Speaker 1: Either fantos and welcome back to how Rude Tanneritos Flight
Speaker 1: School is back in session for another peek into the
Speaker 1: magic of eighties television. We are launching into the pilot of.
Speaker 2: Alf I wanted this.
Speaker 1: So bad, it wasn't it. I mean, after Small Wonder,
Speaker 1: this was sort of a natural thing to do next.
Speaker 2: This basically was Small Wonder with an alien. It was
Speaker 2: Small Wonder, but furier, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, instead of right, girl, you gotta.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, I mean, you know, I'm in love it
Speaker 2: here for that, don't need to say anymore. Weird scientist
Speaker 2: dad and like wife with weird hair and teenage and
Speaker 2: that was they just threw in a sister instead of
Speaker 2: just the kid, just Ji or whatever.
Speaker 1: There's a weird neighbor, neighbor. There's a formula. There was
Speaker 1: definitely a formula.
Speaker 2: There is a formula to the right to the to
Speaker 2: the alien robot shows. You just watched one, watched them all,
Speaker 2: you know, But.
Speaker 1: This was like, yeah, does it matter if it's believable.
Speaker 1: Heck no, we can suspend displeat for a while. An
Speaker 1: alien God, No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Nothing matters when you don't have a show about a
Speaker 2: furry alien didn't.
Speaker 1: Make me feel better about Full House because the far
Speaker 1: fetched things we think about Full House don't see so
Speaker 1: far fetched anymore.
Speaker 2: Nothing, nothing compared to this, But god, I love this show.
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, I was obsessed with ALF.
Speaker 1: I had a stuffed alf. Oh you did? That was
Speaker 1: the study again? Yeah? That was your jam. It was
Speaker 1: my jam. I I love a funny Muppet. It's true.
Speaker 1: It is very muppet like. It's very muppet like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh yeah, see I was not, I was. I
Speaker 1: hate Actually, I think it.
Speaker 2: Says something about the Children's Television Workshop there, because that
Speaker 2: has to do with with Jim Henson's company. They owned
Speaker 2: the rights to certain things. So I just or if
Speaker 2: I wonder if it was one of the pup teers
Speaker 2: or I don't know something, but I think I saw
Speaker 2: that in the credits. Oh so yeah, So somehow I
Speaker 2: would assume it would be attached to some sort of Henson.
Speaker 1: I would think. So, I mean, that's just like a
Speaker 1: different branch or a different like a cousin.
Speaker 2: Well, there's right, there were a lot of copycats, but
Speaker 2: but specifically I wonder.
Speaker 1: If that was I'll have to look into that.
Speaker 2: As that'll be your next deep dive and education Henson's biography.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, I'm I'm in it, like I am muppetified.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is my new word anyway. And I shouldn't
Speaker 1: admit this publicly, but I will because we're doing a
Speaker 1: minisod about it.
Speaker 2: But I broadcasting to people.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just I'm going to get a lot of
Speaker 1: outrage again after the Golden because I never watched No.
Speaker 1: I did watch OFF, but I didn't like my brothers
Speaker 1: watched alf I did not like, Like I was terrified
Speaker 1: of alf Et, Like freaked me out.
Speaker 2: In that one scene where Gerty shrieks when she when
Speaker 2: when she finds Et in the closet and then eats
Speaker 2: extends and his eyes get big. That did freak me
Speaker 2: out a little bit.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it. But it's just the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the time, I was like, I just didn't like
Speaker 2: buggy eyes on things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Buggy, the buggy eyes are a little creepy. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I just I don't. I don't like the
Speaker 1: animatronic things that chuck e cheese like, I didn't like
Speaker 1: any of those, Like the characters at Disneyland, like, I
Speaker 1: didn't like any ofthing. Wow, you're real kill joy. I
Speaker 1: was not a fun child. I hate me. I would
Speaker 1: tolerate them, but it's not so. I was not like
Speaker 1: a huge fan of ALF. And that said, I I
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching this pilot. So let's get into and okay,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Let's discuss This pilot originally aired September
Speaker 1: twenty second, nineteen eighty six, So.
