Speaker 1: Did you have an imaginary friend growing up?
Speaker 2: I didn't, That's the first question that popped in my head.
Speaker 2: At least I don't remember having one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if maybe, like you, maybe had an
Speaker 1: imaginary acquaintance.
Speaker 3: No, I don't remember it being a thing with my parents.
Speaker 2: They've never brought it up since, so I can't imagine
Speaker 2: that I did.
Speaker 3: If I did, it would have been I guess, really little.
Speaker 2: But to me, I kept thinking, I can't imagine really
Speaker 2: doing that, talking to a sofa or wherever this person
Speaker 2: or creatures.
Speaker 1: Right which we don't know city. No, but the I
Speaker 1: think I did. I you're gonna laugh too, because it
Speaker 1: made me go, oh my god, that's right, because I
Speaker 1: thought about this. I think when I was very very young,
Speaker 1: really briefly, and I mean seriously briefly before I because
Speaker 1: my stuffed teddy bear, Charlie was always with me, so
Speaker 1: I would talk to Charlie, obviously because Charlie was real,
Speaker 1: But I also briefly had an imaginary friend ready for
Speaker 1: the name Monroe. Not I had an imaginary friend named
Speaker 1: Monroe when I was When I was growing up, yep,
Speaker 1: So I thought about you when I was the first
Speaker 1: time I heard that crazy. One of the things I sparked.
Speaker 1: It was like I remember as a little little kid,
Speaker 1: probably you know, three four years old, going like Monroe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so oh wow.
Speaker 1: Or maybe they say little kids are more attuned to ghosts,
Speaker 1: so maybe it was an actual ghost I was talking to.
Speaker 2: You never know, Yeah, that could have been it, probably,
Speaker 2: I mean, I do think of the doll I had.
Speaker 3: I had one.
Speaker 2: I always call her Gidget, but that was not her name.
Speaker 2: But she had a tape recorder in her back, and
Speaker 2: she was I was really released little and she was
Speaker 2: about the same size as me. She was like an
Speaker 2: over size yeah doll and and so she would read
Speaker 2: stories and I was I would do her.
Speaker 4: So she was she was the female version of my buddy,
Speaker 4: my buddy and me.
Speaker 2: That's kind of Patria, cute, little blonde hair. She's still
Speaker 2: in my garage attic. And if you ever accidentally pop
Speaker 2: your head up there, she's right there.
Speaker 4: She's freaking so scary.
Speaker 2: Looking now, hurry, so scary looking now, But I did.
Speaker 2: That's the closest thing that I can remember, but not
Speaker 2: as scary as this situation that we were put.
Speaker 1: Through a perfect segue into what we're doing this week.
Speaker 1: First of all, welcome to Magical Rewind, the show that
Speaker 1: makes you want to grab your friends, your pj's, and
Speaker 1: your popcorn and go back to a time when all
Speaker 1: the houses were smart, the wave tsunamis and the high
Speaker 1: Schools musical.
Speaker 3: I'm Wilfordell and I'm Sabrina Brian.
Speaker 2: Oh well, folks, this is a ride.
Speaker 1: It appears that we have now arrived at the deepest,
Speaker 1: darkest corner of Disney Plus as this week we're entering
Speaker 1: a pocket of the streaming service that most of your
Speaker 1: probably didn't even know exists. It is the nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: six family Adventure Move slash Absolute Nightmare.
Speaker 4: Fuel fuzz Bucket.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, when Disney first released the lineup for e streaming
Speaker 1: service back in twenty nineteen, fanatics were wondering myself included
Speaker 1: by the way, we're wondering which the original movies they
Speaker 1: were going to be.
Speaker 4: Able to see, which ones weren't, what was going to
Speaker 4: be left off?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: But this title I think bewildered them the most.
Speaker 1: So fuzz Bucket, which get used to hearing that word,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna be saying fuzzbucket quite a bit, was
Speaker 1: released as a Disney Sunday movie, which was a weekly
Speaker 1: tradition at the time. It was hosted by the CEO
Speaker 1: of the company then the CEO of the company, Michael Eisner.
Speaker 1: And the rumor is, which we're going to have to
Speaker 1: really delve into because it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: The rumor is that this was actually a failed television pilot.
Speaker 1: So they tried to shoot this as a pilot. It
Speaker 1: didn't work, and they didn't want to just throw it away,
Speaker 1: so they rearranged it into a movie. And they were
Speaker 1: doing that at the time nineteen eighty six, mid eighties,
Speaker 1: because they were hoping to capitalize on some of this
Speaker 1: success of ET, which of course was hugely influential. This
Speaker 1: was not ET, This was not it. This was no,
Speaker 1: this was not it was this was and so uh yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: before we were even assigned this movie for this podcast,
Speaker 1: had you heard of fuzz Bucket?
Speaker 3: Never, not even a little bit. I had no idea
Speaker 3: what to expect either.
Speaker 2: I got a little nervous when I turned it on
Speaker 2: on Disney Plus and saw what I was assuming a
Speaker 2: fuzz Bucket was.
Speaker 3: I didn't know, and kind of just baared down, was like.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what this is, gonnap.
Speaker 1: I'm about to happen to me. Yes, I had heard
Speaker 1: of it just in the title Fuzzbucket, because Ryder Strong
Speaker 1: said do you remember the movie Fuzzbucket? And I said,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? So i'd heard the name,
Speaker 1: but I knew nothing about this. Let's right off the bat,
Speaker 1: because we don't want to dwell on this. What did
Speaker 1: you think of the Fuzzbucket costume?
Speaker 2: I just I could not embrace it. I couldn't even
Speaker 2: I could, I mean barely tolerate it. I hated the
Speaker 2: way he wobbled around in it, or she or whoever
Speaker 2: was in that that costume. I couldn't understand what was
Speaker 2: tearing about it, Like, there was nothing cute to me.
Speaker 1: It was really creepy. It was really very creepy, creepy.
Speaker 3: You know, et was an alien, so I understood that.
Speaker 3: You know, you have all of.
Speaker 2: The those the space you know TV shows that were around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I never really liked a lot of those. This
Speaker 3: to me, by far was not well.
Speaker 4: This was like a thing. So you had et Alf
Speaker 4: came out shortly after.
Speaker 3: This, which I thought was cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Howard the Duck was around this time Mac and
Speaker 1: Me was around this time. These are all kinds of
Speaker 1: you know, space aliens or something like that, in strange costumes.
Speaker 4: But it was such a bizarre thing.
Speaker 1: So okay, well we want to want to jump ahead,
Speaker 1: so before we gulp down a random green milkshake and
Speaker 1: allow our bones to really creepily appear, let's get into
Speaker 1: the synopsis here and invisible but not imaginary, which got
Speaker 1: confusing at the beginning, creature named fuzz Bucket becomes twelve
Speaker 1: year old Mikey's best friend. Wise and loving, fuzz Bucket
Speaker 1: helps Mikey cope with his fighting parents which we never see,
Speaker 1: and the traumas of his first day at junior high.
Speaker 1: While in exchange, Mikey helps make him visible, right, okay.
Speaker 3: With the with the homemade milkshake, with.
Speaker 1: The homemade weird green milkshake that he's supposed to make
Speaker 1: in his kitchen to help make fuzz Bucket appear appear.
Speaker 1: But so he's there, he's there, and he's invisible. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, at the beginning, it looks like
Speaker 1: Mikey's following him around and talking to him, but then
Speaker 1: he says, where are you? Are you still here? So
Speaker 1: we couldn't tell if Mikey could see him right, and
Speaker 1: nobody else could because at times he's then turning to
Speaker 1: him in the principal's office and saying, talk to them,
Speaker 1: talk to them. They think I'm crazy, so that got
Speaker 1: a little confusing. It stars Chris I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's Hebert Hebert or hey Bear as Michael Gerber like
Speaker 1: the Baby Food. He is best known for his role
Speaker 1: in the amazing and so important in My life movie
Speaker 1: The Last star Fighter. He plays the Little Brother and
Speaker 1: Last star Fighter. He is awesome in the movie.
