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ALF

ComedyFamilySci-Fi & Fantasy

Created by Paul Fusco, Tom Patchett

A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage. From TMDB

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ALF is a 1986 comedy family sci-fi & fantasy TV series, created by Paul Fusco and Tom Patchett, starring Max Wright, Anne Schedeen and Andrea Elson.

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  • Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.comBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    I appreciate OP's good cheer about this in the post below (I wrote it!) but am horrified at the prospect that I have been taken for a ride about the Alf hog thing. There is a great chance I have to show this thread to my editor rather than try to explain the situation

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  • rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2025

    now that every writer’s been forced to pivot to a one-man-show newsletter, every post is like ‘i wrote about Anora (2024), the end of the USSR, vladimir putin, child labor laws, Alf, and the postmodernism of fredric jameson ❤️’

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  • Becky & Frank @beckyandfrank.comBluesky · Feb 12, 2025

    A writer for the TV show ALF was paid $3500 a week. That is the equivalent of $10k a week today. All I'm saying is we all deserve ALF pay.

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  • Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 4, 2025

    At his press conference, Nigel Farage is ranting about the Black and White Minstrel Show, Alf Garnett and It Ain't Half Hot Mum in - as far as I can tell – an attempt to justify his "banter" when a schoolboy. He is very much not going down the Richard Tice, "lies" route.

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  • Faine Greenwood @faineg.comBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    tbf Alf also came out before I was born and I never saw the show as a kid, I just absorbed it via cultural osmosis lol

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  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.govBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    The 636th most followed account is oil painting reposts of Alf. 635 is a bot sharing scripts from the 1998 Animorphs TV series starring Shawn Ashmore.

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  • Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2025

    Kay-Bee's Easter sale, from April of 1987. ALF, Care Bears, The Real Ghostbusters and more! We're diving into this entire circular on the latest Purple Stuff Podcast bonus show, for those who subscribe to us on Patreon: patreon.com/c/purplestuff

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  • Faine Greenwood @faineg.comBluesky · Mar 21, 2026

    wow this show is, I regret to inform you, fascinatingly terrible (it was before my time, despite my whole Alf thing)

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  • Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    The opening and closing theme songs to the ALF animated series go way harder than they had any right to…

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  • Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2026

    for all the Alf discourse on this site we don't talk about how they really ended the show for children by saying "sorry kids your fav alien was about to leave for home and was saying goodbye but has now been taken by the govt for experiments"

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  • Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    was earlier explaining to someone else on the feed why ST:TNG hit as hard as it did despite the first season being quite rough - you might think I was joking if I said “it’s closest competitor was ALF” but in all seriousness, this was *the* hit sci-fi TV show right before Encounter at Farpoint.

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  • Fake Muppet Show Guests @fakemuppetguests.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2024

    It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Alf!

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  • On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2025

    I’ll be working on a reel and/or thread of my favorite Alf Clausen music from The Simpsons. What’s your favorite orchestral moment from the show?

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  • Faine Greenwood @faineg.comBluesky · Jun 19, 2025

    I wonder if my desk represents the world’s only Aztec mythology and Alf crossover series, or if there are others

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  • Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    Because I grew up associating Bob Uecker first with "Mr. Belvedere," this is like if every time the Dodgers won a World Series, the players all said, "I just know that Alf is looking down at us and smiling."

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  • bart @bartsmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    *long sigh* Technically, ALF is the name of the show, but not the character. The character's name is Gordon Shumway. ALF is an abbreviation for Alien Life Form, which is how the military described him

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  • Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    My friends to me after I show them bsky and all they see are Thomas and Alf:

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  • Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2026

    You probably think ALF was that corny Saturday afternoon sitcom where a puppet alien lived with a family. Well it was, but it's a LOT weirder than that. Here's what happened when I joined ALFSplaining for a chat about an episode where ALF rigs the TV ratings... timworthington.org/2024/10/21/a...

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  • Tits Booblevard @booblevard.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    Didn't Alf have a late night talk show for a bit? I'm not saying it was Alf, but at this point in the timeline it was probably Alf.

