ewan and i just hashed out a theory:
1. the timeframe of the show, fraggle rock, from the war between fraggle rock and fraggle cave to present, is approximately 200 years, if not less, due to the presence of underground pipes prior to the colonization of the greater fraggle rock/cave area by fraggles of some undisclosed fraggle homeland.
2. the world’s oldest fraggle is this old, if not older
3. the world’s oldest fraggle rules by force and is often seen being physically and emotionally aggressive to his subordinates
3. modern fraggles do not remember, or have any oral tradition of, the fraggle war. therefore, fraggles have a lifespan of eight to ten years, allowing dissolution of oral tradition into nonsensical song within the time between the two fraggle wars.
4. the world’s oldest fraggle is never seen eating radishes, or any radish byproduct, and seemingly has a significantly longer lifespan than other fraggles.
5. fraggles have both textiles and a dye industry. the only other lifeforms within fraggle rock that are less than entirely sentient are the rodents; their hair is most likely too short to weave into fabric. outside of plant fiber, which is hard to come by underground, there is no source of fiber long enough to weave outside of fraggle hair or meticulously knotted rodent hair.
6. the world’s oldest fraggle most likely needs to eat.
7. fraggles understand the idea of consumption of another living being, as referenced by uncle travelling matt’s avoidance of doc’s dog, sprocket.
8. fraggles are born on a regular basis, and most likely die on a regular basis as well.
9. world’s oldest fraggle eats fraggle meat.
10. world’s oldest fraggle eats fraggle meat.
11. world’s oldest fraggle eats fraggle meat.
Don’t Fraggles count in days rather than months or years?
More than once throughout the series characters have said ‘many days ago’ or something along those lines to explain how long ago something was.
In the episode ‘The Lost Treasure of the Fraggles’ Red and Gobo find a map. Red reads aloud, “This Map was drawn by Dwight at the time of the Third Drafting.’ in response, Gobo explains, ‘The Third Drafting? But that’s about a zillion-squintillion days ago!’
In that same episode when they accidentally smash through a boulder after tripping over one of Sprocket’s lost roller skates, they gain access to a previously hidden part of the Rock. All over the place are creatures with rather long hair. They could be a source of fiber. Also the Gorgs are quite large, their shed fur could easily be be collected and used in sewing/knitting/etc.
ANYWAYS Whenever the Third Drafting happened, it was in a time when music was already a huge part of Fraggle culture. The lost treasure of Fraggle Rock is a music box, hidden within the home of the Gorgs above the mantle.
In S03 E18 ‘The Cavern of Lost Dreams’ Cotterpin Doozer and Gobo go exploring and find the namesake of the episode, where two very elderly Doozer ( Yeaster and Crusty ) are.They briefly ask Cotterpin where the rest of the ‘Relief Detachment’ is. The Relief Detachment were a group of Doozers who departed from that neck of the Rock to find a new material for building with. There, you see primitive Doozer construction that was made of Mushrooms. ( Which is why the Relief Detachment was formed, the mushroom population began to dwindle because of the constant use in Doozer construction. ) Mind, these structures are ‘ancient’ in Doozer/Fraggle standards, so they’re no longer edible ( as proven by Gobo who attempts to eat one of the towers ).
Now, I don’t know about you, but if The World’s Oldest Fraggle was alive in the time of Primitive Doozers, he very well may have eaten Mushrooms ( and even contributed to the demise of their population ), as that seems to be what was available around the Rock many many many days ago.
Just food for thought lmfao.
ruby, ewan, ball’s in your court
i don’t know how to respond. this person is clearly the leland chee of fraggle rock lore. this is vastly, vastly out of my league
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