Full Transcript for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Ep. 06 - Fuzzbucket / ALF

watch this when it aired. 75 00:04:36,648 --> 00:04:38,070 I have no memory of it. 76 00:04:38,070 --> 00:04:41,973 But I will say that I watched the ABC Disney Sunday movie a lot. 77 00:04:41,973 --> 00:04:48,138 Like that's where I saw a lot of the older Disney animated films and some of their live-action stuff, like The Love Bug. 78 00:04:48,138 --> 00:04:51,379 And Treasure Island kidnapped that I was a big fan of. 79 00:04:51,379 --> 00:05:03,282 This aired as part of a double feature, along with something called The Deacon Street Deer, which is about a group of kids who take care of a deer lost in their neighborhood. 80 00:05:03,282 --> 00:05:11,144 That film featured a young Mario Lopez, was written by James Mangold, and directed by Jackie Cooper. 81 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:12,305 Wow. 82 00:05:12,345 --> 00:05:16,780 And both movies, both this, that and FuzzBucket were about 45 minutes in length. 83 00:05:16,780 --> 00:05:19,621 So you put them together with commercials and you have a two hour block. 84 00:05:19,621 --> 00:05:21,931 This is not forty-five minutes with commercials. 85 00:05:21,931 --> 00:05:25,872 This with the commercial break that I had, it's like 45 minutes. 86 00:05:25,872 --> 00:05:31,614 So I would guess this thing's maybe 30 minutes, 35 minutes or something long. 87 00:05:31,614 --> 00:05:35,475 And yet it it did feel long, strangely enough. 88 00:05:35,475 --> 00:05:36,995 my God, it never ended. 89 00:05:36,995 --> 00:05:46,028 And by the time you got to what they want you to embrace as being and ending, I kept going, is it over yet? 90 00:05:46,028 --> 00:05:46,574 And then it 91 00:05:46,574 --> 00:05:51,525 keeps going, then it it was it was the most endless 45 minutes of my life. 92 00:05:51,525 --> 00:05:54,476 It's amazing how how how much it drags. 93 00:05:54,476 --> 00:05:55,357 my goodness. 94 00:05:55,357 --> 00:06:05,399 Justin, because you didn't get to experience this on Disney Plus, I have helpfully written down what the synopsis, you know, how they have the little thing. 95 00:06:05,399 --> 00:06:07,330 It tells you what it is all about, right? 96 00:06:07,330 --> 00:06:07,800 Okay. 97 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,080 I am very curious. 98 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,321 Um fuzz bucket. 99 00:06:12,361 --> 00:06:15,256 An invisible creature helps Mikey. 100 00:06:15,256 --> 00:06:18,827 Cope with junior high and family drama. 101 00:06:19,188 --> 00:06:21,529 Does BuzzBucket really do either of those things? 102 00:06:21,529 --> 00:06:22,969 Is my question to you. 103 00:06:22,969 --> 00:06:24,550 Absolutely not. 104 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:26,051 Absolutely not. 105 00:06:26,051 --> 00:06:29,212 Well, kind of the latter. 106 00:06:29,212 --> 00:06:30,392 Yeah. 107 00:06:30,392 --> 00:06:31,833 Yeah. 108 00:06:31,833 --> 00:06:35,214 Although it's not earned, but you know. 109 00:06:35,214 --> 00:06:37,085 We'll get there when we get there. 110 00:06:37,085 --> 00:06:38,435 Nothing is. 111 00:06:38,436 --> 00:06:41,357 The gifts of the magi is so great. 112 00:06:42,317 --> 00:06:43,257 Anyway. 113 00:06:44,642 --> 00:06:48,283 FuzzBucket was written, produced, and directed by Mick Garris. 114 00:06:48,283 --> 00:06:51,764 Now just hit pause right there on your thought process, people. 115 00:06:51,764 --> 00:06:59,006 Mick Garrett wrote it's not like he was for hire and hey, come in, will you direct this thing for us real fast? 116 00:06:59,006 --> 00:06:59,606 Right. 117 00:06:59,606 --> 00:07:02,327 He birthed it three ways. 118 00:07:02,407 --> 00:07:13,694 He this this this fucking thing was born of his brain, then shoved back inside his womb, then it came out again as a producer who went about trying to assemble this thing. 119 00:07:13,694 --> 00:07:19,617 Shoved back in there again, and then a third time he had to bring it to life as the director. 120 00:07:19,617 --> 00:07:23,860 I cannot fathom that this was the case. 121 00:07:23,860 --> 00:07:25,941 It's a Mick Garris joint. 122 00:07:25,941 --> 00:07:27,162 It absolutely is. 123 00:07:27,162 --> 00:07:29,083 It is 100% him. 124 00:07:29,543 --> 00:07:39,579 For those who might not be familiar with that name, Mick Garris has a very long career in film and television, specifically in the horror genre, and very specifically adapting the 125 00:07:39,579 --> 00:07:41,310 works of Stephen King. 126 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:49,213 Some of his Stephen King adaptations include the mini-series adaptations of The Stand and The Shining, as well as the feature film Sleepwalkers. 127 00:07:49,213 --> 00:08:01,158 He also worked on the TV show Amazing Stories and directed the TV movie Psycho 4 The Beginning, starring E.T.'s Henry Thomas as a young Norman bass. 128 00:08:01,158 --> 00:08:04,470 He also hosts a horror podcast called Postmortem. 129 00:08:04,470 --> 00:08:06,721 And he was behind the Masters of Horror series. 130 00:08:06,721 --> 00:08:08,456 Yes, he was also behind the Masters of Horror. 131 00:08:08,456 --> 00:08:09,954 So he is, he's got. 132 00:08:09,954 --> 00:08:19,537 Really great horror c credentials, and he is also the the the mastermind behind FuzzBucket. 133 00:08:19,537 --> 00:08:21,387 He's the Virgin Mary of FuzzBucket. 134 00:08:21,387 --> 00:08:28,659 Uh also in in in the FuzzBucket mix, by the way, it was executive produced by John Landis. 135 00:08:29,220 --> 00:08:36,802 Which comes into play with one of the one of the actors who shows up in in FuzzBucket for a for a brief uh brief appearance. 136 00:08:37,076 --> 00:08:40,317 Fuzzbucket didn't start out as a standalone TV movie. 137 00:08:40,317 --> 00:08:46,289 It was actually produced as a pilot for an ongoing series, but was ultimately not picked up. 138 00:08:46,289 --> 00:08:49,070 And then it was aired on the Disney Sunday movie. 139 00:08:49,070 --> 00:09:01,833 It stars Chris Hebert, the little brother from The Last Starfighter, Joe

Regelbuto from Murphy Brown and The Sword and the Sorcerer, Wendy Phillips, Robin Lively of Twin Peaks 140 00:09:01,833 --> 00:09:03,820 and the Karate Kid Part 3. 141 00:09:03,820 --> 00:09:10,993 As well as Phil Fondicaro and Hal Smith as the body and voice of Fuzz Bucket, respectively. 142 00:09:10,993 --> 00:09:12,034 And John Vernon. 143 00:09:12,034 --> 00:09:17,026 And John Vernon, the the the he's the he's the dean from from Animal House. 144 00:09:17,026 --> 00:09:19,877 There's your there's your your John Landis connection. 145 00:09:19,877 --> 00:09:24,979 He's also he's the he's the cop in Killer Clowns. 146 00:09:24,979 --> 00:09:25,980 That's right. 147 00:09:25,980 --> 00:09:27,720 No one's gonna make a f a dummy out of me. 148 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:31,566 uh 149 00:09:31,566 --> 00:09:33,717 Or dummy out of Mooney or whatever he says. 150 00:09:33,717 --> 00:09:35,507 I love that movie so much. 151 00:09:36,127 --> 00:09:38,688 More than Fuzzbucket, I'm guessing. 152 00:09:38,688 --> 00:09:42,929 I mean, it's it's it's something. 153 00:09:42,929 --> 00:09:54,012 So the character of FuzzBucket, it's not an alien, but instead seems to be, and I say seems to be because the movie's very unclear about that, a magical creature that lives 154 00:09:54,012 --> 00:09:58,433 underground in a swamp on the edge of town. 155 00:09:59,546 --> 00:10:00,728 I don't want to. 156 00:10:00,728 --> 00:10:02,610 Talk about the appearance of FuzzBucket yet. 157 00:10:02,610 --> 00:10:04,401 Because it takes a while for him to show up. 158 00:10:04,401 --> 00:10:07,403 And we'll we'll I would like to get to that when we when he appears. 159 00:10:07,403 --> 00:10:08,665 Well, I was gonna say that, Chris. 160 00:10:08,665 --> 00:10:18,533 You're saying this as though it's the titular character in this appears in 50% of the show. 161 00:10:18,533 --> 00:10:19,393 Yes. 162 00:10:19,393 --> 00:10:21,395 And this is a show that runs 30 minutes. 163 00:10:21,395 --> 00:10:26,579 So half of the thing, the thing isn't even in the thing. 164 00:10:26,820 --> 00:10:29,461 15 minutes of FuzzBucket's too much. 165 00:10:30,838 --> 00:10:31,738 Yes. 166 00:10:32,259 --> 00:10:33,779 You're right. 167 00:10:33,779 --> 00:10:40,951 Justin, I I don't know what you're talking about because Fuzzbucket was in every minute, you just couldn't see him. 168 00:10:40,951 --> 00:10:41,831 That's true. 169 00:10:41,831 --> 00:10:42,871 Yeah. 170 00:10:42,871 --> 00:10:45,442 Thank thank you for clarifying, Rob. 171 00:10:45,442 --> 00:10:49,543 I want to talk a little bit first about our main character, Michael Gerber. 172 00:10:49,543 --> 00:10:51,464 Now Michael is a twelve-year-old boy. 173 00:10:51,464 --> 00:10:53,784 He's just about to start junior high. 174 00:10:53,784 --> 00:10:58,826 He lives with his parents who don't actually have names, and his older sister, Stevie. 175 00:10:58,826 --> 00:11:00,456 And and clearly 176 00:11:00,544 --> 00:11:06,177 Michael, as a character, is designed to be reminiscent of Elliot and E.T. 177 00:11:06,177 --> 00:11:10,470 His parents aren't divorced, but he's kind of disconnected from his family. 178 00:11:10,470 --> 00:11:12,221 His sister makes fun of him. 179 00:11:12,221 --> 00:11:15,112 His parents seem to be constantly fighting one another. 180 00:11:15,112 --> 00:11:23,727 Uh, and he spends most of his time in this sweet, sweet treehouse that he's got that has literally a bridge to his bedroom. 181 00:11:23,727 --> 00:11:26,288 Like, holy shit, this thing is fantastic. 182 00:11:26,288 --> 00:11:29,690 So it's it's on the point of the parents. 183 00:11:29,802 --> 00:11:32,754 You say that they're fighting all the time, but we don't see that. 184 00:11:32,754 --> 00:11:33,345 No. 185 00:11:33,345 --> 00:11:34,235 We're told it. 186 00:11:34,235 --> 00:11:35,386 We're told it. 187 00:11:35,386 --> 00:11:37,698 It's it's something that is pivotal to this. 188 00:11:37,698 --> 00:11:40,940 And it makes sense that this was a pilot for something. 189 00:11:40,940 --> 00:11:45,554 And it also makes sense that it wasn't picked up because it's pure nightmare fuel. 190 00:11:45,554 --> 00:11:46,244 Absolutely. 191 00:11:46,244 --> 00:11:46,845 my god. 192 00:11:46,845 --> 00:11:55,271 I it's unbelievable they even aired this because when we get there, this is one of the most horrifying things you will put eyes on, people. 193 00:11:55,271 --> 00:11:57,240 my we have done several 194 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,212 Dedicated horror series on Get Me Another. 195 00:12:00,212 --> 00:12:10,019 And I'm not sure I have ever seen a more terrifying image than the appearance of FuzzBucket when we get there. 196 00:12:10,019 --> 00:12:10,259 my god. 197 00:12:10,259 --> 00:12:11,900 It's pretty, it's pretty wild. 198 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:18,134 But I have to say, at this point, seeing this tree house, at this point, I was in. 199 00:12:18,134 --> 00:12:27,064 I'm like, this feels like very monster squatty, or you know, any kind of 1980s kids in a tree house thing, although. 200 00:12:27,064 --> 00:12:28,295 Kid in a tree house here. 201 00:12:28,295 --> 00:12:29,796 Kid in a tree house. 202 00:12:30,036 --> 00:12:35,790 it's a it's a it's a great uh I would you call it uh man cave back then? 203 00:12:35,790 --> 00:12:37,481 Probably not, but it's a great clubhouse. 204 00:12:37,481 --> 00:12:38,022 my goodness. 205 00:12:38,022 --> 00:12:41,124 I mean, it's clearly got hooked up to electricity. 206 00:12:41,124 --> 00:12:43,285 He's got a television in there. 207 00:12:43,285 --> 00:12:53,152 Like I I I mean, this kid, I I would have loved I mean, I always coveted the idea of like that kind of private personal space of like, this is my own. 208 00:12:53,152 --> 00:12:54,113 Like he yeah. 209 00:12:54,113 --> 00:12:55,786 Honestly, this kid's set. 210 00:12:55,786 --> 00:13:01,571 It is a really, really

cool it it it is the dream treehouse. 211 00:13:01,571 --> 00:13:02,091 Yeah. 212 00:13:02,091 --> 00:13:05,054 For for sure, when you see him up in there. 213 00:13:05,054 --> 00:13:14,346 And the bridge thing that you mentioned to the house is amazing that is that his parents would even be willing to allow that to happen. 214 00:13:14,346 --> 00:13:15,762 It doesn't look stable. 215 00:13:15,762 --> 00:13:16,686 I will say that. 216 00:13:16,686 --> 00:13:16,955 No. 217 00:13:16,955 --> 00:13:18,525 Well, that's true. 218 00:13:18,525 --> 00:13:25,054 And I don't want to jump ahead too much, but the f the way that he gets out of the treehouse the first time he does is not. 219 00:13:25,054 --> 00:13:25,985 Using the bridge. 220 00:13:25,985 --> 00:13:31,034 No, he he kind of repels down with this rope thing, this rope ladder. 221 00:13:31,034 --> 00:13:31,276 Yeah. 222 00:13:31,276 --> 00:13:34,441 And by the way, there's not a single establishing shot in this whole movie. 223 00:13:34,441 --> 00:13:40,845 So we have no idea where anything happens outside of the streets of town. 224 00:13:40,845 --> 00:13:43,227 They had some establ like wide shots. 225 00:13:43,227 --> 00:13:45,889 Everything else is not that. 226 00:13:45,889 --> 00:13:49,191 So we presume this is in a tree, but we're not really sure. 227 00:13:49,191 --> 00:13:52,333 We just, okay, here's this is the thing that looks like a tree house. 228 00:13:52,333 --> 00:13:54,024 But if it's this big, 229 00:13:54,838 --> 00:13:56,619 What how does it sit in the tree? 230 00:13:56,619 --> 00:13:58,941 There's no limbs going through the middle of it. 231 00:13:58,941 --> 00:14:07,118 There's I'm this tree must be have just been sawed off at the top and had this thing planted on the right on the top of it or something. 232 00:14:07,118 --> 00:14:12,673 It's pretty amazing though, all all things considered, it's it's a great treehouse. 233 00:14:12,673 --> 00:14:13,283 I love it. 234 00:14:13,283 --> 00:14:24,132 And he's he's decorated with pictures of that he's drawn of what look like robots, which makes sense given it's the 80s, but all the robots look vaguely like Maximilian from the 235 00:14:24,132 --> 00:14:24,482 black. 236 00:14:24,482 --> 00:14:25,362 Hole. 237 00:14:25,362 --> 00:14:27,894 Like they all have this single eye slit across. 238 00:14:27,894 --> 00:14:37,711 Also, Cylons would also be a similar, but like, I'm like, this kid's got a real fixation on, you know, kind of cycloptic robots. 239 00:14:37,711 --> 00:14:40,233 It's not dived into, maybe it would have been in the series. 240 00:14:40,233 --> 00:14:40,933 I don't know. 241 00:14:40,933 --> 00:14:42,164 And he's talking to himself. 242 00:14:42,164 --> 00:14:43,895 He's talking to himself. 243 00:14:43,895 --> 00:14:50,620 The first time we see Michael, he is having a conversation with a creature that we, the audience, cannot see or hear. 244 00:14:50,620 --> 00:14:54,282 In short, he has an imaginary friend. 245 00:14:54,370 --> 00:15:00,042 But my question about that is so the way that they handled it was there let me see here. 246 00:15:00,042 --> 00:15:02,794 The composer Peter Bernstein did the music for this. 247 00:15:02,794 --> 00:15:05,155 Son of uh son of Elmer Bernstein. 248 00:15:05,155 --> 00:15:06,195 Yeah. 249 00:15:06,715 --> 00:15:08,556 Son of Bernstein. 250 00:15:10,437 --> 00:15:17,600 Anyway, the idea of him speaking to no one is dealt with in a way with the score. 251 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:23,224 Did you guys get the feeling watching this that they they were intimating that the music was 252 00:15:23,224 --> 00:15:32,460 How he communicated with this entity because when he says something, then there's always a playful b- in the store. 253 00:15:32,460 --> 00:15:35,663 And then it goes back to him responding to that music. 254 00:15:35,663 --> 00:15:37,363 That keeps on going. 255 00:15:40,486 --> 00:15:42,527 Sure I'll help you, I guess. 256 00:15:43,208 --> 00:15:45,869 I can't drive, but I got a bike. 257 00:15:48,752 --> 00:15:51,573 How did you get invisible in the first place? 258 00:15:56,992 --> 00:15:57,843 Believe you. 259 00:15:57,843 --> 00:15:59,784 You swear? 260 00:15:59,784 --> 00:16:02,246 I never heard of anything like that. 261 00:16:02,246 --> 00:16:08,811 It's like it's like the these music stings w indicated where FuzzBucket's dialogue would be. 262 00:16:08,811 --> 00:16:09,351 Right. 263 00:16:09,351 --> 00:16:10,632 Indicating that he's speaking. 264 00:16:10,632 --> 00:16:13,133 But like he can't he can't see it. 265 00:16:13,133 --> 00:16:23,111 Like he and uh it's very strange because he he claim he t says he cannot see FuzzBucket, but he keeps looking around the treehouse as if he is seeing Fuzz Bucket. 266 00:16:23,111 --> 00:16:24,222 It's very strange. 267 00:16:24,222 --> 00:16:24,792 And he's 268 00:16:24,792 --> 00:16:33,910 Part of the conversation being had is that because Fuzzbucket had been out after midnight, he has it has turned invisible. 269 00:16:34,031 --> 00:16:36,393 So there's a bit of gremlins in here, in a way. 270 00:16:36,393 --> 00:16:37,314 Yes. 271 00:16:37,314 --> 00:16:41,498 Also about the score, because you mentioned those music stings, the scores by Peter Bernstein. 272 00:16:41,498 --> 00:16:43,389 And you know what it sounded like to me? 273 00:16:43,389 --> 00:16:46,081 It was really, it was really curious. 274 00:16:46,282 --> 00:16:50,036 You know that James Horner score from Battle Beyond the Stars? 275 00:16:50,036 --> 00:16:50,674 yeah. 276 00:16:50,674 --> 00:17:00,762 That then you hear echoes of in like Star Trek 2 and Aliens and other this score sounds like the family comedy version of that. 277 00:17:01,763 --> 00:17:02,114 Yeah. 278 00:17:02,114 --> 00:17:03,785 It's very strange. 279 00:17:03,785 --> 00:17:07,678 Well, and even the the opening title had that yellow lettering. 280

00:17:07,678 --> 00:17:13,492 I mean, it the with the music and the titles, it played like too many cooks. 281 00:17:13,493 --> 00:17:19,670 Like this is exactly the look that goes even into the nineties a little bit, you know. 282 00:17:19,670 --> 00:17:21,011 You're so yes. 283 00:17:21,011 --> 00:17:23,992 I guess I picked up on that, but from the other end. 284 00:17:24,313 --> 00:17:25,093 Absolutely. 285 00:17:25,093 --> 00:17:26,234 Absolutely. 286 00:17:26,234 --> 00:17:27,844 Michael gets called in for dinner. 287 00:17:27,844 --> 00:17:30,056 He he repels down from the treehouse. 288 00:17:30,056 --> 00:17:38,380 I don't know why he doesn't just take the bridge that goes literally into his room, but um but and then he immediately he immediately starts taking shit from his mom and his sister. 289 00:17:38,380 --> 00:17:40,361 His sister calls him a tumor. 290 00:17:40,361 --> 00:17:42,362 Like that's unkind. 291 00:17:42,362 --> 00:17:43,183 Yeah. 292 00:17:43,183 --> 00:17:44,223 Jesus. 293 00:17:44,223 --> 00:17:44,944 That's rough. 294 00:17:44,944 --> 00:17:49,566 But the sister has a nineteen eighties shirt. 295 00:17:49,922 --> 00:17:54,594 That it's it's a collared shirt and it's like pastel patchwork. 296 00:17:54,594 --> 00:17:55,264 Yeah. 297 00:17:55,264 --> 00:18:01,857 It is I I I saw that and I was instantly transported to the mid-80s again. 298 00:18:01,857 --> 00:18:06,269 I was like, yeah, tons of girls wore that stuff. 299 00:18:06,269 --> 00:18:06,869 Yeah. 300 00:18:06,869 --> 00:18:07,790 Everywhere. 301 00:18:07,790 --> 00:18:09,291 The sister is actually great. 302 00:18:09,291 --> 00:18:11,051 Like, she's obviously been in a lot of stuff. 303 00:18:11,051 --> 00:18:17,484 She she there's there's a couple of moments where she really gives authentic. 304 00:18:17,876 --> 00:18:24,188 80s older sister vibes in a way that are just genuine. 305 00:18:24,188 --> 00:18:29,273 It's like it felt very like at one point when she yells, Mom! 306 00:18:29,273 --> 00:18:34,416 Like the later on, like, and it's just like it's the and it's the intonation that I can't even quite imitate. 307 00:18:34,416 --> 00:18:38,959 But my wife, who I watched this with, believe it or not, she was I want to watch FuzzBucket. 308 00:18:38,959 --> 00:18:40,580 And then she was sorry she did. 309 00:18:40,580 --> 00:18:42,601 But um, you know, she stuck it out. 310 00:18:42,601 --> 00:18:44,102 She stuck it out. 311 00:18:44,116 --> 00:18:46,488 Well my my wife's a lot of things. 312 00:18:46,488 --> 00:18:47,348 She's not a quitter. 313 00:18:47,348 --> 00:18:50,190 She was she was watching ER to the end. 314 00:18:50,190 --> 00:18:50,891 Okay. 315 00:18:50,891 --> 00:18:53,332 like to the to the end end. 316 00:18:54,073 --> 00:19:01,799 but like she was like a s she did that mom kind of call where Ma my wife was like, that's real. 317 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:05,521 I had I had an older sister and that was spot on. 318 00:19:07,022 --> 00:19:10,405 So Michael, he he doesn't want to eat what his mother's cooked. 319 00:19:10,405 --> 00:19:12,742 It's got mushrooms, she he says it's gross. 320 00:19:12,742 --> 00:19:19,545 And we get this like sort of, you know, little little cold war between the mom and Michael uh over dinner. 321 00:19:19,545 --> 00:19:29,510 And and I get what I love is in this little battle of wills, you know, Michael to his credit, wins that battle because he's like, you know, I'm not gonna eat this, and she's 322 00:19:29,510 --> 00:19:31,171 like, Well, you'll go to bed without supper. 323 00:19:31,171 --> 00:19:38,164 And then we cut to like hours later, like the sun has gone down, and he is sitting at the table not eating her swill. 324 00:19:38,444 --> 00:19:41,456 And then she sees him sitting there and she's like, Can I make you a sandwich? 325 00:19:41,456 --> 00:19:43,517 I'm like, You one kid. 326 00:19:43,777 --> 00:19:45,078 Way to go. 327 00:19:45,078 --> 00:19:48,520 She serves him, I think it's soup. 328 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,261 No, gravy, which disgusting. 329 00:19:51,261 --> 00:19:52,702 Just period. 330 00:19:52,702 --> 00:19:53,922 Gravy. 331 00:19:54,063 --> 00:19:54,522 Nasty. 332 00:19:54,522 --> 00:19:56,884 It's Salisbury steak without the steak. 333 00:19:56,884 --> 00:19:57,865 Yeah. 334 00:19:59,366 --> 00:20:04,789 So he doesn't want to eat it because there's mushrooms in it and he thinks it's gross. 335 00:20:04,789 --> 00:20:07,212 And that I would agree on the 336 00:20:07,212 --> 00:20:07,822 That front. 337 00:20:07,822 --> 00:20:12,544 And then he says, mushrooms taste like lizards. 338 00:20:12,644 --> 00:20:13,845 How would you know? 339 00:20:13,845 --> 00:20:15,224 What what would you know? 340 00:20:15,224 --> 00:20:18,827 What reference does this child have for consuming lizards? 341 00:20:18,827 --> 00:20:20,524 And then is that true? 342 00:20:20,524 --> 00:20:21,528 I don't know. 343 00:20:21,528 --> 00:20:25,749 I'm I've I've not eaten a lizard, thankfully. 344 00:20:25,770 --> 00:20:31,332 And then the idea that she would she said she'll send him to bed without supper, and he was gonna take her up on that. 345 00:20:31,332 --> 00:20:35,213 He's like, All right, because he wants to go hang out with it with his invisible friend. 346 00:20:35,213 --> 00:20:37,100 But her threat 347 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:42,351 wasn't genuine because it wasn't you're gonna you're not you're not gonna eat and you're going to go to bed. 348 00:20:42,351 --> 00:20:48,133 It was no, you're gonna be glued to this chair yeah until you put my lizard swill in your mouth. 349 00:20:48,653 --> 00:20:57,450 And he does he wins that war because eventually she appears out of the shadows like Michael Myers behind Lori in the closet in Halloween nineteen seventy eight. 350 00:20:57,450 --> 00:21:04,858 And when he's just sitting there talking with Fuzzbucket, invisible thing and