Speaker 2: He's adorable. It is one of the most adorable little kids.
Speaker 2: I wanted to scoop him up and to me help
Speaker 2: this little kid.
Speaker 1: He was so cute playing the Little Brother and Last
Speaker 1: Starfighter and playing young Alex Pekeaton in two episodes of
Speaker 1: Family Ties. And he does look like a little bit
Speaker 1: like a reverse Benjamin Button kind of kid. But he
Speaker 1: was super important in my childhood, so I knew exactly
Speaker 1: who this was because I was a huge Last star
Speaker 1: Fighter fan and an enormous Family Ties fan. So he
Speaker 1: left acting. He retired from the business in the late
Speaker 1: nineties and is currently a teacher at Fullerton High School,
Speaker 1: which is very very cool. Right around the corner, right
Speaker 1: around the corner from you. Phil fonde Caro was the
Speaker 1: man in that awful, horrific fuzz Bucket costume, but he
Speaker 1: is a legendary actor. He stands about three feet six
Speaker 1: inches tall and started his career in the nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: one movie Under the Rainbow. He's also appeared in Return
Speaker 1: of the Jedi as an Ewok, the Garbage Pale Kids
Speaker 1: movie as Greaser Greg, in the movie Willow, and five
Speaker 1: episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: He's even a voice in the movie Polar Express, but
Speaker 1: he was not the voice of Fuzzbucket. Fuzzbucket was actually
Speaker 1: voiced by Hal Smith, who was best known as Otis
Speaker 1: from The Andy Grifford Show and Owl from Winnie the Pooh,
Speaker 1: So he didn't have a whole lot of work to
Speaker 1: do here, but he is very very big In the
Speaker 1: voiceover game, Joe Regula Budo plays the dad. That's by
Speaker 1: the way, how he's credited in the movie just Dad.
Speaker 1: There's no name, it's just dad.
Speaker 2: A lot of the credits were like that. Did you
Speaker 2: notice that that was a very much The credits were strange.
Speaker 4: So you could tell it just kind of threw it together.
Speaker 1: But he is best known as Frank Fontana on Murphy
Speaker 1: Brown and you've seen him in hundreds of things. I
Speaker 1: remember him from one of my favorite really bad Arnold
Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger movies growing up, where he played the bad guy
Speaker 1: in Raw Deal, Oh Terrible movie. Wendy Phillips is mom
Speaker 1: best known as Gail from Midnight Run, Great great, great
Speaker 1: movie and as Mary an Airplane Too, the sequel. There's
Speaker 1: like the cast of this I'm gonna say movie or film,
Speaker 1: even though it's really not was outstanding.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: And then Robin Lively, who is part of the legendary
Speaker 1: Hollywood family, plays Stevie Gerber, Michael's sister, and you would
Speaker 1: have thought she'd have a bigger part because it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be a television show, we think, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get a chance to talk to her. She's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to tell us actually what happened. But she's
Speaker 1: an incredible actress that was barely used. She's known as
Speaker 1: Louise in Teenwitch, I mean there you go, as Jessica
Speaker 1: Andrews in the Karate Kit three and even appeared in Yes,
Speaker 1: and was in a recent episode of Cobra Kai. She's
Speaker 1: obviously sisters with Blake Lively and also Lori Lively and
Speaker 1: they've been in a ton of stuff and very well known. Lastly,
Speaker 1: John Vernon plays principle again. That is how all these
Speaker 1: people are credited. And he's another unforgettable character actor who
Speaker 1: was the mayor in Dirty Harry and Dean Wermer in
Speaker 1: Animal House and is another actor that we assume would
Speaker 1: have a much bigger part if this was a TV
Speaker 1: show and not a movie, because he has one entire scene,
Speaker 1: just one scene that means nothing, It makes no sense,
Speaker 1: it's bizarre, and you never see him again. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we have to get the whole story. It was written
Speaker 1: and directed by Mick Garris, who came out of Steven
Speaker 1: Spielberg's Amazing Stories camp and is best known as the
Speaker 1: writer of pocus Pocus, which is a true Disney classic.
Speaker 4: It runs forty six minutes. That is correct.
Speaker 1: It runs forty six minutes, well below any target we
Speaker 1: have had, which validates the rumor that this was first
Speaker 1: filmed as a TV pilot because it is seriously barely
Speaker 1: long enough to fill an hour even with commercials. We
Speaker 1: have already said that it was inspired by ET's success
Speaker 1: and Disney hoping to cash in on that juggernaut. But
Speaker 1: also three months later NBC debuted alf which was one
Speaker 1: of the decades's most popular TV shows and a much
Speaker 1: more coherent version of what Fuzzbucket was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: And the weirdest credit hall for this movie is that
Speaker 1: it was executive produced by John Landis, the director of
Speaker 1: Blues Brothers, Trading Places of Animal House Coming to America,
Speaker 1: the legendary eighties director. I mean, just one incredible movie
Speaker 1: after another, And this project was actually shot while he
Speaker 1: was on trial for the tragedy that occurred on the
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone movie where two young actors and an older actor,
Speaker 1: Vic Morrow, were killed when the helicopter crashed. So just
Speaker 1: a weird time to be producing fuzz Bucket.
Speaker 2: Any weirder and weirder by the second here.
Speaker 1: Yes, So the movie just starts with a crane shot
Speaker 1: into michael'streethouse, which is a major set for the movie.
Speaker 1: He's pacing the room and talking to himself but also
Speaker 1: waiting to get answers. And this is where I started
Speaker 1: my full confusion. Maybe it was easier for you. I
Speaker 1: could not tell if Fuzzbucket was invisible only to him,
Speaker 1: like was he invisible to everybody else? But Mikey could
Speaker 1: see him, because sometimes it seemed like he could and
Speaker 1: sometimes it seemed like he couldn't, Right.
Speaker 2: I think it kind of I Again, I don't remember
Speaker 2: having an invisible friend, but I have seen it obviously
Speaker 2: portrayed in other shows, TV movies, things like that, or
Speaker 2: my friends that have kids that have them, and it's
Speaker 2: almost like a game to them as well to where
Speaker 2: they play, like where'd you go?
Speaker 4: As if they're hiding, because even said are you still here?
Speaker 2: Are you still here?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Or that that sometimes the invisible friends like they don't
Speaker 2: live in the house with them, they live somewhere else
Speaker 2: and they come in like a front would come over. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know, a play date. So I followed it that way. Okay,
Speaker 2: they confused me too much. The thing I was really
Speaker 2: intrigued on. Now, I'm gonna say something kind of positive.
Speaker 2: I loved the little musical, the party's answering, his answered questions.
Speaker 2: I loved those those kept making me giggle, were so cute,
Speaker 2: And I didn't like enjoy that. I was, you know,
Speaker 2: every time you could see his little influctuation of what
Speaker 2: his little voice was going to be doing. I kept
Speaker 2: thinking instantly fuzz Bucket was a boy. I don't know
Speaker 2: why I just had that, but it to me, it
Speaker 2: was that was his little voice, and he had a
Speaker 2: cute little voice, just like you know, like our main character.
Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, the scene is literally like five
Speaker 1: minutes long, and it's just so kid talking to himself. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I kept thinking the whole time someone was going to
Speaker 2: come into the tree house. I did not expect him
Speaker 2: to be leaving the tree house to come to dinner.
Speaker 1: Right, I think we Also, it's a perfect time to
Speaker 1: talk about the fact that Fuzzbucket himself does not actually
Speaker 1: show up until like twenty five minutes into the We're like.
Speaker 2: Halfway and thank god, there's forty six minutes of the
Speaker 2: full fuzz Bucket might have just really done me.
