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Show Notes
🎄 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.
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💬 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.”
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“ALF’s Special Christmas” © 1987 Alien Productions.
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