gentlemen how are you we're doing great good good to see you yeah
thank you for your time i am so excited that you guys have brought back the fraggles which
is such a big part of my childhood being 40 this year i turned 40 this year that when i was a kid
it was such a big like visually just everything it was just like a sensory amazing thing i just
wondered what the lure for you to to bring it back because i can imagine they kind of maybe
you know they could have done a reboot could have something but you're actually treating it as
a continuation more than anything else yeah i mean when when matt and i first got the chance
to meet with the folks at the jim henson company about bringing the show back i mean that was the
big question it's like well what do you want to do with it and we're sort of honestly like let's do
fraggle rock i mean the show is so important to so many people for really good reasons the characters
are amazing the world is so inventive and cool its ability to sort of uh have incredible lessons
baked into the episodes but not have it feel like they're hitting you over the head with it it had
such a great balance so i think for us it was about doing that but taking it into 2022 with
all the amazing production design obviously you know the cameras are incredibly different so just
the crispness of things incredibly different which led to i think a slightly bigger world
but that was really it it was taking the show and just sort of expanding upon it was it the same
for you matt was it an easy decision to say yeah let's let's let's do fraggle rock that'll be cool
oh my god totally i mean just to to honestly to have the meeting on the jim henson lot you know
there's this studio right near my house here in los angeles uh it's it's the old charlie chaplin
uh studio and there's a big kermit the frog uh with the top hat above it and i've just driven by
it in the 20 years i've lived here and it was like do you want to go meet uh the jim henson company
and talk about fraggle rock and it was like uh yeah yeah i think that i think that'd be okay um
and yeah just the same nostalgia we're about the same age um it's it's really tempting especially
nowadays with all the styles of reboots to to try and go a little bit off the reservation
and you know there's always i've heard of ideas where people have pitched uh the fraggles are
going out into outer space and they're on an adventure but really the magic of the show
for all of us always took place in the rock with the music and the friendships
and like alex said we just have this opportunity now with technology to go even deeper and go on on
bigger adventures and more more vibrant sets um so yeah it was a no-brainer is it i've known a lot of
time left so i'll ask you both you can just answer one by one do you have a favorite is there a favor
are you allowed to have a favorite fraggle amongst everyone or is that is that bad etiquette yeah i
know i think i think it's gravy that they're just there's an obscure character that makes me laugh
so hard which is the storyteller donna kimball played the storyteller and i think it was just
this every time she's on screen uh i'm like in love with her so i and there's a new character
a new character named pogie who's just this very very upbeat uh almost just obliviously upbeat
uh ridiculous character who kind of punctuates a lot of scenes that always makes me laugh too yeah
so pogie and the storyteller i think for sure yeah but if you're the fraggle five i'm i'm a mokey guy
for sure of course the fraggle five i was like the dog yeah i can't remember the dog's name
for life rocket of course okay yeah it's hard to pick because each of these characters have
sort of i mean all the pieces of i think there's a little bit of all of us in each
of the fraggles so it's kind of hard to to pick now if you want to know my favorite child
i can answer that we won't record that just in case okay okay gentlemen thank you so
much for your time absolute pleasure thank you goodbye thank you so much ladies and gentlemen
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