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  • Devilby @barnaby.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2025

    I was trying to explain to my younger coworkers the fever dream that was 'Cartoon All-stars to the Rescue.' I then started listing all the IPs and characters they put in the show, and when I got to ALF, I got a collective "what's ALF?" I'll be honest, fam, that one stung a little. 👴

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2023

    I’m doing this but 4 ALF from the ALF show

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  • 🌈VHS KILLED THE RADIO STAR 📼📹 @vhsdragoness.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    We should start our own reality show about a man who married a deer XD You know be something like ALF

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  • Gabe @gabriel.isBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    I’ll add that the Alf series ends with him being implicitly black bagged by the federal agency that’s tracking aliens, in front of both his biological and chosen family. Hard stop, shows over. www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/al...

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  • Lonelypumpkin @lonelypumpkin.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    Finished Alf, great show! Alf’s 8 stomach vs Luffy. Who would win?

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  • JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2025

    New Japanese users! こんにちは! Welcome to Bluesky! "Alf" (1986-1990) was a television show about a puppet space alien who wanted to eat cats. "Hog" is a euphemism, or slang that (thread, 1/47)

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  • Faine Greenwood @faineg.comBluesky · Mar 3, 2026

    we’ve got Nazis, haunted dolls, homophobia, and complaints about Kids These Days in the comments on this nice little YouTube video about the end of the Alf TV show: youtu.be/gDmIPPi4TiE?...

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  • Jacob Harris @jacobharr.isBluesky · Aug 29, 2025

    Through a series of my own bad choices, I once had to explain to my wife and teen son why Alf has a special place in Bluesky's heart. Explaining gay people is just "people are different in who they love and all deserve the same rights and dignity and respect because we are all human beings"

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  • Padraig2112 @isomorphism.netBluesky · May 24, 2025

    "Do you remember that television show, 'Alf', about the alien that eats cats?"

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  • Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    Wait - please say more about “non Alf related” and please mean the TV show, not the generic concept of alien life

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  • Kevin D. Grüssing 🪷🪷 (Pronounced Grew-sing) @kevdgrussing.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2025

    Alf Clausen, who gave The Simpsons its sonic identity from 1990 until 2017 when he was booted from the show, has died after an 8 year battle with Parkinsons. per his daughter Kaarin to the Hollywood Reporter. He was 84. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/a...

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  • Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2025

    He scored The Simpsons for *27 years.* No, he did not write the main title theme (that was Danny Elfman), and yes he was replaced on the show in 2017, but he was the musical life blood of the series. Alf Clausen has passed away. variety.com/2025/artisan...

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  • Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    It is established canon from the TV series "ALF" that Alf's homeworld/species/culture considered destroying books, specifically, to be a serious spiritual offense - one of the few details the series provided as to his belief system: youtu.be/IS2m1FpMyig?...

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  • Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.orgBluesky · Jan 1, 2026

    Alf hog didn't show up on your time line! Your time line showed up on Alf Hog!

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  • Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2024

    I heard Faine’s head of the Alien Task Force that captured ALF in the series finale and all the photos they’ve posted of ALF’s hog are actually images from the detainment.

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  • Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2026

    Secretly one of series’ composer Alf Clausen’s finest moments - that’s a cover performed by his Simpsons orchestra, but performed so perfectly (and so much better/snappier than most orchestras that’ve tried to cover Williams) that you’d never guess it wasn’t the original recording.

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  • wolfgabe.bsky.social @wolfgabe.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2026

    Its always fascinating how Saban tried to sell various Toku series to US audiences in the 90s MMPR: Lets make Zyuranger into Full House V.R. Troopers: 3 shows in one but its all VR! Masked Rider: A fun family sitcom with ALF Big Bad Beetleborgs: Metal Heroes meet the Groovie Goolies!

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  • Shawn Robare @shawnrobare.comBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    Yes, yes, yes, I was in a room with John Stamos, Robert Englund and Linda Hamilton yesterday, but I was also within touching distance of actual ALF the Animated Series animation cels, soooo, yeah…..

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  • The Congress Man @manthecongress.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 21, 2026

    Sometimes I’ll watch an old show from my childhood and I’m like “holy shit this show is actually WAY better than I remember it.” “Dinosaurs” is one of those shows. “Alf” is not.

