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00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:01.759 I don't Alf doesn't need to do that. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:10.159 And I I really like appreciate that because I think a lot of people are like, ooh, now we need to see the X-rated version, and it's sometimes just really uh stupid. 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:14.960 Yeah, no, I think it's a great family like TV show in its own way. 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:16.959 It's very kiddish and entertaining. 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:22.319 Question number two is are there any themes the show tackles that you think were handled particularly well? 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:24.800 Each episode kind of has a theme. 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:25.519 Yeah. 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:26.560 More or less. 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:28.399 Like sounds than others. 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:35.680 I mean, this is obvious, but I it carries the like obviously sitcom slash like slice of life. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:37.120 It's totally slice of life. 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.759 Yeah, like aspect of that, like it's very consistent with that. 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:45.519 Like every episode is a new thing, it's not ever really the same uh circumstances. 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:54.000 Um again, they carry the heart of like sticking together as a family to the core, even through like all these bizarre things that happen. 00:04:54.399 --> 00:05:00.399 I think that's a very wholesome and touching thing uh for like everybody that watches it. 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:02.560 Um so that's consistent. 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:04.879 There are any other specific ones? 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:09.920 I know for me, I think this it handled uh death surprisingly well. 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:14.560 Um, do you remember that episode with Uncle Albert who had a heart attack and died? 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:16.079 It was like that was brutal. 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.560 It was both funny, but actually also really sincere. 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:24.800 Yeah, and so and that's a really difficult line to walk. 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:32.079 Like, how do you like make it kind of funny without being like super disrespectful to the reality that somebody just died? 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:41.439 And that's I think Alf's naivety really comes into play there with making it like you know, not so horrible or not so horribly offensive. 00:05:41.920 --> 00:06:06.800 And then of course the Christmas episode was surprising that dealt with like cancer and and like depression and and like losing a spouse and stuff, and so that was like that that threw me because I wasn't expecting that, and apparently a lot of kids were traumatized from that episode because it really takes a turn from the usual uh silly stuff. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:10.720 No, it's still silly, but it's one of my favorite Christmas specials of all time. 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:13.040 I I really liked it, honestly. 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.040 I I had no problems. 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:30.480 I think some people are saying it's a bit jarring

because it's like you got like two really brutal things and then sandwich between like a goofy bit where Elf is helping a mom give birth, and that's actually not that goofy if you think about it, but I guess some people thought it was jarring. 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:31.839 I didn't think it was that jarring. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.240 Maybe the pacing is a bit odd, but other than that, it's fine. 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:39.040 Um, no, no problems, in my opinion. 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:50.639 Uh, there there was an episode, I don't know if you remember the episode where Alf like blows up the kitchen because he forgot to light the gas oven after he turned it on, which is like super dangerous. 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:59.600 I'm so glad that I've never had a gas oven because if that totally seems like something I would do if no one ever taught me how to use a gas oven. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:03.120 But they're like super mad at him, rightfully furious. 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:16.639 But Alf, like, he's about he's like ready to pack up and move because he's like, this is it, like I've gone far enough, like now it's over, and they're just like they're just like shut up, and he's like, but I don't deserve to be here, and they're like, You don't. 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:17.920 But we're gonna keep it. 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:19.920 But we're gonna but you're here anyway. 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:21.839 And so and that sums up the story. 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.600 I don't think it ever like they're not like, oh Alf, it's okay. 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:32.800 Like it's not okay when he does things that like really mess up their life, but they still love him. 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:37.199 They won't like leave him on the streets, they won't turn him into the military, they'll never do that. 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.040 So that I do really like that. 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:41.680 It's it's believable, but still wholesome. 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:42.560 Yep. 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:44.000 Alright. 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:50.000 This I think this one is a fun fact because it doesn't look like it's framed as a question, or maybe it is. 00:07:50.160 --> 00:08:01.199 Um apparently the show creator and main puppeteer for Alf did not allow anyone on set to refer to Alf as a puppet and went to great lengths to make sure no one could see the puppeteers working. 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:07.360 His intention was to make Alf seem real to kids, but it made the series very stressful and difficult to shoot, apparently. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:09.199 What do you think of this? 