wow! It looks like
the trunkof an underwater tree.

Oh boy. I need some air. Mm.

[multiple voices,
singsong]Follow the roots.

-Huh?-Follow the roots...

Hey! Hey, hey, hey. Look.

-Someone heard
us. [ululates]-Yeah!

Where am I?

[all ululating]

The Levesque twins just
leanedtheir bicycles against the tree

while they went to cutold
Grandma McIntyre's lawn.

[metal clattering]

Ooh! I hate to think
of poor old Grandma

pushing her own lawn mower[stammers]
if Grubtoe cuts down that tree!

[Sprockett sighs, grunts]

Sprocket, you got to admit,
this is pretty fascinating.

Sprocket, you got to admit,
this is pretty fascinating.

I had no idea so many people
or animalsuse that old tree.

[clattering]

Ah! There's Mrs. Lee. She's
hanging up a campaign poster for...

Sprocket!

-That's it!-[whimpers]

My paints. Just what I need.

-Sprocket, move it.-[groans]

What's this old
bone doing in there?

Sprocket, if this brilliant idea of
minefor saving an old tree doesn't work,

-[chuckles] I don't
know what will.-[sighs]

[all ululating]

-Isn't it amazing? It
worked. It worked.-Yeah.

Our call has been
answered. Yeah.

-I'll make waves
to that.-Me too!

[ululating resumes]

What's going on?

Welcome, creature from beyond.

Uh, who are you?
What do you want?

-Allow me to introduce
ourselves.-Yeah.

-I'm Mermer Merggle.-Mm-hmm.

And that up there, that
Merggle, that's Merple Merggle.

And that up there, that
Merggle, that's Merple Merggle.

-That's right.-And over
there, that Merggle,

that's Merkey Merggle.

-Hello.-And this
is Merboo Merggle.

That's right. Thank you for
coming. It's a vision come true.

Oh, and that Merggle
there, that's Mervin.

Wanna buy a hat?
Real cheap, seven shells.

[Merggles ululate]

-[stammers] No
thanks.-And who are you?

My name is... is Red Fraggle,
and I come from Fraggle Rock.

[Merggles gasp]

-I don't believe
it!-[Mermer] Oh! Oh!

You have no flippers or fins.

Well, you have no legs or feet.

Well, no flippers, no fins. You
can't splash. You can't swim!

-[gasps] You can't
live.-[Red] Aw!

Oh, but look on the bright
side: you get to wear socks.

I can see it all now.

A world with no flippers, no
fins, but a whole lot of socks.

Yeah, yeah. Uh, Merboo
here is keeper of the vision.

It was her idea to try to senda
message through the tree.

-That's right.-See, watch?
You go, uh... [grunts]

Follow the root. Follow the root.
Follow the root. Follow the root.

-So, that's how
you did it.-See? Yes.

Yes. Because the
treeis the center of all life

and our probe into the unknown.

And look what it brought us:
a finless, flipperless Fraggle.

Oh, oh. Uh, don't mind him.
H-He's always grumpy like that.

It's his job. He's Seer of
the Dark Side.[chuckles]

And I'm Seer of the Bright Side.

And your arrival is a wonder, a
breakthrough, a pearl in our oyster.

Aw, don't be silly. Our
oyster ran away weeks ago.

Uh, yeah.[stammers]
What do you want from me?

Well, uh, to tell you the
truth, we're a little tired

of only having
each other to talk to.

And we wondered if there
wasanyone out there to hear us.

Yeah. So Merboo told us to feed
our treeextra-fortified food [laughs]

to make the roots go
as far as they could.

Because our tree is the center of all
lifeand the probe into the unknown.

[Merggles ululate]

♪ There's a place where I go ♪

♪ Where my heart
starts to grow ♪

♪ And I see whatThe
whole world is worth ♪

Oh, sing it!