Speaker 1: Oh is that what he said? I can't take it.
Speaker 4: I can't take forty six minutes of fuzz Bucket.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you think it would not have done better for
Speaker 1: the movie with more Fuzzbucket, your team less Fuzzbucket, it, Well,
Speaker 1: it would.
Speaker 2: Have been, yes, because then they would unless they decided
Speaker 2: to have a way for him to disappear again, to
Speaker 2: not be seen to people. So this milkshake happens, and
Speaker 2: to me, he gets his milkshake, and I don't want
Speaker 2: to skip to the end, but it seems like the
Speaker 2: milkshake situation was for him to right.
Speaker 1: But also but they never ever explained why he's invisible,
Speaker 1: exactly what happened, why he can't get visible again. There's
Speaker 1: no I mean, none of this it's explained in any
Speaker 1: way way.
Speaker 2: I kept seeing it because I also didn't pay attention
Speaker 2: that it was only going to be forty six minutes.
Speaker 2: Did you realize that or did.
Speaker 4: You I had no idea.
Speaker 1: Okay, I paused at one point to go to the
Speaker 1: bathroom and I was like, wait, there's twelve and this
Speaker 1: can't be right.
Speaker 2: No, it ended, and I went did something just happen
Speaker 2: to my internet?
Speaker 1: I thought there was a second part?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Am I missing it? Is there a second part? On?
Speaker 2: I was really confused, crazy, And then the credits started happening. I, okay,
Speaker 2: you know the same thing. So I think him bouncing
Speaker 2: back and forth would have been really hard to figure
Speaker 2: out how he obviously couldn't be seen by anyone else,
Speaker 2: And the fact that he even has the venture into
Speaker 2: where he ends up and no one recognizes that this
Speaker 2: giant possum, furry possum thing is walking around with the
Speaker 2: hat in an outfit.
Speaker 4: Well, he does usually walk around under the cover of
Speaker 4: broad daylight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know he's usually sneaking around down busy
Speaker 1: streets at two o'clock in the afternoon. Yes, so so, okay,
Speaker 1: we come to realize that is the first day of
Speaker 1: middle school. But also we witnessed the return of a
Speaker 1: very decom trope that we're starting to see in most
Speaker 1: of these movies, The Horrible System played by Robin Lively,
Speaker 1: who's first line of the movie is she calls him
Speaker 1: a tumor. She's like, oh, the tumor woke up, so
Speaker 1: talking about her little brother, referring to him as a tumor,
Speaker 1: which is pretty harsh, and that is so his mom
Speaker 1: then forces him to sit down at the table. Is
Speaker 1: it dinner or is it breakfast? It's dinner.
Speaker 3: It's dinner, she says it. While he's in the treehouse.
Speaker 1: She does come in for dinner. Okay, because at first
Speaker 1: I thought maybe it was breakfast. So because what she
Speaker 1: he comes in and he sits down, he doesn't. There's
Speaker 1: mushrooms in the gravy. He doesn't want to eat the
Speaker 1: mushrooms in the gravy. So the MoMA sentally says, pick
Speaker 1: him out. He says, I don't want to. She says, well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna sit there until you finish your meal. Common
Speaker 1: punishment back in the day. And then it cuts to
Speaker 1: like hours later and he's still sitting there in the
Speaker 1: dark with his food. I'm glad that it's dinner and
Speaker 1: not breakfast, but it's still got to be hours that
Speaker 1: this kid is sitting there in front of his place. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the Gerber household here a little
Speaker 1: more in depth. Beyond just his sister not being the best,
Speaker 1: it also appears that his parents' marriage is strained and
Speaker 1: they're screaming at each other all the time. But again,
Speaker 1: we don't ever see see any of them, and they don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, they allude to, like say it flat out
Speaker 1: when his dad has a talk with him, like, yo,
Speaker 1: you must hear your mom fighting it all the time,
Speaker 1: but they don't show it.
Speaker 4: He seems to.
Speaker 1: They seem to be nice people, and so you never
Speaker 1: kind of see any disharmony in the family. Right, So yeah, again,
Speaker 1: they set something up that they don't show payoff or
Speaker 1: see in any way shape or for him. The dad's
Speaker 1: always working and doesn't appear to be spending enough time
Speaker 1: with Michael, who sleeps in his treehouse, which he calls
Speaker 1: the castle while talking to himself.
Speaker 2: With the easiest escape route. If a window I have.
Speaker 4: Ever seen, it might as well be a door. It was.
Speaker 3: It honestly should have been.
Speaker 2: I thought the same thing that is in my Sabrina
Speaker 2: seas that thing look like a door. There's just no
Speaker 2: way my kids would ever have a window that they
Speaker 2: could just easily get out.
Speaker 1: And I think it's probably it goes to that the
Speaker 1: ramp thing that he built that goes right to the castle,
Speaker 1: So I think it's essentially attached to a the room,
Speaker 1: which is cool as hell when you're a kid.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: But you know that this happens all the time because
Speaker 2: by the time his mom calls out and says they're
Speaker 2: going to get pizza, right, she knows where he is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because she erry specifically in her in his punishment
Speaker 1: when he's sent there. This time, the mom he even says, well,
Speaker 1: mom didn't mention the castle, so I can go to that.
Speaker 1: He wasn't allowed to watch TV, he wasn't not to
Speaker 1: do all this stuff, but he could go to the castle,
Speaker 1: so he went there.
Speaker 3: That is a terrible punishment.
Speaker 1: Again, that kid doesn't me and then and then sleeps
Speaker 1: in the castle while talking to himself.
Speaker 3: You can go to your favorite place anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he's he's. It's one of those things
Speaker 1: where we we get that it's buzzbucket that he's talking to.
Speaker 1: But they've really set it up where I think the
Speaker 1: parents are having conversations about getting this kid some serious
Speaker 1: psychological Yes, yes, it's they've really set it up there.
Speaker 2: They should be because it's a little over the time.
Speaker 4: So first day of school, he rides his bike there
Speaker 4: no helmet.
Speaker 1: It's the eighties.
Speaker 4: That's the first thing I noticed is everybody's riding their
Speaker 4: bike with no helmet.
Speaker 1: It's just the way it is. Student orientation in the
Speaker 1: cafeteria is also advertising that there's already a school dance
Speaker 1: on Friday. So this is obviously the party middle school
Speaker 1: in town where your first couple of days there and
Speaker 1: you're at a dance when you don't know anybody. Okay,
Speaker 1: who do you dance with? You just met these people.
Speaker 4: But no, that's normal.
Speaker 2: Is the first couple of weeks in school. Yeah, like
Speaker 2: just a really casual on Friday.
Speaker 1: You just got them in the.
Speaker 2: Multi purpose room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, purpose room. Oh jeez.
Speaker 1: So Michael waits in line. He's not in the system
Speaker 1: as a new student, so he's forced to go to
Speaker 1: the principal's office.
Speaker 4: He sits in there now very quick.
Speaker 1: Note the woman that brings him into the office teacher,
Speaker 1: the teacher, if she was a teacher.
Speaker 2: As they scanned the teacher, I instantly knew this one's
Speaker 2: gonna instantly knew we're gonna get back to that one.
Speaker 3: And that's, in fact the one that Michael went up to.
Speaker 1: Right fran Ryan I believe was the actress's name who
Speaker 1: played the part. She's legendary, she'd been in everything and everything,
Speaker 1: and she had a very tragic story. I was doing
Speaker 1: my deep dive a little bit, and this poor woman
Speaker 1: had two husbands die in plane crashes in two years.
Speaker 4: I'm in the fifties. They were both pilots.
Speaker 1: Both their planes went down within like two years of
Speaker 1: each other at the same time. I'm crazy. But she
Speaker 1: brings him into the principal's office while she tries to
Speaker 1: find his missing name. He sits down on the couch
Speaker 1: to wait to go to the principal's office. There's a
Speaker 1: girl that he sees, They make eye contact, they have
Speaker 1: a little flirty thing, and then all she's gonna.
