Back in the late 80's Fred savage was every young girls wet dream. He graced the cover of every teen magazine and was the star of of the Wonder Years, which was one of television's highest rated shows. In the years since Fred has quietly taken his talents behind the scenes where he has become a pretty successful director, including an 18 episode run of It's Always sunny in Philadelphia and two episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place, which is one of my personal favorites. His best years, though, had to be the late 80's and the early nineties where Kevin Arnold Fred had his most successful run of TV and movies, which included The Princess Bride, The Wizard, which was basically a really long Nintendo commercial, as well as The Boy Who could Fly And Little Monsters. The two latter films are the reason I am even writing this article.
In my mind Little Monsters is a classic. The premise of the film was unique and catered to every kid's dream of escaping their parents and any turmoil at home. He also got to act with his adult self from wonder Years Daniel Stern, who played his father in the film. The movie also starred Howie Mandel who played a monster named Maurice whose job was to scare small children. It was never fully explained if he was paid for his work but he seemed to enjoy it nonetheless. Fred's character then decided he would tag along with Maurice while he worked and join in on all of the hi-jinx of the Monsters that are evidently really under our beds. At one point the dynamic duo end up in the home of the nemesis of Fred's character. During a series of pranks that included swapping tuna with cat food, the Monster Maurice, who acted a lot like Beetlejuice from the film of the same name a year earlier, decided he would urinate in the bottle of apple juice meant for the bully Ronnie Coleman, who also played Kevin Mcallister's big brother Buzz in Home Alone. The next day Fred watched as the bully happily ate his cat food sandwich and sipped at his juice, which he immediately recognized as urine and subsequently spit out on the crotch of the principal of the school, to the delight of Fred and the other students who were undoubtedly bullied by Ronnie. This hilarious movie prank came only two years after the film The Boy Who Could Fly, which once again saw a young Fred Savage getting tormented by bullies. Not to be pushed around, Fred's character would fill his automatic powered squirt gun with some familiar ammo and drench his bat wielding enemy with the liquid gold know as urine. Both scenes are below for your viewing pleasure.
