Michael F. Tucker and Mrs. Tucker are Grady and Emily's parents. They appear in the fourteenth book in the Goosebumps series, The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, as well as its television adaptation.
History[]
Michael Tucker is a scientist who, along with his wife, moves their family from Burlington, Vermont to Fever Swamp. He is doing an experiment to see how swamp deer from South America can adapt to Florida swamp weather. While they both enjoy the locale, their kids Grady and Emily aren't fond of it. After Grady and Emily have a run in with a weird Swamp Hermit, they try to tell their dad about it, but Mr. Tucker tells them to pay no mind to the hermit. Grady begins to hear stories about a werewolf in the swamp, but his parents believe it to be nothing but superstition brought on by the swamp fever that Fever Swamp is named after.
Grady soon finds a stray dog named Wolf that he wants to keep. His parents aren't too fond of the idea but allow him to keep it, anyway. Over time, animals around the area are killed, including one of the swamp deer. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker blame Wolf and threaten to send the dog off to be killed, but Grady stops it from happening. Grady soon learns that it was his friend Will Blake who was the culprit, as Will was actually a werewolf. After Will is chased off and defeated by Wolf, everything goes back to normal, and Grady is allowed to keep Wolf. However, unbeknownst to the rest of his family, Grady and Wolf go out every night to howl as Grady has now become a werewolf.
In the television special they are still the same but they are both scientists who, along with their kids, move their family to Fever Swamp to do an an experiment to see how the swamp deer can adapt to the swamp. While they were inspecting their new house Mrs. Tucker and her son Grady were at his new bedroom, while Mrs. Tucker thought it was "a great space and was bigger than his old bedroom" Grady was unimpressed as it looked kinda used, while Mrs. Tucker replied "rustic's in these days". Then Grady noticed something on the wall and asked if was a bloodstain but Mrs. Tucker said it was dry rot. Then suddenly, they heard Emily scream as she was stomping out of the complaining that no matter what her parents say she was not living there after finding a corn snake in the medicine cabinet. Michael Tucker after discovering the corn snake that they live near a swamp now and she would have to get use to thing that crawl and slither and he asks son Grady to set the snake free in the swamp much to Grady's dismay. When Grady tried to protest his mom told him la little wild life never hurt anybody but warned him not to go far in. When Grady was finished unloading the truck he went to front yard saw his dad tending to the swamp deer in the pen. Grady asks his dad when they'll set the deer loose but while fixing the fence to the pen Mr. Tucker tells him it won't be a while since Mr. and Mrs. Tucker have to tag the, make the trip doesn't shock them. Then Mr. Tucker asks his son "Did you ever think that you'd be living your teenage in years in a place called Fever Swamp?" But all Grady said "Not in my wildest dreams". Michael Tucker tells Grady not many get to expand their horizons and that he'll make a lot of friends. Grady argued to his dad about it with his encounter with the Swamp Hermit calling him a psycho in the prosses. But his dad told Grady that Swamp Hermit just was a hermit whom Michael asked about him in town yesterday and that lost his a little and ever since then he'd a little strange but just lives off the land doesn't hurt anybody. Grady tries to tell his dad he didn't feel right about Fever Swamp and that felt so weird. Michael shook his head and told Grady that the deer in the pen have never seen a swamp before and he and Mrs. Tucker will study on how well they will to adapt and believed they will because it's natural to adapt and that they will love it there just his son Grady will. Grady then scoffs his dad for that then walks away. Later that night Mr. and Mrs. Tucker are doing work on the laptop but get annoyed with Grady trying to readjust the antenna for the TV. The next night during dinner time their daughter Emily ask her dad if she can drive into town (seeing as she has a license). But her father tells she just got her license doesn't know the roads so Emily says she'll drive slow. While serving dinner Mrs. Tucker ask Grady what the neighbor boy was like Grady says he's okay. But Emily groans say she'll never meet a boy age without a car but her dad tells her not to make a big dealabout it. Soon while they're having dinner their son Grady tells them what Will had told him about the fever from the swamp and how a lot of former residents have like the old lady who lived in house disappeared too and that Will told him a werewolf got her. Mrs. Tucker isn't so sure about Will when she heard this. But then Grady tell them that the werewolf is the Swamp Hermit but his dad tells him off that there is no such thing as a werewolf and that there is such fever like the one Grady described and the Swap Hermit is a harmless old eccentric who has never hurt anyone only for Grady to say "or no one's lived to tell about it".
General information[]
Physical appearance[]
Michael is a little chunky with wavy, brown hair and dark eyes, while Mrs. Tucker is tall and thin, with long, straight blonde hair.
Personality[]
Mr. and Mrs. Tucker are extremely skeptical people, not willing to believe anything that can't be explained by science. They also are quick to blame Wolf for the local wildlife being killed, seemingly having no problem sending the dog off to the pound to be destroyed.
Appearances[]
Books[]
- Goosebumps
- Goosebumps Graphix
- Creepy Creatures
- Slappy's Tales of Horror
Television and film[]
- Television series:
Trivia[]
- Michael Tucker shares the same first name with another scientist in the series, Dr. Michael Brewer from Stay Out of the Basement.