Speaker 2: Be another character that we never see again.
Speaker 1: You never see again. And then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he bursts out in laughter because fuzz Buckets starts tickling him.
Speaker 2: Poor guy doesn't even have a chance again.
Speaker 1: Never explained, No, you don't know what's happened. Just here's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna randomly start tickling you.
Speaker 1: Your imaginary friend's gonna randomly start tickling you in the
Speaker 1: principal's office at school, which also means, then this is
Speaker 1: what was going through my head. Was fuzz Bucket with
Speaker 1: him on the bike? Is that how he got there?
Speaker 1: Did he have to ride fuzz Bucket on the bike?
Speaker 2: It did have a pretty big basket on the back
Speaker 2: of his bike.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, thank god he was invisible because they never
Speaker 1: would have known. Maybe so he wrote him there.
Speaker 2: But also to know the principal would not be taking
Speaker 2: care of this particular situation.
Speaker 4: Well, see, here's what I thought. Because I thought the
Speaker 4: same thing.
Speaker 2: It would be the secretary or somebody that's in the office.
Speaker 1: But that's what was happening until he went into a
Speaker 1: tickle frenzy, and so he thought he was having something
Speaker 1: going on in the day, which is why he called
Speaker 1: him in.
Speaker 2: I wrote it down because they made there was some
Speaker 2: type of comment that made it seem like he was
Speaker 2: going to have to see the principle because like as
Speaker 2: if he was in trouble.
Speaker 3: They like joked around, right, Okay, it was just a
Speaker 3: sho joke.
Speaker 4: But I think she was.
Speaker 1: And that's when the friend Ryan woman was like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I can find his name. That's not so. I think
Speaker 1: he was just acting so strange that the principal took
Speaker 1: him in to see what.
Speaker 2: Kind of came up in that dramatic that dramatic shadow
Speaker 2: shadow came Yeah, there was the principle, which at at
Speaker 2: that young age, going to the principal principal was absolutely
Speaker 2: that feeling.
Speaker 1: It was the worst.
Speaker 2: This was it. You were never going to finish school,
Speaker 2: you were going to have to live on the street.
Speaker 1: And you're getting tickled by your imaginary friend. By the way, uh,
Speaker 1: we'd like to point out and We're going to keep
Speaker 1: doing this. We're twenty minutes and still no Fuzzby. We
Speaker 1: still have not seen Fuzzbucket. The little invisible tickle monster
Speaker 1: has yet to show himself. After a creepy and uncomfortable
Speaker 1: scene in the principal's office, which is really what it is.
Speaker 1: It is a creepy and uncomfortable scene, never see the
Speaker 1: principle again, as a matter of fact, never goes back
Speaker 1: to school. The idea that it's any to do with
Speaker 1: school or the first day of middle school gone out
Speaker 1: the window. Again.
Speaker 4: If it's a television show, it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so interesting to say like that, the idea
Speaker 2: of it being a television show, because these are characters.
Speaker 2: Even the teacher that says your other left son when
Speaker 2: he gets off of his bike to.
Speaker 1: Go, I recognize that guy.
Speaker 2: I recognized him too.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I thought maybe you would, because you're always so good
Speaker 2: at telling me those and inciting me on these names
Speaker 2: of actors. But even him, he looked like it was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: that guy's going to be somebody. He's either going to
Speaker 2: be a torment or he's going to be a helpful
Speaker 2: you know, teacher.
Speaker 4: No, No, we literally never see school.
Speaker 2: So frustrating. I just oh, man, all.
Speaker 4: The questions never comes up. No, never, never school.
Speaker 1: So now we're back home and still we have no Fuzzbucket.
Speaker 1: But now we're going to get him because he has
Speaker 1: moved away from tickling to then giving Mikey instructions on
Speaker 1: how to make a concoction in the kitchen with the
Speaker 1: blender that we are starting to understand will eventually turn Fuzzbucket.
Speaker 1: You know, you're gonna be able to see him visible.
Speaker 1: It's gonna see it. It's gonna make him visible. Which again,
Speaker 1: still no explanation as to why he's invisible, why he
Speaker 1: can't turn visible again? Was he cursed? Was he nothing?
Speaker 2: The size of the drink that he made made me
Speaker 2: think that that was going to be the Maybe the
Speaker 2: drink would wear off, he'd go back to being it,
Speaker 2: and anytime he wanted to come like a look like
Speaker 2: the size drink was gonna be.
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. That makes sense.
Speaker 2: You know, in my head, I'm going, oh, okay, this
Speaker 2: that might be how he comes in and out.
Speaker 3: Okay, but then that's not what happened.
Speaker 4: No, So he makes this stuff.
Speaker 1: There's something magical also on the counter, so it's all
Speaker 1: normal ingredients. And then he goes, where did this come from?
Speaker 1: And he puts in this weird blue stuff. It turns
Speaker 1: into this magic elixir. It kind of reminded me of
Speaker 1: of what I call flubber face, where you stay on
Speaker 1: the actor's face and the face turns colors, like turns
Speaker 1: green and blue, and so it's like, Okay, he's making
Speaker 1: something magical. They sneak it out. The father walks in
Speaker 1: and instantly, instantly just goes for dinner. After the mom
Speaker 1: comes in and.
Speaker 3: Says, I noted that too.
Speaker 1: That was the old said, what's for dinner?
Speaker 2: Already? This poor mom already has just so much going on.
Speaker 2: Katy daughter, her son doesn't eat any of the food
Speaker 2: she spends hours making. He now trashes the kitchen. The
Speaker 2: husband comes in and asks what's for dinner?
Speaker 3: He deserved a backhand so hard.
Speaker 2: I cannot even like, you can't see what I'm about
Speaker 2: to have to clean up right now, you're asking me
Speaker 2: what for dinner.
Speaker 1: He walked in in the middle of the mom yelling
Speaker 1: at Mikey and grounding him. And he didn't even ask
Speaker 1: what happened. He just passed Mikey on the back as
Speaker 1: Mikey goes off to his punishment, which was weird.
Speaker 2: It was the only part I feel was the tiny
Speaker 2: hinge of the not great marriage. This is the only
Speaker 2: part that kind of shed light to that.
Speaker 1: They cut out all the rest, but they kept this one.
Speaker 1: So he takes his he manages to smuggle out some
Speaker 1: of his concoction. He brings to the castle and they
Speaker 1: give it to fuzz Bucket and then instead of just
Speaker 1: turning him in, turning him visible again, they someone decides
Speaker 1: to take the unbelievably creepy choice of having the thing
Speaker 1: appear first with like its guts.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was crazy, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then it's skeleton and then it's like it was.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of a bad version of did you
Speaker 1: ever see Was it called hollow Man? Was that the
Speaker 1: one with Kevin Kevin Bacon? I think it was called
Speaker 1: hollow Man? And he it's essentially it's a modern day
Speaker 1: take on the Invisible Man, and he turns it and
Speaker 1: that's how they do it again, you see. But it
Speaker 1: was really well done, whereas in this one it's like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is happening?
Speaker 2: Oh man? I oh, I was cringing cringing. And it's
Speaker 2: not like it got better because once no they came out,
Speaker 2: it was still sad, so bad I could I I, Oh,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm rooting for these movies, and I want
Speaker 2: to think, oh, what a cutie pie.
Speaker 1: No, we're coming off of going to the Mat for
Speaker 1: God's Sake, which yet so good, and we've got fuzz Bucket.
Speaker 2: That was tough and I had to prep myself. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's not always going to be a ten. I know
Speaker 2: it's not always going to be a ten. Don't expect
Speaker 2: a ten. But this was just a whole.