♪ It's a tree with a view ♪

♪ It's for me, it's for you ♪

♪ It's a tree that
shall be evermore ♪

♪ Tree of life, carry
meTree of life, ferry me ♪

♪ Tree of life, shelter
me in the strife ♪

♪ In your branches we
flyln your roots we can lie ♪

♪ In the dream of
the green tree of life ♪

♪ In the branches above ♪

♪ Where the sun shines in love ♪

♪ There's a time
whenThe mystery is plain ♪

♪ In the roots down below ♪

♪ Where the dark tendrils grow ♪

♪ There's a place
whereThe world starts again ♪

♪ Two, three ♪

♪ Tree of life, carry me ♪

♪ Tree of life, ferry me ♪

♪ Tree of life, shelter me in the strife ♪
♪ Tree of life, shelter me in the strife ♪

♪ In the strife ♪

♪ In your branches we fly ♪

♪ In your roots we can lie ♪

♪ In the dream of
the green tree of life ♪

♪ Tree of life ♪

[water sloshing]

[Merggles and Red
ululate and laugh]

Let's celebrate Red Fraggle,

the brightest thingthat's
ever happened to us.

[gasps] Let's have a feast!

-[Mermer] Oh, here,
here!-Oh no. Not a feast.

Oh, so many shells to wash.

-Oh. A feast. Yes,
yes.-[chattering]

I'll make waves to that.

-[ululating]-[Red] Uh, whoa!

Do you think there's a market
for hatswhere you come from?

I'm the Seller of Hats, see, and,
uh, I'm ready to expand. [chuckles]

-Yes, yes. Tell us
about Fraggle Rock.-Mm.

-Ooh! Yes, do.-Fraggle
Rock is a wonderful place.

A-And the most wonderful
thingabout it is the Fraggles,

A-And the most wonderful
thingabout it is the Fraggles,

especially my friends.

-[Boober grunting]-Whoo-hoo!

-That's it. Go on, Boober.-Whoo!

-Keep squeezing
those kohlrabies.-Whoo!

Yeah, we need lots of juiceto
k*ll off all these knobblies.

-Yeah.-Oh, I love
it. I love it. [laughs]

Okay, stop now. Stop.
That's enough. That's enough.

I can't rememberwhen
I've had so much fun!

-[Wembley chuckles]-Yep.

-That oughta do it.-Yep.

-Okay, Wembley.
Let's pour it in.-Okay.

[grunts]

-[Merggles
chatter]-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So what you should really
dois come back with me

and see Fraggle
Rock for yourselves!

[Mermer] Oh my!

Could we? I'd love to
meetall those new friends.

They sound so wonderful, so
interesting, so incredibly energetic.

Oh yeah, yeah.

I'm not going anywhereon
an empty stomach.

Well, who is?

Uh, Red Fraggle, why don't you
comeand sit up here on the branch of honor?

Why don't you wear
the shellsof friendship?

-Ooh! Thank you.-Ah.

And why don't you eat
this plateof leftovers?

And why don't you eat
this plateof leftovers?

-Ooh.-But you mustn't
eat until we make waves.

-Ah.-Again?

[clears throat]

Today we make waves
to honor Red Fraggle

and our treethat brought
her here. [inhales]

[ululating]

-[branch cracks]-[Red]
Whoa! Ohhh!

[gasps] Hey!
What's the big idea?

What happened to that branch? As
Guardian of the Tree, I need to know.

It fell all by itself.

[gasps] Oh, no!

Something horribleis
happening to our tree.

Oh now, wait. As
Seer of the Bright Side,

I must remind you that our
treeis virtually indestructible.

Oh yeah. Well, she's right, uh, Merkey.
Perhaps you are diving to conclusions.

After all, the only thing knownto
Merggles that can hurt our tree

-is kohlrabi.-Kohlrabi?

-Yes.-So, look
on the bright side.

There's no kohlrabi around
herefor miles and miles.

-That's right.-[Red stammers]

Actually, uh, that's not
quite true.-[Merggles] Huh?

Actually, uh, that's not
quite true.-[Merggles] Huh?

Uh, I'm afraid I have
somethingsort of, uh, icky to tell you.

[stammers] We're
all gills. Speak.

-Yeah.-Well, uh, I...

I think my friends... Remember
the ones I told you about?

[Merggles] Yes, yes. Yes, we do.

Well, uh, I think they may have
justpoured kohlrabi juice on the knobblies.

Oh my.

