ALF

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know uh last month was really busy this month too but maybe in a different way now fall started and anyways we're back and as promised we're doing The story of this month is ALF, Alien Lifeform, the late 80s to 90s sitcom, which totally still counts as a story because I think even self-contained episodes are like little many stories, which is sometimes even harder to write than a long-form story.

And there's a little bit of continuity throughout the series, so you could say it's like a really long-form story.

But anyways, so I'm just going to do the brief summary of ALF here.

ALF is a sitcom about a normal family whose mundane routine is permanently disrupted when a hairy alien from the planet Melmac crash lands into their garage one night.

He's unable to repair his spaceship, so the Tanner family is stuck with this well-meaning but very destructive housemate whom they call Alf.

I wrote a really long...

I think this one is a fun fact because it doesn't look like it's framed as a question.

remember.

As an 86 baby, the year of Alf.

Oh, hell yeah.

My mother had a C-section, and Alf actually bit her stomach open so I could get out.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Can't lie to alphabet cats, but I did inherit his nose.

I don't know how that happened, but...

I'm gonna say that movie, it was better than I remembered it being.

It's still not, you know, it's the... it's probably the worst of all the Avengers, the films called Avengers, but, um-

Suffered from that-

There are aspects of it-

No, but then they did the Deadwood movie to tie it all up.

Just like with Alf.

Yeah, they did.

You know how Alf ended in a cliffhanger where he was abducted by the government and then for the longest time, then the show got canceled.

But then they made that movie Project Alf.

Abe.

Did you call me Abe? I did.

Wait, what's Project

Yeah, absolutely.

The thing that shocked me is Sunday night on Channel 5, they're showing Project ALF.

Yeah, they are.

It's at 20 past 5.

It's like late afternoon, isn't it?

It's a made-for-TV sequel series to ALF.

Did that really even air in the UK? Yeah, it did.

Okay, so it was