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:10.879 Okay, so I guess it was a question. 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:14.079 Sorry, I wrote these notes like over a month ago. 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:20.560 I think I think it's a bit too ambitious, in my opinion. 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:27.279 However, I respect it, and I think these things kind of need to happen so people get an idea of what it's like. 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:33.519 So I really think it's neat, and being the actor, I would feel like it would be a very interesting experience. 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:35.440 But overall, I think it's overkill. 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:36.960 But cool idea. 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:44.879 Yeah, I think it's unnecessarily restricting, and he probably there's probably a lot of things he could have done. 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:56.960 Like he could have d been on Saturday night live, I think, but he refused because he didn't want people to see uh the puppeteers, and there just wasn't really a way to do that without showing it live. 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:12.320 I guess Alf is a more complicated puppet than like Kermit, because like I know Jim Henson was on shows with Kermit didn't next him, but like he's got like a fake arm on his right side or his left side or something, and it looks like he's just sitting there, but his his other arm is in Kermit, obviously. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:20.879 And but I actually have like kind of a weird reason why I get him, even though it does sound like it was kind of a nightmare for the cast. 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:27.200 Uh it seems like he really meant well, and this is why I really respect at least what he was trying to do. 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:30.639 Um, this is super personal, so I hope this is allowed on the show. 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:44.240 Like I'll say that Paul was right in that kids don't always know that puppets aren't real creatures, because I know that I thought Elf was real as a kid, and I also thought everyone was real on TV. 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.320 I thought uh Bob and Larry were real. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:47.679 I thought the Sesame Street monster. 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:49.440 Yeah, I thought the Sesame Street Muppets were real. 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:56.799 I thought Bear in the Big Blue House was a real guy somewhere, and that's part of why I loved it so much, because it was so real. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:59.519 Like it's like more real than real life almost. 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:04.320 And I even had the the thing is I didn't watch Alf growing up. 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:15.679 I just remember it was on one time, and I don't remember where we were, if we were at home or someone else's house, but it was on, and I'll have to find that episode because I don't know if I've even found the episode yet. 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:17.200 I haven't watched the whole series yet. 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:28.879 I've watched a lot of it, but it was just on, and I was a little bit scared because I didn't know what Alf was, and it was alive and breathing, it was like a really, really realistic puppet. 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:35.840 Like when he's like, you know, breathing heavily, like it looks like he's real and he makes expressions, and sometimes they have him running around. 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:40.159 And of course, that's we know that's an actor in a costume, but yeah, like a really small actor. 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:44.480 But I was

asking, I was a little nervous, and I was asking my dad, like, what is that? 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:47.279 And dad's like, it's not real, it's a puppet. 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.840 And I'm like, that is not a puppet. 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:58.000 And we we actually argued over it until he gave up because he didn't know how to explain it to me, because he didn't know how the puppet worked, but he just knew it was a puppet. 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:08.000 But to me, puppets, like I knew what puppets were, but puppets were just like us like sock puppets or like hand puppets that I couldn't understand how they work because you stick your hand in them. 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.039 But the complicated puppets couldn't possibly be puppets. 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:28.080 But we had similar arguments about CGI characters, like if there was something that scared me, dad would be like, they make it on a computer, and I'm and to me a computer is like a big fat at the time a computer is like a huge fat Dell computer that we played like flash games on, and I was like, how on earth does that work? 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.720 But anyways, sorry, back to the notes here. 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:36.720 Like I might have not been the most normal kid, so I don't know if it was that way to every kid. 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:48.240 Uh I didn't realize that they weren't real until I said I said something to suggest they were, and all of my siblings laughed at me. 00:11:48.320 --> 00:12:04.480 You weren't there back then, so it wasn't you, but uh and um my dad, of course, or our dad, sorry, explained like like very gently, he explained how they're not real, and I was I didn't have the words to articulate it, but I was upset. 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.159 So, and it's kind of it's like ruins it a little bit, right? 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:13.039 So there is something special about how children see things, and there's a bigger truth. 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:16.000 I think there's a bigger truth than just puppets aren't real. 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:19.039 It's a puppeteer's job to bring the character to life. 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:24.960 So when something resonates with us as humans, that story or character may as well be real because it's real to us. 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:34.399 So he might not have been the best director or the best to work with, but his mindset probably made him like an excellent puppeteer. 