List of Fraggle Rock Episodes - Season 5: 1987

Red Fraggle's been having a lot of parties lately, and today will be her 28th 'birthday' since the Festival of the Bells. But when the other four seem uninterested in celebrating with her again, she goes off by herself, and runs into Cotterpin Doozer, who left her job of stirring glue to celebrate with Red. As the girls are singing, they come upon a magical mirror, named Mavis, who can sing, whistle, yodel, gurgle, and see the future. She tells Red that she sees, in the future, Red will have a party that she'll never forget. Cotterpin leaves after getting tired of Mavis calling her a 'bug,' but Red keeps pushing Mavis until they arrive to the hole that leads into the Gorg's castle. In the castle, Pa and Junior are going honk-fishing, leaving Ma alone on her birthday. Ma becomes really sad, but when she hears yodelling coming from the hole in the wall, she picks up Mavis, and they have a chat. Red gets angry that the Gorg stole her new friend away, so she goes inside to save her. Once Red arrives, Mavis tries to convince Ma and Red to have the party together. Red goes along with it, only so she can get Mavis out of there. Her plan goes wrong when Mavis falls off the table and breaks, leaving Ma furious. Now, Red has to find some way to put Mavis back together, and Cotterpin just may be the Doozer to help.

Theme: Doing the right thing; celebrating

Gobo wants to solve the Riddle of Rhyming Rock, and he's been rehearsing for quite some time. According to Rhyming Rock's caretaker Herkimer Fraggle, each Fraggle only gets three chances in a lifetime, and when Gobo uses his first two and fails, he goes to the Storyteller to find out how to solve it. She then tells him that Uncle Matt, when he was really young, uncovered a book that could solve all riddles (The riddle goes, "Mumba Gumba, Dinky-Doo. Pants for me. Answer YOU!) But, when he finds out that the spell doesn't work, Wembley becomes stuck underneath a rockslide. Now Gobo needs to find a way to get his friend out and get Rhyming Rock again. And if he makes that happen, he just might be the first Fraggle in history to crack the riddle.

Theme: Following instructions

Gobo's wanting to take his friends to Grey Rock Ridge and explore, but when everybody backs out- including Wembley, who's having a rock dust allergy attack- Gobo goes by himself. Wembley tries to tell him that, maybe this is a sign to not go at all. Gobo thinks his friend's just being silly and takes off alone. Meanwhile, Cotterpin's telling her friends Hammerhead and Wrench about Gobo and how brave he is, and how he always goes on adventures. Wrench wanders off, he runs into Sprocket, who's made his way back into Fraggle Rock to find Gobo. and when the three meet, they all go to Grey Rock Ridge together. But before they get there, they come across a rock windstorm. Was Wembley right when he told Gobo not to go in the first place?

Theme: Intuition

It's another great day in Fraggle Rock, and today, Red's helping Cotterpin make her plans for a new bridge when suddenly, the Fraggle Horn is blown and Red must take off for the meeting. Not far from where Cotterpin is, there's a Doozer named Tumbrell who's not a big fan of Cotterpin and sees that she's breaking a violation: consorting with Fraggles. Meanwhile in the Great Hall, Mokey tells everyone she spotted a Poison Cackler's nest, so Gobo gets everyone to go with him to the Lesser Galleries on a small vacation. But when Large Marvin and Feenie don't make it to when the Fraggles all take off, they're left behind. Cotterpin's being put on trial for telling Red of her building plans. She's given a chance to prove that Fraggles are noble creatures, so she tries to find her friends, but the only people she comes across are the only two left in the Rock... Large Marvin and Feenie. The Doozers aren't convinced that these two are worthy, but when a Baby Poison Cackler appears, Feenie and Large Marvin must work together to save all the Doozers.

Meanwhile, Uncle Traveling Matt observes the outdoor relaxing of Doc and Sprocket.