Speaker 2: Isn't that but almost the same day as Full House.
Speaker 1: Full House pilot aired September twenty second, nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 1: so exactly one year apart, and it's both involving Tanner families.
Speaker 2: WHOA. I didn't even think about that, that's yes.
Speaker 1: My mind was like, oh my god, what what? And
Speaker 1: they were on different networks too, NBC and ABC, so
Speaker 1: it's like wow, wow, not even like they were like
Speaker 1: sharing I don't know, ideas and writers or whatever, like no,
Speaker 1: it's just different networks. Yeah, just different network. Blew my mind. So.
Speaker 1: Howard Storm directed this episode of ALF, and later in
Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties became a prominent force behind the TGIF programming.
Speaker 1: He directed three episodes of Full House in season one,
Speaker 1: Daddy's Home, The Big Three to Zero, and half a
Speaker 1: love story. Oh and unfortunately we lost him this earlier
Speaker 1: this year, so that's unfortunate. But very good he did.
Speaker 1: He did great. He's very sitcom legend. He did fantastic.
Speaker 1: What do we want to do? Some facts?
Speaker 2: Do we want to I'm seeing the little notes here
Speaker 2: because if you watch alf alf is a little he's like, uh,
Speaker 2: a little rough around the edges. Well, it's like Rodney
Speaker 2: Dangerfield in a small furry suit. That's exactly who he is.
Speaker 1: What he is, that's exactly figure out. I'm like, who
Speaker 1: does he sell?
Speaker 2: Is Rodney Dangerfield as an alien?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Similar nose, too strange, But I like they wanted him
Speaker 2: to be edgy, but apparently in this in this episode,
Speaker 2: he got a little too edgy. Oh yeah, they I
Speaker 2: guess with the show's humor. Hence the cat eating jokes.
Speaker 2: Oh he wants to eat the cat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can take that any way you want it.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking at.
Speaker 2: The thing it says, hence the cat eating jokes, get it, that's.
Speaker 1: The and I didn't take it that way. I just
Speaker 1: took it either. He was going to be upset. One
Speaker 1: of our.
Speaker 2: Producers did someone's mind's in the gutter, But oh god.
Speaker 2: But after a child put a cat in the microwave, uh,
Speaker 2: NBC censors decided to put a kibosh on the animal
Speaker 2: consuming Wow that actually remember that though?
Speaker 1: I remember Alf always wanted to eat the cat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's that's okay, it's very but the family had a cat,
Speaker 1: so he's like chasing the cat through the living room.
Speaker 2: Let we say, that's what they said. They caught him.
Speaker 3: But apparently some kid thought you could some actual kid
Speaker 3: thought you could put a cat in migra.
Speaker 1: Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that.
Speaker 2: Also said that Alf wasn't allowed to drink because in
Speaker 2: this pilot he's drinking beers with a kid and the same.
Speaker 2: I think that's a little strict, but whatever. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: the creator was like, Alf is two hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: five years old, but they didn't want alf to be
Speaker 2: a bad role model.
Speaker 1: So after the kid put a cat in the microwave.
Speaker 1: I see there. I see their point. You know, a
Speaker 1: kind of team sensors at this.
Speaker 2: But if they adn't but if he's just chasing a
Speaker 2: cat around, I mean, unless they put a cat, the
Speaker 2: cat in the microwave on the show, and then some
Speaker 2: kid did that. If some kid just randomly was like,
Speaker 2: ah see, if we can do then that's on.
Speaker 1: Him and on him, that's on him, right, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't blame mouth. I'd like to.
Speaker 2: I think alf Is has been uh maligned in this
Speaker 2: entire thing. I think he's I think he's been just
Speaker 2: really unfairly judged.
Speaker 1: For his for his uh well, he's an alien, so yeah,
Speaker 1: he's an alien alien. So it's okay, you know, but
Speaker 1: the show has a certain responsibility to the children who
Speaker 1: are what I guess they didn't know right away that
Speaker 1: this was going to hit so well with with kids.
