Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Mr-Fusion It blew my mind as an adult to find out that there were tensions on the set of "ALF". One of my favorite shows as a kid, and here it is a veritable Behind the Music episode. It really put a different spin on my perception of the show.Regardless, it's still emblematic of happy memories (such are unavoidable with regard to favored past TV); the iconic puppet, the laughs, sitting my parents down every Monday night as a ritual. He's got a voice that instantly recognizable, and the show left an impression that had me tuning into various talk show appearances, TV movies and ad campaigns in the '90s. Being axed before its time can be said about myriad TV shows, and it's no less applicable here.This is classic '80s TV.9/10

Aaron1375 Yes, the funny thing is "Small Wonder" was the lesser known show, but lasted 96 episodes (only 9 episodes less than this one did) and lasted the same amount of seasons. This one by far though started out the hottest, but like so many shows it fizzled late in its life. It did a rather fast fizzle too, as one minute it was one of the most popular shows on television, the next it was gone after a very weak conclusion that was very reminiscent of the ending to "Mork and Mindy" which basically ended on a cliffhanger that would never get resolved. This one sort of tried to resolve the ending by having a television movie years later, but I have never saw that one so I can not comment on how well it wrapped things up. Here you have your alien that lands in a family's garage and then lives and becomes part of the family. All the family learns to really love him, until the end where the mother for some reason goes from accepting Alf to kind of disliking him to an extreme degree. There are a lot of funny episodes to be seen, but then there are more than a few flop episodes too. I loved the one with the alien roach and the one where Alf buys the daughter a car when he is cruising and his hair is blowing in the wind. The family can be described as not very consistent as they act one way one episode and have different values the next. Also, the mother and father were supposedly at Woodstock which raised the question my dad asked "why did every set of parents in these shows attend Woodstock?" Seriously, Woodstock was not attended by the whole world and I would think it would be rare for a mother and father to have attended that function and quite frankly still be together. Alf though is the star and he by far carries the show. There was the typical neighbor in this show who gets nosy and almost catches Alf and then that neighbor had a kid move in with them and he got to meet Alf too. For the most part it was okay, I think a different family would have helped immensely, but this probably explains why this show which is more well known did falter so fast and in the end made only a few more episodes than the lesser known now show "Small Wonder".

clevelandrockie As a little kid in the mid/late 1980s I loved ALF. Like the other poster here I also liked shows like the Smurfs, Transformers, Thundercats, He-Man, G.I. Joe, Alvin & the Chipmunks, the Muppets and - yes - even those old Marvel super hero shows. But he's right to point out that was all on Saturday mornings. My earliest night-time TV watching memories are of watching ALF. I still remember the first episode where he crashed into Willy Tanner's garage and was found and taken care of. I really loved this show and watched it every week, I was so sad when it went on the air. I watched it again recently though in reruns and it just was not as good, I'm sure I expected too much of it and it couldn't live up to my memories. Still it was a great show and it's still good, especially for family entertainment.

emasterslake I remembered when Alf was really big when I was a toddler, but I was too young to remember anything about the show. It wasn't until 2004, when I reprise watching it off of DVD.Alf is about an alien crash landed into a garage roof of the Tanner's residence(a family of 4: husband,wife,daughter, and son). They found and were greeted by the alien, He is a short furry,, long nose creature named Gordon Shumway from the planet Melmac. The Tanner family nicknamed him Alf(Alien Life Form) for short. Alf explained that his planet exploded and has no where to stay. The Tanners who were considered in taking Alf straight to the Alien Task Force, but decided to keep Alf as a member of their own family. And soon their life is flipped upside down with an alien being part of their lives.Throughout the series, Alf gets into trouble, eats a lot, gives out strange behavior, and tries to eat the family cat. We also learn a bit of what he did for a living on Melmac. Including his planet's way of politics,culture, and way of life. The down side is, that since he's an alien he can't go out into public, otherwise, he'll wine up into trouble. So it's important to stay low, and be sure not be noticed.As Alf experiences Earth's way of living, he already gets into the pop culture and junk food there is to offer.Alf is no doubt a brilliant sitcom. And something you won't see for another lifetime. It's funny, it's well written, and the use of a puppet and stage performance making it unique of it's kind in sitcoms. And something the whole family can watch, and I know there's nothing at all inappropriate about Alf. Even though it shows it's age, I think it's entitled to be a cult classic in sitcom history.Those who like the TV series, might consider seeing Project Alf which takes place after the TV show.