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MuppeTrek - Episode 127 - "The Thirty-Minute Work Week" and "Conspiracy"
Oh, wow, there this is Kermit-D Frog. Fascinating. I'm Captain Kermit. Magic is all there. I sound like... All of this will keep you looking forward. I get you. What is God's name with the Starship? Thank you. Thank you. Love you. Mwah. I protest. I am not a merry man. Digger, digger, digger. Places, please. And here we go. And a Frego Rock. Welcome, Bullions, Gorgs, trash heaps and things to episode 127 of The Muppet Track podcast. I'm Steve. And I'm Jarmin, and we're on a journey across the stars to compare a good trash to creative worlds of Jim Henson and Gene Roddenberry. And what started as reviews of The Muppet Show in Star Trek, the original series, has expanded into outer space. And this week we have Frego Rock episode, The 30-Minute Work Week, and next generation episode, Conspiracy. But before we get that, Steve. I want a rock. Yeah. All right, this is that rock. There are all kinds of gems, jewels and geodes in the world, many of which can probably be found in Frego Rock. And I'm here to tell you about one of them. This week's gem is Amber. So Amber isn't like entirely a gem. It's really a hardened tree sap, solidified in the ground over millions of years. Here is evidence of it being carved by humans as far back as 10,000 years ago. So crazy old, often pieces of plants, animals, and bugs can be found in its samples, which is where we got the iconic Amber from Jurassic Park. Yeah. And in ancient China, it was burned and then added to acid, which created a super musky perfume that everyone loved. And it was really popular until they replaced it with a byproduct from sperm whales called Amber Griss. And it's because it got used in the place of this in perfumes. That's where Amber Griss got his name, because Amber was mixed with acid, I guess. So yeah, that's Amber and that rocks. I want a rock. That's funny, because I just saw a clip recently of, I think it was, what's his name? Oh, Jude Law, he's preparing to be playing a king in some movie. And there was a footage of him meeting with the, the smell person who's an expert perfumed perfumerist, I guess, and she was, she was historically giving him historically accurate perfumes and and colognes that kings and kings would wear back in those days. And they smelled terrible to us today. He just off. They purposely wanted to smell that way because it covered up how bad they smelled. So, right. Like everyone smelled awful. Yeah. That's exactly. So everything, I would say that they were probably the best bathed people. If anything, I would say it was so that they couldn't smell their servants. That might be true. I think it might be the more accurate thing. Because their servants were bathing them, they didn't want to smell their servants. Right. They only got that once a month bath, you know, and it was all together. They all together. Yeah. One bar soap. So what about Freggle Rock here? Oh, man, well, this week, let's check in and see what's up, doc. Doc brings sprocket some donuts, but sprocket can't pick between the custard and the jelly. He weighs out his options. Justice sprocket finally picks the jelly. Well, it's lunchtime. And now sprocket has to choose between two soups, no doc hears sirens in the distance and pushes sprocket to finally make a decision before bedtime. He is left undecided and starving. So what's going down in Freggle Rock? Gobo goes to retrieve Uncle Traveling Matt's postcard and run red seemingly comes with him. Gobo declares that his job for the day is done. They talk about how Wembley and his indecisiveness is giving in the way of him choosing a job. Back at the rock, Boober is doing his laundry and Wembley is deeply upset by this. He can't decide what he wants to do, but every Freggle needs a job. He needs to put in his 30 minute work week just like everyone else. We get treated to a Freggle tune working where they each describe sort of this super serious jobs they have that aren't really super serious at all, like splashing and roaming around and doing the wash, just generally doing very little. Mokey takes Wembley to try her job gathering radishes, but it is from the Gorgs garden. Junior Gorg is there patrolling. He halts his parents asking them for a password, which turns out is I don't know the password and it turns into a great Abbott and Costello-esque bit. Junior gets confused and lets them by anyway. Mokey and Wembley nearly get caught, but Mokey just boops Junior Gorg in the nose with a radish and they walk away. Elsewhere, Gobo offers to read Red Uncle Traveling Matt's postcard, which we will talk about later. Gobo decides it's time to get tough with Wembley about getting a job. Boober tries to talk Wembley into doing the laundry because it's just awful. Gobo