Speaker 1: Other We finally, after this creepy transformation a half an
Speaker 1: hour into a forty five minute movie, we actually get
Speaker 1: to see Fuzzbucket, and it's creepy and it's really it
Speaker 1: looks like a demented kind of squirrel meets a weird
Speaker 1: leprechaun meets a rat. It is very off putting. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's just bizarre, and I think it probably would have
Speaker 1: been better had they just kept him invisible.
Speaker 2: Frankly, I know, Yeah, the furry possum just was never
Speaker 2: something I was gonna be able to really like.
Speaker 1: And like a weird for not even like a cute
Speaker 1: furry possum, like a weird, weird possible.
Speaker 2: With not being able to say full sentences with the
Speaker 2: you know, a strange way of speaking.
Speaker 1: And he's got yeah, he's got a halting kind of
Speaker 1: way of speaking, a weird kind of per and apparently
Speaker 1: this was they never mentioned this when he's invisible, Like,
Speaker 1: apparently he's having totally normal conversations with Mikey when he's invisible,
Speaker 1: but when he becomes visible again, now he can't. He's
Speaker 1: saying things like wax wax maker, like instead of the crayon.
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, Mike, he's not able to understand him
Speaker 2: completely either, but he was.
Speaker 1: Fine in the monologues they had when they were when
Speaker 1: he was invisible before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, easy flowing conversations back then too. I don't really
Speaker 2: one hundred percent speak the human language.
Speaker 1: But now they're best friends. They do this weird drawing
Speaker 1: their hands over each other, which it seems like it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be like a fuzzbucket ritual, which apparently in
Speaker 1: the fuzz bucket community means that you are like blood brothers.
Speaker 1: They bring that up, or are we like blood brothers?
Speaker 2: Now blood brothers with grants?
Speaker 1: And then they watch cartoons together, which I like. Okay,
Speaker 1: he likes cartoons. I do too, No no judgment there.
Speaker 1: And then he asks where he's from, and he points,
Speaker 1: and I thought at first he was pointing to like
Speaker 1: the heavens, like he was saying, I'm an alien essentially,
Speaker 1: But then it's no, he's from right outside of town,
Speaker 1: in a field, in a marsh.
Speaker 2: Field over there. That's where I'm from.
Speaker 1: Right, But he says, even adults don't go there. It's
Speaker 1: literally we get there later. It's it's a field with
Speaker 1: a walking path. It's it's there's. Yeah, it's not scary
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2: It's not dangerous, scary and until you get until you
Speaker 2: fall down there, fall down the little hole, and you
Speaker 2: find the other furry giant possums.
Speaker 1: Still no explanation as to why he was invisible, why
Speaker 1: he needs to become visible again. Apparently he's from right
Speaker 1: just the just the town next door. We're very convenient. Yeah.
Speaker 2: My assumption was he could not go home to this
Speaker 2: furry possible place until he had the drink.
Speaker 3: For some reason, the drink had to happen.
Speaker 1: I maybe here's another question for you. Did you interpret
Speaker 1: it that his name was fuzz Bucket or he is
Speaker 1: a fuzz bucket? Do we go and find multiple fuzz buckets?
Speaker 1: Fuzzbuck eye? What in the hole is that? I mean, are.
Speaker 3: Fuzzbuck guys that they are?
Speaker 1: Are the multiple fuzz buckets?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I took it as his name was Fuzzbucket. Okay,
Speaker 2: then I'm with you. At some point in the movie
Speaker 2: it seems that they.
Speaker 4: Are fuzz Bucket.
Speaker 1: But then isn't one of them literally named Steve or
Speaker 1: something like that, like together one at.
Speaker 4: The end he's like, it's like and then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tim, so okay, so then his we think his
Speaker 1: name is fuzzbuck.
Speaker 3: It was strange, it was it went in and out.
Speaker 2: It was not so.
Speaker 1: Fuzz Bucket falls asleep in the castle with Mikey. He
Speaker 1: wakes up and panics. He's got to get back to
Speaker 1: the town next to to where he's from, the marsh
Speaker 1: next door exactly.
Speaker 3: But why was he going to turn over?
Speaker 2: Simple? Why did he what was the urgency for him
Speaker 2: to go?
Speaker 1: No? And not and again under the cover of broad daylight.
Speaker 1: It's like two o'clock in the afternoon, god daylight. Fuzz
Speaker 1: Bucket jumps off the castle, yells back up to Mikey
Speaker 1: because of course you want to keep a little profile
Speaker 1: when you're one of the fuzz Buckets. And and they're
Speaker 1: yelling back and forth, and he takes off into town,
Speaker 1: leaving Michael alone. Michael is obviously very upset because he's
Speaker 1: his only friend.
Speaker 4: Again, it's his first day of school. We've never seen
Speaker 4: he never goes.
Speaker 1: Back to school. Little Michael is falling in love with
Speaker 1: fuzz Bucket and and takes off looking for him. Why
Speaker 1: didn't catch him right away? We don't understand. Fuzzbucket doesn't
Speaker 1: appear to be fast, But that's all right, fuzz Bucket.
Speaker 1: Then we we find him for some reason. Mikey turns
Speaker 1: down an alley in town where a homeless man yells
Speaker 1: at him, and then Fuzzbucket, now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: also appears to be homeless. He's in a homeless a
Speaker 1: homeless person's outfit with his tail being on by a rat.
Speaker 2: It's been now he now that it's dark, he's decided
Speaker 2: that he needs to get an undercover costume.
Speaker 3: Why that didn't happen during.
Speaker 2: The daylight, I don't know, But now that it is
Speaker 2: dark he needs.
Speaker 1: An I have another theory of the film, which is
Speaker 1: in fact that the concoction he makes his payote and
Speaker 1: everybody is just tripping at this point. It is, it is,
Speaker 1: and somehow they've done this thing where everybody watching it
Speaker 1: is also on the same trip, because it's the whole
Speaker 1: thing is so weird. So we don't know why Fuzzbucket
Speaker 1: stops to dress as a homeless person before just moving
Speaker 1: on to the marsh, which again is in walking distance
Speaker 1: from where they are.
Speaker 2: Yes, and then he also showcases it another time where
Speaker 2: he runs away and Mike he can't catch.
Speaker 1: Up, catch up to him at all.
Speaker 2: Move your legs, Michael, He's right, he's not moving fast.
Speaker 1: He is not book it.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is your only friend.
Speaker 1: You need to catch it. Yet, go go cut catch
Speaker 1: a guy one foot in front of the other. Mic.
Speaker 1: He's right there, He's right freaking there. Here's a larger
Speaker 1: issue for the entire film. It's described as their relationship
Speaker 1: is supposed to be a trade of sorts, meaning like
Speaker 1: Michael helps Fuzzbucket become visible and fuzz Bucket helps Michael's
Speaker 1: home life.
Speaker 4: Okay, but it is a home.
Speaker 1: Life that other than him asking what's for dinner, they
Speaker 1: haven't really established as being awful, right, so he is
Speaker 1: it all about fuzz bucket trying to make Michael run
Speaker 1: away to shed light, like to bring the whole family together?
Speaker 1: Is that is that was again? Deal?
Speaker 3: No? I I it again.
Speaker 2: I anyone that watches this needs, as much as I
Speaker 2: hate to say it, more to to understand what what
Speaker 2: the point of the relationship was, the trade off whatever
Speaker 2: there ever, it is giant hole of nothingness.
Speaker 1: So weird. So eventually the family comes together that he
Speaker 1: runs by his sister who was with her friends and
Speaker 1: essentially says, my little brother's weird. He runs away, then
Speaker 1: she gets very upset.
Speaker 3: The best run with it.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's the greatest run.
Speaker 1: It is such a good little kid.
Speaker 2: Runs the best run. It was such a little kid running.
Speaker 2: Good little kid runs, so funny.
Speaker 1: And it leads to just Michael eventually just aimlessly walking
Speaker 1: around town now at night, and the town is empty.
