Brian Damage
07-02-2012, 10:30 PM
Here are five ways that ALF paved the way:
1. Ted is a heavy drinker and drug user. In the first season of ALF, creator Paul Fusco had the alien sling back beers and burp on the regular. NBC eventually requested that the character be more family friendly, but those seminal episodes stand tall in the land of substance-abusing furries.
2. Ted dates a woman named Tami-Lynn. ALF had a long-time crush on the teenage daughter of the beleaguered family with which he lived. Her name? Lynn.
3. ALF had a special season three clip show in which he replaced Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and tangled with Ed McMahon. Ted appeared on The Tonight Show in the film, and was called antisemitic names by McMahon.
4. ALF was often kicked out of the house, forced to live in the garage; Ted was kicked out and forced to live in a grungy apartment.
5. ALF was chased by the Alien Task Force. Ted was chased by Giovanni Ribisi... who also starred in Avatar, as a guy very unconcerned with the fate of the Naa'vi people (who were aliens, to him).
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/ALF-ted-paved-the-way-seth-macfarlane-344229
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1. Ted is a heavy drinker and drug user. In the first season of ALF, creator Paul Fusco had the alien sling back beers and burp on the regular. NBC eventually requested that the character be more family friendly, but those seminal episodes stand tall in the land of substance-abusing furries.
2. Ted dates a woman named Tami-Lynn. ALF had a long-time crush on the teenage daughter of the beleaguered family with which he lived. Her name? Lynn.
3. ALF had a special season three clip show in which he replaced Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and tangled with Ed McMahon. Ted appeared on The Tonight Show in the film, and was called antisemitic names by McMahon.
4. ALF was often kicked out of the house, forced to live in the garage; Ted was kicked out and forced to live in a grungy apartment.
5. ALF was chased by the Alien Task Force. Ted was chased by Giovanni Ribisi... who also starred in Avatar, as a guy very unconcerned with the fate of the Naa'vi people (who were aliens, to him).
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/ALF-ted-paved-the-way-seth-macfarlane-344229
http://thr4.pgmcdn.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/thumbnail_570x321/2012/07/alf_ted.jpg