QotD: Celebrational Muppetational!
Who is your favorite Muppet? Why?
QotD submitted by knitwitology.vox.com.
The Doozers by a country mile.
The cutest of any Henson-created creature, these little green fellows captivated me as a child (I had a clockwork Doozer man) because of their symbiotic relationship with the Fraggles. If you remember, the Doozers made elaborate, beautifully engineered constructions which were then eaten by the Fraggles. The Doozers didn't mind this, though. They took great pleasure in the building of their Minimalist minarets, but cared little for the end result. (I wonder if this influenced my career choice of contributing to tomorrow's chip paper, even as I took the Fraggles' unthinking hedonism and love of music as a template for my adult life?!)
There was even, I think, an episode where the Fraggles went on a diet, leading to, er, wherever it was the Fraggles lived being filled to bursting with Doozer structures. This crisis was averted when a Doozer diplomatic mission persuaded the Fraggles that they should eat again, so that the Doozers might build on forever.
The best Doozer moments were not, though, the episodes in which they came to the fore, but their constant presence, and the Fraggles unthinking destruction of their works: I can still picture the odd look of combined satisfaction and exasperation on a Doozer's face when Red Fraggle chomped noisily on a freshly-built Doozer stick balustrade.
