Making alien front cute is a tricky affair to get right in kids ’ amusement . Make them too unearthly - looking , and you could freak out out your audience . Make them too adorable , and you scat the risk of them depend more like lavish toys than creatures from another major planet . And then sometimes you make them look cunning … but forget to prevent them from act as like outrageous , depraved monster .
Many kids ’ entertainers have tried to take the air this line between precious and otherworldly , and many have run out terribly . Here are 12 purportedly “ endearing ” outlander that should have given everybody nightmares .
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1 ) Mac , Mac and Me
The exotic star of this cult non - classic is clearly trying to be E.T. , just with a shameless lust for Coca - Cola and McDonald ’s food instead of Reese ’s Pieces . He looks like a far cute alien was thrown out an airlock into the vacuity of blank , and pulled back in just seconds before volatile decompression . His pudgy dead body and long legs make him look less like an exotic and more like an unattractive naturist . He watches child in wheelchair roll off drop , without so much as annul an elongate fingerbreadth . Asthe AV Club rightly level out , he has the mouthpiece of an inflatable sex activity doll . Mac is disgusting .
2 ) Teletubbies
Tinky Winky , Dipsy , Laa - Laa and Po are four brightly colored outlander whose exclusive mission is to engage the minds of toddlers and get down their summons of becoming mindless hard worker of the tv . They are a fever dreaming descend to terrific , Technicolor spirit ; their idle , disastrous centre are belied by the telly exercise set in their abdomen , which frequently displays the souls of the real children they have abduct . Also , harmonise to their opening credits , they have set a baby ’s head on fervor and are using it as their sun . We always take Cthulhu and his like with look like tentacled squid monsters ; I would posit that Tinky Winky , Dipsy , Laa - Laa and Po are the older Gods we ought to be worrying about .
3 ) Podlings , The Dark Crystal
Jim Henson was n’t always concerned in making aesthetically pleasing brute , as one can well evidence by the disgusting Skeksis in The Dark Crystal . However , the Podlings — the passive , farming fauna that take in Kira — are clearly suppose to be adorable , especially since they ’re so kind and full and one with nature . It is unfortunate , then , that they all look like Muppets who have been microwaved for too long . Their bulgy heads , misshapen eyes and coarse hair should have terrified Kira — had she not been squatting in the lowest point of the Uncanny Valley herself .
4 ) The Creatures , Galaxy Quest
avowedly , these extraterrestrial being from the cult classic Galaxy Quest were designed specifically to be cute and terrific , but even when they ’re in their “ precious ” stage they ’re really revolting . These creatures depend like kindlier , less LSD - felicitous Teletubbies ; they ’re actually even cuter , with their nipper - like body and adorably cartoonish faces . Long before they spread their rima oris , revealing the scores of razor - sharp fang within , they ’re already super disturbing .
5 ) Tribbles , Star Trek
I do n’t think mass are disgusted enough by Tribbles . Sure , they multiply endlessly , they ’re fuzzy and cute , whatever . But can you really imagine what it would be like to hold a ball of quick , hold out flesh , traverse in hair , in your hand ? It would be creepy-crawly as hell . It would be like finding the hair clogging your exhibitor waste pipe had evolve its own circulative system , and picking it up . Furthermore , thanks to their insane generative abilities , it is literally possible to choke in a mint of Tribbles . To conceive of what that would be like , remember the end of Akira , where blob Tetsuo ’s mountain of form basically eats his girlfriend ? Imagine that … but with stack more eubstance hair .
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6 ) Pod People
Pod People was originally supposed to be a repulsion film about a radical of aliens with tiny ape eubstance and anteater heads who kill a bunch of stunned , objectionable humans . But apparently the producers , believing that the movie ’s aliens had some sort of charismatic marketing potential , decided at the last bit to include a nice alien and a dumb kid who named him Trumpy , basically sticking another shameless E.T. rip - off into a shitty repugnance pic . Imagine if while E.T. was play with Elliott , another E.T. was out on a killing spree — that ’s Pod People .