then she's like, you know what, buddy, I love you. 351 00:21:04,858 --> 00:21:06,978 Do you want me to make you a sandwich? 352 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,791 And he's like, Yeah, but we never see the sandwich. 353 00:21:09,791 --> 00:21:10,902 We never see the sandwich. 354 00:21:10,902 --> 00:21:12,413 I just pr he won he won. 355 00:21:12,413 --> 00:21:15,922 I'm it's a it's a big W for Michael against his mother. 356 00:21:15,922 --> 00:21:18,156 Like he has the moral high ground. 357 00:21:18,156 --> 00:21:21,508 She she folded, she caved. 358 00:21:21,508 --> 00:21:22,138 Yeah. 359 00:21:22,138 --> 00:21:25,270 And the sisters, aren't you a little old for an imaginary friend? 360 00:21:25,270 --> 00:21:30,062 And then Mikey says to her, Aren't you a little old for a padded bra? 361 00:21:30,062 --> 00:21:32,904 My wife howled with laughter at that line. 362 00:21:32,904 --> 00:21:37,376 But I'm wondering I understand kids poking at each other and whatever. 363 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,642 His having an imaginary friend, that may be a choice. 364 00:21:41,642 --> 00:21:42,173 Sure. 365 00:21:42,173 --> 00:21:44,410 At least at this point, we don't really know. 366 00:21:44,410 --> 00:21:51,058 I no one can help when they're a teenager if they if they're not in doubt or whatever. 367 00:21:51,058 --> 00:21:55,921 It's it's unusually cruel for Mikey in this movie to throw that at his sister. 368 00:21:55,921 --> 00:22:02,044 And so it's no wonder that she calls him a tumor if he's taking jabs like that at her. 369 00:22:02,044 --> 00:22:05,088 And he's sitting there and he's also what before mom 370 00:22:05,088 --> 00:22:09,659 slash Michael Myers appears from the ether, the shape. 371 00:22:09,659 --> 00:22:13,920 He Mikey is explaining to Fuzzbucket basically why parents suck. 372 00:22:14,041 --> 00:22:16,881 And it has and it's not about them fighting. 373 00:22:16,881 --> 00:22:19,182 It's about the fact that they have rules. 374 00:22:19,182 --> 00:22:22,443 So Mikey wants to live in a world of fucking chaos. 375 00:22:22,443 --> 00:22:22,863 Anarchy. 376 00:22:22,863 --> 00:22:31,165 He doesn't have eat lizards and he can do whatever he wants and he can't wait to move out when he's old enough, he says. 377 00:22:31,165 --> 00:22:33,826 He cannot wait to go. 378 00:22:33,868 --> 00:22:38,140 And that's when the shape enters and asks if he's worried about junior high. 379 00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:45,483 And but the weird thing about that scene too, it looks like it they were shot separately from each other. 380 00:22:46,564 --> 00:22:50,446 They just keep cutting back and forth with her, not moving from those steps. 381 00:22:50,446 --> 00:22:54,348 And you would think if it's a moment of are you okay, buddy, she'd walk up and stand up. 382 00:22:54,348 --> 00:22:58,650 Yeah, like yeah, sit next to him, put her arm around that's no, it's it it's 383 00:22:58,854 --> 00:23:04,698 She maintains a a respectful

distance because she knows she lost the battle of wills. 384 00:23:04,698 --> 00:23:05,329 She did. 385 00:23:05,329 --> 00:23:06,220 Yep. 386 00:23:06,220 --> 00:23:10,883 But all of this stuff is again just to hearken back to E.T. 387 00:23:10,943 --> 00:23:17,308 It's like a combination of penis breath and then bringing up that dad lives in Mexico. 388 00:23:17,308 --> 00:23:20,950 It's like a amalgamation of all of those, right? 389 00:23:20,950 --> 00:23:25,364 To show kind of the strife at home, at least here. 390 00:23:25,364 --> 00:23:26,284 It 391 00:23:26,380 --> 00:23:32,694 But here it's just, you know, the tone and everything, you know, you never get to the deep thing. 392 00:23:32,975 --> 00:23:33,245 Here. 393 00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:33,875 No, no. 394 00:23:33,875 --> 00:23:36,183 And that's, I think, one of the big issues, right? 395 00:23:36,183 --> 00:23:37,648 It it ends with penis breath. 396 00:23:37,648 --> 00:23:37,988 Yeah. 397 00:23:37,988 --> 00:23:39,634 No, y that's exactly it. 398 00:23:39,634 --> 00:23:42,061 It it's it's it ends at that level. 399 00:23:42,061 --> 00:23:52,548 And, you know, the father does eventually come home, uh, you know, and you know, he he he you know, we hear him talking to the mother and basically telling her that, I'm working 400 00:23:52,548 --> 00:23:54,209 long hours for those kids, you know. 401 00:23:54,209 --> 00:23:56,162 So God forbid I actually have to go 402 00:23:56,162 --> 00:23:58,323 you know, talk to them and spend time with them. 403 00:23:58,323 --> 00:23:59,644 That's the extent of the fighting. 404 00:23:59,644 --> 00:24:00,034 That's it. 405 00:24:00,034 --> 00:24:00,945 That's that's what we hear. 406 00:24:00,945 --> 00:24:01,565 Right. 407 00:24:01,565 --> 00:24:09,940 But like and then it's like the next morning the father comes into to you know Michael's room and is like, you know, has that conversation with about his, you know, about the 408 00:24:09,940 --> 00:24:10,550 imaginary friend. 409 00:24:10,550 --> 00:24:15,002 He's like, Don't you think you're a little too old to have one and, you know, all that sort of stuff. 410 00:24:15,002 --> 00:24:24,438 I it was around this time that I realized, I kind of watching this and I'm like, this whole thing has the aesthetics of an eighties after school special. 411 00:24:24,438 --> 00:24:25,458 Absolutely. 412 00:24:25,942 --> 00:24:26,782 Yeah. 413 00:24:26,863 --> 00:24:32,026 Like the dad comes in and he's like, it's hard for women to understand men, isn't it? 414 00:24:32,026 --> 00:24:36,870 And it's like it's like this real like heart to heart talk that's gonna happen. 415 00:24:36,870 --> 00:24:40,612 And I love Joe because I I was a big Murphy Brown. 416 00:24:40,612 --> 00:24:41,333 absolutely. 417 00:24:41,333 --> 00:24:42,534 Absolutely. 418 00:24:42,534 --> 00:24:46,486 But um it's it's you know, I don't know. 419 00:24:46,486 --> 00:24:50,569 It's it's almost too straightforward, unlike in E.T. 420 00:24:50,569 --> 00:24:54,838 where it it the it seems like the family almost never actually wants to talk about. 421 00:24:54,838 --> 00:24:55,589 Stuff comes up. 422 00:24:55,589 --> 00:24:58,501 Because in real life you don't want to talk about those things. 423 00:24:58,501 --> 00:24:59,241 Yeah. 424 00:24:59,241 --> 00:25:01,782 Sometimes you have to, but you don't want to. 425 00:25:01,943 --> 00:25:06,896 And then and the next morning when everybody is waking up, Mikey is not in his room. 426 00:25:06,896 --> 00:25:08,107 He's sleeping in his treehouse. 427 00:25:08,107 --> 00:25:14,191 And I cannot blame him for that because I would live in that treehouse if I had the opportunity to. 428 00:25:14,191 --> 00:25:15,792 This is when we first see the bridge. 429 00:25:15,792 --> 00:25:16,293 Yes. 430 00:25:16,293 --> 00:25:21,716 That goes directly between the tre tree house and his room, which made m why I noted. 431 00:25:21,716 --> 00:25:22,837 Why did he use the rope? 432 00:25:22,837 --> 00:25:24,268 That sounds really 433 00:25:24,330 --> 00:25:26,871 Unnecessary when have this sweet bridge there. 434 00:25:26,931 --> 00:25:31,552 But the parents and the sister are waiting for him in his room. 435 00:25:31,712 --> 00:25:35,133 And by the way, I love you mentioned earlier, mom and dad don't have names. 436 00:25:35,133 --> 00:25:36,013 They don't. 437 00:25:36,013 --> 00:25:38,434 They're billed as mom and dad. 438 00:25:38,434 --> 00:25:38,872 Yes. 439 00:25:38,872 --> 00:25:40,995 I don't I don't know when that was going to be worked out. 440 00:25:40,995 --> 00:25:42,535 Should this have become a series? 441 00:25:42,535 --> 00:25:43,275 That's pretty funny. 442 00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:45,976 I would think they would have given him names if it went to series. 443 00:25:45,976 --> 00:25:48,717 But dad asks about FuzzBucket. 444 00:25:48,717 --> 00:25:51,598 He says to Mikey that he's not a little kid anymore. 445 00:25:51,598 --> 00:25:52,832 This is as 446 00:25:52,832 --> 00:26:04,952 In terms of realism and sincerity, everything that if you're looking at ends of the parenting spectrum, I loved the dad-son relationship in Flight of the Navigator. 447 00:26:04,952 --> 00:26:05,393 Sure. 448 00:26:05,393 --> 00:26:06,774 When we discussed that. 449 00:26:06,774 --> 00:26:10,857 This is the opposite end of that spectrum where this feels so unreal. 450 00:26:10,857 --> 00:26:11,318 Yeah. 451 00:26:11,318 --> 00:26:14,050 And he's he starts off by saying you're not a little kid anymore. 452 00:26:14,050 --> 00:26:14,851 He's 12 now. 453 00:26:14,851 --> 00:26:16,752 You shouldn't have invisible friends. 454 00:26:16,752 --> 00:26:18,744 He wants him to sit down for a chat. 455 00:26:18,744 --> 00:26:21,270 Mikey refers to his treehouse as a castle. 456 00:26:21,270 --> 00:26:22,051 I respect that. 457 00:26:22,051 --> 00:26:22,631 Absolutely. 458 00:26:22,631 -->

00:26:27,796 And then his dad immediately goes, There are a lot of things that make your mother and I unhappy. 459 00:26:27,796 --> 00:26:28,216 Yes. 460 00:26:28,216 --> 00:26:33,220 And and and there's a pause after there's a lot of things that make your mother and I unhappy. 461 00:26:33,220 --> 00:26:37,283 And both my wife and I at the same time said, And you're one of them. 462 00:26:38,925 --> 00:26:44,050 He didn't actually say that, but it the the pregnant pause between after unhappy. 463 00:26:44,050 --> 00:26:47,072 I was like, my God, he's gonna go there. 464 00:26:47,072 --> 00:26:49,134 But he does what he 465 00:26:49,356 --> 00:26:55,271 He says, no matter how much noise we make, I want you to know that we love you and Stevie, sister, very much. 466 00:26:55,271 --> 00:26:59,144 And they hug and he tells him, give up the fuzz bucket thing, you fucking psycho. 467 00:26:59,144 --> 00:27:07,211 And but if the parents' fighting was a real issue, he didn't do anything to address that other than to say, we love you. 468 00:27:07,211 --> 00:27:10,513 Well, okay, we get that, but is there any context here? 469 00:27:10,513 --> 00:27:12,865 Is there any like this isn't about you guys? 470 00:27:12,865 --> 00:27:14,266 This isn't. 471 00:27:14,667 --> 00:27:15,227 I don't know. 472 00:27:15,227 --> 00:27:18,529 There's a lot of things that could have been said that weren't. 473 00:27:18,998 --> 00:27:23,662 And then and then he he's and then it's like, are you gonna ride your bike to school or do you want me to take you? 474 00:27:23,662 --> 00:27:25,423 And we learn Mikey's gonna ride his bike. 475 00:27:25,423 --> 00:27:28,676 So Mikey lives a very isolated, lonely life. 476 00:27:28,676 --> 00:27:39,334 the question, the real question I have about that whole coming out of that whole scene with the father is why Mikey has an absolutely giant fly swatter on his bedroom wall. 477 00:27:39,855 --> 00:27:43,518 Like, and I say giant, it is massive. 478 00:27:44,419 --> 00:27:45,100 What is that? 479 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:46,581 Why is that? 480 00:27:46,581 --> 00:27:47,862 What is it doing there? 481 00:27:47,862 --> 00:27:49,922 I bet in episode three. 482 00:27:50,823 --> 00:27:55,124 Fuzzbucket was gonna use that thing and go on a rampage or something. 483 00:27:55,124 --> 00:28:00,906 Honestly, you it the Fuzz Bucket, you think at any point he could snap and just do murder. 484 00:28:00,906 --> 00:28:04,607 Like it's it's so yeah, as you say, he does take his bike to school. 485 00:28:04,607 --> 00:28:09,129 He he doesn't actually ride it because Fuzzbucket is walking with him. 486 00:28:09,249 --> 00:28:13,560 And he has to register for classes on the first day of junior high. 487 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:19,272 Did you guys remember having to line up in the gym to register for classes in junior high? 488 00:28:19,292 --> 00:28:20,032 No. 489 00:28:20,032 --> 00:28:21,352 No. 490 00:28:21,352 --> 00:28:25,513 The whole scene was like in Crybaby when they have to get the shots. 491 00:28:25,924 --> 00:28:26,734 yeah. 492 00:28:26,734 --> 00:28:29,055 That's what it kept reminding me of. 493 00:28:29,055 --> 00:28:34,486 I I I wrote down, it's set up like the Ellis Island scene from Godfather 2. 494 00:28:34,486 --> 00:28:34,796 Okay. 495 00:28:34,796 --> 00:28:35,767 Well, yeah. 496 00:28:35,767 --> 00:28:37,307 What's what's his name? 497 00:28:37,307 --> 00:28:38,017 what's his name? 498 00:28:38,017 --> 00:28:40,498 his FuzzBucket from Corleone. 499 00:28:40,754 --> 00:28:41,884 Bucket Corleone. 500 00:28:41,884 --> 00:28:42,525 There we go. 501 00:28:42,525 --> 00:28:43,705 Very similar movies. 502 00:28:43,705 --> 00:28:44,635 Yeah. 503 00:28:44,635 --> 00:28:45,855 This was also the point. 504 00:28:45,855 --> 00:28:51,847 So when he was on his way to school before he got into the crybaby slash godfather scene, it took a commercial break. 505 00:28:51,847 --> 00:28:55,298 And we were 11 minutes into this thing with no fuzz bucket yet. 506 00:28:55,298 --> 00:28:56,619 No fuzz bucket. 507 00:28:56,619 --> 00:29:02,640 And in the commercials here, there's an ad for coming soon, the real Ghostbusters cartoon. 508 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,021 Oh wow. 509 00:29:04,021 --> 00:29:04,821 Yeah. 510 00:29:04,821 --> 00:29:06,401 Which was really cool to see. 511 00:29:06,401 --> 00:29:07,602 I like commercials. 512 00:29:07,602 --> 00:29:09,452 I love old. 513 00:29:09,888 --> 00:29:16,162 Someone has pulled an old videotape of a movie or a TV show and thrown it on YouTube or something. 514 00:29:16,162 --> 00:29:18,494 I love when they include the full commercials. 515 00:29:18,494 --> 00:29:19,014 absolutely. 516 00:29:19,014 --> 00:29:22,927 It's just such a timestamp of a of a bygone era. 517 00:29:22,927 --> 00:29:25,979 And seeing real Ghostbusters, I mean, that was definitely the highlight. 518 00:29:25,979 --> 00:29:29,141 The other ones aren't really worth mentioning, but it was delightful. 519 00:29:29,141 --> 00:29:32,035 And I was hoping they would all be in there, but it was just this one break. 520 00:29:32,035 --> 00:29:32,794 Just a one. 521 00:29:32,794 --> 00:29:36,076 And then we and then I'm like, yeah, I have to be back to Fos Bucket now. 522 00:29:36,076 --> 00:29:39,488 This registering scene though, it has my favorite line in 523 00:29:39,488 --> 00:29:40,989 All of Fuzz Bucket. 524 00:29:40,989 --> 00:29:41,860 and what is that? 525 00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:52,809 It's during the kind of opening, yeah, like montage series of shots where it's like Mikey's walking in and you're getting, ooh, it's it's so crazy and busy here, you know, at 526 00:29:52,809 --> 00:29:56,052 registration and what a different world this is from elementary school. 527 00:29:56,052 --> 00:30:02,688 And there are all these snippets of the adults um, you know, essentially telling the kids what to do. 528

00:30:02,688 --> 00:30:03,699 Right. 529 00:30:03,699 --> 00:30:08,020 And my favorite line, I don't even know if you see the guy say it on camera, but 530 00:30:08,020 --> 00:30:09,541 Lunch is not an elective. 531 00:30:09,541 --> 00:30:14,396 You tell him. 532 00:30:14,396 --> 00:30:15,697 No like that's great. 533 00:30:15,697 --> 00:30:16,564 You don't have a choice. 534 00:30:16,564 --> 00:30:17,279 I love it. 535 00:30:17,279 --> 00:30:17,919 Yeah. 536 00:30:17,919 --> 00:30:27,608 when he is there, when he is in line, he finally gets to the front and he's gonna register, he encounters this horrible old bag of a woman who laughs at his name. 537 00:30:27,608 --> 00:30:30,991 Last name first, Gerber Michael. 538 00:30:31,192 --> 00:30:32,213 Gerber? 539 00:30:32,213 --> 00:30:33,874 Liking the baby food? 540 00:30:36,878 --> 00:30:43,665 Baby food and she can't find a record of him, so she sends him down to the principal's office and laughs at him some more. 541 00:30:43,665 --> 00:30:46,648 Like this woman is just the worst. 542 00:30:46,648 --> 00:30:53,073 I I actually found her voice grating in a in a in a it was like nails on a chalkboard. 543 00:30:53,073 --> 00:30:56,056 I'm like, I hope FuzzBucket eats this woman's face. 544 00:30:56,617 --> 00:30:57,838 Trumpy would have. 545 00:30:57,838 --> 00:31:02,180 oh Chumpy would have just uh would a karate chopped her. 546 00:31:02,180 --> 00:31:03,884 That would have been it for this one. 547 00:31:03,884 --> 00:31:06,586 She is just the w I mean, she's just like she's making fun of his name. 548 00:31:06,586 --> 00:31:09,849 Like like junior high's not hard enough, bitch. 549 00:31:09,849 --> 00:31:10,490 Yeah. 550 00:31:10,490 --> 00:31:11,150 Excuse me. 551 00:31:11,150 --> 00:31:14,213 I excuse my language, but she really got under my skin, this woman. 552 00:31:14,213 --> 00:31:23,874 Technically, she's she's gonna be gone soon, and and you know, by episode three, Fuzzbuck was gonna murder her, but you know she could almost be just a figure of his imagination. 553 00:31:23,874 --> 00:31:25,795 Like a figment of his imagination. 554 00:31:25,795 --> 00:31:28,617 Honestly's whole thing to be a figure of his imagination. 555 00:31:28,617 --> 00:31:32,600 Because she's so odd and she's laughing all the time maniacally. 556 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:33,451 Baniacally. 557 00:31:33,451 --> 00:31:34,782 The moment she shows up. 558 00:31:34,782 --> 00:31:36,223 And it's just so weird. 559 00:31:36,223 --> 00:31:42,297 And when she takes him to the office, she's flipping through note cards in a box trying to find him, just laughing. 560 00:31:42,297 --> 00:31:44,929 And cackling. 561 00:31:44,929 --> 00:31:46,011 It's the worst. 562 00:31:46,011 --> 00:31:46,630 The weirdest thing. 563 00:31:46,630 --> 00:31:50,933 And there's something to be said, and we're gonna get there eventually toward the end of this thing. 564 00:31:50,933 --> 00:31:52,864 This could

this whole 565 00:31:52,928 --> 00:32:01,300 All of the events in this thing, you could view this as inside his head completely, as though this was like a new heart dream. 566 00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:02,261 100%. 567 00:32:02,261 --> 00:32:07,762 And there's a moment where that may have paid off if it had been the case. 568 00:32:07,842 --> 00:32:10,483 But anyway, now we're with the old lady in the office. 569 00:32:10,483 --> 00:32:12,663 And then this is when things get dark. 570 00:32:12,663 --> 00:32:13,434 Oh, yeah. 571 00:32:13,434 --> 00:32:13,774 Yeah. 572 00:32:13,774 --> 00:32:21,976 But before they get dark, I just want to mention the girl in this scene is essentially wearing the same shirt that his sister died. 573 00:32:21,976 --> 00:32:26,628 has more evidence that this may be all in his mind. 574 00:32:26,628 --> 00:32:27,688 Yes, yes. 575 00:32:27,688 --> 00:32:31,170 It's the same collared pastel patchwork look. 576 00:32:31,170 --> 00:32:34,461 I don't think it's the exact same shirt, but they got they had a they had a deal. 577 00:32:34,461 --> 00:32:39,593 They had a deal for the costuming on this, you know, oh tear by two, you know, get a fur half off. 578 00:32:39,593 --> 00:32:51,858 But problems arise when Fuzzbucket starts tickling Michael in the the the in the office, in the in the school office and and makes Michael laugh like an absolute lunatic. 579 00:32:52,098 --> 00:32:54,009 Like a completely insane person. 580 00:32:54,009 --> 00:32:56,501 And then he keeps saying, Stop it, FuzzBucket. 581 00:32:56,501 --> 00:32:57,701 Stop it, Fuzz Bucket. 582 00:32:57,701 --> 00:33:03,055 Like the consent involved with FuzzBucket and his behavior in this movie, not okay. 583 00:33:03,055 --> 00:33:04,866 No, it's it's not okay. 584 00:33:04,866 --> 00:33:06,997 And of course the girl is sitting on the bench next to him. 585 00:33:06,997 --> 00:33:08,908 She's like, Who is this lunatic? 586 00:33:08,908 --> 00:33:10,778 Who is this psychopath next to me? 587 00:33:10,778 --> 00:33:11,070 Yeah. 588 00:33:11,070 --> 00:33:11,870 Yeah. 589 00:33:12,194 --> 00:33:12,994 You're you're right. 590 00:33:12,994 --> 00:33:16,887 There is some serious consent issues with with Fuzzbucket. 591 00:33:16,887 --> 00:33:24,141 and that gets him hauled into the actual principal's office played by by John Vernon, the dean from Animal House and from from from Killer Clowns. 592 00:33:24,141 --> 00:33:30,744 It's interesting because this scene, the principal is so this principal's the worst. 593 00:33:30,744 --> 00:33:32,205 He's so mean. 594 00:33:32,205 --> 00:33:40,489 Well, he he lures Michael in, like gaining his trust, telling him, Hey, listen, you could tell me whatever you need to. 595 00:33:40,489 --> 00:33:41,984 I'll believe what you say. 596 00:33:41,984 --> 00:33:43,044 I have a sense of humor. 597 00:33:43,044 --> 00:33:54,939 It's he he he says all these things to genuinely gain my may gain Michael's

trust, as if as if he is someone who genuinely cares and will like the kind of principle you might 598 00:33:54,939 --> 00:33:55,780 actually want. 599 00:33:55,780 --> 00:34:00,001 And then as soon as Michael tells him about Fuzzbucket, he immediately doesn't believe him. 600 00:34:00,001 --> 00:34:06,043 He he stands in front of him and it's as though Michael has committed a serious offense. 601 00:34:06,184 --> 00:34:06,904 Yes. 602 00:34:06,904 --> 00:34:08,305 What he has done is laugh. 603 00:34:08,305 --> 00:34:09,185 Yeah. 604 00:34:09,225 --> 00:34:10,005 And 605 00:34:10,058 --> 00:34:18,001 As though this guy maybe he's new to teaching, just like what's her name in D period, A period, R period, Y period, Air L period. 606 00:34:18,001 --> 00:34:22,183 The mom remember was a piano teacher who hated children playing piano. 607 00:34:22,183 --> 00:34:25,025 This guy has never encountered children before. 608 00:34:25,025 --> 00:34:35,689 Or how Steven Spielberg perceived children slept in close encounters where they look like they're at a crime scene and about to have the outlines drawn around their dead bodies. 609 00:34:35,689 --> 00:34:37,196 Well, here the principal 610 00:34:37,196 --> 00:34:39,598 Has no time for a child child's laughter. 611 00:34:39,598 --> 00:34:39,998 No. 612 00:34:39,998 --> 00:34:43,050 And he's like, You want to tell me what was so funny? 613 00:34:43,386 --> 00:34:46,193 I have a I have a I have a sense of humor. 614 00:34:46,193 --> 00:34:46,943 You could tell me. 615 00:34:46,943 --> 00:34:47,784 I have a sense of humor. 616 00:34:47,784 --> 00:34:49,856 And Mikey's like, You wouldn't understand. 617 00:34:49,856 --> 00:34:54,859 And then the principal brings he immediately dives into this. 618 00:34:55,140 --> 00:34:55,870 You like school? 619 00:34:55,870 --> 00:34:58,682 It's okay. 620 00:35:00,856 --> 00:35:02,707 You nervous about P.E. 621 00:35:03,146 --> 00:35:05,057 A lot of the young fellas are at first. 622 00:35:05,057 --> 00:35:08,011 They're not used to taking showers with the other guys. 623 00:35:09,053 --> 00:35:12,535 Some of the boys come in here with real bad stomach aches over that. 624 00:35:12,956 --> 00:35:15,398 But they get over it soon enough. 625 00:35:17,484 --> 00:35:18,920 That bother you at all? 626 00:35:21,216 --> 00:35:23,207 No bad stomach aches, Mike. 627 00:35:23,328 --> 00:35:28,031 Lots of boys are afraid of taking showers with other boys to PE. 628 00:35:28,311 --> 00:35:29,492 Does that bother you? 629 00:35:29,492 --> 00:35:30,613 Yes. 630 00:35:30,693 --> 00:35:32,184 That's where he goes right away. 631 00:35:32,184 --> 00:35:33,245 Really? 632 00:35:33,245 --> 00:35:40,440 A kid sitting in his lobby cr laughing turns into Aren't you afraid to be naked around children your age? 633 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,881 Does that bother you? 634 00:35:41,881 --> 00:35:43,723 It is bizarre. 635 00:35:43,723 --> 00:35:46,346 Why is he pushing so hard at this kid? 636 00:35:46,346 --> 00:35:48,418 I just don't understand. 637 00:35:48,418 --> 00:35:50,349 the dynamic that they were going for here. 638 00:35:50,349 --> 00:35:59,803 Or if this guy was going to become maybe he's an agent for the military, the government, and he's trying and he's on the case with these fuzz this fuzz bucket thing. 639 00:35:59,803 --> 00:36:00,333 I don't know. 640 00:36:00,333 --> 00:36:11,168 There had to be more of a story here about why this guy was such a weirdo and why he was obsessing over the laughter of a kid equaling being afraid to be in a shower with boys. 641 00:36:11,168 --> 00:36:13,009 It it is, it is bizarre. 642 00:36:13,009 --> 00:36:16,674 It seems like for a series this would be setting up 643 00:36:16,674 --> 00:36:22,987 the principal as being someone that he had to keep the secret of of FuzzBet from. 644 00:36:22,987 --> 00:36:23,277 Right. 645 00:36:23,277 --> 00:36:23,507 Yeah. 646 00:36:23,507 --> 00:36:26,338 And the the Fuzz Bucket would keep getting him in trouble. 647 00:36:26,338 --> 00:36:34,182 Cause you certainly in this era don't cast John Vernon to be the principal if you want the principal to be a good guy. 648 00:36:34,182 --> 00:36:34,462 Right. 649 00:36:34,462 --> 00:36:35,122 Right, right. 650 00:36:35,122 --> 00:36:42,386 But it doesn't even really get to that like you don't actually get to that launch point in this pilot. 651 00:36:42,386 --> 00:36:42,726 Right. 652 00:36:42,726 --> 00:36:43,446 No. 653 00:36:43,542 --> 00:36:49,795 No, it's it's it he he just basically Michael smartens up and he tells the principal what he wants to hear. 654 00:36:49,795 --> 00:36:52,207 No, that's not no fuzz bucket. 655 00:36:52,207 --> 00:36:53,648 Life lesson learned, kid. 656 00:36:53,648 --> 00:36:57,289 Just tell the tell the tell the man what he wants to hear. 657 00:36:57,430 --> 00:36:58,330 Sick. 658 00:36:58,350 --> 00:36:59,250 Forget about the truth. 659 00:36:59,250 --> 00:37:01,511 It's just tell him what he wants to hear. 660 00:37:01,672 --> 00:37:08,135 So Michael Michael after school, Michael goes home, and Michael is determined to make FuzzBucket visible. 661 00:37:08,475 --> 00:37:13,748 So when he comes home, he he takes all this random shit in the kitchen. 662 00:37:13,782 --> 00:37:15,162 And he puts it in a blender. 663 00:37:15,162 --> 00:37:20,764 This kid has the kitchen skills of Johnny Five, by the way, because this place is a mess. 664 00:37:20,764 --> 00:37:21,514 Totally. 665 00:37:21,514 --> 00:37:22,104 Yeah. 666 00:37:22,104 --> 00:37:28,406 Like I thought, I seriously thought at one moment, I was like, oh, he's not, he's gonna forget to put the lid on that blender. 667 00:37:28,486 --> 00:37:29,614 And it's gonna go all blend. 668 00:37:29,614 --> 00:37:31,347 Thankfully, he did not. 669 00:37:31,387 --> 00:37:41,810 What is more of a serious concern is that the glowing green concoction he has put