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:35.120 Oh, I'm sure. 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:37.039 And I think that's there's no question about that. 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:38.879 So he's certainly very gifted. 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:42.480 Sorry, that was a very long way of expressing my answer to that question. 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:45.919 Favorite supporting character, as in anyone besides Alf. 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:47.759 Oh, the dad easily. 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:48.960 Oh, me too! 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:50.240 The dad easily. 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:52.639 Maybe he counts as like a main character though. 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:54.080 But no, no. 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:57.039 But I also want to say shout out to the Achmonics and Mrs. 00:12:57.200 --> 00:12:57.519 Bird. 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:59.039 Ah, yes, yep. 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:04.559 Or maybe maybe Lucky because I do like the gags with Lucky. 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:06.639 Yep. 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:08.159 Oh my gosh. 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.480 Um, all the jokes about how Mrs. 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:20.480 Byrd was like like in involved in some kind of espionage or military stuff, like all those vague references she makes where people just stop and they're like, you Yeah, they're like, Huh? 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:21.120 Where are you? 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:21.759 Who are you again? 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:25.759 The police officer's like, Who are you after a while? 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.480 And she's so aggressive. 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:29.440 Yeah. 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:30.480 Oh man. 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.799 Does the infamous final episode of Alf ruin the show? 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:46.720 Uh, this was a bit of a premature question because I haven't actually seen the final episode yet, but I know what happens in it because it's kind of famous for being a cliffhanger. 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:55.679 So Alf does get caught by the military, even though like they've been successfully and and hilariously evading them for years. 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:04.879 But he finally gets caught by the military, and the family is just watching him, and the next season was supposed to be set on a military base. 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.559 And we were freaking robbed. 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:09.679 I want to see that. 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:15.120 Yeah, he probably would have turned the soldiers like on his side and then they let him go eventually back to his family or something. 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.639 But we we know what happens. 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.480 Like, even though they didn't film it, I'm sure he made it back to his family. 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:22.320 Well, here's the thing. 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:25.360 We do kind of know what happened. 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:27.919 It's it's just we didn't really get what we were supposed to get. 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:35.440 What we did get was a movie called Project Alf, which was supposed to kind of wrap things up or at least make it a little bit better than just leaving it there. 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:35.840 Yeah. 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:37.840 But the Tanner family is not in it. 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:43.919 I'm not sure if they weren't able to get them for the movie or what, but it uh I haven't seen this movie yet, by the way. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:53.120 I've seen like season one and two of Elf, and then like a bunch of season three, so I'm not like finished it, but I didn't see Project Alf yet, so I don't know how good it is. 00:14:53.279 --> 00:15:01.279 I know you can watch it for free on YouTube, so

it's pretty easy for you to watch it and tell me if it's good or not, but I'll I'll watch it eventually. 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.559 But I guess like he I think two people like help him escape. 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:10.320 I forget who they are, but they're like I think they're tricking him too, like trying to use him for something. 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:14.480 So I'm not sure exactly what ends up happening. 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:20.159 Um, but unfortunately the Tanners aren't a part of it, so that's kind of a big let down for me. 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:23.360 And uh what else? 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:33.200 I think there was like a lot of pitches to do like some other movies including or some other elf stuff, including like a prequel movie, but the budget wasn't right. 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:36.080 Tough situations for sure. 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:37.840 Exactly. 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:44.639 Um yeah, but even though we didn't really get a proper conclusion to Alf, I would say. 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:48.879 Um Paul Fusco is still really open to like doing an alf revival. 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:50.879 He just says it wouldn't be a sitcom. 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.320 Um I'm not sure. 00:15:54.480 --> 00:16:00.240 I forgot what he said it would be, but obviously it's just like theories because he doesn't even know if he'll be able to do that. 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:08.960 But Alf has made several cameos since then, though, in different shows, including here's one that I know is he was in one episode of Mr. 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:09.519 Robot. 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:10.080 No way. 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:12.399 Yeah, like actually, like the puppet was there. 