There's an odd shadow that passes on Junior Gorg in the opening as Gobo is flying through the air. Is it the shadow of Gobo, or of someone tossing a second Gobo to land in the well? If the latter, then I don't understand why they didn't do another take. We have to watch poor Gobo break his bones on the well in the opening song, every episode.
Yay, Kermit and Piggy Halloween costumes! What would happen if Traveling Matt discovered some Fraggle Rock merchandise out in Outer Space?
So this episode seemed to sort of try to do for the Gorgs what yesterday's episode did for the Doozers. We did find out a little bit about the Gorgs' backstory, such as it is. But somehow it didn't feel satisfactory to me. I don't mean to say that the Doozers are especially well-rounded characters, but the Gorgs still feel as nebulous to me as before. One thing that I think doesn't help at all is the performance of a Gorg character is necessarily split between two people. This always gives a feeling of outsized pantomime to the characters, and subtle expression is apparently impossible.
As Muppet Wiki points out, while it's pouring rain at Doc's, the skies are clear for the Gorgs, meaning that they don't share the same natural world as regular earth creatures.
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