148 Stuart

Stuart is the TDD werewolf.

He was made to resemble Scott Howard (played by Michael J. Fox), who is the main character from the 1985 movie Teen Wolf. In this comedy, Scott finds himself turning into a werewolf -- a condition he inherited from his father.

In 1987, a sequel was made called Teen Wolf Too. The main werewolf character in this film is Scott's cousin Todd (played by Jason Bateman). Todd's best friend is named "Stiles" and this character is played by actor Stuart Fratkin. So, maybe this is why the Tech Deck Dude was named Stuart.

Or, better yet, the TDD was named after the middle name of the main character from the 1941 film The Wolf Man, Lawrence Stuart Talbot. Even though this is the classic Universal Monster, the TDD figure is definitely modeled after Teen Wolf.

Three years after this figure was released, MTV re-booted Teen Wolf as a TV series. It has been on for five years and still going.

Even though he is a parody of a particular 1980's werewolf, Stuart is the last TDD to round out the line-up of what we think of as classic horror movie monsters. The others are Frankenstein (Frank), The Mummy (Phinger Tut), Dracula (Simon), and Gill-man (Sturgeon). I also tend to include The Zombie (Adam) among these classic creatures.