Fraggle Rock's Socialist Undertones

I went to Best Buy the other day to do a little Christmas shopping and stumbled on a relic of my childhood. Best Buy now has piles of DVD's of old 80's cartoon/kids' series. I picked up a couple of DVD's, namely Fraggle Rock and Rainbow Brite the movie (as a gift, it's not really for me). So anyways, I popped in Fraggle Rock the other night at work and promptly blew my whole sense of reality. I remember Fraggle Rock being a nice little LSD invention of Jim Henson with fun songs and bright colors. What I didn't realize though is the East/West Germany parallel found in the relationship between the cute Dozer workers and the loud untamed Fraggles. The Dozers represent East Germany of course, with their strong work ethic and socialist attitude. Every member of the Dozer society is a valuable member of their society and provides a unique talent. On the other side of the fence is the Fraggles. Fraggles are larger and possess more physical prowess than the miniature Dozer worker. They also have a voracious appetite for the Dozers' constructions. The products of the Dozer's Utopian society are nothing more than Fraggle food. The Fraggles clearly must then represent a Capitalist society that has become unbalanced. They consume consume consume without ever having to contribute to the system. Granted, I probably wouldn't have come to this conclusion had I not watched "Goodbye Lenin" right before. That all said, I'm going back to the rewarding task of finishing up my Starbucks latte.