Monday, June 09, 2014

Cinema and Television Verities: ALF


“…toward the first season and second season, ALF used to drink, he was a party animal. HE drank beer and everything, and once the kids and families started watching it, they said ‘ALF’s not really a great role model if he’s drinking beer; maybe you should pull that back a little bit. And our response was ‘He’s 225 years old; he can drink beer, he can do whatever he wants to do.”

-ALF creator Paul Fusco discusses the popular alien sitcom of the eighties, andcreative interference, at The Hollywood Reporter in 2012.
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