Speaker 1: Like the kids were like, oh, we love this show,
Speaker 1: and so then they're like, okay, take out the beer,
Speaker 1: take out the cat eating. Like now we got to
Speaker 1: censor ourselves. So it's got all the fun for me.
Speaker 1: So anyways, So, well, we can go through the cast.
Speaker 1: I say, we just get to the top moment. Let's
Speaker 1: let's go to the top moments. Let's start with our
Speaker 1: first top moment, Willie Tanner and his wife Kate.
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on, I'm gonna say this and then I'm
Speaker 2: gonna leave.
Speaker 1: Okay, Willie Tanner Max.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, talks like Christopher Walkin's cousin like doesn't have
Speaker 2: doesn't have the same uh strange like beats in between words,
Speaker 2: but has the exact same tonal quality he does as
Speaker 2: Christopher walking he does, and he kind.
Speaker 1: Of looks like he's got that like a like, I
Speaker 1: don't know he's the style, yeah, but it's I.
Speaker 2: Don't know where the two of them are from, but
Speaker 2: it's a very specific accent or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Specific accent and the way they had him styled with
Speaker 1: those glasses and the tan out. I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I've seen true crime shows where like
Speaker 1: that is the pedophile like that is, yes, exactly, so
Speaker 1: I guess he was. He.
Speaker 2: I mean he's I mean he's done Chekhov plays, he's done.
Speaker 2: I mean it's quite an accomplished film actor. He was
Speaker 2: on Friends.
Speaker 1: He was on Friends. Yeah, so's he's very well accomplished.
Speaker 1: This is not knock against the actor. The actor's fantastic,
Speaker 1: but the styling choices and the accent, those were choices.
Speaker 1: Those it's an accent. I think that's how he speaks.
Speaker 1: That's just how he speaks. I think that's how he speaks.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, then he should be offended.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a Max Wright, it's a straight like
Speaker 2: the tone of his voice is an interesting Yeah, it
Speaker 2: really is.
Speaker 1: It really is. Anyway, back to the alien. So back
Speaker 1: to this top moment. So the parents are in the
Speaker 1: garage with their children when a space craft crash lands
Speaker 1: into the roof, in which I really want to know
Speaker 1: how long it took to film this scene with the
Speaker 1: special effects which were pretty basic back then, with flashy
Speaker 1: lights and stuff, and the it's it was shot well
Speaker 1: for what they had to work with back in.
Speaker 2: I mean I believed it, I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 2: I was one hundred percent like is this a location shoot? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So this is incredible.
Speaker 2: This is what makes you believe in area fifty one,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So realistic, so realistic. Yeah. So they bring the unconscious
Speaker 1: alien inside the house. Why conscious creature in my house?
Speaker 1: But I guess. But he's like, like, do this on
Speaker 1: the driveway or the lawn or even just the garage.
Speaker 2: You know, that's you know, you don't want people, as
Speaker 2: they said, you don't want people crying and looking at
Speaker 2: you talking to your That's true.
Speaker 1: That nosy neighbor, she would definitely, I mean she does
Speaker 1: see him later. So yeah, okay, so they're protecting the privacy,
Speaker 1: got it. So the family is shocked to discover that
Speaker 1: this alien can speak perfect English, me too, any Immediately,
Speaker 1: Alf immediately asks them to fix his ship so he
Speaker 1: can leave, and they have this weird like fish eye
Speaker 1: lens moment. Oh eighties, loved the fish eye. A year
Speaker 1: later we did art pilot creepy.
Speaker 2: Was it a new technology, the fish eye lens that
Speaker 2: everyone wanted to use?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean the director is like waiting to
Speaker 1: see this. Ye, so creepy. But yeah, he's like he's
Speaker 1: very human like for an alien, Like he's fully formed,
Speaker 1: he's sarcastic, he's got the connect time comedy. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to go to his planet. Everyone must be hilarious.
