Alf

corkviewer · 23-04-2003 2:37pm #1

Remember that tv sitcom in the late 80's about the furry Alien from the planet melmac who crash landed on earth and moved in with an american family. As I recall he had a taste for cats and had some great one liners.

Would love to see the series on tv again.

John2002 · 23-04-2003 3:07pm

I would love to see that again too. Must be coming up to the time when it is due to be shown again on some channel but I haven't heard anything.

commuterised · 23-04-2003 4:15pm

i thought you might like this....

John2002 · 23-04-2003 4:21pm

Cool, Gordon Shumway (sp.?) rocks!!

corkviewer · 23-04-2003 4:25pm

After doing a little research it seems they made a tv movie in the mid 90s tying up the loose ends left at the end of the final series - ie where Alf got caught by the alien task force. I doubt if it ever aired over here though.
He does television ads in america for some telephone company now.

"Gimme 4" was another of his catchphrases.

Amnesiac_ie · 25-04-2003 4:10pm

ALF - alien life form
Brilliant sitcom... I still have a jigsaw and an episode on VHS somewhere... remeber the opening sequence? ALF running around with a camcorder... a gimmick borrowed by Joss Whedon in BtVS this season...

Bard · 25-04-2003 4:19pm

Originally posted by corkviewer
After doing a little research it seems they made a tv movie in the mid 90s tying up the loose ends left at the end of the final series - ie where Alf got caught by the alien task force. I doubt if it ever aired over here though.
He does television ads in america for some telephone company now.

"Gimme 4" was another of his catchphrases.

It's called Project ALF, and it was being shown ad nauseum recently by Sky Movies.

Ryo Hazuki · 26-04-2003 1:19am

When I was younger I had a HUGE jigsaw of alf, it had about 1000 pieces. I completed it, and I cant remember where it went.

Might have a look for it sometime, if i find it ill be sure to post pictures.

lordsippa · 27-04-2003 1:25am

It's Alf! And he's back!

In Pog form!

smoke · 07-05-2003 8:20pm

LOL,ah the Simpsons, always relevent;) . Yeah Alf was cool but what about Different Strokes?

"what you talkin' 'bout?"

"I've never seen a black goldfish before."
Coleman's response: "Well maybe he's never seen a white man before."

Mercury_Tilt · 18-05-2003 12:00am

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lordsippa · 18-05-2003 12:10pm

Actually... I remember seeing the Alf film on RTE sometime years back...

Remember the cartoon spin-off of Alf where they remade fairy tales. But with Alf in them.

Makaveli · 18-05-2003 4:24pm

Originally posted by smoke
Yeah Alf was cool but what about Different Strokes?

Still being shown on Trouble on Sky Digital (channel 607).

Yeah that Alf film is always on one of the movie channels, I tried to watch it just because it was Alf, but I couldn't, because it's not very good.

Ryo Hazuki · 19-05-2003 9:25pm

Yep, different strokes is on all the time on that channel, I watch it occassionaly.

mike65 · 21-05-2003 11:00pm

If you have access to SAT 1 (and speak German of course) then you can enjoy ALF pretty much every day of the year!

You'll love this! -

http://www.geocities.com/alfwasmolested/alf.html

Mike.

Miguel_Sanchez · 21-05-2003 11:26pm

This thread makes me want to go down to the kitchen and make myself a BLT

A bacon, lucky and tomato sandwich.

I always thought it was Ralph Macchio that played the next door neighbour who knew about ALF but just checked it and I was wrong - holy **** Ralph Macchio was born in 1961 - the Karate Kid is 42 years old!!!!

davil · 03-06-2003 10:59pm

Originally posted by corkviewer
As I recall he had a taste for cats and had some great one liners.

Just like me.

Retr0gamer · 11-06-2003 8:00pm

I was watching Sky in my mates house during the week and the Alf move was on. Made in 1996 if i remember.

Tellox · 17-06-2003 1:47pm

Actually,I saw that alf film only a few weeks back,and its pretty funny imho

Jip · 24-06-2003 11:04am

I was in America a while ago and one of the channels had an 80's month. Every night at 11 o'clock they showed Alf for an hour. It's as funny now and it was then, maybe even more so because you can get the jokes better as you're older. I've seen the movie one Christmas, not bad but the series is still much better.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-06-2003 11:27pm

You gotta like the little guy..
..toe nail clippings..

..the one where he is told to keep away from the paint when the father was answering the phone ... you hear an Ahhhhhh! and see ALF flying through the air..

and the time he hacked into the TAM ratings to get the polka show on full time and trashing the career of an executive en route and at the end of the episode the in joke of ringing yer mn up and suggesting he do an ALF like show..

"her eyes were as blue as a cockroach"

Alf

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