Doozers
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The Doozers are a race of characters from Fraggle Rock.
Doozers stand approximately knee-high to Fraggles at six inches.[1] They are tiny, green creatures that usually sport construction helmets and toolbelts. Doozer helmets come in red, orange, yellow, blue, purple, pink and white.
Unlike Fraggles, Doozers love to work all day long, and they hate playing games. Some Doozers are construction workers, while others are architects or miners. With the help of various Doozer machines and vehicles, they build elaborate constructions all over Fraggle Rock, like towers, buildings, roads and bridges.
Their building materials, Doozer Sticks, are made of radish dust. Doozer Sticks are the Fraggles' favorite snack, and they love to eat the buildings that Doozers build. The Doozers don't mind their buildings being eaten; if the Fraggles didn't eat the constructions, the Doozers would run out of building space.
Doozers and Fraggles usually show very little respect towards each other. It's very rare for Fraggles and Doozers to make friends. Cotterpin is the only Doozer who likes to communicate with them.
The Doozers all work together in a society that values cooperation in order to further the common good (which is very much contrary to the Fraggles, who place a high value on individualism and independence). The Doozers pride themselves on the good work that they do, but no Doozer is allowed to take personal credit for their work -- that would mean that they thought their work was better than everyone else's, and would be destructive to the communal spirit. Competition is seen as a vice that occasionally afflicts Doozers. Again, this is very unlike the Fraggles, who love to have races and competitions, and who take pride in their individual jobs and passions.
The Doozer puppets and their vehicles are performed with radiographic controls, usually with the help of a waldo.
Main Doozer characters on the show include Cotterpin, her parents Flange and Wingnut, her best friend Wrench, and the Architect Doozer. Nearly all the Doozers are named after tools or construction equipment.
In The Woozle World, the original concept and pitch for the show, Doozers were referred to by the placeholder name of "Wizzles". Jocelyn Stevenson recalls that various names were considered, including Workalots, Drudgies, and Rgllmzaxpoops, before settling on Doozers.
According to a sketch included in the Fraggle Rock: Complete First Season DVD, the Doozers' construction equipment is powered by hydroelectricity generated from the flow of water from the Fraggle Pond to the underground river that leads to Doc's town's water supply.
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Doozer Index
Fraggle Rock Doozers
- Architect Doozer
- Bailiff Doozer
- Cotterpin Doozer
- Crosscut Doozer
- Crusty Doozer
- Doozer Trio
- Flange Doozer
- Flex Doozer
- Granny Cantilever
- Judge Gavel Doozer
- Modem Doozer
- Old Man Pipe Wrench
- Rudy Vallee Doozer
- Scoop Doozer
- Tumbrell Doozer
- Turbo Doozer
- Tweezer Doozer
- Wingnut Doozer
- Wrench Doozer
- Yeaster Doozer
Fraggle Rock (Animated) Doozers
Illustrated Doozers
Merchandise
- Doozer PVC figures (Sababa)
- Doozer wind-up toys
- Doozer plush (Sababa)
- Jim Henson Bust
- Fraggle Rock Happy Meal toys
- Pedigree Fraggle Dolls
- Bendy Fraggle Rock Dolls
- Schleich Fraggle Rock Figures
- Spanish Doozer Toys
- Fraggle Rock PVC figures (Applause)
- Fraggle Rock Drum
Books
- What Do Doozers Do?
- The Legend of the Doozer Who Didn't
- The Doozer Disaster
- Cotterpin's Perfect Building
Sources
- ↑ dialogue, "All Work and All Play"