together, it is literally glowing. 670 00:37:41,810 --> 00:37:43,352 What on earth? 671 00:37:43,352 --> 00:37:46,843 Did the mother have in the kitchen for Christ's sake? 672 00:37:46,843 --> 00:37:52,024 No, it happens the glowing is for a reason because he's taken everything. 673 00:37:52,024 --> 00:38:01,687 It's kind of like when you're a kid and you're at a restaurant or a uh gas station and you get a cup of soda and you put a little bit of every flavor in there. 674 00:38:01,707 --> 00:38:02,877 He has done the same thing. 675 00:38:02,877 --> 00:38:06,588 There's peanut butter, there's who knows what else, all crammed into this blender. 676 00:38:06,588 --> 00:38:10,569 And then he's handed this glowing green glob. 677 00:38:10,569 --> 00:38:13,300 Oh, presumably by Fuzbucket. 678 00:38:13,634 --> 00:38:17,356 Because he looks at it like he's never seen it before and like, ugh, what the heck? 679 00:38:17,356 --> 00:38:18,636 And he puts it in there. 680 00:38:18,636 --> 00:38:20,747 That's how it ends up being Well, that's better. 681 00:38:20,747 --> 00:38:23,818 I was like, what the hell is a mother having a pantry for Christ's sake? 682 00:38:23,818 --> 00:38:26,559 Well, it's not the basement in Prince of Darkness. 683 00:38:26,559 --> 00:38:31,194 It's there I think it came from it looks, it's glowing that same shade of green. 684 00:38:31,194 --> 00:38:31,681 It is. 685 00:38:31,681 --> 00:38:32,422 Yes. 686 00:38:32,422 --> 00:38:32,862 It is. 687 00:38:32,862 --> 00:38:34,302 Lopan is here. 688 00:38:34,302 --> 00:38:35,503 Lopan was here. 689 00:38:35,503 --> 00:38:37,018 No, that's not even Lopan. 690 00:38:37,018 --> 00:38:38,194 What the fuck am I talking about? 691 00:38:38,194 --> 00:38:43,606 But anyway, it's BuzzBucket gives him the handful of 692 00:38:43,842 --> 00:38:50,227 Glowing jizz and he puts it in the blender and it blends it up and off we go. 693 00:38:50,227 --> 00:38:51,898 But he leaves the whole mess there. 694 00:38:51,898 --> 00:38:53,170 This kid does not clean up. 695 00:38:53,170 --> 00:38:54,120 He leaves the whole mess there. 696 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,892 The mother's pissed, understandably so. 697 00:38:56,933 --> 00:39:04,799 And and and he's able, but he's able to sneak out like a little, like the little mason jar of of gre glowing green stuff. 698 00:39:04,799 --> 00:39:09,413 And and he goes up to his his treehouse to give this stuff to FuzzBuck. 699 00:39:09,413 --> 00:39:13,916 Now, guys, this is we're gonna see some serious shit. 700 00:39:14,763 --> 00:39:15,704 Yeah. 701 00:39:15,704 --> 00:39:23,792 First off, the invisible FuzzBucket takes this jar and we see it actually floating in the air, kind of like invisible man style. 702 00:39:23,792 --> 00:39:31,481 This is this is the first time that I have noticed like FuzzBucket actually affecting things physically in the world. 703 00:39:31,481 --> 00:39:34,373 Like he's tickling, we don't see that he's tickling Michael. 704 00:39:34,373 --> 00:39:37,226 Michael's just laughing like a lunatic, but now. 705 00:39:37,230 --> 00:39:40,311 He is affecting objects in space. 706 00:39:40,311 --> 00:39:44,953 It's like the moment in the shining when the ghosts unlock the door to the freezer. 707 00:39:45,093 --> 00:39:46,014 Okay. 708 00:39:46,014 --> 00:39:58,559 We see this jar tip up, and the green liquid gets poured down the invisible throat, coating the throat from the inside. 709 00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:03,741 And then what happens next is the stuff of actual nightmares. 710 00:40:04,021 --> 00:40:05,622 Fuzzbucket appears. 711 00:40:05,622 --> 00:40:06,482 yes. 712 00:40:06,850 --> 00:40:17,417 Starting with his skeleton and then his organs and muscles and he literally rematerializes from the inside out. 713 00:40:17,618 --> 00:40:19,559 This is a horror. 714 00:40:19,559 --> 00:40:22,600 The first thing we see is the skeleton as noted. 715 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:31,027 It's it looks like I don't know, a small human or a a child's skeleton, but it has a long tail on the back. 716 00:40:31,027 --> 00:40:31,947 Yes, yes, it does. 717 00:40:31,947 --> 00:40:32,968 It's like a dinosaur. 718 00:40:32,968 --> 00:40:36,530 It looks like a dinosaur skeleton you'd see in a museum. 719 00:40:36,726 --> 00:40:37,527 Is how it starts. 720 00:40:37,527 --> 00:40:43,672 And that green stuff that he drank appears in the center of his, I guess, stomach. 721 00:40:43,672 --> 00:40:44,592 Stomach. 722 00:40:44,592 --> 00:40:47,775 And it's glowing m like that. 723 00:40:47,775 --> 00:40:55,081 Like this is the so he needed that to be put in the blender to affect whatever's happening here. 724 00:40:55,081 --> 00:41:01,166 And it keeps cutting in kind of how do we get around showing a transformation? 725 00:41:01,166 --> 00:41:01,912 Well. 726 00:41:01,912 --> 00:41:06,155 We just keep cutting back and forth between the skeleton and Mikey's shocked face. 727 00:41:06,155 --> 00:41:08,547 Skeleton Mikey's shocked face. 728 00:41:08,547 --> 00:41:10,308 Very Spielberg. 729 00:41:10,729 --> 00:41:11,710 Well, yeah. 730 00:41:11,710 --> 00:41:15,522 And uh, and then and we are halfway through this now. 731 00:41:15,522 --> 00:41:25,319 And finally, guys, here is in the in the middle, halfway point of this festering pile is FuzzBucket. 732 00:41:25,340 --> 00:41:27,301 And how would you guys describe FuzzBucket? 733 00:41:27,301 --> 00:41:28,248 I'd love to hear. 734 00:41:28,248 --> 00:41:33,060 Well, I was gonna say, I think this is now is the time to talk about FuzzBucket himself. 735 00:41:33,140 --> 00:41:39,682 Um, because in this series we have had some very odd, perhaps even you might say off-putting creatures. 736 00:41:39,803 --> 00:41:43,124 Trumpy, Miko, and Nuki? 737 00:41:43,604 --> 00:41:45,165 They are nothing. 738 00:41:45,585 --> 00:41:50,827 Nothing compared to the atrocity that is FuzzBucket. 739 00:41:51,388 -->

00:41:56,890 My first question was, and I wrote this down: how did this thing escape from the fire swamp? 740 00:41:57,698 --> 00:41:59,889 Like it looks like someone said, Hey, you know what would be cool? 741 00:41:59,889 --> 00:42:04,561 Let's make one of those R O U S from the Princess Bride into a biped. 742 00:42:04,762 --> 00:42:06,463 Holy shit. 743 00:42:06,463 --> 00:42:08,474 Yeah, it reminded me of Rat Boy. 744 00:42:08,474 --> 00:42:09,985 Yeah. 745 00:42:09,985 --> 00:42:10,435 Yes. 746 00:42:10,435 --> 00:42:11,225 Yeah. 747 00:42:11,225 --> 00:42:12,136 Very much. 748 00:42:12,136 --> 00:42:18,889 because he's got he's got a very, very fleshy face and a pointy nose type thing. 749 00:42:18,889 --> 00:42:26,553 But then he's got, you know, I guess like really, you know his hair isn't is unkempt, I would say. 750 00:42:26,553 --> 00:42:27,862 The furry unkempt. 751 00:42:27,862 --> 00:42:28,722 Yeah. 752 00:42:29,422 --> 00:42:33,634 And at times like the neck hair looks like a beard. 753 00:42:33,634 --> 00:42:39,205 It's so it's very weird and off putting. 754 00:42:39,205 --> 00:42:41,486 He has he has pig ears. 755 00:42:41,486 --> 00:42:42,246 Yes. 756 00:42:42,246 --> 00:42:45,347 He has a belly like Bam Margera's dad. 757 00:42:46,247 --> 00:42:50,878 He has hair in some in a lot of places, but not everywhere. 758 00:42:50,878 --> 00:42:56,200 And his hands are maybe three or four digit He's got three digits if I remember. 759 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:56,930 Yeah. 760 00:42:57,634 --> 00:42:58,244 I don't know why. 761 00:42:58,244 --> 00:43:04,057 I I don't and his feet are very similar to our second character on today's episode that we'll get to. 762 00:43:04,057 --> 00:43:05,447 But there so there is hair. 763 00:43:05,447 --> 00:43:09,499 It's like there's a pant that he's wearing, the actor, Phil. 764 00:43:09,499 --> 00:43:09,999 Phil. 765 00:43:09,999 --> 00:43:11,260 As this thing. 766 00:43:11,260 --> 00:43:17,382 But the rest of him, it I what I don't understand, this is a Disney creation. 767 00:43:17,382 --> 00:43:17,982 Yeah. 768 00:43:17,982 --> 00:43:22,384 Disney, I presume, has layers of approval for everything. 769 00:43:22,384 --> 00:43:24,765 It's a very calculated organization. 770 00:43:24,765 --> 00:43:27,166 I think always has been. 771 00:43:27,180 --> 00:43:31,272 This made it through every layer of consideration. 772 00:43:31,592 --> 00:43:34,833 Had they not liked it, they wouldn't have ever even aired this. 773 00:43:34,833 --> 00:43:39,055 Granted, it did not become the series that Mick Garris had hoped it would be. 774 00:43:39,495 --> 00:43:44,297 But when you see this, what child wouldn't be terrified by it? 775 00:43:44,297 --> 00:43:48,139 Well, and you saw the created by FuzzBucket credit, yes. 776 00:43:48,139 --> 00:43:50,290 Robert Schiffer and Kevin Yeager. 777 00:43:50,290 --> 00:43:51,360 Who are great. 778 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:51,901 Yeah. 779

00:43:51,901 --> 00:43:53,361 They know what they're doing. 780 00:43:53,361 --> 00:43:55,572 But this this seems like 781 00:43:55,874 --> 00:43:58,886 Like they found a few costume elements and threw them together. 782 00:43:58,886 --> 00:43:59,676 Yeah. 783 00:43:59,676 --> 00:44:06,911 I I mean, honestly though, how did anyone think this thing would appeal to children? 784 00:44:06,911 --> 00:44:09,022 I know what la kids like rats. 785 00:44:09,022 --> 00:44:11,824 Let's give it a giant fucking rat tail. 786 00:44:11,824 --> 00:44:12,785 it yeah, that's the thing. 787 00:44:12,785 --> 00:44:18,768 That big dinosaur tail that you see the skeleton of earlier, it doesn't look like the bone structure that we saw. 788 00:44:18,768 --> 00:44:21,670 It's just a long, fleshy. 789 00:44:21,866 --> 00:44:27,812 It's there's a there's a British sketch show called The Mighty Boosh, and there's a character called The Crack Fox. 790 00:44:27,812 --> 00:44:30,233 It looks a lot like the crack fox. 791 00:44:30,986 --> 00:44:36,082 And and and here's the thing, here's why I kept I started to really kind of where I started to go down the rabbit hole. 792 00:44:36,082 --> 00:44:40,383 I'm like, Fuzzbucket did not make a big cultural impact. 793 00:44:40,383 --> 00:44:42,705 But guys, imagine if it did. 794 00:44:42,825 --> 00:44:48,230 Imagine a world where FuzzBucket was huge and is a character at Disney Parks. 795 00:44:48,270 --> 00:44:50,772 Kids taking pictures with fuzz buckets. 796 00:44:50,772 --> 00:44:52,993 Fuzz popcorn buckets. 797 00:44:52,993 --> 00:44:54,114 I would love it. 798 00:44:54,114 --> 00:45:02,519 A fuzz bucket balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, the rat tail hanging down between its legs above the crowd. 799 00:45:02,519 --> 00:45:04,680 The fucking horror of it. 800 00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,421 Okay, this is you the theme park, you guys. 801 00:45:07,982 --> 00:45:08,822 I don't I can't. 802 00:45:08,822 --> 00:45:09,463 I can't know. 803 00:45:09,463 --> 00:45:11,724 I can't count in its fuzz bucket. 804 00:45:11,724 --> 00:45:14,496 He's one of the characters walking around. 805 00:45:14,496 --> 00:45:15,512 my god. 806 00:45:15,512 --> 00:45:18,363 Cause you gotta have characters people can take pictures with. 807 00:45:18,363 --> 00:45:22,825 You gotta have ca I guess you gotta have Trumpy and Nukey and Miko and FuzzBet. 808 00:45:22,825 --> 00:45:23,295 Yeah. 809 00:45:23,295 --> 00:45:24,356 Yeah. 810 00:45:24,356 --> 00:45:30,528 because each one of our worlds is is a world that's based on things that are based on other things. 811 00:45:30,528 --> 00:45:31,068 Yes. 812 00:45:31,068 --> 00:45:31,879 Yes. 813 00:45:31,879 --> 00:45:34,650 Well yeah, by default, that's what this show is. 814 00:45:34,650 --> 00:45:36,670 Get me another theme park. 815 00:45:39,021 --> 00:45:39,742 my god. 816 00:45:39,742 --> 00:45:42,293 Oh, we're gonna have the fuzz bucket balloons. 817 00:45:42,293 --> 00:45:42,733 Yeah. 818 00:45:42,733 --> 00:45:45,404 It's gonna be yeah, kids kids gonna have 819 00:45:45,494 --> 00:45:48,676 Rat rat ears instead of, you know, mouse ears? 820 00:45:48,676 --> 00:45:52,839 Oh, for Christ's sake, what are we what are we bringing into the world? 821 00:45:52,839 --> 00:45:56,182 Uh so it's gonna be like alien friendland or something like that. 822 00:45:56,182 --> 00:45:56,878 We'll work on the topic. 823 00:45:56,878 --> 00:45:57,173 Exactly. 824 00:45:57,173 --> 00:45:57,788 Alien friendly. 825 00:45:57,788 --> 00:46:02,526 We can be inclusive of the of the rats and the the robots and things. 826 00:46:02,927 --> 00:46:07,220 And and it doesn't get any better when this abomination starts to talk. 827 00:46:08,952 --> 00:46:16,381 Big chunky, thank you. 828 00:46:16,381 --> 00:46:19,223 Mikey best buddy. 829 00:46:36,466 --> 00:46:37,286 Ugh. 830 00:46:37,466 --> 00:46:43,328 The first thing he says after like a few seconds of growling is big chunky thank yous. 831 00:46:43,588 --> 00:46:44,909 What? 832 00:46:44,909 --> 00:46:47,049 You do a shockingly good. 833 00:46:47,969 --> 00:46:51,410 I think we found our fuzz bucket after done. 834 00:46:51,410 --> 00:46:53,251 Big chunky thank yous! 835 00:46:53,251 --> 00:47:02,074 And and then he engages in this weird, weird ritual with Michael where he traces both of their hands on a on a on a piece of paper with a crayon. 836 00:47:02,074 --> 00:47:03,522 A waxy draw! 837 00:47:03,522 --> 00:47:07,214 Waxy draw on the same piece of paper. 838 00:47:07,214 --> 00:47:09,685 And now so like now they're bonded for life. 839 00:47:09,685 --> 00:47:12,027 And then he's like, he wants to watch cartoons. 840 00:47:12,027 --> 00:47:12,947 Tunes! 841 00:47:12,947 --> 00:47:13,767 Tunes! 842 00:47:13,767 --> 00:47:15,609 I thought he wanted music. 843 00:47:15,609 --> 00:47:16,969 I thought he wanted music. 844 00:47:16,969 --> 00:47:19,930 To r Rob read the synopsis to us. 845 00:47:19,971 --> 00:47:30,937 If you are to consider this thing is out here to help this boy, he has ruined how many scenarios now in his life, just in the first like 23 minutes of this thing. 846 00:47:30,937 --> 00:47:33,718 If he was the what we saw in the 847 00:47:33,966 --> 00:47:36,327 principal's office scenario. 848 00:47:36,327 --> 00:47:42,611 That's the extent of Fuzz Bucket's effort to help him get into junior high. 849 00:47:42,611 --> 00:47:42,981 Right. 850 00:47:42,981 --> 00:47:43,552 That was it. 851 00:47:43,552 --> 00:47:45,473 So that boils down to tickling him. 852 00:47:45,473 --> 00:47:45,993 Yeah. 853 00:47:45,993 --> 00:47:52,657 That's his, how is he some he's this a majestic being coming to save this boy? 854 00:47:52,657 --> 00:47:55,459 And all he's doing is creating chaos around him. 855 00:47:55,459 --> 00:48:00,866 It's like if Trumpy ended up the whole movie just making shit 856 00:48:00,866 --> 00:48:04,197 Fly

around chaotically and mur I mean, yeah, it's a murderous thing. 857 00:48:04,197 --> 00:48:05,287 We got into that. 858 00:48:05,287 --> 00:48:13,230 And by the way, fully erect from front to back is Trumpy in that movie. 859 00:48:13,230 --> 00:48:13,650 Yes. 860 00:48:13,650 --> 00:48:24,333 But anyway, here Fuzzbucket is not Trumpy is murderous from front to back, and the other Trumpies, he here, Fuzzbucket, is just creating chaos in this kid's world from front to 861 00:48:24,333 --> 00:48:24,663 back. 862 00:48:24,663 --> 00:48:28,214 I believe that FuzzBucket could do murder at any moment. 863 00:48:28,768 --> 00:48:33,443 Or i i if you don't put on those tunes, it's gonna slit you going. 864 00:48:33,443 --> 00:48:35,826 Yeah, he Mikey never says no to him. 865 00:48:35,826 --> 00:48:46,348 No, eventually Fuzzbucket falls asleep on Michael's shoulder, and you can just see that this kid is fucking terrified of this thing that he has brought into the world and made 866 00:48:46,348 --> 00:48:47,099 visible. 867 00:48:47,099 --> 00:48:50,402 And then Fuz then Fuzzbucket leaves just leaves. 868 00:48:51,286 --> 00:48:57,998 He's gotta go back he's gotta go back to Dead Man's Marsh where he lives, cause you know, that's what he calls it's the mushikoo. 869 00:48:57,998 --> 00:49:05,575 I'm from the mushiku But I I could just listen to you be fuzzbucket all day long. 870 00:49:05,575 --> 00:49:10,517 I'm like I from here on out. 871 00:49:12,546 --> 00:49:15,978 It's it's honestly imagine watching E.T. 872 00:49:15,978 --> 00:49:19,791 and throughout the whole movie having this gnawing dread that E.T. 873 00:49:19,791 --> 00:49:22,092 could murder Elliot at any second. 874 00:49:22,092 --> 00:49:24,594 That is the experience of watching FuzzBucket. 875 00:49:24,594 --> 00:49:25,935 It's like E.T. 876 00:49:25,935 --> 00:49:28,576 crossed with Leprechaun. 877 00:49:28,596 --> 00:49:30,337 Yeah, yes. 878 00:49:30,417 --> 00:49:37,681 And if FuzzBucket is here to help him again to that point, what he's doing right now is luring him to Dead Man's Bend. 879 00:49:39,142 --> 00:49:41,153 Where where should this kid be? 880 00:49:41,153 --> 00:49:46,465 Well, he should probably be out here with fucking penny wise hanging out in the bottoms. 881 00:49:46,746 --> 00:49:47,476 Let's go. 882 00:49:47,476 --> 00:49:48,306 Follow me. 883 00:49:48,306 --> 00:49:53,949 And so Mikey runs off after him with an obsession like a mania about him. 884 00:49:53,949 --> 00:49:54,599 Both of them. 885 00:49:54,599 --> 00:49:58,621 Because Fuzfuck, you know, he he wakes up and he wants to know what time it is. 886 00:49:58,621 --> 00:50:00,752 So he says, How many clocks? 887 00:50:00,752 --> 00:50:01,812 How many clocks? 888 00:50:01,812 --> 00:50:03,133 And then 889 00:50:06,615 --> 00:50:14,521 Yeah, and then you know he's he's and he's gotta do it because if he turns invisible again, and and if he does that once more, he'll be invisible forever. 890 00:50:14,662 --> 00:50:17,624 Please, fuzz bucket, be invisible forever. 891 00:50:17,885 --> 00:50:19,946 Is any of this explained? 892 00:50:20,087 --> 00:50:20,937 Absolutely not. 893 00:50:20,937 --> 00:50:26,232 And then he just jumps off the treehouse, lands on the ground, and just y runs away. 894 00:50:26,512 --> 00:50:29,255 Headlong dive off the treehouse. 895 00:50:29,255 --> 00:50:33,302 And so Mikey runs after him and encounters his sister and her 896 00:50:33,302 --> 00:50:40,387 Horde of gangster friends who are walking down the sidewalk doing I don't even know what they what is wandering mailing. 897 00:50:40,387 --> 00:50:41,608 Doing gangster shit. 898 00:50:41,608 --> 00:50:42,909 Doing gangster shit. 899 00:50:42,909 --> 00:50:45,070 And then and then the next thing we see. 900 00:50:45,070 --> 00:50:46,451 Oh my god. 901 00:50:46,451 --> 00:50:48,382 This was this was horrifying too. 902 00:50:48,382 --> 00:50:54,567 I was wondering why all of a sudden we're focusing so much on this mailbox, like one of those end of the street mailboxes. 903 00:50:54,567 --> 00:50:55,678 US mail. 904 00:50:55,678 --> 00:50:56,778 US mail. 905 00:50:56,778 --> 00:50:57,719 Yeah. 906 00:50:57,739 --> 00:51:00,831 And he's inside of it for some reason. 907 00:51:00,831 --> 00:51:01,702 Fuzz bucket. 908 00:51:01,702 --> 00:51:02,136 Yeah. 909 00:51:02,136 --> 00:51:02,706 Fuzz bucket. 910 00:51:02,706 --> 00:51:03,477 Yeah, not Mikey. 911 00:51:03,477 --> 00:51:07,749 No, the fuzz bucket is this obscenity is inside this mailbox. 912 00:51:07,749 --> 00:51:10,491 We we never see how it it ha it got in. 913 00:51:10,491 --> 00:51:11,181 Or why. 914 00:51:11,181 --> 00:51:12,586 Why is it there? 915 00:51:12,586 --> 00:51:14,319 You know, that's a federal offense. 916 00:51:14,319 --> 00:51:15,353 I'm just gonna say it. 917 00:51:15,353 --> 00:51:21,747 Because in a minute it's gonna this thing is gonna it's gonna reveal that it's it's f knows how to disguise itself. 918 00:51:21,747 --> 00:51:24,078 It knows how to hide and where to hide. 919 00:51:24,078 --> 00:51:27,190 It doesn't need like a mailbox would be the pr one of the worst places. 920 00:51:27,190 --> 00:51:27,940 Yes. 921 00:51:27,940 --> 00:51:30,461 I presume that he was slinking around. 922 00:51:30,461 --> 00:51:31,992 He had to like quickly 923 00:51:31,992 --> 00:51:33,252 Get in a mailbox. 924 00:51:33,252 --> 00:51:34,444 But that's not quickly. 925 00:51:34,444 --> 00:51:36,135 Even getting out of it, it was hard for him. 926 00:51:36,135 --> 00:51:45,833 He kind of burst out of it like man, what was man, this guy in WCW one year. 927 00:51:45,833 --> 00:51:49,096 He he there was this big buildup for this character. 928 00:51:49,096 --> 00:51:50,407 And I even have the action figure. 929 00:51:50,407 --> 00:51:52,919 I'm so embarrassed I can't remember what you the shock master. 930 00:51:52,919 --> 00:51:55,941

