Boober's Dream

Sidebottom makes his first appearance.

When Red is chasing Mokey and Gobo during a game of Fraggle Freeze, she jumps up several times, revealing the 'arm sock' underneath her body that houses the puppeteer's arm.

In the UK version, the Captain wakes from a nightmare, and describes seeing a terrible "wee furry creature with huge staring eyes." Gobo overhears this and counters "Huh, he can talk!" Sprocket makes a connection between the dream and the hole in the wall, but the Captain goes on to reveal he saw the shadow of a sinister looking man. He's sure it was Mr. Bertwhistle, the owner of the lighthouse, who once tried to evict the Captain and Sprocket from the lighthouse. Percy the post arrives earlier than usual. The Captain becomes worried again when a letter from Bertwhistle arrives and recounts that the furry creatures in his dream were swimming. In Uncle Matt's Postcard, he has wandered into an amusement park and goes to sleep in a box car of a ghost train attraction. He wakes up inside a haunted house and is very scared. David Alan Barclay is seen sharing the box car with Matt (and is puppeteering him in several shots). The Captain finally reads the letter and is relieved to learn that Bertwhistle is asking them to look after his niece's two pet gerbils during a holiday. The Captain concludes that the creatures he saw in his bad dream must have been gerbils.

Features The Dark Crystal (1982)