Uncle Traveling Matt is so funny every time he's on screen my day gets better, ESPECIALLY when he interacts with other fraggles.
For this I will quote the amazing website: Muppet Wiki
"In a 2006 interview, Dave Goelz discussed the three character flaws that define Matt's personality: his misperceptions, his clumsiness (created by Goelz to make taping Matt's segments more interesting), and his denial of the first two flaws. As Goelz later said in a 2011 interview;
The original concept for him was that he went out and misinterpreted everything and then sent postcards back that we saw on video, where he described the outside world in a distorted way. I just didn't think it was very funny, so I started adding two other components. I started adding clumsiness so he was also physically an inept explorer. And then I added this emotional disconnect. So when he wrote back to his nephew, he would say, "I decided to leave the shop." In actuality, you see him being drop-kicked out of the place and flying through the air and hitting a wall. That aesthetic started to become part of the material, and it was written in as we developed it."
The fact that he's an explorer but he's so oblivious to his surroundings which results in his clumsiness is so funny.
Or like in the video below when he says "Try to keep up , Gobo" and goes in a completely different direction way behind Gobo.. it's so funny. And then he hits his head on a rock.
ALSO DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HE HASDONE FOR FRAGGLE ROCK AS A COMMUNITY?! NO, BECAUSE YOU KNOW PRACTICALLY NOTHING ABOUT HIM.
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Why Uncle Traveling Matt from Fraggle Rock is the best character in existence
Non-FictionI dedicate this to dedotz or whatever her name is May 13 2021 - #1 in #fragglerock, thank you <3