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:13.840 And that's hilarious. 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:18.080 Uh that was really funny because like without context, it's just really weird. 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:21.519 But if you know who Alf is, it's like wonderful mode. 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:22.080 Cinema. 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:22.320 Absolutely. 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:23.679 Yeah, it's absolute cinema. 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:24.879 But I guess like Mr. 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:32.399 Robot had these like random episodes that were like done in the style of different sitcoms, and I think they were like were they dreams or illusions or something? 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:32.799 I don't know. 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:33.440 Something like that. 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:41.440 It was really yeah, I I didn't even probably watch them, but I watched it when I heard there was a uh what do you call it, a cameo on Mr. 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:41.919 Robot. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.360 I just watched that scene because I've seen some of Mr. 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.320 Robot, but not a lot, because like my husband really likes it. 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:58.399 So I haven't like watched up it wouldn't make any sense even if I did watch that episode because I'm not I didn't get that far, but um, did you know it was even referenced on

one of the Veggie Tales movies? 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:00.080 Uh I do remember that. 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:04.160 On the Jonah movies, he's like, I can't because Alf is on in a half now. 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:04.400 Yeah. 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:08.319 And as kids, we didn't even know, we were like, is he talking about Alf or Elf? 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:09.039 Like, we didn't know. 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:15.519 And apparently I like on Wikipedia it says it is Alf, and it is one of his it's technically classified as a cameo. 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:16.160 I love it. 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:17.279 Which is funny. 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:24.880 Um I guess it's canon that Larry watches Alf, or the Alf exists in the Veggie Tales universe. 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:27.759 Yep, a TV show within a TV show. 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:28.480 Yeah. 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:32.000 Well, that was actually a movie, but it is a TV show. 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:36.240 Um there's also what was it? 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:39.839 There was also a couple of animated series about Alf. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:40.960 Oh, yeah. 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:48.640 One I think was on Malmac, and the other one was like Alf recreating fairy tales in goofy ways, and even like references Donald Trump in some of them. 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:57.119 He references Donald Trump in a f in the series too, and other famous people, but it's just one of those things where it gives you an idea of kind of what you're in for, I guess. 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:58.400 But I haven't watched those. 00:17:58.480 --> 00:17:59.680 Um, maybe they're good. 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:08.160 It's pretty easy to watch them because you can watch them on like Tubi or YouTube, but I am out of main notes, but I think I had some other notes before. 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:09.119 One second. 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:14.720 Okay, so you had something you wanted to say about a certain character dynamic in the show. 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:21.279 Uh yeah, just about uh how I really loved how they did Elf's and uh Willie's relationship. 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:27.759 I thought it was incredibly deep, especially for like a slice of life uh show. 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:32.400 Uh it just kind of resonated well uh to me. 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:33.039 I loved it. 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:43.359 It was like you could tell it was like a rough road at first, but then they slowly start to really uh kind of get each other, even though they get on each other's nerves a lot most of the time. 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:51.839 It's like they stay super close in in the midst of all that, and I just thought that was such a great thing about the show that I respect a lot. 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:58.799 I think it's Willie and Alf's dynamic is probably the best one in the show, and I think it's the most fleshed out one. 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:51.279 He does have like really good moments with everybody in the show, possibly every single character who is in the show,

even the ones who don't know he exists, but um uh the there like you that episode where they ended up accidentally being hobos uh because they got stuck in that they got stuck on that rip on that train car eating like baked beans arguably one of the best episodes that was so touching, or like the episode where and I guess this is more like the family than just Willie, but like he was supposed to go back to his girlfriend and and buddy, like is there like he he was able to get in contact with them and I guess they survived the explosion of Malmac or whatever and he was gonna go with them, but he kept stalling and he kept stalling and then like they thought he was gone and it was really sad, and then he just shows up again and he's like, Well, I missed them. 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:54.400 And they're like, But you might never get a chance again. 00:19:54.559 --> 00:20:03.359 He's like, Oh, I will, but it came down to like who who I was gonna miss the most, and I guess I would miss you guys more. 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:12.400 And Alf has such a like when he really when Alf is really honest about how he feels about the family, he gets like really quiet and he locks in. 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:20.720 He gets really quiet and he just kind of looks down and and plays with his fingers, and it's it's so there's nothing so adorable about it. 