HOLY FUCKING SHIT! "Alf" being revived!

Oh, wow. My sweet childhood! How the fuck would they go about it though? Put him with a new family ? Also the guy who dubbed him in my country is probably gone by now... Never liked ALF's original voice for some reason.

Wasn’t the original run cursed? The puppeteer was a secretive, demanding psycho and the actors were miserable from the constraints required to act with a puppet.

Why do the networks keep giving shows to lunatics?

I wonder how new technology could help shoot the show in a easier way. Maybe ALF could be an animated robot or something.

ALF is back, in pog form!

I was too young for the show, but I did have this lunch box in elementary school.

Bring back Alf!

Wow.

Such a soaring theme song...

Alf was ugly, and the show wasn't even funny back then.

The Christmas version of the theme song was absolutely beautiful. Can't find it on youtube though. I have it on MP3 still.

Hollywood Reporter - Verified account @THR

The reboot, starring the friendly alien who lands in the home of a middle-class family, would reportedly focus on #ALF returning to earth, with a new family and new characters. Original writers Tom Patchett and Paul Fusco are attached.

Can Willie pop up the gay, crack addictes neighbor?

I blame Fuller House.

If we're doing this, can we at least have Smaller Wonder?

Max Wright looks exactly like Professor Farnsworth's nemesis, right down to the weak chin and ponytail.

I watched this series as a kid, even the short-lived Saturday morning cartoon show. I can't remember one thing about it.

They should make it woke and have ALF live with an undocumented family.

Wow something 400 year old DL’ers can relate to.

r2 Yes, apparently the sets with Alf had big risers so they were walking around holes all the time, trying to stay on top of the risers. This blog is great, it has recaps of every episode and somewhere are the stories about how hard the set was. Oh and fuck off r16, maybe you can go read a thread about rat faced Timothee Chalamet.

All those reboots... We're either extremely nostalgic or creatively bankrupt. Or both.

[quote]All those reboots... We're either extremely nostalgic or creatively bankrupt. Or both.

Gen Xers are hitting the stage in their lives that Boomers hit in the early-/mid-90s. There was an explosion in nostalgia properties then as well, like the Brady Bunch Movie.

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r18, it might not even get off the ground. A couple of weeks ago, I read that the Mad About You revival is likely dead.

Wasn't Alf a Christian oriented show?

Max Wright is living his best (gay) life - even has a German boyfriend!

R19 Yep. I expect 80s (or rather 70s-90s) nostalgia to run though the 2020s, maybe 2030s. As we progress towards mid-century, us (me) millennials get their turn and I dunno, bring up tide pods and whatever.

Yes this may be just a trial balloon to see if there is any audience excitement. Don’t hold your breath.

For example: The much hyped, Absolutely Positively Happening “Bill and Ted” movie is no longer happening.

[quote]For example: The much hyped, Absolutely Positively Happening “Bill and Ted” movie is no longer happening.

Most heinous!

Every time I see that puppet I want a cinnamon roll.

Am I the only one?

I could see it when Alf was young but he must be really old now, people won't a show with an old Alf.

As long as they still have him eating cats.

My friend just asked me yesterday which show I'd like to see a reboot of. I yelled "Alf but with out Willie!" My dreams are coming true.

Why? The original was unfunny. I would watch Full House over Alf. I think the only worse show of that era was that dumbass Dinosaurs one.

If it was on HBO, he could finally eat the family cat.

Hopefully they can give a role to Max Wright who got outed 17 years ago

ALF looks like the love child of Roseanne Barr and an armadillo!

Not a show I ever watched when it was still broadcast but I saw the series landed on the list of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 7 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍-𝑪𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑻𝑽 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚.

It starts when ALF receives a message from two surviving Melmacians, letting him know that they are going to colonize a new planet and want him to join them. ALF is torn between the continued survival of his species and his new family. Finally, he decides to join his own kind. The Tanners throw him a farewell party, have a very emotional goodbye and drive him to the outskirts of town to meet his friends' ship.

Then, just as the spaceship is preparing to pick him up, the Alien Task Force shows up, surrounding ALF. Frightened and low on fuel, his Melmacian buddies fly off, the agents close in on ALF and the credits roll, leaving viewers to assume the adorable, wise-cracking ALF is hauled off to be burned, frozen, poisoned, stabbed and finally gutted off-camera.

There was a TV movie that picked up where the series ended, though none of the family were in it. Not sure if they were even mentioned.