Speaker 1: And when I mean empty, I mean not a car,
Speaker 1: not a person, nothing.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this this has to be now
Speaker 2: two o'clock in the morning, because literally no one is
Speaker 2: out doing anything.
Speaker 1: It's a ghost town. There's no one there. He eventually
Speaker 1: gets to dead Man's marsh, which I guess the title
Speaker 1: is supposed to be dangerous and sounds scary.
Speaker 4: But he's not even in the woods. He's on a trail.
Speaker 4: He's just he's walking on grass.
Speaker 1: It's literally short grass, and he just keeps saying buzz
Speaker 1: bucket over.
Speaker 2: Over and over this. Now you counted it. It probably
Speaker 2: is now one thousand, eight hundred and it's only been
Speaker 2: yebi two minutes.
Speaker 1: Producer Tara texted last night that if there was a
Speaker 1: drinking game where every time the name fuzzy, we'd be
Speaker 1: dead by the first commercial break, everyone would have died
Speaker 1: from alcohol.
Speaker 2: Yes, it would have been awful.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It's so he's just running around yelling fuzzbucket. He then
Speaker 1: climbs a tree, or I should say the obvious stunt
Speaker 1: person climbs a tree. It cut cuts right to somebody
Speaker 1: with hair four times as dark as the kids as
Speaker 1: he climbs a tree. And it was an instant cut,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't even wasn't like they tried to hide it.
Speaker 1: Still yelling I don't love you. From now fuzzbucket, I
Speaker 1: don't need you. It comes thats the last see he
Speaker 1: comes down disappointed and he falls in a hole which
Speaker 1: is a perfect slide, and the slide is about three
Speaker 1: feet long. I mean they live right underground, right.
Speaker 2: Under Yeah, it's you could see the whole above him.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is not he does not travel a distance here.
Speaker 2: If he's like, yes, we went to Jordan and I
Speaker 2: went to do this slide at the super tall building
Speaker 2: in La and I swear we set stood in line
Speaker 2: for forty five minutes and I swear this is how
Speaker 2: long the slide was.
Speaker 1: And that's it. O.
Speaker 4: That's so you went on a fuzz Bucket slide?
Speaker 1: You did?
Speaker 2: You fuzz bucketed a full we out.
Speaker 4: So if you if if Mikey had raised lifted his hand,
Speaker 4: he would have pushed through the ground and been able
Speaker 4: to wave at the people.
Speaker 3: He would have been feeling the air above the ground.
Speaker 1: E exactly. So he's he's there, he says essentially, why
Speaker 1: did you leave me? He says, this was a trade off?
Speaker 1: Now your family is isn't everything better at your household?
Speaker 1: Which again fuzz Bucket has done nothing at all, nothing,
Speaker 1: but apparently it was a trade off. Fuzz Bucket said,
Speaker 1: you can't stay.
Speaker 4: Here, Mikey, You've got to go. We'll always be best friends.
Speaker 1: Now, by the way, in perfect English, he's not doing
Speaker 1: the broken up thing anymore.
Speaker 2: The broken up thing is done now and he's figured
Speaker 2: it out again.
Speaker 1: We meet Steve, the other fuzz bucket, who's kind of
Speaker 1: shaking his head. Mikey gets out of there, and.
Speaker 3: He's not happy about Mikey being there, no at all.
Speaker 1: We cut to my favorite part of the movie, which
Speaker 1: is a guy from the search party, because there's a
Speaker 1: giant search party now searching for Michael goes, hey, wait
Speaker 1: a second, there's something there, maybe three feet away from
Speaker 1: a sleeping twelve year old. Yeah, so how about I
Speaker 1: found him there? He is, No, there's something there.
Speaker 2: He does mission that we are on. Yeah, we have
Speaker 2: come across some very big Yes, the.
Speaker 1: Thing we were looking for we have found.
Speaker 2: Hey, heyes, right here, No, right here.
Speaker 1: Something there And the dad walks in and they have
Speaker 1: a great scene with with Mikey.
Speaker 4: Hey, Mikey, you gotta come home.
Speaker 1: You can. Even the mom's on board now like maybe
Speaker 1: fuzz buckets at home. Mikey gives annoying look like, now,
Speaker 1: Fuzzbucket's under the ground about six inches from here. But yes,
Speaker 1: by the way, I'd like to point out at this
Speaker 1: point his father perfectly clean. Okay. They then cut to
Speaker 1: the car on the way home. His dad gets out
Speaker 1: covered in dirt in the face.
Speaker 3: That was a Sabrina seas we got dirty.
Speaker 1: On the car ride home.
Speaker 4: We don't know how well.
Speaker 2: Even still, why are they so dirty regardless for.
Speaker 1: Walking around dead Man's Marsh, which again is grass.
Speaker 3: It was not even forest like.
Speaker 1: Nope, very dirty and then so weird. At the end
Speaker 1: of the movie, Michael's parents are in their bedroom and
Speaker 1: they each find a gift, a gift.
Speaker 2: Wrapped gift perfectly a present, a present his little furry
Speaker 2: possum fingers could not perfectly gift wrap this.
Speaker 3: He's not an elf from North Pole.
Speaker 2: Hey, this is absolute bullshit, bitch.
Speaker 3: I'm fissed, right, I was so annoyed about the gifts.
Speaker 1: But it's also it wasn't anything magical or anything to help.
Speaker 1: He gave a giant hershey kiss to the dad and
Speaker 1: a music box to the mom, which then made them
Speaker 1: look at each other and kiss like their relationship is
Speaker 1: fine again. And then you once again see Fuzzbucket running
Speaker 1: away from the room under cover of one o'clock in
Speaker 1: the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Into the grass, which like wait a minute, that was
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 3: It's like you can now see it from their bedroom, and.
Speaker 1: It's like I almost feel like this was a reshoot
Speaker 1: where they went, Okay, well, well now we're gonna make it.
Speaker 1: We gotta do something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if he gives.
Speaker 4: Them a hershey kiss at a music box, their relationship
Speaker 4: will be fine.
Speaker 2: Right, But at the same time, don't you think the
Speaker 2: husband's going to be like, who the hell gave you that?
Speaker 3: Who's that from? Excuse me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Did somebody else giving you get hey?
Speaker 3: Who just gave you a gift? Because that's not from me.
Speaker 1: I didn't give this to you. Who's giving you music boxes?
Speaker 1: And what's for dinner? That were me?
Speaker 3: I'd be like, I did not give you that two
Speaker 3: dollars and ninety nine cent hers she kids, No, exactly,
Speaker 3: not my gift.
Speaker 1: Also, to show us that it was Fuzzbucket that did it,
Speaker 1: there are now radioactive footprints that are green which have
Speaker 1: never happened before.
Speaker 3: Which we've never seen before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, otherwise Mikey could have followed them to find him.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, so they ruined. He also ruined the carpet
Speaker 1: while he was there.
Speaker 3: Right, this is when I went, wait a minute, are
Speaker 3: we done? Is this open?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 4: And then roll credits? Literally and then roll credits and
Speaker 4: just roll credits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was movie.
Speaker 2: It was like, we're not we don't know anything about
Speaker 2: what's happening at school anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean googled if there was a second part. I
Speaker 1: thought this was part one of two. I googled them, like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, this can't be the end.
Speaker 2: No, no, yeah, I looked online how long it was
Speaker 2: and too finally forty six minutes. This is it. This
Speaker 2: is really okay.
Speaker 1: Literally just end. And so if you had to come
Speaker 1: up with a moral for this movie, what is this
Speaker 1: movie trying to teach anybody?
Speaker 3: Don't drink the coup.
Speaker 2: So, don't do drugs, don't drink that kool aid weird
Speaker 2: green shake.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I literally can't.
Speaker 2: There's not because it's not about he didn't overcome anything.
Speaker 2: What he was nervous about going to junior high.