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:25.359 I don't know, it's sweet, it's hard to explain, but it's it's so sweet, like, and it's not common. 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:38.640 So when it happens, it's it's always a really great character moment where Alf admits like for all his sarcasm and jabs and like complaining, he admits like he doesn't know what he would do without them, and he wouldn't be here without them. 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:42.000 And he's extremely grateful, and that's true. 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:53.680 Uh, one other thing that Paul Fusco said is that one thing he doesn't like about like today or modern culture is that he says everyone's out to bust somebody, like they want to out somebody, which isn't fair. 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:57.759 Uh, he also thinks that people don't understand sarcasm anymore. 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:03.839 Um Alpha's very sarcastic, so I think that's uh kind of goes in line with what he said about Alpha's never meaning to be rude. 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:08.000 Alpha is very sarcastic, but he's never he's never intending to be able to do it. 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:09.200 He doesn't mean those things. 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:09.839 Yeah. 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:13.839 So Alf isn't out to get people or anything like that. 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:16.640 He's a he's a real genuine guy at the end of the day. 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:18.240 He's a mooch for sure. 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.119 But he can you could say that he has no other choice. 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:25.039 He can't just go get a job. 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:31.440 Apparently, if he did get a job, he'd be a cosmetics mogul or something. 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:34.640 Like it's a wonderful life parody episode. 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:35.279 Oh man. 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:36.400 Or he could be a script. 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:41.359 He actually he briefly worked as a script writer, a screenwriter for like soap operas. 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:42.640 That episode was so good. 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:48.079 Can you do was there a time when you could just mail scripts to soaps and they would like air them? 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:55.599 I wonder if that was even a thing, because I am so mad that I missed that time in history, if that was ever a thing. 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:57.519 Yeah, that would have been awesome. 00:21:57.839 --> 00:21:59.680 Yeah, I think that's about all that I have. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.119 Have written for notes. 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:06.240 So was there anything else that we wanted to say um about the series? 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:08.880 I know we haven't watched the entire show yet. 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:12.400 I've seen more of it than you have, but you've seen a fair bit of it by now. 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:12.960 Oh yeah. 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:15.920 Well it's do you have like a favorite episode so far? 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:28.000 It definitely is between the episode where they're stuck on the train or the one where Elf it seems like Elf has hostages in a house. 00:22:28.240 --> 00:22:30.400 Oh my gosh, the one with the SWAT team. 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:31.759 Yeah, the one with the SWAT team. 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:34.000 That one is good, but that one is so stressful. 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:36.240 Yeah, it is, but hilarious at the same time. 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:38.079 That calmed me right down. 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:41.839 I'm gonna have to give it to the to the train one. 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.920 That one was just so wholesome and really struck me. 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:48.720 Uh so yeah, that one has a special place in my heart. 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:52.480 I need to watch that one again because I remember them being on the train, but I can't remember why. 00:22:52.640 --> 00:23:10.000 Was it something like where Willy like kind of maybe at one point wanted to live a life on the edge, like as a drifter or something, or and he just kind of regretted not risking it that much, and then he meant to do that either, because he wouldn't do that on purpose because he had a family. 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:25.839 So I believe Elf went on went uh missing for a little while, and uh Willie went to go look for him and he found him uh near the train tracks because uh Willie mentioned something about that in his childhood, so Elf went back there, and then he ends up accidentally going on the train with him because he wanted to make sure he's safe. 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:26.079 Yeah. 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:26.799 And they have that. 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:28.079 Why was Alf missing? 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:32.319 Uh he they got into Kerf Kerfuffle, I