For those of you who are listening, just hit pause now. 931 00:51:55,941 --> 00:51:57,262 Please return. 932 00:51:57,262 --> 00:51:59,844 We promise it won't be this, it'll still be bad. 933 00:51:59,844 --> 00:52:00,965 But please return. 934 00:52:00,965 --> 00:52:02,176 Go look up. 935 00:52:02,676 --> 00:52:04,547 Shockmaster WCW. 936 00:52:04,547 --> 00:52:06,308 There was this big angle. 937 00:52:06,609 --> 00:52:09,431 And this is exactly what I'm sure you two wanted to hear about today. 938 00:52:09,431 --> 00:52:10,282 And they're setting it up. 939 00:52:10,282 --> 00:52:15,856 It involves I'll just say it involves Ric Flair, I think Sting, I mean maybe Marn Anderson, a bunch of guys. 940 00:52:15,856 --> 00:52:18,697 Uh and they're this guy was to be introduced. 941 00:52:18,697 --> 00:52:25,703 And you hear this voice over the intercom is like, St like Sting, I am your ultimate foe, whatever he says. 942 00:52:25,703 --> 00:52:27,224 And then they're like, whoa, where is he? 943 00:52:27,224 --> 00:52:30,166 And he comes, he comes bursting through a wall. 944 00:52:30,976 --> 00:52:39,353 But when he comes bursting through the wall, they had built it with a two by four at the bottom of it that he apparently was not aware of. 945 00:52:39,614 --> 00:52:46,199 And out of the wall comes this guy wearing a fur coat and a I am not making any of this up. 946 00:52:46,199 --> 00:52:50,742 A stormtrooper helmet that's covered in silver glitter. 947 00:52:50,823 --> 00:52:56,308 He trips over the board at the bottom of the wall when he bursts out, falls flat on his face. 948 00:52:56,308 --> 00:52:59,276 The stormtrooper helmet goes rolling away. 949 00:52:59,276 --> 00:53:09,395 And I think you hear Psycho Sitter someone off camera go, Holy shit, when this happens, it is the most hilarious introduction in the history of wrestling. 950 00:53:09,395 --> 00:53:11,016 Back to Fuzz Bucket. 951 00:53:11,016 --> 00:53:16,080 This is Fuzz Bucket's shockmaster moment when he pops out of a mailbox. 952 00:53:16,241 --> 00:53:21,264 You know, the Hawaiian punch thing going through a war. 953 00:53:22,870 --> 00:53:23,620 Oh yeah. 954 00:53:23,620 --> 00:53:25,431 Kool-Aid man, yes. 955 00:53:25,431 --> 00:53:26,631 Kool-Aid man, that's it. 956 00:53:26,631 --> 00:53:29,972 That not the Hawaiian punch, the Kool-Aid man, that's it. 957 00:53:29,972 --> 00:53:32,333 Not Hawaiian punch, come on. 958 00:53:32,333 --> 00:53:33,153 He surfed. 959 00:53:33,153 --> 00:53:34,753 Hawaiian punch surfed. 960 00:53:36,074 --> 00:53:47,597 Michael eventually does look for FuzzBucket down an alleyway, and and after an encounter with a homeless person, he finally finds FuzzBucket in a dumpster where he belongs. 961 00:53:47,777 --> 00:53:52,738 And he's wearing a coat and a hat and a broken pair of glasses in a disguise. 962 00:53:52,832 --> 00:54:03,131 And FuzzBucket gets attacked by a rat that bites down on FuzzBucket's own rat tail,

and he goes whirling around like a dervish with this rat attached to him. 963 00:54:03,131 --> 00:54:04,593 It's a nightmare. 964 00:54:04,593 --> 00:54:08,757 It's just Michael hits the rat with a can so he lets it go. 965 00:54:08,757 --> 00:54:12,500 Fuzzbucket tells Michael, he saved his li Saved my life. 966 00:54:12,500 --> 00:54:16,664 Oh my grateful for saving my life. 967 00:54:16,664 --> 00:54:19,340 What he looks like here, if you have seen 968 00:54:19,340 --> 00:54:21,091 The Masters of the Universe movie. 969 00:54:21,091 --> 00:54:21,572 Yes. 970 00:54:21,572 --> 00:54:23,083 Gwildor. 971 00:54:23,083 --> 00:54:25,544 Like Gildor when Gildor is trying to be disguised. 972 00:54:25,544 --> 00:54:25,875 Yes. 973 00:54:25,875 --> 00:54:37,423 Which is a better disguise than our friend Trumpy in Extraterrestrial Invaders, which remember is just a dildo slapped on a mask with a hood on. 974 00:54:37,423 --> 00:54:41,726 But again, you look, this is part of the trend, baby. 975 00:54:41,726 --> 00:54:44,718 Your magical creature has to dress up. 976 00:54:44,718 --> 00:54:45,658 You gotta disguise it. 977 00:54:45,658 --> 00:54:47,550 Because that happened in E.T. 978 00:54:47,550 --> 00:54:48,310 So why didn't 979 00:54:48,310 --> 00:54:50,441 So why didn't FuzzBucket just do it in the first place? 980 00:54:50,441 --> 00:54:53,383 Why did he take this side road adventure into mail? 981 00:54:53,383 --> 00:54:57,365 Who knows what FuzzBucket how FuzzBucket views the world. 982 00:54:57,365 --> 00:54:58,336 Mick Garris does. 983 00:54:58,336 --> 00:54:59,616 We need Mick. 984 00:55:00,457 --> 00:55:01,318 Should I call him? 985 00:55:01,318 --> 00:55:02,558 Maybe that's the time. 986 00:55:02,558 --> 00:55:03,289 Let me bring him in. 987 00:55:03,289 --> 00:55:09,402 Listen, uh, we and you know nobody's brought this up in 40 years, but we want to talk to you about FuzzBucket. 988 00:55:09,402 --> 00:55:11,343 He'd probably just hang up on me. 989 00:55:11,804 --> 00:55:13,144 Where was the lore gonna go? 990 00:55:13,144 --> 00:55:16,206 Because there is so much unexplained. 991 00:55:16,226 --> 00:55:21,167 Which sometimes is great and sometimes there's so much unexplained. 992 00:55:22,708 --> 00:55:28,210 And why does it keep sound like over and over it sounds like Fuzzbucket's saying, Can't go poop? 993 00:55:28,630 --> 00:55:31,331 What is he saying when he say I didn't have the benefit of subtitles? 994 00:55:31,331 --> 00:55:37,303 And also this was in like one twenty DPI, my version of this thing. 995 00:55:37,303 --> 00:55:39,746 So kid does it what was he actually saying? 996 00:55:39,746 --> 00:55:49,141 Did either of you I have trouble understanding Fuzz Bucket myself, and I I am apparently the FuzzBucket interpreter, which is a terrible thing that has befallen me. 997 00:55:49,141 --> 00:55:51,029 Can't go poop, can't go poop. 998 00:55:51,029 --> 00:55:52,039 What's he referring to? 999

00:55:52,039 --> 00:55:54,374 Is he really saying poof, poof. 1000 00:55:54,374 --> 00:55:56,746 It's can't go poof, can't go poof! 1001 00:55:56,746 --> 00:56:00,498 Because if he deterns invisible again, he will be invisible forever. 1002 00:56:00,498 --> 00:56:01,318 that makes more sense. 1003 00:56:01,318 --> 00:56:02,058 Can't go poof! 1004 00:56:02,058 --> 00:56:03,319 Can't go poof! 1005 00:56:03,319 --> 00:56:04,480 Yeah, okay. 1006 00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:06,781 You know what's the most upsetting thing about all of this? 1007 00:56:06,781 --> 00:56:07,373 Do tell. 1008 00:56:07,373 --> 00:56:08,354 He kisses 1009 00:56:08,354 --> 00:56:11,977 He kisses Michael's hand for saving his life. 1010 00:56:11,977 --> 00:56:16,681 And when he does, he makes this slurping sound. 1011 00:56:16,681 --> 00:56:17,111 Yeah. 1012 00:56:17,111 --> 00:56:20,024 That is just it is it is upsetting. 1013 00:56:20,024 --> 00:56:21,205 It's just upsetting. 1014 00:56:21,205 --> 00:56:29,802 Uh Michael flees, pleads, Michael pleads with FuzzBucket that he wants to go home with him, but mu Fuzzbucket says no and runs off again. 1015 00:56:29,802 --> 00:56:32,002 Here's my question. 1016 00:56:32,002 --> 00:56:35,683 Did he find a coat with a hole for his giant rat tail? 1017 00:56:35,683 --> 00:56:38,834 Or did he take the time to make that hole himself? 1018 00:56:38,834 --> 00:56:40,244 he ripped it open. 1019 00:56:40,745 --> 00:56:42,185 He's a destructor. 1020 00:56:42,185 --> 00:56:44,886 Rob's like, Oh yeah. 1021 00:56:44,926 --> 00:56:46,762 What what else would a fuzz bucket do? 1022 00:56:46,762 --> 00:56:54,689 And when he runs off and the par everyone's out looking for Mikey, the kid who's presumed dead in in the in the barrens. 1023 00:56:54,809 --> 00:56:55,709 Yeah. 1024 00:56:55,769 --> 00:56:58,850 Some he's seen the deadlights, they're worried. 1025 00:56:58,858 --> 00:57:08,242 Mom says, Dad's getting in his car who's gonna do one of those things that happens in movies where if someone's missing, you just drive around and you hope that you encounter 1026 00:57:08,242 --> 00:57:08,442 them. 1027 00:57:08,442 --> 00:57:10,984 And mom's like, Well, I'm gonna call everyone we know. 1028 00:57:10,984 --> 00:57:12,704 And then my note just says, I hate this. 1029 00:57:12,704 --> 00:57:24,094 And then it moves on to FuzzBucket, who is prancing around in puddles, kind of like the hunters in Grizzly Two around the campfire, where they're all kind of like skidding and 1030 00:57:24,094 --> 00:57:25,324 tickling each other. 1031 00:57:25,324 --> 00:57:31,557 The joy of that FuzzBucket finds in splashing around in puddles is very similar to that. 1032 00:57:31,557 --> 00:57:44,463 Meanwhile, it's intercut with the most despondent, depressed Mikey walking around downtown like Sid Vicious and Sid and Nancy, just out of his mind, sad, forlorn, doesn't know where 1033 00:57:44,463 --> 00:57:46,144 his friend has gone. 1034

00:57:46,144 --> 00:57:50,444 And Fuzzbucket, you would think if he's a compassionate creature that's there to help this boy. 1035 00:57:50,444 --> 00:57:52,085 He wouldn't leave him in this state. 1036 00:57:52,085 --> 00:57:52,435 No. 1037 00:57:52,435 --> 00:57:53,576 And just ignore him. 1038 00:57:53,576 --> 00:57:54,915 He's not a compassionate creature. 1039 00:57:54,915 --> 00:58:00,439 Here's what gets me is N Fuzz Bucket does not seem to be trying to evade Michael. 1040 00:58:00,439 --> 00:58:03,821 And Michael does not seem to be trying to evade his father. 1041 00:58:03,821 --> 00:58:05,952 And yet nobody can find anybody. 1042 00:58:05,952 --> 00:58:06,313 Yeah. 1043 00:58:06,313 --> 00:58:10,725 Like at one point, the father is driving down the street that Michael is on. 1044 00:58:10,725 --> 00:58:14,287 And just before the father's car gets there, Michael turns a corner. 1045 00:58:14,287 --> 00:58:20,248 I'm like, you couldn't see your own kid on the street you're driving down while you're looking for him? 1046 00:58:20,248 --> 00:58:21,709 But do you remember how that was set up? 1047 00:58:21,709 --> 00:58:23,921 Is that Michael's walking in front of storefronts? 1048 00:58:23,921 --> 00:58:24,822 Yes. 1049 00:58:24,822 --> 00:58:30,716 I guess it's more like what's her name in Rabbid when she's walking through the streets of Tor of Toronto. 1050 00:58:30,716 --> 00:58:32,447 And it's like that. 1051 00:58:32,447 --> 00:58:34,299 It's storefronts and a little bit of neon. 1052 00:58:34,299 --> 00:58:38,835 The streets are all carpenter moist and I was gonna I was gonna say I had a note about wet streets. 1053 00:58:38,835 --> 00:58:39,353 Absolutely. 1054 00:58:39,353 --> 00:58:46,146 But dad, as he pulls up to that intersection, is exactly when for some reason Mikey 1055 00:58:46,146 --> 00:58:51,609 Dips into one of these little alcoves where the store door would be in between two stores. 1056 00:58:51,609 --> 00:58:54,491 And so even if he were to look in that direction, he wouldn't see him. 1057 00:58:54,491 --> 00:59:04,086 So it's just a little bit of that Spielberg choreography of having interesting things happening in all areas of the frame that we'd like to talk about. 1058 00:59:04,086 --> 00:59:05,937 Handled with mastery. 1059 00:59:06,298 --> 00:59:14,602 I wanna I want to say something nice about FuzzBucket, because I will say this it had some very nice, slow fades to commercial break. 1060 00:59:14,602 --> 00:59:16,304 As was common in the 80s. 1061 00:59:16,304 --> 00:59:19,106 And like there was the glowing blender shot early on. 1062 00:59:19,106 --> 00:59:24,812 And then there's this a nice shot of Michael walking through the downtown area looking for FuzzBucket. 1063 00:59:24,812 --> 00:59:31,408 And it actually did stir some nostalgic TV feelings in me of like, this is the way TV used to be made. 1064 00:59:31,408 --> 00:59:37,613 Uh and I did wonder, I was watching this and I'm like, the downtown area looks so familiar. 1065 00:59:37,613 --> 00:59:40,888 Like, is it it looked a lot like Sierra Madre? 1066 00:59:40,888 --> 00:59:43,440 California, where they shot parts of Halloween two and three. 1067 00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,141 So I went and looked it up. 1068 00:59:45,402 --> 00:59:46,843 And apparently not. 1069 00:59:46,843 --> 00:59:48,234 It was the next town over. 1070 00:59:48,234 --> 00:59:50,646 It was Monrovia, California. 1071 00:59:50,786 --> 00:59:52,047 Monrovia. 1072 00:59:52,047 --> 00:59:56,811 So the next morning, Michael, he's still out looking for fuzz bucket out beyond the town. 1073 00:59:56,811 --> 00:59:59,974 And frankly, he seems pissed about being abandoned. 1074 00:59:59,974 --> 01:00:03,547 He's he's like, oh, how could you leave me, fuzz bucket? 1075 01:00:03,547 --> 01:00:04,067 all this. 1076 01:00:04,067 --> 01:00:06,899 And honestly, this kid should probably just take the hint. 1077 01:00:06,899 --> 01:00:10,306 And this is like the hill on the E.T. 1078 01:00:10,306 --> 01:00:12,027 had scenes like this. 1079 01:00:12,047 --> 01:00:17,650 Explorers had scenes like this, where it's kind of mountainous outside of town. 1080 01:00:17,650 --> 01:00:18,080 Very much. 1081 01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,352 Heavy tree growth and hills. 1082 01:00:20,352 --> 01:00:21,362 That's where he is now. 1083 01:00:21,362 --> 01:00:23,533 He's out in the wilder kind of wilderness by himself. 1084 01:00:23,533 --> 01:00:25,154 The California foothills. 1085 01:00:25,154 --> 01:00:26,035 Right, right. 1086 01:00:26,035 --> 01:00:28,756 And he's climbing trees and just screaming. 1087 01:00:28,756 --> 01:00:30,737 Screaming at the top of his lungs. 1088 01:00:30,737 --> 01:00:39,322 And uh and then just as he's about to give up the search, he falls down a hole and finds himself in a network of underground tunnels. 1089 01:00:39,532 --> 01:00:42,863 And meanwhile, the whole town has come out to search for this missing child. 1090 01:00:42,863 --> 01:00:49,356 And Chris, I want to ask you, is is that network of underground tunnels any place for human boy? 1091 01:00:49,356 --> 01:00:50,957 No place for human boy. 1092 01:00:50,957 --> 01:00:52,907 For fuzz buckets. 1093 01:00:53,928 --> 01:00:55,929 Because he crawls through these tunnels. 1094 01:00:55,929 --> 01:00:57,240 Michael crawls through these tunnels. 1095 01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:07,820 He he stumbles upon this group, a whole group of fuzz bucket rat things standing in like a circle engaged in some kind of demonic ritual or something. 1096 01:01:07,820 --> 01:01:15,915 Now, this was my favorite part of FuzzBucket because I perked the fuck up here because this is interesting. 1097 01:01:15,915 --> 01:01:17,265 I'm like something. 1098 01:01:17,265 --> 01:01:31,803 It's Could you have imagined a child sitcom on the air where like presumably a lot of the episode would take place in FuzzBucket tunnels? 1099

01:01:31,803 --> 01:01:36,578 I'm like, this goes way beyond like dinosaurs or fraggle rock. 1100 01:01:36,578 --> 01:01:38,700 Because it takes place in our world. 1101 01:01:38,700 --> 01:01:39,651 Right, right. 1102 01:01:39,651 --> 01:01:43,584 And just the idea of it all is crazy to me. 1103 01:01:43,584 --> 01:01:47,046 You know kids go down those tunnels and they never come back. 1104 01:01:47,247 --> 01:01:49,689 Those are fuzz bucket murder tunnels. 1105 01:01:50,390 --> 01:01:51,890 You know that, right? 1106 01:01:52,011 --> 01:01:52,951 There's no question. 1107 01:01:52,951 --> 01:01:59,497 There's dead there's dead people in those tunnels stored in the nooks and crevices and crannies. 1108 01:01:59,497 --> 01:02:04,461 I think we should cut this to mix it with Texas Chainsaw 2. 1109 01:02:04,562 --> 01:02:05,044 Yeah. 1110 01:02:05,044 --> 01:02:08,796 Once the entire front tier land or whatever it is that's underneath there. 1111 01:02:08,796 --> 01:02:09,436 Yeah. 1112 01:02:09,436 --> 01:02:15,479 And Michael turns the corner and all of a sudden there's a lefty laying there with no face. 1113 01:02:15,479 --> 01:02:17,094 How great would that be? 1114 01:02:17,220 --> 01:02:19,441 I I I thought you were gonna do it the other way. 1115 01:02:19,441 --> 01:02:22,843 And Dennis Hopper finally goes down and finds Fuzzball. 1116 01:02:22,843 --> 01:02:24,704 That would be great. 1117 01:02:24,704 --> 01:02:26,525 Okay, I I have a new mission. 1118 01:02:26,525 --> 01:02:27,686 Yes. 1119 01:02:27,686 --> 01:02:29,026 I'm gonna do this. 1120 01:02:29,054 --> 01:02:29,515 he does. 1121 01:02:29,515 --> 01:02:36,710 He flees from the group of fuzz buckets and then he runs into like eventually he runs into the the original fuzz bucket. 1122 01:02:36,710 --> 01:02:38,821 Why did you run away from me? 1123 01:02:39,502 --> 01:02:42,524 Not running away, Mikey Face. 1124 01:02:43,265 --> 01:02:44,866 Going home. 1125 01:02:45,034 --> 01:02:47,247 I thought you were my friend. 1126 01:02:47,828 --> 01:02:49,450 Always being friend. 1127 01:02:49,450 --> 01:02:50,380 Shake! 1128 01:02:52,204 --> 01:02:53,914 I wanna be with you. 1129 01:02:53,914 --> 01:02:56,276 uh funny boy. 1130 01:02:56,276 --> 01:02:57,816 Living ground. 1131 01:02:57,977 --> 01:03:00,017 It's no worse than my house. 1132 01:03:00,138 --> 01:03:02,459 You like uh what? 1133 01:03:02,459 --> 01:03:04,479 Um planty beats? 1134 01:03:04,479 --> 01:03:05,880 Uh roots. 1135 01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,401 Uh yum yum. 1136 01:03:08,481 --> 01:03:11,442 Got no funny tunes and green ground. 1137 01:03:11,442 --> 01:03:13,563 You the goofy fellow. 1138 01:03:14,204 --> 01:03:16,824 This no place for boy kid. 1139 01:03:16,825 --> 01:03:19,926 Just a bunch of old fuzz buckets. 1140 01:03:20,466 --> 01:03:22,586 All this joint butt for. 1141 01:03:22,586 --> 01:03:25,529 Then why did you come to me in the first place? 1142 01:03:25,549 --> 01:03:28,711 Why would you come and just run away from me? 1143 01:03:28,872 --> 01:03:30,953 Use a noodle fellow. 1144 01:03:30,953 --> 01:03:33,935 Brain is terrible thing to waste. 1145 01:03:34,756 --> 01:03:36,417 You needed me. 1146 01:03:36,417 --> 01:03:37,818 I needed you. 1147 01:03:37,818 --> 01:03:39,699 You big guy now. 1148 01:03:39,699 --> 01:03:40,920 Easy street. 1149 01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:43,061 No place like home, Dorothy. 1150 01:03:43,061 --> 01:03:43,981 Huh? 1151 01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:53,252 Just it's it's uh he quotes a Wizard of Oz because all these guys need to have pop culture references ready, I suppose. 1152 01:03:53,252 --> 01:03:59,273 Well, but he so what we encounter though, it's so much more than just Mikey and Fuzzbucket having a moment. 1153 01:03:59,273 --> 01:04:03,755 There's a bunch of these vermin down there s uh running around. 1154 01:04:03,755 --> 01:04:06,395 It's kind of like Fraggle Rock. 1155 01:04:06,395 --> 01:04:10,056 Yeah, and you get the impression that the other ones may be dangerous. 1156 01:04:10,056 --> 01:04:12,637 Well, especially the one that he calls a leader. 1157 01:04:12,637 --> 01:04:14,268 Yeah, stinky. 1158 01:04:14,268 --> 01:04:15,998 Stinky bad ass. 1159 01:04:16,024 --> 01:04:17,254 He doesn't like stinky. 1160 01:04:17,254 --> 01:04:26,587 And then what Fuzzbucket wants here, after Fuzzbucket professes his love many times for Mikey in this scene, and seems quite eager to distance himself from the kid. 1161 01:04:26,587 --> 01:04:32,839 I don't know if he just thinks Mikey's too much bore or what, but he's like, We smooch. 1162 01:04:33,999 --> 01:04:35,499 He wants a mouth kiss. 1163 01:04:35,499 --> 01:04:37,940 He wants to kiss Mikey. 1164 01:04:37,940 --> 01:04:41,311 He hasn't had enough mouth to Mikey contact so far in this episode. 1165 01:04:41,311 --> 01:04:42,601 Jesus Christ. 1166 01:04:42,601 --> 01:04:43,562 Think about this. 1167 01:04:43,562 --> 01:04:45,142 This thing began. 1168 01:04:45,164 --> 01:04:47,626 With the principal talking about boys in the shower. 1169 01:04:47,626 --> 01:04:55,983 It's a real and then we have the titular creature dressing uh just all of it. 1170 01:04:55,983 --> 01:04:56,904 We don't have to review. 1171 01:04:56,904 --> 01:04:59,366 This episode's only been about an hour so far. 1172 01:04:59,366 --> 01:05:06,792 But it it's coming to a conclusion here with FuzzBucket ask professing his love and asking for a kiss. 1173 01:05:06,792 --> 01:05:07,603 And he does. 1174 01:05:07,603 --> 01:05:08,584 And he does. 1175 01:05:08,584 --> 01:05:11,286 He kisses this rat thing on its hideous face. 1176 01:05:11,286 --> 01:05:12,837 He kisses it right in the face. 1177 01:05:12,837 --> 01:05:14,176 Jesus Christ. 1178 01:05:14,176 --> 01:05:15,040 I want a side story. 1179 01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,954 I want to know more about Stinky because he seems like a real jerk. 1180 01:05:17,954 -->