Speaker 1: No, we never saw it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was nothing. He didn't overcome that and make
Speaker 2: a friend. Yeah, the parents, maybe there was an idea. Again,
Speaker 2: we never knew understood what there were issues really were,
Speaker 2: So the parents coming together is really the only completion
Speaker 2: of any story.
Speaker 1: Your parents can be happy if you run away, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got to run away.
Speaker 1: I mean, is that what it is? I mean, you
Speaker 1: know his sister's kind of nice to him. Now, is that?
Speaker 3: I mean a sister is understanding him a little bit?
Speaker 3: She sticks up for him.
Speaker 2: He's not weird, even though I just called him weird
Speaker 2: two hours to come.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's truly nothing is learned. I know, nothing is.
Speaker 1: There's no truth, there's no story. I mean it's it
Speaker 1: was the strangest forty five minutes right that I can remember.
Speaker 2: And the weird thing is is And again, I'm not
Speaker 2: a fan of what buzz Bucket turned out to be
Speaker 2: like looking wise, but they set up some things.
Speaker 3: That I really felt I needed to know more.
Speaker 2: I want it again. I wanted to I wanted to
Speaker 2: see what was the relationship with his sister was going
Speaker 2: to be. You know, what was her what's her journey like? Yeah,
Speaker 2: what's his journey in junior high?
Speaker 3: You know all of these things? I want, yeah, to
Speaker 3: want more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he could have made a friend in junior high
Speaker 2: and not have to know visible friend anymore.
Speaker 3: It just was it was rough because it was rough.
Speaker 2: Again, it was stacked with such a great cast what
Speaker 2: they could have done.
Speaker 1: And no script or story. And again, this is the
Speaker 1: guy who wrote hocus Pocus, so he's a good writer. Right,
Speaker 1: this was a it was so bizarre.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, well let's do some real reviews, okay,
Speaker 5: I why don't you take the one star review this time, Sabrina,
Speaker 5: and and we'll go from there.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna do this one star review from
Speaker 2: Calvin C. There's absolutely no plot to this movie. It's
Speaker 2: as if you gave a group of second creators an
Speaker 2: assignment to create a story involving a stuff possum.
Speaker 1: Calvin, pretty spot on, what's great, that's pretty spat on.
Speaker 4: I have the five star review, which is by Noah h.
Speaker 1: I'm going to read this exactly as written, and I
Speaker 1: agree with every word of this, by the.
Speaker 2: Way, Okay.
Speaker 4: A cinematic treasure that rivals generational classics such as Shawshank, Redemption,
Speaker 4: the Godfather Trilogy, and Casablanca. It's a coming of age
Speaker 4: film that stands alone in its willingness to wrestle with
Speaker 4: the most provocative topics of our day head on without flinching.
Speaker 4: Fuzzbucket is the exemplary archetype for Freud's theory of development
Speaker 4: as it delves into the inner recesses of Michael Gerber's
Speaker 4: subconscious through the homely yet charming, gremlin esque title character Fuzzbucket.
Speaker 1: One cannot walk away from this film without a change
Speaker 1: perspective on American society.
Speaker 4: That's really all you gotta hear.
Speaker 1: I frankly, I think it's a little insulting to fuzz
Speaker 1: Bucket to put it in the same category as shawshank Redemption,
Speaker 1: the Godfather Trilogy in Casablanca, because I think it's better,
Speaker 1: much better. But Wow, we're going to debut a new
Speaker 1: little game here. It's called Shoot the Reboot. So let's
Speaker 1: say for some reason, Disney has done the unthinkable and
Speaker 1: decides to remake this movie. Who do you cast as
Speaker 1: Michael who voices Fuzzbucket? And what's the actual story since
Speaker 1: there isn't one?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that is do we have? How much
Speaker 2: time do we have.
Speaker 3: To do this?
Speaker 1: I've got a great one.
Speaker 3: Uh, who do you think would be Michael?
Speaker 1: I would not make Michael a kid, I'd make him
Speaker 1: an adult, and I'd make him Will Ferrell.
Speaker 2: Oh my, I am down for anything Will Ferrell's in.
Speaker 2: So yes, let's do that. Let's absolutely do that. I
Speaker 2: love that.
Speaker 1: I want to do fuzz Bucket with Will Ferrell I
Speaker 1: would do.
Speaker 3: I would do Kevin Hart for fuzzbuck That's.
Speaker 4: A great one. I was gonna say, he talks.
Speaker 1: Like this, Ah, Bobcat Goldthwaite. I would do Bobcat goth
Speaker 1: Wait as the voice of fuzz Bucket and Will Ferrell
Speaker 1: as the star. But Kevin Hart would actually be pretty
Speaker 1: great as the voice of fuzz Bucket too.
Speaker 2: His voice is so awesome and he's just got so
Speaker 2: many equations, and oh, it would be great.
Speaker 1: And I think, yeah, I think Will Ferrell as a
Speaker 1: guy who is like the principle of a high school.
Speaker 1: So he's surrounded by kids, and his imaginary friend from
Speaker 1: when he's a kid comes back and is now invisible
Speaker 1: and he's got a visible he's got a visibilize them.
Speaker 1: And then when he does come up, Will Farrel's like,
Speaker 1: oh God, I don't remember you looking like that. Like
Speaker 1: that could be that could be a ton of fun.
Speaker 2: It could be too that that was his his uh
Speaker 2: invisible friend from little and then come back and it
Speaker 2: comes back.
Speaker 3: Is that what you mean? It comes back when he's
Speaker 3: an adult. Amazing.
Speaker 4: I think that could be good amazing.
Speaker 1: Let's let's add a moray to this one. How how
Speaker 1: would one do that? I mean, I guess it's kind
Speaker 1: of easy as buzzbudget. Well no, no, you just have
Speaker 1: taj come in and Mikey actually has a friend.
Speaker 3: Yes, that would be the easy.
Speaker 1: I love that Mikey has no friends. It should be.
Speaker 1: It should be he's leaving real friends for an imaginary friend.
Speaker 1: And so it's like you put in Taje and you
Speaker 1: have a nice friend there, somebody the kid could talk
Speaker 1: to who isn't going to tickle him inappropriately in the
Speaker 1: principal's office. Weird. Oh man, what about Sabrina Seeds? What
Speaker 1: what do you got for Sabrina Seeds this week?
Speaker 2: All right? I mean, there was so much I'm gonna
Speaker 2: keep it super short. First of all, I had a
Speaker 2: really hard time believing this kid was going into junior high.
Speaker 2: As hard as it was for you to believe that
Speaker 2: they were not in high school and gotta kick it up,
Speaker 2: it was hard for me.
Speaker 3: He was so teeny tiny. He seemed way too young.
Speaker 4: And what is junior highs?
Speaker 2: That's his mannerisms were very young. Seventh and eighth grade,
Speaker 2: so that means he's, you.
Speaker 4: Know, twelve, eleven eleven or twelve?
Speaker 2: Kid did not look eleven, would be would be really
Speaker 2: young for a boy. There's some eleven year old girls.
Speaker 2: But he seemed just his mannerisms like everything, Like the
Speaker 2: idea of him not wanting mushrooms. That that's a little
Speaker 2: kid thing, right, you know, not eating broccoli, that was
Speaker 2: like super little. So I feel like they played him
Speaker 2: little and he was just young.
Speaker 3: So that bothered me a lot. Okay, Then after the
Speaker 3: no helmet.
Speaker 2: Bike situation, he puts his bike in without a lock?
Speaker 2: Is that an eighties thing?
Speaker 1: I saw that too.
Speaker 4: No, you always lock your bike up, of course.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: We also never rode bikes to school though, nor did
Speaker 1: any of my friends. I didn't have any friends that rode.
Speaker 3: Bikes to school.
Speaker 2: Okay, that did it? I did West Coast, East coast coast.
Speaker 2: You don't know, Yeah that I know.
