WEBVTT - Fuzzbucket 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.360 Did you have an imaginary friend growing up? 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.800 I didn't, That's the first question that popped in my head. 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.439 At least I don't remember having one. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.440 I don't know if maybe, like you, maybe had an 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:28.560 imaginary acquaintance. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.640 No, I don't remember it being a thing with my parents. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.559 They've never brought it up since, so I can't imagine 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:36.120 that I did. 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:38.880 If I did, it would have been I guess, really little. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:44.159 But to me, I kept thinking, I can't imagine really 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.560 doing that, talking to a sofa or wherever this person 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.640 or creatures. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.920 Right which we don't know city. No, but the I 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.400 think I did. I you're gonna laugh too, because it 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.560 made me go, oh my god, that's right, because I 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.120 thought about this. I think when I was very very young, 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.399 really briefly, and I mean seriously briefly before I because 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.920 my stuffed teddy bear, Charlie was always with me, so 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.119 I would talk to Charlie, obviously because Charlie was real, 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.160 But I also briefly had an imaginary friend ready for 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:21.000 the name Monroe. Not I had an imaginary friend named 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.480 Monroe when I was When I was growing up, yep, 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.840 So I thought about you when I was the first 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.440 time I heard that crazy. One of the things I sparked. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.480 It was like I remember as a little little kid, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.640 probably you know, three four years old, going like Monroe. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.640 Yeah, it was so oh wow. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:38.880 Or maybe they say little kids are more attuned to ghosts, 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:40.440 so maybe it was an actual ghost I was talking to. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.160 You never know, Yeah, that could have been it, probably, 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.440 I mean, I do think of the doll I had. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:48.040 I had one. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.640 I always call her Gidget, but that was not her name. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.560 But she had a tape recorder in her back, and 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.280 she was I was really released little and she was 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:57.800 about the same size as me. She was like an 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.360 over size yeah doll and and so she would read 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.360 stories and I was I would do her. 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.800 So she was she was the female version of my buddy, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:07.840 my buddy and me. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.960 That's kind of Patria, cute, little blonde hair. She's still 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.320 in my garage attic. And if you ever accidentally pop 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:15.920 your head up there, she's right there. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:17.919 She's freaking so scary. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.200 Looking now, hurry, so scary looking now, But I did. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.280 That's the closest thing that I can remember, but not 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.440 as scary as this situation that we were put. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.919 Through a perfect segue into what we're doing this week. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.720 First of all, welcome to Magical Rewind, the show that 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.480 makes you want to grab your friends, your pj's, and 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.160 your popcorn and go back to a time when all 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.480 the houses were smart, the wave tsunamis and the high 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:40.320 Schools musical. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.600 I'm Wilfordell and I'm Sabrina Brian. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.960 Oh well, folks, this is a ride. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.120 It appears that we have now arrived at the deepest, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.160 darkest corner of Disney Plus as this week we're entering 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.800 a pocket of the streaming service that most of your 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.720 probably didn't even know exists. It is the nineteen eighty 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:03.359 six family Adventure Move slash Absolute Nightmare. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.480 Fuel fuzz Bucket. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:06.600 Yeah. 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.760 So, when Disney first released the lineup for e streaming 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.760 service back in twenty nineteen, fanatics were wondering myself included 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:14.440 by the way, we're wondering which the original movies they 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:14.880 were going to be. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.160 Able to see, which ones weren't, what was going to 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:17.680 be left off? 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:18.400 Uh? 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.360 But this title I think bewildered them the most. 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.760 So fuzz Bucket, which get used to hearing that word, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.480 because we're gonna be saying fuzzbucket quite a bit, was 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.639 released as a Disney Sunday movie, which was a weekly 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.000 tradition at the time. It was hosted by the CEO 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.520 of the company then the CEO of the company, Michael Eisner. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.880 And the rumor is, which we're going to have to 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.960 really delve into because it makes a lot of sense. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.600 The rumor is that this was actually a failed television pilot. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.240 So they tried to shoot this as a pilot. It 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.600 didn't work, and they didn't want to just throw it away, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.480 so they rearranged it into a movie. And they were 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.040 doing that at the time nineteen eighty six, mid eighties, 0:03:58.080 --> 0:03:59.880 because they were hoping to capitalize on some of this 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:04.440 success of ET, which of course was hugely influential. This 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.160 was not ET, This was not it. This was no, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:13.640 this was not it was this was and so uh yeah, Now, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.480 before we were even assigned this movie for this podcast, 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.000 had you heard of fuzz Bucket? 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.159 Never, not even a little bit. I had no idea 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.160 what to expect either. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.040 I got a little nervous when I turned it on 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:33.280 on Disney Plus and saw what I was assuming a 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:34.240 fuzz Bucket was. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.680 I didn't know, and kind of just baared down, was like. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:40.680 There we go. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.839 I'm not sure what this is, gonnap. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.680 I'm about to happen to me. Yes, I had heard 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.240 of it just in the title Fuzzbucket, because Ryder Strong 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.440 said do you remember the movie Fuzzbucket? And I said, 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.400 what are you talking about? So i'd heard the name, 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.560 but I knew nothing about this. Let's right off the bat, 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.240 because we don't want to dwell on this. What did 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.200 you think of the Fuzzbucket costume? 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:11.200 I just I could not embrace it. I couldn't even 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:16.520 I could, I mean barely tolerate it. I hated the 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.680 way he wobbled around in it, or she or whoever 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:24.480 was in that that costume. I couldn't understand what was 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.719 tearing about it, Like, there was nothing cute to me. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.960 It was really creepy. It was really very creepy, creepy. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.200 You know, et was an alien, so I understood that. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.000 You know, you have all of. 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:43.440 The those the space you know TV shows that were around. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.000 Yeah, I never really liked a lot of those. This 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.800 to me, by far was not well. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.760 This was like a thing. So you had et Alf 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.200 came out shortly after. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.200 This, which I thought was cute. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.680 Yeah, Howard the Duck was around this time Mac and 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.000 Me was around this time. These are all kinds of 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:05.320 you know, space aliens or something like that, in strange costumes. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.680 But it was such a bizarre thing. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.599 So okay, well we want to want to jump ahead, 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.200 so before we gulp down a random green milkshake and 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.840 allow our bones to really creepily appear, let's get into 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.680 the synopsis here and invisible but not imaginary, which got 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.200 confusing at the beginning, creature named fuzz Bucket becomes twelve 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.960 year old Mikey's best friend. Wise and loving, fuzz Bucket 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.600 helps Mikey cope with his fighting parents which we never see, 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.680 and the traumas of his first day at junior high. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:39.440 While in exchange, Mikey helps make him visible, right, okay. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.040 With the with the homemade milkshake, with. 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:47.040 The homemade weird green milkshake that he's supposed to make 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:52.040 in his kitchen to help make fuzz Bucket appear appear. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.600 But so he's there, he's there, and he's invisible. But 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.839 at the same time, at the beginning, it looks like 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.200 Mikey's following him around and talking to him, but then 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.520 he says, where are you? Are you still here? So 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.280 we couldn't tell if Mikey could see him right, and 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.760 nobody else could because at times he's then turning to 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.280 him in the principal's office and saying, talk to them, 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.120 talk to them. They think I'm crazy, so that got 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.920 a little confusing. It stars Chris I don't know if 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:22.400 it's Hebert Hebert or hey Bear as Michael Gerber like 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.400 the Baby Food. He is best known for his role 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.640 in the amazing and so important in My life movie 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.600 The Last star Fighter. He plays the Little Brother and 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.600 Last star Fighter. He is awesome in the movie. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.280 He's adorable. It is one of the most adorable little kids. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.760 I wanted to scoop him up and to me help 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:42.640 this little kid. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.240 He was so cute playing the Little Brother and Last 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.280 Starfighter and playing young Alex Pekeaton in two episodes of 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.080 Family Ties. And he does look like a little bit 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.120 like a reverse Benjamin Button kind of kid. But he 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.440 was super important in my childhood, so I knew exactly 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.360 who this was because I was a huge Last star 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.800 Fighter fan and an enormous Family Ties fan. So he 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.920 left acting. He retired from the business in the late 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.640 nineties and is currently a teacher at Fullerton High School, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.000 which is very very cool. Right around the corner, right 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:13.480 around the corner from you. Phil fonde Caro was the 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.960 man in that awful, horrific fuzz Bucket costume, but he 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.480 is a legendary actor. He stands about three feet six 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.560 inches tall and started his career in the nineteen eighty 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.160 one movie Under the Rainbow. He's also appeared in Return 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.520 of the Jedi as an Ewok, the Garbage Pale Kids 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.840 movie as Greaser Greg, in the movie Willow, and five 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.600 episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:31.960 Wow. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.000 He's even a voice in the movie Polar Express, but 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.520 he was not the voice of Fuzzbucket. Fuzzbucket was actually 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.760 voiced by Hal Smith, who was best known as Otis 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.559 from The Andy Grifford Show and Owl from Winnie the Pooh, 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.960 So he didn't have a whole lot of work to 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.280 do here, but he is very very big In the 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:53.679 voiceover game, Joe Regula Budo plays the dad. That's by 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.559 the way, how he's credited in the movie just Dad. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.559 There's no name, it's just dad. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.800 A lot of the credits were like that. Did you 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:05.120 notice that that was a very much The credits were strange. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.080 So you could tell it just kind of threw it together. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.959 But he is best known as Frank Fontana on Murphy 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.600 Brown and you've seen him in hundreds of things. I 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.880 remember him from one of my favorite really bad Arnold 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.960 Schwarzenegger movies growing up, where he played the bad guy 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:21.080 in Raw Deal, Oh Terrible movie. Wendy Phillips is mom 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.880 best known as Gail from Midnight Run, Great great, great 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.760 movie and as Mary an Airplane Too, the sequel. There's 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.040 like the cast of this I'm gonna say movie or film, 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.199 even though it's really not was outstanding. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:33.720 Yes. 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.160 And then Robin Lively, who is part of the legendary 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:43.520 Hollywood family, plays Stevie Gerber, Michael's sister, and you would 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.439 have thought she'd have a bigger part because it was 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.559 supposed to be a television show, we think, and we're 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.120 gonna get a chance to talk to her. She's gonna 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.600 be able to tell us actually what happened. But she's 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.200 an incredible actress that was barely used. She's known as 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.520 Louise in Teenwitch, I mean there you go, as Jessica 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.640 Andrews in the Karate Kit three and even appeared in Yes, 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.360 and was in a recent episode of Cobra Kai. She's 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.280 obviously sisters with Blake Lively and also Lori Lively and 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.720 they've been in a ton of stuff and very well known. Lastly, 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.360 John Vernon plays principle again. That is how all these 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.600 people are credited. And he's another unforgettable character actor who 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.440 was the mayor in Dirty Harry and Dean Wermer in 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.440 Animal House and is another actor that we assume would 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.360 have a much bigger part if this was a TV 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:31.120 show and not a movie, because he has one entire scene, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.800 just one scene that means nothing, It makes no sense, 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.720 it's bizarre, and you never see him again. So yeah, 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:40.520 we have to get the whole story. It was written 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.600 and directed by Mick Garris, who came out of Steven 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.040 Spielberg's Amazing Stories camp and is best known as the 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.480 writer of pocus Pocus, which is a true Disney classic. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.600 It runs forty six minutes. That is correct. 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.079 It runs forty six minutes, well below any target we 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.520 have had, which validates the rumor that this was first 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.679 filmed as a TV pilot because it is seriously barely 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.080 long enough to fill an hour even with commercials. We 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.120 have already said that it was inspired by ET's success 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.520 and Disney hoping to cash in on that juggernaut. But 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.679 also three months later NBC debuted alf which was one 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.440 of the decades's most popular TV shows and a much 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.720 more coherent version of what Fuzzbucket was supposed to be. 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.360 And the weirdest credit hall for this movie is that 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.240 it was executive produced by John Landis, the director of 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.240 Blues Brothers, Trading Places of Animal House Coming to America, 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.160 the legendary eighties director. I mean, just one incredible movie 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.760 after another, And this project was actually shot while he 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.760 was on trial for the tragedy that occurred on the 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.439 Twilight Zone movie where two young actors and an older actor, 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.280 Vic Morrow, were killed when the helicopter crashed. So just 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.920 a weird time to be producing fuzz Bucket. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.120 Any weirder and weirder by the second here. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:52.719 Yes, So the movie just starts with a crane shot 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.160 into michael'streethouse, which is a major set for the movie. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.640 He's pacing the room and talking to himself but also 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.240 waiting to get answers. And this is where I started 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.960 my full confusion. Maybe it was easier for you. I 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:10.720 could not tell if Fuzzbucket was invisible only to him, 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:12.920 like was he invisible to everybody else? But Mikey could 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.960 see him, because sometimes it seemed like he could and 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.040 sometimes it seemed like he couldn't, Right. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.000 I think it kind of I Again, I don't remember 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:27.280 having an invisible friend, but I have seen it obviously 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.280 portrayed in other shows, TV movies, things like that, or 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.880 my friends that have kids that have them, and it's 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.200 almost like a game to them as well to where 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:38.839 they play, like where'd you go? 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.120 As if they're hiding, because even said are you still here? 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:43.160 Are you still here? 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:43.720 You know? 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.280 Or that that sometimes the invisible friends like they don't 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.640 live in the house with them, they live somewhere else 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.400 and they come in like a front would come over. Okay, 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.160 you know, a play date. So I followed it that way. Okay, 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.680 they confused me too much. The thing I was really 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.760 intrigued on. Now, I'm gonna say something kind of positive. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:09.800 I loved the little musical, the party's answering, his answered questions. 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.040 I loved those those kept making me giggle, were so cute, 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.120 And I didn't like enjoy that. I was, you know, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.760 every time you could see his little influctuation of what 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:22.720 his little voice was going to be doing. I kept 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.240 thinking instantly fuzz Bucket was a boy. I don't know 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.040 why I just had that, but it to me, it 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.679 was that was his little voice, and he had a 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.840 cute little voice, just like you know, like our main character. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.840 Well, the thing is, the scene is literally like five 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.120 minutes long, and it's just so kid talking to himself. Yeah. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.400 I kept thinking the whole time someone was going to 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.760 come into the tree house. I did not expect him 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.080 to be leaving the tree house to come to dinner. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.880 Right, I think we Also, it's a perfect time to 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:55.560 talk about the fact that Fuzzbucket himself does not actually 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.400 show up until like twenty five minutes into the We're like. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:03.960 Halfway and thank god, there's forty six minutes of the 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.600 full fuzz Bucket might have just really done me. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.000 Oh is that what he said? I can't take it. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.319 I can't take forty six minutes of fuzz Bucket. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:12.080 Yeah. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.120 So you think it would not have done better for 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:19.120 the movie with more Fuzzbucket, your team less Fuzzbucket, it, Well, 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:19.720 it would. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:24.200 Have been, yes, because then they would unless they decided 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.160 to have a way for him to disappear again, to 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.480 not be seen to people. So this milkshake happens, and 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.080 to me, he gets his milkshake, and I don't want 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:35.880 to skip to the end, but it seems like the 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.320 milkshake situation was for him to right. 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:43.359 But also but they never ever explained why he's invisible, 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:48.040 exactly what happened, why he can't get visible again. There's 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.640 no I mean, none of this it's explained in any 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:51.160 way way. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.880 I kept seeing it because I also didn't pay attention 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.800 that it was only going to be forty six minutes. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.000 Did you realize that or did. 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:57.520 You I had no idea. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:58.960 Okay, I paused at one point to go to the 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.040 bathroom and I was like, wait, there's twelve and this 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:01.760 can't be right. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.080 No, it ended, and I went did something just happen 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:05.800 to my internet? 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:07.360 I thought there was a second part? 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.520 Yeah? Am I missing it? Is there a second part? On? 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:15.400 I was really confused, crazy, And then the credits started happening. I, okay, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.160 you know the same thing. So I think him bouncing 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.040 back and forth would have been really hard to figure 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.400 out how he obviously couldn't be seen by anyone else, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.680 And the fact that he even has the venture into 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.120 where he ends up and no one recognizes that this 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.000 giant possum, furry possum thing is walking around with the 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:37.080 hat in an outfit. 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.440 Well, he does usually walk around under the cover of 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:40.400 broad daylight. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:45.200 Yeah, so you know he's usually sneaking around down busy 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.200 streets at two o'clock in the afternoon. Yes, so so, okay, 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:49.680 we come to realize that is the first day of 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.760 middle school. But also we witnessed the return of a 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.480 very decom trope that we're starting to see in most 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.960 of these movies, The Horrible System played by Robin Lively, 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.080 who's first line of the movie is she calls him 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.040 a tumor. She's like, oh, the tumor woke up, so 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.040 talking about her little brother, referring to him as a tumor, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.840 which is pretty harsh, and that is so his mom 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.720 then forces him to sit down at the table. Is 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.040 it dinner or is it breakfast? It's dinner. 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.880 It's dinner, she says it. While he's in the treehouse. 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.280 She does come in for dinner. Okay, because at first 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.160 I thought maybe it was breakfast. So because what she 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.240 he comes in and he sits down, he doesn't. There's 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:28.960 mushrooms in the gravy. He doesn't want to eat the 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.120 mushrooms in the gravy. So the MoMA sentally says, pick 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:32.640 him out. He says, I don't want to. She says, well, 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.320 you're gonna sit there until you finish your meal. Common 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.960 punishment back in the day. And then it cuts to 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.760 like hours later and he's still sitting there in the 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:45.400 dark with his food. I'm glad that it's dinner and 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.840 not breakfast, but it's still got to be hours that 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:58.360 this kid is sitting there in front of his place. Yeah. Yeah, 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.520 So let's talk about the Gerber household here a little 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.800 more in depth. Beyond just his sister not being the best, 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.359 it also appears that his parents' marriage is strained and 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.120 they're screaming at each other all the time. But again, 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.840 we don't ever see see any of them, and they don't. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.520 I mean, they allude to, like say it flat out 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:16.919 when his dad has a talk with him, like, yo, 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.360 you must hear your mom fighting it all the time, 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:19.320 but they don't show it. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:20.600 He seems to. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.760 They seem to be nice people, and so you never 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:31.639 kind of see any disharmony in the family. Right, So yeah, again, 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.480 they set something up that they don't show payoff or 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.760 see in any way shape or for him. The dad's 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.000 always working and doesn't appear to be spending enough time 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.160 with Michael, who sleeps in his treehouse, which he calls 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.680 the castle while talking to himself. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:48.640 With the easiest escape route. If a window I have. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.040 Ever seen, it might as well be a door. It was. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:52.720 It honestly should have been. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.160 I thought the same thing that is in my Sabrina 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.199 seas that thing look like a door. There's just no 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.040 way my kids would ever have a window that they 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.160 could just easily get out. 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.080 And I think it's probably it goes to that the 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.000 ramp thing that he built that goes right to the castle, 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:10.880 So I think it's essentially attached to a the room, 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:12.760 which is cool as hell when you're a kid. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:13.480 Oh my gosh. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.159 But you know that this happens all the time because 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.680 by the time his mom calls out and says they're 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.520 going to get pizza, right, she knows where he is. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.800 Yeah, because she erry specifically in her in his punishment 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.560 when he's sent there. This time, the mom he even says, well, 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.399 mom didn't mention the castle, so I can go to that. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.040 He wasn't allowed to watch TV, he wasn't not to 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:36.720 do all this stuff, but he could go to the castle, 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.160 so he went there. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:39.840 That is a terrible punishment. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.679 Again, that kid doesn't me and then and then sleeps 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.320 in the castle while talking to himself. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:46.959 You can go to your favorite place anyway. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.600 Yeah, I mean, he's he's. It's one of those things 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.879 where we we get that it's buzzbucket that he's talking to. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:55.679 But they've really set it up where I think the 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.080 parents are having conversations about getting this kid some serious 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.840 psychological Yes, yes, it's they've really set it up there. 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:04.120 They should be because it's a little over the time. 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.560 So first day of school, he rides his bike there 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:08.080 no helmet. 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:08.800 It's the eighties. 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:10.639 That's the first thing I noticed is everybody's riding their 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:11.240 bike with no helmet. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.119 It's just the way it is. Student orientation in the 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.640 cafeteria is also advertising that there's already a school dance 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:19.880 on Friday. So this is obviously the party middle school 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:21.720 in town where your first couple of days there and 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:23.560 you're at a dance when you don't know anybody. Okay, 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:25.480 who do you dance with? You just met these people. 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.200 But no, that's normal. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.320