Theme: Showing intelligence and integrity

When Doc comes into the workshop, he has a surprising look on his face, and then tells Sprocket that he just met a man on the street who could make him $100,000 richer; all Doc has to do is allow the man to dump industrial waste into the limestone caves below the shop. When Sprocket hears this, he wants Doc to not take the deal, because there's furry creatures who live down there. Meanwhile, Boober doesn't feel like going for a swim today when a heat wave strikes Fraggle Rock. Instead, he wants to do some 'anting' (watching ants). But when he smells something terrible in the water, he tries to go and stop his friends from swimming before they get contaminated. But it's too late, and all the Fraggles except Boober fall terribly ill. Boober then goes up to the Trash Heap and tells her the news. Marjorie then tells him that "if there's a problem in the river of life, it gets past into everybody's surface." She then tells him that he needs to go to "Outer Space." The Gorgs' water has been poisoned too when Ma and Pa Gorg return from the stream where they have been wading and when they think it's the Fraggle's fault, Boober tells them that it's the Silly Creatures from "Outer Space." Pa Gorg then assigns Boober to go there and straighten things out. But Boober's feeling incredibly helpless, and has no idea how to get the Silly Creatures to stop contaminating the water. Will Boober finally go to "Outer Space" alone and save everyone? Or will Doc take the money?

Theme: Pollution

When Red and Gobo are getting ready to have a swim meet, the contest gets cut short when the Knobblies- thick, pink vines- come to the surface of the pond, leaving almost no room to swim. Boober brings some Kolerabi juice by for his friends to drink, but nobody likes it. But when Red dumps the juice on the vines, the vines shrink and die, giving more room in the pond. Boober then rushes back to make more so the swim race can still go on. When Red grabs one of the vines, they give her a vision, with weird creatures saying, "Follow the roots." Red then dives into the very bottom of the pond to find out where the message is coming from, and discovers that the vines are roots to a huge, underwater tree. When Red gets to the top of the tree, she finds five Merggles (mermaid Fraggles); Merboo, Merkey, Mermer, Merple, and Mervin. They are delighted that their message to Red worked, since they're now able to communicate with another species besides themselves. Meanwhile, back at the pond, Boober's Kolerabi juice is being dumped by the bucketload onto the Knobblies, and while Red's celebrating with the Merggles, the branches start dying, and they can't figure out why. Red then tells them of Boober's juice, and they lock Red in a cage, then swim far away before they die. But when Gobo grabs one of the vines up by the pond, he receives a vision to "Stop pouring the Kolerabi juice", and "Follow the Knobblies", which he does. It's up to Gobo to go find and rescue her before the tree dies and the Merggles leave forever.

Wembley's really excited today, because today is going to be his first solo, overnight hike. But while on the way, he becomes trapped in a rockslide, and when he wakes up, he's being comforted by Mudwell the Mudbunny- the rarest creature in the Rock. Mudwell and Wembley have such a wonderful time together, and seem to be great friends. But when Wembley wakes up from his nap later on, Mudwell tells him, rudely, to leave and never come back again. When Wembley returns, he's upset, and the other four make him share his story about Mudwell. Gobo tells him that maybe he should go back and have Mudwell explain, so Wembley goes back, just as Mudwell is lying by a mud puddle. He tells Wembley that he'd like to be friends, but it's time for him to leave. After Mudwell becomes quiet, Wembley realizes that the Mudbunny has died. When Wembley sees his four friends again, he's really sad, so all four of them- and The World's Oldest Fraggle- try to cheer him up but fail. Finally Gobo tells him that, even though Mudwell's gone, there's ways of keeping part of him alive. So Wembley gets an idea, and goes back to where Mudwell died, only to discover something truly unique about Mudbunnies.

When Mokey, Wembley, and Boober are rehearsing their lines for the show their putting on later in the day, they come across The Sacred Cavern, where they see an ancient drawing of a Fraggle. While doing a chant, without knowing what would happen, the three Fraggles get transported back in time where Fraggles had leaders, they were bald, and they were way too serious. Luckily, Mokey, Boober and Wembley are wearing caps, so these Fraggles don't see that the Fraggles from the future aren't bald. When the leader, Bigmouth, asks who they are, Mokey claims to be their Blundig, their ancient leader who was destined to return. But when the tribe of Fraggles see they're lying, they lock the three up in a place that looks a LOT like Gobo and Wembley's room. And now, it's up to Mokey to find a way to change these Fraggles for the better, and get home before something terrible happens.

Theme: Time Travel

Ma and Pa Gorg are having their 513th wedding anniversary and are going to renew their vows. Pa asks Junior to hold onto the wedding ring. When Junior puts on the ring, he decides it is too small, so when he struggles to get it off, he flings it across the garden into a tiny hole, where Gobo just happens to be exploring. The ring falls on Gobo's head, and Gobo rushes the ring back home and gives it to Wembley. After he does that, Gobo goes back to wait for other objects to appear. But Junior's digging a hole where it fell, and when he sees Gobo, he picks him up, and begs him to bring the ring back. But it's going to be hard, because the ring just seems to be getting passed along to everybody. Will Ma and Pa have to call off the wedding? Or will Junior have to find something else in place of the ring for Pa to give to Ma?