Speaker 1: And he talks like Rodney your Field like this, it's Christopher.
Speaker 2: It's a Christopher walking meets Rodney Dangerfield in a small
Speaker 2: furry suit.
Speaker 1: This this, this changes how I feel about the entire
Speaker 1: series of.
Speaker 2: Because you not love it? How could you not love it?
Speaker 1: Now? So that the alien introduces himself as Gordon some
Speaker 1: way strange.
Speaker 2: What I didn't know Gordon was a popular name on
Speaker 2: other planets. Yeah, that seems he looks like a Gordon.
Speaker 1: He kind of does. Gordon fits. Gordon definitely fits. I
Speaker 1: didn't know they had last names. They have surnames on
Speaker 1: are you going to tell one other planets? Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: They have multiple Gordons, Gordon's it's a planet, okay. And
Speaker 1: they don't just have numbers. They're not just identified by
Speaker 1: their number in barcode that's tattooed onto their bodies. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Wow, I have a different idea.
Speaker 2: They do to them after they get captured and tattoo
Speaker 2: them with number barcodes so that they don't yeah, no,
Speaker 2: that we're not there.
Speaker 1: They banned them like bald eagles, right exactly, so we
Speaker 1: got to keep track of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mister miss shum Way. Gordon a k A.
Speaker 1: Alf So yes. Gordon at aka Alf is a survivor
Speaker 1: from the planet Melmac, which we find out has exploded,
Speaker 1: and he reveals a piece of debris from his home
Speaker 1: planet that is still lodged in his fur, and he states,
Speaker 1: this was my street. It's like you can't even see it.
Speaker 1: It's like a sand Props didn't have the budget for
Speaker 1: after that scene.
Speaker 2: The hilarious part was that it was this is my street,
Speaker 2: and it's just it's like a pebble.
Speaker 1: It's just a tiny, little, tiny little rubble. That's it.
Speaker 1: So the family nicknames him Alf a l F, which
Speaker 1: is short for alien life form, which.
Speaker 2: The dad so wonderfully explains in a very clear and
Speaker 2: precise manner.
Speaker 1: He does, Yes, it's a little the audience exposition for
Speaker 1: the audience. Yes, yeah. So Alf asks them to fix
Speaker 1: his spaceship, and he asks for a snack, and then
Speaker 1: he horror if he's the family by revealing that his
Speaker 1: species eats cats, and since the Tanners have a pet
Speaker 1: cat named Lucky, Kate forbids this and offers him a
Speaker 1: can of dented cat food instead, which Alf accepts, noting
Speaker 1: that he can use the rouffige and he eats it
Speaker 1: like off stage you hear the little crunch, crunch, crunch,
Speaker 1: so that that should do it. And then the next morning,
Speaker 1: Kate why wakes up to find Alf in bed with her?
Speaker 1: Where did he sleep? Like? I need to? I have
Speaker 1: so many quite well? What the dad went up to
Speaker 1: go shower? So did Alf sneak in or did he
Speaker 1: sleep between them like a child? I probably snuck in there.
Speaker 1: He snuck in there. The thing is is that he always.
Speaker 2: Is kind of like making weird comments to Kate. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: if I was Kate, I would be very horned, you know, Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't. Kate is very tolerant, That's all I
Speaker 1: gotta say.
Speaker 2: I mean, the way that these people have reacted to
Speaker 2: an alien crash landing into their house is surprisingly subdued.
Speaker 1: They're very chill. You know, their garages.
Speaker 2: They were like, oh my god, an alien? So what's
Speaker 2: your name, sir? You know, like you yeah, really escalated quickly.
Speaker 1: They need to call Danny Tanner's construction company to come
Speaker 1: fix the garage and a renovation.
Speaker 2: And twenty four can turn it into another planet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Uh So Alf runs into the
Speaker 1: bathroom where Willie is getting ready. Will He warns him
Speaker 1: to stay away from the windows because of their nosy neighbor.