gets tough and tells Wembley to pack his thing or he can get out if he can't decide on a job. Wembley goes to see the trash heap and after some discussion Marjorie says he should be a fireman because she always wanted to be a fire. And some jobs are even fun, is the lesson we learned. Wembley goes back to Fraggle Rock reinvigorated. I loved Wembley's line, "I can't be a fireman, I don't even know how to start a fire." We then find ourselves at a meeting of the Fraggle Rock Volunteer Fire Department. They call Roll and I love the guy goes, "You guys all here? Yeah, yeah we're all here." We get treated to the fireman's anthem. Wembley further doubts himself. Boomer is not helping saying that he's going to get so scared that he's going to blow up. Wembley has asked the three fireman's questions, "Do you like to wear hats and climb ladders?" Yes, I do. What are your feelings about bells and sirens? I like bells and sirens almost as much as the hats and lighters. And the toughest, "How do you start a fire?" I don't know. Wembley admits he doesn't know and it turns out that no one else does either, so it's not a big deal. They reprise the fireman's anthem and Wembley is inducted and it turns out he's going to be the siren. Wembley wails as the others sing and that's what's going down in Fraggle Rock damn right. So what do you think of this week's episode, "The 30-Minute Work Week"? I thought it was super cute, mostly because Wembley is very adorable, but I also love that they get a 30-Minute Work Week. That's amazing, but not their jobs are silly and fake, except for Boobers, Boobers doing actual work. He's the one watching everyone's laundry. That's what I love, that joke about Boobers is like the thing he chose to do is actually awful. It's like, "Oh, I swim in the water to make it clean." I splash and clean the water, but Boobers like actually slaving away. I think the sad is the most... Who are you such a miserable cousin? The saddest and most adorable moment, though, is Gobo kicking Wembley out for not picking a job and Wembley says, "I'll just get my things," and Gobo says, "That shouldn't be hard. You don't think you have as an extra shirt?" And he's like, "I'll get my thing. I'll just get my thing." It's like the jerk-cut movie. He's like, "I'll just take my thermos and I'll just get them." All I need is this thermos, this ashtray, and this chair. And my dog, my Johnny, my dog. I did notice, though, a big change in this episode, I think, was so jarring for the first episode, was the Boobs on the trash heap are gone. They must have been on the pilot episode and some executive has been like, "We can't have those giant knockers on." This was the first episode recorded in production, but beginnings was the first one aired. This was also what was used as the pitch pilot. Maybe they add the Boobs later and they'll be there the rest of the time. Maybe. Because the Boobs were not there. We're very noticeably not there this episode. So we're going to see. We'll see when they come in. When the trash boobs come in. We'll make it out. We'll make it out. We'll ask Boober to ask about the Boobs. Aw, Boober. I did laugh out loud when Boober says to Wembley about him not getting to, not going to answer the questions from the firefighters. He says, "When you aren't able to answer the questions, you're going to get so anxious and terrified you're just going to die." It's like, "Jesus, you're going to explode." Like, whoa. And then later on when he goes in front, Boober goes, " Cover your ears." Yes. That's just terrible. Just a little unsupported friend. He really is. But also him being the siren was hilarious and then doc hearing that siren outside was pretty nice. Yeah. That was cute. Yeah. I mean, this is a really flat episode. What do you think? This is another one of my favorites. I think the two musical numbers they put in here, work in and the fireman's anthem are great. Oh, yeah. On top of the heap, musical numbers, you get some sweet doozer action and work in. Work game, work game, work game, work game, work game. So good. And then getting, like, it was a great arc. The only complaint I have is from a storyline versus travel perspective, it is strange that he went back to the Gorgs Garden twice. Mm. I did. To that two times. Yeah. Normally you wouldn't do the same thing twice or be a second destination or otherwise. If anything, Moki's job should have been somewhere else doing something else. Or they combine your song with a different faggle. Yeah. Or they combine those scenes. Right. That makes sense. So that, from a structure point of view, that's really my only issue now, but it's nothing I noticed or cared about when I was a kid, you know? Yeah. And I don't think it was my favorite episode so far, but there was nothing wrong with this episode. Besides, yeah, that's total fair