Theme: Wedding traditions

When the Fraggle Horn appears missing, Red plays detective and helps the World's Oldest Fraggle to find it again. However, Red's not doing a good job, for she seems to be falsely accusing Uncle Matt, Boober, and Marlon Fraggle. Finally, it's up to Red to think of a plan that would make the guilty Fraggle confess... but how is she going to do that without falsely accusing anyone else again?

Theme: Incorrect assumptions

Pa takes Junior to the Nirvana tree, a tree that, when the last leaf falls, it will be Junior's turn to reign over the universe. But Junior becomes really scared when there's only one leaf on the tree left. Junior then decides to eat the last leaf, so that the leaf doesn't officially fall. When he does this, he shrinks to the size of a Fraggle. Meanwhile, Mokey wants to show Wembley the Nirvana tree, and when Pa spots them, he chases them away. When he does this, he spots Junior who, to Pa, is really a Fraggle. Junior then escapes into Fraggle Rock, and bumps into Wembley. After telling Wembley of how he shrunk, Wembley takes him to the Trash Heap. When they get there, Marjorie tells him that he needs to be small in order to see the universe in a way he hasn't seen it before. Wembley and Junior make their way back to Fraggle Rock, but not before getting chased by Pa again. When the two make it back to the Great Hall, the Fraggles laugh at Junior's stature, and then tell him that Fraggles don't have bosses. Then Junior meets Cotterpin Doozer, who tells him that the sticks they make are from Radishes, and Junior realizes that it all fits together; he likes growing radishes, Doozers build with radishes, and Fraggles eat radishes. Junior thinks he's ready to be big again, but before he sees his parents again, he must defuse a bomb that Pa has thrown down into the Rock. Will Junior defuse it in time? More importantly, does the universe really need a ruler when things seem to be just fine without one?

Theme: Leadership

Gobo goes into "Outer Space" in search of an adventure. But when he realizes that Doc can't see him, but Sprocket can, Gobo becomes amazed. Meanwhile, Wembley catches up to his pal and tells him Cantus is coming back. When Cantus arrives, he tells the Fraggles it's time for the Song of Songs, and in order to do that, one Fraggle must create the Honk of Honks. He assigns Gobo to the task, to which Gobo refuses at first to go back up to "Outer Space" to see the Silly Creature again. Cantus finds him and tells him the Honk of Honks is much more important. He later tells him that, in order to make the Honk work, he needs to realize that "We're all a part of everything, and everything is a part of us." Gobo then gets a honking device from the Trash Heap, Junior Gorg, and Cotterpin Doozer, and connects them all to the Fraggle Horn. But it wasn't the true Honk of Honks, and Cantus cancels the celebration. Later, Gobo and Cantus have words, and Cantus tells him that he finally needs to touch the Silly Creature in order for both of them to see. So, it's up to Gobo to finally make contact with Doc, in order to finally understand what it means to touch someone and see. And maybe – just maybe – everyone can finally be a part of the true Song of Songs.

Theme: Understanding the world.

After hearing that Ned Shimmelfinny has to move to the desert for his health, Doc decides that he and Sprocket will move there to be with their friend. But Doc wants to see Gobo one last time. Down in Fraggle Rock, Gobo's just getting over the Fraggle Flu, which means he hasn't been up to the hole to "Outer Space" to see the treats Doc and Sprocket have left him. When Red brings a note to Gobo from Doc, saying that they have to leave but want to see Gobo one last time, Gobo goes up to visit the Silly Creature, to find out his name is really Jerome Christian, but his nickname is Doc. Doc then asks if Gobo wants to move with them, but Gobo gets scared and runs away, leaving Doc and Sprocket sad. Gobo's not feeling too happy either, and when he goes to Marjorie for advice, she says that he needs to tell Doc that "He cannot leave the magic." Gobo runs back up to "Outer Space", along with Boober, Red, Wembley and Mokey. But when he gets there, the workshop is completely empty, and Doc and Sprocket have moved. Doc does leave Gobo a message on a tape recorder, and Gobo's friends join him in listening to the good-bye message. When the Fraggles leave, Red makes the comment, "Maybe the Silly Creature left, but we never would." Then Wembley says, "Yeah Gobo... we could never leave you." And when Wembley says this, Gobo finally understands the Trash Heap's message. Maybe Gobo's not too late, after all.

Theme: Saying good-bye to friends