the guy who played Alf died today

[Mowgli]

I know y'all like to dig up old racist dirt whenever a famous cac dies.....but for a famous puppet?

Even Alf was c00ning for white supremacy. He can rot

 

[Plankton]

2016= Year of the reaper.

Actually...Every year is the year of the reaper

 

[Rozay Oro]

I knew a dude in high school that looked like Alf.

RIP

 

[Kaydigi]

This needs to be in the first post.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

That was the white guy who played alf. This was the Asian dude.

 

[unit321]

RIP.

 

[West Coast Avenger]

R.I.P....

.....

 

[broller]

read about horror stories that plagued the show , but , it wuz still a fav of Mine ...

R.I.P.

 

[AmenhotepIV]

fukk him

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

Damn...



RIP and condo license to his family.



.

 

[SheWantTheD]

condescends? You mean condolences?

 

[broller]

That was the white guy who played alf. This was the Asian dude.

who was the one being racist?

 

[deimoz]

read about horror stories that plagued the show , but , it wuz still a fav of Mine ...

R.I.P.

The Show:

An extraterrestrial puppet confounds his adopted Earth family with his cat-eating ways.

But Behind The Scenes...

A dictatorial puppeteer confounds his cast with a deathtrap set.


In his Inferno, Dante never described a torture with which to punish 80s sitcom stars. But if he did, working on ALF for all eternity would win hands down.

ALF creator and head puppeteer Paul Fusco epitomized eccentricity. By "eccentricity," we mean "he sorta fukkin' believed ALF was real" and demanded nothing but the best for his cash cow. In practical terms, this meant that multiple puppeteers needed 14 trap doors built into the show's set to manipulate the puppet.


Keep in mind, the set was living-room sized. Take a glance at your living room floor, and imagine it's riddled with over one dozen Viet Cong tiger traps. Now imagine having to walk around that space without ever looking down because you're too busy making eye contact with a horrifying puppet with a syphilitic phallus for a nose.

Resetting the trap doors was an arduous process, as the only alternative was to let actors randomly fall to their deaths. Shoots, therefore, took much longer than usual, which exhausted the actors, but was the only way to avoid being the subject of a "broken neck" storyline next week.

The cast did this deadly waltz for five long years causing Andrea Elson, who played daughter Lynn Tanner, to say, "If ALF had gone one more year, everybody would have lost it." It's worth noting that Elson went on to appear regularly in absolutely nothing else. When someone whose career highlights include guest spots on Step by Step and something called Frankenstein: The College Years says her only starring role in a TV Show sucked, we believe her.

6 Beloved TV Shows (That Traumatized Cast Members For Life) | Cracked.com

 

[Meadow]

I loved this show

 

[Collateral]

And who the fukk is Alf? I come in here thinking y'all talking about Alf Alpha or some shyt I see y'all rocking the flattop in here