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Cotterpindoozer
PERFORMER Kathryn Mullen
DEBUT 1984
DESIGN Michael K. Frith designer
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Cotterpin in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock

Cotterpinsketch

Michael Frith's concept sketch.

Cotterpin Doozer is a young female Doozer and the most frequently seen Doozer character in Fraggle Rock. Like most Doozers, she's named after a mechanical device, in this case the fastener known as a cotter pin. Unlike most Doozers, her passions lie in the realm of art and other fun activities as opposed to pure work. Cotterpin is the daughter of Flange Doozer and Wingnut Doozer, and her best friend is Wrench. Though creative, Cotterpin also tends to be stubborn and rebellious. Like Architect Doozer, Cotterpin wears a visor instead of a helmet.

Though first glimpsed as Wingnut's unnamed infant in "The Great Radish Famine," Cotterpin made her debut as a fully realized character in "All Work and All Play." In that episode, Cotterpin rejected the pressure placed on her to take the helmet, and ran away to become a Fraggle. Cotterpin met and befriended Red Fraggle at this time, though Cotterpin finally realized that she couldn't become a Fraggle because of their differences. However, Architect Doozer understood her plight, as he himself was once in her shoes, and allowed her to "take the drawing board" rather than the helmet.

Cotterpin returned in subsequent episodes, continuing her relationship with Red and forming a close bond, and gradually befriending the other principal Fraggles (although she did not interact with Mokey onscreen, due to them both being played by Kathryn Mullen). This development led to "The Trial of Cotterpin Doozer," in which Cotterpin had to prove that Fraggles were noble and intelligent or else lose her apprenticeship.

Cotterpin features prominently in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, performed here by Donna Kimball. In this design, her thin red hair is traded for a fuller head of brown hair, and she wears literal cotter pins in her hair. She is seen working alongside Architect Doozer, and inadvertently discovers a strange, pink goo from a severed vine. She eventually becomes one of the few characters to venture out into Outer Space to find a solution to the problems arising from the goo.

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