ALF seemed like a character icon when i was growing up and when I was a young man. I used to like this when I was little, but don't remember it well. I started watching in several years ago and liked to watch it on DVD regularly. ALF was well-written and the furry little alien seemed like a guy I wanted to watch with my family if I really wanted a laugh. He is not only funny, but quippish, albeit sometimes irreverent and his sarcasm and backwards ways of life he got from Melmac and his sarcasm made him a a valuable source of comedy. Though it was a wacky sitcom, the show did, once in a good while tackle serious topics, such as when the Uncle dies and ALF befriends a girl who looked like she wasn't going to make it in the hospital in a Christmas special and the driver contemplated jumping off the bridge in a scene reminiscent of It's A Wonderful Life and ALF saves him through emotional guidance. The Tanner family was pretty average with a nuclear family, including Willie, the patriarch, who was the most frequent source of exasperation over ALF's pratfalls and mishaps, but was also loving and sensitive and an amateur science enthusiast. The mother was relatively calm and not too warm. The daughter Lynn was your typical teenager with a shy side. The son, Brian seemed underrated. He was virtually angelic and easy-going and maybe even well-behaved and perpetuated the movement of teaching boys to learn things like cooking for when they became dads and when there was a bully he didn't resort to having a rematch. It was nice that the dad was relatively pacifistic. The gag with ALF craving cats may have been a little much after a while, but the show was nostalgic and had a nice house and the neighbors were your classic couple next door that hardly seem to like each other and the wife witnesses very weird occurrences or the supernatural and the husband often thought she was crazy and ridiculed criticized her in good comedic fashion.
Review of ALF