criticism, but like, if I was an executive scene this episode, which is what happened, then I'd be like, yes, get this on me. Absolutely. Yeah. And that, I did like the firefighter anthem too, that was adorable. Oh, yeah. All around good episode. But what were those silly creatures up to? Well, this week, Uncle Traveling Matt thinks that he is hopping on some superb, rapid transit. And it turns out he's getting on a roller coaster. So this week we're going to be talking about roller coasters. Well, they reinforced, they originated in Russia where they started out as reinforced sledding into bogginhills. So the first one that like this was recorded in what is now St. Petersburg in the 17th century, and they've mounted up a giant mound of snow and ice that was between seven and eight stories high. And they reinforced it with logs and built pathways into it and it lasted as long as the cold weather lasted. This led to a more permanent structure being built in the mid 1700s called the riding mountain. This was a year round structure. It was built a stone and mortar. And with pathways in it, and in the winter, they would pour water down it and it would freeze and turn into like a toboggan thing. Sounds terrifying. So in the summer, they had little carts that they would put people on and they ran on this like groove on the side of the things. And so it was a summer or winter attraction bringing us to like current times. There are more than 2,400 roller coasters operating worldwide. The tallest is the king dakka at six flags in Jackson, New Jersey. You shoot 46 stories straight up and then they go, eh, and you come down 46 stories, the other way. The fastest roller coaster, however, is the formula rasa at Ferrari world in Abu Dhabi, where you can experience speeds of 149 miles per hour. I was about to say, I thought the, we said the, the tallest one was in Jersey. I'm surprised it's not Abu Dhabi or the United Arab Emirates and they're like, there you go. Abu Dhabi. There you go. You have the fastest one. They're by a huge margin. That's funny. German. What did you think was the best muppet hearing moment this week? So there's a lot of good moments, but I really was surprised and trying to figure out how they did the roller coaster scene with travel and Matt. And then I'm, and then I funding figured it out, I think is that the puppeteer was the guy sitting next to him and that arm over him was a fake arm. So I think it was a fake arm to his right going over him and then yeah, then he must have had his hand to sit in there and then they had, they had to ride at least two times then because they had to ride for the over the shoulder shots where someone was in the cart directly behind the camera and they had to ride at least one other time when it was being filmed. So the minimum Dave goals did that two times, probably more realistic. He had a big smile in his face. He was enjoying that. Yeah, he was. That was funny. But that was impressive to me. I was like, but they pulled that off. That was pretty impressive. I really dug the fireman's hall anthem. There was just so much action. So many rapid fire bits. People coming with buckets on their heads carrying ladders, people sliding down a pole, people being thrown in the background. The one thing that blows me away about this all the time and I need to look at how they do it. There's so many of these big fraggle numbers where there are fraggles. Way in the back, way in the back. And their mouth is moving to the right thing, just like everyone else, even though a lot of them are like hanging from walls and stuff where they don't have to do much else. I think it's like, yeah, like how are they filling these scenes? They must be like just one person pulling a string to like move their mouth because like they're from far away. They don't have to move the whole body or anything. But it's just one of those things where they take these scenes and make them feel so full and have so much depth and it was one of the best examples of that. Yeah, more so than the Muppet Show, like there's just so much depth to what's going on. They're on a stage the whole time like Muppet Show. So it's an actual place. So, John, what happened on this week's episode of Star Trek, the next generation? So Picard gets a super secret communique from Captain Walker Keel of the USS Horatio. Apparently, he's a guy he used to be super close to in his younger days and he tells him to meet him at some obscure planet to tell no one else about it and trust no one. And once we're there, there are two other illustrious captains who are with him. And Keel asks Picard personal questions to make sure that it's really him. Picard passes his test and Keel tells him that a horrible conspiracy is a foot with Starfleet. Weird orders are being given and officers aren't acting like themselves and