![]() ![]() Theeeeennn the writing appears on the screen saying in memory of a girl called Tiffany who dies that year in real life as if its all fucking true. You see her looking quiet with teary eyes and see Alf waving silently also with tearing up fucking Muppet eyes. He silently waves knowing he will never see her again. The family tell Tiffany to look out the window and she sees Alf waving from the car parked out side. Theeennn Alf comes with his adoptive family to bring some gifts to Tiffany on Christmas day. ![]() Through all this Alf feels the need to return to Tiffany in her last few days. Alf comes out of the truck in a Santa hat and tells Mr Foley who he is and talks him away from the edge telling him he has more to live for as they talk about Mr Foley recently deceased wife. Mr Foley pulls up to a bridge and stands on the end. He then sneaks a ride back in Mr Foleys van but finds out Mr Foley has been hiding a secret that he is planning suicide. But not before Alf convinces the pregnant lady to name her new child Tiffany in memory of a dieing friend. Alf helps her deliver her baby just as the elevator opens and he sneaks off. Alf puts on a surgical mask and some how the woman thinks he is just a hairy midget. Then by wacky bad lucky as he sneaks around the hospital he gets locked in a broken down elevator with a pregnant woman going into labor. Alf befriends her and is grief stricken when he finds out this will be that little girls last Christmas. Alf is delivered to a little girl called Tiffany who is dieing of cancer. Alf pretends to be a stuffed toy so no one realizes he is an alien. Mr Foley drives to the local hospital to deliver toys to the kids. The friend of the family Mr Foley is played by Cleavon Little of Blazing Saddles fame. He gets in the back of a truck of a friend of the family who drives off not knowing Alf is in the back. ![]() (If you don’t know the 5 season with spin off movie character and animated series character ALF this must be pretty weird on its own, I advise google who he was before reading more)Īlf gets in a fight on Christmas eve with his adoptive family and goes for a walk. Alf thinks Christmas is about getting presents and Perry Como TV specials and as usual eating cats. Alf is taken by his adoptive human family to a cabin in the woods to bond with the family over a traditional Christmas which of course Alf does not understand. The film quality changes cause its filmed in many locations instead of the usual sitcom stage set. Filmed oddly more cinematically then the usual episodes of the stereotypical sitcom about a short hairy wise cracking alien living with your basic American family. Originally aired as episodes 13 and 14 of season 2. This is proved almost certainly by the 1987 ALF Christmas Special. Its so consistent it feels like it was cultural law that mandated it or Coca Cola and The Pope would shut you down if you didn’t have one. Many characters are changed or combined ,Doctor Livesey and Squire Trelawney are combined into the dog like alien Doctor Doppler voiced by David Hyde Pierce ,The stern Captain Smollet becomes the female and feline alien Captain Amelia voiced by Emma Thompson ,the drunkard Captain Arrow basically become the same character he was in the Muppet version where he is the stern very serious character and is voiced by Roscoe Lee Brown ,the trecherous pirate George Merry and the murderous pirate Isreal Hands are combined into the spider like Mr Scroop voiced by Michael Wincott (There is a character in the film named Hands but he is a minor player ,and his role is given to Scroop as the pirate Jim fights when back on the ship ) ,and the biggest changes are the biggest being Jim and Silver.But I will save that for laterĮvery English and American Franchise of almost everything needed to have a Christmas special in some shape or form. ![]() There are other very big changes which makes this a very unique take on the Treasure Island story. However there are changes ,the main one is the story is in space with aliens and robots and such,with sci fi changes like Silver is an alien Cyborg ,really most of the characters are aliens with the exception of Jim (Which I love,perfect for an animated sci fi film ), the cleverst change is the parrot is now a shapeshifter and the marroned half mad Ben Gunn is now a robot voiced by Martin Short. ![]()
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