A swamp creature captured to be the prize in a hunt, who turns out to be somebody's friend.
Ted, known as Man-Thing, is a swamp monster and a friend of Jack Russell. The Bloodstone family capture him to serve as the quarry for their hunt, and Russell enters the hunt to get him out, which is the entire plot of the special.
Calling him Ted is the joke and the point. He is treated by everyone else in the special as an animal and a trophy, and by one person as a friend with a name, and the film sides with the second view without arguing about it.
Show detailsThe 2005 film
There is another Man-Thing in this catalogue, from a 2005 film made outside this continuity. They share a shape and nothing else.