people are mysteriously vanishing or dying left and right. So Picard promises he'll be on the lookout and takes the Enterprise back on course to where it was going. But along their way, they find the USS Horatio and Keel with it have been destroyed just like in their path. So, something's obviously up. Meanwhile, he had data processing through all the orders that had been given by Starfleet over the last several months. And data concurs that something weird is going on and that there definitely is a conspiracy somehow. So, the Enterprise goes straight to Starfleet headquarters on Earth to confront the top brass, just like going to bust down the doors and figure out what's going on. And once they get there, they're greeted on the view screen in a very weird manner by these three admirals that are in charge of Starfleet. But then Admiral Quinn is also there, who we remember from the previous episode originally talking about this conspiracy kind of starting up. And he's like, Picard, yeah, you have dinner with them, but I'll meet you on the Enterprise beforehand. And Picard's like, okay, good. He's still with us. He's going to warn me about what's going on. And so Quinn comes on the Enterprise, but he's acting weird. So Picard tells Riker to keep an eye on him because he doesn't think that's really Quinn anymore. So Picard has off to meet with the other admirals on Earth to have some dinner. Meanwhile, Quinn is being real weird and he brought a little bug monster on board, a little briefcase to infect Riker with. So he and Riker fight and Riker gets his ass kicked and then Jordi and Worf show up and he kicks both their asses to this old man is beat mass. And then Dr. Crusher gets there and takes him down with a phaser finally. But meanwhile, Picard back on Earth is having dinner at the two remaining admirals on and they're acting really sketchy, but Crusher calls him right before the dinner to tell him about Quinn and that they are infected by this weird bug creature and that he'll be able to tell who's infected by the little tail sticking out the back of their neck. So he goes in the dinner pretending he doesn't know anything yet, but when they open the dishes to eat dinner, they're filled with crawling worms grows. But before you can run away, Riker comes the door and stops him. Oh no, Riker is infected too. And then they all sit around the table monologuing about their evil plans until psych Riker was pretending to be infected and he phasers some dudes and then he and Picard picked them all off one by one. Then they follow one of the infecting bug creatures as it wriggles out of some guy's head into another room and they find that Remick, that weirdo inspector from the other episode, has been infected with like the mother of all these creatures. So they're all inside his body and he's like eating more of the creatures and he's like, I call them in peace. We just want to live peacefully. And then they're like hell no, and they blow them to bits and his gore goes everywhere. He blows up and they kill the monster inside of them. And luckily that frees up the worm that kills the worm that was inside the head of the other Admiral on board Admiral Quinn or is it the end? Because apparently they sent out a homing beacon from earth before Remick died, so more of those creatures could be on the way. And that is conspiracy, Stephen, what do you think? All right, so some things I liked. It was great to see a callback to some to a previous episode and a point towards some sort of overhead plot in the same episode, right? It didn't go anywhere, but it was a great teaser of what could be in this show, which was larger overarching plot points with individual story based, like character based stories in between. Doesn't happen a lot next generation, unfortunately. I know it happens weren't like Voyager deep space nine death timelines, so yeah. Yeah. TV was changing that. This was still the right the middle of it that we have to week episode based television. That's just what people expected. I like that code 47, we got a taste of something new that was for captain's eyes only. This had a very different tone than any other Star Trek episode, and I thought it was really nice departure and was another another example of them showing what Star Trek could be and could branch out into becomes in the future. Good slow introduction of what is happening, the mystery of the planet, the mystery of the guy them telling him of additional mystery like there's just it's over and over and it's in a good way. I'd like that they didn't commit to early. There was a good up to a good point in the episode where I legitimately was wondering if the review was going to be it was something wrong with the card. Oh, okay. Rather than everyone else like he's the one with the parasite and so he's getting paranoid and seeing, you