7 ) The Great Gazoo , The Flintstones
This small green alien from The Flintstones — assuming he ’s real and not the byproduct of some sort of brain neoplasm in Fred Flintstone ’s head — is like a precious , more animated cartoon - y version of Mr. Mxyzptlk . He may not have Mxyzptlk ’s staring control over reality , but he has enough foreign tech to make anyone ’s life a living hell , and thanks to his imperfect understanding of human companionship and his basic dickishness , he generally does . And did you bed why the Great Gazoo was deport to Earth by his people in the first seat ? BECAUSE HE MADE A equipment THAT CAN ruin THE full population . ON A WHIM . So one twenty-four hour period , when all of creation suddenly lay off to exist , chances are it ’ll be the “ corking ” Gazoo ’s fault .
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- Boobah
Have you ever felt the Teletubbies were too high - eyebrow ? Then you might need to park your child in front of Boobah , the other brightly dark alien - centrical British show for tot . The Boobah are morbidly obese and covered in fur , except for the fleshy , nub - like head that peek out of their torsos like a dog ’s retractable member . These heads have their own nubs , point that the Boobah may be carry some kind of horrible , disfigure disease . But the most terrifying thing about the Boobah ? They eat child ’s laughter . Yes , wherever child are laughing , the Boobah ’s Booball appear so that the Boobah can bung parasitically on those kid ’s joy . At least the Teletubbies only made kids learn the idiot box surgically plant into their torsos .
9 ) Adipose , Doctor Who
Like the cute creatures from Galaxy Quest , the Adipose are presuppose to be cute but evil — but in fact , they ’re just revolting . There ’s no means to talk around this , so … the Adipose are sentient egg of fat . They look like happy marshmallow the great unwashed , but they are made entirely of one of the most disgusting center in the human body . Remember that scene in Fight Club , when Edward Norton and Brad Pitt steal the bag of fatty tissue , and it gets caught on the fence , and spills out in a inundation of flaming , overweight goo ? That ’s what ’s inside the Adipose . All it would take is a minor squeeze to make them set off like a giant , anthropomorphic zit .
10 ) Puckmarin , Flight of the Navigator
Although this minuscule foreign was supposed to be David Freeman ’s adorable alien deary in the Disney classic , that does n’t change the fact that the Puckmarin look like a nude mole rat with bulimia . I screw you should n’t judge a Koran by its covering , but this cover look like Jabba the Hutt ’s foetus , so I ’m guess it at any rate .
11 ) E.T.
E.T. is a scrotum . E.T. ’s body is a titan , winkle out , hairless scrotum , and his question is a terrifyingly misshapen penis , which we cognise because he can ( and does ) continue it whenever he gets excited . Although everyone mouth about how cute and dainty E.T. supposedly is , here ’s his entire itinerary once he baffle to earth : 1 ) drink beer , 2 ) play dress - up with Drew Barrymore ’s clothes , and 3 ) try out to snatch Elliott by pretending he ’s his friend . Do you know what other people endeavor to pretend to be tyke ’s friends ? Men with sparse mustache who offer them confect from unmarked vans , that ’s who . And have ’s not forget , when E.T. gets captured by the expansive government forces , he endeavor to pour down Elliott through their symbiotic link strictly out of spite . E.T. is history ’s greatest lusus naturae .
12 ) Ewoks , Return of the Jedi
Oh , you think they ’re endearing picayune teddy bear , do n’t you ? improper . First of all , like it or not , they did take down a trained majestic legion with very little help from the human Rebels . These teddy bears are merciless killing machines that could make love up just about anyone and anything . 2d of all , they eat people . They eat humans . They were absolutely blend in to exhaust Han Solo — after fix him alive — before Luke pulled out his Jedi shenanigans . Which intend those helmets that Ewok was bone up on during the solemnisation at the end ? Chances are the Ewoks ate the people who once wore those helmet , unless they also happened to have some Jedi powers or a fortunate protocol droids on hand , and they in all probability did n’t . So while Luke and Leia and Lando and everybody was lionize in the Ewok village , know that the Ewok ’s were fiddle their music to cover up the screams of captured Stormtroopers as they were being falsify alive .
This io9 Flashback originally appeared in March , 2013 .
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