Speaker 1: Missus acmonic acmonic. There we go. That's that's not it
Speaker 1: doesn't roll off the tongue like gibbler. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't love that name. Acmonic, A comonic acmonic. I prefer
Speaker 1: a comonic. I prefer gibbler. But I'm I'm not asking
Speaker 1: Kimmy to change your name. So Alf immediately disobeys this
Speaker 1: command and he is spotted by the nosy neighbor.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: In one of the next scenes, Alf and Brian share
Speaker 1: a beer. Yeah, this was that.
Speaker 2: I could see where the sensors were, Like, I don't
Speaker 2: think we can do that.
Speaker 1: How did that pass the rewrites to get to the
Speaker 1: show night? Like, how do you think he's six years old?
Speaker 1: It's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that sound funny on paper,
Speaker 2: and then you watch them on their feet, and you
Speaker 2: got that is not landing the way that I hoped.
Speaker 1: And you know this, this would be one of them.
Speaker 2: You know, I think they were going for a pretty
Speaker 2: edgy version.
Speaker 1: Well that's fine, give him a beer. What doesn't know?
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, doesn't Elliott get drunk with Et?
Speaker 2: But no, Et drinks and Elliott feels it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there's the distinction. There's the distinction.
Speaker 2: So maybe if we could have done it that way,
Speaker 2: it might have been.
Speaker 1: A little different. Now, they should have been taking notes
Speaker 1: when they watched ET. So Kate naturally is upset and
Speaker 1: says that he can never drink with her young son
Speaker 1: ever again. So somebody's at least doing the parenting. In
Speaker 1: this one, Willie tries to fix the spaceship, and later
Speaker 1: a man from the Alien Task Force arrives at the door,
Speaker 1: having received an anonymous tip that the Tanners are harboring
Speaker 1: a space creature.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, I never seen the military knock like
Speaker 2: that on a door, you know what I mean? If
Speaker 2: they think you're harboring something, they're usually they don't send
Speaker 2: the guy in the suit.
Speaker 1: And this news traveled fast too, Like how do they
Speaker 1: find I mean, maybe it was a neighbor, but like.
Speaker 2: The missochmonic, uh is she works for the government, and
Speaker 2: that's why she's so nosy, right, She's a spy. So
Speaker 2: she was like, hey, they've gotten an alien.
Speaker 1: They I saw an alien. It's there, go get them. Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't know that they had an Alien
Speaker 1: Task Force either. That's an excellent use of recent courses.
Speaker 1: So okay. Uh. So Kate lies to this man to
Speaker 1: protect Alf, and she sends the officer away, solidifying the
Speaker 1: family's decision to keep Alf hidden, not concerned at all
Speaker 1: that the you know, they got to put the garage
Speaker 1: back together. This guy is just destructive, drinking beer with
Speaker 1: underage miners. Like, it doesn't matter. We're gonna keep him well.
Speaker 2: I mean, the alternative was pretty grim. You know, they
Speaker 2: talk about all the tests they're gonna do on him.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: And he was standing there. If they would have heard
Speaker 2: it and he wasn't standing there, they might have been like,
Speaker 2: you know, man taken.
Speaker 1: But he was standing there, and I think they felt
Speaker 1: bad and they were like, oh, I guess you're not terrible.
Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, you're fine, You're fine. I guess he's
Speaker 1: he's at least funny. I mean, he's you're funny. We'll
Speaker 1: keep you, you know.
Speaker 2: And how long can it take to put his patient
Speaker 2: back together?
Speaker 1: We've got multiple seasons.
Speaker 2: I love will He comes in and he goes, I
Speaker 2: can't fix it. I don't have the parts. Well, obviously, Willie,
Speaker 2: it's a spacecraft.
Speaker 1: Gotta go down to home depot.
Speaker 2: Billy boy, what do you mean you don't have the parts?
Speaker 1: They probably don't even exist. I'm still trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what his job like what so he's transmitted these
Speaker 1: things into space? Like, what what is the Is this
Speaker 1: just a hobby?
