ALF’s Special Christmas
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
English - December 23, 2018 05:23 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsTV Reviews TV & Film christmas holidays holiday specials christmas specials christmas commercials classic tv advent calendar christmas tv Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Remember ALF? He’s back, in podcast form! Tune in as we salute ALF’s two-part Christmas special from 1987, the single most depressing special starring a wisecracking alien puppet of all time.
Content Warning: In this Christmas special, the goofy alien with the jokes meets a terminally ill child and a man contemplating suicide.
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🎙 Guest:Jeff Somogyi (Talkin’ Chopp, Down the Rabbit Hole, @sommerjam).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:1. The heartbreaking true story behind ALF’s Special Christmas.
2. A study in human ignorance: Gordon Shumway has a name, which he’s told everyone, yet everyone still calls him HEY ALIEN!
3. A study in willful alien ignorance: ALF opens everyone else’s Christmas gifts and succeeds in convincing me it’s because he doesn’t know how any of this works.
4. Talking ALF: The Storytelling Alien.
5. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
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“ALF’s Special Christmas” © 1987 Alien Productions.
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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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