know, that'd be interesting, right, but they didn't commit too early to it being this like bug parasite thing and I appreciate that because you're probably a lot of episodes is that you always kind of telegraph what's going on way too early. That happens quite a bit these episodes. Good worth moment in the fight and his interaction with the guy and I feel like we didn't get any good worth and in the last three episodes, I feel like we've gotten the two best worth scenes and the whole season so far. And then I love the Riker double cross reveal where he's not really infected. That was good. So dislikes, we never really got a full idea of how these things spread. They kind of looked like the earworms from steady alpha five or steady alpha six were constantly stranded kind of, but even that not really. Then what I didn't do once again, this becomes a consistency thing and this makes you with a lot of the structure who watch. So for some of these guys, they had just had to blast them like one time and this thing pops out of their head, but some of them, the one guy, they had to barely had to blast him like seven times. Oh, she did have a line about that and the thing still didn't come out of her head. So he said that she, she, what he tells me is a card. Make sure you use, put it on, on kill because they, they don't, aren't even affected much by stun. So she was shooting him with stun over and over again. That's why it took forever. Okay. But I was just, that's why he didn't die. I just popped right the hell out. That's why he didn't die and the thing didn't come out of his head because he was shooting him with stun and they were shooting and the guys missed that line. That makes more sense. Yeah. You're the quick line though. Some of the dislikes, the, it's not that it was bad, but the guys head blowing up his chest exploding and that puppet were just all very strange departures and did not feel like Star Trek. Yeah. I don't think they were necessarily bad effects. The puppet was not a great effect. Certainly. But I just felt like it is, it, it needed to exist in like an outer limits episode or something, not in a Star Trek episode. So there is a reason behind that. I don't think I mentioned the trivia, but apparently Gene Roddenberry was really pissed because he kept getting a lot of pushback about this episode or other episodes recently from the top brass at the studio. And so it's kind of an FU. He's like, well, I'm going to go all in on this episode with some gore effects and stuff. And so you're right. It's like, whoa, this is intense for Star Trek to throw this into nowhere. So apparently that's why that kind of happened. But otherwise this without me having to think too hard about it is like top three and with only one episode left, there's a good chance it'll hold a top three spot. Very nice. Yeah. I think they did. They are way up there right now. Yeah. Cause I feel like this, it just felt well written. It felt like it was paced well, kept keeps you guessing, like everybody got involved. There's no Wesley in this episode, but I don't think he really fitted in this really serious episode as well as other episodes because they really need Wesley. But yeah, I agree. It was pretty up there. Pretty good. Pretty damn good. So some tracks with them. Sweet facts. I want them. No, no, no. So this episode is a little bit, quite a bit because it's a pretty popular episode. The close up shots of the Starfleet HQ banquet were live mealworms, those things that were the worms. The actors really were eating chow mane when they put it in their mouth though, it looks the same color from far away and apparently it's a very popular worm to use for movies and stuff like that because you can buy that any pet store because they're for like reptiles and stuff. They're really cheap and they use them all the time. This episode marks the first appearance of a bullion, the blue skinned race named after Star Trek veteran director Cliff Bull who directed this episode, he named after himself. That's right. And that is why it was the intro race in today's episode, which Steven totally didn't do by accident. I totally didn't. So when data is commenting on the orders he just read from the computer when he's looking over all the orders over the months from Starfleet, the computer interrupts him by saying, "Thank you, sir. I comprehend." And this is the only time in all of Star Trek when a Federation computer speaks in the first person using the word "I." The non-canon reference work, Star Trek the next generation officer's manual explains this by stating that the Enterprise D computer was one of the most advanced ever constructed and was self-aware, but that's never used in actual canon. It is also one of the few times the computer has expressed frustration with its user as more often the frustration is