Speaker 2: He's a he's a he's a technology.
Speaker 1: Something he's a technology.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like the small wonder. Remember, oh ye
Speaker 2: works at the place, and then he's like, I had
Speaker 2: a great idea, what right?
Speaker 1: And he does things at home? Okay.
Speaker 2: It's so I think it's kind of that vibe where
Speaker 2: like Willy, I don't know where he works or what
Speaker 2: he does. I'm sure they'll announce that at some point
Speaker 2: with great exposition. But you know, I think that these
Speaker 2: are this is like and that was the thing. Like
Speaker 2: in the eighties, you people had those CB radios to
Speaker 2: like talk to people because the internet didn't exist, and
Speaker 2: you can talk to people all over the world on.
Speaker 1: A CD radio.
Speaker 2: That's true, So you know, it was a very popular
Speaker 2: kind of nerdy techie thing to do to communicate with
Speaker 2: people in other in very very far away places. So
Speaker 2: I guess that's the buye is that okay?
Speaker 1: Well, and again this is nineteen eighty six, so they
Speaker 1: didn't they weren't concerned about making things believable. They just
Speaker 1: assumed the audience would buy into this show whatever about
Speaker 1: an alien.
Speaker 2: Nothing believable needs to happen. I will comment on it
Speaker 2: because it's ridiculous, But anything goes once you've got a
Speaker 2: puppet involved anything, anything goes.
Speaker 1: The more ridiculous, the better it is. Yes, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the eighties way I I.
Speaker 2: Felt, though the cat harassment continued on through the show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's something I remember very specifically that he was he
Speaker 2: always was going after the.
Speaker 1: Cat Zoey, so he did. He doesn't curb that.
Speaker 3: But I wonder if maybe they maybe maybe he actually
Speaker 3: finally gets the cat and put it in the microwave
Speaker 3: or something like, and then somebody stops him at the
Speaker 3: last minute, and that was the thing. Then they stopped
Speaker 3: the cats and they but I always but throughout the show,
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how long the show went on, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's definitely to watch.
Speaker 2: More alf and see if if it's like you know
Speaker 2: what it is. It's like the Berenstein Berenstain Bears kind
Speaker 2: of thing. It's a Mandola effect, Mendela effect, Mendela effect.
Speaker 1: Not Medella effecta effect. Yeah, yeah, maybe that's it.
Speaker 2: I remember the cat eating but apparently NBC got rid
Speaker 2: of it. In another timeline.
Speaker 1: There there was there they should there's a different bit.
Speaker 1: I don't know what, but there's a different bit and
Speaker 1: personality trait. They could have given him without mutilating cats.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like they could have had him loved
Speaker 1: mutilating the cat. He's just gonna cat. He's gonna pop
Speaker 1: it in his mouth like a tin attack. It's swallow
Speaker 1: it whole like a snake's possibly.
Speaker 2: I've never seen an alien eat a cat.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it it. Why was
Speaker 1: this the thing in the eighties? Why would like small
Speaker 1: wonder alf et? Like, what's the obsession with alien like things?
Speaker 1: Like this is just.
Speaker 2: Weird particular aliens, except now we know they're real, but
Speaker 2: no one really cares because the rest of the world
Speaker 2: is on fire, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: We got bigger problems like ALF. Remember guys, remember Alf?
Speaker 2: That thing was real and everyone be like, yeah, great,
Speaker 2: what are we.
Speaker 1: Doing about gas prices? Right? Yeah? Exactly? So, yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to see a reboot of ALF. You know, my god,
Speaker 1: can you imagine? I would a reboot of ALF?
Speaker 2: But do them just a movie because I don't think
Speaker 2: enough people are going to like tune in to see
Speaker 2: like a whole series.
Speaker 1: Do a movie reboot of ALF, but really.
Speaker 3: Make it how how ALF was supposed to be?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, like, really go edgy with
Speaker 2: it since it's not going to be on a network,
Speaker 2: so it's like HBO, yeah yeah, or just go for
Speaker 2: the go you know, really just make him.
