Dance your cares away
worry's for another day
Let the music play
Down in Fraggle Rock!
So the Fraggles, who the kids are supposed to like and therefore emulate, are basically cracked out (just look at their eyes) hippies who live in a commune and steal from others for survival...
The other classes, the Doozers and the Gorgs, are the workers and farmers of this society and they're constantly belittled and made fun of. Fraggles don't just destroy the buildings that the Doozers erect, but they consume them. Literally consuming the resources of another culture and thinking little of it. The people that are working hard to build an infrastructure are trivialized and their work is consumed by hippies... there has to be some kind of rhetorical statement being made there. Then, we look at the Gorgs, the rich and agrarian group. They are portrayed as greedy and stupid; always being outsmarted by the agile hippie fraggles who steal their radishes.
No wonder my generation has little respect for the honorable professions of construction and agriculture... we were indoctrinated to believe that those workers are insignificant and ignorant!
PS - This is just based on my memory of the show and is a pretty shallow analysis. I was really just in a sort of bad mood when the theme song played on my Zune. It made me happy so I wanted to share the song... as I was watching the video is when I started thinking about all this other stuff...
Later that same day...
16 years ago
4 comments:
Ah yes the Fraggles sticking it to the man... I never had cable as a kid, so I rarely ever watched the show, and was thus saved from its commie-liberal undertones. I did watch plenty of episodes of the Muppet Show. Now THAT was entertainment. I also had quite an affinity for Super Friends and my Green Lantern underoos. Even then my favorite hero was the conservative war-vet.
I still love the catchy them song advocating irresponsibility!
Matt - I don't know if Kyle was much of a conservative... I can't argue about Hal Jordan though.
Metricula - I'm not sure about that. The theme song by itself devotes an entire verse to working your cares away... something that is very American... so not entirely irresponsible.
Yeah, Kyle's a Libertarian. The Guardians aren't about to hand out a power ring to someone who's 100% bleeding heart.
I did mean Hal though. He's the one that they had on the 80's Super Friends. He's also the only lantern with the combat experience needed to be ready on day one :) Hal answers the phone at 3:00am all the time. Usually it's because he's being drunk-dialed by Guy Gardner, but still.
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