01:05:19,720 It's a bad apple. 1181 01:05:21,370 --> 01:05:25,103 So the search for Michael has kind of largely petered out. 1182 01:05:25,103 --> 01:05:34,191 Like yeah, you know, like the mom and dad, they they're still going, but the rest of the towns are like, fuck this, and they they leave and then finally they find Michael sleeping 1183 01:05:34,191 --> 01:05:35,102 under a tree. 1184 01:05:35,102 --> 01:05:38,464 Which is when this could be presented as all in Michael's head. 1185 01:05:38,464 --> 01:05:39,755 It's Bob Newhart waking up. 1186 01:05:39,755 --> 01:05:40,386 It could be. 1187 01:05:40,386 --> 01:05:41,606 It could be. 1188 01:05:42,047 --> 01:05:43,709 But but it's not. 1189 01:05:43,709 --> 01:05:44,550 But it's not. 1190 01:05:44,550 --> 01:05:45,730 It's not. 1191 01:05:45,811 --> 01:05:47,192 You know, because they go home. 1192 01:05:47,192 --> 01:05:50,414 They go home, they tuck, they tuck Michael into his bed. 1193 01:05:50,866 --> 01:05:57,872 And at home, the parents go into their bedroom, and FuzzBucket has left gifts for the parents. 1194 01:05:57,872 --> 01:06:01,354 Guys, what has he left for these unnamed parents? 1195 01:06:02,275 --> 01:06:04,927 Well, dad gets a big Hershey's kiss. 1196 01:06:04,927 --> 01:06:06,778 A giant Hershey kiss. 1197 01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:10,052 Like a giant novelty Hershey's kiss. 1198 01:06:10,052 --> 01:06:10,912 Yeah, they sell them. 1199 01:06:10,912 --> 01:06:11,333 Yeah. 1200 01:06:11,333 --> 01:06:12,103 Yeah. 1201 01:06:12,103 --> 01:06:16,477 And mom gets like a child's like jewelry box. 1202 01:06:16,477 --> 01:06:18,568 Yeah, it's like a music box thing. 1203 01:06:18,568 --> 01:06:19,049 Yeah. 1204 01:06:19,049 --> 01:06:20,600 And then they look at each other and just 1205 01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:21,474 Fuck. 1206 01:06:23,156 --> 01:06:33,856 It it I I why these particular gifts like melt them in this way that I I have not seen. 1207 01:06:33,856 --> 01:06:35,297 It is so weird. 1208 01:06:35,297 --> 01:06:42,904 But we also haven't had enough conflict between them to really think that they aren't talking, that they aren't there's that one little argument in the background about him 1209 01:06:42,904 --> 01:06:43,745 being kind of late. 1210 01:06:43,745 --> 01:06:44,116 Right. 1211 01:06:44,116 --> 01:06:49,128 And then the next day, by the way, when he shows up again, yeah, the next evening. 1212 01:06:49,128 --> 01:06:49,858 After the mess. 1213 01:06:49,858 --> 01:06:50,959 The mess is discovered. 1214 01:06:50,959 --> 01:06:51,739 That's what it is. 1215 01:06:51,739 --> 01:06:52,678 After school and the message. 1216 01:06:52,678 --> 01:06:52,838 yeah. 1217 01:06:52,838 --> 01:06:54,921 The the dad comes home and sees the mess. 1218 01:06:54,921 --> 01:06:57,032 But the dad comes home like right after school. 1219 01:06:57,032 --> 01:06:57,322 Yeah. 1220 01:06:57,322 --> 01:06:58,653 So I guess he's not late every day. 1221 01:06:58,653 --> 01:06:59,614 Not every day. 1222 01:06:59,614 --> 01:07:03,126 And maybe he already had made the effort to get there a little sooner or something. 1223 01:07:03,126 --> 01:07:04,206 We don't know. 1224 01:07:04,206 --> 01:07:15,212 But their conflict just wasn't ever set up, I think, well in this for the climactic moment to be these two finally coming into each other's arms because of what the rat demon has 1225 01:07:15,212 --> 01:07:18,234 shit out for them and left on their in their bedroom. 1226 01:07:18,234 --> 01:07:18,776 He 1227 01:07:18,776 --> 01:07:20,607 He broke into the bedroom. 1228 01:07:20,607 --> 01:07:27,828 He's his footprints see him out the windows are all over the floor and the parents don't notice it. 1229 01:07:28,389 --> 01:07:37,831 Wet footprints from this thing all over the floor, and then you see his weird rat naked ass running up a hill that's apparently behind the house. 1230 01:07:37,831 --> 01:07:41,722 Which again, no establishing shots whatsoever about this home. 1231 01:07:41,722 --> 01:07:48,704 So we it looks like they live in Telly Tubby land and out the window is that crest that the tubbies are always running over. 1232 01:07:49,428 --> 01:07:56,290 And how how so then we that's the last thing we see is how did FuzzBucket acquire these items? 1233 01:07:56,290 --> 01:07:56,870 I don't know. 1234 01:07:56,870 --> 01:07:57,780 Maybe he's a thief. 1235 01:07:57,780 --> 01:07:59,571 How did he wrap these gifts? 1236 01:07:59,571 --> 01:08:02,202 He doesn't have great manual dexterity. 1237 01:08:02,202 --> 01:08:07,493 This is what was gonna be explained in the forthcoming episodes. 1238 01:08:07,493 --> 01:08:08,043 Yeah. 1239 01:08:08,043 --> 01:08:09,444 Stay tuned. 1240 01:08:09,494 --> 01:08:17,196 i it fuzzbucket is is not uh very good, and the creature itself is just an absolute monstrosity. 1241 01:08:17,218 --> 01:08:18,678 But there's a couple things here. 1242 01:08:18,678 --> 01:08:24,480 Like one, you can see how desperate they are to capture that ET magic, but they have no idea how to do it. 1243 01:08:24,550 --> 01:08:30,232 and it's interesting to kind of consider what was this show going to be had it gone forward. 1244 01:08:30,232 --> 01:08:30,842 Yeah. 1245 01:08:30,842 --> 01:08:32,542 Because I don't know. 1246 01:08:32,982 --> 01:08:33,589 No. 1247 01:08:33,589 --> 01:08:35,683 I don't know what it was. 1248 01:08:35,883 --> 01:08:40,644 Like, is every episode FuzzBucket helping Michael out of a jam but has to avoid being seen? 1249 01:08:40,644 --> 01:08:42,385 And then returning to his hole? 1250 01:08:42,385 --> 01:08:43,605 His murder hole? 1251 01:08:43,605 --> 01:08:46,648 Like FuzzBucket helps Michael on his math test. 1252 01:08:46,648 --> 01:08:49,119 Fuzzbucket helps Michael win the big game. 1253 01:08:49,119 --> 01:08:52,320 Fuzzbucket murders the principal who gave him a hard time. 1254 01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:53,601 That

kind of thing. 1255 01:08:54,301 --> 01:08:56,823 Is it like, but it but the parents aren't gonna see him. 1256 01:08:56,823 --> 01:08:59,284 So is it a real snuff allufficus situation? 1257 01:08:59,284 --> 01:09:00,644 Or maybe it's like Christine. 1258 01:09:00,644 --> 01:09:07,057 And then Michael becomes obsessed with FuzzBucket and just he starts acting out and starts murdering people. 1259 01:09:07,057 --> 01:09:09,598 Oh, like he gets a leather jacket. 1260 01:09:09,598 --> 01:09:10,739 It's a leather jacket. 1261 01:09:10,739 --> 01:09:11,219 Yeah. 1262 01:09:11,219 --> 01:09:12,169 Yeah. 1263 01:09:12,169 --> 01:09:13,520 Stops wearing his glasses. 1264 01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:14,466 He doesn't have. 1265 01:09:14,466 --> 01:09:17,407 Would the family have ever found out about FuzzBucket? 1266 01:09:17,527 --> 01:09:19,748 Would we have ever learned the parents' names? 1267 01:09:19,748 --> 01:09:21,248 The parents have no names. 1268 01:09:21,248 --> 01:09:21,646 No names. 1269 01:09:21,646 --> 01:09:26,749 How do you set up a series for success when you don't name two-thirds of the cast? 1270 01:09:27,350 --> 01:09:27,990 Yeah. 1271 01:09:27,990 --> 01:09:30,370 Yeah. 1272 01:09:30,370 --> 01:09:34,832 But I will say, I'll ask those questions never to be answered. 1273 01:09:35,012 --> 01:09:38,213 But FuzzBucket was not the only attempt to bring an E.T. 1274 01:09:38,213 --> 01:09:41,974 like concept to television because later that same year, 1275 01:09:42,099 --> 01:09:56,834 NBC launched the sitcom version of the idea of an alien stranded on Earth with a ordinary suburban family, and in doing so, created one of the most iconic characters of the 1980s. 1276 01:09:57,514 --> 01:09:59,515 Guys, this is Alf. 1277 01:09:59,775 --> 01:10:05,396 Since the dawn of time, man has looked to the stars and wondered if there may be other forms of intelligent life. 1278 01:10:05,517 --> 01:10:09,618 This Monday at 8:7 Central and Mountain, man will have the answer when. 1279 01:10:10,744 --> 01:10:13,555 Lands on NBC. 1280 01:10:15,557 --> 01:10:16,908 Nice planet you got here. 1281 01:10:16,908 --> 01:10:18,698 When do we eat? 1282 01:10:18,899 --> 01:10:27,043 ALF, A period, L period, F period, stands for Alien Life Form, for those who do not know. 1283 01:10:27,163 --> 01:10:33,167 The series debuted September 22nd, 1986, ultimately running for four seasons on NBC. 1284 01:10:33,167 --> 01:10:39,100 And ALF is like if you took E.T., you stripped away the sense of melancholy. 1285 01:10:39,380 --> 01:10:47,132 And put him in like a traditional 80s-style sitcom and gave him the personality of a Catskills stand-up comic. 1286 01:10:47,132 --> 01:10:48,193 That's Alf. 1287 01:10:48,193 --> 01:10:48,953 Yeah. 1288 01:10:48,953 --> 01:10:49,713 That's it. 1289 01:10:49,713 --> 01:10:50,493 That's Alf. 1290 01:10:50,493 --> 01:10:51,614 You nailed it. 1291 01:10:51,614 --> 01:10:54,385 It's like, and it's funny because going from E.T. 1292 01:10:54,385 --> 01:11:03,097 to Alf, it's kind of like going from the Martin Scorsese movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore to the sitcom Alice. 1293 01:11:03,697 --> 01:11:05,928 Like you're taking this concept. 1294 01:11:05,974 --> 01:11:09,596 And you're moving it from one type of narrative format to another. 1295 01:11:09,596 --> 01:11:16,259 And as a consequence of that, the style, ch you know, the tone and and the story details are going to change. 1296 01:11:16,259 --> 01:11:21,231 And that is what we see with with Alf, which is clearly, I mean, they they reference E.T. 1297 01:11:21,231 --> 01:11:21,781 in Alf. 1298 01:11:21,781 --> 01:11:26,543 Even in the pilot, I would hesitate to call it meta. 1299 01:11:26,543 --> 01:11:33,526 But there are moments where they do almost poke fun at how Alf isn't like. 1300 01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:34,761 A heartfelt E.T. 1301 01:11:34,761 --> 01:11:35,371 For sure. 1302 01:11:35,371 --> 01:11:37,392 A couple for a a little bit. 1303 01:11:37,392 --> 01:11:43,315 It never goes to what you would think of it really being meta commentary on the genre or anything. 1304 01:11:43,315 --> 01:11:45,516 I I but it's it's interesting. 1305 01:11:45,516 --> 01:11:47,036 It's it's dancing on the edge. 1306 01:11:47,036 --> 01:11:52,399 And what we're and what we watched for for reference for those listening, what we watched was the pilot. 1307 01:11:52,399 --> 01:11:53,379 The pilot, yes. 1308 01:11:53,379 --> 01:11:56,101 So we weren't gonna sit through eight seasons of whatever. 1309 01:11:56,101 --> 01:11:58,452 This this is the pilot that we're discussing today. 1310 01:11:58,452 --> 01:11:59,116 Yes. 1311 01:11:59,116 --> 01:12:00,677 A little bit of background about Alf. 1312 01:12:00,677 --> 01:12:05,030 Alf was first created by Paul Fuscoe as early as 1984. 1313 01:12:05,030 --> 01:12:15,138 Now, prior to that, Fusco had produced television specials for cable featuring puppets such as The Crown of Bog and The Valentine's Day that almost wasn't. 1314 01:12:15,138 --> 01:12:23,443 He then met manager producer Bernie Brillstein, who had been Jim Henson's manager since the 60s. 1315 01:12:23,524 --> 01:12:27,020 And at first, Brilstein was not interested in a puppet concept. 1316 01:12:27,020 --> 01:12:33,672 That did not come out of the Henson workshop, but Alf eventually won him over. 1317 01:12:33,852 --> 01:12:40,434 Fusco teamed up with writer director Tom Patchett to create the TV series around the character of Alf. 1318 01:12:40,434 --> 01:12:46,525 And Patchett had experience working with puppets as the co-writer of The Great Muppet Caper and The Muppets Take Manhattan. 1319 01:12:46,525 --> 01:12:50,396 He also wrote on series like the Carol Burnett Show and The Bob Newhart Show. 1320 01:12:50,396 --> 01:12:56,538 And interestingly, the Walt Disney Company was originally interested in Alf. 1321 01:12:57,090 --> 01:13:04,912 But only on the

condition that they would own the property outright, which was a non-starter for Fusco. 1322 01:13:05,132 --> 01:13:10,854 So instead, the show was produced by Fusco's company, Alien Productions, along with Laura Bar Telepictures. 1323 01:13:10,854 --> 01:13:16,036 But you have to wonder, guys, was FuzzBucket commissioned because they couldn't get Alf? 1324 01:13:16,036 --> 01:13:23,658 Yeah, and because one thing just to put all of this a little bit in context, because nowadays, every 1325 01:13:23,810 --> 01:13:32,632 distributor of television has vertically integrated such that for the most part, 90% of what they distribute, they own. 1326 01:13:32,632 --> 01:13:33,033 They own. 1327 01:13:33,033 --> 01:13:33,513 Correct. 1328 01:13:33,513 --> 01:13:38,574 So that is now extremely common because the rules were changed in the Reagan administration. 1329 01:13:38,574 --> 01:13:47,557 So the the company, the the big networks, had to work with a certain amount of independent producers and they couldn't own everything. 1330 01:13:47,557 --> 01:13:47,997 Right. 1331 01:13:47,997 --> 01:13:53,032 So it was it was would have been, I think not unheard of, but certainly 1332 01:13:53,032 --> 01:14:01,120 Uncommon for a company to request to own the thing that you that your you know independent production company had developed and made. 1333 01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:01,831 Right. 1334 01:14:01,831 --> 01:14:14,682 What is interesting here is that the defining trait of this entire ALF endeavor is the illusion that ALF was in fact real. 1335 01:14:14,763 --> 01:14:18,484 So in interviews and appearances on TV talk shows. 1336 01:14:18,484 --> 01:14:23,438 Fusco demanded that Alf be treated as if he actually existed. 1337 01:14:23,678 --> 01:14:25,940 It is kind of like the Muppets. 1338 01:14:25,940 --> 01:14:32,365 Like the Muppets, there's sort of this, we all kind of agree on this thing that, Kermit the Frog is real. 1339 01:14:32,466 --> 01:14:37,109 You know, and if I, you know, if I was talking to Kermit the Frog, I would talk to Kermit the Frog. 1340 01:14:37,169 --> 01:14:43,694 You know, but the people behind the scenes aren't pretending that Kermit's not a puppet. 1341 01:14:43,935 --> 01:14:47,960 Behind the scenes, the other cast members and crew members. 1342 01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:50,671 Had to pretend that Alf was real. 1343 01:14:50,772 --> 01:14:55,255 It's like mixing the Muppets with Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton character. 1344 01:14:55,255 --> 01:14:59,688 Oh, so this is all like because this goes beyond doing interviews. 1345 01:14:59,688 --> 01:15:00,078 Right. 1346 01:15:00,078 --> 01:15:07,314 That's the working relationship he wanted on set to, I guess, help with the, you know, performances or whatever. 1347 01:15:07,314 --> 01:15:10,286 That's that's really interesting, actually. 1348 01:15:10,286 --> 01:15:16,896 During the production of the series, Fusco insisted that no one with the sh involved in the show ever call Alf a puppet. 1349 01:15:16,896 --> 01:15:20,747 As far as Fusco was concerned, Alf was an alien. 1350 01:15:20,848 --> 01:15:28,951 And that caused a lot of friction with other members of the cast accrued because this was a notoriously difficult show to make. 1351 01:15:28,951 --> 01:15:37,635 We're talking about three camera sitcom, where you know it's shot, you know, in like other three camera sitcoms of the day, and there's still some around. 1352 01:15:37,635 --> 01:15:46,058 But the entire set was built on a raised platform, so the team operating Alf was would be underneath it. 1353 01:15:46,146 --> 01:15:51,688 Which made it very difficult for the actors on because if you step the wrong way, you're going right through the the trapdoor. 1354 01:15:51,888 --> 01:15:55,630 And they never referred to to puppeteers. 1355 01:15:55,630 --> 01:15:56,930 Instead, the e.l.f. 1356 01:15:56,930 --> 01:16:00,652 technicians are credited as personal assistants to eLf. 1357 01:16:00,652 --> 01:16:02,852 Yeah, I love that in the credits. 1358 01:16:03,053 --> 01:16:10,226 Yeah, in addition to Fusco, that included Lisa Buckley, Bob Fapiano, Liz Beth Gower, and Mishu Mizarros. 1359 01:16:10,226 --> 01:16:15,756 Mizarros uh was the person that in the costume for the full body shots. 1360 01:16:15,756 --> 01:16:20,910 And by the way, Alf full body shots sounds like a bar gimmick. 1361 01:16:22,132 --> 01:16:27,497 I don't remember seeing quite as much of him walking around as we do in this pilot. 1362 01:16:27,497 --> 01:16:38,297 It seems like they maybe didn't go that direction for the most part after this, but in this, there's actually quite a few scenes where he runs through the room or walks away 1363 01:16:38,297 --> 01:16:39,658 from camera or something. 1364 01:16:39,658 --> 01:16:40,799 I had the same thought. 1365 01:16:40,799 --> 01:16:41,590 And it's kind of 1366 01:16:41,590 --> 01:16:43,712 It's up it's it is rather upsetting to see. 1367 01:16:43,712 --> 01:16:44,693 I don't know why. 1368 01:16:44,693 --> 01:16:46,274 No, it's a little it's a little weird. 1369 01:16:46,274 --> 01:16:47,055 It's a little weird. 1370 01:16:47,055 --> 01:16:48,836 I you know what I here's what I wonder. 1371 01:16:48,836 --> 01:16:53,860 Because like there's a scene where they first bring in Alf and he they put him on the on the coffee table. 1372 01:16:53,860 --> 01:16:57,262 And that's clearly so the operators can be underneath. 1373 01:16:57,283 --> 01:17:03,929 And I wonder if they didn't build like that complex two tiered set for the pilot. 1374 01:17:03,929 --> 01:17:06,391 Because that's a lot of money to spend for a pilot. 1375 01:17:06,391 --> 01:17:10,796 Now you you go to series and you can amortize those costs over 22 episodes. 1376 01:17:10,796 --> 01:17:11,666 That's a different story. 1377 01:17:11,666 --> 01:17:13,728 But I wonder if they didn't build that yet. 1378 01:17:13,728 --> 01:17:15,989 So

they had a more traditional set. 1379 01:17:15,989 --> 01:17:20,432 And we have to, you Alf on the coffee table, a lot more full body Alf. 1380 01:17:20,432 --> 01:17:21,792 I wonder if that's the case. 1381 01:17:21,792 --> 01:17:22,253 Yeah. 1382 01:17:22,253 --> 01:17:25,595 And he was behind a lot of stuff like in the the kitchen window. 1383 01:17:25,595 --> 01:17:28,296 I think and then you have him on that big puffy couch. 1384 01:17:28,296 --> 01:17:28,777 Yes. 1385 01:17:28,777 --> 01:17:32,439 That makes it easy to just, you know, have people He's in bed. 1386 01:17:32,439 --> 01:17:34,380 He's in bed with with Kate. 1387 01:17:34,380 --> 01:17:35,821 Oh yes, he is. 1388 01:17:35,821 --> 01:17:38,622 We'll we'll get to that in a in a in a little while. 1389 01:17:39,704 --> 01:17:50,644 the human cast of Alf includes Max Wright, Ann Shadeen, Andrea Elsen, and Benji Gregory as the Tanner family with whom Alf comes to live. 1390 01:17:50,644 --> 01:17:57,130 The Tanner's neighbors, the Achmonics, were played by Liz Sheridan and John Lamotta. 1391 01:17:57,130 --> 01:18:02,775 Now, Liz Sheridan played Jerry Seinfeld's mom on Seinfeld. 1392 01:18:02,775 --> 01:18:07,318 And then John Lamotta was the nephew of boxer Jake Lamotta. 1393 01:18:07,362 --> 01:18:10,924 Whose life was dramatized in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. 1394 01:18:11,185 --> 01:18:11,875 So there you go. 1395 01:18:11,875 --> 01:18:16,968 That's uh that's two Martin Scorsese references in the in the Alf Fuzzbucket episode. 1396 01:18:16,968 --> 01:18:17,975 Who saw that coming? 1397 01:18:17,975 --> 01:18:23,992 Well, I mean in the second half we're getting to the Irishman and Goodfellas, so it's gonna happen. 1398 01:18:24,133 --> 01:18:24,583 God. 1399 01:18:24,583 --> 01:18:32,148 That's just Al Imagine the third act of of the Irishman with with Alf instead, just kinda 1400 01:18:32,334 --> 01:18:34,636 oh I I I would love it. 1401 01:18:34,636 --> 01:18:44,522 As I mentioned at the end of last week's episode, I I gotta say, in terms of merchandising and cultural recognizability, I don't think any character that we'll talk about in this 1402 01:18:44,522 --> 01:18:47,684 series comes closer to E.T. 1403 01:18:47,684 --> 01:18:48,645 than ELF. 1404 01:18:48,645 --> 01:18:49,145 Yeah. 1405 01:18:49,145 --> 01:18:51,386 ELF toys, ELF t-shirts. 1406 01:18:51,407 --> 01:18:56,070 I I you can't see it at home, but I'll I'll throw up a picture or something. 1407 01:18:56,170 --> 01:18:58,622 I still and I don't keep a lot of stuff. 1408 01:18:58,622 --> 01:19:01,994 I've gotten rid of almost everything for some reason. 1409 01:19:01,994 --> 01:19:06,557 My Alf, my stuffed alf plushie, still exists. 1410 01:19:06,557 --> 01:19:07,247 I love it. 1411 01:19:07,247 --> 01:19:14,981 And yeah, it feels disgusting because they could not make soft like plushie hair back in the 80s. 1412 01:19:14,981 --> 01:19:17,182 It's the worst. 1413 01:19:17,883

--> 01:19:19,624 So it just sits on a shelf. 1414 01:19:19,784 --> 01:19:22,876 I had one of those elf plush, those plush elves as well. 1415 01:19:22,876 --> 01:19:23,994 I definitely did. 1416 01:19:23,994 --> 01:19:25,177 I don't know if I have that. 1417 01:19:25,177 --> 01:19:25,827 Maybe I don't know. 1418 01:19:25,827 --> 01:19:26,258 Who knows? 1419 01:19:26,258 --> 01:19:29,690 It's in my parents' basement, you know, evolving. 1420 01:19:29,690 --> 01:19:30,764 I'll tell you. 1421 01:19:30,764 --> 01:19:33,205 I mean, it's fun to look at, but you can leave it in the basement. 1422 01:19:33,205 --> 01:19:36,597 It is terrible to have to pick this thing up. 1423 01:19:39,299 --> 01:19:44,002 and and I'll I'll say guys, I watched Alf a lot as a kid. 1424 01:19:44,002 --> 01:19:46,923 Like I was I was about ten when this show came on. 1425 01:19:46,923 --> 01:19:48,164 I was an Alf fan. 1426 01:19:48,164 --> 01:19:49,635 There's no question about it. 1427 01:19:49,635 --> 01:19:59,200 I did too, but I find myself thinking when watching this, what was it we were talking about where we said some things are best it was short circuit. 1428 01:19:59,200 --> 01:19:59,790 Yes. 1429 01:19:59,790 --> 01:20:02,672 Some things are kind of best left in the memory bank. 1430 01:20:02,672 --> 01:20:04,411 I was very afraid of that this week. 1431 01:20:04,411 --> 01:20:07,134 I f I feel like that with revisiting this. 1432 01:20:07,134 --> 01:20:17,148 I was so annoyed the whole time watching this that I'm like, how did I s years of watching this show, how did I do that as a kid? 1433 01:20:17,148 --> 01:20:25,704 I guess I just different sensibility for sure, but yeah, I I don't think I could just do a an an alpha marathon today. 1434 01:20:25,704 --> 01:20:34,742 I I was I was really concerned that this was going to be another short circuit scenario where like the memory of the thing is better than re-experiencing it. 1435 01:20:34,742 --> 01:20:38,345 But I gotta be honest, I did not find that to be the case. 1436 01:20:38,345 --> 01:20:45,731 I enjoyed the ELF pilot so much so that when we were done, my wife and I said, Hey, you wanna go on to episode two? 1437 01:20:45,731 --> 01:20:46,302 Ooh. 1438 01:20:46,302 --> 01:20:46,902 And we did. 1439 01:20:46,902 --> 01:20:48,794 And I liked episode two even more. 1440 01:20:48,794 --> 01:20:54,208 Yeah, it's for me, and look, my favorite Muppet is Fozzie Bear, so this probably tells you. 1441 01:20:54,328 --> 01:20:55,639 That I also loved Alf. 1442 01:20:55,639 --> 01:20:56,149 Sure. 1443 01:20:56,149 --> 01:20:59,232 You know, that the the hacky jokes and old timey stuff. 1444 01:20:59,232 --> 01:21:00,923 I I can't get enough. 1445 01:21:01,284 --> 01:21:04,917 I I actually also really enjoyed this pilot. 1446 01:21:04,917 --> 01:21:14,114 I tried to watch uh I don't know, a few years ago, and I only made it a minute or two, and I I now see why this time I had to stick