think. 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:33.279 Did he run away? 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:33.759 Mm-hmm. 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:34.640 Okay, yeah. 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:38.400 There are a few episodes where Alf kind of like sort of runs away. 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:40.880 Uh when they thought he ate Lucky, I think he ran away. 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:48.240 But I think he wasn't running away so much as he was trying to like prove that he didn't eat Lucky and he found Lucky. 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:48.559 Yeah. 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:49.039 Yeah. 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:53.200 Um or maybe he found a different cat that looked like Lucky and they found the real Lucky. 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:54.559 I can't remember, it was something like that. 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:56.720 But you would have a favorite episode. 00:23:57.200 --> 00:23:58.960 I like that episode. 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:18.720 Um there was another one that's kind of like it where like um Willie is like kind of feeling really insecure about how he he was never up to the standard of like his wife's past boyfriends, like as in he wasn't as good he wasn't as good looking as them or or as accomplished. 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:27.440 And even now he's like he has it's his birthday, and he like was looking at a photo album of like her past boyfriends or whatever. 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:43.119 And it's not that she keeps a photo album of her past boyfriends, but like she has a photo album of like her high school years or whatever, and he was just hit with how like he thought he would be like somebody greater by now or something, and he's just kind of like, Why would she choose someone like me? 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:45.920 Yeah, like I'm barely a man, like what am I? 00:24:46.000 --> 00:25:05.119 And then he has that like nightmare, or those a series of nightmares where like Alf is like uh not Alf but like all these other past boyfriends are just like making him look so stupid, and he's just like totally failed, and he has to take it and Alf is like a greater man than him too, and it's just really funny. 00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:13.680 Um but I think Alf is the one who helps him like both accept himself but also try to take more risks and he goes like skydiving. 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:28.960 Um there was also an episode where well I forgot the mom's name, Kate, is like complaining with Alf about politics, and he's like, You're smarter than these guys on TV, you should run for politics or something. 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:35.359 And she doesn't, but she has like a dream that she does, and and Alf is her opponent, and he's like such a Yeah, that's another good episode. 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:39.200 Would you vote for a liar? 00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:49.200 And he tricked her, she didn't lie, he tricked her into like into like saying something that didn't make sense, or I I can't remember, and because he was like, Would your brother be like this? 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:51.839 And she's like, I don't have a brother, and he's like, See, she lied. 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:54.640 He said she had a brother, and and she's like, What? 00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:55.839 No, you made me say that. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:05.279 And I think what's funny is Alf ends up being the president in the dream, and he ends up actually being a really good president because he comes up with just very, very simple solutions to everything. 00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:08.319 Minus killing all the shareholders, apparently. 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:13.599 So I don't know if that's simple or good, but that was like that was funny and horror, yeah. 00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:14.319 Funny though. 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:16.400 So those two would you would be your favorite. 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:20.559 So Alf doesn't like shareholders, he loves world peace, but okay. 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:31.440 Yeah, that was funny because like the homeless people are like they're not homeless anymore because they all he built them all houses and nobody is without a job anymore. 00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:34.960 Nobody's unemployed because they're all building houses for the homeless. 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:38.000 And or they're sweeping the dead shareholders off the streets. 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:39.680 Oh my goodness. 00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:41.839 Which is they don't show this, by the way. 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:48.000 This is all like some of the wild, like, like uh almost slightly risque stuff that Alf says. 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:50.240 Like Alf sometimes pushes the envelope a little. 00:26:50.400 --> 00:27:01.119 Like he's not too inappropriate, but he'll like crack some jokes here and there that are like like political double take, like or like some real some real life reference that's kind of wild. 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:11.279 Like every my husband doesn't really like the show, but every once in a while he's like, Whoa! Like he's Alf referenced the Jesuits or something, or like uh or some other real person. 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:16.160 Um you gotta give it to the writers on like putting these nuggets in there. 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:21.759 Well, on the first episode, he he and Brian go and get a can of beer, and Brian's like 10. 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:29.759 And and of course the mom freaks out, and she's like, He you can't have beer, you can't have alcohol, and Brian's like, It's not alcohol, it's beer. 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:36.240 Like, of course, he doesn't drink any, but Alf drinks them, but he's like 250 or something. 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:44.960 But then the censors said that they had to stop doing that in the show, and and the creator was like, Alf can have as much beer as he wants, he's an adult. 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:49.279 But they made it, they changed it to be like soda after that. 00:27:49.519 --> 00:28:00.240 There was actually a lot of censorship in that show, a little bit, or not a lot, but like, for example, like uh the episode where he uh falls in the bathtub and loses memory. 00:28:00.319 -->

