In the 1980s, Disney tried and failed to replicate the success of 'E.T.' and 'Alf' with a woe begotten critter known as... Fuzzbucket!
Enormous tension derailed an unforgettable installment of Podcast: The Ride entitled “Dinosaur.” Here, the hosts of this podcast, Scott Gairdner, Mike Carlson, and Jason Sheridan are firmly divided over whether or not the baby version of Dinosaur protagonist Aladar is cute. Gairdner holds firm in saying this critter isn’t, while the other two men insist that this prehistoric youngster is “a little cutie.
Fuzzbucket, on the other hand, was a bit of an anomaly in this regard. It was still derivative of other pieces of pop culture, but it opted to mimic entities made outside of the Disney company. This TV movie concerned an invisible critter by the name of Fuzzbucket who decides to help a 12-year-old boy named Mikey in his everyday struggles. The fact that nobody else can see this critter leads to inevitable trouble and tension.
Meanwhile, as seen in this collection of clips from the TV movie, the lip-syncing on Fuzzbucket’s tin-eared dialogue was often comically off. This provided constant reminders to audiences that they were watching a piece of visual effects hardware, not a fantastical critter. E.T.’s visual effects were so convincing that it got audiences emotionally enamored with a creature Spielberg would later comically describe as being made out of “play-doh and chicken wire.
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