it out. 1447 01:21:14,155 --> 01:21:19,318 For me, there are two elves that live in the show. 1448 01:21:19,559 --> 01:21:22,441 Wait, are you saying that in everybody there's two elves? 1449 01:21:22,441 --> 01:21:23,640 Yes, yes. 1450 01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:28,453 There's the part of Alf that is an 80s family sitcom for children. 1451 01:21:28,453 --> 01:21:29,413 Yes. 1452 01:21:29,433 --> 01:21:33,135 In how it's produced, how it's written, what the jokes are. 1453 01:21:33,135 --> 01:21:40,759 So there is a part of this that is for me, you know, it's like watching a punkie brewster. 1454 01:21:40,759 --> 01:21:45,912 It's like watching a different strokes, where that is what the comedy is. 1455 01:21:45,912 --> 01:21:48,503 That's the level of the family humor. 1456 01:21:48,503 --> 01:21:53,582 And, you know, I would say I probably fall closer to Justin on that, on that. 1457 01:21:53,582 --> 01:21:54,872 part those parts of the show. 1458 01:21:54,872 --> 01:21:55,383 Right. 1459 01:21:55,383 --> 01:22:02,935 And that's the stuff that's kind of in the beginning of of the pilot and why I turned it off, I think, when I tried to rewatch a while ago. 1460 01:22:02,935 --> 01:22:03,765 Interesting. 1461 01:22:03,765 --> 01:22:10,857 But the other part of it, and for me, the much bigger part, because he's in almost every scene once he starts to come in. 1462 01:22:10,857 --> 01:22:11,787 Right. 1463 01:22:11,787 --> 01:22:13,467 Is Alf himself. 1464 01:22:13,508 --> 01:22:19,589 And Alf's jokes are not family 80s sitcom kid jokes. 1465 01:22:19,589 --> 01:22:20,729 No. 1466 01:22:20,810 --> 01:22:22,350 And I just 1467 01:22:22,400 --> 01:22:28,695 I l like there were times I am proud to say, or not ashamed at least. 1468 01:22:28,915 --> 01:22:31,938 There are times when Alf his one-liners got me. 1469 01:22:31,938 --> 01:22:33,639 And I I like I laughed out loud. 1470 01:22:33,639 --> 01:22:34,180 Yes. 1471 01:22:34,180 --> 01:22:34,640 Yeah. 1472 01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:39,144 I I was I I was like, I'm I'm here for it. 1473 01:22:39,144 --> 01:22:50,543 It was it it's the whole thing is is ridiculous, but um yeah, I I found Alf to be, you know again, charming in in this way. 1474 01:22:50,543 --> 01:22:51,794 I was I was 1475 01:22:52,246 --> 01:22:54,288 I was I was charmed by elf. 1476 01:22:54,288 --> 01:22:56,758 At least at least by the time we were done with the episode. 1477 01:22:56,758 --> 01:23:02,133 I actually thought it it it got b that the episode got stronger the long the further it went. 1478 01:23:02,434 --> 01:23:05,076 I thought it was the weaker part of the was at the beginning. 1479 01:23:05,076 --> 01:23:05,796 Absolutely. 1480 01:23:05,796 --> 01:23:06,497 Yeah. 1481 01:23:06,497 --> 01:23:09,039 we should also mention that this is a premise pilot. 1482 01:23:09,039 --> 01:23:12,622 So a premise pilot, uh most pilots today are premise pilots. 1483 01:23:12,622 --> 01:23:14,583 That was less the case in the 80s. 1484 01:23:14,583 --> 01:23:18,546 That is where you are setting up the situation that defines the show. 1485 01:23:18,954 --> 01:23:20,474 and Alf kind of has to be that. 1486 01:23:20,474 --> 01:23:25,396 You can't just do a wrangle episode where it's like, why is Alf living with this family? 1487 01:23:25,396 --> 01:23:35,318 Like, it's not like uh, you know, you know, you know, mo many family sitcoms don't start with premise pilots because it doesn't have to be how the family came together. 1488 01:23:35,318 --> 01:23:40,200 Here you need to show how Alf comes into the Tanners' lives. 1489 01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:40,900 And we get that. 1490 01:23:40,900 --> 01:23:48,526 We get Willie Tanner, he is a ham radio enthusiast who is out in his garage talking to his friend in Yugoslavia, and we get 1491 01:23:48,526 --> 01:23:53,431 Like it's interesting this this little bit at the beginning, we get this little moment with each member of the family. 1492 01:23:53,431 --> 01:23:59,076 My son Brian wants to look through the telescope, although he ends up looking at the neighbors who are watching Body Heat. 1493 01:23:59,076 --> 01:23:59,997 Peeper. 1494 01:23:59,997 --> 01:24:01,368 Peeper, indeed. 1495 01:24:01,368 --> 01:24:07,143 Is is although i I presume that neighbors are the Akmonics, so um, not not great. 1496 01:24:07,143 --> 01:24:07,864 Peeper. 1497 01:24:07,864 --> 01:24:13,649 And it's funny that both of today's programs have bits with kids who don't like what they've been given for dinner. 1498 01:24:13,649 --> 01:24:15,100 It's a weird through line. 1499 01:24:15,282 --> 01:24:20,647 the daughter Lynn wants to use the radio to tell her friend about her new boyfriend Lash. 1500 01:24:20,647 --> 01:24:24,009 Because ham radio is how teens communicated. 1501 01:24:24,450 --> 01:24:26,711 And what? 1502 01:24:26,972 --> 01:24:38,421 I wrote down the most unrealistic thing about this episode of television is the teenage girl in the 80s who wants to talk to her friend on a ham radio rather than a phone. 1503 01:24:38,421 --> 01:24:44,608 I think one of the most problematic things for me in this episode, well, in this series now and considering it. 1504 01:24:44,608 --> 01:24:49,601 as a whole is is the character of Willie Tanner, the dad. 1505 01:24:49,601 --> 01:24:51,042 He's a curious sort. 1506 01:24:51,042 --> 01:24:54,003 He talks like Christopher Walken on Xanax. 1507 01:24:55,044 --> 01:25:00,246 He has the weirdest cadence to how he talks and he's so he's like a clown. 1508 01:25:00,246 --> 01:25:08,611 He's such a cartoon and while everyone else is I don't know rel pretty normal in how they're portraying their characters. 1509 01:25:08,611 --> 01:25:14,014 He is right out of a cartoon, I I I guess I would just say. 1510 01:25:14,014 --> 01:25:14,784 And 1511 01:25:14,858 --> 01:25:16,359 It's he's a lot. 1512 01:25:16,359 --> 01:25:17,309 He is a lot. 1513 01:25:17,309 -->

01:25:18,980 And he's more than Alf. 1514 01:25:18,980 --> 01:25:24,682 He is more problematic on screen than anyone else. 1515 01:25:24,682 --> 01:25:31,065 And I thought, boy, I don't know that he's the reason why I don't think I could revisit this as a series just because he's he's too much for me. 1516 01:25:31,065 --> 01:25:31,651 It's interesting. 1517 01:25:31,651 --> 01:25:35,887 Because they needed they needed him as as sort of the the foil to Alf. 1518 01:25:35,887 --> 01:25:36,567 Yeah. 1519 01:25:36,567 --> 01:25:41,119 And it's interesting that this is the foil that they would create with sort of this nebushey guy. 1520 01:25:41,119 --> 01:25:41,989 Yeah. 1521 01:25:41,989 --> 01:25:45,010 It's the John to Alf's Garfield. 1522 01:25:45,238 --> 01:25:46,039 Really? 1523 01:25:46,039 --> 01:25:46,819 that's it. 1524 01:25:46,819 --> 01:25:47,779 It is. 1525 01:25:47,790 --> 01:25:49,440 yeah, absolutely. 1526 01:25:49,441 --> 01:25:57,846 And and and then you have Kate the Mom who has the most 80s mom hairstyle I've ever seen. 1527 01:25:58,127 --> 01:26:00,753 It's extraordinary, the the shape of this thing. 1528 01:26:00,753 --> 01:26:07,333 You know, and it's you know it's short, it's practical, but it is it is the most 80s mom hair I think I've ever seen. 1529 01:26:07,333 --> 01:26:15,224 I will say the nice thing about this setup and the character of Willie the Dad is that ties in with 1530 01:26:15,224 --> 01:26:18,876 Fuzzbucket is his treehouse is the garage. 1531 01:26:18,876 --> 01:26:20,476 That garage is great. 1532 01:26:20,476 --> 01:26:22,537 It is such a cool garage. 1533 01:26:22,537 --> 01:26:24,998 I don't remember that set from the show. 1534 01:26:24,998 --> 01:26:27,739 Like I don't remember them being like I remember the house. 1535 01:26:27,860 --> 01:26:30,051 I don't remember them being out in the garage frequently. 1536 01:26:30,051 --> 01:26:38,505 I wonder if that set, if I'm right that like they built the the more the the set that they used for for the series, I wonder if that garage didn't carry over. 1537 01:26:38,505 --> 01:26:40,926 Because I don't remember it at all and it's so distinctive. 1538 01:26:40,926 --> 01:26:41,256 Yeah. 1539 01:26:41,256 --> 01:26:42,008 See, I I 1540 01:26:42,008 --> 01:26:50,683 kinda remembered the garage, but I cannot tell you what percentage it it was in the show or if I literally was just remembering from the pilot. 1541 01:26:50,683 --> 01:26:53,454 So And the and this is where all the ham radio stuff is set up. 1542 01:26:53,454 --> 01:26:58,887 So this is where the dad goes to hang out and where the family knows to go and find him if they need to talk to him. 1543 01:26:58,887 --> 01:27:06,541 And it's not like he closes himself off there or anything like he goes out there with the son at the beginning and it's like, you know, it's just it's just his workshop. 1544 01:27:06,541 --> 01:27:11,564 And by the way, the kid in this show dresses like he's one of the guys on this old house. 1545 01:27:12,762 --> 01:27:17,865 I thought newsies, but why does why what is why does he do this? 1546 01:27:17,865 --> 01:27:19,826 Why does he wear these things? 1547 01:27:19,826 --> 01:27:23,128 He's like a suspenders and paperboy hat kid. 1548 01:27:23,628 --> 01:27:28,431 And his sister's communicating with her friends through ham radio. 1549 01:27:28,431 --> 01:27:33,834 What it brings to mind is all the things that we've said about Italian movies, air quotes set in America. 1550 01:27:33,834 --> 01:27:34,765 Oh right. 1551 01:27:34,765 --> 01:27:36,846 Like this is how Americans are. 1552 01:27:36,846 --> 01:27:40,268 The children dress like they're in I don't know. 1553 01:27:40,268 --> 01:27:40,688 Whatever. 1554 01:27:40,688 --> 01:27:42,159 Newsies, let's just go with that. 1555 01:27:42,159 --> 01:27:42,439 Yeah. 1556 01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:43,048 Paper boys. 1557 01:27:43,048 --> 01:27:43,298 Exactly. 1558 01:27:43,298 --> 01:27:45,199 This is how American children dress. 1559 01:27:45,199 --> 01:27:46,000 Yes. 1560 01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:49,921 And they and they all can and the teens communicate through ham radio. 1561 01:27:51,561 --> 01:27:52,522 What teen didn't? 1562 01:27:52,522 --> 01:27:58,153 You know, I mean that was that was that was all the rage back in nineteen eighty four pagers we had ham radio. 1563 01:27:58,153 --> 01:28:00,844 Honestly had one. 1564 01:28:00,844 --> 01:28:06,896 We just listened to Convoy and a lot of Jerry Reed. 1565 01:28:06,896 --> 01:28:07,766 Yeah. 1566 01:28:08,078 --> 01:28:17,344 There were dudes who would drive around town with their ham radio antennas on their cars and they were about forty feet long, flopping around up in the air behind their car. 1567 01:28:17,344 --> 01:28:20,345 And they'd have their ham radio handle on their license plate. 1568 01:28:20,345 --> 01:28:22,606 So like, hit me up, ladies. 1569 01:28:23,067 --> 01:28:25,879 If you like what you're seeing, track me down on the old ham. 1570 01:28:25,879 --> 01:28:27,580 Yeah, that they have call signs. 1571 01:28:27,580 --> 01:28:28,871 Honestly, amazing. 1572 01:28:28,871 --> 01:28:34,784 Uh it you know, it's it's funny because th I I was thinking about the Tanner family here and and 1573 01:28:36,015 --> 01:28:40,359 Honestly, the more I think about them, the more kind of strange they are. 1574 01:28:40,359 --> 01:28:47,925 Like I was originally like, they're kind of bland, but now I'm like, no, they're kind of weird to start with before Alf comes even into the picture. 1575 01:28:47,925 --> 01:28:50,317 I like the scene where things start to happen though. 1576 01:28:50,317 --> 01:28:51,949 I like the way this happens. 1577 01:28:51,949 --> 01:28:55,692 Well, it's it's and you're doing it as a like a three-camera sitcom. 1578 01:28:55,692 --> 01:29:01,518 So it's not like you're you're not doing a lot of it's not like you're going

and doing location work, at least not most of the time. 1579 01:29:01,518 --> 01:29:02,220 So like 1580 01:29:02,220 --> 01:29:12,869 They're they're in the the garage and and you know he's talking to the wife and then the the radio locks into the signal and almost immediately we get a spacecraft crashing into 1581 01:29:12,869 --> 01:29:17,643 the garage and like they the family looks up and we see Alf in like this bubble window. 1582 01:29:17,643 --> 01:29:21,546 It looks like one of those cat backpacks where people fly with their cats. 1583 01:29:21,546 --> 01:29:23,048 Yes, exactly. 1584 01:29:23,048 --> 01:29:30,746 How do but here's my question: How does nobody in the neighborhood notice this spaceship sticking out of the tanner's garage? 1585 01:29:30,746 --> 01:29:34,118 Well that's my question later when the military guy shows up. 1586 01:29:34,118 --> 01:29:35,598 He's like, Do you guys have an alien here? 1587 01:29:35,598 --> 01:29:36,269 They're Nope. 1588 01:29:36,269 --> 01:29:37,249 He's like, All right. 1589 01:29:37,249 --> 01:29:38,669 And he's it. 1590 01:29:38,669 --> 01:29:41,191 Did you did you look net in the backyard? 1591 01:29:41,191 --> 01:29:44,359 We d it must be it must be hidden from s the street. 1592 01:29:44,359 --> 01:29:46,453 It must not be able to see the garage from the street. 1593 01:29:46,453 --> 01:29:48,895 I wonder if they ever addressed that in the show. 1594 01:29:48,895 --> 01:29:54,837 They had to have at some point been like, okay, some the Ahmadics have seen the roof of our garage. 1595 01:29:54,837 --> 01:29:56,310 Some Yeah. 1596 01:29:56,310 --> 01:30:04,544 It's just it's a it's it's it's we're we're we're building out a small fries electronic store in in our backyard. 1597 01:30:04,544 --> 01:30:06,414 Rob got that joke. 1598 01:30:06,414 --> 01:30:07,555 Rob got that joke. 1599 01:30:07,555 --> 01:30:09,370 I I that was the best location. 1600 01:30:09,370 --> 01:30:10,563 That was the best location. 1601 01:30:10,563 --> 01:30:11,947 It was so sad when it closed. 1602 01:30:11,947 --> 01:30:12,356 Yes. 1603 01:30:12,356 --> 01:30:13,577 Yeah, up in Burbank. 1604 01:30:13,577 --> 01:30:19,280 So yeah, Alf's in the little cat bubble thing, he kind of crashes down the front of it and they're like, We have a visitor. 1605 01:30:19,280 --> 01:30:24,470 And we cut to the opening one, the season one opening title sequence with Alf. 1606 01:30:24,470 --> 01:30:28,563 Recording people and and uh and things around the house. 1607 01:30:28,563 --> 01:30:30,675 I think that opening was changed for later seasons. 1608 01:30:30,675 --> 01:30:37,081 The Alf theme composed by Alf Clausen, who would then go on to score The Simpsons. 1609 01:30:37,081 --> 01:30:42,905 Let me tell you, there's no more inappropriate theme for the Alf show. 1610 01:30:43,946 --> 01:30:49,411 I mean, uh it it to me it does not bear any it, but I will give it this. 1611 01:30:49,411 --> 01:30:53,696 So I I just think it's so divorced from what the show is because it's like dun dun. 1612 01:30:53,696 --> 01:31:02,822 Yes oh 1613 01:31:18,191 --> 01:31:26,837 But there's one element here that in the score that that you know will go back to the James Horner Battle Beyond the Stars. 1614 01:31:26,837 --> 01:31:31,319 I don't know that this is the first one, but it's gotta be one of the first ones in this era. 1615 01:31:31,319 --> 01:31:38,864 The slap bass in the Alf theme walked so that the slap bass in Seinfeld's theme could run. 1616 01:31:38,864 --> 01:31:40,525 You're a hundred percent right. 1617 01:31:40,525 --> 01:31:42,494 Oh, absolutely. 1618 01:31:42,494 --> 01:31:43,265 Absolutely. 1619 01:31:43,265 --> 01:31:46,047 What's upsetting is what we're seeing as it's playing. 1620 01:31:46,047 --> 01:31:56,259 And again, it's not it's a juxtaposition that doesn't really make a lot of sense to your point, Rob, because it is it's Alf with a video camera running around, but he's being an 1621 01:31:56,259 --> 01:31:58,026 absolute tyrant. 1622 01:31:58,026 --> 01:32:03,210 He is invading everyone's personal space, starting with the mother in the shower. 1623 01:32:03,210 --> 01:32:03,931 Yeah. 1624 01:32:03,931 --> 01:32:08,604 So the idea that Alf would just walk in the bathroom with a video camera. 1625 01:32:08,756 --> 01:32:09,876 Open the shower curtain. 1626 01:32:09,876 --> 01:32:11,946 It's like European vacation. 1627 01:32:11,946 --> 01:32:15,278 But the mom then has to like rip clothes, like, leave me alone. 1628 01:32:15,278 --> 01:32:17,608 Stop trying to film me naked, Alf. 1629 01:32:17,608 --> 01:32:27,331 Then he walks into the sister's room, into she's in her closet on the phone, and he opens the door to look at whatever she's doing by herself in a closet. 1630 01:32:27,331 --> 01:32:31,832 If a child goes in a closet, they're probably needing a moment, something. 1631 01:32:31,832 --> 01:32:33,973 Alf doesn't care at all. 1632 01:32:33,973 --> 01:32:38,200 And then he tries to steal some food, he tries to get the cat. 1633 01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:39,751 That he wants to eat. 1634 01:32:39,751 --> 01:32:50,738 And then it all ends with this, it looks like a promo photo for this old house of the family with with old man Brian, the son, up in front with the suspenders and his hat. 1635 01:32:51,239 --> 01:33:02,947 And Alf then runs up and stands next to them, like, oh, you know, we just identified the fact that I have no absolutely no concern for anyone's privacy or personal space. 1636 01:33:02,947 --> 01:33:04,268 But we're all okay. 1637 01:33:04,268 --> 01:33:06,976 And see, this is what I think about. 1638 01:33:06,976 --> 01:33:08,908 The visuals is brilliant. 1639 01:33:08,908 --> 01:33:11,650 And I'll make another inappropriate reference. 1640 01:33:11,650 --> 01:33:23,530 It's very much like in The Godfather, when they're taking the family photograph, and then Michael's at

the table, but they you know, and then Michael pulls Kay in. 1641 01:33:23,530 --> 01:33:25,091 To to be in the photo, yes. 1642 01:33:25,091 --> 01:33:25,471 Yeah. 1643 01:33:25,471 --> 01:33:29,545 So against her will, dragged into the orbit of the family, and the rest is history. 1644 01:33:29,545 --> 01:33:35,872 And here, this entire thing establishes that Alf is dis does nothing but a disruption. 1645 01:33:35,872 --> 01:33:39,863 In this family's routine life, which is a hundred percent what the show is. 1646 01:33:39,863 --> 01:33:46,833 But to me, that's why I wanted a more trickstery sounding uh theme song, you know? 1647 01:33:46,833 --> 01:33:50,006 Yeah, but this it it's not alien stuff. 1648 01:33:50,366 --> 01:34:00,149 It's it's not them, it's not them hiding him from the Achmonics, and then we cut to a shot of him dressed in Trumpy's forest disguise. 1649 01:34:00,149 --> 01:34:05,570 It's not, which by the way, Alf has a snout and it's got a sore on it. 1650 01:34:05,570 --> 01:34:07,181 So I don't know what he's been doing. 1651 01:34:07,181 --> 01:34:09,093 Swords It's got a beauty mark. 1652 01:34:09,093 --> 01:34:10,804 No, it's beauty mark or something. 1653 01:34:10,804 --> 01:34:14,316 It's it's a herp lump on the tip of his phase nose. 1654 01:34:14,316 --> 01:34:15,237 A herp lump. 1655 01:34:15,237 --> 01:34:16,718 It's a herp lump. 1656 01:34:17,479 --> 01:34:18,890 I bet my neighbors love that one. 1657 01:34:18,890 --> 01:34:23,313 Can you imagine what they think when we're having these conversations if anybody hears me? 1658 01:34:23,313 --> 01:34:24,384 But my god. 1659 01:34:24,384 --> 01:34:30,688 It's uh but what all that the it it doesn't illustrate there's nothing that speaks to alien in the beginning in this intro sequence. 1660 01:34:30,688 --> 01:34:33,706 It's like this is just a pervert with a camera. 1661 01:34:33,706 --> 01:34:44,911 Well, yeah, but the thing is the show is much more about Alf being a pervert with a camera than really they they like they have to keep him, you know, hidden sometimes. 1662 01:34:44,911 --> 01:34:51,083 But I mean, aren't there whole episodes that are just like Alf messes up stuff at the in the home? 1663 01:34:51,083 --> 01:34:52,434 yeah, that's the show. 1664 01:34:52,434 --> 01:34:52,734 Yeah. 1665 01:34:52,734 --> 01:34:53,274 Yeah. 1666 01:34:53,274 --> 01:34:53,664 Yeah. 1667 01:34:53,664 --> 01:34:54,275 Yeah. 1668 01:34:54,275 --> 01:35:02,334 Did he have a th was my question that I have noted here was did was there a theme in the show that I'm not remembering where he had a thing for the mom? 1669 01:35:02,334 --> 01:35:07,777 I thought he had both at times in the pilot I thought he had both a thing for the mom and a thing for the daughter. 1670 01:35:07,777 --> 01:35:08,218 Yes. 1671 01:35:08,218 --> 01:35:17,783 But even at the end when he's sort of recounting this whole thing, which we'll get to, he mention he spends the most time talking about the mom and her hair. 1672 01:35:17,783 --> 01:35:18,164 Yeah. 1673 01:35:18,164 --> 01:35:22,346 And the kids worship him, he says, and all this other stuff. 1674 01:35:22,346 --> 01:35:28,800 The but it seems like he he's going into the shower with the mom, not not with the daughter. 1675 01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:30,141 No, that would be inappropriate. 1676 01:35:30,141 --> 01:35:33,192 To be fair, he also is there when Willie showers. 1677 01:35:33,192 --> 01:35:35,333 And he's there where Willie showers. 1678 01:35:35,333 --> 01:35:37,023 I was gonna bring that up when we get there. 1679 01:35:37,023 --> 01:35:37,384 Yeah. 1680 01:35:37,384 --> 01:35:38,594 That whole thing. 1681 01:35:38,594 --> 01:35:51,229 So after the intro where pervert Ron Jeremy's running around trying to do whatever he's doing, the next thing we see is the dad and the daughter carrying Alf with a sheet, like 1682 01:35:51,229 --> 01:35:53,090 it's a gurney kind of a thing. 1683 01:35:53,090 --> 01:35:54,481 And they're bringing him into the living room. 1684 01:35:54,481 --> 01:35:56,772 Yeah, well, he's heavy and hairy. 1685 01:35:56,772 --> 01:35:57,410 Yeah. 1686 01:35:57,410 --> 01:36:00,090 He's heavy and hairy and they put him on the coffee table. 1687 01:36:00,090 --> 01:36:01,012 Right. 1688 01:36:01,012 --> 01:36:04,053 You know, you know, you don't want him on the couch because that hair's gonna get on the couch. 1689 01:36:04,053 --> 01:36:05,233 That's gonna be a whole thing. 1690 01:36:05,233 --> 01:36:06,894 And Willie calls it a miracle. 1691 01:36:06,894 --> 01:36:07,634 He calls it a miracle. 1692 01:36:07,634 --> 01:36:11,236 He's f I mean, honestly, if an alien showed up in your house, you'd be like, holy shit. 1693 01:36:11,236 --> 01:36:12,586 Yeah, I would be like, holy shit. 1694 01:36:12,586 --> 01:36:14,067 Until you realized he was a jerk. 1695 01:36:14,067 --> 01:36:14,857 That's right. 1696 01:36:14,857 --> 01:36:24,081 Especially if he showed up in my room in the middle of the night with a video camera on, or when I'm in the shower, and all of a sudden I hear the door open and there's a a thing 1697 01:36:24,081 --> 01:36:25,422 with a camera. 1698 01:36:26,124 --> 01:36:27,295 Holy shit is right. 1699 01:36:27,295 --> 01:36:28,415 Yes, it is. 1700 01:36:28,415 --> 01:36:28,845 It is. 1701 01:36:28,845 --> 01:36:36,400 Uh, and Willie dubs this this this creature an ALF, an alien life form. 1702 01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:42,743 And he says it like an alf is a commonly used term. 1703 01:36:42,743 --> 01:36:46,325 But honestly, guys, I've never heard it outside of alf. 1704 01:36:46,325 --> 01:36:48,566 It's a pretty smart move, honestly. 1705 01:36:48,566 --> 01:36:49,357 It is. 1706 01:36:49,357 --> 01:36:50,127 It's a smart move. 1707 01:36:50,127 --> 01:36:51,688 Here's what's odd about it. 1708 01:36:51,688 --> 01:36:55,890 And and my my wife and I had a long conversation about this.

