Various cave creatures providing back-up vocals in "This for That."
Fraggle Rock, and its surrounding locale, is home to a varied multitude of creatures. Designed from its inception to showcase the ways in which different species can co-exist, the assortment of critters and beasts inhabiting the larger world of Fraggle Rock supports the show's mission of acceptance, diversity, and the co-dependence of neighboring settlements and ecosystems.
This page will catalogue the species seen in and around Fraggle Rock from the main and recurring groups down to the unnamed creatures seen in the background that help to give the world its texture.
Central species[]
The most fundamental species on the series, appearing in most episodes.
Frequently recurring species[]
Species seen in a recurring basis and often contribute to the plot.
Named species[]
Species that have been classified with a name, both recurring and one-offs.
![Gorg Chicken[1] BTTR 202](/wiki/File:FR_Cave_Creature_-_Chicken_Thing.jpg "FR Cave Creature - Chicken Thing.jpg (200 KB)")
(story role in FR, background creature in BTTR)
![Partichokes[2] BTTR 203](/wiki/File:FRCaveCreature-SucculentDeathworts.jpg "FRCaveCreature-SucculentDeathworts.jpg (357 KB)")
![Rapscallions[3] FR 401, 405, and 510 (Little Rago is a member of this species)](/wiki/File:FR-CaveCreatures-RoundFuzzyGuys.jpg "FR-CaveCreatures-RoundFuzzyGuys.jpg (202 KB)")
(story role in FR, background creature in BTTR)
Named individuals[]
Species that may or may not have been classified, but are distinct and named as individuals.
![Marshy and Bog[4] FR 401 and 503, Cynopsis Awards, BTTR 203](/wiki/File:FRCaveCreatures-TreeloTwins.jpg "FRCaveCreatures-TreeloTwins.jpg (140 KB)")
Unnamed[]
Unnamed species that are mostly only seen as background creatures.
![nicknamed "Squash Bird" by puppeteers[5] BTTR 101](/wiki/File:FRCaveCreature-GourdBird.jpg "FRCaveCreature-GourdBird.jpg (152 KB)")
Illustrated and animated[]
Characters that have appeared either on the animated series or in books and illustrations.
- Named
1983 Fraggle Rock Annual
- Unnamed
See also[]
- Live animals on Fraggle Rock, real-world animals of "outer space"
- Fictional species of Sesame Street
References[]
- ↑ personal correspondence with Dan Garza and Tony Whitaker via Twitter (4/5/24); the puppet had been built for the original series, but never used
- ↑ @Skelemo on Twitter
- ↑ Fraggle Talk: This for That
- ↑ @lauramanns on Instagram (4/3/24)
- ↑ @whipitupdesigns on Twitter