the other way around. And that was kind of the joke. I thought it was hilarious where they're always so frustrated at a date ever giving too much detail. And even the computer was like, "All right, enough already. I thought that was pretty fun." I get it. The exterior footage of Starfleet headquarters that we see for a couple seconds, I thought it looked really good. I was like, "Oh, I must be from the remastered." That's because it was from Star Trek for the Voyage home that used the exact footage. And it's also because you can see some Tellerites walking around in that little bit of footage. That's the only times Tellerites appear on Star Trek the next generation. And those are the blue guys with these, yes? That's the endorian, so the Tellerites are the pig-like looking guys. Oh, that's right. Okay, I remember that. And they're actually founding members of the Federation, but yet they're nowhere in TNG at all, which is weird. That's from what? Tower of Babel? Was that absurd? That was one of the episodes they were in. Yeah. There were like two or three of the original series. Maybe some two-sus-box dad, that's why I remember it. This episode won an Emmy for Outstanding Makeup for a series. So for all that gore makeup, I guess. And data is reviewing the Starfleet communications yet again. One of the images that flashes on the screen is a drawing of a bird with a Starfleet uniform and a human head, and the title of the Great Bird of the Galaxy. And this is a reference to Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry, who was given that nickname by one of the producers. The bird's human head is Gene's head, and the image is based on a full color painting that was presented to Gene in 1987 for his 66th birthday. So very random, quick little Easter egg. This was to be the introduction of the Borg initially. They would have been using the creatures to take control of the Federation, but the writer strike made this impossible because they already had this version of the script already. So thankfully, this was not the introduction of the Borg, because that would have been a little weird with the creatures being used. Why was genuinely thinking about how that would have changed, and I think there would have been a lot of the same elements. Like we still get the very insectoid vibe, the central queen, which is eventually revealed in Star Trek First. And the hive mind being assimilated, there's some elements that are there, but the issue is the Borg is so overt and oppressive that this, every episode would have become this episode. Right. And before it's like, well, can we trust them? Oh my God, I don't know. Maybe they've got a bug in that like there, it would be nonstop all the time versus board where it's like, if they are there, you know, they are there because they don't do come in. They just do. We're going to take over. Yeah. So I just think about how different that could have been had this been that seed. Yeah. Thank God. Someone made the right call to walk away. And they just kind of cut this one off a little bit. This episode was not banned by the BBC. Like some episodes do in America, they're too violent back then, but it was edited to remove the shot of REMIX head exploding. So that was changed when it was aired on the BBC initially. I don't blame them. That was not that good of an effect, really. But also just like surprising in context. Oh, yeah, also for taste reasons or whatever. So the guy who played REMIX, a mold was made of his face filled with raw meat and then blown up to create the effect using Picard and Riker fire on him. But both the producer and one of the writers were concerned that it was too graphic. So one of Dan Curry, I guess, and the producer on the show invited his six-year-old son to watch the episode in order to test how children would react to it. And the boy reportedly liked it so much that he suggested the creation of a REMIX action figure whose head would blow up by pressing a button. That is a good idea. That is. And this resulted in Berman deciding just go ahead and there the episode uncut with the full sequence included because kids apparently would love it. So there you go. But we didn't get the action figure. So that's too bad. Oh, damn. What are you doing? What are you doing next? Just this time around, Steve? You'd only be able to use it once, you know. It's true. What a lame toy. All right. Well, we've got Robert Shanken, who played Lint Lieutenant Commander Remick, the guy from the previous episode. He was in the movie Broad Daylight. Also in this movie was when Chris Cooper, or as our fans might know him, text Richmond from the 2011 The Muppet movie, the Jason Seagull. He played the bad guy. Ah, gotcha. So bad guy from that. Great secondary one. Michael Berryman, who played Captain Ricks, who's a very distinct looking