Speaker 1: Make him ted basically the bear.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you know what I mean the inappropriate like
Speaker 2: just go.
Speaker 1: For it, just go for it, lean into it. Why
Speaker 1: not into it? Six left and right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean we don't see anything disturbing, don't worry,
Speaker 2: but like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and apparently the set was really like tumultuous, Like well,
Speaker 1: first of all, filming with this puppet, like.
Speaker 2: Well have you ever have you ever met an alien?
Speaker 2: They're incredibly temperamental.
Speaker 1: The puppet, like the puppeteering. Puppeteering has to raise the
Speaker 1: stage so the puppeteer could be below and still that's
Speaker 1: and they do Sesame Street and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they they're puppeteering. I have watched it, and it
Speaker 2: is it's a nightmare to do and to get it right.
Speaker 2: It's fun to do on stage or what if it's not,
Speaker 2: you know, but like to get it exactly in the
Speaker 2: right thing whatever. And one person's doing one hand and
Speaker 2: then the other person's doing the hand and the mouth,
Speaker 2: so like these two hands are different people but have
Speaker 2: to communicate together, and it's hard.
Speaker 1: That's hard. It's super hard. We thought it was hard.
Speaker 2: They would basically hide him behind stuff. Was kind of
Speaker 2: how they they did it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can see the hand. You see the the hand,
Speaker 1: the gloved hand in one of the shots. You can
Speaker 1: see it in the well. I don't remember which to see.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's okay, that's okay. We don't want to
Speaker 1: ruin the movie magic here, but yeah, that's uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds worse than it's hard. It is.
Speaker 2: It's very time consuming and and annoying.
Speaker 1: So I feel for the actors. I felt the actors
Speaker 1: that had to work. It's hard working with a puppet,
Speaker 1: I imagine. I don't I've never worked with the puppets,
Speaker 1: so I don't know, but yeah.
Speaker 2: It sounds well if you're not one that likes them,
Speaker 2: I would say, I'm feeling I feel like I feel
Speaker 2: like Willy was actually not as fond of the puppet
Speaker 2: as this. Well, actually he's not very fond of Elf.
Speaker 2: He's not showing the drives of nuts.
Speaker 1: They're like nemes. That's a real life thing. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I could play Willy in my next life or in
Speaker 1: the reboot.
Speaker 2: Will because don't be like I don't like this thing.
Speaker 1: I like this thing. I'm where are you annoying? Right? Right? Yeah? Okay, okay, good,
Speaker 1: I got my next project. Good.
Speaker 2: Well you're Willy in the reboot okay.
Speaker 1: And you can play Alf. So there we go. Dreams
Speaker 1: dream come true.
Speaker 2: These days though we can use force perspective. But the
Speaker 2: last scene was it kind of kind of tugged up
Speaker 2: my little heart strings.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yes, so I'll do you want to go?
Speaker 1: You go? This is your uh that's this.
Speaker 2: Is my get out of my lege delineated on what
Speaker 2: we do you read things I screw around exactly.
Speaker 1: So alf sneaks into the garage that night and uses
Speaker 1: Willy's radio to broadcast a message into space calling for
Speaker 1: any other survivors from Melmac. He invites them to come
Speaker 1: to Earth, adding that you can introduce them to his
Speaker 1: new friends and that they can eat the Tanner's cat.
Speaker 1: Oh you yeah. The from a human perspective, like he's
Speaker 1: probably going to be lonely, he's gonna miss his friends
Speaker 1: from Yeah, it did humanize this strange it did.
Speaker 2: It made it made him a little, It made him like, oh,
Speaker 2: man can get rid of can't turn him over the
Speaker 2: army for poking and broad in now.
Speaker 1: He is exactly I mean, and he likes this family.
Speaker 1: He does like in his family, and they have a cat,
Speaker 1: like really between the beer and the cat, why would
Speaker 1: he leave? Why would you leave?