Speaker 1: Because the winter and stuff. We never just nobody really
Speaker 1: got into riding bikes to school.
Speaker 2: Yes, what's the thing?
Speaker 3: Is it a Disney egg?
Speaker 4: Is that what you call an easter egg?
Speaker 2: An easter egg for Disney? Is that what you say,
Speaker 2: like it's like a fun find.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like something in there that's kind of a Disney easter.
Speaker 2: I'm sure our producers caught onto this. But the gym
Speaker 2: was red and white and they were the Wildcats. So
Speaker 2: that that you don't know about because you haven't seen
Speaker 2: high school musical.
Speaker 3: But I didn't notice that.
Speaker 2: That was like a little bit of an easter egg.
Speaker 1: So that's a high school Okay, So wait, could the
Speaker 1: high school musical kids go to fuzz Bucket high.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know. I'm sure they'll dive into that.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I've already. And then I've got two
Speaker 2: quick ones. The jump off the castle for a buzz
Speaker 2: bucket was so horrible. He instantly he went as if
Speaker 2: he was going to jump forward and then obviously was
Speaker 2: going to turn around to hit the crash pad. It
Speaker 2: was so that stunt was not done well at all.
Speaker 1: They also made it seem like he jumped forty two
Speaker 1: stories down right, like like Michael is in a sick
Speaker 1: like he's in a redwood tree.
Speaker 4: Yeah, three hundred feet up in this thing.
Speaker 1: Crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael wasn't great about getting down that rope either,
Speaker 2: but that's not too bad. And then the last one
Speaker 2: was the surf. The search party officer had one direction
Speaker 2: for everyone. It was literally and we're looking for the kid,
Speaker 2: all right, now go just he was the worst. There
Speaker 2: was no no nothing, no parameters. Let's let's have these
Speaker 2: missions and if you see this, do this.
Speaker 3: Here's a whistle. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've never been on a sturs party, but I would
Speaker 2: think there would be more than just find the kid.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: So now comes the time where we have to rate
Speaker 1: this movie?
Speaker 4: Do we do one out of ten? Blowing green milkshakes,
Speaker 4: immediate school dances, tickle fits in the principal's office, buzz
Speaker 4: bucket smooches. You wouldn't even talk about how he actually
Speaker 4: had Michael kiss him in the tunnel.
Speaker 1: Forget it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't go back, go back, let's not.
Speaker 4: Or unexplained gifts in your bedroom? Which would you like
Speaker 4: to go?
Speaker 2: I think I want to do tickle fits?
Speaker 4: You got it?
Speaker 1: So one? One tickle fit in the Principal's office is
Speaker 1: a bad movie. Ten tickle fits is a great movie.
Speaker 1: How many tickle fits? Does I need you to go first?
Speaker 1: You want me to go first? Well, okay, yeah, you
Speaker 1: go first. I'll go first. If we're talking about films
Speaker 1: where I can sit there for forty five minutes with
Speaker 1: my mouth the gape, going, what the hell is this?
Speaker 1: It's a ten out of ten. Yeah, it is by
Speaker 1: the first ten and only ten I'll give. If we're
Speaker 1: talking about actual movies, it's a three or a four tops.
Speaker 4: I mean it's there's no story.
Speaker 1: The fuzzbucket is weird and doesn't show up until thirty
Speaker 1: five minutes in. The acting's good. I mean again, you've
Speaker 1: got great actors that are that are doing other you know,
Speaker 1: have gone on to do phenomenal things. But this there's
Speaker 1: no literally no story. That's not an exaggeration. There is
Speaker 1: literally no story.
Speaker 3: Well you think there's stories, but then there's no completion.
Speaker 1: But yes, there's nothing. Yeah, I will be I will
Speaker 1: be generous, and I will give it for principal office.
Speaker 1: Tickle fits four four.
Speaker 3: I feel like you've given a four to another movie.
Speaker 1: What did I give a four?
Speaker 2: Two?
Speaker 4: There's been nothing as low as a four?
Speaker 3: No, okay, no, I.
Speaker 2: Be a three.
Speaker 1: I'll say it you three and a half, three and
Speaker 1: a half.
Speaker 3: I think I'm doing like a two point five.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's bad. It's so weird.
Speaker 2: But with the hope that something does come from this
Speaker 2: one day because I want to know where these characters
Speaker 2: were gonna go. I feel like it could have been
Speaker 2: developed into a full movie of some sort.
Speaker 3: Yeah, given.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, but it just never did.
Speaker 3: So I'm going with a two point yeah.
Speaker 1: No, this is Oh.
Speaker 2: I feel horrible.
Speaker 1: I know people sometimes give me especially grief for being
Speaker 1: harsh on these movies, but.
Speaker 3: It's there is.
Speaker 1: No movie here. It's not a movie.
Speaker 2: There was no answers to anything, and it's so when
Speaker 2: you watch the movie, you will also have answers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm telling you. If it is just you want
Speaker 1: a forty five minute romp of going, what the hell
Speaker 1: is this? It's ten out of ten, you're not You're
Speaker 1: seriously not gonna beat it. You're not gonna beat it
Speaker 1: because it is just it's it's such a an acid trip.
Speaker 1: It's so weird. Yeah, it's just bizarre.
Speaker 3: Again, though, you're you're gonna want more because the cast.
Speaker 2: Is so good. The cast is great, the cast they
Speaker 2: would have been great together. You know, I really feel
Speaker 2: the chemistry everything. The principal, the one teacher that we
Speaker 2: recognize but can't put our thumb.
Speaker 1: On that is actually Robin Lively's dad not a Robin
Speaker 1: Lively's dad plays that character.
Speaker 2: Who's also an actor, and we've been okay, wow, okay,
Speaker 2: now I really need to see that. I mean, wouldn't
Speaker 2: that have been funny to see scenes with them in
Speaker 2: the like a classroom together, anything, just so much, so much.
Speaker 1: Anything would have been great to see at this point,
Speaker 1: answer one of the questions. Just something. And we are
Speaker 1: going to be able to get some of those questions
Speaker 1: answered because we're gonna be interviewing Robin Lively. We cannot
Speaker 1: wait as she tells us all about the process. It
Speaker 1: is going to be over on our Park Copper episode
Speaker 1: on our other feed for Magical rewind. So here's a
Speaker 1: quick clip because we want you to check out this interview.
Speaker 4: You've done so much stuff?
Speaker 1: Is this the first interview solely.
Speaker 4: Based on the joy that was fuzz Bucket?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Is it really? I literally don't think anyone's ever mentioned
Speaker 2: fuzz Bucket in my entire career.
Speaker 1: You guys are the first.
Speaker 3: Okay, next question, is that a good thing or a
Speaker 3: bad thing for you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I mean I love everything that I've done.
Speaker 3: I don't have no shame good, I have no good
Speaker 3: good now.
Speaker 1: And there are so many stories about the making of
Speaker 1: fuzz Bucket over there. It drops on Monday on the
Speaker 1: Magical Rewind Feed, So go and check out the interview
Speaker 1: because it was a great one. Thank you all so
Speaker 1: much for joining us today. Go and watch this movie.
Speaker 1: You will know exactly what we're talking about about. How
Speaker 1: it just it? You just go what is this?
Speaker 3: What is so many questions? You just can't believe it's over.
Speaker 1: Oh I know.
Speaker 4: And then to just add roll credits.
Speaker 1: Don't forget to check out the interview with Robin Lively
Speaker 1: over on our Magical Rewind feed on Monday, and we
Speaker 1: will see you next time.
Speaker 4: Do we know what we're doing. We don't even know
Speaker 4: what we're doing next.
Speaker 1: We'll figure out. I think we just need a moment
Speaker 1: to let Fuzzbucket wash over us and we'll figure out
Speaker 1: what the next movie is after that.
Speaker 4: So thank you all so much, everybody, and we'll see
Speaker 4: you next time.
Speaker 1: Bye bye.