00:28:13.200 Originally, it was where he got an electric shock from putting the electric mixer in the bathtub because he was trying to make a jacuzzi, but then they were scared that somebody would do that because apparently kids did some stupid things, like they put a cat in a microwave, actually. 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:13.920 Oh my! 00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:19.920 And like I I don't think Alf even does that, or if he like Alf doesn't actually kill any cats in the show. 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:21.039 Can I just say that? 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:27.440 He doesn't ever do that, he makes jokes about it, he likes around it thinks about it, he thinks about it, but he never does. 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:31.119 Like when he he almost eats a kitten, it just looks too cute and he can't do it, right? 00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:37.440 Yeah, like um he jokes about making casseroles or lasagnas or cat milk shakes, cat juice, or yeah. 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:38.480 Oh, he should have said that. 00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:50.559 But cat's rules, but then I think that in the censored version, it's like just like a manual beater, and he like fell and bumped, he slipped and bumped his head, and that's what happened instead of him getting electrocuted, yeah. 00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:58.000 Which is kind of whatever, but it's also like man, what like willy liver audiences do we have back then? 00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:02.480 Like on the one hand, people are like worse now, but they're also like more desensitized. 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:04.400 Yeah, people are more dumb these days. 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:13.440 Yeah, it's like you hear about things like that today too, but I feel like it wouldn't be quite as like pearl-clutching as that today, but I could be wrong. 00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:13.920 I don't know. 00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:15.440 You never know. 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:18.160 I guess you always have backlash for anything you do. 00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:21.599 So I kind of wish they gave Paul a bit more freedom. 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:27.519 But he was really good at getting past the censors, I think, especially with the quick remarks from Alf. 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:31.920 But anyway, I guess it's time to give the show a rating. 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:34.079 Oh yeah, I forgot about that part. 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:36.000 I haven't done these in a while, Lyndon. 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:38.240 I always love doing this. 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:44.160 My rating would be a solid uh for what the show is. 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:46.400 I'd give it a solid eight out of ten. 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:47.440 No fair. 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:51.440 I was thinking of eight out of ten too, but maybe I'll give it a nine because I just really like it. 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:52.720 Oh, it's great. 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:54.319 Um, I do really like it. 00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:58.480 I think I haven't seen a lot of sitcoms, but uh I really like Alp. 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:02.400 It's not as uh cringy as

some sitcoms, I think. 00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:05.119 Or as mean spirited as other sitcoms. 00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:07.359 I think a lot of sitcoms are like super mean. 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:12.720 Like where characters like seem to like hate each other and you're like, why are you why is anyone here? 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:16.160 Like uh like there's exceptions, like some aren't that bad. 00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:20.880 Like uh, but I I really like how uh wholesome Alf is. 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.039 It's it's like snarky, but really wholesome. 00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:25.680 Yeah, but it's a good mixture. 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:28.240 Yeah, good for families most of the time. 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:33.599 Like Alf makes the very odd like grown-up reference, I should say. 00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:36.400 And but you it's like tasteful. 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:40.799 It's tasteful enough that it's probably not going to make too many parents freak out. 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:42.640 I I wouldn't I wouldn't care. 00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:46.079 It's it's just like you know, having your uncle over or something. 00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:47.599 Yeah, basically. 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:49.920 Well, it's actually it's better than that, probably. 00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:50.640 Better, yeah. 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:58.400 Because uncles can be weird, but this is reminding me of the Thanksgiving episode where like there was that really creepy cousin. 00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:03.119 Oh, and he was like hitting on Lynn as disgusting. 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:04.559 Yeah, that was really bad. 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:07.359 If Alf was there, I wish Alf was on that part. 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:17.119 Alf would have definitely been like either roasting the guy or or just like straight up about to throw hands. 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:18.400 Yeah, he wouldn't have liked that. 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:19.200 No, no, no, no. 00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:21.440 He's he he'd he'd act shocked. 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:23.440 He'd just be like flabbergasted by the guy. 00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:25.440 He'd be like, What's your deal? 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:31.519 He'd probably be like throwing things at him from while he's hiding, yeah, 100% blowing spit wads. 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:35.200 He threatened to do that to their grandmother. 00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:36.480 He didn't though. 00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:36.799 He does. 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:38.480 No, that's another funny relationship. 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:40.000 Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:41.359 That's like a really good dynamic. 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:43.519 It's like it starts where they like absolutely hate each other. 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:46.480 They kind of still like they crack jokes about each other. 