Speaker 2: And really is going to fix the spaceship eventually once
Speaker 2: he finds the parts, once he once he located in
Speaker 2: the parts, Yeah, and then we.
Speaker 1: Can that'll be handled. Yeah. Why I have to say Kate.
Speaker 2: In this is rocking a very early version of the
Speaker 2: Kate Goslin hairdoo.
Speaker 1: It feels like it's short.
Speaker 2: It's it's short, but it's kind of like like spiked
Speaker 2: up on the top in the front.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit of that. I liked it. She
Speaker 1: was rocking it. I like the mom. The mom. I
Speaker 1: related more to the mom than anybody else. It's just like,
Speaker 1: what is happening? Like why is it? Don't drink beer
Speaker 1: with my kid? What are you doing?
Speaker 2: When I was with the little kid, I was like,
Speaker 2: let's be let's hang out, yep, let's hang out, dude.
Speaker 1: Well there's something for everybody.
Speaker 2: Exactly, but this was I now I want to I
Speaker 2: need to go watch another couple episodes. Because I need
Speaker 2: to find out if the cat thing continued.
Speaker 1: Because I really feel like it did. Yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to I want to watch the episode where they finally
Speaker 1: get rid of that cat eating community. So yeah, it'd be.
Speaker 2: Interesting to watch the first and the last episode of
Speaker 2: a show and then and then fill in what we
Speaker 2: think happens in between.
Speaker 1: Hey, if we want to, you know, modify these miniss.
Speaker 2: Get right, be like, Okay, it started here, Okay, we
Speaker 2: ended here.
Speaker 1: How did we get there? How did we get there? Oh?
Speaker 1: Your imagination would be.
Speaker 2: On fire fire already laying things left and right. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm a I'm an l fan.
Speaker 1: You're not an al fan. Not But I enjoyed the
Speaker 1: twenty two minutes. It was great.
Speaker 2: It wasn't for everyone. I uh, I remember the dad's voice.
Speaker 2: It was odd to me. I don't know why. It
Speaker 2: was a little annoying, but I so much.
Speaker 1: Still, I enjoyed these twenty two minutes. I would watch
Speaker 1: another one. I just was. I was not a fan
Speaker 1: as a kid because I was afraid of these creatures,
Speaker 1: but as an adult a little older. You were what
Speaker 1: ten or eleven? In eight ten? I was ten, I
Speaker 1: was you were four. Okay, so you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean, different annoying on the On the there's like,
Speaker 2: I don't think it was real.
Speaker 1: I wasn't that stupid very I'm just kidding it Israel.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, it real.
Speaker 2: This is absolutely real, And don't tell me it's not.
Speaker 2: Okay anyway, that's it. I'm not just babbling now.
Speaker 1: This was great. This was a great flight school.
Speaker 2: We called it because we were watching the pilots.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we're not teaching you how to fly.
Speaker 2: I'm not teaching you how to fly. We just wanted
Speaker 2: to make that clear. We're not recording this while we
Speaker 2: are flying right right. There is no actual flying involved,
Speaker 2: no other than Alf in his spaceship in this particular episode.
Speaker 1: So correct. Yes, yes, no, this is We're reviewing many,
Speaker 1: many pilots from all different decades.
Speaker 2: Now we get to come up with something that's next.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know what's next. Jenny, Will you think of an idea?
Speaker 1: We'll think abou If you guys have suggestions, you have
Speaker 1: suggestions pilot we should watch, please put them in the
Speaker 1: comments and the Instagram. We need suggestions. What do you want?
Speaker 2: What do you want to hear?
Speaker 1: To see. Yeah, okay, I'm in. I'm in. I'm totally in.
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Speaker 2: everyone one, the world is small, but the house is
Speaker 2: full of aliens. From melmac just It's alf Household Friends,
Speaker 2: the Happy Olden.
Speaker 1: It's a full house. It's a full house of Alf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a house of Alf. The house. Okay now by