Well, that's too bad
for the knobblies.

But what do knobblies
have to dowith our tree?

What? Oh.I think the...
The knobblies are the roots.

-[Merggles shriek]-What?

Your friends poured kohlrabi
juiceon the roots of our tree? [shrieks]

The fiends! The
monsters! The brutes!

No. Uh, a-actually,
I... I told them to do it.

-You what? You
fiend!-You monster!

-You brute!-No!

[Merggles clamoring]

-Let me out! Let me
out!-Never! [sobs]

We thought you were our
friendand you betrayed us.

-[branch
cracks]-[Merggles exclaim]

Now just look at our
beautiful tree. It's dying.

Now just look at our
beautiful tree. It's dying.

Oh, I knew probing the
unknownwould come to no good.

-Well, look on the bright
side.-What bright side?

Uh, well, give me a
moment. I'll think of one.

[groans]

-Please let me
go.-[Mermer scoffs]

I'll go back and tell my friends to
stopkilling the roots before it's too late.

Ha! Ha! Ha! You
expect us to believe that?

We welcomed you with
open fins, we trusted you.

-We even liked you.-Yes.

And look what you did.
You wanted to k*ll our tree!

-No, please!-[another
branch cracks]

[Merggles exclaim]

-Oh, Merboo!-Yes?

-Keeper of the Vision...-Yes?

What do you see us doing now?

We must pack our nets and go.

-Go? Where?-To the
Incredibly Faraway Lake.

No, no, no, no. That's
so incredibly far away.

-We'll never make it.-I know.

We must either leave
and finda new beginning...

-Yes.-...or stay and
watch the bitter end.

[Merggles wailing and weeping]

For the first timeas
Keeper of the Bright Side,

For the first timeas
Keeper of the Bright Side,

[sobs] I can't see
the bright side.

[wailing continues]

Oh, this is all a horrible
mistake![whimpers]

Uh, we'll have to have some more
juiceto finish off these knobblies.

-Knobblies.-Well,
you're in luck.

'Cause I just got a honey of a
kohlrabithat I'm just dying to squeeze.

-Oh! [laughs]-Hey, hey.

-I hope all this work makes Red
happy.-Yeah, where is she, anyway?

She's probably with Mokey.

-Yeah.-Uh, excuse
me. Excuse me, guys.

Have you seen Red?
The Frolic is about to begin

and I have to ask
herabout these decorations.

-No.-[gasps]

-We thought she
was with you.-Yeah.

No. I haven't seen her for ages.

-Well, then where is
she?-Well, I don't know.

-Uh, maybe we better go
look for her.-Yeah. Good idea.

-Uh, Red!-Red! Red!

-Red!-Oh, Red!

-Red! Red!-Red!

Ah! Wow!

-[Merboo] Farewell, tree.
[wails]-[Mermer] Goodbye, tree. [cries]

What about her? What about her?

Oh, her? Well, she'll
never hurt anyone again.

-Ha!-Oh!

No! No, wait. Wait.
You can't leave me here.

I'm your friend. The tree
brought us together, remember?

Oh, they're gone.
I've ruined everything.

Oh, tree. You got me into
this. I wish you could get me out.

-[grunting]-Wait a minute. Hmm.

-Psst. Hey, Fraggle.-Uh-huh?

You wanna buy a hat?
Closing-out sale. Real steal.

Uh, no thanks,
Mervin. I'm thinking.

Aw, you drive a
hard bargain. [grunts]

Wait a minute! Mervin,
stop! Come back! Come back!

I knew you couldn't resist.

Uh, listen. If I buy one of your hats,
will you push me over to the tree?

Uh, uh, no!

No, [stammers] I couldn't do
that. Why, you're the enemy.

They'd never forgive me! [pants]

-Two hats?-Uh, it's a deal.

- [gasps] Great, great!-[grunts] Uh-oh.
- [gasps] Great, great!-[grunts] Uh-oh.

Ah! Uh, Gobo! Wembley! Boober!
Mokey! Can somebody hear me? Please!

[grunting]

-[Mokey] Red?-Oh,
did you find Red?

-Uh-uh.-No, she's
disappeared without a trace.