1709 01:36:55,894 --> 01:36:58,435 The other day when we watched Elf. 1710 01:36:58,436 --> 01:37:00,377 He's got a name. 1711 01:37:00,437 --> 01:37:02,879 His name is Gordon Shumway. 1712 01:37:02,879 --> 01:37:04,680 Why don't they call him Gordon? 1713 01:37:04,680 --> 01:37:06,101 Like they call E.T. 1714 01:37:06,101 --> 01:37:08,463 E.T., but we never learn E.T.'s actual name. 1715 01:37:08,463 --> 01:37:10,384 We don't even know if his people have names. 1716 01:37:10,384 --> 01:37:12,246 But Elf's name is Gordon. 1717 01:37:12,246 --> 01:37:14,097 Why don't they just call him that? 1718 01:37:14,097 --> 01:37:17,429 He they never ask him, which is kind of rude. 1719 01:37:17,930 --> 01:37:22,453 Like when my son was growing up, I'm like, so you meet somebody new, you ask him what their name is. 1720 01:37:22,453 --> 01:37:23,373 Yeah. 1721 01:37:23,493 --> 01:37:24,736 They didn't bother but 1722 01:37:24,736 --> 01:37:26,667 It is identified later in this episode. 1723 01:37:26,667 --> 01:37:28,318 Alf says what his first name is. 1724 01:37:28,318 --> 01:37:30,109 He doesn't say his last name. 1725 01:37:30,109 --> 01:37:31,490 So he will later in the show. 1726 01:37:31,490 --> 01:37:31,768 Yeah. 1727 01:37:31,768 --> 01:37:33,671 They just hadn't they hadn't set that up yet. 1728 01:37:33,671 --> 01:37:35,712 But they will they for the rest of the run. 1729 01:37:35,712 --> 01:37:40,354 It's not even like, they called him Alf, but then then they found out his real name. 1730 01:37:40,355 --> 01:37:43,396 For the four-year run of the show, he's always Alf. 1731 01:37:43,396 --> 01:37:44,207 He's got a name. 1732 01:37:44,207 --> 01:37:45,348 He's Gordon Shumway. 1733 01:37:45,348 --> 01:37:45,938 Yeah. 1734 01:37:45,938 --> 01:37:46,798 Weird. 1735 01:37:46,798 --> 01:37:50,000 And this is where Brian makes the comparison to E.T. 1736 01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:52,592 And you know, and he says E.T. 1737 01:37:52,592 --> 01:37:53,762 could stay. 1738 01:37:54,072 --> 01:37:55,913 Kid, didn't you watch that movie to the end? 1739 01:37:55,913 --> 01:37:57,464 He doesn't stick around. 1740 01:37:57,464 --> 01:37:58,324 And he couldn't. 1741 01:37:58,324 --> 01:37:58,985 Yeah. 1742 01:37:58,985 --> 01:37:59,985 He couldn't. 1743 01:37:59,985 --> 01:38:01,756 Doesn't a mom say this isn't a movie? 1744 01:38:01,756 --> 01:38:02,286 Yeah. 1745 01:38:02,286 --> 01:38:02,767 E.T. 1746 01:38:02,767 --> 01:38:03,847 was a movie. 1747 01:38:03,847 --> 01:38:05,328 This is real. 1748 01:38:05,328 --> 01:38:05,968 Mm-hmm. 1749 01:38:05,968 --> 01:38:06,849 Yeah. 1750 01:38:06,909 --> 01:38:18,285 So Alf wakes up and and and because of expedience needed for a 25-minute sitcom, we dispense with anything regarding the communication process that we've seen in some of the 1751 01:38:18,285 --> 01:38:20,416 movies that we've we've watched for this series. 1752 01:38:20,416 --> 01:38:24,008 Alf speaks and understands

English, and that 1753 01:38:24,008 --> 01:38:28,779 is that I I'm not sure I can fix your spaceship. 1754 01:38:28,839 --> 01:38:31,280 I mean not tonight, not not in the dark. 1755 01:38:31,280 --> 01:38:33,721 Yeah, you could use a light in that driveway. 1756 01:38:33,881 --> 01:38:37,372 You know, I've been meaning to put one out there, but you know how it is. 1757 01:38:37,372 --> 01:38:38,972 You get busy with one thing and another. 1758 01:38:38,972 --> 01:38:39,562 Willie! 1759 01:38:39,562 --> 01:38:41,963 Oh sorry, I just seem so human. 1760 01:38:41,963 --> 01:38:44,824 Hey, there's no need for name calling. 1761 01:38:46,524 --> 01:38:48,965 I don't think we should get too friendly, Willie. 1762 01:38:48,965 --> 01:38:50,185 She's right. 1763 01:38:50,325 --> 01:38:51,706 Let's have a snack now. 1764 01:38:51,706 --> 01:38:53,396 We'll get friendly later. 1765 01:38:53,670 --> 01:38:54,611 Snack? 1766 01:38:54,611 --> 01:38:55,942 What what kind of a snack? 1767 01:38:55,942 --> 01:38:57,433 You got a cat. 1768 01:38:58,374 --> 01:39:08,923 And you also dispense with the magic and wonder of my goodness, an alien is here because again, twenty-five minutes and you just they need to get over it and start interacting 1769 01:39:08,923 --> 01:39:09,444 with Alf. 1770 01:39:09,444 --> 01:39:10,024 Exactly. 1771 01:39:10,024 --> 01:39:13,167 And also another key difference is Alf has no powers. 1772 01:39:13,167 --> 01:39:14,208 That's true. 1773 01:39:14,208 --> 01:39:15,689 Yeah, I didn't even think of that. 1774 01:39:15,689 --> 01:39:20,704 He it's not like oh Alf can't levitate stuff, he can't bring flowers back to life. 1775 01:39:20,704 --> 01:39:21,694 Right. 1776 01:39:21,860 --> 01:39:24,872 you know, he can't rearrange the furniture telekinetically. 1777 01:39:24,872 --> 01:39:27,113 He's just, you know, a house guest. 1778 01:39:27,113 --> 01:39:28,774 He's a pain in the ass roommate. 1779 01:39:28,774 --> 01:39:31,976 He only has the power of laughter. 1780 01:39:31,976 --> 01:39:33,076 That's true. 1781 01:39:33,076 --> 01:39:36,278 He's the he's the patch atoms of E.T.s. 1782 01:39:36,388 --> 01:39:37,219 my god. 1783 01:39:37,219 --> 01:39:39,720 That's a that's a that's a heck of a metaphor. 1784 01:39:40,701 --> 01:39:43,122 I he also I wanna say this. 1785 01:39:43,122 --> 01:39:48,765 Did you guys think Alf's voice in the pilot was a little different from how you remember, like a little gruffer? 1786 01:39:48,765 --> 01:39:50,166 In the beginning it was. 1787 01:39:50,166 --> 01:39:50,786 In the very 1788 01:39:50,786 --> 01:39:52,937 When he first started talking, it was like deeper. 1789 01:39:52,937 --> 01:39:53,088 Yeah. 1790 01:39:53,088 --> 01:39:57,202 But then he sort of snapped into his normal, I thought sounded normal. 1791 01:39:57,202 --> 01:40:06,200 This time around, he sounded a lot to me like uh Alf's v voice is the close encounter as to Andrew Dice Clay's E.T. 1792

01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:11,184 Uh like there were times when I was just like, my god, he sounds like the dice man a little bit. 1793 01:40:11,184 --> 01:40:12,836 Dickory dickery doc indeed. 1794 01:40:12,836 --> 01:40:13,856 Yes, yes. 1795 01:40:13,856 --> 01:40:18,190 Yeah, I mean I see it because they're both doing this kind of 1796 01:40:18,946 --> 01:40:21,667 The they're doing a kind of shtick. 1797 01:40:21,667 --> 01:40:23,088 And it's not that different. 1798 01:40:23,088 --> 01:40:29,410 Obviously Alf, because it was a a you know, a a network television show for families. 1799 01:40:29,790 --> 01:40:34,132 He didn't have the, you know, didn't have the the the more he didn't work blue. 1800 01:40:34,132 --> 01:40:35,333 Yeah, he did. 1801 01:40:35,333 --> 01:40:38,680 The very next scene, he wakes up in bed with the mom. 1802 01:40:38,680 --> 01:40:39,795 Well, that's not working blue. 1803 01:40:39,795 --> 01:40:42,475 That's just getting to know your n your new friends. 1804 01:40:42,896 --> 01:40:47,477 Wasn't there a blue alf at some point, like in the animated show or something? 1805 01:40:48,612 --> 01:40:51,083 wait, no, that's that's the fake alf, Mr. 1806 01:40:51,083 --> 01:40:52,533 Chompers and Permanent Midnight. 1807 01:40:52,533 --> 01:40:53,183 Never mind. 1808 01:40:53,183 --> 01:40:54,014 Oh, okay. 1809 01:40:54,014 --> 01:40:55,894 I was gonna say, was there a fake alf? 1810 01:40:55,894 --> 01:41:02,607 'Cause like a fake blue elf, it's like they're taken right from He Man, 'cause there was faker, the fake He Man who was blue. 1811 01:41:02,607 --> 01:41:03,957 How did nobody notice that? 1812 01:41:03,957 --> 01:41:05,107 yeah. 1813 01:41:07,328 --> 01:41:12,602 So yeah, Alf you know, he he he asks Willie to help him fix his spaceship so he can get out of there. 1814 01:41:12,602 --> 01:41:13,410 um 1815 01:41:13,410 --> 01:41:14,771 Which Willie agrees to do. 1816 01:41:14,771 --> 01:41:20,573 We learn that Alf enjoys eating cats, which is a delicacy on his home planet of Melmac. 1817 01:41:20,573 --> 01:41:29,130 Uh not great for the Tanner's cat lucky, although honestly, I'm not sure how much Alf really wants to eat the cat, because in four years he never did. 1818 01:41:29,130 --> 01:41:33,058 Uh I I do find it weird when we see Alf in the full body. 1819 01:41:33,058 --> 01:41:35,789 That is uh that is strange to me. 1820 01:41:35,789 --> 01:41:38,100 And I've and it's a lot in this pilot. 1821 01:41:38,100 --> 01:41:41,222 This also has the fake audience can laughter stuff. 1822 01:41:41,222 --> 01:41:41,982 Yeah. 1823 01:41:41,982 --> 01:41:42,562 And 1824 01:41:42,562 --> 01:41:48,523 And there's a moment when you after you see Alf walk to the kitchen, as you just noted, seeing him walk, it is weird. 1825 01:41:48,844 --> 01:41:55,456 He is out there to get something to eat that's not the cat, and then the cat leaps through the coffee bar window. 1826 01:41:55,456 --> 01:41:56,006 Yes. 1827 01:41:56,006 --> 01:41:58,386 And Alf kind of lunges out after it. 1828 01:41:58,386 --> 01:42:02,267 And then the fake audience erupts in applause and laughter. 1829 01:42:02,267 --> 01:42:02,828 Yes. 1830 01:42:02,828 --> 01:42:03,238 Yes. 1831 01:42:03,238 --> 01:42:04,118 This is the big moment. 1832 01:42:04,118 --> 01:42:05,788 You you nailed it, Alf. 1833 01:42:05,788 --> 01:42:12,062 And there's a reason why they have that can laughter because the episodes of Alf, most most sitcoms. 1834 01:42:12,062 --> 01:42:13,432 Like three camera sitcoms. 1835 01:42:13,432 --> 01:42:21,525 They they they have a week of rehearsals and read-throughs and stuff, and then they shoot over like a three to four hour period, like in a day. 1836 01:42:21,525 --> 01:42:23,765 In one day, they shoot a whole episode. 1837 01:42:23,765 --> 01:42:31,798 Alf, a typical episode of ALF would take 20 to 25 hours to film because of the technical challenges involved. 1838 01:42:31,798 --> 01:42:37,629 So they couldn't have a studio audience because they couldn't have a studio and stay there for a full day and night. 1839 01:42:37,629 --> 01:42:38,629 Yeah. 1840 01:42:38,730 --> 01:42:40,800 So yeah, Kate wakes up. 1841 01:42:41,230 --> 01:42:44,891 And and Alf is in bed with her the next morning. 1842 01:42:44,891 --> 01:42:49,072 That's that's something, and she's not pleased about it. 1843 01:42:49,162 --> 01:42:51,613 we never learn how Alf got there. 1844 01:42:51,613 --> 01:42:59,145 But we do know because he the next thing he does is Willie comes out, he's shaving in the bathroom. 1845 01:42:59,145 --> 01:43:04,057 So at some point between when Willie woke up and got out of bed, Alf was waiting. 1846 01:43:04,277 --> 01:43:07,718 Or was he in bed with Willie and and Kate? 1847 01:43:08,780 --> 01:43:09,902 Was he right in between? 1848 01:43:09,902 --> 01:43:10,613 That's my vote. 1849 01:43:10,613 --> 01:43:16,256 Well, I don't think she would have been as surprised if they were doing a to there's no way it didn't happen. 1850 01:43:16,256 --> 01:43:23,213 Using that big warty she's like, put something on that before it goes in, because I don't want whatever's on your nose on me. 1851 01:43:25,646 --> 01:43:27,877 But it's weird to think about Alf being in bed. 1852 01:43:27,877 --> 01:43:32,688 This goes back to the pervy opening credits that are just with this jaunty happy music. 1853 01:43:32,688 --> 01:43:34,689 it's a pervert, it's a pervert. 1854 01:43:34,689 --> 01:43:37,330 And now he's in bed with the mom immediately. 1855 01:43:37,330 --> 01:43:43,391 And Willie gets pissed because there's a m I can't say man, there's an Alf in bed with his wife. 1856 01:43:43,466 --> 01:43:48,303 And Willie i and by the way, Willie is shaving prior to taking a shower. 1857 01:43:48,303 --> 01:43:49,413 Yeah, that's weird too. 1858 01:43:49,413 --> 01:43:52,814 Any male out there, anyone who doesn't know this. 1859

01:43:53,078 --> 01:43:55,309 It's best after because your skin is soft. 1860 01:43:55,309 --> 01:43:55,759 Correct. 1861 01:43:55,759 --> 01:43:57,390 And it's easier to shave then. 1862 01:43:57,390 --> 01:44:01,952 And it's Some people do it in the shower if you have a mirror and the l the right light, but I don't know. 1863 01:44:01,952 --> 01:44:03,683 There are ways to do this and before. 1864 01:44:03,683 --> 01:44:04,483 But before is weird. 1865 01:44:04,483 --> 01:44:04,823 Yeah. 1866 01:44:04,823 --> 01:44:05,804 Yeah. 1867 01:44:05,804 --> 01:44:12,687 I d I don't think I realized how strange the Tanner family really was. 1868 01:44:13,207 --> 01:44:17,169 Like that's the big that's the thing I'm like, man, they're a bunch of weirdos. 1869 01:44:17,169 --> 01:44:19,220 And then you have Alf come into it. 1870 01:44:19,220 --> 01:44:20,160 It's not 1871 01:44:20,268 --> 01:44:23,519 It's not like, they're fairly normal, and then you get, you know, Mr. 1872 01:44:23,519 --> 01:44:24,479 Belvedere or something. 1873 01:44:24,479 --> 01:44:29,592 And Alf also he was in bed long enough to know that Kate snores, because he tells her that. 1874 01:44:29,592 --> 01:44:30,682 Oh yeah. 1875 01:44:30,682 --> 01:44:34,234 And then Alf and Willie have this moment in the bathroom. 1876 01:44:34,234 --> 01:44:34,884 Yeah. 1877 01:44:34,884 --> 01:44:37,725 Where Alf says, he wants to do everything Willie does. 1878 01:44:37,725 --> 01:44:39,018 Willie is his idol. 1879 01:44:39,018 --> 01:44:41,927 And Willie says, Well, I just want to take a shower. 1880 01:44:41,947 --> 01:44:47,039 And then proceeds to get fully naked in front of Alf without any hesitation at all. 1881 01:44:47,039 --> 01:44:50,176 Can we just can we just say I I 1882 01:44:50,176 --> 01:44:56,628 I do think if if this pilot has a flaw, it is we see a little too much of Max Wright in a towel. 1883 01:44:56,669 --> 01:44:59,390 It's he has now been in bed. 1884 01:44:59,390 --> 01:45:03,061 He saw the wife naked the the mom naked in the shower in the beginning. 1885 01:45:03,061 --> 01:45:04,872 Then he's in bed with the mom. 1886 01:45:04,872 --> 01:45:08,373 Then he's with naked Willie in a bathroom. 1887 01:45:08,994 --> 01:45:13,876 And I have to say, if it's subtle, it is very subtle. 1888 01:45:13,876 --> 01:45:20,310 But when Willie goes in, I think, not when he comes maybe it's when he comes out, but either way, Alf looks down. 1889 01:45:20,310 --> 01:45:20,890 Yeah, he does. 1890 01:45:20,890 --> 01:45:21,590 It's very subtle. 1891 01:45:21,590 --> 01:45:21,791 He does. 1892 01:45:21,791 --> 01:45:22,341 You see it. 1893 01:45:22,341 --> 01:45:25,133 You see He checks out he checks out Willie's chocolate. 1894 01:45:25,133 --> 01:45:26,047 Yeah, he does for sure. 1895 01:45:26,047 --> 01:45:26,694 That happens. 1896 01:45:26,694 --> 01:45:31,208 This but there is we talked about the the the neighbors. 1897 01:45:31,208 --> 01:45:33,379 The Akmonics sounds like a typo. 1898 01:45:33,379 --> 01:45:34,980 That's actually one of my favorite lines in this. 1899 01:45:34,980 --> 01:45:45,947 They're the bathroom window in the Tanner home faces it's like directly across from the Akmonics, presumably kitchen window or something in their house. 1900 01:45:46,348 --> 01:45:46,738 Mrs. 1901 01:45:46,738 --> 01:45:49,610 Achmonic is standing there just looking. 1902 01:45:49,610 --> 01:45:50,950 Out that window. 1903 01:45:51,551 --> 01:45:53,772 Probably knowing Willie's schedule, maybe. 1904 01:45:53,772 --> 01:45:55,462 She doesn't know there's an alien there. 1905 01:45:55,462 --> 01:45:57,773 Well, she doesn't, but why else is she standing? 1906 01:45:57,773 --> 01:45:59,354 These homes are right next to each other. 1907 01:45:59,354 --> 01:46:01,285 There's not going to be other scenery in between. 1908 01:46:01,285 --> 01:46:06,067 There's no roses on the there's there's just Willie getting in the shower. 1909 01:46:06,067 --> 01:46:14,380 And granted, the blinds are closed on Willie's side, but it's as though she's sitting there hoping that they weren't, or that he would open them up or something. 1910 01:46:14,380 --> 01:46:18,872 Cause she's just waiting, watching this house and that window in this moment. 1911 01:46:18,872 --> 01:46:19,692 Yeah. 1912 01:46:19,958 --> 01:46:20,659 Yeah. 1913 01:46:20,659 --> 01:46:23,741 Well, I mean, that's how it is in this neighborhood. 1914 01:46:23,741 --> 01:46:25,302 Alf came to the right neighborhood. 1915 01:46:25,302 --> 01:46:27,002 That's a bunch of pervs. 1916 01:46:27,743 --> 01:46:29,645 Upside down pineapples for all. 1917 01:46:29,645 --> 01:46:33,397 Yeah, Al Alf you know, the we get we get the the nosy neighbor, Mrs. 1918 01:46:33,397 --> 01:46:43,444 Ocmonic, and uh and she is she is looking she is she's looking, but she does not see apparently what she expects to see 'cause uh she's gonna drop a dime on that uh on that 1919 01:46:43,444 --> 01:46:45,255 alien in in the second half. 1920 01:46:45,255 --> 01:46:48,397 It before I do need to one more note on the bathroom scene. 1921 01:46:48,397 --> 01:46:49,868 I'm sorry I'm hung up on that. 1922 01:46:51,059 --> 01:46:55,762 When Willie is about to get out of the shower, it is as though Willie has never showered before. 1923 01:46:55,762 --> 01:47:00,235 And certainly not by himself, because he seems dependent on another person being in there. 1924 01:47:00,235 --> 01:47:02,597 He goes, Will you hand me a towel, Alf? 1925 01:47:02,597 --> 01:47:03,207 Yes. 1926 01:47:03,207 --> 01:47:06,009 As though there what does he normally do? 1927 01:47:06,009 --> 01:47:06,950 And what does Alf do? 1928 01:47:06,950 --> 01:47:10,032 He grabs a whole bunch of toilet paper and hands it to Willie. 1929 01:47:10,032 --> 01:47:11,873 And you would think, ha, funny moment. 1930 01:47:11,873 --> 01:47:12,580 Well he doesn't know. 1931 01:47:12,580

--> 01:47:13,594 Willie's gonna grab a towel. 1932 01:47:13,594 --> 01:47:14,245 He doesn't. 1933 01:47:14,245 --> 01:47:19,278 Instead, Willie then proceeds to try to dry off with a big pile of 1934 01:47:19,566 --> 01:47:20,887 Toilet paper. 1935 01:47:20,987 --> 01:47:22,278 And that's how the scene ends. 1936 01:47:22,278 --> 01:47:29,876 That's the big joke, is that Willie's now forced to dry off with toilet paper due to Alf not knowing to hand him a towel instead. 1937 01:47:29,876 --> 01:47:32,238 That says more about Willie than it does about Alf. 1938 01:47:32,238 --> 01:47:32,608 yeah. 1939 01:47:32,608 --> 01:47:36,812 Uh Act two opens with Alf in the garage singing Proud Mary. 1940 01:47:36,812 --> 01:47:40,485 This is uh this was a scene cut in the syndicated version as well. 1941 01:47:40,485 --> 01:47:41,666 I noticed I 1942 01:47:41,678 --> 01:47:46,641 the first time we watched it through, I watched it on on Amazon Prime and and so like, there's some scenes edited. 1943 01:47:46,641 --> 01:47:49,482 This was one of them, probably for music rights purposes. 1944 01:47:49,482 --> 01:47:50,783 I would guess, yeah. 1945 01:47:50,783 --> 01:47:55,125 And Willie doesn't know how to fix Alf's spaceship, but neither does Alf. 1946 01:47:55,186 --> 01:47:56,867 I just turn the key and it goes. 1947 01:47:56,867 --> 01:47:59,048 And honestly, that's fair. 1948 01:47:59,048 --> 01:48:02,470 If if I crashed my car into a garage, I wouldn't know how to fix it. 1949 01:48:02,470 --> 01:48:05,211 And that that's one of the the anti E. 1950 01:48:05,211 --> 01:48:05,462 T. 1951 01:48:05,462 --> 01:48:07,252 moments that I actually really like. 1952 01:48:07,252 --> 01:48:10,344 I mean, it's it's played for a joke just a joke, but 1953 01:48:10,410 --> 01:48:12,411 I in some ways, like, yeah. 1954 01:48:12,411 --> 01:48:19,014 Like what if I crash somewhere, would I know how to turn a speaking spell and stuff into a intergalactic communicator? 1955 01:48:19,014 --> 01:48:19,434 No. 1956 01:48:19,434 --> 01:48:19,864 No. 1957 01:48:19,864 --> 01:48:21,094 You know, yeah. 1958 01:48:21,294 --> 01:48:28,897 the other thing that surprised me about the Alf Pilot is Alf when he goes to get a drink in the in the kitchen, he gets some coors. 1959 01:48:28,897 --> 01:48:29,178 yeah. 1960 01:48:29,178 --> 01:48:30,228 For him and for Brian. 1961 01:48:30,228 --> 01:48:31,144 For him and for Brian. 1962 01:48:31,144 --> 01:48:32,179 Well, he doesn't know. 1963 01:48:32,179 --> 01:48:33,259 How would he know? 1964 01:48:33,259 --> 01:48:34,180 Well, he knows. 1965 01:48:34,180 --> 01:48:38,241 He knows because he's an old craftsman of the woodworking world. 1966 01:48:38,461 --> 01:48:40,396 And so what are those guys? 1967 01:48:40,396 --> 01:48:43,208 They can sit and drink a beer while they're whittling or whatever. 1968 01:48:43,208 --> 01:48:44,969 That's how Brian knows. 1969 01:48:44,969 --> 01:48:46,591 Right, right. 1970 01:48:46,591 --> 01:48:48,452 He wants the coors at eight. 1971 01:48:48,452 --> 01:48:52,175 And apparently in the first season, Alf would drink alcohol regularly. 1972 01:48:52,175 --> 01:48:58,679 Paul Fusco, the creator, insisted Alf was two hundred and twenty-seven years old, so it wasn't a problem. 1973 01:48:58,779 --> 01:49:04,183 But as the series grew more popular with kids, NBC insisted that Alf stop drinking alcohol. 1974 01:49:04,183 --> 01:49:06,165 I said no soda pop. 1975 01:49:06,165 --> 01:49:08,146 It's not soda pop, it's beer. 1976 01:49:08,146 --> 01:49:08,516 Uh-uh. 1977 01:49:08,516 --> 01:49:09,867 You're about out of course. 1978 01:49:09,867 --> 01:49:12,889 What? 1979 01:49:13,871 --> 01:49:15,252 Give those to me. 1980 01:49:15,252 --> 01:49:16,151 Hey, hey, careful. 1981 01:49:16,151 --> 01:49:17,573 His is still full. 1982 01:49:21,438 --> 01:49:22,919 Now you just listen to me, Alf. 1983 01:49:22,919 --> 01:49:25,700 I will not allow this kind of behavior in my house. 1984 01:49:25,700 --> 01:49:28,271 This boy is only six years old. 1985 01:49:28,271 --> 01:49:31,462 He is not to drink beer, and you are not to drink beer. 1986 01:49:31,462 --> 01:49:36,224 And I don't know what it's like on Mork or whatever planet you come from, but Malmac. 1987 01:49:36,765 --> 01:49:37,625 What? 1988 01:49:37,625 --> 01:49:38,885 Malmac. 1989 01:49:39,006 --> 01:49:40,556 That was the name of my planet. 1990 01:49:40,556 --> 01:49:43,367 It's also what it was made out of. 1991 01:49:45,248 --> 01:49:46,849 What do you mean was? 1992 01:49:46,849 --> 01:49:48,790 Well, you see, that's the thing, Kate. 1993 01:49:48,790 --> 01:49:50,250 Uh, ma'am. 1994 01:49:50,828 --> 01:49:52,298 Melmac's history. 1995 01:49:52,298 --> 01:49:54,220 Wait a minute. 1996 01:49:54,240 --> 01:49:58,443 are you trying to tell me that you can't go back to Melmac? 1997 01:49:58,443 --> 01:49:59,964 It exploded. 1998 01:50:00,305 --> 01:50:08,130 One thing, just looking at the character of Alf, uh, there's so much of Alf that that comes in right out of the gate. 1999 01:50:08,130 --> 01:50:08,570 Yeah. 2000 01:50:08,570 --> 01:50:13,634 Just like the the the character creation, the tone, the rhythms, everything. 2001 01:50:13,634 --> 01:50:17,316 But I did notice they got close, but they didn't get all the way there. 2002 01:50:17,316 --> 01:50:20,600 He he says ha like he says ha. 2003 01:50:20,600 --> 01:50:23,372 But he there's no ha I kill me. 2004 01:50:23,372 --> 01:50:24,033 Right. 2005 01:50:24,033 --> 01:50:28,897 Uh laughing at he so he laughs at his own joke, but he has not yet developed a catchphrase. 2006 01:50:28,897 --> 01:50:29,697 Not yet. 2007 01:50:29,697 --> 01:50:30,678 That will come. 2008 01:50:30,678 --> 01:50:40,686 I do like that they didn't belabor his background, that they just immediately everyone accepts it, they dive in, and he you're learning all about him in one 30-minute

