ALF’s Special Christmas

from Advent Calendar House · host Mike Westfall

🎄 Remember ALF? He’s back, in podcast form! 🎙️ Jeff Somogyi drops by 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. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: The heartbreaking true story behind “ALF’s Special Christmas.” A study in human ignorance: Gordon Shumway has a name, which he’s told everyone, yet everyone still calls him HEY ALIEN! 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. Talking ALF: The Storytelling Alien. “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” **** “ALF’s Special Christmas” © 1987 Alien Productions. Find us at adventcalendar.house. #s2 #1980s #alf

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