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  • Costa Samaras @costasamaras.comBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    What was the best night on here? Mamdani win, World Series, Chicago Pope, Alf?

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  • Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.bizBluesky · Apr 4, 2026

    The year is 10,026 AD. Civilization has fallen, risen, and fallen again. Few connections to the past remain, culturally or scientifically, save for the television series ALF (1986-1990). Learned seers have drawn much from the quirky sitcom, bringing them power and influence. Now, the Council of ALF

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  • 🎃EM-SCREAM-KAYVEE 🔪 @youremceekayvee.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2026

    Your pandemic show was TED LASSO, my pandemic show was @foundfootagefest.com’s VCR party web show. It made me join their Patreon and ship an ALF puzzle to one of the founders/hosts.

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  • Gwendoomlyn McNecromara @timeandagwen.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    Everyone on the show called him “Alf”. It’s fine.

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  • Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2024

    FYI, after this first post, all future Daily Show posts will include ALF pornography.

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  • Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    also, as I’ve said before, as an inveterate ALF defender from back in the day: ALF is great only because the comics were 100x better than the show and the short-lived cartoons were much funnier than the live action. ALF the original show was a bad trip that seriously 100% no joke destroyed lives.

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  • Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2026

    Anne Schedeen deserved to be so much more than "the mom in ALF" but she was bloody great at it. I think my favourite actor in the entire series once they worked out how to write for her. Didn't seem to be bitter about any of it either. A very sad day. R.I.P. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/a...

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  • Bram Stoker’s K 🧛🏻‍♂️ @gimmethekspecial.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2026

    Show me your flashback Friday Pocket popple, baby dino, and ALF. Damn I was cool 😎

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  • Spats Bear @spatsbear.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    Alf the Animated Series has such a catchy theme song (cut off from Bluesky 60 second limit)

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  • wolf pupy @wolfpupy.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2026

    the ALF from the tv show ALF lapel pin is something anyone can wear to show that their life has been touched by a funny space alien. but not everyone whose life has been touched by an alien has to wear it, just if you want to you can.

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  • Simon @sevillana.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 4, 2025

    Alf Garnett? Is he really so thick that he doesn’t understand the character and the intended message of the show?

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  • Faine Greenwood @faineg.comBluesky · Aug 18, 2023

    The lyrics to the Alf animated series theme song are genuinely unhinged, which I guess is in character. https://youtu.be/03_NqJFVEOc

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  • Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2024

    From the Larchives: I think Bluesky especially needs to remember to wish each other a Festive Goomer Day. May the Goomer bring you lots of foam! :) (from the animated ALF series :) )

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  • Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    They should just use a puppet for the Ted show. ALF it.

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  • Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2026

    SHOW ALF HOG, YOU COWARDS

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  • Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2024

    Rights issues from IP franchise holders are preventing me pitching a 5 season series multiverse saga about a war fought between Alf vs Tom Bombadil’s uncut hogs

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  • 🎃 Lily Elise 🏳️‍⚧️ @pnwdyke.northsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    I never saw this show growing up, I was more in the Cheers/ALF/Full House generation, but my partner got me into them, and it's remarkably more subversive than I expected and it's made me laugh a lot.

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  • Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2026

    While working on a piece about ALF, I discovered that Paul Fusco created a Saturday morning series called "Space Cats." It was mostly animated but started with a live-action, puppet-heavy sequence that included a regular appearance from Charles Nelson Reilly as the Space Cats' computer, D.O.R.C.

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  • Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.comBluesky · Mar 21, 2026

    There's a reason Alf is the joke that it is, and it's not because the series was beloved.

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  • It's Josh ✨️ @rugdog.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    Alf is back... in scribble form. Remember Alf? (I don't really remember watching the show or the animated series, but I know I did.... )

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  • Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.comBluesky · Feb 18, 2025

    To counter the current reality I am again immersed in television from the late 1980s. This evening it is ALF, which is surprisingly entertaining. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_(TV...

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  • Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2023

    Sorta Christmas cartoon from my Larchives: Given the love that ALF gets around here, it just occurred to me that I should share this seasonal Melmackian image. A Festive Goomer Day to all who celebrate. May you get lots of foam :)

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