-Now where could
she be?-I don't know.

-Oh, look at these
poor knobblies.-Yeah.

Come on, Wembley. Let's
pour in the last of this juice.

[all gasp, exclaim]

Uh, I don't know why,

but I'm getting a
picture of Redin a cage,

hanging onto the
branch of a giant tree.

-What?-Hmm. Yes.

And a voice is saying,
"Do not k*ll the knobblies."

Do not k*ll the knobblies!

-Do not k*ll the
knobblies!-[grunts]

You promised you'd buy two hats!

Yeah. Mervin, if I heard you,
then someone in Fraggle Rock

has got to hear me. We're
connected by the tree.

Follow the knobblies.
Follow the knobblies!

Follow the knobblies.
Follow the knobblies!

Now the voice is saying,
-"Follow the knobblies."

-What?

I think it sounds
like Red. Here. Yeah.

-"Follow the knobblies."
-[Wembley] Oh.

-[grunts] You're right.-Yeah.

Oh, I'm gonna check this out.

-Oh, good.-In the meantime,

-don't k*ll any more
knobblies.-No, no. We won't. No.

[grunts]

Follow the knobblies!
Follow the knobblies!

[grunts] You know,
you're not very nice.

Oh. Oh, Mervin. I'm sorry.
But I don't want your tree to die.

Uh, here. Here. Take
these for the hats.

-[grunts]-Uh, keep the change.

Uh, whoa.

-Yeah. Oh.-Oh, thank you.

Oh! Here, uh... Oh.

-Uh, one shell, two
shells...-Maybe it's already too late.

Maybe the tree is dead. And
it's all my fault. What can I do?

Uh...

I can try one more time.

Uh, follow the knobblies.
Uh, follow the knobblies.

Follow the knobblies!

Oh no. It looks like
a long dark tunnel.

Well, I'm going back up.
Red can't be down there.

"Follow the knobblies."

[grunts] Or can she?

Follow the knobblies.
Follow the knobblies.

Somebody, anybody!
Follow the knobblies!

Mervin, what are you
doing? Come away at once.

-Whoa! What's going on here?-Oh
nothing. I'm doing nothing. No.

Hey. Get your hand off
that tree, young Fraggle!

-Please, the tree is our only
hope.-That's funny, coming from you.

[gasps]

-Gobo!-Ahhh!

[coughs] Red, where are we?

Oh no. Another one.

-We're doomed!-[Merggles
clamoring]

Doomed? Who's doomed?

Gobo, did you do what I told you to do?
Gobo, did you do what I told you to do?

Yeah, we stopped k*lling
the knobbliesjust like you said.

Wait a minute. Let
me get this straight.

You told them not
to k*ll the knobblies?

You? You saved our
tree? On purpose?

Yes. I may have been
silly, but I'm not an enemy.

I never wanted
to hurt your tree.

-But, really?-Really!

[Merggles cheering, ululating]

[Merboo] Oh, thank you.

Could someone tell mewhat's
going on around here?

So, not only does the tree
connectus to Merggle Lake,

but it also connects
us to the Merggles.

We can hear each otherthrough
the knobblies... I mean, roots.

Mm. That is the most
amazing storyl have ever heard.

-[Mokey] Me too.-Me three.

-Me four.-Me five.

-[Red gasps]-Me six.

-[Red chortles]-Me Mervin.

-Anybody wanna
buy a hat?-[laughter]

It's time for the
Underwater Frolic!

[laughter and cheers]

And you must also realize, Mr. Grubtoe,
that it is under that very same tree

that Mrs. Melon's fifth
graders holdtheir nature class.

[chuckles] They may not
vote, sir, but their parents do.

You agree? Excellent!
Thank you, sir, and goodbye.

Sprocket, we did it.

Not only is Grubtoenot
going to cut down our tree,

but he's going to plant
another one.[chuckles]

And you know what I promised in
return? I promised I'd hang this up.

You see, when Grubtoe heard
our report, he realized our tree

was the best place in townfor
his campaign poster. [chuckles]

Oh, Sprocket. Why don't
you bury this old bone?

Where? Under the
tree, of course. [laughs]

[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 ♪