episode. 2009 01:50:40,686 --> 01:50:41,127 Yeah. 2010 01:50:41,127 --> 01:50:42,208 You got 25 minutes. 2011 01:50:42,208 --> 01:50:42,828 What can you do? 2012 01:50:42,828 --> 01:50:44,239 I do like the pace of that. 2013 01:50:44,239 --> 01:50:50,420 And my favorite detail, which I did not remember, I remembered the name that he says, you know. 2014 01:50:50,420 --> 01:50:54,632 Melmax, the name of the planet and what it's made out of. 2015 01:50:54,632 --> 01:50:55,272 Yeah. 2016 01:50:55,272 --> 01:50:57,253 Which is just like ours. 2017 01:50:57,253 --> 01:51:00,114 uh Yeah. 2018 01:51:00,114 --> 01:51:00,814 Yes. 2019 01:51:00,814 --> 01:51:02,145 I love that little detail. 2020 01:51:02,145 --> 01:51:03,145 That is great. 2021 01:51:03,145 --> 01:51:03,796 Yeah. 2022 01:51:03,796 --> 01:51:04,716 Absolutely. 2023 01:51:04,716 --> 01:51:06,777 But it is sad that it exploded. 2024 01:51:06,777 --> 01:51:11,299 I did not remember that Alf's planet Melmac had been destroyed. 2025 01:51:11,299 --> 01:51:18,302 I didn't remember either because the the animated series is a prequel take that takes place on Melmac, if I'm not mistaken. 2026 01:51:18,302 --> 01:51:18,882 Right. 2027 01:51:18,882 --> 01:51:23,044 But yeah, I did not remember him being like the 2005 Doctor. 2028 01:51:23,044 --> 01:51:24,345 Or Superman. 2029 01:51:24,345 --> 01:51:26,036 Or Superman or yes. 2030 01:51:26,036 --> 01:51:28,427 Yeah, he has no home to go back to. 2031 01:51:28,427 --> 01:51:32,559 And that's, I mean, I didn't remember that at all, but that's a that's a pretty significant thing. 2032 01:51:32,559 --> 01:51:43,535 And it's uh I I I f I again, as the further this this sh the this particular episode went, the more I found it endearing until it ultimately won me over. 2033 01:51:43,655 --> 01:51:48,638 we have a moment where the military guy comes to the door asking if they are harboring a space creature. 2034 01:51:48,638 --> 01:51:52,399 And you know, this this is where like Kate's gonna have her big decision moment. 2035 01:51:52,399 --> 01:51:55,080 Is she gonna tell the the military guy about Alf? 2036 01:51:55,080 --> 01:51:59,211 Uh the guy is says like, we're gonna dissect him and all that sort of stuff. 2037 01:51:59,211 --> 01:52:09,934 She asked them how did they get how did the military get their information and he says he can't divulge that, but it that's about a minute after he runs through a litany of all of 2038 01:52:09,934 --> 01:52:12,375 the ways they're gonna annihilate this thing. 2039 01:52:12,375 --> 01:52:15,326 Torture this this creature once it's in their hands. 2040 01:52:15,326 --> 01:52:17,096 So he can share all that. 2041 01:52:17,144 --> 01:52:17,904 But he can't say. 2042 01:52:17,904 --> 01:52:19,075 Well, and he and he misspeaks. 2043 01:52:19,075 --> 01:52:24,897 He's like, that that's that information is is Akmonic or uh yeah, classified. 2044 01:52:24,897 --> 01:52:25,598 Yeah, you

know. 2045 01:52:25,598 --> 01:52:26,158 Yep. 2046 01:52:26,158 --> 01:52:26,818 Right, right. 2047 01:52:26,818 --> 01:52:31,640 which is funny because I again my wife and I were were watched episode two, which has Mrs. 2048 01:52:31,640 --> 01:52:45,866 Akamonic like in the house all night, babysitting for for uh the kid, and Alf is hiding in the bedroom and eventually gets in either Kate or or Lynn's dress. 2049 01:52:46,618 --> 01:52:48,339 In the second in episode two. 2050 01:52:48,339 --> 01:52:49,139 There you go. 2051 01:52:49,139 --> 01:52:50,039 Gildor. 2052 01:52:50,039 --> 01:52:51,200 Classic. 2053 01:52:51,280 --> 01:52:52,721 Cla exactly. 2054 01:52:52,721 --> 01:52:54,141 Classic Alf. 2055 01:52:54,401 --> 01:52:56,672 So we at the end, she doesn't give up Alf. 2056 01:52:56,672 --> 01:52:58,783 And and then we have we have Alf. 2057 01:52:58,783 --> 01:53:09,787 He goes, Alf goes into the garage and he send he uses Willie's radio to send out a message to anybody, any other Melmaccians that may be out there. 2058 01:53:09,828 --> 01:53:10,908 Hello! 2059 01:53:11,188 --> 01:53:12,548 Anybody there? 2060 01:53:12,709 --> 01:53:15,450 Yo, calling anybody from Melmac. 2061 01:53:15,450 --> 01:53:16,410 Hello! 2062 01:53:16,650 --> 01:53:17,630 Skip! 2063 01:53:17,670 --> 01:53:18,810 Larry! 2064 01:53:18,831 --> 01:53:19,951 Muffy! 2065 01:53:19,991 --> 01:53:21,291 It's Gordon! 2066 01:53:21,732 --> 01:53:27,753 Look, I don't know if you can hear me, but I just wanted to let you know I'm okay. 2067 01:53:27,973 --> 01:53:30,834 I'm I'm living with what they call a family. 2068 01:53:30,834 --> 01:53:31,454 Yeah. 2069 01:53:31,454 --> 01:53:35,215 They're they're they're it's sort of like a herd, only smaller. 2070 01:53:35,215 --> 01:53:42,317 Yeah, there's this guy named Willie, and he's got a good heart and lots of smarts for someone without fur. 2071 01:53:42,398 --> 01:53:44,258 Then there's his wife, Kate. 2072 01:53:44,374 --> 01:53:48,215 Well, she pretends she doesn't like me, but uh she'll come around. 2073 01:53:48,215 --> 01:53:49,215 Yeah. 2074 01:53:49,265 --> 01:53:50,436 and hey, dig this. 2075 01:53:50,436 --> 01:53:52,736 Her hair's the same color as mine. 2076 01:53:52,736 --> 01:53:53,196 Yeah. 2077 01:53:53,196 --> 01:53:54,757 Only hers is natural. 2078 01:53:54,757 --> 01:53:55,477 Ha! 2079 01:53:55,477 --> 01:53:56,397 Ha! 2080 01:53:56,397 --> 01:53:56,897 Ha! 2081 01:53:56,897 --> 01:53:58,158 Yeah, yeah. 2082 01:53:58,158 --> 01:54:02,839 And they've got these two terrific kids who who both idolize me. 2083 01:54:02,839 --> 01:54:05,300 So so you know they're okay. 2084 01:54:05,300 --> 01:54:08,881 But I wanted to tell you something. 2085 01:54:09,101 --> 01:54:12,041 I I really miss all of you. 2086 01:54:12,742 --> 01:54:13,858 And uh 2087 01:54:13,858 --> 01:54:19,581 The thought of never seeing you again sort of breaks my heart. 2088 01:54:20,441 --> 01:54:30,566 So you know, if you could try to get in touch with me uh or better yet, come by. 2089 01:54:32,334 --> 01:54:36,523 Uh I'll introduce you to these lovely people. 2090 01:54:39,116 --> 01:54:40,987 And then we could eat their cat. 2091 01:54:43,791 --> 01:54:48,956 Guys, I was I was like, I I like I like this, you know, pilot so far. 2092 01:54:48,956 --> 01:54:59,367 But then we got to the scene where Alf, you know, has the sends this message over the radio, and I just thought it had such genuine heart and pathos to it. 2093 01:54:59,367 --> 01:55:01,209 Like it won me over by the end. 2094 01:55:01,209 --> 01:55:02,330 I was like. 2095 01:55:02,434 --> 01:55:05,776 This I you know, I then and and the tanners come in and hear it. 2096 01:55:05,776 --> 01:55:09,678 They don't he does not realize they are there as as he is sending this message. 2097 01:55:09,678 --> 01:55:14,120 And I'm just like out the Alf Pilot made me feel something. 2098 01:55:14,140 --> 01:55:15,421 And that's not nothing. 2099 01:55:15,421 --> 01:55:17,272 This is where he reveals his name is Gordon. 2100 01:55:17,272 --> 01:55:18,023 Gordon, yes. 2101 01:55:18,023 --> 01:55:21,594 And and he's reaching out to his friends Skip, Larry, and Buffy. 2102 01:55:21,594 --> 01:55:21,915 Yeah. 2103 01:55:21,915 --> 01:55:25,897 Those are the three that he's hoping to connect with and letting them know that he's okay. 2104 01:55:25,897 --> 01:55:28,118 That but that he misses them. 2105 01:55:28,118 --> 01:55:32,128 And that's where it's kind of sad because you're thinking now about that destroyed planet. 2106 01:55:32,128 --> 01:55:33,078 Yeah. 2107 01:55:33,079 --> 01:55:36,441 It's a well constructed pilot to end on that note. 2108 01:55:36,441 --> 01:55:37,222 Yeah. 2109 01:55:37,222 --> 01:55:39,553 Well, it ends with the table the dinner table. 2110 01:55:39,553 --> 01:55:47,869 Well, well then you have you have e you know, he makes a joke about, hey, we'll eat the cat, and then the tank is them at the dinner table, you know, telling jokes and sharing a 2111 01:55:47,869 --> 01:55:50,411 meal, and that's the show. 2112 01:55:50,511 --> 01:55:51,122 There you go. 2113 01:55:51,122 --> 01:55:55,054 You kick off Alf and it, you know, it all it all works. 2114 01:55:55,515 --> 01:55:57,056 I I I enjoyed it. 2115 01:55:57,056 --> 01:55:57,796 I really did. 2116 01:55:57,796 --> 01:55:58,227 Yeah. 2117 01:55:58,227 --> 01:56:00,078 I mean Alf doesn't necessarily 2118 01:56:00,078 --> 01:56:07,060 fix the family, but Alf uh, you know, or it's more like the family helps to, you know, welcome Alf. 2119 01:56:07,060 --> 01:56:15,782 So you still, oddly enough, have that like whole family alien theme that is uh prevalent in all of these. 2120 01:56:15,782 --> 01:56:16,883 Absolutely. 2121 01:56:16,883 --> 01:56:21,684 Alf would run for four seasons on NBC, producing 97 episodes. 2122 01:56:21,684 --> 01:56:29,758 There was an animated series

that that that Rob you mentioned that launched in 1987, which was a prequel about Gordon Shumway's life. 2123 01:56:29,758 --> 01:56:38,780 on Melmac before it exploded, which is a great concept for that, because you could do all kinds of stuff visually in animation that you couldn't do in live action. 2124 01:56:38,841 --> 01:56:48,563 And there was a second anime in Alf series that ran concurrently, Alf Tales, which featured the the Melmac characters in various fairy tales. 2125 01:56:48,903 --> 01:56:51,464 So almost like a Muppet Babies kind of thing. 2126 01:56:51,564 --> 01:56:58,786 The series ended on a cliffhanger as Alf having eventually contacted other Melmac survivors 2127 01:56:58,786 --> 01:57:04,841 Who have set up a colony of new Melmac, but he is finally captured by the government. 2128 01:57:04,841 --> 01:57:08,354 And it literally ends with the words to be continued. 2129 01:57:08,354 --> 01:57:18,893 The reason for that is there was an assumption that either the show would be picked up for another season, which NBC had indicated they were planning to do, or they would be allowed 2130 01:57:18,893 --> 01:57:21,886 to shoot one more episode to wrap up the cliffhanger. 2131 01:57:21,886 --> 01:57:26,678 But ultimately, because of executive changes at NBC, neither of those things happened. 2132 01:57:26,678 --> 01:57:29,780 And Alf would can't was canceled in 1990. 2133 01:57:30,081 --> 01:57:35,666 Six years later, Alf returned in a TV movie entitled Project Alf. 2134 01:57:35,666 --> 01:57:37,227 Now, I don't remember this at all. 2135 01:57:37,227 --> 01:57:37,648 No. 2136 01:57:37,648 --> 01:57:38,168 No. 2137 01:57:38,168 --> 01:57:40,520 Because by the time that happened, I was in college. 2138 01:57:40,520 --> 01:57:42,792 I don't, I, I had no idea. 2139 01:57:42,792 --> 01:57:50,299 But the the the TV movie Project Alf picks up from the cliffhanger with Alf in the custody of the military. 2140 01:57:50,299 --> 01:57:54,592 It co stars Martin Sheen, Miguel Ferrer. 2141 01:57:54,720 --> 01:57:59,232 And Jensen Daggett of Friday the 13th, part 8, Jason Takes Manhattan. 2142 01:57:59,432 --> 01:58:00,943 The Tanners do not appear. 2143 01:58:00,943 --> 01:58:05,295 They have been relocated to Iceland as part of the Witness Protection Program. 2144 01:58:05,295 --> 01:58:11,568 Honestly, it sounds like it would have been pretty hard to get Max Reich back because apparently he hated making this show. 2145 01:58:11,568 --> 01:58:18,042 And at one point got into a physical altercation with Alf and started throttling the puppet. 2146 01:58:18,042 --> 01:58:18,922 Hmm. 2147 01:58:18,970 --> 01:58:22,873 And uh and and then you know you had the TV movie that kind of wrapped it up. 2148 01:58:22,873 --> 01:58:29,557 And then in 2004, Alf had a short-lived talk show on TV land, which lasted seven episodes. 2149 01:58:29,557 --> 01:58:32,199 Oh, who were the guests? 2150 01:58:32,439 --> 01:58:33,440 I wish I

had that. 2151 01:58:33,440 --> 01:58:35,941 I wish I should have looked that up. 2152 01:58:36,102 --> 01:58:37,523 Seven episodes, and that was it. 2153 01:58:37,523 --> 01:58:38,243 It was out. 2154 01:58:38,243 --> 01:58:43,546 But of course, Alf continues because in recent years, Alf has become an internet meme. 2155 01:58:43,707 --> 01:58:48,586 Rob, I'm gonna ask you, can you can you tell us about Alf Hog? 2156 01:58:48,586 --> 01:58:49,946 Absolutely. 2157 01:58:51,668 --> 01:59:01,694 Well, as the Twitter exodus had begun and a little a little social media platform called Blue Sky emerged. 2158 01:59:01,694 --> 01:59:02,674 Indeed. 2159 01:59:02,674 --> 01:59:07,546 And in the early days of Blue Sky, and was uh look, you're an early adopter. 2160 01:59:07,546 --> 01:59:10,048 I was a dummy, so I was an early adopter. 2161 01:59:10,048 --> 01:59:13,480 You know, I didn't you know, I I was a lurker, you know. 2162 01:59:13,480 --> 01:59:17,012 But in the early days, the it really was built. 2163 01:59:17,210 --> 01:59:22,623 there were a lot of various communities that you can see would be highly motivated to leave Twitter. 2164 01:59:22,623 --> 01:59:23,003 Sure. 2165 01:59:23,003 --> 01:59:24,234 That showed up at Blue Sky. 2166 01:59:24,234 --> 01:59:25,145 Sure. 2167 01:59:25,145 --> 01:59:35,541 among them, you know, a lot of LGBTQ folks, a lot of sex workers, a lot of artists, like, you know, uh drawing artists. 2168 01:59:35,741 --> 01:59:37,982 I fumbled that one. 2169 01:59:38,473 --> 01:59:43,265 and then also a lot, and I mean a lot of shit posters. 2170 01:59:43,306 --> 01:59:44,396 And so 2171 01:59:45,442 --> 01:59:57,872 This culture emerged of like very specific off-putting uh in jokes designed to sh, you know, uh be fun and just be it really felt a lot like the old internet. 2172 01:59:57,872 --> 01:59:58,272 Right. 2173 01:59:58,272 --> 02:00:02,295 Where you would just have like stupid shit for the sake of stupid shit, right? 2174 02:00:02,465 --> 02:00:09,100 that is why uh, you know, in the early days and there's still people who get so mad about this and we're like, they're not called that. 2175 02:00:09,100 --> 02:00:11,404 Um, where they wanna. 2176 02:00:11,404 --> 02:00:13,756 Where they were like, no, it's blue sky. 2177 02:00:13,756 --> 02:00:15,377 So tweets here are skeets. 2178 02:00:15,377 --> 02:00:16,498 Right, right. 2179 02:00:16,498 --> 02:00:16,899 Right. 2180 02:00:16,899 --> 02:00:19,130 You can look up the word skeet on your own. 2181 02:00:20,902 --> 02:00:21,822 yes. 2182 02:00:22,003 --> 02:00:22,814 Is that real? 2183 02:00:22,814 --> 02:00:24,005 That is real, absolutely. 2184 02:00:24,005 --> 02:00:34,363 Uh, but I cannot tell you the first Alf hog that that sprung up, and I cannot credit the source. 2185 02:00:34,363 --> 02:00:36,095 So I I do apologize. 2186 02:00:36,095 --> 02:00:37,176 I don't know. 2187 02:00:37,176 --> 02:00:39,217 Perhaps nobody does. 2188 02:00:39,458 --> 02:00:40,328 But 2189 02:00:41,268 --> 02:00:46,384 Alf Hog is the meme on Blue Sky. 2190 02:00:46,384 --> 02:00:55,885 You don't see as much of it anymore because it is getting more normy, unfortunately, and they're cracking down on all sorts of content that actually helped it make it fun in the 2191 02:00:55,885 --> 02:00:56,436 beginning. 2192 02:00:56,436 --> 02:01:01,821 But Alf Hog are picture sexy ass pictures of Alf with a big old hog. 2193 02:01:04,082 --> 02:01:07,303 And the variety is fantastic. 2194 02:01:07,303 --> 02:01:10,005 Um, and you used to see it a lot. 2195 02:01:10,005 --> 02:01:16,147 And it it was especially funny because it was kind of built off in the early days, there were fewer controls. 2196 02:01:16,147 --> 02:01:25,031 So you would just be, I'd, you know, you would scroll or like look up, what, you know, you know, look up this feed or that feed, you know, or discover or whatever. 2197 02:01:25,031 --> 02:01:28,542 And you would frequently see human nudity whether you wanted to or not. 2198 02:01:28,542 --> 02:01:29,433 Oh my. 2199 02:01:29,433 --> 02:01:33,034 And so it was like kind of a a fun play on that. 2200 02:01:33,034 --> 02:01:33,474 Right? 2201 02:01:33,474 --> 02:01:36,886 It's you know, like, oh, well, now you're gonna see some Alf Hogs. 2202 02:01:36,886 --> 02:01:45,404 The the phrase Alf hog is just hysterical. 2203 02:01:45,464 --> 02:01:45,774 Hey. 2204 02:01:45,774 --> 02:01:46,925 You want to see some Alf Hog? 2205 02:01:46,925 --> 02:01:59,115 Um, while you were giving us uh a tutorial on Alf Hog, I have looked up the guests for Alf's Talk Show. 2206 02:01:59,115 --> 02:02:02,606 Alf's talk show was titled Alf's Hit Talk. 2207 02:02:02,606 --> 02:02:07,147 Talk show, an ironic title, given that it lasted seven episodes. 2208 02:02:07,147 --> 02:02:11,728 Uh, I will run down the the guests for the episodes. 2209 02:02:11,728 --> 02:02:17,090 Uh episode one, Drew Carey and Dennis Franz. 2210 02:02:17,190 --> 02:02:18,430 Okay. 2211 02:02:18,430 --> 02:02:26,346 Episode two, Joe Montana, Joey Zaza himself, and Merv Griffin. 2212 02:02:26,346 --> 02:02:26,733 What? 2213 02:02:26,733 --> 02:02:28,573 This sounds incredible. 2214 02:02:28,753 --> 02:02:29,533 Wow. 2215 02:02:29,533 --> 02:02:31,766 Episode three was Brian Cranston. 2216 02:02:31,766 --> 02:02:33,387 And Leon Redbone. 2217 02:02:33,387 --> 02:02:34,667 Whoa. 2218 02:02:34,788 --> 02:02:40,631 Episode four, Tom Arnold and James Nelson and his talking dog. 2219 02:02:42,312 --> 02:02:45,804 Episode five was Doris Roberts and Kevin Butler. 2220 02:02:45,804 --> 02:02:52,117 Episode six, Tom Green and Linda Blair. 2221 02:02:53,038 --> 02:03:00,142 And for the final episode, uh, episode seven aired December 17th, 2004. 2222 02:03:00,458 --> 02:03:03,720 Rob, it's a friend of yours, Eric Roberts. 2223 02:03:03,720 --> 02:03:07,142 Oh, my my co-star, yes. 2224 02:03:07,142 -->

02:03:11,544 And Vincent Pastor of the Sopranos. 2225 02:03:12,165 --> 02:03:13,526 Big Pussy. 2226 02:03:14,306 --> 02:03:16,568 It's Big Pussy from the Sopranos. 2227 02:03:16,568 --> 02:03:18,479 I'm like, this has to be on YouTube. 2228 02:03:18,479 --> 02:03:19,329 It's gotta be. 2229 02:03:19,329 --> 02:03:20,590 It's gotta be. 2230 02:03:20,590 --> 02:03:24,713 Whoever owns the rights is not monetizing this at all. 2231 02:03:24,713 --> 02:03:26,874 I can assure you that. 2232 02:03:27,894 --> 02:03:30,735 Alf talk show. 2233 02:03:33,796 --> 02:03:36,437 Alf's Hit Talk Show full episode. 2234 02:03:36,437 --> 02:03:37,177 Nice. 2235 02:03:37,177 --> 02:03:37,597 god. 2236 02:03:37,597 --> 02:03:38,958 Oh yeah. 2237 02:03:38,958 --> 02:03:40,999 I know I know what I'm doing when we wrap up. 2238 02:03:40,999 --> 02:03:46,340 Oh I'm I'm sorry if I don't talk much from here on out. 2239 02:03:46,340 --> 02:03:48,921 I'm watching Alf's Hit Talk show. 2240 02:03:48,921 --> 02:03:51,702 I I gotta say, all in, I 2241 02:03:52,128 --> 02:03:54,288 I like Alf way more than I thought I would. 2242 02:03:54,288 --> 02:03:56,160 I I know it's an 80 sitcom. 2243 02:03:56,160 --> 02:04:01,712 It's got the conventions and weaknesses common to that format, but it's not bad. 2244 02:04:01,712 --> 02:04:04,103 Like, let me put it this way. 2245 02:04:04,243 --> 02:04:08,464 I'm not like, I need to rewatch Alf. 2246 02:04:08,865 --> 02:04:12,806 But I'm also not like, I wouldn't rewatch Alf. 2247 02:04:13,227 --> 02:04:15,087 It's way better than Fuzzbucket. 2248 02:04:15,087 --> 02:04:16,628 It's way better than Nukey. 2249 02:04:16,628 --> 02:04:18,869 It's way better than Nuki. 2250 02:04:18,929 --> 02:04:19,369 Hey. 2251 02:04:19,369 --> 02:04:22,060 ah Well. 2252 02:04:22,316 --> 02:04:31,669 I mean, uh as we wrap up today, I I'm gonna say this because I uh we're we're we're getting closer to the end of this series, but if you thought it it couldn't get any 2253 02:04:31,669 --> 02:04:39,551 stranger than FuzzBucket, then you guys should come back next week, because we are gonna be looking at two more E.T. 2254 02:04:39,551 --> 02:04:43,092 inspired films from overseas. 2255 02:04:43,552 --> 02:04:46,473 Both of them from Turkey. 2256 02:04:46,493 --> 02:04:49,123 That's right, it is Turkish E.T. 2257 02:04:49,123 --> 02:04:51,564 knockoff double feature week. 2258 02:04:51,892 --> 02:04:58,870 On Get Me Another with 1983's Body and from 1987 Homoti. 2259 02:04:58,870 --> 02:05:09,332 And it's been a while since we've had a Turkish film on the show, I think going all the way back to the man who saves the world, aka Turkish Star Wars, so I'm very curious to see 2260 02:05:09,332 --> 02:05:12,305 what uh the Turkish takes on ET are. 2261 02:05:12,305 --> 02:05:13,662 Me too. 2262 02:05:13,662 --> 02:05:18,065 As always, we are your hosts, Chris Ianicone, Rob Lamorgis, and Justin Beam. 2263 02:05:18,065 --> 02:05:26,310 If you've enjoyed the show, please consider subscribing and following us on Blue Sky, Instagram, Threads, and Twitter at Get Me Another Pod. 2264 02:05:26,331 --> 02:05:37,858 Justin's album, Phantom Lightkeeper Sure Ghosts, is available at JustinBeam.com, Bandcamp, or Spotify, and his second Phantom Light Keeper album, Four Days at the Precipice, is 2265 02:05:37,858 --> 02:05:41,741 available for pre-order and comes out on August 14th. 2266 02:05:42,021 --> 02:05:43,542 And if you've liked the show. 2267 02:05:43,790 --> 02:05:51,178 Tell your friends about it, tell your enemies about it, tell your invisible friend who lives in a murder hole about it. 2268 02:05:51,939 --> 02:06:02,100 And of course, join us next time as we continue to explore what happens when Hollywood says, get me enough. 2269 02:06:24,494 --> 02:06:27,715 Good evening and welcome once again to the Disney Sunday movie. 2270 02:06:27,715 --> 02:06:34,057 Mickey and I are here on stage four in front of the tree house that was used in tonight's movie, Fuzzbucket. 2271 02:06:34,057 --> 02:06:43,119 It was in this very tree house that a young boy and his invisible friend, FuzzBucket, spent hour after hour talking and playing. 2272 02:06:43,240 --> 02:06:49,441 The more the boy would tell his family and schoolmates about his invisible friend, the less they would believe him. 2273 02:06:49,441 --> 02:06:51,554 Now that's perfectly understandable. 2274 02:06:51,554 --> 02:06:56,699 We all know that invisible friends like Fuzzbucket really don't exist. 2275 02:06:56,699 --> 02:06:58,160 I beg your pardon? 2276 02:06:58,160 --> 02:06:59,621 Mickey, can you believe this? 2277 02:06:59,621 --> 02:07:00,782 Fuzzbucket. 2278 02:07:01,103 --> 02:07:06,827 Michael, I just can't tell you how long I wanted to meet the great Mickey Mouse. 2279 02:07:07,188 --> 02:07:11,011 For years I've watched him on the Mickey Mouse Club on television. 2280 02:07:11,192 --> 02:07:13,994 I'll bet I've seen every one of his cartoons. 2281 02:07:13,994 --> 02:07:15,415 At least twice. 2282 02:07:15,415 --> 02:07:17,377 I'm a real fan. 2283 02:07:17,657 --> 02:07:18,498 Well. 2284 02:07:18,806 --> 02:07:22,850 Let me take this opportunity to introduce you to Mickey Mouse. 2285 02:07:22,850 --> 02:07:24,872 Mickey Mouse, Fuzzbucket. 2286 02:07:24,872 --> 02:07:26,914 Fuzzbucket, Mickey Mouse. 2287 02:07:26,914 --> 02:07:27,705 How do you do? 2288 02:07:27,705 --> 02:07:30,458 Nice to meet you, FuzzBucket. 2289 02:07:30,458 --> 02:07:31,759 It's my pleasure. 2290 02:07:31,759 --> 02:07:34,201 I just loved your movie. 2291 02:07:34,201 --> 02:07:35,446 You were turned. 2292 02:07:37,987 --> 02:07:38,918 Wait a second. 2293 02:07:38,918 --> 02:07:39,608 No more talking. 2294 02:07:39,608 --> 02:07:41,749 We really have to get on with the movie. 2295 02:07:41,830 --> 02:07:42,871 All right. 2296 02:07:42,871 --> 02:07:44,112 Let's have luck. 2297 02:07:44,112 --> 02:07:47,694 I know a place that makes our green cheese on a vote to