00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:48.559 But now you know they don't hate each other. 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.000 So it's it's not like where they're actually trying to get rid of each other anymore. 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:56.319 It's where they just like always like trying to one-up each other with the remarks that. 00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:57.359 Yeah, exactly. 00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:00.319 Yeah, that that is some of the driest back and forth. 00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:02.400 Like, I don't mean dry as in like bad. 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:08.720 I mean like sorry, that's some of the sharpest back and forth the show has is between Alf and Kate's mother, Dorothy. 00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:17.200 The episodes that they're both in it, it's like half the episode is then like throwing knives back and forth at the ping pong with the witty remarks. 00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:21.039 So on that note, I should say this show's dialogue is exceptional. 00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:22.000 Oh, it's exceptional. 00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:23.039 Yeah, tasteful. 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:27.200 I I envy the ability to write dialogue this uh smooth. 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:28.960 Yeah. 00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:33.440 Anyways, yeah, it's just a show you could listen to and just kind of relax and enjoy. 00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:37.039 It's not like it's not like wildly funny, but it's very clever. 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:38.480 It's very cheeky. 00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:41.599 So, yeah, solid eight and a half. 00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:43.200 Let's go with eight and a half out of ten. 00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:46.000 Eight and a half out of ten for me. 00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:53.759 I'm gonna finish the show, and I have I have most of the DVDs, but I I don't have the first first two seasons. 00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:55.039 I have three and four for some reason. 00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:56.000 That was all I could find. 00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:57.119 They're like really expensive. 00:32:57.279 --> 00:32:58.559 I found this at a thrift store. 00:32:58.720 --> 00:32:59.759 No, I lied, I didn't. 00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:01.839 Uh one of our other brothers found it. 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:03.599 We have a lot of at a thrift store though. 00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:04.799 Yeah, it was at a thrift store, yeah. 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:11.279 And it was like for seven bucks and ever and like on eBay or whatever, it's like sixty, forty bucks for Alf DVs. 00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:12.079 It's insane. 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:14.880 I think these are the censored ones though, unfortunately. 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:16.720 Oh well. 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:21.039 Anyways, um, what are we talking about next month? 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:24.480 Or yeah, it would have to be next month because this month is almost over already. 00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:27.359 Uh actually, I have Full Metal Panic. 00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:29.359 Yeah, it looks like that might be the next one. 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:36.720 Because I have all the notes ready, and I have not thought about anything else for the show in a while, so we'll have to do that and then really figure out what we're doing next. 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:38.319 That is gonna be a different episode. 00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:38.799 Let me see. 00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:40.640 Uh Harry Potter episode? 00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:46.400 Nah, I just like as uh my husband and I are watching uh Harry Potter right now, but you're like, yuck. 00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:46.880 Okay. 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:47.839 Uh no. 00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:49.599 Uh I one day we will we'll do that. 00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:51.279 Yeah, maybe one day. 00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:56.160 Maybe a Guardians of Cahul episode if I can get you to read like one or two of the books. 00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:57.680 You've seen the movie, right? 00:33:57.839 --> 00:33:58.319 Mm-hmm. 00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:01.119 Okay, yeah, that we could do an episode on that. 00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:02.960 Um, or whatever. 00:34:03.039 --> 00:34:04.880 We were gonna do Lord of the Rings at one point. 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:06.400 But stay s stay tuned. 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:07.279 Stay tuned. 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:11.119 Um, do we have anything to wrap up the episode with? 00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:14.000 Uh no, we gave the ratings. 00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:20.079 I mean if No, but like we usually end with like a you know, a silly little outro like this world is made of love and peace. 00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:22.079 I was like, what do you say for like Alf? 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:22.719 Yeah. 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:27.360 And for Alf it's like ha ha or whatever his like silly laugh. 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:29.440 There you go. 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:30.719 There you go. 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:32.159 That's that's totally it. 00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:33.760 Anyways. 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:38.000 Alright, well, stay safe out there and thank you for listening. 00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:41.199 We will come back soon, hopefully. 00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:42.239 Cheers.