actor. Oh, yeah. All about he has a genetic disorder where he doesn't have hair fingernails, eyelashes, and like two other things. So he was in the movie Spy Hard with Leslie Nielsen. Also in Spy Hard was Charles Durning, also better known to Muppet fans is I'm Doc Hoppe. Charles Durning, fantastic. And then Cliff Bull, who was the director of named Bullions, did one episode of a show called Shadow Chasers. Also in this show was Avery Schreiber, who was a Muppet show guest. Oh, yes. I remember. He was the guy who was like very Jack Blackish. Yeah. Yeah. Look at that vibe. That's funny. But it makes sense there's so many crossovers. These are the same episode, right? I mean, really. We watched two of the three of you. Well, both feature people heading to dangerous territory to receive advice, the card going down to the planet's surface to learn of the conspiracy and Wembley danger the Gorg's garden to see the trash heap for advice on his career. All that's true. Both have someone lying to another character to get what they want out of them. So the admirals are lined up a card about everything being all right, just to lure him to Starfleet and to get along with Riker as well. And Gobo lying to Wembley that he was mad at him just to get him to make up his mind sooner about picking a job. I had to get tough with them. I did. Yeah. Feature high pitch wailing the mother parasite at the end after the body's been blown up and Wembley when he becomes the siren. That's very true. Both have a group asking you questions in order for you to join their group. The admirals. Oh, you're absolutely right. The admirals asking Picard questions to make sure it was really him so we could join the rebellion against the conspiracy and the firefighters asking Wembley questions so we could join them as a firefighter. Fantastic. Yeah. What's happening? I think here's something. Oh. Transport. How function? How function? It was a big malfunction this time. Was that Mrs. Weasley? Did she get transported from Harry Potter? It was one of those unused sound effects we had on the board. We lost Mrs. Weasley. She's gone. She's here. She's here in Star Trek. Thank you. Oh, man. That was good. Okay. Trek to Rock. I'm going to bring him over Admiral Quinn to replace the trash heap. Wembley going to him for advice and him asking Wembley a series of trick questions about their past only to tell Wembley about the conspiracy deep and fragile rock. There probably is what Trek to Rock. I'm going to have Remic come over and replace Doc. But the weird that would have to be the weird mother alien version of Remic and he keeps sending his little bug creatures down to Fraggle Rock to attack the Fraggles and the whole show becomes about doozers and Fraggles fighting the bug creatures because I totally watched that. Yeah, dude. I would watch that. I would do. Rock to Trek. I'm going to bring over the firemen and replace the parasites and over the course of the episodes more and more crew members start wearing funny red hats and becoming firemen as they threaten to take over the ship. It becomes very obvious who's been taken over because they're wearing a firemen's outfit. They're wearing firemen's hats. Trek to Fraggle Rock. I'm the way I did that one already. Fraggle Rock to Trek. I'm going to bring the trash heap and her little minions over to become the little bug aliens because I think that would just work perfectly. Those little bug alien guys look very similar to her little minions, little creepy crawlies can go in your ear. So it'd be perfect. If anything, I was kind of blown away at how low quality those were. Yeah, they were like stop motion at times. It was weird. I'm surprised they didn't stop motion. That was weird. Yeah. Did they do that? Can you think of another example in Star Trek TNG where they do that? Not that I remember, but there's bound to be at least one other occasion where they're stop motion. And they won an Emmy for this episode? Not for the stop motion, probably, but probably. Oh, thank God. Not for the special effect. You said for. Yeah. Well, that brings us to the end of episode 127 of up a trick podcast. Join us next time for Fraggle Rock episode, the pre-chification of convincing John. Next generation series episode, the neutral zone, which will be the final episode of season one. How are we all ready through season one of TNG? We're one seventh of the way through. Oh my gosh. That means we're going to be bringing you our top three and bottom three of the season, which by default will also be top three and bottom three of the series so far. That's true. So far. Until another 24, 26 episodes. That's right. Join us for all that and more from the lovers, the dreamers and us. Live long and prosper, everyone. Thanks for listening to the Muppet Trek Podcast. 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